Holodemiurgia

II. Khorismos - Separation of the Cosmic Egg

0. Preparation

You may begin with the Olympic Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, or some similar protective operation. Stand facing toward the South with your arms relaxed at your sides. Close your eyes and relax.

1. Aiôn - Eternity

Visualize a glowing cloud gathering and spinning clockwise round you. As it swirls around, intone:
Aiôn {Ai)w/n} = Eternity
Aiôn is Khronos: Time, Unlimited Time and Indeterminate Time, Unfathomable Time and Sleepless Time. He says,
"I am the Ruler of Eternity and oldest of Primeval Gods. And my Soul is the Soul of the Eternal Gods. And my Embodiment is called Eternity. My Form is Everlasting. For I am the Lord of Years, the Ruler of Eternity."

Other chants:

Khronos {Xro/nos} = Time

phôgalôa {fwgalwa} (v.m.): Aiôn as "the entire system of the Aerial Spirit"

ieouêôê iaêaiêôêuoei {ieouhwh iahaihwhuoei} (v.m.): Aion

2. Ôion - The Egg

Behold the glowing Cloud condensing round you like a Shining Robe, solidifying then into a Shining Silver Egg. Cross your arms upon your chest and then intone:
Ôion {)W|o/n} = Egg

Other chants:

enrôkhesuêl {enrwxesuhl} (v.m.): "great, greatest, round, incomprehensible figure of the Universe, heavenly"

3. Khaos - The Separation

See the Wind now spinning quickly round the Egg until it coils around it as the Serpent Time; it squeezes tighter. Spread your arms in front of you, your palms turned downward, and intone:
khaos {xa/os} = yawning gap
See the Egg now splitting into two half-shells, above you and below.

Other chants:

rôdêru ouôa {rwdhru ouwa} (v.m.): "the One who separated Heaven and Earth and covered the Heaven with eternal, golden wings"

4. Anankê - Necessity

Hold your arms in front of you and downward, with your palms turned toward the Earth. See the lower half of the divided Egg Shell as a boiling, fuming Bowl (a Crater) sinking down into the dark, descending infinitely deep. As it sinks down, intone:
Anankê {)Ana/gkh} = Necessity
See swirling within it a living chaotic flux of all the Elements and all the Qualities, a cauldron seething in the misty darkness.

Behold the living Matrix and the Matter. Hear Her names: the Vessel, the Receptacle of Infinite Becoming, Gentle Nurse, Recipient, prolific Mother of our living world, who's called Necessity.

Know that She's the Manifold Dark Mother of All, the ultimate material foundation and the origin of everything, the deepest depth and darkest night, for therein are the roots of Primal Matter.

Other chants:

Khthoniê {Xqoni/h} = She Underlying the Earth

meremôngga {meremwgga} (v.m.): "the spirit extending from Earth to the edge of the Abyss"

5. Huparxis - Existence

Hold your arms toward the Sky with upward open hands. Behold the upper half of the divided Egg Shell as a dome that's filled with glowing gas and rising up into the light, ascending infinitely high. As it ascends, intone:
to On {to\ )/On} = Being
Behold the Father, who abides, the One, the Source, the origin of Limit and the world of changeless Being.

Understand this First Perfection: Eternity, Necessity and Being; for within the wide embrace of limitless Eternity all action comes about, because the Father of all Being, He who holds the Heavens, acts. No less, the Mother of Necessity, who holds the Earth, is acted on. For each is necessary to the other.

Other chants:

Ouranos {)Ourano/s} = Heaven

erdêneu {erdhneu} (v.m.): "the spirit extending from Heaven to Earth"

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