Pu-tsi-k'iun-ling (Chinese) The universal savior of all living beings; the inscription appearing over the statue of Kwan-shi-yin (Avalokitesvara). Also used as a title of the Buddha.

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Confucius K'ung Fu-tzu (551-479 BC) "Philosopher K'ung"; Chinese philosopher, statesman, and scholar, whose teachings dealt with morals, family, social reforms, and statecraft. He called himself a "transmitter, not an originator." His Analects is one of the Five Books of Chinese classics. (SD, BCW)

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K - Letter K - The eleventh ]etter in both the English and the Hebrew alphabets. As a numeral it stands in the latter for 20, and in the former for 250, and with a stroke over it (K) for 250,000. The Kabalists and the Masons appropriate the word Kodesh or Kadosh as the name of the Jewish god under this letter.

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Pu-tsi K’iun-ling (Chin.). Lit., "the Universal Saviour of all beings". A title of Avalokiteswara, and also of Buddha.

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TENG TAO HSI

(Chinese) "The Lamp of the Western Way" or the system of the Academy of M/magic(k)al Arts.

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ATHAME

Consecrated, black-handled knife, used for drawing circles to invoke spiritual entities. Implements for performing M/magic(k)al acts must themselves be M/magic(k)al. Ordinary tools do but ordinary work.

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HOMOPLASMATE

Another of Philip K. Dick's words. It is the template of the universal healed man, a god in his own right. (See PLASMATE.)

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BONEWITZ, PHILIP

First holder of a B.A. degree in Magic from U.C. Berkeley, 1970. His goal is to modernize and scientize M/magic(k) of all kinds.

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MAGICK

Stands for theurgy of "god" work, i.e. the hexagram. "M/magic(k)," which is my own spelling, is intended to cover all contingencies with a standard designation. (Similarly, Qabalah = the traditional work, whereas Cabala refers to any derivative, Gentile system). M/magic(k) should not be confused with "sorcery", which is the practice of using formulas and rituals by the ordinary mind to affect reality in self-seeking ways. "Magic", on the other hand, is active participation of the higher consciousness in creative experiences and mystical understanding.

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VALIS

Philip K. Dick's word: "VALIS" (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film); A perturbation in the reality filed in which a spontaneous self- monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasi-consciousness, purpose, growth and an armillary coherence."

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THELEMA

This is the Greek word for "will," the major tool of all M/magic(k). Crowley borrowed it from Rabelais' Gargantua et Pantagruel, in which the Abbé de Théléme's motto was "Fay ce que voudras" (Do what thou wilt).

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INITIATE

One who has been "initiated" into the mysteries, an official Epopt, a magus. For such a one, initiation is an ongoing process which is never completed. It has been said, "An initiate is not one who knows everything, but one who knows that he has everything to know."

Initiates know the meaning of the terms "Black," "White" and "Yellow" M/magic(k) but realize that, in fact, all M/magic(k) is one. No magus ever ceases to be an Initiate, no matter how far into the wildernesses of technocratic society life may lure him.

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MAGIC, DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RELIGION & SORCERY

Religion is the subordination of man to the gods. Sorcery is the invocation of the gods to use them to work one's will. M/magic(k) is the transmogrification of the world through the four elements. (Psychologically we can say that "Self and Ego" are the equivalents of "God" and "man").

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HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL

When magi speak of "the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel," they refer to that particular manifestation of spirit which is their own experience. The principle is the same, whether it is the great Aumakua of the Hawaiian Hunas or the visitation of the Archangel Gabriel for someone in our culture. The purpose of M/magic(k) is not worship, but transformation. And the purpose in evoking the Holy Guardian Angel is to obtain information that is essential to the work of transformation. (See AUGOEIDES.)

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VOODOO DOLL

If everything is connected to everything else, any intention to do harm is enthused into everything the "intender" touches. Indeed, there is no M/magic(k) at all without intention. Specifying the object of malevolence immediately begins to funnel the energy and the more the substitute object resembles the hated victim, the more effective it is. If, then, to this doll are added things that once belonged to the victim, such items help to focus the malevolence all the narrower, as a magnifying glass narrows and intensifies sunlight into actual fire. If chants using the victim's name are used, the hate-force is again intensified.

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PLASMATE

In Philip K. Dick's mythology: "The living information, the physician" (which we think of as The Holy Spirit or X discorporate). "These are the 2 principles, the dark (The Empire) and the light (the Plasmate). In the end Mind will give victory to the latter. Each of us will die or survive according to which he aligns himself and his efforts. Since universe is composed of information, it can be said that information will save us. This is the saving gnosis. The Empire is a streak of insanity in Mind and needs a physician, of which there have been many: Asklepios, Elijah, Buddha, Jesus. The Empire rejected them."

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CHORONZON

Guardian of and "Dweller in the Abyss" (Demon of Dispersion) = 333 (Noznoroch). Crowley called him the "first and deadliest of all the powers of evil", sole inhabitant of the Abyss, capable of assuming any shape, the very Lord of Chaos. In 1909 Crowley and Neuburg did battle with him on a mountaintop in Algiers, thus making Neuburg a "secret chief". The reason he is so deadly is that his force is the opposite of M/magic(k) and he is therefore a special threat for the Magician who has to grapple with him on his own. Choronzon's open sesame to Hell is "Zazas, Zazas, Nasatanada, Zazas!"

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CTHULHU

(H.P. Lovecraft's cosmology). Great Evil One, dead or asleep and dreaming beneath the sea in the sunken city of R'lyeh (Atlantis?), revived by Kenneth Grant. As the powers of evil and darkness threaten to break through into this world, this great "behemoth of the deep", awakens to lead them. His totem is the Egyptian hippo goddess, Ta-Urt. His number is 52, the same as Semitic K-L-V or "dog", referring, no doubt to Anubis. (Ta-Urt, however, be aware, is a secret aspect of Isis).

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OZ

A full statement of Thelemic law. See Crowley's Liber 77 (77 being the number of Oz). It is a Semitic root for "strength." Liber Oz was printed originally in 1942 and deals with Thelemic politics. During the creation, monsters from Unive rse B were irresponsibly unleashed, referred to in the Bible as Nefilim, "Giants" (literally, "fallen ones"). Says K. Grant, "The generic name for them is Oza, [of numerical value] 78, [the value] of Aiwass and of the influence from Kether (Mezla). The Oz is the entity that casts its monstrous and ape-like shadow over The Magician in Crowley's design of the Tarot Pack (Atu II, ascribed to Mercury and hence the Ape of Thoth)." All manifestation is illusion, including the words of creation, and the Dog-Headed Ape mocks even the languages of the Gods. Personal revelations indicate that Oz is the "home of the Beast-Doom" (Typhon as shown on the Tenth Enigma of the Book of T), i.e., the lowest circle of Hell, Hades.

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