Enflame thyself in prayer...
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According to Aleister Crowley & the Ouija Board it was Crowley who coined it.
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I'd guess Jerry Cornelius would know, but that doesn't sound right to me. I looked around for it in my copy of Abramelin, but I couldn't find it there. I swear I read it in either there or in something by Mathers. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
Edit: I just mean the "enflame thyself" part.
Malaclypse: Do you have a page number for that?
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@sasha said
"Malaclypse: Do you have a page number for that?"
Sorry no, but I remember him writing the intended principle in about 2-3 sentences and then "but Crowley said it best: enflame thyself in prayer". I think it was somewhere near the end of the book, that's all I can say.
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He did say it... but not first
"Enflame" etc. is from Abra-melin.
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@DavidH said
"I read somewhere that it was taken from Golden Dawn ritual. Anyone know if this is true or which grade it is?"
Can't think of one offhand unless it's in the (mostly) Chaldean Oracle derived speeches in the 3=8 First Point (and, to a lesser extent, Second Point). Odds are that you can find "Invoke often" there at least.
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@Jim Eshelman said
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"Enflame" etc. is from Abra-melin."Book II, Chapter 13, page 81 (Dover edition)
"Humiliate yourself before God and His Celesital Court, and commence your prayer with fervour, for then it is that you will begin to enflame yourself in praying, and you will see appear an extraordinary and supernatural splendour which will fill the whole partment, and will surround you with an inexpressible odour, and this alone will console you and comfort your heart so that you shall call for ever happy the Day of the Lord."
[This has been driving me nuts.]
A possible source for "inovke often" in the Chaldean Oracles:
"If thou often invokest it [Zodiacal powers], then when no longer is Visible unto thee the Vault of the Heavens, when the Stars have lost their light the lamp of the Moon is veiled, the Earth abideth not, and around thee darts the lightning flame, then all things will appear to thee in the form of a Lion!"
- Quoted in Westcott's introduction to the Chaldean Oracles.
Invoking often in this context seems to produce a similar affect to the fervent praying of Abramelin.
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"sasha wrote
"Invoking often in this context seems to produce a similar affect to the fervent praying of Abramelin."
"I would only add that there are two distinct ideas in the sentence, and that they somehow differ; otherwise one expression would be good enough?
The first, 'inflame thyself..." I think refers to the worshipper, and the second, the 'invoking,' is more focused on bringing down the God-forms or what have you.
Ideas on this?
93, 93/93
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93,
Perhaps to "Enflame oneself" alludes to the idea of putting all of one's emotions into the prayer, to the point that they develop a burning passion to achieve the results they are praying for. "Invoking Often" may allude to doing it on such a consistent and persistent basis that it becomes second nature.
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Is it not inflame, rather than enflame?
I have the quote being:
“Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!” - Aleister CrowleyI like how this sounds, but I got this off the internet, don't know where it came from....
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British vs. U.S. spellings. Either is correct in some situations.
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@Al-Shariyf said
"93,
Perhaps to "Enflame oneself" alludes to the idea of putting all of one's emotions into the prayer, to the point that they develop a burning passion to achieve the results they are praying for. "Invoking Often" may allude to doing it on such a consistent and persistent basis that it becomes second nature.
93/93"Think you have hit the nail on the head there, though i have often thought the Kundalini may have been a reason.
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In which book does Crowley write this?
“Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!” -
Many place, scattered about. Going from memory, I think you'll find it in Magick in Theory & Practice in the chapter on Invocations, and in Liber Samekh, in the Scholion.
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Thank you