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…kind, and its “unveiling” is the assertion of the independent godhead of every man and every woman! Further, as Khabs1 (see verse 8) is “Star,” there is a further meaning; this Book is to reveal the Secret Self of a man, i.e. to initiate him. 1 [Usually khaib in modern Egyptian transliteration.] 2 [A Crowley diary from 1919 e.v.; the relevant passage is quoted on p. 26.] 3. Every man and every woman is a star. Commentary: This thesis is fully treated in The Book of Wisdom or Folly. Its main statement is that each human being is an Element of th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 26
… from “The Book of the Great Auk.” See also The Book ofThoth, pp. 15-16, and Part III of Book 4, Parts I-IV, rev. ed., p. 248n.] 2 [The “Star-Sponge” Vision was usually characterized by Crowley as “Nothingness with Twinkles”; see p. 79.] 3 [A lake in Bristol, New Hampshire.] 4 [A lengthy technical commentary to this verse, omitted by Dr. Wilkin son, is given as Appendix B in 777 Revised (1955); see Works Cited.] 4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference. Commentary: This is a great and holy mystery. Although each star has its own num…
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
…he Earth, seeking (in its Error, that feareth Change) a new Tabernacle in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this Wholeness suffereth Stress, and its Girders are loosened, the weaker first, and a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 128
…as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. Commentary: Again we learn the permanence of the Nature of a Star. We are not to judge by temporary circumstances, but to penetrate to the True Nature. It has naturally been objected by economists that our Law, in declaring every man and every woman to be a star, reduces society to its elements, and makes hierarchy or even democracy impos sible. The view is superficial. Each star has a function in its galaxy proper to its own nature. Much mischief has come from our ign…
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
…of expression on whatever plane, are totally immaterial to the Magical import of the act. Each person is responsible to himself, being a star, to travel in his own orbit, composed of his own elements, to shine with his own light, with the colour proper to his own nature, to revolve and to rush with his own inherent motion, and to maintain his own relation with his own galaxy in its own place in the Universe. His existence is his sole and sufficient justification for his own matter and manner. 2. His only possible error is to withdraw himself fr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
…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, for the account of this event.1 2 1 [Ankh-f-n-khonsu (Ankhefen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 301
…113 Spain 188 Spanish Civil War 188 Spencer, Herbert 145 sperm 67,69,103 as semen 171-172 Sphinx, powers of the 127,174 spiritualism 126 Star (Atu XVII) 78 “Star-Sponge” Vision 27,79-83,88,89 Stèle of Revealing 28,156,157-161 paraphrased 35,165,192-193 Stevenson, Robert Louis 45 Straits of Gibraltar 188 subconscious 54,66,97,117,118,161 sulphur 69 Sunday, Billy 110 Symonds, John Addington 52 Syrinx 152 tabus 43,57,62,128,180 Ta Chi 44 Tahuti 124 talisman (sex-magical) 60-62,66-69 tao 23,171 Taormina 110 Tarot 21,29,30,78,138,144,183 te 23,171 t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 86
…t been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House. Commentary: Khabs—“a star”—is an unit of Nuit, and therefore Nuit Herself. This doctrine is enormously difficult of apprehension, even after these many years of study. Hadit is the “core of every star”, verse 6. He is thus the Imper sonal Identity within the Individuality of “every man and every woman”. 1:3 87
1996 · PDF PAGE 102
Chapter II * Verses 20-21 103 Hadit calls himself the Star, the Star being the Unit of the Macrocosm; and the Snake, the Snake being the symbol of Going or Love, and the Chariot of Life. He is Harpocrates, the Dwarf- Soul, the Spermatozoon of all Life, as one may phrase it. The Sun, etc., are the external manifestations or Vestures of this Soul, as a Man is the Garment of an actual Spermatozoon, the Tree sprung of that Seed, with power to multiply and to perpetuate that particular Nature, though without necessary consciousness of what is happen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…hands full! Woman will save herself if she be but left alone to do it. I see it! I, the Beast, who have seen—who see—Space splendid with stars; who have seen—who see—the Body of our Lady Nuit, all-pervading; and therein swallowed up, to have found—to find—no soul that is not wholly of Her. Woman! thou drawest us upward and onward for ever; and every woman is one among women, of Woman; one star of Her stars. 1 See “Liber D” [§206]. I see thee, Woman, thou standest alone, High Priestess art thou unto Love at the Altar of Life. And Man is the Vict…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…es as base beings, without whose sphere is Light or “God.” Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within. The uninitiate is a “Dark Star,” and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by “puri fying” them. This “purification” is really “simplification”; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principally in the solution of complexes. Everything in itself is perfect, but when things are muddled, they become “evil.” (This will be understood bett…
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…n in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial of our Bodily Death. We are then to make our whole Engine the true and real Appurte nance of our Force, without Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even a Machine propelled by a Man’s Feet, becometh as it were an Extension of the Rider, through his Skill and Custom. Thus let thy Star have profit of thy Vehicle, as…
1996 · PDF PAGE 79
…sentence with the exclamation “But what Twinkles!” The next stage of this vision led to an identification of the blazing points with the stars of the firmament, with ideas, souls, etc. I perceived also that each star was connected by a ray of light with each other star. In the world of ideas, each thought possessed a necessary relation with each other thought; each such relation is of course a thought in itself; each such ray is itself a star. It is here that logical difficulty first presents itself. The seer has a direct perception of infinite…
1996 · PDF PAGE 172
…r self of himself, his consubstantial complement even as Earth is to the Sun. We of Thelema say that “Every man and every woman is a 1:3 star.” We do not fool and flatter women; we do not despise and abuse them. To us a woman is Herself, absolute, original, inde pendent, free, self-justified, exactly as a man is. We dare not thwart Her Going, Goddess she! We arrogate no right upon Her will; we claim not to deflect Her development, to dispose of Her desires, or to determine Her destiny. She is Her own sole arbiter; we ask no more than to supply…
1996 · PDF PAGE 210
… 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. 79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!
1996 · PDF PAGE 77
78 The Law is for All Pageant of Triumph as each Star, free from Confusion, sweepeth free in its right Orbit; all Heaven acclaimeth thee as thou goest, transcendental in Joy and in Splendour; and thy Light is as a Beacon to them that Wander afar, strayed in the Night. Amount The “old comment” covers the rest of this verse sufficiently for the present purpose.2 I see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to “the wise”; others will hardly understand my explanations. Tzaddi [H] is the letter of “The Emperor,” the Trump IV, and he [H] is “The …
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…at “The length of thy longing” varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. In other words, the more complex the Khu of the Star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his own imperfections of the scope of his work, and of his need to achieve it. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 76. 4638ABK24ALGMOR3YX24 89RPSTOV A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
… circumference, is nowhere found. Commentary: This is again interesting as throwing light on the thesis: “Every man and every woman is a star.” There is no place soever that is not a Centre of Light. This Truth is to be realized by direct perception, not merely by intellection. It is axiomatic; it cannot be demonstrated. It is to be assimilated by experience of the Vision of the “Star-Sponge.” 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. Commentary: See later, verse 13, “thou” (i.e. the Beast, who is here the Mask, or “persona,” of Hadit) “wast the kno…
1996 · PDF PAGE 87
…nces can the nature of these truths be realized. It is indeed a supra-rational experience not dissimilar to those characteristic of the “Star-Sponge” Vision previously described1 that can help us here. The trouble is that the truth itself is unfitted to the dualistic reason of “normal” man kind. Hadit seems to be the principle 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 Sta…
1996 · PDF PAGE 78
…e that Our Lady describes Her hair as “the trees of Eternity” because of the tree-like structure of the Cosmos. This is observed in the “Star-Sponge” Vision. I must explain this by giving a comparatively full account of this vision. The “Star-Sponge” Vision There is a vision of a peculiar character which has been of cardinal importance in my interior life, and to which con stant reference is made in my magical diaries. So far as I know, there is no extant description of this vision anywhere, and I was surprised on looking through my records to…