I read it was the Greek name of YHWH but Jason Miller say it’s a calling of all celestial forces.
Any experience with it?
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In my experience, it is simply a word of power and vibrating it causes a change in the energetic environment. In the practice of Thelema, IAO stands for Isis-Apophis-Osiris.
In Magick in theory and Practice, Aleister Crowley writes: “There is an etymological identity between Tetragrammaton and IAO but the magical formulae are entirely different.”
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This is also what i felt when i use the word. It was like it “”“”“”“activated”“”“”" gold particules around me. Like an instant “divinity switch”.
I see it as a thelemic OM, and treat it accordingly.
It’s a primal sound of the universe to me.
Might be interesting to note that Osiris, a good known for his resurrection comes after apophis the deity of darkness and chaos.
You might read an alchemical formula out of that.
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I don’t use kabbalistic crap, but for YHWH I use Runic vibrating instead and I’m not necessarily calling YHWH, but the equivalent. The vibrating of sacred names/words are beginner guides to get acquinted with the vibrational frequency. The real Vibrating comes deep from the source of your soul/mind and is vibrated outwards through sound. You have to have that proper sync. Good luck with finding the guide though I’m sure as Google is a Friend 
Yeah it’s part of the RHP Lesser Ritual of the Banishing Hexagram. An analysis if the Rite of the Dying God. Basically OSIRIS is murdered and carved up into pieces by the jealous God, SET. ISIS mourns and is lost in grief but THOTH intervenes with his magick and revives the strewn pieces…HORUS emerges victorious and takes revenge on SET. ISIS APOPHIS (Greek name for SET), OSIRIS.
They say that this Egyptian formula IAO symbolizes any spiritual task IF it is followed through. For example , undergoing any spiritual task you feel initial exuberance, eventually you feel the tedium
and are ground down into emptiness and deadness…if you don’t give up…then that will fade. It’s should act as a ‘balancing ritual’.
On a wider scale, this cultural myth birthed the Jesus story. He attained spiritual stature, he spread his message, the people stabbed his back, sold him out , he was tortured and suffered a horrible death…but hey…who was that gardener 3 days later?
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