Q:
In your book "The Mystical & Magical System of the A:.A:.", on page 91 in the Zelator chapter you have a quote from THE EQUINOX No. 4. Within the quote it says, "the uniting of the Magus and the God which is Evocation". Is evocation correct, or should it be invocation? To me, personally, it seems like invocation, but perhaps that is merely indicative of faulty knowledge on my part.

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@Jim Eshelman said

Good question.

First off, of course: I was just quoting, and the quote is correct

I see the basis of the question and, superficially, you're right. I'm certain what he's saying, though, is this: In the process of evocation, it isn't (rightly) the magician who is doing the evocation, but the God-force that is first invoked, working through the magician (one might say, in collaboration). It brings up a solid point because there is too much thinking that evocation is a different process than invocation, or that it is an earlier and easier practice. One sometimes gets the idea that a magician thinks evocation is as far from invocation as a thing could be. But, in fact, evocation depends on successful invocation. It's just a matter of bringing the force down an extra plane.