A Brave New World: Aeonics and the Western Tradition

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57 A Brave New World Harpocrates. Cassady’s model runs as follows: Bes, Isis, Osiris, Horus, Maat, Harpocrates. Rather bizarrely, both Grant and Cassady do actually offer us magical formulae, but both fail to demonstrate a means to enlightenment, indicating a failure to understand aeonics in the first place. For Grant, Crowley never uttered the magical formula of Horus – which is the Word of the Aeon, Abrahadabra, given in the Book of the Law and which Crowley goes to great pains to discuss in the majority of his writings – and so Grant gives us 13 instead the word ‘Tutulu’ , a play on the name of a Lovecraftian extra-terrestrial named Cthulhu!

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Outer Gateways by Kenneth Grant

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