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AARON — Brother of Moses and the “Adept of the Adepts.” The first high priest and magician (through Jehovah’s power). Introducer of the “golden calf.” HPB explains Aaron’s rod, which turned the water to blood, as a magnetic pole acting upon red lichen infusoria.

A’ANO’NIN — Guardian of the 26th tunnel of the Tree of Death. In Grant’s teaching, “The Lord of the Gates of Matter.” Corresponds, in the Tarot, to The Devil atu. Its magic, idicated by the letter Ayin, is the “evil eye” or Eye of Set (“The Diamond in the Night”). Its disease is priapism.

AB — (Egyptian: the heart.) The source of life amongst the Nilots. Considered the center of the conscious mind, it was essential that the Ab survive death through physical embalming, because even if the physical heart was “dead” the spirit still had to derive its post mortem existence from it. Metaphysically, the heart is the center of the innermost self, which is simultaneously the innermost center of the universe, not to mention Ra, the Sun.

ABBREVIATIONS — Occult literature, particularly contemporary magic literature, teems with abbreviations and initials which the general reader may or may not always readily identify. Examples:

AAA - Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous

AAB - Albigensian Anti-Procreation

AB - Alice Bailey

AC - Aleister Crowley

ADE - After Death Experience

AP - Astral Plane

BCE - Before Common Era

BEM - Bug-Eyed Monster

BHM - Big Hairy Monster

BVM - Blessed Virgin Mary

DOR- Deadly Orgone Energy

EA - Era Apocalyptica

EBE - Extraterrestrial Biological Entity

ELF - Extremely Low Frequency

EOW- End Of the World

FTL - Faster Than Light

FTT - Faster Than Thought

GOO - Great Old Ones

HGA - Holy Guardian Angel

HPB - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

HPL - Howard Philips Lovecraft

IFO - Identifed Flying Object

JJ - Jumping Jesus

KG - Kenneth Grant

LLLL - Life, Liberty, Light, Love

LOT - Lamp of Thoth

LRH - L. Ron Hubbard

MAM - Malicious Animal Magnetism

MIB - Men In Black

NPG - Negative Population Growth

OT - Operating Thetan

PK - Psycho-kinesis

PKD - Philip K. Dick

RAW - Robert Anton Wilson

RPN - Ring-Pass-Not

SLB - Superluminal Being

UE1 - Universal Eschatonic Implosion (End of World)

TP - Teleportation

XID - Christian Intelligence Detection

ZAG - Zero Automobile Growth

ZPG - Zero Population Growth

ZOK - Zero Over-kill

ABDUL AL-HAZRED — (”Slave of the Presence.”) The “Mad Arab” of Damascus, poet and supposed author of Al Azif (730 A.D.), which Lovecraft translates as the Bedouin word for the sound of nocturnal insects or the howling of demons. All of this is fairly fanciful Arabic Al Azif is better known as The Necronomicon and is about the “Forgotten Ones.”

ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION — The mysterious indicator of the Apocalypse as mentioned in the Book of Daniel and Mark 13. It was mistakenly believed by the writers of the New Testament to be a future event that would be self-explanatory once seen. The truth is other. It had actually already taken place in Daniel’s own time, for it referred to a pagan altar erected in Jerusalem, 168 B.C. by King Antiochus Epiphanes. Or at least, so states G. A. Wells in his Historical Evidence for Jesus.

ABRACADABRA/ABRAHADABRA — The former is the traditional magical word, the latter is Crowley’s mutation, for the sake of its “proper” numerological value (418), which was also the number for Boleskine, his castle, and for AIWASS, his Holy Guardian Angel. Originally the intention of the word was to cause ailments to diminish and death to be vanquished as letters were progressively removed from either end.