“The Hebrews say that by uttering this Name the
universe is destroyed. This statement means the same
as that of the Hindus, that the effective utterance of
the name of Shiva would cause him to awake, and so
destroy the universe.”

-Liber XXXCCCIII, comment on Psalm LXXII

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This is an examination of the parable of the Addar from A True and Faithful Relation, in the context of the reception of the Watchtowers and the morality put forth by the angels. This parable is particularly meaningful because of the timing of the working in which it occurs. It is, in a sense, the beginning of the end for Dee and Kelley. It also ( Read more... )

“Every letter signifieth the member of the sub-stance whereof it speaketh. Every word signifieth the quiddity of the substance. The Letters are separated, and in confusion : and therefore, are by numbers gathered together : which also gathered signife a number : for as every greater containeth his lesser, so are the secret unknown forms of ( Read more... )

In the cry of ZON, the angel identifies four Great Devils that trouble mankind by assuming the identity (and, one would presume, imagery and iconography) of four great religious figures.  I’d like to look at some of the implications of that in the No God But Man thread.  Specifically, we’ll start with Jesus.  We are told by the angel of ZON that ( Read more... )

In the No God but Man thread I’ve talked quite a bit about the idea from Liber 418 that adepts are the children of Eve and the Serpent, and not Eve and Adam. This analysis has focused on the fathership of the serpent far more than the mother, Eve. This post will look more closely at Eve, and study her role in the practice of true Gnosticism.

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The four horsemen are a microcosmic image of the larger process of the apocalypse in the Book of Revelations, which mirrors the procession from Serpent, to Savior, to Conqueror, the formula fulfilled by and integrated into Thelema. Fortunately for us, some of the spiritual concepts that are intrinsically tied to the Greek language can make this ( Read more... )

God is seeking God.  God aspires unto God.  God asks the question and God provides the answer.  God makes the sacrifice, God is the sacrifice, and God descends from heaven to receive the sacrifice.  God sings hymns unto the glory of God, and God blasphemes the name of God to appease his God.  God worships God.  God mocks God.  God pours blood down ( Read more... )

“The existence of Evil is fatal to philosophy, so long as it is supposed to be independent of conditions.”

- Aleister Crowley

So what are the conditions of evil?

“I should not be surprised if evil entered the world with man, for he is the only reality which presents this unstable ontological constitution of being both greater and lesser than himself.”

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