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Marcelo Motta Diary Entry Tuesday, 12 May 1970
Liber CCXXXI: A PERSONAL RESEARCH
About 0.25: Prepare to invoke Geni of Dome of מ.
About 0.35: Stop. On invoking, went through easily. A pool of black water before me, a "horrible" face on the other side. I did not do down (as I would have in the Carcer). Ban.[ished] and Inv.[oked]. Assuming the Shape of Neptune, invoked the Geni. Neptune shape spontaneously assumed the attitude of the God Set fighting. The intimations I had were: 1. That most of the information was imparted last night. 2. This card is related to Christian mysticism. 3. The ideas of suffering and "inevitable sacrifice" are all wrong. Toil is part of the Initiate's Adventure and "sacrifice" is the point-of-view of the weakling. Also, it very seldom would be necessary. We are "Sacrifices" in the sense that we are exhibited to the multitude, in Chuang-Tse's phrase, as "an example." This is all.[1]
Will now anoint the Seal, then examine the Name of the Geni.
Note: Called Amn several times while in Vision. A very strange sensation. Stopped so as to not to inconvenience neighbors. The Name was being vibrated quite loud.
Done; said ABRAHADABRA 11 times to anointed Seal before banishing the Vision.
1—The episode occurs in Chuang-Tse's writings, and is one of the few incidents in that skilful liar's works actually based on fact. A court dignitary visits Chuang-Tse and invites him to go into political activism, promising him honors and the favor of the powerful. The philosopher starts laughing and tells his visitor that he has no inclination for the role of "sacrificial pig". He goes on to make several observations on the meaning of the Hanged Man which confirm that Initiatic Knowledge has never been the privilege of any one race or culture since the beginning of mankind.
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