On the word of Maat: IPSOS.

I wrote this sometime in 98 to the eq-list:
blahbla.... Kenneth Grant did take up up many of the themes from Liber Pennae Praenumbra and also the story behind this receiving, in what I consider as his best and most interesting book "Outside the circles of time". I believe it was him which translated the word into that translation which Nema has kept on using.
Ipsos is the word, and Grant saw this as a word composed by two latin words; Ipse and Os ( self -same and mouth) and the translation became "by the same mouth".(Ipse is btw also the root of the degree of Kether Ipsissimus.)
This I am convinced is wrong, (though Nemas thoughts around "the same mouth" is not and does stand without support.) Ipsos does not have to be seen as a composite word since Ipsos is a word in itself and is used in latin. It is the masculine, plural and accusative form of Ipse and Themselves is the proper translation.
The way the word appears in the text seems actually to be done deliberate - to confuse. It is shown or spoken in nearly the end of the text, - but it is spoken about in nearly the beginning of the book. Thereby it becomes easy to neglect the context it first appears in - when contemplating on the word - where it appears.

Here follows a quotation of the part of the text where the word is written and I would say that my translation makes sense to this context.

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LPP:
"But now ! As priests within the Temple are ye here, as Kings and Warriors, Magickians all. The way is in the work.
The Hidden one of the Abyss now gives the two wherein is wrought the higher alchemy: Supporting Earth is Chthonos - learn it well, and all bonds shall be loosened for the Will's working. Surmounting spirit, there is Ychronos, whose nature is duration and the passing- away thereof.
The two are one, and form the Kingdom's essence. Who masters them is Master of the world. They are the utter keys of transmutation, and keys of the Power of the other elements.
The Warrior-priests received the Keys, and placed them within their robes, to hold them hidden well above their hearts. The Black Flame danced and dwindled, becoming small, a quill pen, plumed and pointed. There being naught upon which to write, one among the Priests came forth, and laid his body's skin upon the altar as living parchment.
She-who-moves wrote thereupon a word, but shew it not before them. In patience waited all the Kings and Hermits, assured full well of final understanding.
The feather grew again........."
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So what means this ?
That the power of Ipsos is in the cultivation, knowing and extension of Chtonos and Ychronos. Follow their opposite ways through the Kingdom, and extract by Ipsos.

Fr. Layad.

An Ychronos & Chtonos working