Biasi - Rediscover the magick of the gods and goddesses: revealing the mysteries of theurgy

Patricia Bourin

Jean-Louis de Biasi is a author, lecturer, and Hermetic philosopher who has studied the various topics of the tradition since the 1970s, and who has been initiated into the highest degrees of several Western initiatic traditions. Introduced very early into the Ordo Aurum Solis, in 2003 de Biasi became the tenth Lifetime Grand Master. He is also in charge as Reverend of the religious expression of the Hermetic tradition called Ecclesia Ogdoadica.

De Biasis philosophical and spiritual tradition is rooted in Neoplatonic and Hermetic affiliations, and includes masters of the tradition such as Plato, Proclus, Iamblicus, the Emperor Julian, Pletho, and Ficino, to name a few. He is also the Grand Patriarch in charge of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix (the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross, O.K.R.C.).

He was initiated into Freemasonry and raised in 1992. He is a 32 Scottish Rite Freemason, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S., F.G.C.R., Royal Arch Mason. He is a specialist of Masonic Rituals and Esoteric Freemasonry.

He is invited regularly to various countries where he gives workshops, seminars, trainings, and conferences on philosophical and traditional subjects and expounds on his writings.

He is the author of several books in French, which have been translated into several languages, and he is now writing in English for Llewellyn Publications.

To read more about Jean-Louis de Biasi, please visit him online:

https://www.facebook.com/jeanlouis.debiasi

http://www.debiasi.org

http://www.aurumsolis.info

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Rediscover the Magick of the Gods and Goddesses: Revealing the Mysteries of Theurgy 2014 by Jean-Louis de Biasi.

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First e-book edition 2014

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Originally published in French as ABC de la Magie Sacre

Copyright Editions Grancher, 2010

Translated and upgraded by Jean-Louis de Biasi

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Acknowledgments

I would like to offer my grateful thanks to Martin Parrot, Mario Basile, and Waleed for their expertise and help with different parts of this book. As it is always difficult in our daily lives to find the time to investigate the specific subjects I have written about in this book, their support was very much appreciated.

I also thank the initiates of the Aurum Solis who participate regularly and actively share their experience and ideas in the forums of the Order.

I also want to thank Carl Weschcke for his foreword and his deep understanding of what is at stake on the spiritual, philosophical, and social levels. In the Western tradition, few people can be considered to be founders and builders. Undoubtedly Carl, former Grand Master of the Aurum Solis, is one of them, and his work manifests it.

I am very grateful to Don Kraig, who reviewed this book and shared with me his expertise as an author. Don passed away few months after this book was achieved. In December 2013, Don sent me an e-mail saying: Your book is no longer just a good book it is fantastic. You have made the topic, including the historyand many people are bored with historyfascinating to any reader and practical for anyone who wants to start using the system. Congratulations. I will cherish his personal advice the rest of my life as an author. Thank you, Don, and I wish you the best in the afterlife!

Finally, there arent enough words and this space is too limited to show my gratitude and appreciation for my wife, Patricia, for her essential and continuous support. Her presence is a real power that helps me continue the work I am doing as an author and as Grand Master of the Aurum Solis.

For Eric Ronteix

The Order of the Sacred Word

ORDO AURUM SOLIS

Anno MDCCXCVII Condito Constat

By Authority,

P B , Administrator General, A.S.O.S.V.

The Theurgists are not counted in the herd
of men who are subject to Fate.

Chaldaean Oracles , Fragment 153

O blissful Goddess, I am your initiate.
Awaken in me the memory of the Sacred Mysteries,
and take away forgetfulness forever.

Excerpt from the Orphic Hymn to Mnemozyne

Contents

by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

Mysteries of the Golden Chain

The Pillars of the Theurgic Tradition

The Sacred World

The Sacred Books

The Divine Cosmos

The Divine Being

The Celestial Ladder: Rituals and Practices

List of Figures

: The symbol of the Sun God Shamash, being a form of the eight-pointed star, was widely employed all throughout Mesopotamia.

: These four pairs of deities, male and female, were the personification of the powerful primeval deities; the first manifestation of the Sacred Ogdoad.

: Egyptian writing of Kemenu, the City of the Eight.

: The Egyptian name of Thoth.

: The symbolic presence of Thoth in his baboon shape as it is in the Mojave Desert, southwest USA.

: Egyptian writings of Thoth as the Lord of Divine Words.

: Thoth being named the Thrice Great (Trismegistos).

: The Greek God Hermes as the Messenger of the Gods, carrying the Ogdoadic Light.

: Pythagoras was the first famous figure to travel to Egypt to learn the secrets of this ancient religious and magical tradition.

: Plato, the founder of the famous school the Academy, which endured for over ten centuries.

: Iamblichus of Chalcis, Head of the Theurgic tradition.