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As an amulet it should, therefore, be worn with the point downward. Similar traditional magical words were Shabriri (for banishing the demon of the same name) and Ochnotinos (for diminishing fever). The Gnostics used Ablanathanalba, a palindrome, meaning “The Father hath given to us.” With Crowley, however, Abrahadabra meant “The Great Work of the Aeon of Horus.” (See ABRAXAS.)

ABRAXAS (Or Abrasax.) — Probably derived from the same word as ABRACADABRA, (Heb. Ha-b’rakah, “the blessing” or “the sacred name”). He is the ultimate God beyond good and evil (for that matter he is even beyond being and non-being). On ancient Gnostic amulets he appears as rooster-headed, with two serpents for legs and bearing in one hand a whip and in the other a shield with the word “IAO.” Occasionally he appears as a charioteer. He is the source of the 365 emanations of the Divine Pleroma. The Creator God (See IALDABAOTH) is much inferior, hardly more than a Demiurge. It is said that, in the 2nd Century, the Gnostic, Basilides, coined the name in order to express the important number, 365 (”the Divine Cycle”), in Greek letters. Abraxas has that many Gods or “Aeons” (or “Archons”) under him.