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…utline of the General Relativity Theory. See Works Cited.] 2 Eddington, op. cit., p. 158. 3 [Grk., lit. “comb,” meaning “vulva.”] Why is Nuit restricted to two dimensions? We usually think of 1=28 space as a sphere. “None” — “and two”: extension and potenti ality are Her only projections of Naught. It is strange, by the way, to find that modern mathematics says “Spherical space is not very easy to imagine”1 2 and prefers to attribute a geometrical form whose resemblance to the kteis3 is most striking. For Nuit is, philosophically speaking, the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 60
…y of lawful means, there is one end held lawful, and no more than one. The act has only one legitimate object: it must be performed unto Nuit. Further reflec tion reassures us to some extent, not directly, in the manner of the jurist, but indirectly, by calling our attention to the facts of Nature which underlie the ethics of the question. Nuit is that from which we have come, that to which we must return. Evasion of the issue is no more possible than was alternation of the ante cedent. From Nuit we received this talisman, which conveys our p…
1996 · PDF PAGE 86
The Second Chapter 1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit. Commentary: We see again set forth the complementary character of Nuit and Hadit. Nu conceals Had because He is Everywhere in the Infinite, and She manifests Him for the same reason. (See verse 3.) Every Individual manifests the Whole; and the Whole conceals every Individual. The Soul interprets the Uni verse; and the Universe veils the Soul. Nature understands Herself by becoming self-conscious in Her units; and the Consciousness loses its sense of separateness by dissolution in Her. There has be…
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100 The Law is for All the fulfilment of the Magical Formula of Hadit and Nuit. And to know Nuit is the very definition of “joy.” The next verse confirms this: “thou” (the Beast) “wast the knower” (Hadit) “and” (united with) “me” (Nuit, as in Cap. I, verse 51 and others). Finally, Nuit is indicated by two different symbols, “not” (Grk. OY) and “me” (Grk. MH). Now OY MH was my Motto in the Grade of Adeptus Exemptus; Aiwaz thus subtly reminds me that I was pledged to deny the assertions of my intellectual and moral consciousness. He combines in t…
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…inciple of Motion which is every where, yet is not extended in any dimension except as it chances to combine with the “Matter” which is Nuit. There can evidently be no manifestation apart from this conjunction. A “Khabs” or Star is apparently any nucleus where this conjunction has taken place. The real philosophical difficulty about this cosmogony is not concerned with any particular equation, or even with the Original Equation. We can understand x = ab, x1 = a^b^ etc.; and also 0° = pa + qb, whether pa - qb = 0 or not. But we ask how the homo…
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The Tirst Chapter 1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit. Commentary: The theogony of our Law is entirely scientific. Nuit is Matter, Hadit is Motion, in their full physical sense.1 They are the tao and te of Chinese Philosophy; or, to put it very simply, the Noun and Verb in grammar. Our central Truth—beyond other philosophies—is that these two infinities cannot exist apart. This extensive subject must be studied in our other writings, nota bly Berashith, my own Magical Diaries, especially those of 1919, 1920 and 1921,1 2 and The Book of Wisdom or…
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Chapter I * Verses 10—26 35 14. 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! 15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 198
1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit. 2. The unveiling of the company of heaven. 3. Every man and every woman is a star. 4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference. 5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men! 6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue! 7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar- kraat. 8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs. 9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you! 10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule …
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…r, verse 13, “thou” (i.e. the Beast, who is here the Mask, or “persona,” of Hadit) “wast the knower”. Hadit possesses the power to know, Nuit that of being known. Nuit is not unconnected with the idea of nibbana, the “Shoreless Sea,” in which Knowledge is Not. Hadit is hidden in Nuit, and knows Her, She being an object of knowledge; but He is not knowable, for He is merely that part of Her which She formulates in order that She may be known. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be p…
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…shipper. Commentary: Harpocrates is also the Dwarf-Soul, the Secret Self of every man, the Serpent with the Lion’s Head. Now Hadit knows Nuit by virtue of his “Going” or “Love.” It is therefore wrong to worship Hadit; one is to be Hadit, and worship Her. This is clear even from His instruction “To worship me” in verse 22 of this chapter. Confer Cap. I, v. 9. We are exhorted to offer ourselves unto Nuit, pilgrims to all her temples. It is bad Magick to admit that one is other than One’s inmost self. One should plunge passionately into every poss…
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…ervants”; perhaps those who, worshipping the Khabs, have beheld Her light shed over them. Such persons indeed consummate the marriage of Nuit and Hadit in them selves; in that case they are aware of certain Ways to Power. There is also a mystical sense in this verse. We are to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. 12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take yo…
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…is for All A Paraphrase of the Inscriptions upon the Obverse of the Stèle of Revealing 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-f-n-Khonsu. I am the Lord of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veilèd sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God,…
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…am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. 65. To me! To me! 66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.
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28 The Law is for All 5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men! Commentary: Here Nuit appeals, simply and directly, recog nizing the separate function of each Star of her Body. Though all is One, each part of that One has its own special work, each Star its particular Orbit. In addressing me as warrior lord of Thebes, it appears as if She perceived a certain continuity or identity of myself with Ankh-f-n- khonsu, whose Stele is the Link with Antiquity of this Revela tion.1 See Equinox 1(7), pp. 363-400,…
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…or love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. 27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! 28. None, breathed the …
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…re as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no differ ence made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all! 24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty. 25. Divide, add, …
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…rally and spiritually. Experi ence teaches that passions thus employed do serve to refine and to exalt the whole being of man or woman. Nuit indicates the sole condition: “But always unto me.” The epicure is not a monster of gluttony, nor the amateur of Beethoven a “degenerate” from the “normal” man whose only music is the tom-tom. So also the poisons which shock the bourgeois are not indulgences, but purifications; the brute whose furtive lust demands that he be drunk and in darkness that he may surrender to his shame, and that he lie about i…
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…es a state wherein “thou knewest not.” By “knewest” we may under stand the function of Hadit, intellectually and conjugally united with Nuit.2 And “not” is Nuit, as in Cap. I. Now this idea explains that the arising “of me” (Hadit) “in Thee” (the Beast) is 1 [“Because” is however clearly capitalized in both the ms. as well as the text of Liber CCXX as edited by Crowley.] 1:26 11:12
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…is Bride are they: and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. Commentary: There are to be no regular temples of Nuit and Hadit, for They are incommensurables and absolutes. Our reli gion therefore, for the People, is the Cult of the Sun, who is our particular star of the Body of Nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of Him, and all our Light and Life. His vice-regent and representative in the ani mal kingdom is His cognate symbol the Phallus, representing Love and Liberty…
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…the Power to Go; and it suggests the Rosy Cross, the Fulfilment of Love, by its shape. The Wheel and the Circle are evidently symbols of Nuit; this sentence insists upon the conception of liriga-yoni. But beyond the obvious relation, we observe two geometrical definitions. The axle is a cylinder set perpendicularly to the plane of the wheel; thus Hadit supplies the third dimension to Nuit. It suggests that Matter is to be conceived as two-dimensional; that is, perhaps, as possessed of two qualities, extension and potentiality. To these Hadit br…