5. Now recite the summoning of the god:

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I summ on thee. Headless O ne, who created earth and heaven ,wh~ created night and day. thou art O soronnophris" whom nonehadi ever seen; thou art Iabas, thou art Iapos,12 thou hast pro­vided for discrimination between th at which is just and unjust ;thou hast made female and male; thou hast revealed bot h th e seedand fruit ; thou hast made humans love each other and hate eachother.

I am Moses th y prophet to whom thou hast transmitted thy mys­teries celebrated by Israel; th ou hast revealed the moist and th e dryand all nourishment ; hear me!

I am the messenger of Pharaoh Osoronnophr is; th is is thy truename which hath been transmitted to the prophets of Israel. Hearrne, ARBATI IIA6 REIB ET ATHELEBERStTH ARA BLATHAALBEU EBEN PHCH I C H ITASGO t IBAO TH lAO! Listen to

me and [urn away this daimo n!

I call upon thee. awesome and invisible god , with an empty spirit.AROGOGOROBRA6 SOCH OU M OOORI6 PHALARCHA6000. Holy Headless One, deliver him/her [state your name] fromthe daimdn which rest raineth him/her, ROUBRlAO MARl6 0AM BAABNABA6 TH ASS Ao6 NAI APH NlA6ITH O LhTH ABRASAXA~OOY-migh ry Headless O ne, deliverhim/h er [repeat th e name inserted above] from the daimon that re­strainet h him /her! MABARRAIO I O~L KOT I-lA ATHO~

BALO ABRA()TH , deliver him/her [again insert the persona lname] A6TH ABRA6 T H BASYM ISAK SABA6T H lA6 !

He is the lord of the gods; he is the lord of the inhab ited world; heis the one whom the win ds fear; he is the one who made all th ingsby the command of his voice.

Lord. King, Master. Helper. empower my soul, IEO U PYR IO UPYR lA6T IAt 6 10 0 U ABRASAX SABRIAM 0 0 YY EY 00YY AO()NAIE, immediately, imm ediately, messenger of god AN·LALA LA! GAIA APA DlACHANNA CH ORYN.

" Olorrm noph ris is a Hermetic formul:a represent ing the Egypt ian phrase: u nir wn

nft- "Ositis the Beautiful Being."Il labas and lapos are Samar itan versions of the name of the Hebrew god laO.

THEPOSTMODERN MAGICAL PAPYRUS OPABARlS

3. T he Stele of Jeu th e Hieroglyphistor T he Rite of the Headl ess O neill(PGM V.96--172, 350 C le.)

2. Prepare for the ritual by wr iting the fo rmula: A6TH ABRADTHBASYM lSAK SABA6TH /AO on a new strip of papyrus, also draw

rhe magical sign>on it.

3. Face north and stretch the str ip of papyrus across your foreheadfrom one ofyour temples to the othe r and recite the six names:

A6TH ABRA6TH BASYM ISAK SABA6TH lA6.

4. Then recite:

Subject to me all daimcn s so that every daimon , wheth er heavenlyor aerial. or earthly or subterranean, or terrestr ial or aquat ic, mightbe obedient to me, and every enchan tment and scourge which is

from god.

T hus will all daimcns be obedient to you.

27 . Once th e revelation is co mpl ete. and the god has de part ed, closethe rite in the usua l manner.

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'''Th is is based on the rite mim:ansl:ated as the "Bomless One" during the early phase

of the recepno n of the papyrus materials among modern occutriS IS.

T his is another general ini tiatory rite fo r encountering a great god ordaimon. The Rite of the Headless (o r Infini te) O ne is much simplerthan the first two initiatory rites. It is sub tle in its power at first. Notethat rhe body of the working is a summoning-but in the course ofthe sum mo ning th e magician is n ansfo rmcd fro m a sum moner to

the enriry being summoned-and ultimately to the god himself.

I. Perfo rm a version of you r usual op ening rite of pur ification.

184 THE l'OS TMOD ERN MAG/CAL PAPYRUS OFABARlS

I am the headless daimon with sight in my (chel; I a~ thhc ~~~:~h he immortal fire; I a m t c trut W 0

onc ;:ho:sses~t ;eeds are done in th e world; 1 am the one that

the ct at Iiehmin flash and th e thunder roll; I am the oO,tmaketh the gh g . hi h fall th upon the earth that Itwhos e sweat is th e heavy ram w rc C • I aft

. . ted- I am the DOC whose mouth IS uner y arne;

~~~:~ ~n:;:~: be~ete th and dest royeth; I am the Fa~o~f th~Aian; my name is a heart encircled by a serpent; come 0 an

follow.

S After allowing time for the god. to beco me manife~[ in youfhsou\,close the working in your usual manner. This opc rano n may e rc­

pared until success is gained.

PaOTBCTION

Magicians mOlYoften fed themselves to he in need ofpro tection fromforces that migh t interfe re with their magical operations or from thevery forces called upo n to do the magical work. T his is especially truein the gocric stagesof magical development. O nce the stage known asmag~ia has been reached special operat ions for protec tion becomevirtually un necessary. T he Greek term for protective operations andthe amu lets which might be created to suppon them is <pUAClIC­

tnpiov (phylactery).

4. A Powerful Phylactery(/'G.'" \11.s79-~90. J OG c. r.)

. Thi s is called a body-guard against daimon s, phantasms. andagainst every kind ofsickness and suffering. It is to be inscr ibed ona strip ofgo ld. silver. or tin with a bronze stylus or written on pa ­pyrus. It is to be carried on the person of the mag ician. T he in­script ion reads: KMEPIS C H PHYRIS IAEO lAO AE~ lAO 00AlON IAEOBAPHRENE MOUNOTHILARIKRIPHIAE YEAIPHIRKIRALlTHONYOMENERPHABOEAI.

The magical signs to be written inside the circle made by theSerpent biting its rail-the Ouroboros-are:

1\ t.d>t 00> 1.. L... '<.6

After the mag ical form has been created. it is to be sancu fied in thesame way magical tools are sanct ified and by speaking the followingformula over it:

Protect my body an d th e enrire soul of me, [insert your name].