7.4

Crowley's Thelemic Revelation

140-4

"Grant [1977, p. 259] maintains that the name "Babalon" means "Gateway of the Sun ..."". {This would be contrarywise to Akkadian Bab-ilu 'Gate of a god'.}

{If metaphoric, /sun/ could for for 'illuminator', hence 'manifester' etc. /<aluna/ is (A-ED, p. 746a) 'to manifest, reveal, publicize, promulgate'; while /<alo^n/ is (H-ED, p. 254) 'bulletin, tabloid'.}

{Now, as for "mystery, Babulon the Great" (Apokalupsis of Ioannes 17:5) : (in 18:21,) this Babulon is hurled "into the sea".}

{For the Kogi (of Colombia), the similar world /aluna/ is 'thought' : "In the beginning, there was blackness. ... The sea was memory and potential. She was aluna." ("AKWHW") Could a black-feminine sun long remain submerged in a primaeval sea?}

"the prince-general The Beast, and ... The Scarlet Woman ... :

{cf. Quetzal-coatl & Quetzal-petlatl -- as 'Pretious Mat' she is paralleled in Korean myth}

they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. [p. 257, n. 7:27 : "stanzas I:15 and 16 of Liber Al vel Lexis, in the appendix to J. Symonds and K. Grant, eds., The Magical Record of the Beast 666 (London ... 1972), 303."] {This may (in the Dead Sea Scrolls) be deemed "the final battle" (Allen 1990, p. 911).} {Possible allusion to noticeable similarities in the War of the Roses (between dynasty of Lancaster and dynasty of York) to the "Flowery Wars" waged by Aztecs for purpose of devouring ("swallowed up") of human flesh in the aftermaths?} ...

{cf. the sacred heart (with its "rose", "N7S", for crown-of-thorns) of Quetzal-coatl's becoming morning-star Tlahuizcalpan-tecuhtli (with likewise similar Californian Indian myths of devouring of divine heart, not to mention the myth of the heart of Zagreus) : "I will give him the morning star" (Apokalupsis of Ioannes 2:28) of matutinal stellar glow (i.e., Crowley's "glory"), so that ("WhIMS") "the Lord’s people will partake of his victory “glow” in the heavenly realm." Thus, the divine rose-glow is originated in the spirah /Ns.ah./ -- of No^gah (planet "Venus", "N7S") -- 'Victory', wherein (1st Epistole to the Korinthioi 15:54) "Death is swallowed up" (cf. Ys^a<yah 25:8) -- "Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli descending into the jaws" ("ASS", p. 75a) in CBM, p. 19 (lower registre), or into the jawed cuauhxicalli-vessel (H&EAM, plate 1) in CBM, p. 29. Therewith, (Thilli^m "46:8") "the Lord-of-Hosts (or "Master of Legions" YHWH S.ba>o^t, "N7S") is with us, the God of Ya<qob" : for ("DBPM"), "a star shall come out of Ya<qob" (B-Midbar 24:17) -- "a star from the seed" (JMDT cvi) --, the sceptre "between his feet" (B-Re>s^it 49:10), even "under his feet" (1st Epistole to the Korinthioi 15:25) when Death be "destroyed" (15:26).}

For he is ever a sun and she a moon."

{"Tonatiuh, the Central Mexican sun god, and a starry sky" are depicted in the same scene at Culhuacan ("ASS", p. 71a), to indicate a sun (as yet unrisen?) who can be "the glory of the stars".}

commencement

#

deity

humanity

"matriarchy"

1st

Isis

woman

c. 500 B.Chr.E.

2nd

Osiris

man

1904 Chr.E.

3rd

Horos

child

[Liber Al vel Legis III:51-52 -- quoted in Symonds & Grant 1972, p. 314] "With my Hawk's head, ... I peck ... . I flap my wings ... ."

[Liber Al vel Legis III:44-45 -- quoted in Symonds & Grant 1972, p. 314] "Let her be loud and adulterous; ... and let her be shameless before all men."

"Crowley ... would spend much of his life from this time onward seeking ... concubines who could act as his Divine Whore. ... there were many who filled the role temporarily."

[quoted from Grant 1972, p. 45] "The Beast, as the embodiment of the Logos ... symbolically and actually incarnates his Word each time a sacramental act of sexual congress occurs, i.e., each time love is made under Will."

"In sexual congress each coition is a sacrament of virtue ... . ... Because of the sacramental nature of the act, each union must be magically directed ...

the ritual must be directed to the transfinite and non-individualised consciousness represented by Egyptian Nuit".

{Goddess NW-t is depicted occupying "the interior of the ... lid on the sarcophagus of", e.g. , a king of the 21st dynasty at Tanis (DEG&G, s.v. "Nut", 3 "As Funerary Deity", p. 146), in imitation the myth of her (as sky-goddess) lying atop the body of her husband earth-god GBB for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with him.} {Earlier, "goddess Nut from the interior of of the sarcophagus lid of 19th Dynasty king" (SC).}

p. 143

[Liber AL vel Legis III:23, quoted in Symonds & Grant 1972, p. 311] "mix meal and honey ... : then oil of Abramelin and olive oil, and afterward ... rich fresh blood ... of the moon, monthly".

p. 144

"The magical elixir itself consisted of the "ingredients" of sexual congress itself : semen from the male, gluten from the woman's vagina, and preferably fresh menstrual blood, as specified in stanza 24 of Book III of Liber AL vel Legis. These ingredients were included in

the preparation of the "cakes of lights",

{"accompanying a variety of hieroglyphs for light ... presentations of conical bread-cakes were apparent in the Serâbît wall carvings." ("LSSA")} {"modern Isiacs can do the same—perhaps by lighting candles and even putting them on a birthday cake for Her" ("FLI").}

which were then consumed by participants as a ritual offering to Ra-Hoor-Khuit {R<-H.R-H^W-t}. It is clear that ... the magical elixir ... is later referred to as "the germ of life" in The Book of the Unveiling of Sangraal -- part of the "Secret Instruction of the Nin[e]th Degree" in the O.T.O., which Crowley was able to gradually transform into a Thelemite order after joining it in 1910."

"Now then, entering the privy chapel ["the vagina"], do thou

bestow at least one hour in adoration {kissing?} at the altar {clitoris?} ... .

{"Extended foreplay is very important for high states of arousal." (LLIO)} {"The Star Sapphire requires cunnilingus" (LLIO).}

Then do thou perform the Sacrifice of the Mass {orgasm}.

{"outwardly directed current (the Higher Mass) is Magical in nature being present in the seminal discharge." (LLIO)}

The Elixir ["a mixture of semen and female {Bartholin gland} secretions"] being then prepared solemnly

{"The Elixir is created ... . (LLIO)}

and in silence,

{"This poem speaks of ... silence" (LLIO).}

do thou consume it utterly."

{"The two drops are commingled and ingested immediately" (LLIO).}

7.5

Magical Will and the Senses

144-5

p. 144

"In Crowley's essay ... published in 1889, specific mention is made of ... the physical senses. ...

p. 145

[quoted from Crowley, 1889, p. 16] ... the series of ... operations of ceremonial Magic ... consist of

(1) Sight : The circle, square, triangle ... . {seeing their shapes}

(2) Sound : The invocations.

(3) Smell : The perfumes.

(4) Taste : The Sacraments {Eucharist, when comested}.

(5) Touch : ["robes, implements, etc."] {feeling their texture}

"The ritual magician's vestments, and also the motifs mounted upon the wall of the Temple, are intended to ... help consolidate the spiritual connection with the gods and goddesses to whom the ritual is addressed."

"Incense and perfumes are used to increase ... rapport with a specific deity within the magical cosmology."

7.6

Power of the Sacred Name

145-6

"Crowley ... writes [1929, p. 43] : "Every true name of God gives the formula of the invocation of that God."

"According to the Ethiopian Gnostic text {Lepepa S.edeq},

God created Himself

{Though this, if taken literally, is absurd, yet it replicateth the "self-generable" (FFF, p. 207) aiones (category of deity) in Peratic theology.}

and the Universe through the utterance of His own name, and therefore [Budge 1929, p. 3] "the Name of God was the essence of God [and] was not only the source of His power but also this seat of His very Life, and was to all intents and purposes His Soul."

"the deceased newcomer to

the Hall of Maat

{goddess ML<-t ('Truth') : aequivalent to Valentinian goddess A-letheia}

(Hall of Judgement) says to the presiding deity Osiris : [Budge 1929, p. 4] "I know thee. I know thy name. I know the names of the two-and-forty gods who are with thee.""

[quoted from Budge 1929, p. 4 : "the knowledge of the name of a god enabled a man

not only to free himself from the power of that god,

{assuming that the god is harmful and detrimental to humans (similar to the government of TL-MRJ)}

but to use that name as a means of obtaining what he wanted without considering the god's will."

{assuming that the god would not otherwise gracefully grant whatever boon may be craved -- "Ask, it shall be given you; ... knock, and it shall be opened unto you" (Matthaios 7:7; Loukas 11:9)}