The Vision & The Voice
Assessing Aleister Crowley (Frater O.M.) and Victor Neuberg's (Frater Omnia Vincam) work with the 30 Aethyrs in 1909, Algeria, from November 23 to December 19 of that year. This working elucidated and developed the Book of the Law (1904) and Thelemic Holy Books (1907), particularly Liber VII, and firmly established the Thelemic cosmology that would later inform the O.T.O. and Gnostic Mass. Two years later, the recieved book Liber Cheth further developed the iconography of BABALON:
BABALON
Crowley, according to his Confessions, had read Casaubon before embarking on his Algerian trip with Neuberg, and had seen Dee and Kelley's scrying implements in the British Museum. Crowley's opinion of Kelley's transmissions is high:
"It is not a jargon; it has a grammar and syntax of its own. It is very much more sonorous, stately and impressive than even Greek or Sanskrit, and the English translation, though in places difficult to undersatdn, contains passages of sustained sublimity that Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible do not surpass. To condemn Kelly as a cheating charlatan—the accepted view—is simply stupid. If he invented Enochian, and composed this superb prose, he was at worst a Chatterton with fifty times that poet's ingenuity and five hundred times his poetical genius." – The Confessions
The Aethyrs
30 consecutive Aethyrs are outlined by Kelley—as given to Dee and Kelley on July 13, 1584 by the angels Ile and Gabriel (the latter being the same angel that disclosed the Qu'ran to the prophet Mohammed). These aethyrs are either "dominion extending in ever widening circles without and beyond the Watchtowers of the Universe," the cube of the Universe formed by the four tables; or aires simply means "climes" and they pertain to different parts of the world. Either they are spiritual landscapes, terrestrial locations or, somehow, both; Crowley and Neuberg used them as the former and not the latter.
Two mappings of the Aethyrs to the tree are given—one by the Golden Dawn, and another by a second order Golden Dawn schema mentioned in the 9th Aethyr. The first of these, which is elegant enough, is that the Aethyrs map the ten sephiroth as repeated in sequence in the latter 3 of the 4 Qabalistic worlds—Yetzirah, Briah and Atziluth, or the Astral, Causal and Spiritual planes in Theosophical language—skipping Assiah totally, as the Aethyrs are concentric spheres outwith the cube of the physical universe (Malkuth) depicted in the 30th Aethyr.
This scheme is as follows. We have here included the astrological attributions for each (from the Enochian character attributions) as well as the "Color Scale" for the Aethyrs given in Aethyr 18, ZEN.
30/TEX: Malkuth in Yetzirah: Caput Draconis/Virgo/Earth: Mixed Colors
29/RII: Yesod in ": Pisces/Sagittarius/Sagittarius: Bluish-Green
28/BAG: Hod in ": Ares/Taurus/Leo: Indigo
27/ZAA: Netzach in ": Leo/Taurus/Taurus: Angry clouds of ruddy brown
26/DES: Tiphareth in ": Spirit/Virgo/Gemini: White flecked with red, blue, yellow; edges of letters green
25/VTI: Geburah in ": Capricorn/Caput Draconis/Sagittarius: Cold Dark Gray
24/NIA: Chesed in ": Scorpio/Sagittarius/Taurus: Beetle-Brown+Blue-Brown
23/TOR: Binah in ": Caput Draconis/Libra/Pisces: Violet Cobalt
22/LIN: Chokmah in ": Cancer/Sagittarius/Scorpio: Rose-Madder
21/ASP: Kether in ": Taurus/Gemini/Cancer: Pale Green
20/KHR: Malkuth in Briah: Fire/Air/Pisces: Mauve
19/POP: Yesod in ": Cancer/Libra/Cancer: Crimson adorned with Silver
18/ZEN: Hod in ": Leo/Virgo/Scorpio: Bright Yellow
17/TAN: Netzach in ": Caput Draconis/Taurus/Scorpio: Crimson
16/LEA: Tiphereth in ": Cancer/Virgo/Taurus: Pale Blue
15/OXO: Geburah in ": Libra/Earth/Libra: Olive
14/UTA: Chesed in ": Capricorn/Caput Draconis/Taurus: Amber
13/ZIM: Binah in ": Leo/Sagittarius/Aquarius: Green-Gray
12/LOE: Chokmah in ": Cancer/Libra/Virgo: Russet
11/IKH: Kether in ": Sagittarius/Fire/Air: Maroon
10/ZAX: Malkuth in Atziluth(!): Leo/Taurus/Earth: Black
9/ZIP: Yesod in ": Leo/Sagittarius/Cancer: Gray
8/ZID: Hod in ": Leo/Sagittarius/Spirit: Indigo
7/DEO: Netzach in ": Spirit/Virgo/Libra: Orange
6/MAZ: Tiphareth in ": Aquarius/Taurus/Leo: Sapphire
5/LIT: Geburah in ": Cancer/Sagittarius/Caput Draconis: Silver
4/PAZ: Chesed in ": Cancer/Taurus/Leo: Emerald
3/ZOM: Binah in ": Leo/Libra/Aquarius: Violet
2/ARN: Chokmah in ": Taurus/Pisces/Scorpio: Scarlet
1/LIL: Kether in Atziluth: Cancer/Sagittarius/Cancer: Gold
While each Aethyr represents one Sephira in one of the four (three of four) worlds, it should also be remembered that each sphere in each world contains a complete tree within itself, making 400 spheres total (10 Micro-Sephirah x 10 Macro-Sephirah x 4 worlds). This is my addition to Eshelman's mapping, above, and I find it works perfectly elegantly. Each Aethyr only partially partakes of the nature of its attributed sphere, but each contain a blizzard of Qabalistic symbolism, often mapping multiple paths and spheres and progressions from "station to station" on the tree. This makes perfect sense if you understand each Aethyr as subsuming all ten sephira within its respective sphere and world. I should also note that simply to include one sphere or path, or a combination of spheres and paths, automatically implies the rest of the tree, even if only a few spheres or paths make an explicit appearance. This also suggests that there is far, far more to be seen and explored in each aethyr, unless the additional micro-spheres and micro-paths stay silent and inactive in each Aethyr, resisting exploration. Although there is no real reason why this should be, or why each sphere and path could be explicitly explored with repeated callings of an Aethyr, perhaps refined and honed with traditional Qabalistic pathworkings (using pentagram and hexagram rituals along with 777 correspondences) while within each Aethyr. This is all theoretical as of yet.
Using this scheme, we are also left to wonder: Where is Assiah? Does Assiah simply correspond to the physical planets, elements and zodiacal regions? Are there occult methods for exploration of these?
We may also ask, what of the Qliphoth? Early in my magical training (as a young man would), I became curious as to whether there existed a "negative world" version of the Enochian Calls, which called the Shells of the Qliphoth instead of the Spheres of the Sephirah, and nagged my teachers with this question. Reading through the V&V, however, I see that there are many places where the Qliphoth do seem to shine through—for instance, the 18th Aethyr seems to suggest the Qlipha of Tiphareth (a crucified bat) and Resh (the crucified children from the Sun Tarot card) in a nightside setting, which is explicitly referred to as the "empty shell" of the Aethyr. This suggests that the Qliphoth bleed through into the Aethyrs themselves; it also may put to rest another question: are the Qliphoth a "fifth world," "below" Assiah, or are there in fact Qlipha of all 400 spheres (now making 400 spheres and 400 shells total—and what of Da'ath)? This seems a more elegant theory. Additionally, we are regularly confronted with the image of the Dragon throughout the Aethyrs, who represents the Qlipha and Shells (which may also simply be the non-Supernal sephira), as elucidated in the Golden Dawn rituals and in Mathers' translation of Knorr von Rosenroth. And we must not forget the role of Coronzom himself; who (at least according to Kenneth Grant, hardly a primary source), forms a gateway into the Qliphothic Tree itself, via ZAX and/or Da'ath.
We are left to ponder the relation of the symbols of the Dragon, The Beast, BABALON and Coronzom to the Qliphoth as they relate to the Aethyrs and the overall apocalyptic drama of Revelation, the Spirit Diaries and the Book of the Law.
More: Choronzon identifies himself as the "Head of the Dragon" (Cauda Draconis) in ZAX, reaching to Da'ath. In prior Aethyrs, Babalon and the Beast are identified as the Queen and Lord of the City of the Pyramids (Tablets), and ride each other above the Ruach; also are Binah and Chokmah, Babalon and Kaos.
Note: Any direct mapping of the Sephirah to the Aethyrs is directly contradicted by the Angel of the 12th Aethyr, who says they interpenetrate but do not directly map. (See the scheme given in Equinox IV.2?)
Operating Procedures
Crowley's initial experiments were undertaken by modifying the 19th Call for each Aethyr, and then scrying the Spirit Vision—astral travel or willed imagination—which is outlined in the grade papers of the Golden Dawn. More precise methods, involving prepartory pentagrams and grade signs, are given in his later paper Liber Chanokh. None of this is found in Dee and Kelley; they are Golden Dawn methods. 9 years passed between his initial investigation of Aethyrs 30 and 29 and the Algerian experiment; this Crowley attributes to having increased his Grade or spiritual maturity to now be able to handle the visions. This factoring of the observer and their responses to messages, as well as changing information, perhaps, may be applied in reverse to Dee and Kelley. Crowley's line, again from the Confessions, is: "Anyone might use the Key for any Aethyr he chose, but he would either get no vision at all or expose himself to deception, and that probably of the deadly dangerous kind."
In Bou Saada, Algeria, Crowley employed a "great golden topaz (set in a Calvary cross of six squares, made of wood, painted vermillion) engraved with a Greek cross of five squares charged with the Rose of forty-nine petals." 49 is the number of squares in each Table. (This topaz, I am recalling off the top of my head, was stolen from Sascha Germer by the Solar Lodge in the late 1960s and subsequently lost in a fire at their ranch.) Crowley would scry into this stone physically after reciting the call. This is a marked difference from his earlier "spirit vision" methods; astral travel is essentially willed imagination with eyes closed, while scrying is looking for visuals in a physical object with eyes open. His method at this point was the simply let the Aethyr itself "overshadow" his senses as he drifted into deep trance—bringing the Aethyr to him instead of going to it. In doing this (according to Eshelman) Crowley worked to maintain an observer's perspective (in Yetzirah) instead of going fully into Samadhi upon the contents of the Aethyr. He describes this approach in the 20th Aethyr.
Recieved information was later checked by Qabalistic correspondence, Crowley's favored check against self-delusion. For Crowley, if a "spirit" code transmit accurate Qabalistic codes, and in particular if it demonstrated that it knew more Qabalah than him, then his connection to the other side was valid. When dealing with the Otherworlds, this was the equivalent of a Masonic handshake or, as we might say today, a valid password or SSH key. Later magical students, more influenced by pop psychology, like Crowley's once-secretary Israel Regardie, would have explained this by suggesting that Crowley—and, indeed, Kelley—were simply accessing deeper parts of their own brains, portions more advanced than their waking consciousness. [What does modern psychology/neuroscience say about this?]
Dee and Kelley utilized no such tests.
For Crowley, the Enochian visions subsumed all prior world religions, mystery cults and esoteric symbolism, all of it ultimately giving way to the incoming Aeon of Horus that had been announced by Aleister and Rose Crowley's 1904 reception of the Book of the Law in Cairo. The Vision of the Voice far surpasses this book both in length and complexity, and fully elucidates and develops the doctrine of the Aeon, which would inform Crowley's later attempts to formulate Thelema as an organized and terrestrial religion as opposed to something he had seen only while in a visionary state. That the content of Crowley's Enochian visions seem to confirm his own developing philosophy and primacy as a messianic figure immediately makes them suspect, even by Crowley's own standards—writing later, in the "Notes for an Astral Atlas" appendix to Book 4, Crowley warns the student that:
"Remember, then, always, but especially when dealing with the Astral Plane, that man's breath stirs the Feather of Truth. What one sees and hears is 'real' in its way, whether it be itself, or distorted by one's desires, or created by one's personality...
"The Magician may go on for a long time being fooled and flattered by the Astrals that he has himself modified or manufactured. Their natural subservience to himself will please him, poor ape!
"They will pretend to show him marvellous mysteries, pageants of beauty and wonder unspeakably splendid; he will incline to accept them as true, for the very reason that they are images of himself idealized by the imagination.
"But his real progress will stop dead. These phantasms will prevent him from coming into contact with independent intelligences, from whom alone he can learn anything new.
"He will become increasingly interested in himself, imagine himself to be attaining one initiation after another. His Ego will expand unchecked, till he seem to himself to have heaven at his feet. Yet all this will be nothing but his fool's face of Narcissus smirking up from the pool that will drown him." (via)
In many ways, The Vision and the Voice marks the high point of Crowley's career as an Adept—now a Magister Templi—of the Golden Dawn system outlined by his mentor Mathers. Post-Algeria, Crowley would be wrapped up in the drama of a new mystery school—the Ordo Templi Orientis or OTO—and concern himself largely with its sexual methods and with instituting Thelema as a religion, with himself as the head. His research progressed along other lines, and administrative manners; however, Crowley the Pure Seeker was never quite so pristine, to be replaced with Crowley the PR Man for the Aeon.
Additionally, Crowley used a Muslim mantra, from Surah 112, while travelling across the desert—this being done to enter receptive mental states, or "purify" himself as he put it, by creating states of absolute physical exhaustion so that his body would not disturb his mind, much like the use of asana in Hatha Yoga:
Qul: Huw-Allahu ahad; Allahu samad; lam yalid wa lam yulad; wa lam yakun lahu kufuwan ahad.
This was recited 1,001 times per day, with each recitation followed by a prostration. (1,001 is obviously taken from 1,001 Nights, translated by Crowley's early hero and role model Richard Burton; it is used in this book to denote an infinitely large number, much as the number 10,000 is used in Buddhist texts. The number is indeed important in Sufism; students of the Mevlevi dervish order must undergo 1,001 days of prayer before becoming a teacher.)
Crowley was now able to penetrate beyond the initial two aethyrs; his progress beyond the 19th was assisted by a specially appointed Angelic guardian; the following aethyrs concerned the equilibriation and then destruction of Crowley's individual self. By the 14th Aethyr, Crowley and Neuberg has climbed the mountain Daleh Addin—this mountain is now called Djebel Chélia or simply Chélia; it was here that Crowley began to have Victor Neuberg sodomize him, as an effort in taboo-breaking and disruption of the personality—Crowley writes (circuitiously, as sodomy was still illegal, a major reason for Crowley's often obfuscatory writing and personal legal troubles) that "I may say that the essence of the matter was that I had hitherto clung to certain conceptions of conduct which, while perfectly proper from the standpoint of my human nature, were impertinent to initiation." This may have assisted visionary states; it may also have been a deep working out of Crowley's own conflict around his sexuality. While homosexuality was not new for him, passive sodomy may have been. This sexual taboo-breaking also occurs in Madimi's request that Dee and Kelley swap wives, perhaps as a way of deeply disrupting the personality in order to open it to further visionary input. As Dee and Kelley eventually did, Crowley writes that he "obeyed my Angel," and turned passive sodomy [was it actually this?] into a means of invoking his Holy Guardian Angel. He would later write in the comfort of his own intellect and literary anonymity in the Bagh-i-Muattar, where he becomes much more confident and bombastic. Crowley glyphed this act in later writings as "XIº OTO"—homosexual sex magick—although at the time he had not yet been initiated to OTO.
These acts, he wrote, disrupted his personality and undermined his ego totally—he was in a state of psychosis or mania, perhaps. Crowley was now to enter the "City of Pyramids," a landscape informed by the Enochian tablets or rather the Golden Dawn conceit of turning their squares into pyramids, this being the habitation of Masters or non-physical adepts, and given to the task of the Master of the Temple in raising up humanity, in Crowley's case under the planetary aegis of Jupiter or the sphere Chesed. The Queen of the City of Pyramids was now revealed to be BABALON herself, who accepted the blood of the saints here encamped, and to whom they were enjoined to offer their ego totally, under penalty of imperfect initiation and stagnation; similary to Dee and Kelley's account of the "Daughter of Fortitude," BABALON's appearance followed the successful accomplishment of the breaking of sexual taboo.
Now being "abandoned" by his angelic guardian, Crowley was told to call the 10th Aethyr, ZAX, and cross the "Abyss" or separation between God and man, noumenon and phenomenon, the guardian of which was CHORONZON, the "mighty devil" [c] described by Kelley. Crowley was here taking the name "Coronzon" from Casaubon and changing the spelling to Choronzon, potentially so that were the name transliterated into Hebrew, the first letter would be Cheth, "Ch." Crowley's Hebrew transliteration, given in Sepher Sephiroth, is ChVRVNZVN, Cheth-Vau-Resh-Vau-Nun-Zayin-Vau-Nun, enumerating to 333 by Gematria. By Greek gematria, 333 also enumerates to the words for "incontinence, dispersion, debauchery and wantonness"—in Hebrewm it also enumerates to AYQ BKR, the Qabalah of the nine chambers, and ShLG, snow (Eshelman adds HChShN, the darknessm and HShChVTCh, the slaughtered). All of this suggests the dispersion of the mind or, as Eshelman puts it, the "Anti-Will."
However, this spelling is one of several things that Casaubon got wrong; Dee's diaries themselves identify this entity as "Coronzom," and this has been corrected in Stephen Skinner's revision of Casaubon. In Enochian letters, this would be:
CORONZOM
[NOTE: This Enochian web font, designed in 1996, is inaccurate. It uses the same character (Don) for Don (R) and Tal (M), a common beginner mistake; they are different characters. See the Enochian alphabet below. This means the final Tal or M is not correct, this would unfortunately have to be done by hand. Then again, maybe it's best not to put a demon's name online.]
From Dee's diaries (quoted from Eshelman, not Skinner):
But Coronzonsic, envying man's felicity, and perceiving that the substance of man's lesser part was frail and unperfect in respect to his purer essence, began to assail man, and so prevailed.
This demon—representing the final chaos of the mind or the reason/discursive ego itself incorrectly attempting to usurp the throne of God or pure, trans-linguistic, transpersonal spiritual intuition ("knowledge is a false crown [i.e. is not Kether though may appear to be to one who has not overcome their ego]")—was evoked into a triangle using the medium of pigeon blood (three pigeons were sacrificed), in operating procedures taken from the Göetia or Lesser Key of Solomon—Kelley had been rebuked by the Angels for his prior work with Göetia. Neuberg worked as the operator while Crowley himself stood in the triangle, perhaps hoping Neuberg would "exorcise" the Choronzom complex from him totally. Crowley was possessed, broke the circle and attacked Neuberg; Neuberg banished the demon back to the triangle by vibrating the Qabalistic names of God and striking Crowley with his magical dagger. The demon returned to the triangle where it continued to psychologically attack Neuberg until the "energy" in the spilled pigeon blood was depleted. Crowley wrote the name of BABALON in the sand with his ring, and emerged from his possession trance. The ordeal lasted two hours.
Beyond ZAX, the character of the Aethyrs changed. Crowley notes that the original text of the 19th Call reads, at face value, as curse:
"O YE Heavens which dwell in the first Air, yea are mighty in the parts of the Earth, and execute the Judgment of the Highest! Unto you it is said: Behold the Face of your God, the beginning of Comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the Heavens, which provided you for the Government of the Earth, and her unspeakable variety, furnishing you with a power of understanding to dispose all things according to the Providence of Him that sitteth on the Holy Throne, and rose up in the Beginning, saying: The Earth, let her be governed by her parts, and let there be Division in her, that the glory of her may be always drunken, and vexed in itself. Her course, let it run with the Heavens; and as an handmaid let her serve them. One season, let it confound another, and let there be no creature upon or within her the same. All her members, let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one Creature equal with another. The reasonable Creatures of the Earth, and Men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling-places, let them forget their Names. The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. His buildings, let them become Caves for the beasts of the Field! Confound her understanding with darkness! For why? it repenteth me that I have made Man. One while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an Harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen."
In the 9th Aethyr and beyond, and Coronzom overcome, the text appeared to Crowley as a blessing, showing that is only the mind of man which projects evil and disorder upon the pristine perfection of the Universe and, that mind being overcome, there was now nothing but perfection to see. [Elizabethan conception of chaos.] Without an ego, there was now nothing to suffer, and nothing to make suffer. It was years, however, before Crowley could fully assimilate this perspective. As anybody who has tasted heaven through spirtual practice or drugs can tell you, there's always a comedown, and always a morning after. But once you've seen freedom, you can't forget that it exists, and you can begin the work of slowly retraining a lifetime of bad thinking and false perception—samskaras, as Hindu meditators would say—to fall in line with the new perspective.
The remaining Aethyrs showed progressive visions of purity and grace, until the sequence ended. (My own experiences with the 30 Aethyrs, repeated in haphazard fashion in 2006 with a group of 7 individuals, can be found in Ultraculture Journal.)
Relation of Crowley/Neuberg's work to Dee/Kelley's
Outside of Crowley's claims that he was the reincarnation of Kelley, the visions related in Bou Saada elucidate an immense amount of material from the Western Esoteric Tradition, combining imagery from the books of Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, Maccabees, Revelation, the Gospels and others; the various Mediterranean mystery cults; Islam; Dee & Kelly's work; Solomonic magick; Freemasonry; Rosicrucianism and, in particular, the initiation rituals and formulae of the Golden Dawn as well as the Book of the Law and Crowley's other channeled Holy Books. They form a "grand overview" of over 2,000 years of Western religious history, elegantly and precisely summarized into 30 concise visions that suggest high-degree Masonic initiations via mystery play, as in the Scottish Rite.
The following artifacts from Dee and Kelly's work explicity appear in The Vision and the Voice, where their meanings are elaborated beyond what was given in the Spirit Diaries:
- The 30 Aethyrs themselves
- The Enochian language
- The Holy Table
- The 7 names of the Sigillum Dei Aemeth, formed into a magic square
- BABALON
- The angel Madimi (Aethyr 17)
Astrological Factors
Though not calculated or timed by Crowley and Neuberg, James Eshelman later worked to analyze the astrology of each Aethyr calling itself as an attempt to isolate astrological influences on the visions from the actual content of the Aethyrs themselves. This is outside our scope for the present work but will be mentioned when appropriate here. Eshelman notes that the sun was in sidereal Scorpio (tropical Sagittarius) between the 28th and 5th Aethyrs, highly relevant to the sexual/destructive qualities of BABALON.
Summary of Method
Here, then, is a summary of the methods used by O.M. and Omnia Vincam:
- Sensory deprivation and social isolation by remaining in uninhabited desert conditions.
- Physical exhaustion from crossing desert while making 1,001 prostrations per day.
- Mental focus and emptiness by making 1,001 recitations of Surah 112 per day.
- The recitation of the 19th Call, modified for each Aethyr.
- Physically scrying into a golden topaz, while overshadowed by the Aethyr.
- Taboo-breaking by homosexual sex magick (passive sodomy).
- Göetic-style evocation AND invocation with aid of animal sacrifice for material basis.
Methods 1-3 would have formed a powerful separation from anything but the ritual psychotheater generated by methods 4-7; such devices are well known by cults the world over as ways of isolating individuals and removing them from anything but the world view of the cult. While here the cult consisted of only two individuals and the methods self-applied, the techniques are consistent. Within such conditions, and within a shared private universe, Crowley and Neuberg—like Dee and Kelley before them—were able to enter a kind of "virtual reality" generated by their unfettered minds, emerging with one of the most striking literary and religious works, in my opinion, of the 20th century. The prose of The Vision and the Voice is the best of Crowley's career, surpassing even the Holy Books; like Kelley's messages from the Angels, it is at once exquisitely sacred and profoundly chilling. Next to Dee and Kelley's own Spirit Diaries, it is the primary document of Enochian magick in practice—while Dee and Kelley received the system, Crowley and Neuberg actually used it—or at least used a section of it, namely the 30 Aethyrs, rather than the Holy Table itself (Crowley would use the Tablets in later workings, particularly in combination with the VIIIº OTO or masturbatory sex magick). For this reason, The Vision and the Voice, or Liber 418 as it is technically designated in Crowley's A∴A∴, should be studied alongside Dee and Kelley's work.
Following are analyses of each Aethyr.
Sources and Publication History
I will here be referring to the following texts:
Crowley, Aleister, with Victor B. Neuberg and Mary Desti. The Vision & The Voice, With Commentary and Other Papers. (The Equinox, Vol. IV, No. II). York Beach: Weiser, 1998.
Eshelman, James A. Visions & Voices: Aleister Crowley's Enochian Visions With Astrological & Qabalistic Commentary. Los Angeles: The College of Thelema, 2011.
The Vision & The Voice was originally published, uncommented, as the special supplement to The Equinox, Vol. I, No. V, 1911. Two sets of commentary were later added by Crowley, which were published in a 1952 edition of V&V by Karl Germer, which was again revised by Israel Regardie in 1972, who mixed his own notes in with Crowley's without distinction. The final version was William Breeze's, used here and noted above. The very original text was handwritten by Victor Neuberg in Algeria.
TEX
Malkuth in Yetzirah.
"The Exordium of the Equinox of the Gods."
Caput Draconis / Virgo / Earth. [417: 418-1—also see emphasis on 419 in Aethyr 25]
Priestess / Hermit / Universe.
Comment: Without the cube—the material world—is the sphere-system of the spiritual world enfolding it. The Cry seems to be a sort of Exordium, an external shewing-forth of the coming of the new Aeon, the Aeon of Horus the crowned child.
[Breeze edition: Malkuth, Yesod, Hod and Netzach in Malkuth. Also Hod and Netzach on the Tree. I am quite confused by these attributions in Equinox 4.2.]
Suggests incoming of Aeon of Horus; 18º Rose-Croix degree of Scottish Rite. Also the imagery is consistent with the path of Tav (Saturn) leading from Malkuth.
Crystal cube in form of Harpocrates (Malkuth) surrounded by sphere (Aethyrs)—"I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. 'Come unto me' is a foolish word: for it is I that go'"—surrounded by four archangels. Suggests Pentagram ritual. Harpocrates is the center of the 4 archangels—"(This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.)"
New Aeon comes in at Four Quarters, in each of which an Archangel holds a book labelled back and front in Enochian. [Note: The M's are fucked in the font.] The Archangels are in black robes, their wings and armor lined out in white. All this symbolism seems to elaborate the Pentagram Ritual. Tetragrammaton imagery is found throughout.
Crowley, from Book 4:
The formation of the "Yod" is the formulation of the first creative force, of that father who is called "self-begotten", and unto whom it is said: "Thou has formulated thy Father, and made fertile thy Mother". The adding of the "He" to the "Yod" is the marriage of that Father to the great co-equal Mother, who is a reflection of Nuit as He is of Hadit. Their union brings forth the son "Vau" who is the heir. Finally the daughter "He" is produced. She is both the twin sister and the daughter of "Vau". His mission is to redeem her by making her his bride; the result of this is to set her upon the throne of her mother, and it is only she whose youthful embrace can reawaken the eld of the All-Father. In this complex family relationship is symbolised the whole course of the Universe. It will be seen that (after all) the Climax is at the end. It is the second half of the formula which symbolises the Great Work which we are pledged to accomplish. The first step of this is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, which constitutes the Adept of the Inner Order. The re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in Liber 418, which gives admission to the Inmost Order of the A∴ A∴ Of the last step we cannot speak.
NORTH: FORTHSAYING OF NEW AEON
AMBZ
(North: Destruction [aligns with Freemasonry]. - Abrogation of old formula.)
AMBZ = 50 in Hebrew (Nun, Death, Scropio, and 50 Gates of Binah)
Day of Judgement and Opening of Eye of Shiva. (ATU XX or XVI)
A new Tetragrammaton must be formed; the father needs a new bride to replace the defiled (BABALON?) and YHVH has broken against the stone.
Trembling of pillars of eternity (Masonic, Mercy/Severity, ATU II, also LIL)—"Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand"—a terrible child is unleashed. Identified as female (daughter of BABALON?)
Saturn+Death=Nu
All is destroyed and rushes together as one, producing a Triple Triad (333).
EAST: OPENING OF NEW AEON
ABFMA
ABFMA also = 50, Nun, Scorpio.
(East: Adepts cleansed of blood and brought to light. - Go to light by giving blood into Cup of Babalon)
Adepts shown in white dropping Blood (Cup of Babalon); above them the Golden Sun with an Eye, whence a great light—Kether/Horus. White as being bloodless AND pure.
Revelation 4:4 "And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold."
SOUTH: CLOSING OF OLD AEON
Blessed Lord, shadow as great light, love... Unveiling of Son. Breaking the Maidenhead of Nuit—Uniting of Heh and Vau. That Heh final might partake. From the Golden Dawn 4=7 ritual, the explanation of the Diagram at the Altar:
This is the symbolic re resentation of THE FALL. For, the Great Goddess who, in the 3=8 Grade was supporting the Columns of the Sephiroth, in the sign of the 2=9 Grade, being tempted by the Tree of Knowledge (whose branches indeed tend upward into the Seven Lower Sephiroth, but also tend downward anto the Kingdom of Shells) reached down unto the Qlippoth, and immediately the Columns were unsupported and the Sephirotic system was shattered, and with it fell ADAM, the MICROPROSOPUS.
Then arose the Great DRAGON with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, and the Garden was made desolate, and MALKUTH was cut off from the Sephiroth by his intersecting folds, and linked unto the Kingdom of Shells. And the Seven Lower Sephiroth were cut off from the Three Supernals in DAATH, at the feet of AIMA ELOHIM.
And on the Heads of the Dragon are the Names and Crowns of the Edomite Kings. And because in DAATH was the greatest rise of the Great Serpent of Evil, therefore is there, as it were, another Sephirah, making for the Infernal or Averse Sephiroth, Eleven instead of Ten.
And hence were the Rivers of Eden desecrated, and from the Mouth of the DRAGON rushed the Infernal Waters in DAATH. And this is LEVIATHAN, The Crooked Serpent.
But between the Devastated Garden and the Supernal Eden, YOD HE VAU HE ELOHIM placed the Letters of THE NAME and THE FLASHING SWORD that the uppermost part of the Tree of Life might not be involved in the Fall of Adam. And thence it was necessary that the SECOND ADAM should come to restore all things and that,as the First Adam had been extended on the Cross of the Celestial Rivers, so the SON should be crucified on the Cross of the Infernal Rivers of DAATH. Yet, to do this, he must descend unto the lowest first, even unto Malkuth and be born of her.
WEST: DOOM OF OLD AEON
AN
AN = 51 (Death now infused with life or breath. Relation to secret word ON of VIº O.T.O.)
Until the Book of East is opened, look not above or below... YHVH/Tetragrammaton, the blind forces of the elements, bind the Uninitiate, who can reach YHShVH (man, master of the elements), but not BABALON, who is above the Abyss. Ending of time of Jesus of Nazareth.
RII
Yesod in Yetzirah.
"The Disruption of the Aeon of Osiris."
Pisces, Sagittarius, Sagittarius. [220: AL—this vision occured 3 years earlier. Key of 5=6 GD; 22 Trumps x 10 Sephira = Tree, Sword x Snake.]
Moon / Art / Art.
Comment: The disturbance of Equilibrium caused by the Coming of the Aeon.
Green sky covered with gold stars, dark (Venus/Solar). The imagery is the four beasts of Daniel and Apocalypse, surrounding the throne of the Elders (seen in Aethyr 30), as in ATU XXI and ATU X Rider-Waite. Also the Kerubs of the Elements, following on from the Pentagram Ritual symbolism in Aethyr 30 (Kerubs are seen in Supreme Pentagram Ritual of GD).
Scorpio-Taurus: East-West. Leo-Aquarius: South-North. As if Antares, Regulus and Aldebaran were rising, culminating and setting. Scorpio-Taurus=Nun Vav, NU; + Leo=Teth, NUT, Nuit.
East: Eagle-angel/Scorpio/Water/Heh/Understanding, wings hide heaven (the immediate, scary future). Speech reminiscent of ATU XX in Rider-Waite. This is the GD attribution but years later Crowley would re-attribute the Eagle to Air instead of Water, leaving Scorpio.
Chesed absorbed in the Abyss.
South: Lion/Leo/Fire/Yod/Wisdom, wounded and perplexed, the Beast 666, Sol in Strength. Wounded masculine of Aeon of Osiris—dying patriarchy?
West: Bull/Taurus/Earth/Heh final, white with horns of white and black and gold, scarlet mouth, sapphire eyes, cleaving sky with sword (air, as Taurus itself is attributed to air), lightning and deep clouds of Indigo. Again the YHVH symbolism. The fall of Christianity/Osiris/Mithras. Work of Yesod/2=9 A.A.
North: Man/Libra [instead of Aquarius]/Saturn on Great horse with scourge and balances (Libra/Lamed/Justice), black velvet - similar to Death of Apocalypse (Kalki) (Note: Death/Kalki, as is Horus, is "crowned and conquering" in Revelation). Gaze into unconscious to see superconsciousness.
Air as herald of Aquarius/Current of destiny in the body of Nuit. Everything is changed, and it only looks like chaos (CHAOS = Chokmah and a name of the Beast, see Biroco Kaos 14) but it is the skeleton of a new truth. Light consumed in womb of Binah to create itself anew. LVX/INRI:IAO/TARO passwords (see The Wake World)—LVX cross hidden in cubical Swastika. 65, 231, 21, 78. 18º SR?
Glory to the most high god. In Enochian, this is:
IAIDA
Which transliterated in Hebrew is 26, the same as YHVH, the Tetragrammation which is here shown rearranging in this and the previous Aethyr.
Daleth in Egg of white light (Amalantrah Working? "It's all in the egg.")
BAG
Hod in Yetzirah.
"The Vision of the Dawn of the Aeon of Horus (ATU XVII)."
Aries, Taurus, Leo.
The Emperor/The Hierophant/Lust.
Comment: Now is a further and clearer shadowing-forth of the Great Mystery of the Aeon which is to be led up to by the Aethyrs. Note however that the King of the New Aeon never appears until the First Aethyr.
BAG= 19, Eve, manifest, show forth.
An invocation of Binah, of the wheel of Time, and foreshadowing of the Abyss/ZAX.
An angel (Hod/Aries) in a sapphire stone suggesting Tiphareth and Path Samekh, with eyes suggesting Binah (the Angel and the Abyss), warding Binah. The end of the illusion of Time. If you come here you must be scarred with sorrow (become 8=3). Unification of opposing sephira—Sun/Moon, Mars/Venus, Saturn/Jupiter. [The entire V&V is Crowley's initiation to Binah.]
The four Watch-Towers of the Elements are within Chesed/Jupiter as symbolized by Sapphire (four/Jupiter/stability of universe). Crossed arms of Osiris at Tiphareth before destruction as salt (8=3). 8=3 may make a new Qabalah, but intellectual manipulations are useless for crossing Abyss.
Enochian writing:
OLAHO VIRUDEN MAHORELA ZODIREDA! ON PIREDA EXENTASER; ARBA PIRE GAH GAHA GAHAL GAHALANA VO ABRA NA GAHA VELUCORSAPAX.
Which is suggested to be part lunar language. Laycock's translation for Regardie:
"For the second time I have beautified those dark Heavens I inhabit! builded there for the Holy Mother of all. The shrine of the spirits existed, exists, and shall exist, wherein it is provided that the Babe of the Abyss [is] enthroned."
Name of warden, by a cipher, is:
LIXIPSL
Originally calculated as Draco Magnus or Mighty Dragon, Nuit/Binah. Breeze notes this should be 552, "Desiderium dierum," "Longing for the days." Eshelman gives 491 by Hebrew and 620 by Enochian; he suggests the angel was trolling him by making him dwell on exactly the kind of intellectual bs he had just warned against. Angel says that it is above the three angels of this Aethyr, but that there are four angels in the 30th Aethyr who have none above them (therefore breaking up into the dispersion of Coronzom).
"Face of mother is scarred by nails of devil" = Vau Vau Vau, 666? The number of mankind and also Sol, Tiphareth, below Binah. The seer descends to physically viewing his Rose Cross (rose cross imagery = his scrying equipment).
Core message of Aethyr BAG, which corresponds directly to 3=8 Practicus grade, is that truth comes from intuition, not intellect. The transcendence of the intellect (HOD) which is the primary task of the Practicus.
Passwords of all grades (55 + 45 + 36 + 28 + 21 + 15 + 10) = 210 = NOX, the Word of the Abyss.
ZAA
Netzach in Yetzirah.
"The Vision of the Initiation of Hecate (Atu XIV). The Redemption of the Woman of Witchcraft by Love."
Leo, Taurus, Taurus.
Lust/Hierophant/Hierophant.
Comment: Hecate appears—her son, the son of a virgin, a magus, is to bring the Aeon to pass. And she, the herald, her function fulfilled, withdraws within her mystic veil.
522 = Vau-Vau-Mem = 21, mystery of ATU XVIII, exaltation of Venus in Pisces (seems doubtful).
Eshelman: Leo Taurus Taurus = 7+1+1 = 9, Yesod (Moon).
If the paths truly are attributed by Sephira/4 Worlds as Eshelman suggests, there seems to be a lot of reflecting of higher worlds into lower (similar to how grades mirror the lessons of their reversals, i.e. 3=8/8=3).
Lunar and Venusian imagery (silver, huntress, etc—hence Hecate). Path Gimel (Hecate, Luna). Luna as the Sensorium, man's spiritual state in relation to perceived phenomena. This seems to track lunar/huntress imagery across the tree—Venus/Luna/Gimel/Sagittarius. Specifically: Gimel, Yesod, Qoph. This triple attribution of the moon = Threefold Goddess (Mother/Maiden/Crone, Hecate, the outer manifestation of BABALON/Binah, etc. Binah=3.) Imagery here subsumes all lunar.
War of Aires and elements (I seem to remember that somebody somewhere actually took this to mean there was a war between angels of the Aethyrs and the ones of the Tablets; Crowley here suggests it to mean that coefficients of Circle and Square must be commensurable—squaring of circle, etc?) Eshelman: Tablets as interface between cubical material universe and Aethyrs. (Their letters form governors of Aethyrs; suggesting perhaps tablets as faces of cube projecting the Aethyrs OUTWARD like a holographic projection? War as Ruach vs Neshamah.)
Rainbow path of Qesheth, Rainbow of Promise, Archer's Bow of Sagittarius = Solar light of Tiphareth reflecting on the lunar waters of Yesod (therefore creating the Path blending of the two Sephira); those who walk the path successfully become Hodos Chamelionis in G.D.
Kamailos = camel/rope across abyss. Angel of Daleth/love of Supernals balancing Path Gimel (similar to Samekh balancing Peh). Calling to hounds in the Lunar Language.
Rose of 49 petals in cauldron.
(From Etsy!)
This symbols appears in Adeptus Minor initiation of GD in center of floor of Vault of the Adepti and also on the head of the Pastos. It is a symbol of Venus and now BABALON—and, of course, there are 49 Calls in total, 49 days in the Bardo between death and reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism, 49 Tables given to Dee and Kelley by the angels (see DeSalvo, Decoding the Enochian Secrets, making this a most crucial number. 49 is also HGYAL, the Intelligence of Venus, MT, the Rod of Aaron, and many more. And of course is 7 x 7 (see the Seal of Babalon).
Art card/Sagittarius (Cauldron). Hecate does not understand why BABALON needs the blood of the Adepts. Pearls = Masters of Temple secreted by Binah around specks of dust. Dragon as mask of Kephra in ATU XVIII. Black Dragon stage of alchemy (Portal ritual). Stone as code word for intimate union. Da'ath=Knowledge=Gnosis? (!)
Echoes of Liber LXV and VII. Phenomenon of destruction of phenomenon for M.T.; kisses... The word of the Aeon is MAKHASHANAH (418, a blind for ABRAHADABRA). And to call Hecate (Yorke reconstruction)—an invocation of Shekinah to descend the Middle Pillar to Tav:
UOHULU ARPAZNA BINUF LA LA LA ARANA SOBANA FONUSA SAD NEDIEZO LO LAHARA EN NOM TUTULU MAHARNA OBOLO ARARNAY
TUTULU: VII 7:6: "We know why all is hidden in the stone, within the coffin, within the mighty sepulchre, and we too answer Olalám! Imál! Tutúlu! as it is written in the ancient book."
Unconnected imagery at beginning and end of visions: Ambient Yetziratic patterning due to astrological conditions (Eshelman's view).
DES
Tiphareth in Yetzirah.
"The Slave-Gods Superseded. (The Vision of Atu XX, the Stele.) The Vision of the Stele of Revealing, Abolishing the Aeon of the Slave-Gods."
Spirit, Virgo, Gemini.
Aeon/Hermit/Lovers.
Comment: The death of the past Aeon, that of Jehovah and Jesus; ends with an adumbration of the new, the vision of the Stelev of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, whose discovery brought about in a human consciousness the knowledge of the Equinox of the Gods.
48, Kokab, sphere of Mercury—or by a Breeze calculation, 31, the secret key of AL. Nuit/Hadit. The TWINS, Ra-Hoor-Khuit/Hoor-Par-Kraat, combined as Heru-Ra-Ha, the Lord of the Aeon. Replacement of the Judgement with the Stele, the Aeon (Judging the Judgers). Crowley on calculations around name—the name means "The Sacred Secret Key-letter of The Book of the Law of Thelema, appearing through the Operation of Mercury as well as giving a complete symbolical description of the Stele itself."
Eshelman: DES = 72, the Shem-ham-Mephorash (hence Goetia), and one way of signing the Four Worlds.
The focus here is the illusory nature of Tiphareth in relation to Binah.
It will here be necessary to elaborate just who the hell Ankh-f-n-Khonsu is—not just another prior incarnation, we are asked to believe, of the Kelley/Cagliostro/Levi/Crowley entity, but a priest of the war-god Mentu (an analogue of Ra-Hoor-Khuit) during the final dynasty and cultural bloom of Egypt prior to its final conquest by Persia. The mythology is wrapped up with the transmission of the Book of the Law and discovered at the Cairo Museum. Or is AANK just another "spook" that is using Crowley, perhaps as an Egyptian sorceric method of reincarnation? (Crowley's followers recite identifactory, funerary hymns to AANK four times a day.)
Pentagram (destiny of man) in the blackness of heaven that is the blackness of an angel (solar blackness = NOX = opening of mankind to superconsciousness). Angel of destruction symbolizes Jupiter-Jehovah / Osiris-Jesus who are Chesed and Tiphareth and therefore never extended beyond the abyss to the Supernals—never even had an idea of them! Absolutely critical. These are tribal gods... they have deprived mankind of hearing and sight (vision and voice, spirit and fire). Hence the V&V.
12^3 = 1728 petals of fire, Zodiac brought to material plane (see Wake World on 13 times tables)=the powers of the name HUA as the Zodiac manifested in 3D form (Nuit?). [Aries/Emperor/Suplhur/Sun] A note suggesting that restriction of love to basic monogamous straight sex is a curse. More notes on formula of YHVH. Cult of Jehovah cannot even reach Da'ath. Jehovah is not even the true Chesed, but the evil Dyad. (i.e. Qliphoth of Chokmah? Chesed?) Jehovah was the evil Chesed in the Aeon of the True Chesed (Isis), his tyranny broken by the Solar Jesus; symbolized by a golden eagle breakiing out of a golden egg (but only a repeat of Old Aeon).
(Eagle=Jupiter, hence Jehovah, the Demiurge—also symbols of Tiphareth, Air, Sol.)
The Eagle-Headed God Jesus cries: "There is no sin, and there is no salvation." (See the more controversial utterances of the Angels to Dee and Kelley on the non-existence of sin.) Crowley states Jesus knows this truth, but if he says it nobody will care about him. He is an object of worship only for those in the OUTER world of Maya, not for adepts/Chasidim. He senses incoming of NOX. Light is an illusion, truth is an illusion—the great illusions beyond life/space/time. (Elements/Pentagram/Binah/Tree/LVX are all illusions.) Everything is backward... (reversal of consciousness of NOX—see Liber 333). Jesus as accursed child of elements, not their father. Calls to Binah and Chokmah to answer his prayer but as these spheres are exposing the futility of the intellect of which he is part it matters not. He is being dissolved by the progress of human consciousness. Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine: The Church shrinks from blood (Binah/BABALON/formula of 8=3). Anguish of humanity's loss of its ideal. [215 - zarach, "ato shine/rise as sun, to give light, sunrise," "East"]
The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!
Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.
But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear.
My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book?
Jesus emerges from corruption of four elements and cries out for the supernal NOX. [Jehovah as Air-Kerub]
Commonality of repetition of "woe, woe, woe, woe" etc. in Enochian text. [Perhaps this = Sorrow, Binah, BABALON.] Woe in Enochian is OHIO:
OHIO
The intellect itself, devoid of Supernal inspiration, is dragged forth and cursed. Jehovah as accursed duality. (The accursed Dyad.) Masonic-style curses on the four elements in the order that they fall into in the Elemental Tablets. [I.e. slaves shall serve: Worship the world of appearances/Maya and be fucked by it.] Demiurge equated with Ego.
Bright black = Akasha (black/indigo egg—primordial space itself)
Literal pure-night-blue when the Thelemic gods are invoked?
Blood driven down by gods: Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Stele, and below is Seb/Geb, into whom is concentrated the clotted blood—Earth has absorbed the Carnage of the ruin wrought by Jesus and will grow a new life through putrefectation—the basic formula, not High Magick. The Christian era is fertilizer for the New Aeon. Fun fun for servants of star and snake...
VTI
Geburah in Yetzirah.
"The path of Teth. (Atu XI. The Fire-Kerub in the Initiation.) The Vision of the Fruit of the Great Work of The Beast 666. The Lion."
Capricorn/Caput Draconis/Sagittarius.
Devil/Priestess/Art.
Comment: Appearance of the Lion God of Horus, the child of Leo that incarnates him. The first Angel is Isis its mother.
Eshelman: Enochian enumerates to 25, 5x5 (Geburah), YHVD (Briatic Name of Geburah), ChIVA (Beast- Shiva as Pashupatinath?). Not mentioned by JAE is that 25=the Pentagram, and of course V.V.V.V.V., the head of A.A. and Crowley's motto as Magister Templi, who is here identified with the Beast and has "10 horns that spring from 5 points" and 8 heads.
Crowley identifies the Beast with both Leo AND Caput Draconis and occasionally confuses them in his handwritten notes.
Caput Draconis is head of lion-serpent/Beast 666 (see Enochian Alphabet) [sperm as blood of new Aeon], born of Set/Pan and woman clothed with sun—see Casaubon and Revelation [is the woman clothed with the sun BABALON?] Rev 12:1 "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head." Atus of Lust + The Aeon give key of New Aeon. (XI+XX=XXXI, Achad's Key.) Stone of Gemini/twins (RHK/HPK). An angel bearing a pitcher/amphora (cup/ATU XVII?) that is Avatar of Babalon. Angel consolidatess paths going downward to Tiphereth from Supernals—Gimel (intersecting Teth—Moon/Sun, high tantric, AL:I he sun/she moon etc), Zayin and Heh.
Accompanied by angels of Death (Samekh) (Kalki) and Jehovah/Jesus (A'ayin)—these are swallowed up by the lion Beast 666. This lion's mouth is closed by Babalon (Strength). Arrayed with angels with silver spears (Crowley says in later commentary to Liber LXV that angels with spears, weaponry, trumpets, lightning, etc are positive symbols/of HGA rather than the decay and dispersion attendant upon evil genius). Stars burnt up in nostrils (Pranayama). Paraphrase of Bornless One—let all these spirits be as motes dancing in a beam of my eye.
Teth actually means "a coiling, twisting" according to Karl Feyerabend (not Paul)=i.e. Kundalini, which also literally means "coiled" (not snake) in Sanskrit—by Sepher Yetzirah, Teth, is "the consciousness of the secret of all spiritual activities." Devouring of everything by shushumna channel (hence kundalini imagery and Babalon as Sakti). Blasting trumpets = nadi sounds, see Hatha Yoga Pradpika, as well as ATU XX in old deck (Israfel).
The word Gimel (GML) is a formula for advance of the Adeptus Minor—the goal in reflection in lower grades? (Similar to cleaving to Samekh while in Hod/Netzach?) GML, Gimel spelt in full = Paths Gimel, Mem, Lamed (see tree). Hod>Geburah>Tiphareth>Kether.
Swallowing Scorpio and Netzach (wouldn't that be Tiphareth? Yes, Lion is a solar/Tiphareth symbol). Also slain Capricornus and drunk up sea (Cap/Hod). [So lion in Tiphareth crowns the Man's attainment—Crowley's various early notes on all symbols of Adonai being subsumed into that of a Lion, the Beast 666—but it is silenced/ridden by Babalon in Teth.] 419 rays in crown, snake body, [<-- Leo imagery] soul of Crowned Child. 419-418=1; 667[Scarlet Woman]-666=1.
419=TITh, Teth in full; 418 = ChITh, Beast +1=419
"In his hand is a spear that is a cup of fornication" = IXº OTO (kept secret here). On mouth is seal of 156. Secret of vvvvv—VVVVV has 10 horns that spring from 5 points (= The Pentagram, VVVVV) and 8 [Cheth, same spelling as ChITh, beast.] heads.
From Liber 333, Cap. 49:
49
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΘ
WARATAH-BLOSSOMS
Seven are the veils of the dancing-girl in the harem of IT. Seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside Her bed. Seven eunuchs guard Her with drawn swords; No Man may come nigh unto Her. In Her wine-cup are seven streams of the blood of the Seven Spirits of God. Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She rideth. The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head of a Poet: the head of An Adulterous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr: and the head of a Lion-Serpent. [BUT IN THE AETHYR HE NOTES that there is an 8th head too sacredly terrible to mention.] Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it is
This is the Seal upon the Ring that is on the Forefinger of IT: and it is the Seal upon the Tombs of them whom She hath slain. Here is Wisdom. Let Him that hath Understanding count the Number of Our Lady; for it is the Number of a Woman; and Her Number is An Hundred and Fifty and Six.
108
COMMENTARY (ΜΘ)
49 is the square of 7.
7 is the passive and feminine number.
The chapter should be read in connection with Chapter 31 for IT now reappears.
The chapter heading, the Waratah, is a voluptuous scarlet flower, common in Australia, and this connects the chapter with Chapters 28 and 29; but this is only an allusion, for the subject of the chapter is OUR LADY BABALON, who is conceived as the feminine counterpart of IT.
This does not agree very well with the common or orthodox theogony of Chapter 11; but it is to be explained by the dithyrambic nature of the chapter.
In paragraph 3 NO MAN is of course NEMO, the Master of the Temple, Liber 418 will explain most of the allusions in this chapter.
In paragraphs 5 and 6 the author frankly identifies himself with the BEAST referred to in the book, and in the Apocalypse, and in LIBER LEGIS. In paragraph 6 the word “angel” may refer to his mission, and the word “lion-serpent” to the sigil of his ascending decan. (Teth = Snake = spermatozoon and Leo in the Zodiac, which like Teth itself has the snake-form. θ first written ☉ = Lingam-Yoni and Sol.)
Paragraph 7 explains the theological difficulty referred to above. There is only one symbol, but this symbol has many names: of those names BABALON is the holiest. It is the name referred to in Liber Legis, 1, 22.
It will be noticed that the figure, or sigil, of BABALON is a seal upon a ring, and this ring is upon the forefinger of IT. This identifies further the symbol with itself.
It will be noticed that this seal, except for the absence of a border, is the official seal of the A∴A∴ Compare Chapter 3.
It is also said to be the seal upon the tombs of them that she hath slain, that is, of the Masters of the Temple.
In connection with the number 49, see Liber 418, the 22nd Aethyr, as well as the usual authorities.
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Beast is charioteer (Cheth) of West, bearer of Sangraal. Heru-Ra-Ha as martial aspect of Sol (5=6/6=5), warrior lord of sun: "There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son." Yet in him is woman that devoureth with her water all the fire of God [IXº OTO].
"Hell" as inmost part of man that consumes all experiences and thereby understands its own perfection (Formula of Babalon, queen of hell). 32 teeth, tongue as firey logos, four rivers of Eden that flow from Da'ath, see Aethyr 30 = fourfold understanding of logos (in four worlds). Blasphemed by TAOTZEM (taking material for spiritual sun—note for Resh). Name not to know in case pronounce and pass by (alphabet of passing the river?) Crowley weighed with sin of world. Foreshadow 9=2 initiation.
Creature of earth and ye would have me swim = Assiah transfer to Yetzirah. Lion passes over Aethyr with crowned beast (VVVVV) on his back. In his tail are cities, planets etc. Tuft is a new universe. A foreshadowing of the Aeon of Thmaist, the Double-Wanded One (Greek form of Ma'at)—Lamed, proceeding away from Tiphareth to Geburah. A pale stern figure bigger than the universe, in silver (Luna) armour with a sword and pair of balances (Mars/Lamed, in Pillar of Severity perpendicular to Gimel/Luna).
"And the voice said..." descriptive of 6=5 grade.
The Voice of the Beast 666 is here just a tremendous roaring (martial), which is also articulate.
NIA
Chesed in Yetzirah.
"The Rose. (The Woman of Atu XIV, Minister of Babalon; the Water-Kerub in the Initiation.) The First Kiss of the Lady of Intitiation.
Capricorn/Caput Draconis/Sagittarius.
Devil/Priestess/Art.
Comment: Now appears his mate, the heavenly Venus, the Scarlet Woman, who by men is thought of as Babalon as he is thought of as Chaos.
Aethyrs 24/23/22 in days surrounding full moon, Mars risen...
Notes: Aethyrs 23-25 are marked by Crowley as pertaining to the Kerubs of Fire, Water, Earth and Air in his 8=3 initiation, as if it were a Golden Dawn temple initiation. Also, here we have the tantric unity of Chaos-Babalon—see Joel Biroco's KAOS-BABALON 156 current, and his "Word" of the Aeon, "Jubalcain." (Jubal being the son of Cain and brother of Tubal-Cain, the Masonic "Two Ball Cane," in Genesis 4. Jubal is said to have played the Pan-Pipe (TO PAN, "The All.")
NIA - 116, Atu XIV, the Woman Clothed With the Sun, between Scorpio and Taurus. "I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia--but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains." BEAST = ♉, Fire BABALON = ♏, Water They are the two-in-one chief officers of the temple of the New Aeon of Heru-Ra-Ha.
Eshelman: 61 (Ayin, nothing, not); ani, anatta. ELIK, to thee. "Serpentine images of inner teaching."
Reattribution of Eagle Kerub to Aquarius/Air; Woman-Serpent as Scorpio/Water.
Chokmah imagery. Sagittarius; woman in Sag. Venus.
IXº Secret here: Honey-colored dew (elixir) falls from the rose; it has been distilled from the Cauldron in ATU XIV. Chariot. Ivory as sexual excitement. Venusian angel on a Chariot. Love as motive to cross Abyss. Enochian:
NENNI OFEKUFA ANANAEL LAIADA I MAELPEREJI NONUKA AFAFA ADAREPEHETA PEREGI ALADI NIISA NIISA LAPE OL ZODIR IDIAN.
IDOIAN = Kether, Hawk, summum bonum, etc
Response: The Enochian "Open the Mysteries of your Creation," ODO KIKALE QAA/ODO CICLE QAA:
ODO CICLE QAA.
Pentagram: Five-fold mystery. Make a PERFECT MAN (pentagram) by folding up his 10 consecutive qualities (Sephira) into a single symmetrical symbol (Star). But then that Star must be blotted out in the heart of Hadit—i.e., the "Point-of-View, (!)
The totality of experiences has amount to Perfection; there is no more need of a phenomenal universe. "For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union." Under the shadow of thy wings—Sub umbra alarum tuarum Adonai quies et felicitas—is in the Fama Fraternitas as well as the Golden Dawn Neophyte Ritual [Dee incorporation] but here refers to 5=6 initiation. True wisdom is under night of pan. True medicine wine of death (AL). glory of god by no means (?) extends to void - you're on your own? These are on tomb of C.R. Mercury, Sulphur, Salt. IXº OTO reference. 3 years = 156 weeks, the time it takes to assimilate the 8=3 initiation. [It had been 156 weeks since a December 1906 astral vision in which Crowley was invited to partake in the Abyss/masters - the one of them eating the guy.] Letters TARO around the tomb of CR (VVVVV). The Tree of Life is ruled by three rings (wand of Hierophant, Liber Reguli)—Supernal Love (Daleth); Formula of Babalon and Beast (Teth); and the formula hinted at in Liber AL (? The whole thing?) By the four letters TARO you an do anything, white or black (Tree of Life). Roof of Aethyr is Mars.
TOR
Binah in Yetzirah.
"The Kerubim of Earth and Air. (Minor officers in the Initiation to 8=3.) The Vision of the Interplay and Identity of Earth and Air.
Caput Draconis/Libra/Pisces.
Priestess/Adjustment/Moon.
Comment: Here appear the Cherubim, the other officers of the new Temple, the earth and water assistants of the fire and air Beast and Scarlet Woman.
Esh: TOR = 279, nothing special? [“Leprosy”—is this is a reference to condition of Earth as constant change/decay/flaking off/disease/production of Qlipha?]
Vision of North/Earth. [Esh: Crossing to threshold of Supernals in Yetzirah]
Full Moon was in Taurus/Scorpio… attributed kerubs of Golden Dawn here appear.
The three gunas [Esh: or Supernals?] revolve in the shewstone. Silver spider web veil [ATU II/ Binah] of illusion, behind a star of 12 rays [Chokmah] and Tamas as bull of earth [Kether as Air/Taurus in Supernals?] [Apis], one of 4 officers of new temple. A warning not to ignore real life by being seduced by the Mysteries themselves. French say exalté. Beetle, midnight sun (hope of earth) in mouth. References to other cherubs. Assyrian winged bullman [Lamassu—Sumerian, from epic of Gilgamesh; these represent the parent-stars or zodiac. See star of 12 rays before bull? They are physical microcosms of zodiac, also household protective spirits. These > Jews > Four Gospels. ].
Mystics and even the kingdom of heaven itself upholds the Sky (Seb/Nuit), to neglect this leads to ruin… this has done in many mystics. Crown of thorns and spear as Osiris, Bull is sacred to Osiris. Egg of blackness (Akasha); formula of YHVH formulating father and fertilizing mother (Invocation of Horus).
[North: 0=0 entering of path of darkness that one may be brought to light]
Identity of Taurus with Scorpio, his zodiacal opposite. Bull as Vau: Chokmah to Chesed. Reference to woman and bull: 16th Aire. Ruins of Eden / Leviathan of False Sea (Mathers translating Rosenroth on Qliphoth):
25. But there are excavations of excavations. (The excavation is the receptacle, like that which is hollowed out, or carved out, like a cave, or any other receptacle. Therefore all receptacles are inferior with respect to the superiors, among which the "shells" hold the last place, which here are described, which are) under the form of a vast serpent extending this way and that. (Concerning this serpent the author of the "Royal Valley" speaks thus in his "Treatise of the Shells." The fragments of the receptacles, which have fallen into the world of Creation, of Formation, and of Action, therein exist from the Outer; and judgments are more consonant to these, which are called profane, and have their habitation in the middle space between the Holy and the Unclean. And from the head is formed that great dragon which is in the sea, and is the sea-serpent, which is, however, not so harmful as the earthly one. And this dragon hath been castrated since his crest (or membrum genitale), together with his mate, have been repressed, and thence have been formed four hundred desirable worlds. And this dragon hath in his head a nostril (after the manner of whales) in order that he may receive influence, and in himself he containeth all other dragons, concerning which it is said: "Thou hast broken the heads of the dragons upon the waters" (Ps. lxxiv. 13). And here the idea or universal form of all the shells is understood, which encompasseth the seven inferior emanations of the queen after the manner of a serpent, as well from the right as from the left and from every side.)
[The excavation or receptacle of a Sephira is that quality whereby it receives the supernal influence from that which immediately precedes it; hence each Sephira has a double quality of receiving and of transmitting, which passes through the four worlds in each which the Sephiroth exist, though in gradually decreasing light. (See Table subjoined.) The "shells," Qlipoth, are the demons, in whom again is a form of the Sephiroth, distorted and averse. This great dragon which is here described is evidently identical with the leviathan of Job. He is the executor of judgment, the centripetal force, the old serpent ever seeking to penetrate into Paradise; finally, in a more exoteric sense he is Satan and the devil, the accusing one. In the Sepher Yetzirah, a most important qabalistical book, he is called Theli, ThLI, the dragon. Now, by Gematria. ThLI = 400 + 30 + 10 = 440; and if we "repress his crest"--i.e., take away the first letter, which is Th, Tau,--400, there will remain LI = 40 = M, Mem, the water. The "400 desirable worlds" are the numerical value of Th, and signify the power of the Tetragrammaton on the material plane (See note to section 21, foregoing). There is much alchemical symbolism contained in the "Siphra Dtzenioutha." The "Seven Inferior Emanations" of the queen, are the seven lower Sephiroth --viz., Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth, Netzach, Hod. Yesod, and Malkuth; or Microprosopus and his bride, the king and queen. Shells," Qliphoth, are the evil spirits.]
26. His tail is in his head (that is, he holdeth his tail in his mouth, in order that he may form a circle, since he is said to encompass holiness). He transferreth his head to behind the shoulders (that is, he raiseth his head at the back of the bride of Microprosopus, where is the place of most severe judgments), and he is despised (since in him is the extremity of judgments and severities, whence wrath is the attribute of his forms). He watcheth (that is, he accurately searcheth out and seeketh in what place he may gain an entry into holiness. And he is concealed (as if laying traps; since he insinuateth himself into the inferiors, by whose sins he hath access to the holy grades, where the carrying out of judgments is committed to him.) He is manifested in one of the thousand shorter days. (Numbers are called days, and numbers of the inferior world short days; among which tens are attributed to the factive, on account of their decimal numeration; hundreds to the formative, since they are numbers of the light of their author, and draw their existence from the tens; but thousands to the creative, for the same reason. But that dragon hath about this his. most powerful location, whence, if a defect occurreth only in one numeration of that system through the fault of the inferiors, he is immediately manifest, and thus commenceth his accusations before the throne of glory.)
[Here is the origin of the well-known symbol of a serpent holding his tail in his mouth, like a circle--the serpent of Saturn. The reason that he raiseth his head behind the shoulders of the bride (Malkuth) is because he is. so to speak, not only the executor of judgment, but also the destroyer; destruction as opposed to creation, death as opposed to life. For the whole Sephiroth are represented as being the balance of mercy and justice, and the tenth Sephira is especially of the nature of justice, as also is Geburah. the fifth. He is concealed, because he is not called into action till justice requires him. The term "decimal numeration" of course refers to the ten Sephiroth. The presence of the serpent when revealed, is an accusation, because it shows that the balance is destroyed; just as in a watch, if one of the wheels be injured, irregularity is at once manifested. Now, life, when it consists of birth into another form, necessarily implies death in the previous form. The throne of glory is the Briatic world.]
27. There are swellings in his scales (that is, like as in a crocodile; because great in him is the heaping together of judgments). His crest keepeth its own place (that is, there is in him no further power of hastening to things beyond in the Outer).
[There is in the destroyer no "hastening to the outer," because he is centripetal and not centrifugal.]
28. But his head is broken by the waters of the great sea. (The great sea is wisdom, the fountain of mercy and loving-kindness; which, if it sendeth down its influence, judgments are pacified, and the hurtful power of the shells is restricted); like as it is written, Ps. lxxiv. 13: "Thou hast broken the heads of the dragons by the waters."
["The waters of the great sea," are the influence of the supernal mother, Binah, of whom Malkuth is the reflection. But Binah receives the influence of Chokmah. See Introduction.]
29. They were two (male and female, whence the text of the Psalm speaketh of the dragons in the plural number; but when the plural number is given in its least form, two only are understood). They are reduced into one (for the female leviathan hath been slain, lest they should seek to multiply judgments). Whence the word ThNINM, Thenanim (in the before-mentioned passage of the Psalm), is written in a defective form (purposely to denote that restriction).
[I may refer the reader to the Talmud for further information regarding Jewish ideas of the Leviathan. Thenanim is written in a defective form, because the letter I of the plural is omitted. Written fully, it should be ThNINIM, instead of ThNINM.]
30. (But it is said) heads (in the plural number, for the purpose of denoting a vast multitude, as well of species as of individuals in that genus); like as it is written, Ezek. i. 22: "And a likeness as a firmament above the heads of the living creature." (Where also the word living creature, ChIH, Chiah, is put in the singular as a genus of angels; and heads in the plural for the purpose of denoting species and innumerable individuals.)
["Thou hast broken the heads of the dragons (Thenanim) by the waters." It must be remembered that this dragon is said by the author of the "Royal Valley" to be the king of all the "shells" or demons. Now, the demons are divided into ten classes. corresponding to the ten Sephiroth, but in an averse form, and are called in the book, "Beth Elohim," the "impure Sephiroth." The heads of the leviathan (cf. the Lernæan Hydra which Hercules slew) are probably these. Compare the description of the beast in Revelation.]
Rose of earth surmounts cross of fire in symbol venus (note rose/cross symbol).
Toil creates kinetic energy. In my stability is concentrated eternal change. Whirlings of universe are course of blood in my heart. variety is crown. … doctrine of Stability = Change (9=2/2=9) and universe as stable change [Rashith ha-Gilgalim, Buddhist Change/Sorrow—anikka and dukkha as Chokmah and Binah{!!}], everything being the Bull Kerub of Earth [matter]. Silver/Purple/Golden [Yesod/Tiphareth] veils. Women kissing: Bull=Eagle. Veils open again: Assyrian eagle [Again Sumerian/Assyrian imagery of the Kerubs. i.e. Sumerianize the elemental kerubs in practice].
Disk becomes sword, bull becomes eagle. Scorpion heart in bull of mithras.
[Heart of Scorpion = Antares, 2º arc from being exactly opposite Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurs.]1
Mary as harlot in stable. Formula of dying God. Air has peripheral consciousness. [Overthrowing of Crowley’s sex-shame]
[Esh: Bull/Eagle as lingam/yoni of Scorpio, uniting in rose-cross.]
The True Unity exists in no number, but in ALEPH-NULL as a whole. [PRACTICUS CUP.]
The Cross [Nuit] extends infinitely as the Rose is its minute point of center [Hadit], they are therefore Nuit and Hadit, the correlative symbols of infinity.
Eagle scream treble, Bull bellow bass: complimentary vibrations.
Peace in (Air + Earth) (geometric figures themselves): 8 quarters (YHVH x 2) 10 points of pentagram (YHShVH x 2) 12 rays of seal of Solomon (Hexagram x 2) 430 whirlings of hammer of Thor (Swastika x 2)
FALUTLI, FALUTLI! (VII V:30). Aleph (Harpocrates, Parisfal, etc) + HGA/Prana/Center of Sun (UT in Upanishads) + LI (Heb. “To Me”—Nuit, LI Adjustment(satisfied woman)+Hermit, spermatozoon)
[Soror Meral: Faluti = VALA’aTLI = 156, Babalon, Hriliu]
UT in Up.:
Let a man meditate on the syllables of the udgîtha, i. e. of the word udgîtha. Ut is breath (prâna), for by means of breath a man rises (uttishthati). Gî is speech, for speeches are called girah. Tha is food, for by means of food all subsists (sthita).
Ut is heaven, gî the sky, tha the earth. Ut is the sun, gî the air, tha the fire. Ut is the Sâma-veda,, gî the Yagur-veda, tha the Rig-veda 1.
LIN
Comment: Here is the First Key to the formula of Horus, a sevenfold arrangement. A shadow of Horus declares his nature.
LIN=ChSN, ruler of Air, Strength. 118 = 2 x 59, Brethren. Twins concealed in HeruRH. Lilith/Samael. First formula of Horus is that of Babalon, as He is yet within HER womb. [Note 10th Aire, PARAOAN-I’m not there yet]
[esh: Mercurial symbolism. Also solar symbolism—high/deeper version of the 5=6 GD initiation. Note outer/inner initiations. LIN= 9, Tzaddi, “Sun of the Morning, Chief Among the Mighty” (see line 21 of aethyr, Harpocrates on lotus), emerging kingship. LIN = Paths of Cheth, Samekh, Nun: Openings to Binah, Tiphareth and then Tiphareth with reference to Binah {50 Gates}]
Into the stone: The table of 49 squares. (Chanokh: SAAIME/SBHDIII table—this is presumably the 7 names of Sigillum Dei Aemeth i.e. Babalon, arranged into a magical square—or this square likely predated the Sigillum? See Skinner.). {7 planetary angels are drawn from this table.} Surrounded by angels [Gods down to elementals]. Each letter composed of 49 other letters, in a language similar to that of Honorius/Theban [See Agrippa—~1531, pre-Dee and Dee influential]. (!!) But cannot be read. Now comes PAN as an angel uniting 7 planets [9th Aethyr] [many colors, but = Chokmah; as gray of chokmah = all colors. Also Samekh = rainbow]. Aire beocmes light and drips dew [Supernal Lion-Serpent in Menstruum of Liquid Pearl {Gimel?}] [JAE starts calling this a “quasi-physical” kundalini phenomenon here are starts babbling about John Denver wtf. Mentioned in GD 4=7?]. Dew = enormous globs, shining like moon, perfectly transparent and luminous. [falling yods. Gen 27:38]
49 letters of tablet = 49 kinds of cosmos in every thought of God. 49 interpretations of every cosmos, every interpretation manifested 49 ways. So 49 calls, to each of which there are 49 visions. [Bowie when I’m typing: “Must have been touching close to 94.”] And each visions = 49 elements, except 10th, which is accursed, and has 42. [Doug Adams??] [42=Demiurge in Gen I, assessors in hall of dead, AMA Sterile Mother, Terror and Destruction, Loss, Earth of Malkuth. 10th Aethyr etc.]
[Genesis I as Demiurge “evilly” creating imperfection from perfection.]
[JAE: Implicit call 0 is silence. {DeSalvo 49th call/table?} Total elements would = 1463, 7 x 209, 209 = HDR, The Pearl]
Solar Child develops from the Dew.
Standing in form of Kneph, 0^0 omniform zero, winged egg from which all positive manifestation comes.
[VII prologue… samadhi]
Looking into liquid surface of egg, all names of God, even not known to angels, crowd about.
7 senses -> 1 sense, then dissolved into itself in samadhi [sagittarius?]. Declare it all [all sag?] No link to Perdurabo. In samadhi behind veil of Table —Table as “Veil of Infinite”. Arms in form of cross, extending into infinity, with himself as point within it (Nuit/Hadit)—this is the birth of form.
Encircled by immense sphere of many-colored bands, sphere of Sephiroth projected in the three dimensions—the birth of death. [Saturn?] [Death as self extended into negative circle/sphere of Nuit instead of positive balanced cross] [JL: This is an excellent summary of NOX formula vs LVX formula. One simply sees BEYOND the limits of the Cross of manifestation into infinity and then emptiness, i.e. Via Negativa, NOX.]
In center within is glowing sun—the birth of hell, the secret center of self [Liber Aleph]. “One perceives one’s Star as one’s True Self.” (!?!?! whoa dude. Also… VIIº OTO? Star as solar-phallic? WHOA DUDE)
Hell = same root as all covered/concealed stuff [JAE] Crucifixtion as Nuit/Hadit/Heru-Ra-Ha.
It is the virtue of the table to sweep everything away.
Aethyr: I: Vision = Sag, Rainbow as 7fold projection L: Purity = Luna decreasing in Cancer. Active Luna always purifies, passive evil [active reflects sun not phantoms of night]. N: Energy = Mars in Scorpio, energy which forms vision (in Taurus would cause action)
Mental analysis causes author to break into dispersion (333). Mental nature of aethyr… letters of Table are all wrong, shadows of shadows. Whoso beholdeth table is light=ARARITA, transmuted = ATh RAIAR, yod girt by suns tending inwardly upon it. RAIAR = Mercury by way of Bet. Kether and Sol are not light, as light is a duplex vibration energized by them and is thereby of their Messenger, Mercury (!!)
Voice of Aethyr is ceaseless thundering of word AUMGN, outside time. Amen continuous. Eye, Ayin, glory so great it cannot be manifested by any positive means (yes… intuitively perceiving this while reading, outside reason).
Table recedes - two angels above him with black wings - and he is shut up into Pastos of Christian Rosenkreutz (7 SIDES = PENTACLE OF BABALON = 49-FOLD TABLE - Demonstrating consistency of imagery through Dee>Rosicrucians>Golden Dawn even if reconstructed by Crowley in his mind/outside time?) Heru-Ra-Ha speaks from egg of blue. Flaming rosy cross before him. I have opened my eye and the universe dissolves. Upper eyelid force, lower eyelid matter, gazing into seven spaces (sephira) there is naught (emptiness). [JAE: This is HGA of Crowley]
[In GD init Crowley found his initiator in Pastos, here place are swapped.]
Horus slays Sobek, crowned with mixed forces of Aquarius, opposite in Zodiac to Leo (sign of Horus).
Energy of Horus destroys but must be withdrawn afterward or he continues to vitalize with his energy (!!!!!!!!!!) (practical psychic defense). (Enterer/Silence - fucking drill it down.) The coherence of the broken matter must be withdrawn.
Harpo on lotus, fortress against water demon. gather yourselves unto me on lotus oh you sons of the morning (luciferians?) Horus chases Osiris into Ammenti and then follows him there so that his reign may be established even in the realms of death. Death is now Life Triumphant in New Aeon, not by resurrection but by its own essence (?)
Thelemic afterlife: He is eternal and perceives himself the Universe by virtue of categories of Life and Death, which are not real, but subjective conditions of perception like time and space. “Forms of his artistic presentation.”
Osiris was tricked into death by magick and had to overcome it with the formula IAO (Christ, Mithras, resurrecting gods, etc…. similarity to theories of Yugas).
The table reappears and says you’ve translated the vision into reason, this causes new Falls.
Mark 2:25-26New International Version (NIV)
25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
i.e. profaning the sacred… connection between SHEW-BREAD and SHEW-STONE of Dee? I.e. storming heaven unlawfully…
This cannot be re-opened except by virtue of ARARITA—i.e. equating and identifying every idea with its opposite, thereby being released from fixed truth and completely withdrawing from Ruach. See Chapters of ARARITA for the method: Thesis > Antithesis > Quintessence > Withdrawal > Erasure in the method itself > Reappearance in form appointed by Adept.
[i.e. since reason and ratiocination profane the “shrine” of understanding [Binah beyond Da’ath], one must exit the Ruach completely via the ARARITA method before being admitted to the “shrine” of the Table (and hence the 3rd order?) Indeed the Sevenfold seal is a symbol of Babylon, Binah, and Babylon triumphs over Choronzon. {The Dragon?}]
Even though joined to inmost mystery of heaven, one must accomplish sevenfold task of earth, even as thou safest angels from greatest to least. Sense shall be darkened and shrine re-veiled after you take back.
If your analytical methods cannot destroy Illusion, try harder, motherfucker.
SatChitAnanda, 4 powers of Sphinx. Being/Knowledge/Bliss, Will/Courage/Wisdom/Silence. [7 = ARARITA??] That which, being all these, is greater than all these [is this the secret 8th head of the Beast?]
Sorrow upon seeing world as it is (Dukkha, Binah).
JAE says this is the true promise of the Lord of the New Aeon: “Behold! Where are now the darkness and the terror and the lamentation? For ye are born into the new Aeon; ye shall not suffer death. Bind up your girdles of gold! Wreath yourselves with garlands of my unfading flowers! In the nights we will dance together, and in the morning we will go forth to war; for, as my Father liveth that was dead, so do I live and shall never die.”
[At night he is shown a vision of temple that is a mix of Lhasa and Abu-Jimmel {possibly Jain temple on Mt. Abu in India}.] Note: I saw nearby/similar Jain temples in Rajasthan in 2004: here. South of Jodhpur
ASP
Comment: This seems to be the Vision of God face to face that is the necessary ordeal for him who would pass the Abyss, as it were. A commission to be the prophet of the Aeon arising is given to the Seer. The God is the Hierophant in the Ceremony of Magister Templi.
ASP = 25, YHVD, God of Geburah of Briah (!) = ChIVA, The Beast. [JL: And VVVVV/Pentagram] Leo, the Lion of Beast Atu XI, replaces Taurus, Osiris, and Virgo the Virgin/Lonely One.
[JAE: ASP = 141.]
[JAE: Crowley thinks 21, 20, 19 aethyrs = Hierophant, Hierus, Hegemon of his 8=3 initiation [as 23-24 aethyrs are the Kerubs at his initiation]
[Sidereal, not tropical, Zodiac = the body of Nuit]
[Moon in Sidereal Gemini = Gemini/twin themes]
[JAE: Yammering mind made still = Gateway to Briah.]
A mighty wind of absolute emptiness. Behind it flashes the avenue pf pillars, throne on sphinxes of black marble, that is way of time in temple of destiny (Saturn/Binah). From the invisible on the throne all desolation proceeds (necessity/fate).
[Throne = Briah, Figure = Atziluthic. Desolation in Latin = solus, “alone”]
[Relation between 30 aethyrs and 50 gates??? Here’s a fascinating Bill Hedrick essay: http://hermetic.com/heidrick/50gates.html] [Gunther quotes Zohar Pritzher ed vol 1 p 97 as Y opening H (womb) through 50 gates of binah]
Aethyric imagery past this point is beyond good/evil duality, fundamental logic, being obliged to think of state of mind, or individual, being true to itself.
Cabalistic communication by taste: MEDONEStL UIEOEMThERIONS. Crowley: “The Earth is sick of love; with disease and death is she sick… the natural lust, fierce as it is, is not enough; virgins, boys, women (make man) sick, weak of semen, and sick. The earth shall be cured of her sickness by true Art-of-Sun, and thine own pleasure(s), oh Thou …, shall abolish the world’s woe, and bring on the Age of Righteousness.” [Seminal retention? Deeper meaning of semen? VITRIOL? Logos?]
[Colors of Binah in Briah and Atziluth. Akasha-tattwa. Progression of nada sounds]
There is no warmth in destiny. It is intolerable to see mere mechanism of life.
Nuit/Rahoorkhuit. Pillars Binah, throne Tiphareth. RHK alive in womb of Babalon.
Before beginning: :et me behold my countenance in abyss (beginning Upanishads)
(A tangential discovery from Wikipedia: The Taishang dongyuan shenzhou jing (simplified Chinese: 太上洞渊神咒经; traditional Chinese: 太上洞淵神咒經; pinyin:Tàishàng dòngyuān shénzhòu jīng; Wade–Giles: T'ai-shang shen-chou ching; literally: "Most High Cavernous Abyss Divine Spells Scripture"), here, here, here
[Journey to the West: 4 visits to the Abyss. With Tibetans. WTF.]
Levi’s image of two countenances:
3rd eye of Shiva must not open because it will destroy all because of foulness of vision; so 2 eyes open through the aeon [dualism perpetuates creation]. [QBLH: Most Holy Ancient One has one eye, Microprosopus, 2.]. See 22nd Aethyr: An adept (as in prior, tomb of CR) must cut off eyelids so he can behold and destroy. [Eye of AA] [Most High, IAIDA?]
Minor elemental weapon of air, dagger, useless against force and matter. [dagger of obligation of 5=6 grade, prior Aethyr, sealed prior to seeing face of father and brother who was mystic foundation of order. 7fold tempering of soul, ordeals distinctive to each person. (KT degree York Rite, 7 years? Tempering done in 7 chakras.]
VVVVV = Strength of five bulls. But shall not avail.
[JAE: VVVVV as “Supernal ONE” who had founded AA and written holy books]
I know not = No = LA, 31 / Not, AIN, 61. [“Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.”] The endless not.
Dagger 7 x 4 = 28, ∑1-7, 4 x 7, perfect. Nothing changes = horror.
Throned figure: The Great (vast) Countenance, ARIK ANPIN, 231+191=422 [4 x 22 paths in 4 worlds]=8, Mercury, Mayan
This is the god of Unity, the One True God—and there is nothing but this “abomination of desolation.”
“19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718.” [note .718 subfactorials in liber 500]
Daniel 11:31: “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.” [coming of antichrist/salvation of israel]
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mark 13:14 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
standing where it ought not = 0, not
Wiki on Abomination of Desolation
“motionless abomination” (see Aethyr). Designation of Jupiter?
According to 1 Maccabees 1:54, the abomination was erected on the altar of burnt offering [ Qliphoth ]
1 Maccabees[edit] According to 1 Maccabees 1:54, the abomination was erected on the altar of burnt offering.[4] 1 Maccabees 1:54 "Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side;" 1 Maccabees 6:7 "Also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Bethsura."
The rabbinical consensus is that the expression refers to the desecration of the Second Temple (Herod's Temple) by the erection of a Zeus statue in its sacred precincts byAntiochus IV Epiphanes.[6][7] Some rabbis, however, see in it an allusion to Manasseh, who is reported to have set up "a carved image … in the house of God".[8][9] Church Father John Chrysostom understood this to refer to the armies that surrounded Jerusalem and the factions fighting within it which preceded the destruction of the city.[10]
The 1 Maccabees usage of the term points to the actions of Antiochus IV Epiphanes in the mid-2nd century BC. Specifically, he set up an altar to Zeus in the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and sacrificed swine on it around the year 167 BC.[citation needed] Many modern scholars believe that Daniel 9:27, 11:31 and 12:11 are examples of vaticinium ex eventu (prophecies after the event) relating to Antiochus.[11][12]
Many modern Biblical scholars[13] conclude that Matthew 24:15 and Mark 13:14 are prophecies after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman generalTitus.[14] Some scholars, including Hermann Detering,[15] see these verses as a vaticinium ex eventu about Emperor Hadrian's attempt to install the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus on the site of the ruined Jewish Temple in Jerusalem leading to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132-135 AD.
Preterists believe that Jesus quoted this prophecy in Mark 13:14 as referring to an event in his 1st century disciples' immediate future, such as the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.[16][17]
One commentator relates the prophecy to the actions of Caligula c. 40 AD when he ordered that a golden statue depicting himself as Zeus incarnate be set up in the Temple in Jerusalem.[18] This prospect however, never came to fruition since he was assassinated in 41 AD along with his wife and daughter.[19]
Peter Bolt, head of New Testament at Moore Theological College, believes that the abomination of desolation in Mark 13 refers to the crucifixion of the Son of God; in other words, Jesus is referring to his own impending death.[20]
If Abomination of Desolation = Zeus/Io Pater statue in the Second Temple = Chesed or Demiurge. [As here seen.] Also “changeless abomination”] (changeless nature of imagery. Also the demiurgic figure is seen on a throne behind pillars with sphinxes, which doesn’t really resemble the second temple, but is vaguely suggestive of a similar setup
0=2?
From this figure proceed the elements (again 4, chesed, and demiurgos 718.) But why Stele?
“Only those who accept nothing from me can bring anything to me.”
The muttering heard from the idol is the APE OF THOTH; the being on throne has not spoken at all.
KETHER, silence -> THOTH, false speech [as not silence] APE OF THOTH, caricature/Qliphoth of false speech. -> According to the Ape, his speech is true, because he falsifies falsehood (but wouldn’t it rather be progressive degeneration?)
Ape of Thoth = babbling mind that gets in way of the Silence of the Most High [Bet, Mayan, magician in house of god]
[JAE: Truth = AMTh. Whatsoever of truth that gains voice is a lie, as dual]
From now on, all statements in Aethyrs speak the language of the Neschemah and not Ruach [we also transition into Briah in next aethyr], meaning that they are paradoxical statements, and must be reverse and reversed again and again, and are true and false at once [NEITHER-NEITHER LANGUAGE]
Signs up to 7=4 but no further he has them not. This is beyond Adeptus Exemptus and Crowley’s then extent of initiation.
So he was wrong in Wake World to suggest that an MT could pass to higher temples. Distances between grades increase.
Angel: Seeing this “God” (the man behind the curtain) is the Ordeal X—“the horror and loneliness of the First” (Kether), now he can go into the world as the prophet of new Aeon, whether Kether is Not [i.e. 0=2, Kether is the child of any marriage of one particular Hadit with one particular aspect of Nuit, and there are therefore infinite Kethers, and all marriages also produce a twin: H+Y=H+V. Third Being/Third Mind (Kether) and also an ecstasy or dissolution produced by the same event. Magical and Mystical results of act of Love Under Will.
The voice of Ape of Thoth is pulse of heart and laboring of breast.
KHR
Comment: “A guide is given to the Seer, his Holy Guardian Angel. And this is attained by a mastery of the Universe conceived as a wheel. The Hierus in the Ceremony of the Magister Templi.”
[jae: cabalists writing of briah similar to hindus writing of samadhi]
Jupiter. Chashmalim (choir). Gather into Wheel of Fortune = 49 wheels set at different angles composing a sphere. When rays from 2 wheels meet, blinding flash of glory. [ 49 =table. 7 is inferiors, feminine perfection. 3 x 49 = 147, the four names of god used in LBRP(!) 4fold regimen of YHVH: 3 x 7 x 7 [Why 3? Gunas? Dinah? 3 of four elements with Earth implied?]
[Trumpets cause all things to manifest at once = Malkuth, 10; 10,000 things {10 x 1,000 or 10^3}. 49 is also the value of “the Lamb.” HTLH {but this includes initial Heh… uhh?}]
[JAE: KHR = 225. Same as Latin “Facito Voluntatem Tuam,” “Do what the wilt,” and “Transerat a me calyx itse,” take this cup from me. (Cup?). Also child and I am in greek. 225 is also 15^2.]
[Wheel: Purusha and Prakrit, seer and seen. Wheel: I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.” Kaph wheel, yod axle. This is a Briatic expression of prakriti, Nature.]
Spun by hand (Yod, Kaph, 20, Jupiter), Spermatozoon, Hadit… KAph = peh + kaph = yod * yod, Kaph and Peh are Kteis and Phallus whose union releases Yod. Universe set into motion by Love Under Will. “By “the wheel spinning in the spire” is meant the manifestation of magical force, the spermatozoon in the conical phallus.” (Book of Lies Cap 43)
You = Kether = Primal turnings [14º SR ring—Yod in triangle, or hand and three guns of wheel. Yod also axle, meaning it is turned by axle inside us.]
Jovial God.
Proper beasts of Wheel: Rim is vivid emerald snake. Center is scarlet heart. Scarlet of heart and green of snake are more vivid than blinding white brilliance of Wheel (higher key scale?) Liber LXV imagery—3:17-18. At the top is Agnus Dei, lamb and flag; also we have beasts: wolf, raven. Lamb is brightest—it is the Great Deceiver. [It seems pure and white, so therefore distracts people from getting to center of wheel.]
WOLF/NEPHESCH/MERCURY: Betrays greedy and treacherous (Lust of flesh) RAVEN/RUACH/SULPHUR: Betrays melancholy and dishonest No hostile force is hurtful… enemy is always oneself. (Ravens of Dispersion = A’arab Zareq = Qlipha of Hod) LAMB/NESCHAMAH/SALT: Deceives the very elect. (Simulations of pure prompting of the soul)
Lamb as drunk on blood of saints, the Chief of the lying spirits. Feasts on the sentimental type of aspirant (sentiment as “vile parody” of Neschamah, polluted by least virile elements of Nephesch [!!!!], leading to corruption of sin and vicarious atonement doctrines)
[These trials: “There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other! “]
Overcome by ABRAHADABRA and ARARITA and NOX (210). X in O represents the reduction of the Dyad to Unity by Love under Will, and thence by 0 to dissolution in Nuit., destroying all positive symbols so one can unify in Nuit. Nuit is the True Wheel. Unity consciousness above abyss. [lightning in Atu in Thoth]
Liquid flame of pale gold (Ut). (32º SR?) Solar dieties as springing from the jupiter of the wheel/hand. More change/stability paradox. Dance of Shiva.
[More Crowley distancing by hovering in Yetzirah so he can write.]
“Angel is I” so makes hard to grasp. I cannot get into I. Therefore mahasatipattha, an a-centric meditation process, must be undertaken before invocations of HGA.
K&C of HGA. Crowley’s True Will is to lead men to K&C. He discovered this by Sammasati while in China:
In the Noble Eightfold Path, the practice leading to the complete cessation of Unsatisfactoriness, Sammasati is counted as the second factor of the Samadhi Section, the 'Higher Mental Training'. The usual definition of sammasati given in the Discourses is as follows:
"Bhikkhus. What is sammasati? This is call sammasati, namely, that a bhikkhu in this Dhamma Vinaya:
"1. Contemplates the body in the body with effort, sampajañña and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world;[1]
"2. Contemplates feeling in feelings with effort, sampajañña and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world;
"3. Contemplates the mind in the mind with effort, sampajañña and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world;
"4. Contemplates dhammas[2] in dhammas with effort, sampajañña and sati, eradicating covetousness and distress with regard to the world." [D.II.313]
Another definition, which appears in the Abhidhamma texts, is as follows:
"What is sammasati? Sati means to bear in mind or bring to mind. Sati is the state of recollecting, the state of remembering, the state of non-fading, the state of non-forgetting. Sati means the sati that is a Spiritual Faculty, the sati that is a Spiritual Power, Sammasati, the Sati that is an Enlightenment Factor, that which is a Path Factor and that which is related to the Path. This is what is called sammasati." [Vbh.105, 286]
Sammasati, as defined in the Discourses, is a synonym for the principles of Dhamma known as the Four Satipatthana. The four elements of this group have the abbreviated names of:
Kayanupassana (contemplation or mindfulness of the body);
Vedananupassana (contemplation or mindfulness of feelings);
Cittanupassana (contemplation or mindfulness of mind);
Dhammanupassana (contemplation or mindfulness of dhammas)
JAE: Walking up skandas:
Rupa / form Malkuth Vedana / sensation Yesod Sanna / perception Hod Sankhara / tendency-impulse Netzach Vinnana / consciousness Tiphareth
Mahasatipatthana: Acknowledge name and form of object. observe sensory impression behind seeming actuality of object; perception behind sensation; inherent tendency of consciousness to have perception; etc.
Speech in Silence, Voice of Silence (chasmal)
eremite of nuit, apostle of hadit, warrior of ra hour khu.
*My sacraments are vigorous food and divine madness.
Pentagram of VVVVV (combine with Wake World stuff)
Via Vita Veritus Victoria Virtus - way, life, truth, victory, virtue = 28, ∑7. first 8 numbers = cheth =418 {note from previous aethyr, the dagger: Dagger 7 x 4 = 28, ∑1-7, 4 x 7, perfect. Nothing changes = horror. }
pent of v^v fades, replaced by black crosses (tables?) in a network.
POP
Comment: “Now cometh forth the Angel who giveth instruction, in the lowest form. The Hegemony in the Ceremony of Magister Templi which the Seer is about to undergo.”
[JAE: Lunar, with Venus-Libra overtones—Yesod in Briah]
POP = 48. hga as isis-urania/hegemon, equilibriating all symbols in sphere of candidate. woman bearing seed of life and holy cup in balance. again black cross (table). alphabet of daggers = analyze every idea! worship all things, but keep separate the planes. impure sinners = thoughts unsimplified and running one after another. “Worship each thing in itself without inventing ideas” (tantra) [Black Cross also = Cross of Hegemon in GD, i.e. HGA as Hegemon of S.’.S.’. Hegemon also=Maat=Libra, and stationed in Yesod. But cross black -> gold, lifted to Tiphareth. Dagger = Air = 2-9 = Yesod, but in Yetzirah in early part of Aethyr. IN surrounding Aethyrs: Kether=Hierophant, Hierus=Malkuth, Hegemon=Yesod.]
Many elements of this Aethyr correspond to G.D. 2=9 ceremony.
[POP = 230, with his chariots, and they slew]
golden six-squared cross of Tiphareth is portal.
hermit gives entry to aethyr of “chariots of fire”. every man for himself. (inversion of gita?) chariot riders stabbed in back by own charioteers! tree of life grown on blood: useless ideas unless organized by understanding. This is nature of intellect, with every participant a thought!
Dragon of Yesod, Libra, Venus
sebek as saturn the devourer of the material world
exempt adept transcends devouring sober nature of time by becoming mt.
hga awaits eternally the address of her charge. is also the Arch-Harlot (ever unto me). Those who worship love and light… but love and light shall be put out. the destruction of the universe is the beginning of initiation to MT. [HGA as Samekh, opening up from Yesod, then Gimel. Moons on either side as in word POP. Telesma of POP. Also woman clothed with sun from Apocalypse. 12:1. Aspirant as Odysseus before both Circe and Penelope. Embrace BOTH extreme as well as their reconciliaton.]
On the mouth of the HGA’s kiss is IHS [75, Lucifer, Nuit, but doubtful. OR IHS = Yod Heh Shin, Mother letters, 315 = 5 x 63] Latin: In man is health / The highest is the likeness of man / God is the image of man i.e. = Nothing is of any importance but man and there is no hope but in man. God is Humanity.
[Note: Obvious missed answer here is that IHS are the initials of the Jesuit Order. Note that Regardie later took a magical motto that was a variation on Jesuit motto]
Samekh (HGA) intersecting Peh (clashing warriors).
This Angel is of the 14TH KEY and 8TH KEYS (Tarot keys not Aethyrs). {Art and Adjustment}. Warden of POP. Angel reaches to crown and is ALSO the bigh priestess. Aspiration to higher and love of unknown. Blind ache in heart. minister of sacrament of pain. fire and water of 0=0. daughter of Bet and priestess of silver star (S.’.S.’.). So Hegemon of SS. Malkuth is Binah. The holy night that succeeds the light.
Book of High Priestess open to page with Holy Table of 12 Squares, radiating blaze of light: The woman is not the fish of all men. [She is not attained by all men?]
Greek, ICHTHYS - (Jesus fish/ vesicle) (traditionally a notariqon of “Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter”, but here stated it is not this).
“This explanation is given among others by Augustine in his Civitate Dei,[7] where he notes that the generating sentence " Ἰησοῦς Χρειστὸς [sic] Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σωτήρ" has 27 letters, i.e. 3 x 3 x 3, which in that age indicated power. (This suggestion is obviously spurious, resulting from Augustine's ignorance of Greek.) [8] Augustine quotes also an ancient text from the Sibylline oracles[9] whose verses are an acrostic of the generating sentence.”
[JL: Fish here also = Pisces, aeon of Pisces.]
JAE and Crowley tie themselves in knots here, and Crowley never found a solution. The numerical explanation may be as simple as Ἰησοῦς Χρειστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σωτήρ = 27 letters = 3x3x3, i.e. the Christic doctrine of Augustine in City of God is identified as of Choronzom.
The City of God [aka City of God Against the Pagans —note the similarities to earlier references to the Abomination of Desolation is Zeus/Io Pater in the 2nd Temple] was written as a political apology for Christianity, saying it did not destroy (disperse) Rome, and posits eternal warfare between God and the Devil, and that the Catholic Church is aligned with God, who uses it and allied countries to fight the Devil.
City of God Book 18, Chapter 23:
Of the Erythræan Sibyl, Who is Known to Have Sung Many Things About Christ More Plainly Than the Other Sibyls.[1] Some say the Erythræan sibyl prophesied at this time. Now Varro declares there were many sibyls, and not merely one. This sibyl of Erythræ certainly wrote some things concerning Christ which are quite manifest, and we first read them in the Latin tongue in verses of bad Latin, and unrhythmical, through the unskillfulness, as we afterwards learned, of some interpreter unknown to me. For Flaccianus, a very famous man, who was also a proconsul, a man of most ready eloquence and much learning, when we were speaking about Christ, produced a Greek manuscript, saying that it was the prophecies of the Erythræan sibyl, in which he pointed out a certain passage which had the initial letters of the lines so arranged that these words could be read in them: ᾽Ιησοῦς Χριστος Θεοῦ υιὸς σωτηρ, which means, “Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour.”
And these verses, of which the initial letters yield that meaning, contain what follows as translated by some one into Latin in good rhythm:
Ι Judgment shall moisten the earth with the sweat of its standard,
Η Ever enduring, behold the King shall come through the ages,
Σ Sent to be here in the flesh, and Judge at the last of the world.
Ο O God, the believing and faithless alike shall behold Thee
Υ Uplifted with saints, when at last the ages are ended.
Σ Seated before Him are souls in the flesh for His judgment. Χ Hid in thick vapors, the while desolate lieth the earth.
Ρ Rejected by men are the idols and long hidden treasures;
Ε Earth is consumed by the fire, and it searcheth the ocean and heaven;
Ι Issuing forth, it destroyeth the terrible portals of hell.
Σ Saints in their body and soul freedom and light shall inherit;
Τ Those who are guilty shall burn in fire and brimstone for ever.
Ο Occult actions revealing, each one shall publish his secrets;
Σ Secrets of every man’s heart God shall reveal in the light. Θ Then shall be weeping and wailing, yea, and gnashing of teeth;
Ε Eclipsed is the sun [Yesod-Tiphareth=Samekh], and silenced the stars in their chorus.
Ο Over and gone is the splendor of moonlight [Yesod], melted the heaven,
Υ Uplifted by Him are the valleys, and cast down the mountains. Υ Utterly gone among men are distinctions of lofty and lowly.
Ι Into the plains rush the hills, the skies and oceans are mingled.
Ο Oh, what an end of all things! earth broken in pieces shall perish;
Σ .... Swelling together at once shall the waters and flames flow in rivers. Σ Sounding the archangel’s trumpet shall peal down from heaven,
Ω Over the wicked who groan in their guilt and their manifold sorrows.
Τ Trembling, the earth shall be opened, revealing chaos and hell.
Η Every king before God shall stand in that day to be judged.
Ρ Rivers of fire and brimstone shall fall from the heavens.
[JL NOTE: This bears extreme similarity to the English text of the 19th Call:
THE CALL OR KEY OF THE THIRTY AETHYRS
O YE Heavens which dwell in the first Air, yea are mighty in the parts of the Earth, and execute the Judgment of the Highest! Unto you it is said: Behold the Face of your God, the beginning of Comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the Heavens, which provided you for the Government of the Earth, and her unspeakable variety, furnishing you with a power of understanding to dispose all things according to the Providence of Him that sitteth on the Holy Throne, and rose up in the Beginning, saying: The Earth, let her be governed by her parts, and let there be Division in her, that the glory of her may be always drunken, and vexed in itself. Her course, let it run with the Heavens; and as an handmaid let her serve them. One season, let it confound another, and let there be no creature upon or within her the same. All her members, let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one Creature equal with another. The reasonable Creatures of the Earth, and Men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling-places, let them forget their Names. The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. His buildings, let them become Caves for the beasts of the Field! Confound her understanding with darkness! For why? it repenteth me that I have made Man. One while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an Harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen.
O ye Heavens, arise! The lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! Govern those that govern! Cast down such as fall. Bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. No place let it remain in one number. Add and diminish until the stars be numbered. Arise! Move! and appear before the Covenant of His mouth, which He hath sworn unto us in His Justice. Open the Mysteries of your Creation, and make us partakers of THE UNDEFILED KNOWLEDGE.]
And, of course, 3^3 = Coronzom, who is overcome past ZAX, making this a “blessing”—that everything should be as it is below the abyss, though seen as perfection from the Supernal world. Also not the Erytherean sibil = Binah or Babalon.
In these Latin verses the meaning of the Greek is correctly given, although not in the exact order of the lines as connected with the initial letters; for in three of them, the fifth, eighteenth, and nineteenth, where the Greek letter Υ occurs, Latin words could not be found beginning with the corresponding letter, and yielding a suitable meaning. So that, if we note down together the initial letters of all the lines in our Latin translation except those three in which we retain the letter Υ in the proper place, they will express in five Greek words this meaning, “Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour.” And the verses are twenty-seven, which is the cube of three. For three times three are nine; and nine itself, if tripled, so as to rise from the superficial square to the cube, comes to twenty-seven. But if you join the initial letters of these five Greek words, ᾽Ιησοῦς Χριστος Θεοῦ υἰὸς σωτήρ, which mean, “Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour,” they will make the word ἰχδὺς, that is, “fish,” in which word Christ is mystically understood, because He was able to live, that is, to exist, without sin in the abyss of this mortality as in the depth of waters.[2]
[Abyss, waters of Binah = Christ as fish within Binah]
Sibyl = frenzied women w ptsd = Sumerian temple whores, Babalon
[Cumaean Sibyl[edit]
Main article: Cumaean Sibyl
The sibyl who most concerned the Romans was the Cumaean Sibyl, located near the Greek city of Naples, whom Virgil's Aeneas consults before his descent to the lower world (Aeneid book VI: 10). Burkert notes (1985, p 117) that the conquest of Cumae by the Oscans in the 5th century destroyed the tradition, but provides a terminus ante quem for a Cumaean sibyl. It was she who supposedly sold to Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome, the original Sibylline books. Christians were especially impressed with the Cumaean Sibyl, for in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue she foretells the coming of a savior – possibly a flattering reference to the poet's patron – whom Christians identified as Jesus.[18][19][20]]
But this sibyl, whether she is the Erythræan, or, as some rather believe, the Cumæan, in her whole poem, of which this is a very small portion, not only has nothing that can relate to the worship of the false or feigned gods, but rather speaks against them and their worshippers in such a way that we might even think she ought to be reckoned among those who belong to the city of God. Lactantius also inserted in his work the prophecies about Christ of a certain sibyl, he does not say which. But I have thought fit to combine in a single extract, which may seem long, what he has set down in many short quotations. She says, “Afterward He shall come into the injurious hands of the unbelieving, and they will give God buffets with profane hands, and with impure mouth will spit out envenomed spittle; but He will with simplicity yield His holy back to stripes. And He will hold His peace when struck with the fist, that no one may find out what word, or whence, He comes to speak to hell; and He shall be crowned with a crown of thorns. And they gave Him gall for meat, and vinegar for His thirst: they will spread this table of inhospitality. For thou thyself, being foolish, hast not understood thy God, deluding the minds of mortals, but hast both crowned Him with thorns and mingled for Him bitter gall. But the veil of the temple shall be rent; and at midday it shall be darker than night for three hours. And He shall die the death, taking sleep for three days; and then returning from hell, He first shall come to the light, the beginning of the resurrection being shown to the recalled.” Lactantius made use of these sibylline testimonies, introducing them bit by bit in the course of his discussion as the things he intended to prove seemed to require, and we have set them down in one connected series, uninterrupted by comment, only taking care to mark them by capitals, if only the transcribers do not neglect to preserve them hereafter. Some writers, indeed, say that the Erythræan sibyl was not in the time of Romulus, but of the Trojan war.
"The City of God Against the Pagans" by St. Augustine is a cornerstone of Western thought, in which the critical Catholic theologist decries the number of teenage Wiccans with black nail polish, pentagram necklaces and bo-staffs that are always playing "Magic: The Gathering" in front of the Cinnabon in the mall food court by his house. It was followed three years later by a less popular work, "The City of God Against the Furries."
but = 1219, yvtzr brashith, Formator eius quod YVTzR BRAShYTh
in principiis
12 Hanged man 19 Aeon
nun and qoph, water, binah, waters of birth
initials of five greek, five egyptian dieties - tremendous power : Isis/Cneph/Thoth/Uramoth/Sebek; I/Ch/Themis/Uranus/Selene. All forms of Binah. Create magical formula as in Book 4 part 3. These also represent Sephirah 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. {JAE: Nobody’s got the right solution}
hga and self crucified as if face to face - i believe this is the 6º oto grip. [Also 8=3 sign, Mater Triumphans]
No unity—Unity can only be accomplished when impulse comes from above. [20th aethyr]
OISIRIS WAS BLACK GOD = [Duat] Osiris is of the nature of Binah, black, and he must be annihilated to attain Binah. Love of Binah is that of the Queen Scorpion who devours her mate. Female devouring the male after sex is union with Binah! “One must not be the child but the Mother” — i.e. the Osiris formula is over, Crowley must proceed from LVX to NOX, the Pathway of Night.
Note: Realized that the I Ching, being the Book of Changes and therefore of Chokmah, and above the Abyss, speaks in Supernal language—this is why it never seems to give a direct answer. It answers non-dually.
ZEN
Comment: “The Vault of preparation for the Ceremony of Magister Templi. The Veil is the Crucifixion, symbol of the dead Aeon. The first ordeal is undergone.”
[JL: “Zen” does indeed seem to be a fitting description of Hod in Briah?]
ZEN = 69 = ABVS, manger/stable/enclosure. HGA prepares candidate below any normal sphere of consciousness.
[ZEN = 65, HGA/LXV, Adonai, temple, silence] Compare Hod in Atziluth, Aethyr 8, for KC HGA
Combines elements of the 5=6 GD and 2=9 A.’.A.’. initiations. [Vault of Adepti/King’s Chamber—my ritual in Hemet. Masonic Chamber of Reflection for 3rd Order.]
If you bring in the implements of crucifixion, they will be used on you.
Nails = 3 desires (vau vau vau 666) = desire for light, life, love [gunther: LLLL at base of pyramid of aspirant] [This applies only to this step, not to Man of Earth]
Thorns = Thoughts
Whips = Regrets
Wine = Unsteadiness in ecstasy (See Liber AL)
Spear = Attachment
Free self from all attachment, desires, mind. (Buddhism)
Christ as Bat, thieves as two children (ATU XIX? Inversion of Sun. Qlipha of Resh/Tiphareth?) Night full of hideous things and howling (Goetia?) If you change so much as a letter the holy word is blasphemed (fill/kill). This is the “empty shell” of mystery of ZEN [JL: Indeed - the Qlipha of Resh or Tiphareth in Briah]
Reference to Exodus 33:22-23: Many Adepts’s eyes have failed before the glory of thy countenance
“22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.” Portal signs given. 72 whirling signs of fiery light (Shemham - related to “Howlings” mentioned before as being attributed to the Goetia)
Parting of Veil = Opening Briah
Latin QBL Simplex, 72 = ABIEGNUS. also IGNIS DEI and VACUUM
72 = A’aB, secret nature of Atziluth. [Meatus/Word?] Cone of Phallus of Iacchus, with ruby pyramid [Phallus, 831, 3 x 277, magician, lunar white wand, NVRA, MQL LBNH, ChRTM, ARIN the Ark, related mathematically to Great Pyramid of Cheops/Gizeh. (?)
KIng’s Chamber (Reception AL) is the vault of the adepts—i.e. the vault of the adepts is a “vile imitation” of it. [Liber AL, also City of Pyramids - 5=6 literally entombed in a pyramid] also = Adytum in BOTA.
Mons Cavernarum, 156 in Latin QBL (Cavern of Mt Abigenus)
4 sides + roof + floor + chamber itself = 7 [not seven sides, it is a cube—Sepher Yetzirah, cube of space, Cubical Stone, 18º SR {Rosicrucian, as the Tomb of CR in GD—earlier reflection!]. {Just as Hexagram = 7 planets because center, Sol, is implied} So Pastos = 7. No furniture or symbols. Blue brilliant light of Horus (! Babaji) Blue only because imperfection of eyes (as blue sky). [Mental awakening into “Cube” in Liber 73, Magus initiation] Million insane images (333). Expiry into NOX (VII I:40) - Crowley does not understand this. Jab at “masters” of Theosophy that lend momentary credence to their insane babble. If you do not accept annihilation, you become a black brother and batshit insane babbler.
PAstos as vacuum and angel understood as am “empty God” into which he will expire. (E and N in ZEN)
Samekh, HGA lifts up
Red = essence of Horus as stereotype of HGA
Great Pyramid height to base is 5:8, golden mean, also = Pentagram.
Symbolic crossing of abyss, helped by angel, unlike actual where there is no help.
THE ANGEL DEALETH NOT WITH THE LITTLE PILE OF DUST IN THE CITY OF THE PYRAMIDS, BUT WITH THE STAR THAT IS CAST FORTH TO GIVE LIGHT TO THE EARTH.
Pastos = Chamber of Annihilation, burnt up to pyramid/cone/phallus. Pyramid within cone (purest rose/cross). representing new universe. established on 4 elements divided into 72, all categories time/space/causality etc.
And then there is a birth chamber, given refreshments… He can’t do it yet.
Zelator initiation 2=9 is described. {Which I did} - i.e. 2=9 A.’.A.’. is Hod in Briah( or admits to?? ??)
Wait no it’s:
NEW METHOD OF DEEPLY PARTAKING IN EACH AETHYR—in Samadhi, rather than hovering in Yetzirah(!)
Do Cadavaris, and then at end: Feast banish all elements/planets/signs/sephiroth [Liber YOD] Take Holy Table for altar Call of Aethyr written in Enochian or Alphabet of Daggers on virgin vellum Then conjure Aethyr Burn text in lamp. Kneel before holy table (in Dragon Asana) and you will get the vision.
Various inks—a color scale of the Aethyrs is here give. Change not so much as the style of a letter or holy name blasphemed. Await the completion of 91st hour of retirement [see 91 days of Magus initiation] to open door.
91 = 3 days, 19 hours.
Crowley on Kelly: “No hint of the sublimity and profundity of such visions as the present series in the working of that Adept.”
Author: “For this is a holy mystery, and he that did first attain to reveal the alphabet thereof, perceived not one ten-thousandth part of the fringe that is upon its vesture.”
“loving-kindness”
MORE V/V
91 days also mentioned in 8th Aethyr.
TAN
Comment: “The symbol of the Balance is now given unto the Aspirant.”
{Aethyrs are Masonic-style initiations on the astral, into the “invisible order”}
[Netzach in Briah = the LOVE (Venus) necessary to make the link. Season]
TAN = 59, a prime, yoni demanding justice. Instruction in formula of equilibrium.
[JAE: TAN = 60, Samekh]
Head of dragon in stone. Then. ***The Angel Madimi appears, from Dee and Kelly - but not the “mere elemental” suggested by Casaubon. She says: “Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.” Pierce deeply into aethyr (more and more the case); TAN transforms judgment into justice. BAL = sword, TAN = balances. [Eshelman: Madimi's name derived from Madim, mars. From the tablet in Aethyr 22]
[TABLET GIVEN: ENOCHIAN PLANETARY ANGELS VS HEBREW HEAVENS OF ASSIAH IN G.D.
Jupiter = ZEDEKIEL = Tzedek
Mars = MADIMIEL = Madim
Sol = SEMELIEL = Shemesh [Mesopotamian Shamash]
Venus = NOGAHEL = Nogah
Mercury = CORABIEL = Kokab
Luna = LEVANAEL = Levanah]
Justice in Enochian = BALATANU, in 2nd Aethyr. BAL-A-TAN-U [JAE: BALTAN is justice, BALZIZRAS is judgment/ Bal and Tan in Heb=93]
Balances: Motion about a point is iniquity—disturbs simplicity. Maat. breath disturbs equilibrium.
Middle pillar as a shining filament of quartz, from abyss to abyss, in middle winged disk of Hadit as any viewpoint whatever, and in alphabet of daggers: Torsion of iniquity—twisting one’s point of view is to obtain a false idea. Rashith ha-Gilgalim is first appearance of evil.
Angel in black diamonds {ain}: Woe unto second/Demiurge; first/Microprosopus (Kether overturned-see Aethyr 20). Hail Nuit and Hadit because they HAVE NO MOTION. space cannot move. The point goes: "I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.", but it doesn't matter how we represent these ideas, because if we did, we would be unable to measure phenomena. [" If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!"]
Angel as realized love, absorbed in Nuit. Severity and Mercy joined/balanced in Leo; Leo is one with Libra, as Lamed is the universe in extension.
TAN = Mercy.
Blue feather of Maat = justice = mercy. Truth is delight. Lunar angel of Gimel. Justice is equity truth/falsehood. 5th chakra (lunar dew? Shiva Samhita - the One stands in the blue-silver moonlight in Gimel)
"Your falsehood is but a little falser than your truth"
[Assiah = astrological influences in literal space upon visions???]
Truth = proximity to Adonai; therefore the only approximation of truth is Oath to Adonai.
The Weighing of Maat (Hall of Dead) begins the Chemical Wedding (ritual with Season)—if not found wanting, one spark of fire within, so dense and intense that it cannot be moved, not by air, water or earth. [Y HVH] [Spark as Yod]. FUCK. THE SPARK IS HADIT—and cannot be moved because it is already in motion at the limit of velocity. And this fire is that which it is written of "Hear thou the Voice of fire!" and the voice of fire = Liber AL, chapter 2, revealed to 666 by Aiwass.
"And when, after all the Phantoms are vanished thou shalt see that holy and formless Fire, that Fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the Universe, hear thou the voice of Fire." Oracles of Zoroaster.
And method of K&C is in 8th Aethyr, word deadlier than lightning. Meditate on it in a place where no living thing is visible, only light of sun. With bare head. = next step.
holiness only = in relation to one.
Arrow towards Ma'at. Samekh -> Libra -> Gimel. = LOGOS
Camel's 10 days = 7 x 10 days of normal life. Man goes through desert nourished by Nuit; HGA. Triple cord of silver. 73 = camel = wisdom, chokmah. Crowned by eye in triangle, 73, aiwaz the eye in the star of hermes the messenger 418
And through me descends influence of TARO 78 = Mezla = Aiwass the minister of silence
This link, to star, cannot be broken by four princes, choronzom, or god, or affliction and feebleness of soul (!)
join wings of eagle with shoulders of bull [taurus/scorpio]. shaft of light, ladder, by black cross of themis (maat as hegemon) thy path shall be open forevermore. electrum magicum bell of 7 metals/planets (Book 4)
LEA
Comment: “The sacrifice is made. The High Priestess (image of Babalon) cometh forth upon her Beast and maketh this. <The Exempt Adept ought to write H.V.F.A. [have not found reference in this book]"
LEA = 24
[JAE: 39] virgo/taurus woman on bull (beast/babalon). zoophilia as central mystery rite??? [crowley talking nonsense] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasipha%C3%AB http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/04/1075853936802.html
[mythology of god-as-beast coupling with maiden, bringing forth a her0] in this case giving birth to guardian of the 72 decanates of zodiac. [Also coupling of beast/babalon creates the shem and goetia?]
[1909 conceptual revolution discussed in Eshelman, p. 250]
angels of 7fold table. jehovah appears, cast down in new aeon [along with crowley's old-aeon conditioning/self-conscious ego] [also Ruach itself], 10 palaces broken [stability of 10 destroyed by instability of 11]. tower and walking on hands doctrine of holiness coming from within not tower of church. expounded by gunther. reference to sticking asshole up in the air (figures falling from tower) (later bottoming by neuberg?)
knight of wands (yod of yod - again 14º SR ring?)
servants of star and snake eat up earth like locusts.
decreed by the Beast, CHAOS [i.e. Chokmah, NOT Crowley himself who only fulfilled this office terrestrially and momentarily] leo, servant of star snake, armed as horus.
[JAE: Beast as collective Chiah/Chomah of humanity!!]
Let it be soon, O God, my God! I ache for Thee, I wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation. Thou shalt set up the abominable lonely Thing of wickedness. Oh joy! to lay that corner-stone! It shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my God shall commune with it. I will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off.
beast sits upon the throne of the chaos of the ruach.
the chosen have all power promised in bornless one over elements, angels and gods among them. but jehovah will be shamed.
vim patior, i suffer violence = 110, crux rosea, herupakraath, silentium, temperance, apostle (all forces that attack and wound king/jehovah are symbols of HGA) jehovah given first two penalties of freemasonry but not 3rd
ruach/ego and any superficial aspects of adeptship are slain.
beast prophet of lovely star - face of man and woman, w mark of beast (spirit) on brow, breast, palm. gigantic. uraeus crown. leopard skin, flaming orange apron of a god. nuit about him invisibly, heart is hadit within, RHK between feet, right hand flaming wand, left hand book of the law. silent.
mystery understood by those who with ecstasy of worship in heart, clear mind and passionate body recognize AL as praterhuman.
virgin led by angels of holy sevenfold table = babalon, true mistress of beast. BY THIS, THAT. (giveth herself to the beast... also vedanta?) rejecting of sexism of forefathers and bad attitudes to sex.
prophecy of frater achad
again, the black cross of themis. foreshadowing of aeon of ma'at.
OXO
Comment: “The mystic dance by Salome. The new Temple. The signs of the grades are received and the Adeptus Exemptus rejected."
[Jones is recorded as saying that this Aethyr contains the true secret of the OTO]
OXO = 460 = consecration of Adeptus Exemptus.
[JAE: 540] Libra dancer (?), earth-tau Cross.
Babalon harvests adepts for ordeal of abyss, and IS the abyss., weaves existence from threads of karma.
sex magic - lick up lives of men, souls sparkle from my eyes, gather the heads of them all that are baptised in waters of life. eateth up soul of man. prepared a feast for adepts, those who partake see god.
Column of scarlet fire: "A similar Fire flashingly extending through the rushings of Air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a Child, borne aloft on the shoulders of the Celestial Steed, fiery, or clothed with gold, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts of Light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse; then if thy meditation prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these Symbols into the Form of a Lion." Zoroaster
skirt of dancer a mighty god [BABALON] pillars are cross joined with rose of 49 petals.
49 petals of rose + center = 50 gates of binah (!!!!). OXO infers nox symbol, X in O, disintegration of cross in rose, adept in nuit.
rose as ampitheater of rose-colored marble, 7 tiers of 7 partitions—those that sit are the 7 grades of the Order of the Rosy Cross [below abyss? RR+AC only?].
[7 presumably = Neophyte Zelator Practicus Philosophus (and Dominius Liminus?) Adeptus Minor (Within and Without Portal) Adeptus Major Adeptus Exemptus]
BUT Crowley footnotes grades 5=6 to 10=1 + Ain Soph!
5=6 : Katharos x 6, Tiphareth = pure, open, free 6=5 : Fortis x 5, Geburah = strong 7=4 : TAN x 4, Chesed = mercy that transformeth judgment into judgment 8=3 : Samjah x 3, Binah = understanding 9=2 : Pelah x 2, Chokmah = wondrous, miraculous / thick darkness
the size: the sun a ball thrown in this arena.
emerald altar, w heads of 4 beasts (ATU XXI) in turq and rock-crystal [chokmah/malkuth] floor is of Nuit., full of universal mercury/quicksilver [JAE: semen of stars].
Above the Altar is Pan. He is worshipped as follows in the various orders:
5=6 : Man (Tiphareth) 6=5 : Goat (Medes Khem) (Geburah) 7=4 : Ram (Amoun) (Chesed) 8=3 : Crab (Star-Sponge Vision) (Binah) 9=2 : Ibis (Thoth) (Chokmah) 10=1 : Golden Hawk (RHK) (Keyther) The secret/unnamed 11=0 (or 0=0) grade: AIN SOPH: Negative only.
The altar is the Holy 12fold Table of OIT—the center of the Holy Table. Crowley attributes these 12 Enochian letters to the 12 signs of the Zodiac, as follows:
Libra Sagittarius Leo Pisces Cancer Capricorn Cancer Pisces Cancer Libra Libra Virgo
OIT also initials Olalam Imal Tutulu VII 7:6
Pan is upon it, his voice is Silence, but the echo comes back from the walls of the ampitheater, and it is speech. 3&4 = days of quarter of moon, seventh day the sabbath; 3x4 = Sabbath of Adepts, the form revealed in Aethyr ZID.
This will be understood by a pool of clear water that is the sweat of thy brow. oil of 13 rivers from beard of macrop.
Table = universe, every star a letter of the Book of Enoch. The Book of Enoch drawn therefrom by inscrutable mystery , known only to Angels and holy sevenfold table.
Crowley is tested by Adepts from 5=6 to 8=3 and found prepared for each Sephira, though not at 9=2.
Languages: 5=6 = Greek 6=5 = Latin 7=4 = Enochian 8=3 = Sanskrit 9=2 = Hebrew
Most secret names of God, from Holy Table: ORLO, ILRO, TULE
Each can be interpreted like INRI.
And:
OIT = Invokes Fire
RLU = Water
LRL = Air
OOE = Earth
Read diagonally, every letter and letter combination is a devil, eil magick.
I [GON] above LLL [Triad of Urs - suggesting .'. ?] dominateth table and preserveth peace of universe (Crowley is not sure why, thinks it may suggest Middle Pillar by shape.) I also = Sag, Samekh; C=Cancer, path to Binah through Cheth (Liber Cheth).
The seven talismans contain the mysteries of drawing forth the letters.
Letters of circumference declare glory of Nuit, that begins with Aries [PA = B = Aries] [There are 22 letters to a side if PA is counted at beginning and not end as beginning the next sequence. Hence the 22 paths, Elements+Planets+Zodiac. i.e. Central 12 = Zodiac and Elements, 7 Seals = Planets, Outer Rung = 22 Paths] [Whence Hexagram? Planets again. Macro/microcosm, outwith is 333-see my notes from Dee.] 22 letters also = stars, Nuit.
Adepts chant oratorio for seven instruments, one dominant theme of rapture, which contains universe in totality, bringing 333 to ruin.
There is one God within the Tablet, and letters of the stars in his crown [classic image of 12-rayed or starred crown] = Orion, Pleiades, Aldebaran, Alpha Centauri, Cor Leonis, Cor Scorpionis, Spica, Pole-Star, Hercules, Regulus, Aquila, Ram's Eye. = 12 stars, presumably, that represent the 12 zodiacal regions [Across the equinoctal line? Note my earlier research on plotting the 22 Hebrew letters across the equinoctal line of the galaxy {what is that thing called again?}.]
[Crowley: Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus say that Isis = Sirius, Horus = Orion, Typhon = Great Bear]
[Note: The Zodiac likely comes from Babylon, 1st millenia BC]
Draw the sigil of that name on a map of the stars, and because some letters are alike, know stars = tribes and nations [again zodiacal attributions from G.D. - Crowley: Different systems = different systems of physical motion for certain groups]
The letter of a star is but the totem thereof, and the letter representeth not the whole nature of the star, but each star must be known by itself in the wisdom of Thoth. [Also living stars]
Attribution of Fixed Stars to Enochian Alphabet: Not worked out by Crowley, and pertains to grade 9=2. Work this out from the book discovered on Hebrew and the sky. - J. H. Broome, Astral Origin of the Emblems, the zodiacal signs...
Below are the Hebrew letters associated with the constellations of the zodiac (which map along the celestial equator) from Broome. Broome derives the attributions by noting that each Hebrew letter is actually derived explicitly or implicitly from the shape of each given constellation. The Enochian attributions given are then derived from Hebrew via the correspondences between Enochian and Hebrew given in Eshelman. No direct physical mapping of the Enochian characters to the constellations has yet been attempted.
Aleph : Taurus (Aldebaran) : Na
Bet : Gemini (Castor/Pollux) : [None given]
Gimel : Cancer : Gisg, Or
Leo : Daleth (Regulus) : [None given]
Heh : Virgo (Spica) : Tal
Vau : Libra (Zubenelakrab) : Un
Zayin : Scorpio (Antares) : Fam
Cheth : Sagittarius : Ur
Teth : Capricornus : Ged, Gal
Yod : Aquarius : Graph
Kaph : Pisces : [None given]
Lamed : Aries (Arietis) : Med
Mem : Eridanus : Ger
Nun : Southern Fish (Fomalhaut) : Drux
Samekh : Band of Pisces : Gon
A'ayin : Pleiades (Alcyone) : Van
Peh : Beta in Taurus : [None given]
Tzaddi : Orion (Betelgeuse, Rigel) : Pa {tz not star}
Qoph : Belt of Orion : Don
Resh : (Delta) Canis Major : [None given]
Shin : Canis Major (Sirius) : Veh, Gal
Tau : Southern Cross : Pa
Thls seems unsatisfactory, likely because the Hebrew attributions in Eshelman have been derived FROM the Zodiacal attributions in Crowley, and are then mapped backward onto Broome's Hebrew. A simpler scheme might simply be sticking with the Zodiacal attributions of the Alphabet and then locating each star within the sidereal zodiacal quadrant.
Un: Taurus Pa : Aries Graph : Virgo Ged: Leo Gon: Sagittarius Ur: Cancer Tal: Aquarius Drux: Scorpio Med: Libra Mals: Cancer Don: Pisces Fam: Gemini Van: Capricorn Leo: Ceph
[Wait, no... or yes? eh?]
Using Broome's attributions would tabulate as follows from the Aethyr:
Orion: Pa Pleiades: Van Aldebaran: Na Alpha Centauri: [? in Centauri] Cor Leonis [Regulus]: [?] Cor Scorpionis [Scorpio]: Fam Spica: Tal Pole-Star [Polaris, Ursa Minor]: [?[ Hercules: [?] Regulus: [?] [mentioned twice-see note] Aquila: [?] Ram's Eye [Aries?]: Med
As we can see, neither method proves satisfactory at present.
[JAE: This has to be viewed from space, you can't see them all in one place from Earth; only in London do they approximate the horizon.]
TAN TAN TAN (7=4) - note connection to Aethyr 17.
[JAE: Gulf in stars between Polaris and the Aries/Taurus/Orion group = Gemini, Cancer, Auriga, Perseus, Andromeda = the connecting paths across the Abyss]
JAE: "the real governance of the world is by those who give freely of all they have."
All this communicated only by brilliance of table.
Rosy Cross of 49 petals set up on summit of a pyramid, all dark, exceeding light behind. - black pyramid is black diamond (AIN SOPH).
Rose = sunset and dawn, Cross = Noon, heart of rose = secret light of midnight [Resh as Rosy-Cross/building pyramid]
"Glory to God and thanksgiving to God, and there is no God but God. And He is exalted; He is great; and in the Sevenfold Table is His Name writ openly, and in the Twelve-fold Table is His Name concealed."
Circle of the Sabbath (Shabbathai, Saturn, 7). Sabbath of Adepts = KC HGA. Shabbath = we are with the adepts in Saturn who are at est.
with song and dance and wine and fair women do they make merry. and every hostel is their palace, and every maid their queen.
Divorcing of 5 and 6 by the word ARBADAHARBA.
voice of silence = HGA as well as chasmal/Daleth, speaking silence
JAE: Adepts may be actual initiators from various worlds.
VTA
Comment: “The shrine of darkness. Final initiation into the grade of Magister Templi."
[79] goat dragon stag.
[JAE = 16, lonely alone elevated / elevated exalted high / woe alas
This is attributed to Chesed instead of Binah, perhaps as it is Chesed which is experiencing and being dissolved into Binah and not Binah itself.
Dark Night of the Soul as a text of the 7=4 grade.
Saturn conceived as dragon Theli, referred to Binah (this dragon appears in Sefer Yetzirah). Also serpent of Kundalini that eventually becomes serpent eating its own tail (Nuit) (!) python = typhon = 86 in latin, serpens, draco niger, sapientia
Chapter VI:
- In proof of these things, and witnessing faithfully are the Universe, the Year of time, and Man himself, the Microcosm. He fixed these as testimonies of the Triad, the Heptad, and the Dodecad; the twelve constellations rulers of the world, the Dragon (THELE) Tali which environs the universe, and the microcosm, man.
The triad, fire, water, and air; the fire above, the water below, and the air in the midst. The proof of which is that air is a participator with both.
- Tali, the Dragon, is above the Universe, as a king on his throne; the sphere in the year as a king in his State, the Heart of man as a king in warfare.
And our God made the states of opposition, good and evil, good from the good, and evil from the evil. Happiness is reserved for the just, and misery for the wicked ones.
Python vs spjinx, python surrounding and devouring the universe. hod to sphinx netach to python. lower sephirah all destroyed (see notes on dragon subsuming lower 7 sephirah from 4=7 gd)
Rose IS Adept. Rose is infinite nature, Cross is finite.incarnate.
Cross = Unfolding of Man of Earth or Aspirant Rose = Hermit or Master Rose-Cross = Lover or Adept
waters of death in counterpoint to waters of life in aethyr 15. Nun
Hour of veil of Temple rent in twain from 18º SR.
to accomplish great work in tiphareth one must be initiate to binah.
Destroying angel that must be invoked only in darkness.
[There is a 6 1/2 hour gap here which is where Crowley was sodomized by Neuberg on Da'leh Addin, in circle of rocks inscribed with words of power. He had to tear his repression from his heart before he could cross the Abyss. He was now disconnected from his personality as a Babe of the Abyss.]
Binah as absolute negation of light. Akasa is black egg - even if you are master of pentagram and rose (50 gates of binah. 50=scorpio. even negates the spark? Black is the color of the HIGHEST as it has unresistingly absorbed all light (see LXV).
JAE: The angel is Hadit, the spark, Chaos, and Chokmah. He stands in sign of Apophis-Typhon.
CHAOS is my name, snake that devoureth spirit of man (Liber LXV. HGA/Hadit?)
pillars of neophyte crowned w flame, vault lit by rose, abyss is eye of hawk, but in great sea is nothing.
NOX is key of abyss
shapes of rocks appear as masters, perfectly still
They are in traditional AA robes and have beheld KBOD, kavod, Kether, glory ineffable.
Phallus = Pyramid = 831 greek qbl. (Isn't 831 one of the letters spelled in full?) Pyramid is "also a Phallus which dies to itself to communicate Life to others."
you wanted 4 powers, 7 delights, 12 emancipations, 22 privileges and 49 manifestations - and you have become as one of these. They are PYRAMIDS, their hoods and robes pyramids. pyramid is temple of initiation AND a tomb. there is no life in them. they have thrown away their sandals of light (ankh = life, into Ruach). no more visions or glories, or beatific vision of tiphareth—there are none of the lower sephirah here, for here is UNDERSTANDING. one with Primeval things. so is pure wisdom pure chance [CHAOS MAGICK], pure understanding is silence
70 (Eye) / 333 = 0.210 repeating, NOX
333 is referred to as Triple Aleph (? ah - 111 x 3)
They are shut up and All their achievements are gone from them: "I saw Satan like lightning fall from Heaven." Like 10:18—as a flaming sword dropped through Abyss, where four beasts watch and ward, cast into the sphere the adept will do its work in—the samkharas are reconstituted below the abyss so that they can function as a 4=7, in the grade which their sphere of gravity tends.
50 are the gates of Understanding, and 156 are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is Death (106). Nun/Scorpio symbolism. Seasons = lunar months.
Binah = salt sea, root of alchemical salt due to cubical formation of salt crystals (? 3d?)
210 also 7 x 6 x 5 Ayin/3 x Aleph = The Eye in the Triangle: so that the Night of Pan is that Light Ineffable.
ZIM
Comment: “The emergence of Nemo into the world; his work therein. This is the first mystery revealed to a Magister Templi."
[JAE: 57, caverna, mors]
[Solar opening - transmutation middle - saturnian end]
Leo/Aquarius polarity as polarities that open Liber Samekh.
Angel of Samekh in waters of Aquarius with shine of Leo Sun on them. 33 thunders (Call 4).
Life dawns. Illusion of Matter destroyed. Flowers in garden that are girls (ATU XIX) In the water of Binah [Opal = Hod?] NEMO = Nun (Fish) E (Ares/Ram) M (Head of man that has hanged) O (Phallus of Goat)
N = Sh H = R M = Y A'a = Th
[NHMA'a = Neschamah? Nehemah/Nehemoth qlipha of Malkuth]?
RShITh = Beginning = 910 = 13 x 70 = The Eye (a'ayin) that is One (Achad, 13); 91 Amen x 10 [Note use of 91 in Aethyr 18. Partaking of Aethyr x 10 - Aethyrs in Atziluth, the Beginning?] NHMO = 101 But Crowley lists NHMA'a = 165 = 11 x 15
[In Latin NEMO = 41, amor, love, fides, faith (Binah), Babalon. In greek 165 = from the sea. all letters suggest initiation to Binah: Scorpio, Water; Aquarius (Water) and Capricorn are both ruled by Saturn] [ShRYTh = You have striven, from Jacob]
NO man hath beheld face of father = NEMO. [More references to Jacob.] NEMO tendeth garden—this garden is the world itself, the world of one's disciples, and the world of one's mistresses, watered with waters that were called death.
Prepared for beauty and delight thereof, and because Tetragrammaton Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden. . every flower brings forth a maiden, but one brings forth a new NEMO male-child [successor-Rosicrucian doctrine], but you know not which.
Pacific Seas, Kashmir, Sahara, Scottish Highland.
A secret house of A.'.A.'. surrounded by yews (a secret sign to brothers of a resting place). A man writing a book. Each word/song is a flower/maiden.
He torments the flowers, as heavy is the work. Karma yoga from on high = you don't see the rewards.
Work performed in absolute (lucid) darkness; on ROOTS of plant; even if events are outwardly hurtful they are exactly what each plant needs—the Ordeals (NOT conducted by occult teacher but by S.'.S.'.) Compassion, as in Tzaddi 26-27 - rooting out of weeds and watering of flowers
Man of Earth = Adherent Lover = Giveth his life unto the work among men Hermit = Solitary, giveth only his light unto men [Up in a cave etc...]
These are the three True Grades of the Order. [Does this make me a Lover?]
Ability of 8=3 to understand anything by waiting for answer to come into his mind (but Eshelman says 1=10 will already possess it—ask a question and the answer will appear upon clear formulation of question)
[I try asking about Devi. Answer is "give her time"]
NEMO must understand everything
Aethyrs 1-15 there is no vision and no voice save for he that is NEMO. if you look for vision and voice therein you are led astray. (nothing outside one's own samadhi? no subject/object?) If you go past Aethyr 15 and are not NEMO, you will be led astray.
All outwith the 15th aethyr is delusion, unless you have the word and sign, authority from superior (George Cecil Jones), and he was licensed an 8=3 in December 1906.
Important teaching: "DARING IS NOT PRESUMPTION."
Sign of Isis Rejoicing.
MORE V/V
91 days also mentioned in 8th Aethyr.
TAN
Comment: “The symbol of the Balance is now given unto the Aspirant.”
{Aethyrs are Masonic-style initiations on the astral, into the “invisible order”}
[Netzach in Briah = the LOVE (Venus) necessary to make the link. Season]
TAN = 59, a prime, yoni demanding justice. Instruction in formula of equilibrium.
[JAE: TAN = 60, Samekh]
Head of dragon in stone. Then. ***The Angel Madimi appears, from Dee and Kelly - but not the “mere elemental” suggested by Casaubon. She says: “Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.” Pierce deeply into aethyr (more and more the case); TAN transforms judgment into justice. BAL = sword, TAN = balances. [Eshelman: Madimi's name derived from Madim, mars. From the tablet in Aethyr 22]
[TABLET GIVEN: ENOCHIAN PLANETARY ANGELS VS HEBREW HEAVENS OF ASSIAH IN G.D.
Jupiter = ZEDEKIEL = Tzedek
Mars = MADIMIEL = Madim
Sol = SEMELIEL = Shemesh [Mesopotamian Shamash]
Venus = NOGAHEL = Nogah
Mercury = CORABIEL = Kokab
Luna = LEVANAEL = Levanah]
Justice in Enochian = BALATANU, in 2nd Aethyr. BAL-A-TAN-U [JAE: BALTAN is justice, BALZIZRAS is judgment/ Bal and Tan in Heb=93]
Balances: Motion about a point is iniquity—disturbs simplicity. Maat. breath disturbs equilibrium.
Middle pillar as a shining filament of quartz, from abyss to abyss, in middle winged disk of Hadit as any viewpoint whatever, and in alphabet of daggers: Torsion of iniquity—twisting one’s point of view is to obtain a false idea. Rashith ha-Gilgalim is first appearance of evil.
Angel in black diamonds {ain}: Woe unto second/Demiurge; first/Microprosopus (Kether overturned-see Aethyr 20). Hail Nuit and Hadit because they HAVE NO MOTION. space cannot move. The point goes: "I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.", but it doesn't matter how we represent these ideas, because if we did, we would be unable to measure phenomena. [" If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!"]
Angel as realized love, absorbed in Nuit. Severity and Mercy joined/balanced in Leo; Leo is one with Libra, as Lamed is the universe in extension.
TAN = Mercy.
Blue feather of Maat = justice = mercy. Truth is delight. Lunar angel of Gimel. Justice is equity truth/falsehood. 5th chakra (lunar dew? Shiva Samhita - the One stands in the blue-silver moonlight in Gimel)
"Your falsehood is but a little falser than your truth"
[Assiah = astrological influences in literal space upon visions???]
Truth = proximity to Adonai; therefore the only approximation of truth is Oath to Adonai.
The Weighing of Maat (Hall of Dead) begins the Chemical Wedding (ritual with Season)—if not found wanting, one spark of fire within, so dense and intense that it cannot be moved, not by air, water or earth. [Y HVH] [Spark as Yod]. FUCK. THE SPARK IS HADIT—and cannot be moved because it is already in motion at the limit of velocity. And this fire is that which it is written of "Hear thou the Voice of fire!" and the voice of fire = Liber AL, chapter 2, revealed to 666 by Aiwass.
"And when, after all the Phantoms are vanished thou shalt see that holy and formless Fire, that Fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the Universe, hear thou the voice of Fire." Oracles of Zoroaster.
And method of K&C is in 8th Aethyr, word deadlier than lightning. Meditate on it in a place where no living thing is visible, only light of sun. With bare head. = next step.
holiness only = in relation to one.
Arrow towards Ma'at. Samekh -> Libra -> Gimel. = LOGOS
Camel's 10 days = 7 x 10 days of normal life. Man goes through desert nourished by Nuit; HGA. Triple cord of silver. 73 = camel = wisdom, chokmah. Crowned by eye in triangle, 73, aiwaz the eye in the star of hermes the messenger 418
And through me descends influence of TARO 78 = Mezla = Aiwass the minister of silence
This link, to star, cannot be broken by four princes, choronzom, or god, or affliction and feebleness of soul (!)
join wings of eagle with shoulders of bull [taurus/scorpio]. shaft of light, ladder, by black cross of themis (maat as hegemon) thy path shall be open forevermore. electrum magicum bell of 7 metals/planets (Book 4)
LEA
Comment: “The sacrifice is made. The High Priestess (image of Babalon) cometh forth upon her Beast and maketh this. <The Exempt Adept ought to write H.V.F.A. [have not found reference in this book]"
LEA = 24
[JAE: 39] virgo/taurus woman on bull (beast/babalon). zoophilia as central mystery rite??? [crowley talking nonsense] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasipha%C3%AB http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/04/1075853936802.html
[mythology of god-as-beast coupling with maiden, bringing forth a her0] in this case giving birth to guardian of the 72 decanates of zodiac. [Also coupling of beast/babalon creates the shem and goetia?]
[1909 conceptual revolution discussed in Eshelman, p. 250]
angels of 7fold table. jehovah appears, cast down in new aeon [along with crowley's old-aeon conditioning/self-conscious ego] [also Ruach itself], 10 palaces broken [stability of 10 destroyed by instability of 11]. tower and walking on hands doctrine of holiness coming from within not tower of church. expounded by gunther. reference to sticking asshole up in the air (figures falling from tower) (later bottoming by neuberg?)
knight of wands (yod of yod - again 14º SR ring?)
servants of star and snake eat up earth like locusts.
decreed by the Beast, CHAOS [i.e. Chokmah, NOT Crowley himself who only fulfilled this office terrestrially and momentarily] leo, servant of star snake, armed as horus.
[JAE: Beast as collective Chiah/Chomah of humanity!!]
Let it be soon, O God, my God! I ache for Thee, I wander very lonely among the mad folk, in the grey land of desolation. Thou shalt set up the abominable lonely Thing of wickedness. Oh joy! to lay that corner-stone! It shall stand erect upon the high mountain; only my God shall commune with it. I will build it of a single ruby; it shall be seen from afar off.
beast sits upon the throne of the chaos of the ruach.
the chosen have all power promised in bornless one over elements, angels and gods among them. but jehovah will be shamed.
vim patior, i suffer violence = 110, crux rosea, herupakraath, silentium, temperance, apostle (all forces that attack and wound king/jehovah are symbols of HGA) jehovah given first two penalties of freemasonry but not 3rd
ruach/ego and any superficial aspects of adeptship are slain.
beast prophet of lovely star - face of man and woman, w mark of beast (spirit) on brow, breast, palm. gigantic. uraeus crown. leopard skin, flaming orange apron of a god. nuit about him invisibly, heart is hadit within, RHK between feet, right hand flaming wand, left hand book of the law. silent.
mystery understood by those who with ecstasy of worship in heart, clear mind and passionate body recognize AL as praterhuman.
virgin led by angels of holy sevenfold table = babalon, true mistress of beast. BY THIS, THAT. (giveth herself to the beast... also vedanta?) rejecting of sexism of forefathers and bad attitudes to sex.
prophecy of frater achad
again, the black cross of themis. foreshadowing of aeon of ma'at.
OXO
Comment: “The mystic dance by Salome. The new Temple. The signs of the grades are received and the Adeptus Exemptus rejected."
[Jones is recorded as saying that this Aethyr contains the true secret of the OTO]
OXO = 460 = consecration of Adeptus Exemptus.
[JAE: 540] Libra dancer (?), earth-tau Cross.
Babalon harvests adepts for ordeal of abyss, and IS the abyss., weaves existence from threads of karma.
sex magic - lick up lives of men, souls sparkle from my eyes, gather the heads of them all that are baptised in waters of life. eateth up soul of man. prepared a feast for adepts, those who partake see god.
Column of scarlet fire: "A similar Fire flashingly extending through the rushings of Air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a Child, borne aloft on the shoulders of the Celestial Steed, fiery, or clothed with gold, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts of Light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse; then if thy meditation prolongeth itself, thou shalt unite all these Symbols into the Form of a Lion." Zoroaster
skirt of dancer a mighty god [BABALON] pillars are cross joined with rose of 49 petals.
49 petals of rose + center = 50 gates of binah (!!!!). OXO infers nox symbol, X in O, disintegration of cross in rose, adept in nuit.
rose as ampitheater of rose-colored marble, 7 tiers of 7 partitions—those that sit are the 7 grades of the Order of the Rosy Cross [below abyss? RR+AC only?].
[7 presumably = Neophyte Zelator Practicus Philosophus (and Dominius Liminus?) Adeptus Minor (Within and Without Portal) Adeptus Major Adeptus Exemptus]
BUT Crowley footnotes grades 5=6 to 10=1 + Ain Soph!
5=6 : Katharos x 6, Tiphareth = pure, open, free 6=5 : Fortis x 5, Geburah = strong 7=4 : TAN x 4, Chesed = mercy that transformeth judgment into judgment 8=3 : Samjah x 3, Binah = understanding 9=2 : Pelah x 2, Chokmah = wondrous, miraculous / thick darkness
the size: the sun a ball thrown in this arena.
emerald altar, w heads of 4 beasts (ATU XXI) in turq and rock-crystal [chokmah/malkuth] floor is of Nuit., full of universal mercury/quicksilver [JAE: semen of stars].
Above the Altar is Pan. He is worshipped as follows in the various orders:
5=6 : Man (Tiphareth) 6=5 : Goat (Medes Khem) (Geburah) 7=4 : Ram (Amoun) (Chesed) 8=3 : Crab (Star-Sponge Vision) (Binah) 9=2 : Ibis (Thoth) (Chokmah) 10=1 : Golden Hawk (RHK) (Keyther) The secret/unnamed 11=0 (or 0=0) grade: AIN SOPH: Negative only.
The altar is the Holy 12fold Table of OIT—the center of the Holy Table. Crowley attributes these 12 Enochian letters to the 12 signs of the Zodiac, as follows:
Libra Sagittarius Leo Pisces Cancer Capricorn Cancer Pisces Cancer Libra Libra Virgo
OIT also initials Olalam Imal Tutulu VII 7:6
Pan is upon it, his voice is Silence, but the echo comes back from the walls of the ampitheater, and it is speech. 3&4 = days of quarter of moon, seventh day the sabbath; 3x4 = Sabbath of Adepts, the form revealed in Aethyr ZID.
This will be understood by a pool of clear water that is the sweat of thy brow. oil of 13 rivers from beard of macrop.
Table = universe, every star a letter of the Book of Enoch. The Book of Enoch drawn therefrom by inscrutable mystery , known only to Angels and holy sevenfold table.
Crowley is tested by Adepts from 5=6 to 8=3 and found prepared for each Sephira, though not at 9=2.
Languages: 5=6 = Greek 6=5 = Latin 7=4 = Enochian 8=3 = Sanskrit 9=2 = Hebrew
Most secret names of God, from Holy Table: ORLO, ILRO, TULE
Each can be interpreted like INRI.
And:
OIT = Invokes Fire
RLU = Water
LRL = Air
OOE = Earth
Read diagonally, every letter and letter combination is a devil, eil magick.
I [GON] above LLL [Triad of Urs - suggesting .'. ?] dominateth table and preserveth peace of universe (Crowley is not sure why, thinks it may suggest Middle Pillar by shape.) I also = Sag, Samekh; C=Cancer, path to Binah through Cheth (Liber Cheth).
The seven talismans contain the mysteries of drawing forth the letters.
Letters of circumference declare glory of Nuit, that begins with Aries [PA = B = Aries] [There are 22 letters to a side if PA is counted at beginning and not end as beginning the next sequence. Hence the 22 paths, Elements+Planets+Zodiac. i.e. Central 12 = Zodiac and Elements, 7 Seals = Planets, Outer Rung = 22 Paths] [Whence Hexagram? Planets again. Macro/microcosm, outwith is 333-see my notes from Dee.] 22 letters also = stars, Nuit.
Adepts chant oratorio for seven instruments, one dominant theme of rapture, which contains universe in totality, bringing 333 to ruin.
There is one God within the Tablet, and letters of the stars in his crown [classic image of 12-rayed or starred crown] = Orion, Pleiades, Aldebaran, Alpha Centauri, Cor Leonis, Cor Scorpionis, Spica, Pole-Star, Hercules, Regulus, Aquila, Ram's Eye. = 12 stars, presumably, that represent the 12 zodiacal regions [Across the equinoctal line? Note my earlier research on plotting the 22 Hebrew letters across the equinoctal line of the galaxy {what is that thing called again?}.]
[Crowley: Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus say that Isis = Sirius, Horus = Orion, Typhon = Great Bear]
[Note: The Zodiac likely comes from Babylon, 1st millenia BC]
Draw the sigil of that name on a map of the stars, and because some letters are alike, know stars = tribes and nations [again zodiacal attributions from G.D. - Crowley: Different systems = different systems of physical motion for certain groups]
The letter of a star is but the totem thereof, and the letter representeth not the whole nature of the star, but each star must be known by itself in the wisdom of Thoth. [Also living stars]
Attribution of Fixed Stars to Enochian Alphabet: Not worked out by Crowley, and pertains to grade 9=2. Work this out from the book discovered on Hebrew and the sky. - J. H. Broome, Astral Origin of the Emblems, the zodiacal signs...
Below are the Hebrew letters associated with the constellations of the zodiac (which map along the celestial equator) from Broome. Broome derives the attributions by noting that each Hebrew letter is actually derived explicitly or implicitly from the shape of each given constellation. The Enochian attributions given are then derived from Hebrew via the correspondences between Enochian and Hebrew given in Eshelman. No direct physical mapping of the Enochian characters to the constellations has yet been attempted.
Aleph : Taurus (Aldebaran) : Na
Bet : Gemini (Castor/Pollux) : [None given]
Gimel : Cancer : Gisg, Or
Leo : Daleth (Regulus) : [None given]
Heh : Virgo (Spica) : Tal
Vau : Libra (Zubenelakrab) : Un
Zayin : Scorpio (Antares) : Fam
Cheth : Sagittarius : Ur
Teth : Capricornus : Ged, Gal
Yod : Aquarius : Graph
Kaph : Pisces : [None given]
Lamed : Aries (Arietis) : Med
Mem : Eridanus : Ger
Nun : Southern Fish (Fomalhaut) : Drux
Samekh : Band of Pisces : Gon
A'ayin : Pleiades (Alcyone) : Van
Peh : Beta in Taurus : [None given]
Tzaddi : Orion (Betelgeuse, Rigel) : Pa {tz not star}
Qoph : Belt of Orion : Don
Resh : (Delta) Canis Major : [None given]
Shin : Canis Major (Sirius) : Veh, Gal
Tau : Southern Cross : Pa
Thls seems unsatisfactory, likely because the Hebrew attributions in Eshelman have been derived FROM the Zodiacal attributions in Crowley, and are then mapped backward onto Broome's Hebrew. A simpler scheme might simply be sticking with the Zodiacal attributions of the Alphabet and then locating each star within the sidereal zodiacal quadrant.
Un: Taurus Pa : Aries Graph : Virgo Ged: Leo Gon: Sagittarius Ur: Cancer Tal: Aquarius Drux: Scorpio Med: Libra Mals: Cancer Don: Pisces Fam: Gemini Van: Capricorn Leo: Ceph
[Wait, no... or yes? eh?]
Using Broome's attributions would tabulate as follows from the Aethyr:
Orion: Pa Pleiades: Van Aldebaran: Na Alpha Centauri: [? in Centauri] Cor Leonis [Regulus]: [?] Cor Scorpionis [Scorpio]: Fam Spica: Tal Pole-Star [Polaris, Ursa Minor]: [?[ Hercules: [?] Regulus: [?] [mentioned twice-see note] Aquila: [?] Ram's Eye [Aries?]: Med
As we can see, neither method proves satisfactory at present.
[ATTACH SIGIL]
[JAE: This has to be viewed from space, you can't see them all in one place from Earth; only in London do they approximate the horizon.]
TAN TAN TAN (7=4) - note connection to Aethyr 17.
[JAE: Gulf in stars between Polaris and the Aries/Taurus/Orion group = Gemini, Cancer, Auriga, Perseus, Andromeda = the connecting paths across the Abyss]
JAE: "the real governance of the world is by those who give freely of all they have."
All this communicated only by brilliance of table.
Rosy Cross of 49 petals set up on summit of a pyramid, all dark, exceeding light behind. - black pyramid is black diamond (AIN SOPH).
Rose = sunset and dawn, Cross = Noon, heart of rose = secret light of midnight [Resh as Rosy-Cross/building pyramid]
"Glory to God and thanksgiving to God, and there is no God but God. And He is exalted; He is great; and in the Sevenfold Table is His Name writ openly, and in the Twelve-fold Table is His Name concealed."
Circle of the Sabbath (Shabbathai, Saturn, 7). Sabbath of Adepts = KC HGA. Shabbath = we are with the adepts in Saturn who are at est.
with song and dance and wine and fair women do they make merry. and every hostel is their palace, and every maid their queen.
Divorcing of 5 and 6 by the word ARBADAHARBA.
voice of silence = HGA as well as chasmal/Daleth, speaking silence
JAE: Adepts may be actual initiators from various worlds.
VTA
Comment: “The shrine of darkness. Final initiation into the grade of Magister Templi."
[79] goat dragon stag.
[JAE = 16, lonely alone elevated / elevated exalted high / woe alas
This is attributed to Chesed instead of Binah, perhaps as it is Chesed which is experiencing and being dissolved into Binah and not Binah itself.
Dark Night of the Soul as a text of the 7=4 grade.
Saturn conceived as dragon Theli, referred to Binah (this dragon appears in Sefer Yetzirah). Also serpent of Kundalini that eventually becomes serpent eating its own tail (Nuit) (!) python = typhon = 86 in latin, serpens, draco niger, sapientia
Chapter VI:
- In proof of these things, and witnessing faithfully are the Universe, the Year of time, and Man himself, the Microcosm. He fixed these as testimonies of the Triad, the Heptad, and the Dodecad; the twelve constellations rulers of the world, the Dragon (THELE) Tali which environs the universe, and the microcosm, man.
The triad, fire, water, and air; the fire above, the water below, and the air in the midst. The proof of which is that air is a participator with both.
- Tali, the Dragon, is above the Universe, as a king on his throne; the sphere in the year as a king in his State, the Heart of man as a king in warfare.
And our God made the states of opposition, good and evil, good from the good, and evil from the evil. Happiness is reserved for the just, and misery for the wicked ones.
Python vs spjinx, python surrounding and devouring the universe. hod to sphinx netach to python. lower sephirah all destroyed (see notes on dragon subsuming lower 7 sephirah from 4=7 gd)
Rose IS Adept. Rose is infinite nature, Cross is finite.incarnate.
Cross = Unfolding of Man of Earth or Aspirant Rose = Hermit or Master Rose-Cross = Lover or Adept
waters of death in counterpoint to waters of life in aethyr 15. Nun
Hour of veil of Temple rent in twain from 18º SR.
to accomplish great work in tiphareth one must be initiate to binah.
Destroying angel that must be invoked only in darkness.
[There is a 6 1/2 hour gap here which is where Crowley was sodomized by Neuberg on Da'leh Addin, in circle of rocks inscribed with words of power. He had to tear his repression from his heart before he could cross the Abyss. He was now disconnected from his personality as a Babe of the Abyss.]
Binah as absolute negation of light. Akasa is black egg - even if you are master of pentagram and rose (50 gates of binah. 50=scorpio. even negates the spark? Black is the color of the HIGHEST as it has unresistingly absorbed all light (see LXV).
JAE: The angel is Hadit, the spark, Chaos, and Chokmah. He stands in sign of Apophis-Typhon.
CHAOS is my name, snake that devoureth spirit of man (Liber LXV. HGA/Hadit?)
pillars of neophyte crowned w flame, vault lit by rose, abyss is eye of hawk, but in great sea is nothing.
NOX is key of abyss
shapes of rocks appear as masters, perfectly still
They are in traditional AA robes and have beheld KBOD, kavod, Kether, glory ineffable.
Phallus = Pyramid = 831 greek qbl. (Isn't 831 one of the letters spelled in full?) Pyramid is "also a Phallus which dies to itself to communicate Life to others."
you wanted 4 powers, 7 delights, 12 emancipations, 22 privileges and 49 manifestations - and you have become as one of these. They are PYRAMIDS, their hoods and robes pyramids. pyramid is temple of initiation AND a tomb. there is no life in them. they have thrown away their sandals of light (ankh = life, into Ruach). no more visions or glories, or beatific vision of tiphareth—there are none of the lower sephirah here, for here is UNDERSTANDING. one with Primeval things. so is pure wisdom pure chance [CHAOS MAGICK], pure understanding is silence
70 (Eye) / 333 = 0.210 repeating, NOX
333 is referred to as Triple Aleph (? ah - 111 x 3)
They are shut up and All their achievements are gone from them: "I saw Satan like lightning fall from Heaven." Like 10:18—as a flaming sword dropped through Abyss, where four beasts watch and ward, cast into the sphere the adept will do its work in—the samkharas are reconstituted below the abyss so that they can function as a 4=7, in the grade which their sphere of gravity tends.
50 are the gates of Understanding, and 156 are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is Death (106). Nun/Scorpio symbolism. Seasons = lunar months.
Binah = salt sea, root of alchemical salt due to cubical formation of salt crystals (? 3d?)
210 also 7 x 6 x 5 Ayin/3 x Aleph = The Eye in the Triangle: so that the Night of Pan is that Light Ineffable.
ZIM
Comment: “The emergence of Nemo into the world; his work therein. This is the first mystery revealed to a Magister Templi."
[JAE: 57, caverna, mors]
[Solar opening - transmutation middle - saturnian end]
Leo/Aquarius polarity as polarities that open Liber Samekh.
Angel of Samekh in waters of Aquarius with shine of Leo Sun on them. 33 thunders (Call 4).
Life dawns. Illusion of Matter destroyed. Flowers in garden that are girls (ATU XIX) In the water of Binah [Opal = Hod?] NEMO = Nun (Fish) E (Ares/Ram) M (Head of man that has hanged) O (Phallus of Goat)
N = Sh H = R M = Y A'a = Th
[NHMA'a = Neschamah? Nehemah/Nehemoth qlipha of Malkuth]?
RShITh = Beginning = 910 = 13 x 70 = The Eye (a'ayin) that is One (Achad, 13); 91 Amen x 10 [Note use of 91 in Aethyr 18. Partaking of Aethyr x 10 - Aethyrs in Atziluth, the Beginning?] NHMO = 101 But Crowley lists NHMA'a = 165 = 11 x 15
[In Latin NEMO = 41, amor, love, fides, faith (Binah), Babalon. In greek 165 = from the sea. all letters suggest initiation to Binah: Scorpio, Water; Aquarius (Water) and Capricorn are both ruled by Saturn] [ShRYTh = You have striven, from Jacob]
NO man hath beheld face of father = NEMO. [More references to Jacob.] NEMO tendeth garden—this garden is the world itself, the world of one's disciples, and the world of one's mistresses, watered with waters that were called death.
Prepared for beauty and delight thereof, and because Tetragrammaton Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden. . every flower brings forth a maiden, but one brings forth a new NEMO male-child [successor-Rosicrucian doctrine], but you know not which.
Pacific Seas, Kashmir, Sahara, Scottish Highland.
A secret house of A.'.A.'. surrounded by yews (a secret sign to brothers of a resting place). A man writing a book. Each word/song is a flower/maiden.
He torments the flowers, as heavy is the work. Karma yoga from on high = you don't see the rewards.
Work performed in absolute (lucid) darkness; on ROOTS of plant; even if events are outwardly hurtful they are exactly what each plant needs—the Ordeals (NOT conducted by occult teacher but by S.'.S.'.) Compassion, as in Tzaddi 26-27 - rooting out of weeds and watering of flowers
Man of Earth = Adherent Lover = Giveth his life unto the work among men Hermit = Solitary, giveth only his light unto men [Up in a cave etc...]
These are the three True Grades of the Order. [Does this make me a Lover?]
Ability of 8=3 to understand anything by waiting for answer to come into his mind (but Eshelman says 1=10 will already possess it—ask a question and the answer will appear upon clear formulation of question)
[I try asking about Devi. Answer is "give her time"]
NEMO must understand everything
Aethyrs 1-15 there is no vision and no voice save for he that is NEMO. if you look for vision and voice therein you are led astray. (nothing outside one's own samadhi? no subject/object?) If you go past Aethyr 15 and are not NEMO, you will be led astray.
All outwith the 15th aethyr is delusion, unless you have the word and sign, authority from superior (George Cecil Jones), and he was licensed an 8=3 in December 1906.
Important teaching: "DARING IS NOT PRESUMPTION."
Sign of Isis Rejoicing.
LOE
Comment: “The Second Mystery: The Cup-bearer of Babalon the beautiful. The Holy Grail manifested to the Magister Templi, with the first knowledge of the Black Brothers."
[This is the central task of 7=4 in advance to 8=3; the doctrine is solidified in LIBER CHETH.]
Two pillars of flame (see Aethyr 30, 21, 19, 15; 14 where they are pillars of Neophyte and explicitly crowned with flame). Chariot of white fire. ATU VII. Drawn by 4 sphinxes from vault of adepti. Vault of night above (see Waite deck). Carries Sangraal (old Celtic not Christian... consensus is that grail myths were Christian drawn from Celtic imagery).
[Sphinxes = each partakes of nature of others, i.e.=16 sub-elements. These symbols were placed about the Tablets in the Vault in GD (JAE p. 311)—"Forget not that the Tablets and Kerubim are the guardians of the Vault of Adepts."]
[Hargrave Jennings advanced Rosicrucian interpretation of grail as vagina; Wagner developed this in the opera Parsifal, which became a major thematic source of OTO mythology]
[Serious review of Parsifal]
The cup here radiates a "ruddy glow" (menstruation); seen in ATU VII of Thoth deck. Perfume of RHK, from cakes of light. The cup is that of Babalon, filled with blood of saints. = fermented by her breath (air?)[aging of adept, time has been taken], wine of sacrament, wine of the sabbath, in holy assembly she has poured it out for worshippers, and they have become drunk thereof, so that face to face they have beheld father (become NEMO). by her murders and fornications she seduces the world - manifested truth of father (Y). (Babalon = H?) the glory of my father = 45 = adam (amth, truth, or adam kadmon?)
true worshippers of the highest is common phrase in nochian. HOATH IAIDA = 116 = miyyeyno, from his wine, and LALHIM- unto the gods
Every thought is destroyed by the blood (NOX). Its name is Compassion=the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true worshippers of the Highest. [Compassion the Vice of Kings - they get high on it]
[SO = the Macguyver ayahuasca vision IS the cup of Babalon—drunk on the blood of the saints [the entire Qliphothic tree]—the compassion of the Tibetans. Also, obviously, the practical application is Tonglen.] In this ecstasy there is no pain, the passivity is giving up self to the beloved.
Mystery of Babalon, mother of abominations, she has given herself to everything and made herself the servant of each, and is become the mistress of all. Her weakness subdues their strength [the Yeshe Tsogyal thing that Lal showed me]. In that union thou didst UNDERSTAND< therefore thou are understanding. VII VII:41, 43-44. [Nature of BInah initiation]
Babalon = "Lady of the Night" = Lady of Nuit
Babalon = Love, Love = 1, 1/infinite loves, each love = 1 = The One. [shines through every love we have]
Mighty Mother = isis = babalon Babalon = Queen of City of Pyramids Beast = Lord of City of Pyramids
[Description of Beast fits Ankh-f-n-Khonsu from Stele]
Numeration of Babalon in greek = 555. THE BEAST is the Lord of the City of Pyramids. The full mystery of the Beast is given in "The Urn" (9=2).
From the Urn:
Dec. 23.
Ether. The bride had picked up a book at random from the shelves of the Hotel. “Two parts of Hydrogen combine with one of Oxygen,” she read, “to form water.” “The acceleration due to gravitation is 32 feet per second.” “The beast!” she cried; “he does not understand Love!” The above is a parable for 9°=2ás, in staircases. But—which side are you on; and why? [beyond Binah?]
She will not rest from her adulteries until the blood of all life is gathered up therein. Father renewed eternally, universe unfoldeth itself as a rose, and shutteth itself up as a cross that is a cub (18º SR).
Final stage of YHVH formula
Aethyrs = Rose (universe unfolds like a rose) = Nuit expanding Cross = Cubic stone of material universe inside = Hadit collapsing inward/folding (18º)
This is comedy of Pan, mystery of Dionysus Zagreus, secret of Rosicrucians, heart of ritual of Vault of Adepti in Mt. Abiegnus. [= IXº OTO] [Adept born by HGA to Abyss, all stages from 5=6 to 8=3 technical changes/processes of K&C where one pours oneself wholly into what one loves most]
Exodus 12 [as IXº OTO = eating of the Elixir (blood). ?.] Spilling of blood of Lamb as ritual of BB, for they have sealed up pylon w blood to hide from angel of death [immortalists?]
Description of BB sounds like the modern OTO. eaten up by time that has cheated them to serve him (again immortals?)
Formula of 156 = constant copulation or Samadhi on EVERYTHING. (oath of abyss)
Secret interpretation of ABRAHADABRA, which can only be understood by NEMO+ [5 A's interpenetrate 6 consonants, 5=6]
The only power that can endure is the power that descends in chariot from city of Babylon, city of 50 gates, the gate of the God On [OTO word]. [Geburah strength is RECEIVED from Binah]
[Bet Aleph Bet Aleph Lamed A'ayin Nun] = BAB Gate, AL God, ON VIº OTO word (120). But the true spelling is post-10th aethyr]
ON = the key of the vault, 120. [ON = solar-phallicism: Sun, IXº] [120 = Key of 5=6 Vault GD, 2=9 AA]. 120 also=Samekh spelt in full
BAB AL ON = 156 = 12 x 13, the Unity of Kether, HUA AChD, for he is manifested in her; 156=number of letters in a watchtower.; the majesty and beauty derive from Chokmah. Wisdom = man, understanding = woman [KAOS-BABALON] Not until you have perfectly understood can you become wise.
Aethyrs bound up not only with Sephira but with paths. Atheyrs interpentrate and surround universe where sephiroth are established, so the order ≠ order of Tree. Only in a few places do they coincide. knowledge of Aethyrs deeper than knowledge of sephira (Da'ath), for the Aethyrs contain the knowledge of the Aeons and of Thelema.
"And lo! I saw you to the end" (Perdurabo)
Light veild by 6 children.
IKH
Comment: “Now cometh the frontier of the Holy City; the Magister Templi is taken into the Abyss."
IKH = 361, Supernal Triad, Hexgon, Malkuth [Tree}, also Adonai Ha-Aretz (MLKTh).
[JAE: 35, gobal, boundary]
[Yesod/Mars{80}. Symbolism of 2=9 GD]
[JAE: This vision is a projection of the personality's desperate struggle to preserve its projections! the automatic consciousness, habitual thought and reaction {Hubbard: Reactive Mind} are about to fall and are freaking out]
Kamea of Moon. {Why Yesod if this is supposedly Kether? Gimel?}
Angels on Elephants, YHVH shields, elephants (elephants = ganesh = yesod) thunderbolt of zeus.
Shu (YSD) Crowley: Shu = Zeus (?) [because Shu and Zeus both = air]
Air = Fool, hence Aleph = Kether? also yesod = air and gimel, moon = kether? what of bet?
Army defended by 9 mighty towers (Yesod) of Iron (Geburah) [braced tension of Asana of 2=9] w warriors in silver armor (Yesod). whirling wind yesod
[Holy City diagram from the GD 2=9 ritual—every word equates to 9, yesod]
[related to troops of angels and castles in the Dee/Kelley vision of the golden seal?]
Armies set against outermost abyss and Choronzom (see that classic alchemical image of angels on ramparts against 4 princes, reproduced in Thoth card "Power," four of disks) [I believe the demons listed are Abramelin Sub-Princes - Oriens, Paimon, etc. But I can't find it. Taschen alchemy book? Goddard?]
[JAE: Choronzon is the Quintessence of the 4 elemental princes of evil, forming perhaps the {averse?} pentagram. i.e. I got it right in my demonic binding. 328 Abramelin demons+5, pentagram, man = 333. Or is it the averse pentagram? But the Princes are already listed in the 328.
4 Princes 8 Sub-Princes 316 servitors
=328 total, +5 (man) = 333
111 spirits common to 4 oriens, paimon, ariton, amaimon = 111 (Aleph) 53 common to astarot and asmodee 10 common to amaimon and triton 15 common to asmodee and magot 32 to astarot [qblh] 65 to magot and kore [adonai] 16 to asmodee 49 to belzebud [babalon] 8 to oriens 15 to paimon 22 to ariton [trumps] 20 to amaimon ]
[4 princes, etc, should have already been mastered in 5=6; 333 is above these = the adept's own mind/self/being/ego?]
stability set in air, change (2=9 degree)
by 3 + 3 + 3 (9) he has made firm the foundation against the earthquake that is 3 (333) (Binah?) 9 = changefulness of numbers 333 brought to naught [0?] For whatever number you cover it with, it appears unchanged.
9 x 7 = 63. 6+3 = 9 9 x 127 = 1143. = 9 9 x 9 = 81 = 9 9 * 63189 = 568701 = 27 = 9 (!!!)
Wiki:
In base 10 a positive number is divisible by nine if and only if its digital root is 9.[8] That is, if you multiply nine by any natural number, and repeatedly add the digits of the answer until it is just one digit, you will end up with nine:
2 × 9 = 18 (1 + 8 = 9)
3 × 9 = 27 (2 + 7 = 9)
9 × 9 = 81 (8 + 1 = 9)
121 × 9 = 1089 (1 + 0 + 8 + 9 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9)
234 × 9 = 2106 (2 + 1 + 0 + 6 = 9)
578329 × 9 = 5204961 (5 + 2 + 0 + 4 + 9 + 6 + 1 = 27; 2 + 7 = 9)
482729235601 × 9 = 4344563120409 (4 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 4 + 0 + 9 = 45; 4 + 5 = 9)
There are other interesting patterns involving multiples of nine:
12345679 x 9 = 111111111
12345679 x 18 = 222222222
12345679 x 81 = 999999999
This works for all the multiples of 9. n = 3 is the only other n > 1 such that a number is divisible by n if and only if its digital root is n. In base N, the divisors of N − 1 have this property. Another consequence of 9 being 10 − 1, is that it is also a Kaprekar number.
The difference between a base-10 positive integer and the sum of its digits is a whole multiple of nine. Examples:
The sum of the digits of 41 is 5, and 41-5 = 36. The digital root of 36 is 3+6 = 9, which, as explained above, demonstrates that it is divisible by nine.
The sum of the digits of 35967930 is 3+5+9+6+7+9+3+0 = 42, and 35967930-42 = 35967888. The digital root of 35967888 is 3+5+9+6+7+8+8+8 = 54, 5+4 = 9.
Subtracting two base-10 positive integers that are transpositions of each other yields a number that is a whole multiple of nine. Examples:
41 - 14 = 27 (2 + 7 = 9)
36957930 - 35967930 = 990000, a multiple of nine.
This works regardless of the number of digits that are transposed. For example, the largest transposition of 35967930 is 99765330 (all digits in descending order) and its smallest transposition is 03356799 (all digits in ascending order); subtracting pairs of these numbers produces:
99765330 - 35967930 = 63797400; 6+3+7+9+7+4+0+0 = 36; 3+6 = 9.
99765330 - 03356799 = 96408531; 9+6+4+0+8+5+3+1 = 36; 3+6 = 9.
35967930 - 03356799 = 32611131; 3+2+6+1+1+1+3+1 = 18; 1+8 = 9.
He who understands (Nemo) must go out to outermost abyss to speak with he that is set above the 4-fold terror, the princes of evil, even unto Choronzon himself.
Only the servants of BABALON may deal/speak with him and his servants, because they have UNDERSTANDING, and 333 and his servants do not (i.e. do not extend past Da'ath).
[Aethyr 11 = 11 = Da'ath?]
Abyss = sickness of aspiration, sickness of will, sickness of essence of all, and there is neither word nor thought wherein the image of its image is reflected [reflected = yesod?]
If you go to the Abyss without understanding, you bow to the chains of Choronzon (chain = magical weapon of Da'ath, used to bind Da'ath in GD rites, 333 links) [ie are ruled by machine of reactive mind]. Then you become a black brother, "bearer of corruption." poisoning the fire from heaven instead of letting it turn you to ash
Interesting: You have to be NEMO before facing 333.
universe is shaken/not shaken by 333. [JL: not shaken = disruption of stability of change? if change = stability, to NOT shake = destabilize. formula of Black Brothers = resistance to change, change being Chokmah 9=2 even as 2=9, Yesod]
Geburah/Chesed/Victory/Splendor/Beauty/Foundation/Kingdom
Malkuth = 1 pearl, set in the 72 pearls of the quinaries of teh zodiac, garnished with 4 kerubs as guardians, graven w seal of righteousness (Tzediq Yesod Olam, Yesod?), generation secret core...
Mystery of Peter or Cephas, Rock or Stone: KHAOS in Greek = 729 = 9^3. {Change is Stability?}
stability = 80 (YSOD) = Peh, Mars. War is the price of stability.
To understand secret of Outermost Abyss you must assume the form & mask of the angel thereof. Because if you have a name (ie are not NEMO), you are lost. If there is one drop of blood left in your cup, you're fucked.
The threads that bind sankharas together to form ego must be severed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra
The last words of the Buddha, according to the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta (in English and Pali), were "Disciples, this I declare to you: All conditioned things are subject to disintegration – strive on untiringly for your liberation." (Pali: "handa'dāni bhikkhave āmantayāmi vo, vayadhammā saṅkhārā appamādena sampādethā ti.")
Eloi, Eloi—there is no help from HGA here. Anguish of Gethsemane.
ZAX
Comment: “The Abyss."
[JAE: ZAX=408. Malkuth in Atziluth = crossing over into Atziluth, realm of Master. Malkuth as maker of form, projector of every possible projection onto screen of senses="Master of form, and from me all forms proceed."]
No being, from which constant forms come forth.
Adam opened the gates of Hell by saying:
ZAZAS ZAZAS NASATANADA ZAZAS
Hebrew = 406 = ThV, Tav, Saturn/opening of pit.
[JAE: This is what NEUBURG experienced in the Aethyr, and is NOT Crowley's experience of crossing the Abyss.]
[There were three pigeons sacrificed around the triangle. Crowley obscures the fact here that he put HIMSELF in the triangle, robed and in Thunderbolt Asana, to have 333 invoked on himself as the living material basis, in concentration and silence, retired into meditation. JAE = See Tarot cards for what Crowley experienced. Solar-phallic bhakti taken to peak expression, flashpoint; concentrated in one's own Inner Teacher; and then dissolved into infinite dark of space]
[Choronzon thus manifests in the Qlipha of Frater O.M. himself, that which is left when the Adept is withdrawn into meditation. Neuberg insisted till late in life that he ACTUALLY fought a demon. Neuberg=super psychic. Neuburg's circle was attuned to element of Air—i.e. he was making sure that HE HIMSELF DID NOT CROSS THE ABYSS by getting sucked into Crowley's vortex. So he was kept in air and his intellect was kept busy. Circle is surrounded by Air and Yesod names: YHVH and SDY AL ChY; and ARARITA. Added, the names = 1202, BShA'aRICM, "within your gates" (gates of prior aethyr, or 50 gates of binah?) he is given air weapons: quill of scribe and magic dagger. This, plus the Oath, was designed by Crowley so Neuburg would not get sucked into the vortex prematurely.]
I am the Master of Form [a lie as it is not a unified being], and from me all forms proceed.
I am I. = assertion that blocks transcendence of the Abyss; the motto of the Dark Brothers in Aethyr 12.
DO NOT DERIVE ANY DOCTRINE FROM THE UTTERANCES OF 333 HEREIN
This false being, conscious it is not a true being, feels fear. fear = pain, malice, envy, and hatred from supposed creator, because the supposed blessing of creation has been withheld from the "Bundle".
[I.e. ego. And compare to Tibetan teachings that there is no Atman, only a "bundle" of sense-impressions which thinks itself a unified being. Hence this monstrosity—this is the root of the self, challenged as unreal and fighting back. Also note the traditional attribution that there are "333 million gods" in Hinduism (Atman).]
Crowley is robed in Thunderbolt, unmoving. But 333 speaks with his voice/wears his face, presenting hallucinatory forms to Neuberg.
Courtesan (Venus): God of Laughter. (Peter Carroll on laughter.) Bows before divine names but begs for mercy to break the circle. "you have mastered me, lemme come zuk ya dick" = appeal to pride
he hates the "servants of the Most High" (IAIDA: INRI:IAO; YHVH/Tetragrammaton—see Wake World; Aethyr 29)
He taketh the form of beautiful woman, or a wise and holy man, or of a serpent that writheth upon the earth ready to sting. [Angelina, Vinay/Gurunath, bedbugs...?]
[JAE: Aspects of Crowley as OV experienced him, and a mystery of incarnation]
lack of/inversion of elements
asks for water = appeal to pity; faithfulness
neuberg applies god names, pentagram
He voids god names from his fundament; laughs at pentagram because he is master of triangle (333)
ChVRVNZVN = 333 = 3 x 111; 111 = ALP, Aleph, 1. Also greek for impotence/lack of control; dispersion. Crowley says neither he, Dee, nor Kelley had any idea of these correspondences (p. 166)
Invokes Angels and Crowley's HGA. C = I know that, it is only a cover for your filthy sorceries. Neuberg says he knows more than C. C says I am Knowledge.
Is not the head of the great Serpent arisen into Knowledge?
(= Da'ath. See all prior Dragon symbols; Babalon; Qliphoth.)
[JAE: Da'ath is intellect run amok, but there is an inner aspect which is the ecstasy of Babalon and unity w Supernals. But this has nothing to do w 333. Da'ath is NOT the Abyss, even though it abides WITHIN the Abyss.]
There is no cry in ZAX like the others... 333 is dispersion and cannot fix his mind upon any one thing for long (ADD generation).
You can't argue with him because it encourages him. You can't threaten him w anger pain and hell, because he is all these things.
He refers to scribe as "fool," giving himself away...
Images wo control or reason. (Pool of Yesod in psyche)
(Richard: "This stuff is meaningless", a lie or a koan?)
I am I hath in truth no self (me to Richard in Van: "I'm having an 'I and I' moment")
The malice of 333 is the QUALITY of malice. those who have fallen under his power are the blind who follow the blind, the blind one who has declared himself enlightened. no center, nothing but dispersion
led away by talk
written 32 books of Wisdom (tree/paths, chokmah) and are more stupid than owl
own talk wearies thee; his talk tricks thee.
"one of the tape-worms that is in me"=Choronzonic incarnations
Perdurabo will NEVER LEARN to keep silence... delivering himself unto power of 333.
quotes tom o'bedlam to distract neuberg. rebuked by tetragrammaton (IAIDA) [=power of AIR, he's asserting that he's way down on the tree, unworthy game]. angrily strikes him w magick staff; he leaves circle.
All things are dispersion. This is the quality of things.
“Handa'dāni bhikkhave āmantayāmi vo, vayadhammā saṅkhārā appamādena sampādethā ti. Disciples, this I declare to you: All conditioned things are subject to disintegration—strive on untiringly for your liberation." – the final words of the Buddha
ZAX = World of Adjectives, for there is no substance therein.
[my mind map as a young kid...]
Returns as naked woman. Wants Crowley's shirt. Fear of sunset (death), tum and kephra. I am a-cold (Tom o'Bedlam)
Threatens Neuberg; Neuberg says you can't do shit
Threatens to torture him by power of his very Oath to White Brothers. (Thou liest)
prevailed against kingdom of father, and befouled his beard; prevailed against kingdom of son, and torn off his Phallus; [osiris] against kingdom of Holy Ghost shall I strive and not prevail.
3 slain doves are 3fold blasphemy against them, but blood makes sand fertile, and I writhe in blackness and orror of hate and prevail not (this actually happened, the sand grew plants when they checked later)
tried to make him doubt magick and his own tools—and if he had doubted for but an nstant, he would have gnawed through his spine at the neck Da'ath
no alpha or omega, all hotch-potch
Horror will be given through another Seer, who will be slain as a result of his revealing. The present seer, who is NOT Perdurabo, sees not the horror, because he is shut up and has no name (is NEMO).
Crowley emerges from Samadahi and writes BABALON with holy ring = victory (Netzach; 7=Babalon) over 333
Circle and triangle burned in great fire to purify the place.
NOTE BY SCRIBE (OV)
[This gives exact instructions for overcoming Choronzon.
(Crowley says he was OVERSHADOWED and spoke not as himself, remembering nothing [I experienced this summoning Baphomet/333 in a "neural net" in a retarded IOT ritual in Seattle]. He had sense of being protected and was not afraid [also sounds familiar].
Neuberg's curses obeyed before he even speaks them.
Neuberg whistles in a magical manner, which disturbs the demon. (He had not done this before.)
333 is terrified by silence and concentration and can be brought to obey by WILLING IN SILENCE.
He loves to argue, and can easily be beaten in argument, but he wins by keeping you distracted.
Neuberg had truck with 333 later, obtaining information from him by long refusing to answer demon's speeches (!) (Use of 333 as information procurer, a la Carroll's Mass of Choronzon?)
"Choronzon is dispersion; and such is his fear of concentration that he will obey rather than be subjected to it, or even behold it in another."
There is a supposedly non-extant record of Neuberg that details later dealing with Choronzon (part of Neuberg's ongoing solo A.'.A.'. work presumably).
ZIP
Comment: “The Magister Templi hath passed the Abyss, and is led to the Palace of the Virgin redeemed from Malkuth unto Binah."
ZIP = 78, influence from IAIDA [INRI:IAO{IAIDA}->TARO]
[JAE: 97, Book of the World]
[Astro: Angel standing equilibriated between sun and moon] [In new scheme, revealed here, 9th Aethyr = Entrance to Binah]
The Curse of the Call of the 30 Aethyrs has become a song of ecstasy and triumph, every phrase a secret blessing.
razor edge of light above abyss, above the terrible armies of IAIDA, like Aethy 11.
7 vs, 7 refrains
4square name of beast
4 watchtowers of truncated pyramids - 12 x 13, 156, each pyramid concealing a Sphinx (four powers, four sides-light life love liberty of Gunther?). Energies of 4 elements. BABALON is Sakti because she manifests powers of All-Father (Y/H) watchtowers are City of Pyramids but in a less exalted sense
light of allfather kindles pile of dust. breath touches it. ibis revealed unto crab [8=3 becomes 9=2, OXO]; sixfold star becomes radiant triangle (Hexagram of Ruach -> Supernals) ∑1-2 = 3 (?)
infinite ring (seen in 06)
opening of 50 gates of binah to the City of God (Augustine) [symbol of supernals; allusion to Betulah?]. keystone of palace of king's daughter (Wake World), philosopher's stone [also seen in 06]
Palace from Wake World - the body of a woman. Daughter of BABALON: Proud, fair, 12 years old. , naked, her body covered with fine gold hairs that are the spears of Angels. hair is the light of god himself. nothing seen in aethyrs is as glorious as 1 fingernail. even to behold this aethyr from afar is like seeing all the other aethyrs (all the spears of angels?)/ borne unto the father of all (Y - H - V -H). set upon throne of understanding, HEr name is not to be spoken, but they have called her: Koré, Malkah, Betulah, Persephone [Persephone is similar to Inanna]
= Lower Shekinah. viewing of the world as it truly is, no reactive mind/personality. 8=3 in this sense is the OUTERMOST grade. [resolving Saturn in Binah to Saturn the Materializer in Tav]. VISION OF WONDER, following Trance of Sorrow. "placing the duaghter on the thorne of the mother"
Babalon's Daughter is on sea of glass.
Rev 4:6 6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Revelation 15:2King James Version (KJV)
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
enflamed sense of touch in vision of Malkah-Koré
["The Virgin of Eternity." these are all Virgo expressions, as Babalon is Leo.]
The biblical betulah (בתולה) usually rendered "virgin," is in fact an ambiguous term which in nonlegal contexts may denote an age of life rather than a physical state. Cognate Akkadian batultu (masculine, batūlu) and Ugaritic btlt refer to "an adolescent, nubile, girl." That the woman who is so called need not necessarily be a virgo intacta is shown by the graphic account in a Ugaritic myth of the sexual relations of Baal with the goddess Anath,
there is nothing in the magick books or poets about this, too high, far beyond will and imagination
hair bedecked w seven stars, 7 breaths of god, combed with 7 secret names of god known to none [Sigilllum?]
many things of great and delicate beauty cast off from her into world of Qliphoth, earth, for each world is the qliphoth of the world above it
John 20:29King James Version (KJV)
29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
But here: Blessed art thou, who hast seen, and yet hast not believed.7fold rapture of senses
Black swastika (see Aethyr 30)
9 towers = Aethyr 11 = mass-mind psychological foundations of the world
From Book of Babalon (Parsons):
- For I am BABALON, and she my daughter, unique, and there shall be no other women like her.
- In My Name shall she have all power, and all men and excel- lent things, and kings and captains and the secret ones at her command.
- The first servants are chosen in secret, by my force in her--a captain, a lawyer, an agitator, a rebel--I shall provide.
- Call me, my daughter, and I shall come to thee. Thou shalt be full of my force and fire, my passion and power shall surround and inspire thee; my voice in thee shall judge nations.
- None shall resist thee, whom I lovest. Though they call thee harlot and whore, shameless, false, evil, these words shall be blood in their mouths, and dust thereafter.
- But my children will know thee and love thee, and this will make them free.
- All is in thy hands, all power, all hope, all future.
- One came as a man, and was weak and failed.
- One came as a woman, and was foolish, and failed.
- But thou art beyond man and woman, my star is in thee, and thou shalt avail.
chamber w maps of mystical cities (Aethyrs as locations?) crowley claims these tables are found in secret chambers of brotherhood, and are used to arrange destinies of planet.
Map of Aethyrs arranged as a flaming sword, so they go into the 10 sephiroth-not to be given to unitiaties (see Breeze's diagram in V&V) [These were given in Practicus Adeptus Minor of GD, though Crowley may not have got it]
New model:
Malkuth = 30,29,28 Yesod = 27,26,25 Hod = 24,23,22 Netzach = 21,20,19 Tiphareth = 18,17,16 Geburah = 15,14,13 Chesed = 12,11,10 Binah = 9,8,7 Chokmah = 6,5,4 Kether = 3,2,1
[This method is of Chokmah, and pertains to 9=2 grade.]
Invoke IAIDA before unveil shirnes within
Rule is: Before an aethyr, affirm the unity (in Enochian or Arabic?) 1,001 times, and bow 1,001 times. Recite Call of Aethyr x3 (1+2 for Chokmah). [This Crowley divided into 13 sections [AChD] - 77 each. Think and desire only Adonai. Be chaste, or at least subtle and delicate.
All day and all night, awake or asleep, shall thy heart be turned as a lotus-flower unto the light. [Open Anahata]. And thy body shall be the temple of the Rosy Cross. Thus shall thy mind be open to the higher, and then shalt thou be able to conquer the exhaustion, and it may be find the words-for who shall look upon his face and live?
Tremblest from within, holy spirit descended into heart, shaketh thee as an aspen. [Pranayama/kundalini phenomena.] [Aspen = Aleph, air. Pranayama.]
[Jae: 1,001 is number of minutes a typical person is awake in a day - just over 16 1/2 hours—i.e. EVERY WAKING MOMENT SHALL BE SPENT AFFIRMING UNITY AND BOWING BEFORE IT] With mind open to higher, and heart and center of light, one's body become a true Temple of the Rosy Cross.
Adept is Crowned with Holy Spirit, RUCh ALHIM = 300 = Shin. Master is filled with it.
ZID
Comment: “The fuller manifestation of the Holy Guardian Angel."
[Official instruction for 5=6 AND 8=3 A.'.A.'. by Aiwass, the Voice of the Silence—Minister of Hoor-par-kraat(silence)(!!) Quintessence of Abramelin. The instruction for attaining the Angel and the Abyss.]
[JAE: ZID = 21, Tiphareth, and AHIH, divine name Kether] [don't try to better this!!]
Tiny spark of light, tentative, fanned by aethyr, darts like snake or sword, steadies and becomes Pyramid of light that fills the whole Aethyr [This may be the Dominus Liminus lamp mentioned in Liber A.]
[dharana, it may be put out by wind of intellect=air. pyramid = fire]
Pyramid = Angel = no form because of substance of light. He makes form visible only to destroy it.
[The HGA = pyramid = sacred phallus = initiator = 831 = aleph]
Light come to darkness
Darkness become light
Light married with light
Child is the other darkness, where they that abide have lost name and form.
[YHVH formula terminating in Binah. Ain (Limitless light, Y) ->Kether (H), Chokmah (V), Binah (H final).] Aiwass wrote the Book of the Law to bring us to the NOX of Pan-secrets are like star, snake, sword.]
[JAE: Darkness 1 = Nephesh; Light = Ruach, Darkness 2 = Neshamah. Ascending.]
Unto NEMO does he deliver the secrets of the Operation so that the least of the children (H, Malkuth) can come to Binah.
New Operation instructions—of 91 days:
Prepare chamber. Walls and roof white. Floor, carpet of black&white squares, border blue and gold.
If town: No window. If country: Window in roof. Or in temple prepared for passing of Tuat (Cadaveris or Adytum of 2=9 A.'.A.'. initiation).
From roof, red glass lamp {sol?}, burning olive oil. Cleanse and make ready after prayer of sunset.
Beneath lamp, altar {water?}, 4square, height 3x 1/2 of the breadth, or 3x 2x the breadth. Top is white wood, well polished. In center is triangle of oak wood {Geburah} painted scarlet.
Upon oak triangle: Hemispherical censer, on three legs, of silver {luna?}, within a hemisphere of copper {venus?}, upon the top a grating of gilded silver {spirit?}. Burn Abramelin incenses {air?}
Abramelin oil in crystal flask w/in altar {spirit?}
Wear robe of Probationer no matter rank. (Hex shows Nuit/Hadit/RHK—and Adonai is golden Tau in midst of their marriage. {Probationer robe = 5=6 robe})
Alternate complex silk robe given.
Wand of almond or hazel cut by own hands at Equinox, Solstice, day of Corpus Christi, or a Thelemic feast day.
Engrave with own hand upon a gold plate the Holy 12fold Table (or some particular device). 4square w/in circle, winged (Hadit), attached to forehead by blue silk ribbon.
Wear fillet of rose, ivy, or rue; burn it in censer every day after prayer of sunset.
Pray 3x day—sunset, midnight, sunrise. If able, +4x prayers between sunrise and sunset. Each prayer at least 1 hr. constantly extend and more greatly enflame thyself.
Carry out for 11 weeks.
During this time you make an invocation, fully inspired by Crown, and write in letters of gold on top of Altar.
Copy invocation on sheet of pure white vellum, with Indian ink, and illuminate it according to fancy and imagination (Yesod/Yetzirah), informed by beauty (Tiphareth).
First day of 12th week (sunrise of 78th day): Enter chamber at sunrise. Burn invocation in the lamp. {Repeating from aethyr-calling instructions.} Make prayer.
Chamber will be filled with light insufferable for splendor (overcoming Hod), perfume intolerable for sweetness (overcoming Netzach?).
HGA appears. Remain in K&C all day.
Remain in temple for 3 days, sunrise to sunset, and obey counsel and suffer that which is appointed.
For 10 days, withdraw fully into meditation, and harmonize the inner world with the Angel. {Total 91 days = AMN = compare 91 hours of each Aethyric operation in Aethyr 18. All 30 aethyrs = 2,730 hours = 113.75 days = 3.79 months, / 30 operations.}
Return to world and perfom that which has been appointed. [Traditional Adept instruction-one is being brought to Understand. The Angel itself leads you from Tiphareth to the brink of the Abyss and then hurls you across.]
If you continue in K&C, the Angel will at last bring you to City of Pyramids (8=3).
22 paths but ONE serpent; 10 sephirah, but ONE sword.
End of life and death (no phase of existence is experienced as death, only continual conscious re-incarnation? tulkus etc.). Breath goes still (peak kundalini).Everything you know buried in House of Father (Bet-Chokmah) [AL II:78. "Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418"].
You become Danae - slain beneath glory of vision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%C3%AB
Suffering will make you mightier than all Kings of earth and Angels of Heavens, and all gods beyond heavens.. then you meet angel in equal conflict, see him for what he is, and he will kill you w red rain of lightnings.
Killed by weight of pyramid...
So shall it be until awake are asleep and asleep are awake (kalpa?)
you are transparent to vision and voice, so hey only manifest to those until whom thou dost deliver them, according to dictates of Liber AL and the word Thelema.
Aiwass minister of RHK, RHK the viceroy of an UNKNOWN KING
Aiwass = 78, 8+70 = Cheth and A'ayin. Cheth = 418, formula of NEw aeon; A'ayin = Set/Hadit, eye, manifest in 418. (!) Influence of concealed one and wheel of Taro.All is equivalent of 671 (Adonai spelled in plenitude{?} and T'raa, gate{liber t'raa}) and daleth. [Aiwass was later revealed to be 93 to Crowley, as recounted in Equinox of the Gods]
Error to see HGA in gimel. HGA is totally above abyss, in the supernals. Paths that cross abyss to Tiphareth (Gimel, Zayin, Heh) are the servants of Babalon and the Beast (Binah and Chokmah) and the unspoken "others." As servants they have no name (NEMO), but we are of blood royal (cup of babalon?) and serve not, and hence we are less than they (lower numbers/more simplified). with all that they remai themselves, who have eaten pomegranate of hell
[persephone was earlier indentified as Daughter of Babalon.] {Doctrine of black brothers in Liber 333? they remain themselves in Da'ath} This is beyond 8=3 grade. [JAE: Master = Persephone, daughter who becomes Queen of inner realms in YHVH]
NEMO sees and hears false, as the communication of the Magus in Chokmah is of the essence of lies.
Vision = netzach
Voice = hod
when you hear it, you will be bereft of sense for hours, in a void place between heaven and earth {Liber Trigrammaton}, a la road to Damascus {the Star}
Make it easy for them, and give all of yourself to those who have need. If I'm with you, you lack nothing, but if you lack me, you lack all. Faithful to promise if you are faithful to obligation.
[this is a crucifixion-see below. but he is not abandoned {Luke}]
Darkness on earth unto 9th hour.
Matthew 27:45-46King James Version (KJV)
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:33King James Version (KJV)
33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
[Eloi Eloi repeated at threshold of Abyss in Aethyr 11]
Fallen to earth; skin trembling and body shaking from light.
[THIS IS WHERE THE AETHYRS START TO LOCK UP ON CROWLEY BY DINT OF HIS CURRENT DEGREE OF INITIATION {8=3 ONLY}
DEO
Comment: “The Virgin becomes the Bride, the great Reward of the Ceremony. Also an adumbration of the Further Progress."
DEO symbols pertain to Babalon.
[JAE: DEO = 82, Anael, Angel of Venus (Lana), and NIChVH, sweet/pleasant/beloved]
Daleth/Venus.
Who has key to gate of evening star?
Angel tries w many keys
5=6 balance to ABRAHADABRA, and therein is the mystery disclosed
But the key to this gate balances 7=4, of which you have not the first letter.
4-letter word that contains all the mystery of YHVH = TARO as all 78 permutations of YHVH (ADNI spelt in full...?), and conceals a 7-fold word = possibly BABALON, for Malkuth concealeth Binah, and 2 x 78 = 156.
And that again conceals the holy word that is the key of the Abyss: NOX. [Babalon conceals because she is Lady of City of Pyramids beneath Night of Pan.]. [Or ChAOS?]
Crowley: Words are likely TARO, BABALON, ChAOS.
[JAE solution: PRKTh. Because it is mingled with YHVH to form PYRHKVThH. = 726 = VITRIOL (also Portal ritual in GD).
VITRIOL is a notariqon of Journey to the center of the earth [VIT] / by rectification thou shalt find [RI] / the hidden stone [OL]. - hidden truth buried in our inmost center. = VIT, RI, OL. RI = 210, NOX, keyword of Abyss. RI also = Hebrew = rushing water.
Paroketh is traditionally (non-GD) the name of the veil before the Holy of Holies (a receding goal, drawing deeper within us as we progress—so at threshold of Yesod, Tiphareth and Supernals). First letter, PEH, unlocks the Gate of Venus literally (!!!).
So words are: PRKTh, VITRIOL, NOX.
"This thou shalt find, revolving it in thy mind." (Wheel of Taro?)
Hide your eyes and dont look when I open the lock.
Bowers of Azure Flame.
Bowers: noun 1. a leafy shelter or recess; arbor. 2. a rustic dwelling; cottage. 3. a lady's boudoir in a medieval castle.
bar of heaven, feet of IAIDA set thereon
each flame a great love-story of world, forming a rose [I saw this in 2006!!!!! crowned with roses w Angelina.] woman like woman in apocalypse, so beautiful you cannot look upon except sidelong.
LA ELOHIM contracted from 86 to 14. La, 31 x 14 = 434, daleth, lamed, tau. Aleph Chokmah [+Understanding] Tiphareth
LOGOS = Lamed Gimel Samekh = 93, Thelema, here identified as 1=10 word of A.'.A.'. and 3º word of OTO; Agape. 93 = 3 x 31. The two O's (A'ayin, Eye) are the two eyes of Horus. [This was long before Achad's discovery of 31.]
The drives all three above paths.
The Aethyr becomes the Universal Peacock (atmadarshana?); head becomes woman's head.
The Star.
Bird of Juno = 136. Mate of Jupiter (136 mystic number #4 of Jupiter)
Footstool of Holy One
Isaiah 66:1 66 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Juno = footstool of holy one; Binah = His Throne (YHVH) [Romans: Juno=Aquarius]
Black Brothers running about like ants in Abyss below her. They keep up a very curious but strangely human howling. (Howling=Goetia).
"These are they that grasped love and clung thereto, praying ever at the knees of the great goddess. These are they that have shut themselves up in fortresses of Love." (!!)
Each plume full of eyes, 4 x 7 = 28 reflected into Netzach; Kaph Cheth, Power, ∑1-7, mystic number of Netzach.
She is SHAKTI. [Connection to Melek Taus?], the eternal energy of Concealed One. Her eternal energy (Binah) makes this eternal change (Chokmah).
Curse of call of 30 aethyrs is but the creation of Shakti. [INDEED. The 30th Aethyr is a description of the creation / empowerment of Sakti.]
*In Genesis, Adam represents the Concealed One, for Adam is a Temurah of MAD, Enochian "God," and Eve, created for love, is tempted by the snake Nechesh, who is Messiah her child. Snake = magical power (kundalini?) who has destroyed the primordial equilibrium (11. = Da'ath/Great Serpent of Qliphoth?)
[In Latin gematria, Deus and Homo both = 45, ADM]
Garden = Supernal Eden, A'aDN = eye of concealed one and creative linga; daleth, love; nun, the serpent. = 124
[JAE: archetypal triad, could be: Osiris/Isis/Apophis Red Rose/White Rose/Black Dragon "Guy, Gal, Snake"]
The snake is the savior and royal (358)
This constitution implicity nature of Eden, so that the Aethyrs could not have been any other call that that which it is.
But those who ≠ NEMO have misinterpreted everything, becayse of Mystery of Abyss, for there is no path from Binah to Chesed. So Flaming Sword was no more a current but a spark. When Stooping Dragon raised his head to Da'ath in the course of that spark {Season}, there was an explosion, and his head was blasted, and the ashes were dispersed throughout ZAX. = All knowledge is piecemeal, and of no value unless coordinated by Binah.
Mighty Eagle of Ruddy Brass/
Babalon riding Dolphin (mind?)
Black Brothers = wandering souls who have sought restricted love, and have not understood that the word of Sin is Restriction (... so hard ...) they're constantly looking for each other or something, hurrying about and bumping into each other yet do not see one another because they're so bound up in cloaks
white brothers have given everything and are shut up; black brothers are shut up but...have not given all
Proverbs 1:24-26King James Version (KJV)
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
he hath exalted them to the plane of love.
if one were to simply cast off his cloak he would see the Lady of the Aethyr, but they will not.
HE has allowed them this far so that his thought will never swerve from Compassion.
Love crowns thee w 7 roses and 7 stars
on throne are sculptured ram, sparrow, cat, strange fish [Aries, Venus, Leo, Pisces = HDTQ = 118 = A'aMCh, to ferment and ChLP, to renew]
every one witness of justice of Most High. Libra = Venus. A sickle that shall reap every flower. Saturn is exalted in Libra: Daleth-Lamed-Tau.
He was a fool [Aleph] that uttered her name in his heart, for the root of evil is the root of breath, and the speech in the silence (Aiwass) was a lie. this is how it is seen from below. but from above, he rejoithed. joy of dissolution 10,000 (infinite); pang of birth but a little. [Nuit, Liber AL]
But you don't have the key so get out. And perhaps eventually true voice of the aethyr-continual song-may be heard by thee.
MAZ
Comment: “A shadowing forth of the grade of Magus."
MAZ = 105 = to change; ∑1-14 [JAE: MAZ = 48, Kokav, star/Mercury. Union of Heh and Teth; Aquarius AND Leo; alchemical Eagle and Lion; Babalon and Beast, etc. Union of Opposites.]
[JAE: Vision of Chokmah as the higher Mercury, but he sees illusions of the Ape of Thoth]
[Second attribution of Aethyrs make more sense here, placing this in Chokmah. Is it possible the Aethyrs condense into the form mentioned AFTER the secondary scheme is unveiled? But there are also Tiphareth symbols.]
Avé appears, bearing the symbols of aspiration to mastery—sulphur and pentagram harmonized by swastika (note relies on old attributions)—these symbols found both in name of Ave and in MAZ. [Illusions from Ape of Thoth?]
[Ave also extracted from the 7x7 table previously mentioned. Ave also = Hail and Hello in Latin. Ave arguably a dispatched greeting from Enochian Hierarchy to Dee & Kelley.]
Ave = "radiance of Thoth," and the aethyr changes like lightning—the illusions made by the Ape of Thoth. And he cannot receive (not 9=2). = all the thoughts he has ever thought as the guardian of the Aethyr [Kerux].
Binah open to Chokmah <-> Pyramids lie open to Mazloth (circle of stars that is field of operation of Chokmah)
He assumes this posture (maybe?):
Mazloth appears, with one star greatest—8 rays, Star of Mercury, of ATU 17, light comes from path of Aleph. Cheth interpenetrates—8 rayed star lineal figure, uniting Heh and Vau.
Vision of Universal Mercury - a lot of QBLH I don't understand. He and Vau = perfected sulphur and salt.
This is from the Golden Dawn:
THE VISION OF THE UNIVERSAL MERCURY "We stood upon a dark and rocky cliff that overhung the restless seas. In the sky above us was a certain glorious sun, encircled by that brilliant rainbow, which they of the Path of the Chamelion know. "I beheld, until the heavens opened, and a form like unto the Mercury of the Greeks (1) descended, flashing like the lightning; and he hovered between the sky and the sea. In his hand was the staff (2) wherewith the eyes of mortals are closed in sleep, and wherewith he also, at will, re-awakeneth the sleeper; and terribly &Xi the globe at its summit dart forth rays. Andhe bare a scroll whereon was written: Lumen est in Deo, Lux in hornine factum, Sive Sol, Sive Luna, Sive Stelloc errantes, Omnia in Lux, Lux in Lumine Lumen in Centrum, Centrum in Circulo, Circulum ex Nihilo, Quid scis, id ens. (3) F.I.A.T. (4) E.S.T. (5) E.S.T.O. (6) E.R.I.T. (7) In fidelitate et veritate universas ab aeternitate. (8) Nunc Hora. Nunc Dies. <48> Nunc Annus, Nunc Saeculum, Omnia sunt Unum, et Omnia in Omnibus. A.E.T.E.RN.LT.A.S. (9) Then Hermes cried aloud, and said: 'I am Hermes Mercurius, the Son of God, the messenger uniting Superiors and Inferiors. I exist not without them, and their union is in me. I bathe in the Ocean. I fill the expanse of Air. I penetrate the depths beneath." And the Frater who was with me, said unto me: "Thus is the Balance of Nature maintained, for this Mercury is the beginning of all movement. This He, (10) this She, this IT, is in all things, but hath wings which thou canst not constrain. For when thou sayest 'He is here' he is not here, for by that time he is already away, for he is Eternal Motion and Vibration." Nevertheless in Mercury must thou seek all things. Therefore not without reason did our Ancient Fratres say that the Great Work was to "Fix the Volatile." There is but one place where he can be fixed, and that is the Centre, a centre exact. "Centrum in trigono centri." (11) The Centre in the triangle of the Centre. If thine own soul be baseless how wilt thou find a standing point whence to fix the soul of the Universe? "Christus de Christi, Mercury de Mercurio, Per viam crucis, Per vitam Lucis Deus te Adjutabitur!" (12)
Mathers notes:
TRANSLATION OF AND NOTES ON DOCUMENT M By G. H. FRATER, S.RM.D. 1. Hermes is Greek, Mercury is Roman. 2. Compare with v. 47 ODYSSEY: "Him promptly obeyed the active destroyer of Argus. Forth sped he, and under his feet he bound his ambrosial sandals. Then, taking his staff wherewith he the eyes of mortals closeth at will, and the sleeper at will reawakens." 3. Translation: The Light is in God, the LVX hath been made into Man. Whether Sun, or Moon, or Wandering Stars, all are in Lux, the Lux in the Light, the Light in the Centre, the Centre in the Circle, the Circle from the Nothingness (Negative or Ain 19N) What thou mayest be (i.e. what thou hast in thyself, the capability of being) that shalt thou be (or become). 4. Flatus. Ignis. Aqua. Terra. (Air. Fire. Water. Earth.) 5. Ether. Sal. Terrae. (Ether, the Salt of the Earth.) 6. Ether. Subtilis. Totius. Orbis. (The subtle Ether of the whole universe.) 7. Ether. Ruens. In. Terra. (The Ether rushing into the Earth.) 8. Let it be (or become). It is. Be it so. It shall be (or endure). In Universal faithfulness and truth from eternity. Now an hour, Now a day, Now a year, Now an age, all things are One, and All in All. ETERNITY. 9. These ten letters are Notaricons oE Ab Kether. Ex Chokmah. Tu Binah. Ex Chesed. Regina Geburah. Nunc Tiphareth. In Netzach. Totius Hod. Ad Yesod. Saeculorum Malkuth. (From the Crown, out of Wisdom-Thou, 0 Understanding art Mercy, Queen of Severity. Now the perfect Beauty, in the Victory, of all Splendour, for the Foundation, of the Ages of the Universe.) 10. Probably alludes to the Three Principles. 11. This was, I believe, but am not certain, the motto of our Frater Count Adrian a Meynsicht, otherwise known as Henricus Madathanus. <50> 12. The Christ from the Christ. The Mercury from the Mercury, Through the Path of the Cross, Through the life of the Light, God shall be Thy Help. (Note: An illustration accompanying this manuscript depicted a conventional nude figure of Mercury, winged helmet and sandals, diving into the sea. In the right hand was the Caduceus, and the left bore a scroll showing the words described in the text.-1.R)
Sam Webster actually turned this into a ritual here.
Whirling swastika throws off all dust of stars and great forgotten gods (Rashith ha-Gilgalim as recycler?), Swastika, Aleph by shape and number. ; in beth = arms of magician = swastika; in gimel = sign of mourning of isis = crown defended by 3 thunderbolts. 3 x 17 = 51, failure and pain - NA and AN]
Shut out by black swastika w corona of fire/
Cursed is he who uncovers nakedness of Most High (IAIDA), because he is drunk on blood of adepts (brought to him by Babalon) = the end of Noah and Shem (Shem-Ham-Mephorasch). Babalon hath lulled him to sleep on her breast, she hath fled away, and left him naked, and called her children together and said let us make a mock of the nakedness of the Most High. [NOH = 64; ChM = 48]
The three schools [Shem, Ham, Japheth]:
1 covers shame with cloth, walking backwards = white 2 covers shame w cloth, walking sideways = yellow 3 made a mock of his nakedness, walking forward, and was black.
[aleph bet gimel?]
Also = 3 magi that journeyed to bethlehem.
But since you're not 9=2 you don't get to know which one prevailed, or if they are not all one school.
[These are discussed in Magick w/o Tears. Black School ≠ Black Brothers or "the School of Black Magick." Representative expressions of White/Yellow/Black: Rosicrucians, Taoists, Buddhists. These schools emanate from the Third Order throughout history. On all being one: JAE says that Crowley later confirmed that they are indeed all one school.]
The Black Brothers do not lift their heads to Chokmah, because they were drowned in the flood, Binah, before the true vine could be planted on holy hill of Zion.
[ZION = 156!!!!!!! FACK. Hence Zion = Binah.]
In center, all things whirl by (rashith?)
volatile is fixed (tao). [2=9/9=2] not by stillness but by impurturbability of constant motion ["Go," fifth power of sphinx? Thelema? New Aeon doctrine... go go go in way of true will]
far darting hawk = mercury sign, horns are hawk wings.
Thoth = God of Lies, for speech is two-fold and truth is one [Liber b] he is also solar (see paris working). He is catching flies in his web (Ruach).
just because you see this on astral (Yetzirah) does not mean you have attained here! Critical doctrine.
Run and return = Rabbinical QBLH doctrine of word going forth in manifestation and then returning (?). Word=Thoth
You cannot pass Thoth/Ave unless you slay him [Cross of the Frog—lo and behold, it is in Liber 418. Again see my 2006 experience.] And then you become him—the great deceiver, maker of Illusions and setter of snares, who baffleth even NEMO. He stands on every path and turns them aside from truth with his words and magick arts. (Mind—not 333 but Thoth himself [or Ape of Thoth?], Mayan, the great magician)
Reference to "King of the Wood" by Crowley. [From International?] {You have to kill the King to become the king, and to do so means that one day someone will kill you - this was written on Lake Pasaquaney where Crowley sacrificed the frog}
[Crowley writes in his Magus diaries of a revelation—this one?—that is sheer horror, and could force every 8=3 into the Abyss and every 5=6 into the Qliphoth.]
[In 1944, Crowley wrote to Grady McMurtry on the office of OHO of OTO—"My sword to him that can get it," perhaps with this very doctrine in mind. See 'The Unknown God,' p 113]
Crowley (not Aethyr): "Jesus is just a figurehead used by priests for their Great Sorcery."
ALL of the Magi were bound with the Curse of Thoth, and as guardians of truth have taught NOTHING BUT FALSEHOOD., except to those in the City of Pyramids, because truth cannot pass the Gate of the Abyss.
However, the lower sephiroth reflect the truth (does that mean it is reversed????) balanced in beauty, so those who have sought only Tiphareth have come closest to truth, as it gets 3 paths from supernals, and chesed/geburah only get one.
So if you seek majesty, power, victory, learning, happiness, gold - you will be discomfited (other lower sephira)
Adhere to Beauty. JAE: "It works, so do it."
Since you ate the Pomegranate in hell, you are concealed for half of every year (Crowley spent 1/2 of every year in magical retirement, because he "refused to adopt one of the routine methods of success in Magick. He, being the BEast 666, had to keep hold on Tiphareth by maintaining Formula of Rosy Cross"(?) (IXº OTO?)
Temple like Temple of Vesta at heart of Aethyr—an Urn suspended in air (see Liber 73, The Urn, on Crowley's ultimate initiation to 9=2). above 8 pillars, canopy, circle of marble stones, outer circle of pillars, forest of stars.
Urn is made of FIXED MERCURY, and within are the ashes of the consumed Book of the Tarot—that is—if you go from 8=3 to 9=2, your Pyramid of Dust is consumed to ashes, and this is preserved in the Urn. [Tarot also = 22 letters which in combination open 231 gates of Chokmah known to Qabalists {????} (Liber 231?)]
[Sepher Yetzirah 2:9, Heidrick:
He fixed the twenty-two Letters of foundation on the sphere like a wall with 231 gates, and turned the spheres forward and backward. For an illustration may serve the three letters, Gimel, Nun, Ayin. There is nothing better than joy {spelled Ayin-Nun-Gimel in Hebrew} and nothing worse than sorrow or plague {spelled Nun-Gimel-Ayin, in Hebrew. Thus various combinations of the same letters in this language can produce opposite meanings. This is a part of the mysticism of the letters, and also a part of the nature of Hebrew root word formations}]
[Text of Rawn Clark on the 231 gates, which seem to be all possible permutations of the paths taken as initiatory gates?
Tarot as ThARA'a = 671 The Book Tarot = SPR ThARA'a = 1,011 = ThHOM = The Abyss.
Jupiter and Mercury (Kether and Chokmah) inspired Ephesus, City of Diana, Binah, a black stone, and burnt their books of magick:
Acts 14:12King James Version (KJV)
12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
Acts 19:19King James Version (KJV)
19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Center of Infinite Space (Hadit) IS that Urn, and Hadit is the fire that has burned up the Book of Thoth. For the
TARO=accumulated wisdom of Old Aeon.
And in the Book of Enoch was first given the wisdom of the New Aeon. And it was hidden for 300 years, because it was wrested untimely from the tree of life by the hand of a desperate magician. [Book of Enoch ≠ Book of Enoch, it means the Enochian transmissions—an early attempt to communicate the Law of Thelema to an un-ready humanity]
[Kelley. Crowley here directly references the passage on No Sin from Casaubon—April 18, 1587.]
Crowley: The Master of that Magician [Luther—in Protestant hierarchy?] overthrew the Christian church, but the pupil overthrew the master, for he saw that the New (Protestant) would be worse than the Old. But: Luther was actually preparing for the overthrow of the Old Aeon, and his magical act of cohabitating w a nun helped.
On Urn:
[A hidden sigil, perceivable only by a 9=2, hidden by hand]
[JAE: Hand = Yod, 20th path; ∑1-20 = 210, NOX. The veil IS what it veils/
NOX {Greek, same as English}
O-X sigil of NOX (Ordeal X?)
Stabat Crux juxta Lucem. Stabat Lux juxta Crucem. ("The Cross shall stand near the Light. The Light shall stand near the cross.")
[Simplex = 230. Initials, SCIL, SLIC = 78, TARO.]
[Section on whether to believe/not Kelley and Crowley. Either you do or don't; both have equally valid truth claims; i.e., none except the beauty, complexity and mathematics of their works. Choice to believe or not... what do both look like? Spell out.]
From the ashes of the Tarot, who shall make Phoenix Wand? (Planets) [6=5 officer]. Because he who from understanding made Lotus Wand (Zodiac) [Tiphareth officer] to grow in Binah cannot even do this.
Lotus Wand: Binah [Lotus=Sea]
Phoenix Wand: Chokmah [Phoenix=Ashes/Rising Anew, etc]
Winged Globe: Kether
Get out-you're not an atheist. You've penetrated mother (Binah) but not slain father (Chokmah) - "Have not burnt up all karma."
Crowley overcoming his personal psychology: He's fucked his mother, but he hasn't slain his adoring projections on his father.
Get back from the Urn, your ashes are not hidden here. (You haven't attained here.)
LXV V:34-40:
Also I was in the spirit vision and beheld a parricidal pomp of atheists, coupled by two and by two in the supernal ecstasy of the stars. They did laugh and rejoice exceedingly, being clad in purple robes and drunken with purple wine, and their whole soul was one purple flower-flame of holiness.
They beheld not God; they beheld not the Image of God; therefore were they arisen to the Palace of the Splendour Ineffable. A sharp sword smote out before them, and the worm Hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet.
Even as their rapture shore asunder the visible Hope, so also the Fear Invisible fled away and was no more.
O ye that are beyond Aormuzdi and Ahrimanes! blessèd are ye unto the ages.
They shaped Doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of Faith for their garlands.
They shaped Ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water.
Then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease.
Thoth arises in Sign of Enterer and banhammers Crowley from the Aethyr.
LIT
Comment: “The reception of the Magister Templi among the Brethren of the A.'.A.'.. The manifestation of the Arrow."
[There was a literal solar eclipse]
[JAE LIT = 49, child, heat/fury, silent, blood, light, temple/shrine, rejoice] [LIT = 8 and 3 joined by Art, Samekh]
[Dragon's HEad = intense kundalini experience? How much do aethyrs reflect kundalini phenomena/ chakra mystery-plays?]
Shining Pylon, above is the sigil of eye in triangle (S.'.S.'.). light streams through pylon from before face of Isis-Hathor, with lunar crown of cows' horns with disk in center, with child Horus at breast. (Lunar from name) [Chokmah eye]
You don't know how 7=4, much less 8=3. In the word BAPHOMETR, these are made one, and there is the mystery of rending asunder veil of Mother. {BAPHOMETR also = BABALON and Zeus Arrhenothelus [Air?]}
Avenue of pylons carved from mountain—substance harder than diamond, brighter than light, heaver than lead—with ALL of the gods of ALL of the nations of Earth seated in Pylons(!!!) all avenues lead to top of mountain (all roads lead to rome and all paths are true?) [Holy Mountain]
In center is a circle into which 9 pylons open (9 Naths, 9 Great Men). In center is a circular table (similar to Holy Mountain scene). It is supported by 9 marble figures of men and women, alternately white and black, face inwards, their buttocks almost worn away by those who have come to kiss their asses to worship Supreme God, who is the single end of all those religions... but the SHRINE ITSELF is too high for man to reach.
He is lifeted by the Angel. Surrounded by holy men - in right hand of each a weapon, left giving sign of silence.
The password is: THERE IS NO GOD.
Silver Star suspended, and on forehead of each holy man. (S.'.S.'.) It is a pentagram, because 3+5=8; 3+8=11.
He stands in circle. A weapon is given to him. Password whispered around and all nod until it returns to him.
It doesn't mean they deny god.
There is no god. (There slightly emphasized), which possibly means no god in shrine because god is everywhere, or infinitely more or other meanings
AL:
ii.23. I am alone: there is no God where I am.
ii.3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. ii.4. Yet she shall be known & I never.
Islam: "Allah is the aethist; he has no Allah"
All blotted by angel of Aethyr. black, burnished scale, edge gold, vast wings w claws on ends, like dragon's face, dreadful piercing eyes.
He has imperfectly annihilated himself. These are JUST YOUR THOUGHTS—and as there is NO GOD in the ultimate shrine, there is NO I in thine own cosmos!
Only NEMO can say this, but all have misinterpreted including you (Liber B?)
Something like: True God is equally in all shrines, and true I in all parts of the body and soul {JL there is no part of me that is not of the gods}
roaring, belching forth smoke to fill the aethyr
ALL GREAT RELIGIONS OF ALL WORLDS END HERE, and they are only the smoke of my breath... I am only the head of the Great Dragon that eatheth up the Universe!!!!! Without which 5th aethyr would be perfect, even as the first. you must pass me by. [enter mouth of dragon?]
No more bound: New rule. 1. Purify thyself 2. Be in sunlight, day free from clouds 3. Make the Call of the Aethyr in silence.
Head of Dragon is but tail of Aethyr (see name of Aethyr). People see this fearful aspect of God and turn back. arrow/moon
Arrow of Sun, fledged with plumes of Maat, plumes of Amoun, phallus of Amoun the Concealed One (yoni/phallus - see p. 201) Barb is the silver star from before.
ARROW = MIDDLE PILLAR. launched by yesod
He is blessed that is born under sign of arrow [Edward Kelley, who crowley declares 5=6 Adeptus Major, who founded the work. Crowley, of Aeon of Horus, Kelley=Isaiah, and Levi=John the Baptist; diagram of Holy Table giving only name of Saturnian angel STIMCUL {???}, has sigil on his head of crowned lion and body of snake and arrow therewith {cagliostro/crowley... or crowley/achad}
Upward arrow = Yesod YHVH (Yesod is Phallus of IAIDA) and yod a hand; downward = shot by topmost point of yod, "The HErmit", point not extended, night unto heart of Hadit.
" 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is theknowledge of me the knowledge of death. "
{A Day passes.}
Teh Angel is not actually the angel of Aire - he was but a watcher on threshhold
wingerd light, fountains of fire, mystery of wedge [kundalini phenomena]
golden god-child with two snakes - one red one blue. [Eros holding ida and pingala - sexual nature of kundalini?]
eros = 365. this would link him with Abrasax, Meithras and other solar-phallic dieties - see VIIº OTO and section of Gnostic Mass that mentions Abrasax. Solar-Phallic secret of OTO.
LIFE IS A LONG INITIATION INTO SORROW [Binah]. And Isis is Lady of Sorrow, my mother, Nature; twin sister Nephthys, Perfection. Isis known by all by not Nephthys who is dark and feared.
If you adore w/o fear, make your life an initiation into her Mystery, who has neither mother, father, sister, brother, wife, child—as lonely as hermit crab in waters of the GReat Sea (detachment/vairagya, Liber Cheth)=behold! glory of isis, and at end you commune w nephthys. and then wings of Maut beyond even these. pierce her heart with will - i am eros. slay me or thou shalt not unveil mystery of this aethyr.
He does so as NEMO (one black & one white arrow), because No man can do this thing. he shoots both him and himself, but he lives and she slain
[JAE: Vision of Arrow = Kundalini rush]
"It beams. It burns. It blooms." Crowley says this is a password of A.'.A.'., but JAE doesn't know what grade or know anything.
Arrow = maat and Thoth crowns
THAT WHICH IS ABOVE IS NOT LIKE THAT WHICH IS BELOW (and vice versa)
What is above & what is below? There is division that divideth not, and multiplication that multiplieth not, and the one is the many [an essential mystery of Thelema].
you sought remedy of sorrow; now all sorrow is thy portion - "God hath laid upon him the iniquity of all" thy blood in cup of Babalon ; thy heart the universal heart, bound about with green serpent of delight (heart girt w serpent). heart is that which rejoiceth; serpent of death, for each contain their own opposite. this is the mystery of the supernals.
[When you commingle your life with the ALL, the all is reciprocal.]
below abyss = contradiction is division
above = contradiction is unity
nothing true except by virtue of contradiction that is contained in itself. (ye shall know truth by its paradox)
seer's mind = universe. contest between vision and memories (new input and samskaras?) great wind sent forth to banhammer him. you're still an 8=3, dude.
PAZ
Comment: “Further concerning the Magus. The marriage of Chaos with the purified Virgin."
[JAE: 88, passionate, burning etc]
Hierophant, Microprosopus, Demiurge, appearing in the House of the Sun.
Brilliance of Lord (Chokmah) whose feet are set upon he that forgiveth transgression (Chesed).
Sixfold star that flames in Vault, seal of marriage of great White KIng & black slave (Crow: occurs in Alchemical AND Tibetan. Interesting that Tibetan imagery begins to appear here.
[In mathematics, the root system for the simple Lie group G2 is in the form of a hexagram. - nice image!]
Wiki:
"In Buddhism, some old versions of the Bardo Thodol, also known as The "Tibetan Book of the Dead", contain a hexagram with a Swastika inside. It was made up by the publishers for this particular publication. In Tibetan, it is called the "origin of phenomenon" (chos-kyi 'byung-gnas). It is especially connected with Vajrayogini, and forms the center part of Her mandala. In reality, it is in three dimensions, not two, although it may be portrayed either way."
Note: Both Unicursal hexagram and Endless Knot are 7₄ knots
In stone, 6fold star. Blue and golden angels. [Vau in middle of Enochian name uniting sun and moon]
Day be-with-us at hand. Universe created and overthrown so he can take his pleasure therein. Gold beheld therein. 1000 arms, lightning eyes, seas of blood [Tibetan again? Avalokiteshavara? His wrathful form, Kayagriva, usually only has 2 arms... ] Tau on forehead, crown of every deadly thing. His shakti is Babalon's daughter, become rosy by his force; her purity has tinged his black w blue.
{This also sounds perhaps like Mahakala and Vajrayogini}
[JAE: Shiva/Shakti union as image of Da'ath. Eh??? As uniting of opposites?]
[Angels are in princess scale of Chesed colors - Chashmalim]
All pain in universe but one gust of wind in tempest-scream of that ecstasy—Love Under Will.
[There is language about senses throughout higher aethyrs, suggesting the elements or worlds; this is mapped in JAE]
Seer = expression of humanity = 666, so his senses = humanity's.
tearing asunder IS crushing together (supernal logic).
all double phenomena = ways of interpreting single phenomena = peace.
Chaos is Peace. Cosmos is the War of the Rose and the Cross. (United by Love Under Will.)
KhAOS (XAOS) = Chokmah KOSMOS = Binah. (Greek.)
Genesis 1: Blackness before the beginning of the light. This is CHAOS, Eternity, all contradictions in terms. The Universe = reflection in the Abyss. The Devil = vibrateth between Chokmah and Tau.
NOX, night. evil of night cover us from the rod of destiny, for cosmos must come, and balance set up where there is no need, because no injustice existed before. when balances are equal, then will CHAOS return.
Thy mind is a mirror backed with false metal of lying, so everything seen is AVERSE. everything you trust must confound thee, and everything that you fled from is your savior! Black Sabbath! {and sex with goat = Leah Hirsig at Cefalu}
Fit Universe card above the Devil card to see sexual symbolism of A'ash.
Liber A'ash.
4 elemental guardians are destroyed, mingled in the death-shriek of the Sphinx, for the blind man (phallus?) has profaned her mystery. (Fool.) AVYARTh=687 ["has conceived seed"] is his name (Aiwass in full?) (Path traced on tree.) Subsuming the tree, spirit matter, peace, power, Chaos and Night and Pan; Babalon is his concubine, and he has begotten a virgin that he has deflowered. [YHVH.] [Star Ruby expounds this full YHVH/incestual symbolism.]{Beast?} {Adam Kadmon?} Philosopher's Stone, seal on tomb of YHVH, XIº elixir, red powder that is grinding up bones of 333.
Lion vs. Bull = S v N Man v Eagle = E v W Quintessence = Sphinx Slain by Oedipus (V), who slept with mother (Binah) and blinded himself to wander world as fool (Aleph-"Above wisdom").
Oedipus-Aleph = The One who has transcended all opposites, yet is consort of babalon.
Titan in bed of Juno, Ixion broken on wheel. {Giving birth to Centaurs, Sagittarius - Samekh. Also Titan = TEITAN (Grk) = 666, and a word for adepts in general. [My locker code lol]} The child of BABALON (V in YHVH) is: VIR VIS VIRUS VIRTUS VIRIDIS [VVVVV] [Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici]
Thelemic Tetragrammaton:
Y ChAOS H BABALON V VVVVV H "Malkah-Koré" (BABALON's daughter)
Here is the vision of the daughter seated on the throne of her father - Y + H(final), creating a new universe.
Malkuth, by union with Son (K&C) in Tiphareth, is placed upon the throne of her mother (Binah), and must then re-awaken the youth of her father (Chokmah) who first begot her upon her mother. [In her maturity, she is mate no longer of a boy but a man.]
Persephone, daughter of Earth (Assiah) is wed to Hades, Hell, Hadit (Y) (Atziluth), hidden one, and by voluntarily eating his seeds/semen, she remains in Hell, not as captive slave but as Queen of Hell. Queen of Hell = H, Queen of Y, Hell.
Constant copulation of Father w Daughter also = continuous pouring of yourself (will, all one is) into the world (one's circle/dharma).
(Vajrayogini, the supreme Tantric diety above the Buddhas, is visualized as a red-skinned 16-year-old girl, here.)
(Note that Vajrayogini often appears in a Hexagram)
Desolate is Aethyr (abomination of desolation? Jupiter/Chesed?)
Beware... Angel HUA is about thee. [Pronounced HU. Means "he", is Kether, and oversees work of 2nd order GD.]
Crowley also says in description of Aethyr at beginning of W.B. V&V that Y+H is depicted by Tibetan Kalachakra:
(Kalachakara = Wheel of Time, which would = Saturn = Binah; in congress with Chokmah. It is also an astrological system = Chokmah/Mazloth, and relates the human body to the astrological wheel (for "Buddha supremacy" as alleged by Trimondis). Many Kalachakra lineages claim direct inspiration from Vajrayogini herself. This is a very inexperienced read on my part, without much clear understanding of the Vajrayana.)
ZOM
Comment: “The Magician. Exhibition of the Guards to the Higher Knowledge."
Crowley: The perfect method for understanding Aethyrs is to study the book in detail in order to perfectly assimilate its intellectual content (done), and the read them aloud ceremonially (echoed by JAE). [Add to working methods.]
[WB: Crowley misnamed this ZON, and it was ZON in workbook used in Algeria, but it is ZOM in Dee and in Liber Chanokh. ZOM = 44 - blood, 220/5]
[JAE: ZOM = 117, ophel, thick darkness, also ZOM = za'am = word for anger]
[JAE:
1st Aethyr: Aleph 2nd: Gimel 3rd: Bet. Also all 3 = Kether by new scheme given in aethyrs]
Stone: Angry light -> Clear light (see Bardo Thodol). Minute point of light = true sun, in circumference an emerald snake. joining them are rays which are plumes of Ma'at. Because distance is infinite, they're prallel from circumference, although diverge from center. no voice, no motion. The Snake Ananta feeds upon plumes of truth as upon itself, and contracteth
[This assembled from incorrect read of symbols of Aethyr by Crowley]
(I ALSO saw this in 2006. The snake eating its own tail in final Aethyrs that becomes Aleph [Kether?])
Sigil of Aethyr: Gold/Azure/Green = severities (pillar of severity?)
ALL Aethyrs are as Malkuth to complete Aethyrs 1-3 as three triads.
2nd reflection, palace of 280 judgements (Hall of Dead in Amenta?)
Paths Resh Lamed Nun = course of flaming sword from side of Severity. other two paths = zain, sword, shin, tooth = 5 severities = 280 (paths that tend toward Pillar of Severity)
[JAE: No. All letters having final forms. another misdirection]
[If you open eye of real vision on this aethyr, your mental delusion will crumble = but they're misdirecting him not to?]
House of Juggler = he has made worlds by wisdom, from which issue 74 judgments, that are teh 4 eyes of the doube-headed one, that are:
Satan = Jesus Lucifer = Brahma Leviathan = Allah Belial = Buddha
[JAE: This is intellectual distraction. God/devil heads and tails of same coin, but it's just an obsession to be overcome.]
Hence (perhaps?):
I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men.
Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!
With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross.
I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him.
With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din.
Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.
true YHVH as destroying the false/Qliphothic YHVH (Ape of Thoth?)
And there is Mary, a blasphemy against BABALON, who has shut herself up, resisting change (Chokmah), refusing love under will. MARY = 156.
Hence she is the queen of the Black Brothers (seen earlier walking like ants in the Abyss - Christianity), the excrement of Choronzon.
Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you!
Also for beauty's sake and love's!
Torn upon wheels = wheels = Chokmah beauty's sake = tiphareth love's = Chok + Binah, love under will
[Another distraction = true up to a point but Mary IS Babalon]
Binah, ruled by Bet (Babalon under power of magician) guards the Abyss. Perfect purity of above, redeemer of below. There is no way to the Supernal Mystery but by Babalon and the Beast, and the Magician Mayan is set beyond them to deceive the brother of blackness lest they make themselves into a crown (i.e. make tree from Da'ath—the error of the Scientists and the Buddhists. This is an error because supernal logic convicts it of essential self-contradiction. Da'ath is the peak of the intellect, and therefore a demonstration that intellect is incapable of truth. This would = two trees = tree cast into Outermost Abyss.
From the Crown spring three delusions (Qliphoth of supernal paths):
-(Aleph) = Madness = Incapacity to apprehend; absence of any steady Truth (volatility of air) -(Bet) = Falsehood = Assertion of false relations, even in illusion of Dyad -(Gimel) = Glamour = Clouding of aspiration by marsh miasma of desire
[All forms of duality to be overcome]
Aleph = Inspiration of soul in ecstasy Bet = Virtue of Truthfulness regardless of other issues Gimel = Direct link of human with divine Consciousness
All beyond words of Chokmah?
From Call 30: Confound her understanding w darkness" = you cannot speak this thing
Magus of Taro, Mayan, who has created the great opposition, He IS NOT Chokmah, the creative Mercury that transmits essence of Kether as a logos. lower Mercury (Ape of Thoth?) asserts Dyad as Reality, denying Kether and Ain, issuing Materialism. right arm torch of flames blazing upward; left cup of poison, a cataract into Hell (clouding of eye of Chokmah, impeding light). On head: Evil circle of 3 concentric rings (unfulfilled by square or cross). Feet covered with sharp weapons (Yamantaka?) [Knife fashions shapeless things into beauty = task of Magus]
42-fold Table of Wickedness., connected w 42 assessors of teh Dead, accusers that the soul must baffle w 42-fold name of god, Mystery of Iniquity, that there was ever a beginning at all.
42 = 2 x 21. (AHIH, Kether x 2 = Thaumiel. 42 also = AMA, Mother unfertilized, female equivalent of Black Brothers)
[JAE: Equation of Devil to Magician. 42 = 42-fold name of god from Sepher Pardes, 4=7 GD, letters of name diagrammed to 7 palaces. Wicked because formed from letters than began Creation, hence wicked]
BY 4 weapons he casts forth veil after veil, 1000 shining colors ripping and tearing aethyr. saws teeth
the mill in which Universal Substance (ether) is ground into matter. stench of human flesh and children's bowels thrust in his mouth.
Lilith = 480 = Malkuth of the 42-fold name in Yetzirah = Da'ath in plural. Woman of Night. Demons all created by nocturnal pollutions of Adam, those who have not consecrated themselves by right coitus,.
EVERY SEXUAL ACT PRODUCES ITS NATURAL EFFECT ON ALL PLANES, and all forms of spiritual experience may be obtained in this manner. A Child is always begotten on some plane or another.
black monkey crawling with filth.
"Kill me! Kill me!" (Fill me/Kill me?)
Lilith, so horrible, is a positive form created by Magus, whereas 333 is a breaking up of coherence. Mystery of Mysteries: Lilith = BABALON, as imagined by energy of Mayan.
[Beast/BABALON - Mayan{Ape of Thoth}/Lilith?]
Lilith as monkey = Cynocephalus, Ape of Thoth? [JAE y, or equated thereto]
Because the magician is veiled, if you try to look upon him you fall under the spell of Lilith. Her blasphemy = She has taken the name of LIL the first aethyr, put it on her brow, and added a Y and Th for the sign of the cross.
Squats on crucifix for her pleasure (Regan in the Exorcist)—so they that worship Christ sucks up her filth on their tongues (Peh?) and their breath stinks. (Christian obsessed w Mayan, sees love in this obscene form). [JAE also notes Exorcist thing. LIL + Yod (Phallus) + Tau (Cross)
Black sigil of shining triangle, upright (Binah) comes upon face of sun. Illusion of Lilith is destroyed, replaced by Malkah-Kore in Supernal colors. Malkah Kore will appear manifest in a certain office in Temple. (Crowley notes-Hilarion? Relates images here to known women later—the ones that assisted in his Magus initiation.)
Disk of sun as pair of balances, steady, green poisonous snake about central pole with long tongue rapidly darting.
Misericordia Dei - the Mercy of God - protects him from fully seeing aethyric vision. opened eye that shields you from vision of Magician.. you have endured by not being man(?) (convoluted Supernal logic) you can understand in two ways because he is dyad. 1 - Amalekites (destruction?) 2 - Beyond understanding (magus crowley says: cut to create instead of cut to destroy) - upright rather than averse, not known until wisdom informs understanding and a smooth point arises at base of supernal triangle (crowley: typical supernal logic)
[JAE: Function of Adept in world: Being neither Human, nor of the Supernals, but acting as an intermediary or unconscious transferer between them.]
[JAE: ALL of this before has been of Choronzon, possibly because Crowley flubbed this Aethyr by writing ZON instead of ZOM—hangover from ZAX? Is the Demon still with him? How much past ZAX is really Supernal and not just more Choronzonic illusions??]
Binah-Sinai
your mystery must match mystery of atheyr, and you must have silnce
give sign of mater triumphans, for babalon = fortress against abyss and beth that blocks her from crown.
You must be made one with CHAOS (Chokmah) in order to begin the last, terrible projection, 3fold regimen which alone constitutes the gReat Work. JAE: This is approach to Ipsissimus by Magus
333 is shell/excrement of the 3 supernal paths (Qlipha of Alpeh, Gimel, Beth, and the 8-headed serpent of the GD. Da'ath is NOT the child of Chokmah/Binah—it is the qlipha of the supernal paths. {TIPHARETH is child of Chokmah/Binah} Da'ath is the SEXUAL ACT which produces that child. [Hence "fornications" of Chaos and Babalon = Tiphareth/HGA? This ecstasy is the "ultimate abasement" of 333 (abases or is the abasement of???) against whom BABALON proves victorious]
Rosenroth (Mathers): (& etc.(
And when that stone 1 goeth forth there cometh a tempest and a storm upon the great sea 2 and its waters are troubled, and (their motion soundeth as) a voice, and they are heard by the great fish which is called Leviathan.
And this stone goeth forth, and is whirled onward in the current of the sea, and goeth forth thence; and this, is so great a blackness 3 that beside it all other blacknesses are as nought (otherwise, now it is withdrawn because all the other paths are hidden and enshrouded by it).
And such is the blackness of the black (part of) the eye, which includeth and concealeth all the remaining blacknesses; and about that blackness there is found a certain red thread (of colour) which surroundeth that blackness.
The third colour is the yellow of all yellows, which includeth and concealeth all other yellows, and in the circumference of that yellow there whirl around two threads (of colour), a red thread on the one direction, and a black thread in another direction; and they surround that yellow colour.
But when that white brilliance whirleth around it, and the eye flameth with that white brilliance, all those other colours are not at rest, and are submerged in the lowest depths thereof; the red, the yellow, and the black are not seen, only that white brilliance alone; which receiveth its light from Him, even from the Ancient of Days.
And from that (white brilliance) all the inferiors shine, neither is any colour seen save that white brilliance alone. And therefore are all the lords of redness and blackness, which are as it were twin (colours), displaced.
This is the same which is written, Cant. iv. 2: "Which go up from the washing, which are all twins."
What is this, "From the washing?" From that white brilliance of the excellent holy eye; for all are twins, the one (colour) is as the other.
Aethyr:
The vision is naught such that any can endure it (is this why I've been so blasted the last 3 days?)
Come back, give sign Mater Triumphans (Isis Rejoicing), call upon name CHAOS four times (four-fold world equal to the seven-fold word BABALON). (Biroco was right.)
New rendering of XOAS in Hebrew: KA'aOS = 156 = BABALON. (7=4 formula)
ARN
Comment: “The Understanding of the Curse, that is become a Blessing. The final reward of the Magister Templi, his marriage even with Babalon Herself. The paean thereof."
[Marriage with Babalon. Fuck. Angelina. Etc. IS my true error that I am confusing the terrestrial officers (Angelina, Season) with the Supernal deity? Very, very, very likely. Confusing the planes, bro. I've thought it before but is it here confirmed?]
[The vision of God face-to-face by 777]
[JAE: 251. ARN = Ark, of covenant. The Holy of Holies. With different pointings, ARN = cedar wood {clue to construction of Holy Table?}; wild goat]
Crowley: ARN= Nun Qoph Vau, 156, Babalon.
Babalon rides Beast (Vau).
[JAE: Built-up images at beginnings of Aethyrs are "admission badges" (a la G.'.D.'.), built up from the astrological images in each Aethyr name]
Assyrian woman with fish {Dagon? Fish gods? http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200248?seq=1#pagescantab_contents }, Eve and Serpent (Cain as child of Eve and Serpent, not Eve and Adam), when he had slain his brother, who was first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, Cain had mark on brow = mark of the Beast in Apocalypse, the third eye, pineal gland, eye of shiva, mark of initiation. God did not hear the children of Eve until blood was shed. (Bloody Sacirifice would be reprehensible if not for Theory of Evolution—you take in the karma of slain creature {Tibetan idea}. The most fortunate death for an animal which is of course doomed to death is the transfer of its prana in an actual ceremony or material basis of its karma in eating it at the table into a living organism of superior type. Do not let the prana escape.
Shedding of blood necessary = formula used to consecrate Tabernacle that house the ark.
Mystery of Sixth Key of Taro, called not the Lovers but the Brothers = God didn't listen to Cain until he had shed blood. [Also Bowman is Father Yod and the Man, Son, Vau; Women are Isis and Nephthys, H and H-final.... too elaborate for comment?]
Lovers:
Middle is Cain, right hand Hammer of Thor (swastika) with which he slew brother, wet w blood. Left hand open as sign of innocence. Right hand Eve, entiwned with serpent with hood behind her head. Left hand is figure like Kali, more seductive—Lilith. Above is sigil of arrow, downward, struck through heart of child—Abel—but also Seth, Set, Sol, Hadit. Abel's blood = seed of Seth. Abel = Baal.
Correct fable from which Fall was stolen.
The Apocalypse was piecework from various shits. And this is why the "end of the world" never appears.
Crow: "'Angels' who offer absurd theories about material affairs are false elementals who amuse themselves at the expense of the naivete of the would-be magician." Also, you can't make actual numeric IRL calculations from QBL - i.e. if somebody reigned 120,000 years, it means congruous w idea 120, on a grand scale (x 1000) - numbers as metaphorical language.
White rose. No more red roses, because she has crushed all the blood into her cup. {Crow says that at one time it seemed as if it were on the breast of a beautiful woman, but that idea had no subsistence. See my note at very beginning of aethyr. Terrestrial officers of "scarlet woman" are just women in the end.}
White rose in beak of swan Michaelangelo (? Leda and Swan?)
[Swan = Symbol of ecstasy. Paramhansa]
Crow at limit of powers, breaks, feeling fear.
Crowley can't go any farther because he's at his pain threshold.
You cannot feel imprint of her feet until your dust scatters earth, and you dare see her face!
White that contains all colors (Kether), yet other colors also seen directly along with white. "Hyperabyssic Logic." The color of anything is but its DULLNESS and OBSTRUCTIVENESS.
TRue light colorless so pure soul is black = absorb all of your projections into yourself so that you become black. Therefore you can infer the colorless light...(?)
Every idea merely marks where the mind is too stupid to see the light, and therefore obstructs it. (!!!!) Pure light is colorless; pure soul is black. (Maya.) = Mystery of incest of CHAOS with his daughter (Malkah-Kore). Samyama on this.
2nd Aethyr is so beyond conception that there is nothing in your mind into which it can cast conception, so pure it prevents formation of images, and hence is called darkness. Any lesser light reflects and causes "diverse palaces" (illusion)-ie in my Father's house (Bet) there are many mansions. Victory of Babalon over magician that ensorcelled her.
As Mother: 3 x 52 = 156 As Harlot: 6 x 26 = 156 As Pure Unity (as Tablet): 12 x 13 = 156 As victory over power of 4: 4 x 39 = 156 As destroyer of great Sorcerer: 2 x 78 = 156 ∑1-4 = 10, set her daughter upon her own throne and defile her own bed with her virginity
Rule of Contraries: Achad abused the hell out of it, leading to all of his errors.
[As I'm writing this I look at Reddit, and on front page somebody has announced a project to do art for fallen angels in Book of Enoch]
Crowley here gives an interpretation of Call 19 from the view of the Supernals.
Crowley: The call should read "For why, it rejoiceth me concerning the Virgin and the Man," but Kelley substituted a line from Genesis 6:7 and wrote "It repenteth me that I have made Man." Crowley says Kelley was block by his orthodox Christianity and Dee forced him to reject True Messengers (?), who "discourse implied antinomian Pantheism" (Casaubon p. 206, also:
Genesis 6:7King James Version (KJV)
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.) [This on the doctrine of Jesus not being God, etc.?]
19th Call reinterpreted as about a universe of joy and rapture and non-restriction - Thelema, each fulfilling its joy of function even "evil spirits", no arbitrary and ideal standard of what "ought to be"
Beginning Berashith with B instead of Aleph the blackest of black doctrines of black brothers (indeed.)
ARR = cursing
Once again mentioned that the stars are all letters of the Holy Alphabet.
[19th call not a curse but really a call of rejoicing at opening of 9th Aethyr and beyond].
IADNAMAD = eight letters, secret name of god (octinomos - baphomet?), letter cheth-aethyr 12
IADNAMAD in Hebrew = 111, Aleph
Aleph in "Alphabet of Arrows." [where is this from? Also corresponds to I Ching Hexagrams] {Characters represent direction of Will-energy in various shapes, rather than the nature of energy—Atziluth as Hexagrams are, perhaps, Briah. Is this in 776 1/2?} The characters are similar to and correspond to Enochian.
[Crowley was on top of the Hotel Royal in Biskra. Note the primary colors at least at present.]
Fire across body (kundalini phenomena—fire attribution of Chokmah/alphabet of arrows). Festering and rotting - burnt like Prometheus. [JAE: When Pingala is stronger current than Ida]
Uses sign of rending veil, to no avail. His senses give out & he is exhausted. He goes to hot springs.
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Black pyramid of Binah, androgynous phallic pyramid, unit of City below the night of Pan.
At the top is vesica pices... curves turned round to become Pisces
How can the Magister Templi, buried in the pyramids, behold that which descends unto the apex.
Above, the gemmed azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit. The winged globe, the starry blue, Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.
O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!
4 ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Δ PEACHES
Soft and hollow, how thou dost overcome the hard and full!
It dies, it gives itself; to Thee is the fruit!
Be thou the Bride; thou shalt be the Mother hereafter.
To all impressions thus. Let them not overcome thee; yet let them breed within thee. The least of the impressions, come to its perfection, is Pan.
Receive a thousand lovers; thou shalt bear but One Child.
This child shall be the heir of Fate the Father.
COMMENTARY (Δ)
Daleth is the Empress of the Tarot, the letter of Venus, and the title, Peaches, again refers to the Yoni.
The chapter is a counsel to accept all impressions; it is the formula of the Scarlet woman; but no impression must be allowed to dominate you, only to fructify you; just as the artist, seeing an object, does not worship it, but breeds a masterpiece from it. This process is exhibited as one aspect of the Great Work. The last two paragraphs may have some reference to the 13th Aethyr (see The Vision and The Voice).
15 ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΙΕ THE GUN-BARREL
Mighty and erect is this Will of mine, this Pyramid of fire whose summit is lost in Heaven. Upon it have I burned the corpse of my desires.
Mighty and erect is this Φαλλοσ of my Will. The seed thereof is That which I have borne within me from Eternity; and it is lost within the Body of Our Lady of the Stars.
I am not I; I am but an hollow tube to bring down Fire from Heaven.
Mighty and marvellous is this Weakness, this Heaven which draweth me into Her Womb, this Dome which hideth, which absorbeth, Me.
This is The Night wherein I am lost, the Love through which I am no longer I.
COMMENTARY (ΙΕ)
The card 15 in the Tarot is "The Devil", the mediaeval blind for Pan.
The title of the chapter refers to the Phallus, which is here identified with the will. The Greek word Πυραμισ has the same number as Φαλλοσ.
This chapter is quite clear, but one my remark in the last paragraph a reference to the nature of Samadhi.
As man loses his personality in physical love, so does the magician annihilate his divine personality in that which is beyond.
The formula of Samadhi is the same, from the lowest to the highest. The Rosy-Cross is the Universal Key. But, as one proceeds, the Cross becomes greater, until it is the Ace, the Rose, until it is the Word.
Motherhood symbol of masters. Virginity given up to be destroyed, seed lie hidden in then, nine moons wax and wane, surround with Universal Fluid. Fed with blood for fire. child lives. and then there is much suffering and joy, and then they are torn asunder, and this is all their thank, that they give it to suck
3 ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Γ THE OYSTER
The Brothers of A∴A∴ are one with the Mother of the Child.4
The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many. This is the Love of These; creation-parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition-dissolution is the Bliss of the Many.
The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss.
Naught is beyond Bliss.
The Man delights in uniting with the Woman; the Woman in parting from the Child.
The Brothers of A∴A∴ are Women: the Aspirants to A∴A∴ are Men.
COMMENTARY (Γ)
Gimel is the High Priestess of the Tarot. This chapter gives the initiated feminine point of view; it is therefore called the Oyster, a symbol of the Yoni. In Equinox X, The Temple of Solomon the King, it is explained how Masters of the Temple, or Brothers of A∴A∴ have changed the formula of their progress. These two formulae, Solve et Coagula, are now explained, and the universe is exhibited as the interplay between these two. This also explains the statement in Liber Legis I, 28-30.
Black Cross extending to top and edges of stone. [More Ma'at badge]
Black Triangle, apex downwards. In center, face of Typhon. lord of tempest. Despair! Despair! Deceive virgin, cahole mother, but what will you say to ancient whore throned in Eternity?
Flaming Sword that strikes the head of the serpent that raises to Da'ath.
You cant woo her with love because she is love (similar to logic used in ZAX) [Netzach] Not gold, because all have showered her w gold [Tiphareth] Not knowledge, because she has spurned knowledge [Da'ath] Not wit, because her lord is wit [Hod-Chokmah]
Creatures of water = evil, passivity/ activity of energy=idea of joy
great black rose, stalks the black snakes of hell. but a single thought informs so = hope.
medieval: sub rosa = beneath the rose, secret sub rosa nigra = beneath the black rose, really secret
156 black petals.
babalon breaks through.
Straining towards Nuit
A ka dua
Faluti x 2
Becomes Lucifer, Belilal, Satan as he is cast off from the Rose of Babalon as Qlipha
The truth of each grade is the falsehood of the next
AHA = 7 = Venus
Take form of Hadit before Nuit and sing A Ka Dua
Hadit as mathematical expression, not god.
Aethyr impenetrable
Voice of those in each grade is silence to the nxt lowest down.
Sight = Fire = 1st angle of Tablet [JAE: mistake - his intellect is flipping out; also experiencing cold kundalini flashes even as he is immersed in hot water] Hearing = Spirit = Center thereof
To hear voice of Aethyr, invoke it in the night, having no light but that of the half moon. Lay bear womb of understanding to violence of Chaos.
Aha x 7
Bathyllic language
Song of Sphinx, song of syrens. Whoever hears is lost (Diminished value of the rest of Crowley's life)
Song of OAI - mystical attainment - used in Liber Stellae Rubae
Babalon as feminine or Androgyne equivalent of Pan
Another language cometh (lots of languages emitting from Chokmah)
Babalon confers immortality.
Druid circle... Crowley is ravished and breaks trance.
DOING THE THING FOR THE THING'S SAKE IS CONCENTRATION. Al I:44 Pure will... this is the true Magick. Fath, kosher, lawful. Work vitiates an operation, paradoxically enough. [concentration = lose yourself in every impression. this concentrated surrendering - each experience becomes a sacrament]
Hundreds of visions, angel in each (he's tripping out)
Angel described.
Eagle swallows aethyr: THE HOUSE ALSO OF DEATH. white eagle of alchemists. mighty sounds entered into every angle.
They have awakened angels of aethyrs that have slept 300 years. Shin = resurrection
[JAE: 300 year cycles. 1312 - knights templar disbanded, de molay burned. 1604 - fama fraternitas written, published 1612. 1904 - legis written, published 1912.
2nd triad complete. Only Heru-Ra-Ha remains. (Child of suffering, osiris / father of justice, maat) Voice of Atehyr ends never, as N is final letter, N = AUMGN, N= Scorpio, Sexual Immortality, Perfection through Putrefaction
[hriliu in greek = 156]
LIL
Comment: “The final manifestation. All leads up to the Crowned Child, Horus, the Lord of the New Aeon."
LIL: 76, secret, refuge. Heb: 70, Eye of Horus
Chariot/Art: Liber Samekh and Liber Cheth, Angel and Abyss, primary instructions
Liber Tav: Aleph, Cheth, Samekh in row.
LIL also = night in Hebrew
LIL = 66 [!] if you take L's as gimels, but abandoned later on (huh?) 70 = sod, secret of mysteries
66 = ∑1-11 = Aleph, path Aleph.
opening is prayer from 2nd point 5=6 ceremony
IAIDA = The Highest (not Most High?)
It would take an Ipsissimus to truly hack LIL.
Peace. NO tendency of any sort. Whole night of space with no dawn (NOX).
Little child covered with lillies and roses [roses!!!] supported by myriads of Archangels, colorless brilliance, each blind, legions upon legions. sigil of Beast on his forehead. all spriitual and physical senses fail.
Sigil of Beast = moon & sun conjoined. Sigma + Theta (Shin + Teth), force and fire, hieroglyph for "Set.", and by qbl 9 chambers = 93. This was also on Aiwass and on the Beast in visions
rapture beyond ananda.
Great and terrible angel, HGA, comes in, blinding him from vision in sleep.
gone up to child led by two angels abasing his head. Child described in "Garden of Janus"
xXIV
More; in this journey I had clean forgotten The quest, my lover. But the tomb Of all these thoughts, the rancid and the rotten, Proved in the end to be my womb Wherein my Lord and lover had begotten A little child To drive me, laughing lion, into the wanton wild!
XXV
This child hath not one hair upon his head, But he hath wings instead of ears. No eyes hath he, but all his light is shed Within him on the ordered sphere Of nature that he hideth; and in stead Of mouth he hath One minute point of jet; silence, the lightning path!
XXVI
Also his nostrils are shut up; for he Hath not the need of any breath; Nor can the curtain of eternity Cover that head with life or death. So all his body, a slim almond-tree, Knoweth no bough Nor branch nor twig nor bud, from never until now.
XXVII
This thought I bred within my bowels, I am. I am in him, as he in me; And like a satyr ravishing a lamb So either seems, or as the sea Swallows the whale that swallows it, the ram Beats its own head Upon the city walls, that fall as it falls dead.
every volition inhibited
child danceth not because he is the soul of the dances. dew on all fire, every drop a quintessence of ecstasy of stars.
led to him prostrating 7 times every step
child of all who is father of all, from me come forth all things that I might be. fountain of snows eternal sea lover beloved first-fruits of their love first faint shuddering of light loom wherein night weaves impenetrable veil
captain of hosts of eternity, e v w and w v e = I am Peace
all things, all things. Alpha and Omega.
non-dual: light, night, war, pace, weakness, strength, that which is beyond [5 triads = Geburah?]
You have all powers of Sephira and Paths.
3, 4 times holy are thou, not by favor or magick alone is this won. "Unto the persevering mortal the blessed Immortals are swift."
PERSEVERENCE IS ALL.
Essentially: "You're a made man."
[JAE: Ultimate protective spell: Harpocrates is invulnerable to all harm—this frictionless going is to know and do one's own true will]
Your enemies will be brought to serve you and you will feast at the Supernal banquet
I am the Crowned and Conquering Child whom thou knewest NOT!
Pass to the Cubical Altar of the Universe, receive every tribe/kingdom/nation into mighty Order that reacheth from the frontier fortresses that guard the Uttermost Abyss unto My Throne (Supernals to Da'ath).
This is formula of Aeon.
LIL = LAMP OF INVISIBLE LIGHT. [LIL, Mexico, was where Crowley began the visions] [Experiment of having ever-burning lamp in temple with elemental, planetary, zodiacal talismans, daily invocations, making it a consecrated center of spiritual energy.]
LIL = Kether and Aleph
The end.