“A feast
for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet – secret, O Prophet!”
(AL II, 39)
Tahuti I invoke, God-force of the Ibis Mask,
Maker of sacred Hieroglyphs,
Magician mocked by imitations of the Ape.
Thoth, Creator, First Speaker of the Words,
Reconciler of Set & Horus,
Priest at the union of Nu & Had.
Tahuti, Primordial Artist,
Molder of Worlds from the Clay of Ptah,
Opener of the Cycles of the Aeons.
Thoth, Maker of Alphabets,
Linked to Maat as Life to Breath,
Recorder of the Heart’s Feather-Judgments.
Tahuti, Revealer of the Secrets of the Ages,
Great Guardian of the Deep Mind;
Eye of God in which is set the Symbol of All Magick.
Thoth, Whose flight In-between the Stars and Spaces
Sees all the moving Worlds and their relation
And marks them in the Pattern of the Tarot.
The signs are marked upon the leaves
Blown from the Tree of Life & Death,
Eternal words spoken on the wind.
Hermes Trismegistus,
Secret of Philosophers,
Teacher of Alchemists.
Hail, lordly Ibis, Scribe, Diviner and Priest:
Let the Revelations of Light & Dark
and the Secret Truth of thy Bride Maat
End all that has gone before to open the future unknown.
By the Sign of the Quill-Plume, so shall it be!
“It is the word of the 23rd path, whose number is 50
and 6. It is the unspoken Abode, wherein the Dance of the Mask is
taught by Me. Tahuti watches without the Ape; I am the Vulture
also.” (Liber Pennae Praenumbra 71)
