The Abraxas Epic Part III
To be sure, this contact with “Abraxas” has been extremely significant to me in many ways. Not simply the way it all just showed up…but just about everything imparted so far …has been exactly what I have been looking/working/waiting for. Which, while it is not unusual…it’s just not so typical for me. Nto unusual because it has happened before…but atypical because there is just so damned much of it. And it seems to correlate/relate to things I have been through my entire life. For a while I had thought that this was my HGA (or something similar), I am not throwing the idea out, however, the HGA being something that is subjective and not having a specific or “hard” definition I may never really know for sure unless I just decide it is so.
I have had feelings of being watched by..erm..the “powdered man” at work and at home several times, especially when reading occult and religious related materials. Which…I know makes me sound carried away with it…but things have been interesting to say the least since the contact.
Martialis wrote (on Evocationmagic.com):From your post Magiwen it seems that a simple call might suffice for your own working as the entity seems to have come of its own volition. Also the fact that it showed up of its own volition and showing a particular affinity with yourself, Magiwen, may signify the direction your work might take (or not, cause it’s kinda fishy that Abraxas just showed up)
Right. At work last one evening I had a slow period and used my pendulum a little bit about this. Sometimes I am not sure why I even use it, I mean, I still have a bit of skepticism of the answers I get and I been using the thing for over ten years. I asked simple stuff. Was the Abraxas that showed up a part of myself? No. Has this Abraxas ever been a living human? No (ruling out spirits of my ancestors was the intention there). Is this manifestation of Abraxas something I projected? No. Is this the Abraxas of lore also known as Mithra and other higher deities? Yes.
Realizing this is not necessarily that reliable….if it is all a manifestation of my subconscious it’s fully there ready to fool me…and in that case I still think it is important even if it is all my own subconscious or superunconscious’ doing. The fact that I am seeing the “powdered man” in waking states and now for several nights in a row dragged into astral situations that seem related, tells me that no matter if it was contact with an external Abraxas energy or my own manifestation, that I have stuff to work on.
I think you are right in expressing caution for others. I may not actually be dealing with an Abraxas anyone may evoke. What would be very interesting though is if someone did manage to do it and recieved information from it that I have so far withheld from my relating of events (and probably will continue to withhold) THAT would lean my experience more toward the external at that point, I think.
Quote:
“Martialis wrote:(especially since he said that bit about ‘the symbol closest to you’)?”
Right. That in itself is a story..about how it became something of a personal symbol for me, though the historical meaning is not the full meaning it has to myself. I don’t mind sharing that but the story would probably be way too long and boring…and generally meaningless to anyone else. The symbol turns out to be a chi rho with an additional ‘anchor’ and a circle around it and also additional lines and letters. Something interesting other than it is a personal symbol of mine is that in pre-christian days a variation of it was attributed to solar deities. I do not remember before this experience ever reading of Abraxas. (more about the symbol and my history with it in upcoming Part IV)
I must have at some point at least seen the name though. Firstly it is in a lot of texts in one form or another, so I easily could have stored it away in memory and subconscious. But that is not a definite thing either. The information I got from the experience has basically been confirmed for the most part in what I have found so far about the name itself. Though there is more yet I still need to find.
Anyway, it will be fun and hopefully ‘enlightening’ doing the searches and having the experiences.
EDIT: Got carried away in my explanations and forgot an important correlation…the REASON the symbol thing is significant is that if you look at early forms of the Abraxas talismans or “abraxas stones” the symbol on a lot of them, if you break it down into simple lines instead of figures, greatly resembles my version of the chi rho…that is close and important to me because of some other things that have happened in the past.
The Abraxas Epic Part II – The Experience
After the extremely brief history, I’ll move onto the experience.
A new journey for me started last August. To be sure the journey started long ago, it may be more apt to say that yet another leg on the trip was instigated. Something interesting happened and there are some people who have been asking me what came of it, as I have been being quite tight-lipped about it.
This whole thing is within a much larger picture of my life so while most of this is of no significance to anyone or anything but myself, it is my hope it will inspire others to start or keep going on their personal path or within their system.
Back in August 2008, as a part of another forum (EM), I participated in a “group” evocation of the elemental king Ghob. This was not a working to be done all at the same time although that would have been ideal..but schedules did not allow that. So we had decided to evoke the same being within the same period and simply report results. I, as often is the case, was the odd magician out.
I did do an evocation of Ghob, and actually did it much like many others that participated. However, what I got was not Ghob. What I got was something that identified itself as Abraxas. I will quickly go through a summary of the experience.
I performed pre-ritual cleansing as usual, set up, as usual, started the evocation, as usual. My “setup” for this evocation was a personalized version of what some refer to as the LBRP, candles of specific colors and opium incense.
Then, very much NOT usual, I had a figure outside my circle. When I concentrated on this figure I got an image of a monkish looking person…a man in a robe that wasn’t white but wasn’t dark, he was bald and was covered in white powder. He stood in front of a long wooden counter or sort of worktable and was with his back to me going over something. He seemed to be reading and had a pen and was writing in something on the table (possibly in a book or on a paper). This is very much NOT like any elemental experience I have had so I knew at this moment something was amiss.
I had a short conversation with this and he/it identified itself as Abraxas. At the time the name was familiar however I couldn’t think of who/what it meant. So I asked and basically got the answer that I would remember one day. Whatever that meant.
Since August I have seen the powdered man several times, there have been several “conversations” which I will get to in subsequent posts. We also mulled over meanings and who/what Abraxas was and wasn’t on the forum.
In a preliminary search on Google for white powder + ritual… these are some of the things I found:
A site covering some African tribe(s) in Zambia had this to say:
To approach any of these spirits one has to visit the “Ampemba”, the white powder-smearing site at “Chizabingo”. This is 7 kilometres south of Sun Hotels. The ritual warriors and those taking part in the Lwiindi Ceremony smear white powder known as “mpemba”. The white powder symbolizes purity of the performers as they come in the presence of the spirits.
This struck me as funny…not about the powder…but I have two friends…both of which are with people from Zambia.
This quote is from some site trying to sell “white powder gold” so I am not too sure of how reliable this one is but anyway:
King Solomon was very well known as an alchemist and a magician being involved in ritual magic. He too had the knowledge of making White Powder Gold. (alchemy)
Though I so far don’t remember the grimoires talking about powdering oneself..but then again…I haven’t read all of them either.
From Wiki on Rituals of the Ayyavazhi
The people of Ayyavazhi wore a vertical white mark on the forehead in the shape of a flame, starting from the central point between the eyebrows, going straight up near the top edge of the forehead.
The flame shape represents Aanma Jyothi or Atman. Which in turn means that, Atman is considered sacred and as the name of God. Zealous devotees smeared it on the exterior of the upper arms and over the chest. This white mark was unlike the one worn by a Hindu of Vaishnavism tradition who wore it on the forehead in the shape of ‘U’, or of Saivism tradition who wore it horizontally as three parallel lines. The white powder used for this mark was made from coarse white soil, found at lower layer of the earth.
Interesting.. then suddenly I’m reading about ORMUS water…so that ended that search. 
Bluefirephoenix (on Evocationmagic.com) wrote: Since the name comes from a Greek exorcism rite maybe we should look at Greek mythology for answers
My reply:
Good Point. So far I have only come up with this as what seems like the closest “official” etymology of ‘abraxas’ = Grecised form of Ha-Brachah = “The Blessing”
Vrischika wrote (on Evocationmagic.com):Of course evoking something as pompous as him is like evoking EHNB or something, way over my present “status” as a magician, but as you said it’s too tempting to avoid so if we choose him I’m in.
My reply:
Huh. I never got the impression the entity was pompous. Funny you say that. Either way seems like from what I have found abraxas and EHNB could be one in the same (cept this pompous part – not sure where that comes from), or at the very least they may be functioning from the same “zone” or energetic source.
The Abraxas Epic -Part I
I performed an evocation of Ghob several months ago as a sort of experiment with some of the folks over at www.evocationmagic.com …and got Abraxas instead. This is the relation of the experience along with some of what I posted on that forum regarding historical references and some other etc. Most of Part I here are some historical references…more of the experiences will come later in MANY parts. I think I have over thirty pages written so far…it is seemingly a neverending epic.
Ancient mythologists placed Abraxas among the Egyptian gods. Abraxas was also the Persian sun god, and in Syria he was a form of Iao (aspect or name for Yahveh, Yahweh, or Jehovah). It is said that the name was created to replace the unmentionable name of the Supreme Being.
Abraxas is known from the Gnostic writings of Simon Magus, father of the Gnostics and Basilides of Egypt.
The Gnostics, a sect of the 2nd century, claimed Abraxas as their supreme god, and said that Jesus Christ was only a phantom sent to earth by him. They believed that his name contained great mysteries, as it was composed of the seven Greek letters that formed the number 365, which is also number of days in a year. Abraxas, they thought, had under his command 365 gods, to whom they attributed 365 virtues, one for each day.
From the Tertullian:
‘Afterwards broke out the heretic Basilides. He affirms that there is a supreme Deity, by name Abraxas, by whom was created Mind, which in Greek he calls Nous; that thence sprang the Word; that of Him issued Providence, Virtue, and Wisdom; that out of these subsequently were made Principalities, powers, and Angels; that there ensued infinite issues and processions of angels; that by these angels 365 heavens were formed, and the world, in honor of Abraxas, whose name, if computed, has in itself this number. Now, among the last of the angels, those who made this world, he places the God of the Jews latest, that is, the God of the Law and of the Prophets, whom he denies to be a God, but affirms to be an angel.
To Him, he says, was allotted the seed of Abraham, and accordingly he it was who transferred the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt into the land of Canaan; affirming him to be turbulent above the other angels, and accordingly given to the frequent arousing of seditions and wars, yes, and the shedding of human blood. Christ, moreover, he affirms to have been sent, not by this maker of the world, but by the above-named Abraxas; and to have come in a phantasm, and been destitute of the substance of flesh: that it was not He who suffered among the Jews, but that Simon was crucified in His stead: whence, again, there must be no believing on him who was crucified, lest one confess to having believed on Simon. Martyrdoms, he says, are not to be endured.
The resurrection of the flesh he strenuously impugns, affirming that salvation has not been promised to bodies.
What I find most interesting so far is this…
The Basilideans. Basilides claimed to have been taught his doctrines by Glaucus, a disciple of St Peter. The sect had three grades – material, intellectual and spiritual.
From the Wiki:
The fundamental theme of the Basilidian speculation is the question concerning the origin of evil and how to overcome it. The answer is given entirely in the forms of Oriental gnosis, evidently influenced by Parseeism. There are two principles, untreated and self-existent, light and darkness, originally separated and without knowledge of each other. At the head of the “kingdom of light” stands “the uncreated, unnamable God.” From him divine life unfolds in successive steps. Seven such revelations form the first ogdoad[1], from which issued the rest of the spirit-world, till three hundred and sixty-five spirit-realms had originated. These are comprised under the mystic name Abrasax, whose numerical value answers to the number of the heavens and days.
