The Starry Gnosis

The half that the Jews have includes a record of the original testimony of the stars, known to the ancient Chaldean and Babylonian astronomers. This is at the core of the Qabalistic mystery. Adam, Seth, Enoch, Abel & Cain, Abraham; these were all important historical figures whom would be claimed as their own by a Rabbinical usurpation of the Hebrew tradition. They would ultimately create a nation called Judea and mythologized as Israel. The Rabbinal uprising was set in motion by Hebrew clerics with more politically oriented goals. They would build a tradition that fosters an idea of Israel as the chosen state and the Jews as the chosen people of Jehovah. But Israel, Isis-Ra-El was actually known to the original Hebrew priests as the sky itself with its moon and sun and the ‘Universal Mind’ that was God (El).

It’s become clear to anthropologists that Akhenaten was the exiled Egyptian king whom would become known to the Jews (a renegade Egyptian sect) as Moses (the Pharoah was the historical ‘messah’ or ‘sacred dragon’ as per the Starry Gnosis) as they settled in the region of ancient Greece; later known as Heliopolis. The Rabbis essentially completely changed the nature of the oral tradition that they practiced by re-writing the Torah and committing it to ‘canon’ in order to suit their political ambition. This required an interpretation of the text by way of Talmudic law, which ultimately served to turn the attention away from the Starry Gnosis and towards secular authority that claimed a divine right to rule by force. There are known to exist, some fragments of documents that have survived yet really don’t contribute too much to any further exegesis about this once very living theurgy as it existed up to this point in history.

Adam Kadmon as the archetypal human is a reflection of ‘Universal Mind’ and thus intimately connected with the stars in the heavens. He is a reflection of what the Gnostics would later call the Pleroma. From this evolves a race of beings that has a bloodline that the Hebrews would call the ‘House of David’ and the ‘Inheritance of Abraham’, known also to the renegade tribe that would later become known as the Arab line after the Rabbinical usurpation. But the record of the stars and its heritage also moves to the East and into India as an ancient prophecy of human evolution.

Ancient prophets revealed the Starry Gnosis by drawing signs and constellations around a carefully measured sky. They calculated an ecliptic based on what Pythagorus would later bring to us as Geometry. This ring in the sky included twelve signs with three constellations or decans for each along the path of the Sun as it was measured in relation to the north pole of the earth. Each of these constellations told a story of its own nature with the Sun, Moon, Seven Sacred Planets along with other Fixed Stars of the stationary Sidereal Zodiac transiting through them in the more fluid Tropical Zodiac. But the stories of the constellations were told by the meanings of principle stars included in them.

This knowledge was received by the ‘First Ones’ who would originate a lineage that has now become known as the Great White Brotherhood. This has come through prophecy by a priestly class of holy men, about whom some say are the Nephilim, these enigmatic beings of light were the benefactors of a ‘Starry Gnosis’. These were the ‘Sons of God’ or evolved beings who had ‘become’ or evolved to a higher development in their starry nature. Indeed, they were the stars communicating directly with humanity and living amongst us as a primordial race. But much of their now extinct history has been lost to time. Still, Starry Gnosis is known through the ancient Mesopotamic cultures and is even hidden in the religions of the present day. Bullinger’s The Witness of the Stars along with Frances Rolleston’s Mazzaroth provides a thorough compendium of this ancient knowledge as developed below and developed in relation to that Gnosis that Aleister Crowley appended and furthered in his facilitation of the energies of the present aeon or manifestation of this Gnosis.

The Starry Gnosis seems also to be at least a reference source for Zecharia Sitchin’s and Sir Laurence Gardner’s research as the unique work of these two separate theorists certainly stems from the same paradigm, revealed through Hebrew, Egyptian, Chaldean and Arabic scripture. And this exegesis clearly has a message that is playing itself out in our present time and into the future as well as the past. The unfolding of the revelation of this science is made possible by the fact that we ourselves are also the stuff that stars are made of. Our electro-magnetic relationship as a race to the very stars in the sky that we see at night is intimately integrated and potently plays itself out in human history.

Therefore, true prophecy is the revelation of the impending and unfolding Gnosis told in a sky, which is of the body of the Pleroma or the ‘Universal Mind’. Its earliest prophets were the mathematicians and astronomers, philosophers and artists. As per Liber AL vel Legis, the Hebrews called it 61; the Master, Lord, Adon; the Sun or Aten. But they would begin to reduce the Pleroma to an anthropomorphic god as they began to discover the personality of this ‘Universal Mind’ through the discourse of their prophets. This would easily be perverted by politically motivated Rabbis whom would then turn the Adon into the jealous and turbulent Jehovah.

"Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen." AL I.46

These Gnostics that came together through the Roman conquest of Greece and Jerusalem and even Egypt would rediscover the Starry Gnosis; finding it also encoded into Hebrew scripture. And new prophecy was emerging across the cultural lines of these diverse groups now under Roman conquest. The Arabs would later, also pull together a strong nation from this Gnosis into the time when Europe was entering the ‘Dark Ages’. Yet they also would succumb to this decadent process that seems a natural tendency in human affairs. This Second Testament that initially restored a living theurgical culture to these people along with the early Gnostic Christians was later distorted for political purposes by a corrupted group of statesmen-clerics; Constantine and Iraneus for the Christians and the immediate successors of Mohammed for the Arabs. This sets up an astral force in the field of human consciousness, that becomes an egregore as it coalesces and takes on its own power; manifesting as a vampiric shell and holds a yoke over its creators; humanity itself.

The Gnostics would conceptualize this egregore as having taken on a personality to eclipse that of the Pleroma and they would call this being the ‘demiurge’. Its envoys were called ‘Archons’. They also recognized that the political corruption of these clerics is supported by this psychic force, which is capable of hiding the true starry gnosis from the human race. The force and auger of its personality insulates our lower astral bodies from contact with the electro-magnetic menstruum that is the ‘Cosmic Mind’ of the Pleroma…its Logos. This corrupt psychic current is termed by Thelemites as ‘Christism’ with its emissaries as ‘dupes of the Black Lodge’. The demiurge would then be as aspect of Choronzon as the great confounder, the false god and destroyer.

Thelemic prophecy holds the Pleroma as 8 or the number of the Abra-Melin sub-princes whom are the servants of Orion (Light breaking forth in the Redeemer) or the stars found in the first constellation of Taurus. 80 is also integral in this prophecy and denotes the Hebrew word for union, suggesting a union with the Holy Guardian Angel or Redeemer and with 418 (indicative of ‘The Great Work’) also being integral, and which completes this idea as it’s the value of the Hebrew letters in the translation of the English phrase: “The Word of the Aeon” (which is as Abrahadabra a union of two equivalent hierarchies; ‘abra and abra’ surrounding ‘had’ or even ‘al and la’ surrounding ‘sht’; the formula of Lashtal) and is then a direct allusion to the Universal Mind or Pleroma.

"Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.” AL I.46

Our antediluvian ancestors bring us from antiquity, the Zodiac and the names for all the signs and constellations. This is factually beyond dispute and remains in every celestial atlas to this day. Prophecy involves learning to read this message in the skies as other moving bodies transit through it (planets and most importantly, the cherubic stars also known as the ‘Watchers’) and the fixed bodies themselves angling to differing locations on the earth in relation to the Precession of the Equinox and the earth’s dynamic relationship with the course of the Sun along the ecliptic as well as the Sun, Moon and planets in their orbit. The names themselves tell the story and the principal stars of each sign and constellation provide the details for this epic myth.

So the prophets are the ‘mouth’ (Peh-Tower of Babel) that utters the ‘Logos’ of the stars by which the sonnets of the Pleroma are sung to human race. We are the stuff that stars are made of and the stars in the sky reveal to us the story of our own journey of becoming; realized by virtue of our identification with and connection to the Pleroma. That means, we are the ‘Universal Mind’ becoming aware of itself in its constant becoming, which happens through our own evolving nature. The first half of David’s 19^th Psalm sums up this harmonic relationship quite eloquently:

The second half of the psalm radically departs from the tone of the first. In the first, we see essentially the poetic rendering of a solar worship in an astrological revelation. The second half is far more austere and righteous. It is suggested in Bullinger’s work that this psalm might have been a collation of two separate fragments of ancient Hebrew literature. We can see quite clearly, the change of tone in the remaining verses that reflects the changing of the Hebrews cultural allegiance from the Adon to Jehovah.

In this second half, they are ruled by the Lord and submit to him, fear him and need to make effort to please him. The sun in the heavens has been anthropomorphosized to a violent, angry and vindictive god that demands adulation and capitulation to its laws. And as supplicants to this ‘Christism’, their descendants to this day, are kept from the knowledge of their starry nature. The story is not any different for the Christians and Muslims, just the cultures are different. Ultimately, we come to the revelation of Liber AL vel Legis to bring again, new prophecy of the ancient and future Gnosis.

That this Starry Gnosis was known throughout all the world was eloquently delineated by Bullinger:

“If we turn to history and tradition, we are at once met with the fact that the Twelve Signs are the same, both as to the meaning of their names and as to their order in all the ancient nations of the world. The Chinese, Chaldean, and Egyptian records to back to more than 2,000 years BC. Indeed, the Zodiacs in the Temples of Denderah and Esneh, in Egypt, are doubtless copies of Zodiacs still more ancient, which, from internal evidence, must be placed nearly 4,000 BC, when the summer solstice was in Leo.”

“Josephus hands down to us what he gives as the traditions of his own nation, corroborated by his reference to eight ancient Gentile authorities, whose works are lost. He says that they all assert that ‘God gave the antediluvians such long life that they might perfect those things which they had invented in astronomy.’ Cassini commences his History of Astronomy by saying ‘It is impossible to doubt that astronomy was invented from the beginning of the world; history, profane as well as sacred, testifies to this truth.’ Nouet, a French astronomer, infers that the Egyptian Astronomy must have arisen 5,4000 BC!”

“Ancient Persian and Arabian traditions ascribe its invention to Adam, Seth, and Enoch. Josephus asserts that it originated in the family of Seth; and he says that the children of Seth, and especially Adam, Seth, and Enoch, that their revelation might not be lost as to the two coming judgments of Water and Fire, made two pillars (one of brick, the other of stone), describing the whole of the predictions of the stars upon them, and in case the brick pillar should be destroyed by the flood, the stone would preserve the revelation (Book 1, chapters 1-3).”

One problem with the interpretation of ancient philosophy today is that the presumption is that it must somehow be closer to the truth. In my study of the Starry Gnosis, I've come to see how that ancient story of the stars has always been interpreted in the midst of unfolding events within other prevailing paradigms that are as much socio-cultural-political as they are egocentrically based from religion to religion and state to state. But the story of the Stars overall reveals a dynamic Alchemical interplay of a man destroying a woman and a woman destroying a man and the serpent consistently appearing between them. It starts with Orion and ends with the revelation of the Cross, switching a plane to the Watcher Stars.

The correlation of particular stars as outlined in the study of Parans and Heliacal Risings in Astrology with relations between fixed stars both of the Watcher class and of those particularly indicative of specific constellations, reveals the synchronistic correlations that the ancients wrote to suit paradigms that they already had set in to place from their evolving mythology. For example, the Sethians and Christians read a 'Redeemer' motif into the stars to reflect their concept of the earth as dark, frozen and ugly with a spark of light trapped and in need of rescue before a human being could be 'saved'. Or the later Apocalyptics with their theology and the visionary way they presented their prophecy that was very shamanistic.

Modern events can also be interpreted. And it seems necessary to restructure the story of the stars to suit our own paradigms. If we accept the theorum that the three prophecied temples have their play in the script in the sky, and we accept that these temples were seen by different cultures in different ways. In particular, the Jews egocentricity saw specific buildings housing the Ark of the Covenant. But in this theorum, we're going to accept the idea that Egypt, Rome and the United States of America are those three temples. And further, we'll accept that there's no specific time date for the Age of Aquarius to have started. For the Rosicrucians, that age started in 1602ev and for others its still 300 years away.

This then is a view we could only possibly have at this time. Even such seeming brilliant prophets as Nostradamus could not really see what we are capable of seeing. But he could read those special movements of the stars (eclipses and sunspots as well for that matter) and developed a sensitivity to the astral plane through this work. Yet his prophecy reveals itself to us as the events they portain to unfold. This is not unlike interpreting as astrological chart or doing a Tarot card reading, it's just taking place on a higher plane, prophecy as contrasted with divination.

Now, as time is cyclic as well as linear, we have the circle squared; as per AL III.47

"This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all.

Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be his child & that strangely. Let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it."

Because of the cyclic nature of things, we can take these ancient prophecies and assume that they have relevance today, “Jesus is coming [in an Apocalypse]”, the newage predicts that humanity is somehow going to evolve on a mass scale, et al. But this is all fantasy based on ancient myth. And it is not today, reasonable to make such an assumption based on what seems the prevalence of the Judeo-Christian 20th Centuryev thought, which is the myth of our day, yet a dead myth. The living mythology is in the 'Marlboro Man' and 'Go West Young Man', the 'Rugged Individualist' and 'Social Darwinism', Technology and a dream of the Stars and of Egalitarianism. That's the living myth.

There may be many other components that the reader might come up with, but if you read the stars as an Alchemical Gnosis with that man and woman appearing repeatedly in the sky and killing each other (le petit morte) and in light of the Emerald Tablet that conceals this Gnosis, the Stars become a living seed, a eucharist. The other theme is in the serpents that enshroud the whole sky, forming the Egg within which the dwells the Serpent-Seed, the rod or branch that is the L.V.X. And the interplay of above and below needs to be told in the light of the ‘Now’. From this wisdom should spring. We are at a time where the new religions are being invented; those interesting times of an ancient curse.

Remember, we are the stuff stars are made of. We move our consciousness towards the contemplation of the Starry Gnosis. We develop the practices of our asana and the study of the Holy Books. Then we work the real energy manipulation of the Star Ruby, Liber Reguli, HHH, Resh and Will and build to the point of raising the Kundalini. We learn to sensitize ourselves and gain the power to feel it physically, handle it emotionally and intellectually as well as enrich the electro-magnetic menstruum that provides the Khu for our Khabs. From this, we are closer to the stars in actuality, burning brighter like the 'brightly shining ones', the 'Nephilim'. and we begin to attain the Starry Gnosis; the Knowledge & Conversation of our Holy Guardian Angel.

Crowley’s prophecy of the Starry Gnosis includes more than Liber AL vel Legis as it is further revealed in The Vision and the Voice and The Book of Thoth. But to be able to recognize this fact we need to learn for ourselves, the story of the stars. This starts with the four Cherubic Stars; Aldebaran, Regulus, Antares and Fomalhaut. Their primary importance over the other ‘fixed’ stars is due to the fact that at the time of the initial revelation, fixed in the Age of Taurus, they rose heliacally with the Sun at the four Cardinal points of the seasons, both Equinoxes and Solstices. As well, they form a ‘Grand Cross’ in the sky and they are identified in the sky as follows:

These Cherubic Stars have been anthropomorphosized as the Archangels by the Hebrews and characterized as the four horsemen of the Apocalypse in the New Testament as well as being considered the living part of the Holy Tarot (the Major Arcana). Their portents in the sky not only mark the calendar but provide insight into the nature of events in human society as they travel through the Zodiac. Other important fixed stars include: Altair, Pollux, Capella, Spica, Arcturus, Sirius, Serpentis, Betelgeuse and Rigel. As per the Cherubic Stars, their names are derived from the constellations that they are found in. The effect that these stars have on human events has been encoded into the Major Arcana of the Tarot and is dynamic in nature. Crowley writes:

"These twenty-two cards acquire a personality of their own: a very curious personality. It would be quite wrong to say that they represent a complete universe. They do not seem essential factors in the structure of the universe. They change from time to time in their relation to current events." And he also writes: "They are rather hieroglyphs of peculiar mysteries connected with each. One may begin to suspect that the Tarot is not a mere straight forward representation of the Universe in the impersonal way of the system of the Yi King. The Tarot is beginning to look like Propaganda. It is as if the Secret Chiefs of the Great Order, which is the guardian of the destinies of the human race, had wished to put forward certain particular aspects of the Universe; to establish certain especial doctrines; to declare certain modes of working, proper to the existing political situations.

The constellations themselves are composed of stars of differing magnitudes of brightness, which are classified as (a) for brightest and with the subsequent gradations corresponding to the ensuing letters of the alphabet. We are concerned with those brightest stars as their names provide the meaning for the particular constellation that they are found in. But before we can list them we have to understand the central secret of the Starry Gnosis. This is known as the riddle of the Sphinx and is solved by understanding that the woman’s head on the lion’s body indicates that the Zodiacal wheel begins with the constellation of Virgo and ends with Leo. We learn this immediately with the 30^th Enochian Aethyr as per Liber CDXVIII (which is inserted below with my comments).

The attributions of the three letters in order are Leo, Virgo and Spirit.  It’s apparent t

hat this aethyr is revealing the ancient ’Riddle of the Sphinx’ unto the Prophet.

I AM in a vast crystal cube in the form of the Great God Harpocrates.

This cube is surrounded by a sphere.

About me are four archangels in  black robes, their wings and armour

lined out in white.  In the North is a book on whose back and front are

A.M.B.Z. in Enochian characters.
These four Enochian characters are each attributed to one of the four Cherubic signs;

Taurus, Aquarius, Aries and Leo, respectively.

The robed archangels are the four Guardians; the four Watchers; the Nephilim or

Secret Chiefs.

Within it is written:

I AM, the surrounding of the four.  Lift up your heads, O Houses of Eternity:

for my Father goeth forth to  judge the World.  One Light, let it become a

thousand, and one sword ten  thousand, that no man hide him from my

Father's eye in the Day of Judgment  of my God.  Let the Gods hide

themselves:  let the Angels be troubled and  flee away: for the Eye of My

Father is open, and the Book of the Aeons is  fallen.

As shall be shown below, we have an astrological assertion that the new (mundane)

aeon has begun.  And Bullinger faithfully preserves the data of the ancient Starry

Gnosis; though in his comments he clings to the sophistry of the Roman Heresy.  Here,

we have the judgment at the start of this new aeon; that the old gods are no longer

viable.  Translated into what can be observed, notice how in the 20th Century ev

(the astrological start of this new aeon), our religious institutions have begun to fail a

growing number in human society.  This is said by the Pleroma that is even greater

than the four Watchers, Lucifer-the Light Bringer.

Arise!  Arise!  Arise!  Let the Light of the Sight of Time be extinguished: let

the Darkness cover all things:  for my Father goeth forth to seek a spouse

to replace her who is fallen and defiled.

The seed is that which cometh from Our Lady Babalon and the Cup of her fornication.

Seal the book with the seals of the Stars Concealed: for the Rivers  have

rushed together and the Name IHVH is broken in a thousand pieces

(against the Cubic Stone).

This is a prophecy to overthrow the demiurge Jehovah (IHVH)

Tremble ye, O Pillars of the Universe, for Eternity is in travail of a Terrible

Child; she shall bring forth an universe of Darkness, whence shall leap

forth a spark that shall put his father to flight.

And the Son awakens the Eld of the older King.  The spark is Lucifer Rising as the

Terrible Child issued from the Dark Goddess.  The issue is of revenge and not

redemption as per the old aeon.

The Obelisks are broken; the stars have rushed together: the Light hath

plunged into the Abyss:  the Heavens are mixed with Hell.  My Father shall

not hear their Noise:  His ears are closed:  His eyes  are covered with the

clouds of Night.

The demiurge managed to steal a small piece of the universe to aggrandize its wicked nature and has hidden it from the eyes and ears of the Pleroma of which we are. It has blinded us. This shall be avenged…and the truth is revealed by the stars themselves in the Night Sky are difficult to interpret as Choronzon has confounded them. As per Liber AL vel Legis: "Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand." AL III.71

The End!  the End!  the End:  For the Eye of Shiva He hath opened:  the

Universe is naked before Him:  for the Aeon of Saturn leaneth toward the

Bosom of Death.

The Aeon of Saturn would be the Aeon of Ma’at that is to come.  But the error that alone

can prevent this happened when the Hebrews forsook the Adon in fear of the

destructive (Shiva) jealousy of Jehovah (Saturn).  Therefore, the modern revelation is

to correct that error.

The Angel of the East hath a book of red written in letters of Blue

A.B.F.M.A. in Enochian.  The Book grows before my eyes and filleth the

Whole Heaven.  Within:  "It is Written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy

God."

The attributions of these Enochian letters are in order:  Taurus, Aries, Cauda

Draconis, Aquarius, Taurus.  I think a key to understanding this vision is to note that

the book fills the ‘Whole Heaven’ and is therefore circular; beginning and ending with

Taurus as per the R.O.T.A. or T.A.R.O.  Thus, the stellar mysteries that were known in

the aeons of Taurus and Aries were trodden on (the meaning of the word Draco; dragon

or fallen one) in Pisces only to be restored in the present Aeon of Aquarius.  But there

is a hint of a two-fold nature to the revelation of these mysteries as there are two

inaugural constellations; Taurus and Aries.  This may be a reference to pre and post

deluge.

I see above the Book a multitude of white-robed Ones from whom

droppeth a great rain of Blood; but above them is a Golden Sun, having an

eye, whence a great Light.

The Gnostic Mass makes the following conjuration:  Let the light crystallize itself in

thy blood, fulfilling us of resurrection.  So we find here a restoration of the ancient

Typhonian formula of the Cult of Shaitan.  Cf.  Scholion for Liber Sameck.

I turned me to the South: and read therein:

Seal up the Book!  Speak not that which thou seest and reveal it unto

none: for the ear is not framed that shall hear it: nor the tongue that can

speak it!

This is the ineffable mystery that must be sung to the heart that is Ra Hoor Khu.

     O Lord God, blessed, blessed, blessed be Thou for ever!

     Thy Shadow is as great Light.

     Thy Name is as the Breath of Love across all Worlds.

     (A vast Svastika is shewn unto me behind the Angel with the Book.)

     Rend your garments, O ye clouds!  Uncover yourselves!  for the Love of

         My Son!

     Who are they that trouble thee?

     Who are they that slew thee?

This seems an overt reference to the mythical story of the Zodiac as will be shown

below.  For the Sons of Light were defeated and need to be avenged.

      O Light!  Come thou, who art joined with me to bruise the Dragon's

      head. We, who are wedded, and the Earth perceiveth it not!

Those who don’t look to the Starry Gnosis will not be able to recognize the destruction

of the Destroyer when the hour comes.  They are distracted by the weak joys of

mundane life and hold themselves in blindness.

     O that Our Bed were seen of Men, that they might rejoice in My

     Fertility: that My Sister might partake of My Great Light.

     O Light of God, when wilt thou find the heart of man --- write not!  I

     would not that men know the Sorrow of my Heart, Amen!

In Egypt, it was the political cult of Amen that exiled the cult of the Aten (the Adon)

failing the ordeal as later did the Hebrews; whom descended from

them.  Thus Amen is the “Sorrow of my Heart”.

I turned me to the West, and the Archangel bore a flaming Book,

on which was written AN in Enochian.  Within was drawn a fiery scorpion,

yet cold withal.

The formula of ON (AN)  is the formula of the crystallization of the light in the blood.

And it pertains to the mystery of sex (Scorpio) and the paradox of the cold passion that

is central to the nature of the formula.

     Until the Book of the East be opened!

     Until the hour sound!

     Until the Voice vibrate!

     Until it pierce my Depth;

     Look not on High!

     Look not Beneath!

     For thou wilt find a life which is as Death:  or a Death which should

       be infinite.

     For Thou art submitted to the Four: Five thou shalt find, but Seven is

      lone and far.

     O Lord God, let Thy Spirit hither unto me!

     For I am lost in the night of infinite pain:  no hope:  no God:  no

       resurrection:  no end:  I fall:  I fear.

The South book is open, the ancient religion of the desert Cult of Shaitan.  But there

comes to us the Cult of the Sun, the Cult of the Adon, which had failed to flourish in

the time of the great Egyptian empire and their spawn, the Hebrews.

     O Saviour of the World, bruise Thou my Head with Thy foot to save the

       world, that once again I touch Him whom I slew, that in my death I feel

       the  radiance and the heat of the moving of Thy Robes!

     Let us alone!  What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth?

     Go!  Go!

Crowley wrote very aptly: “ Jesus is a Black God”.  And rightly so as Jesus is not ‘of

us’; Children of the Light.

     If I keep silence --- Or if I speak each word is anguish without hope.

     And I heard the Aethyr cry aloud "Return!  Return!   Return!  For the

work is ended; and the Book is shut; and let the glory be to God the

Blessed for ever in the Aeons, Amen."  Thus far is the voice of TEX and no

more.

The attributions of these two letters are to Pisces and Sagittarius, respectively.  As the

Sagittarian is about getting to the 'truth', thus the lie of the Aeon of Osiris is to be

corrected.  Crowley skryed these two aethyrs in Mexico in 1900ev.  This is almost four

years before he would receive Liber AL vel Legis.  He would do the remainder in

Algeria in 1909ev; more than five years after his reception of The Book of the Law.  But

what is really fascinating is that in both places, he was in a desert under the night sky.

This method of prophecy involves direct communication with the stars.  Just knowing

the names of the constellations won’t do at all.

The sky appears covered with stars of gold; the background is of green.

But the impression is also of darkness.  An immense eagle-angel is before

me.  His wings seem to hide all the Heaven.

This seems like a perfect description of the Hawk-headed, Mystical Lord; Horus.  That

his nemyss shrouds the night sky (as per AL) points to the idea that he comes to

interrupt the wickedness of the earth that evolved during the aeon as it capitulated to

the demiurge.

He cried aloud saying:  The Voice of the Lord upon the Waters:  the Terror

of God upon Mankind.  The voice of the Lord maketh the Skies to tremble:

the Stars are troubled: the Aires fall.  The First Voice Speaketh and saith:

Cursed, cursed be the Earth, for her iniquity is great.  Oh Lord!  Let Thy

Mercy be lost in the great Deep!  Open thine eyes of Flame and Light, O

God, upon the wicked!  Lighten thine Eyes!  The Clamour of Thy Voice, let

it smite down the Mountains!  Let us not see it!  Cover we our eyes, lest

we see the End of Man.  Close we our ears, lest we hear the cry of Woman.

This woman is Babalon also known as Gaia.  She has returned to wickedness in toying

with old sweetnesses.  This can certainly be seen as relating to the symbolism of Eve

tempting Adam in the Garden of Eden.  There was no error committed in eating the fruit

of the Tree of Life.  The error was in failing to take responsibility for that and trying to

turn the Adon into a consoler god.

Let none speak of it: let none write it: I, I am troubled, my eyes are moist

with dews of terror:  surely the Bitterness of Death is past.

Death is the symbol of the mystery of Initiation in the Aeon of Pisces.  Horus is

declaring this to be abrogate.  But he has not yet conquered these forces as he would

later claim when Liber AL is transmitted to the Prophet.

And I turned me to the South and lo!  a great lion as wounded and

perplexed.  He cried: I have conquered!  Let the Sons of Earth keep

silence; for my Name is become as That of Death!  When will men learn the

Mysteries of Creation?  How much more those of the Dissolution (and the

Pang of Fire)?

The Watcher of the South, Fomalhaut, is the Fish; primary symbol of the Aeon of Pisces

and the region of the desert Cult of Shaitan.  But these mysteries have been perverted

by politicians who sold out the earth to the demiurgic forces.  Therefore, it has become

nigh, impossible for humanity to learn about the Mysteries of Creation.

I turned me to the West and there was a great Bull; White with horns of

White and Black and Gold.  His mouth was scarlet and his eyes as

Sapphire stones.  With a great sword he shore the skies asunder, and amid

the silver flashes of the steel grew lightnings and deep clouds of Indigo.

It is interesting to note that Aldebaran is the red star in the eye of the bull.  Here, the

Watcher of the East appears in his full glory…but in the West?  It seems the order of

the Temple, once located in the East is now to find its place in the West.

He spake:  It is finished!  My mother hath unveiled herself!  My sister hath

violated herself!  The life of things hath disclosed its Mystery.  The work

of the Moon is done!  Motion is ended for ever!  Clipped are the eagle's

wings: but my Shoulders have not lost their strength.

Note that later in The Book of the Law, Ra Hoor Khuit becomes the vigor of the arms;

bearing the strength of the shoulders.  The gods are no longer to fly in myth, but to

wield swords in actuality.  They are no longer to be volatile; ignoring the events of

the earth.  But they are fixed or even transfixed as they are above the sight in the

ultra-violet and lower astral.  The Eagle is of course, the Watcher of the West;

Antares.

I heard a Great Voice from above crying:  Thou liest!  For the Volatile hath

indeed fixed itself; but it hath arisen above thy sight.  The World is desert:

but the Abodes of the House of my Father are peopled; and His Throne is

crusted over with white Brilliant Stars, a lustre of bright gems.

This is as much an allusion the East, the place of Sol that all the other stars are

crushed into.

In the North is a Man upon a Great Horse, having a Scourge and Balances

in his hand (or a long spear glitters at his back or in his hand).  He is

clothed in black velvet and his face is stern and terrible.

A man upon a horse here…a woman upon a lion in another place.  It seems these are

two aspects of the one Watcher of the North; Regulus.

He spake saying: I have judged!  It is the end:  the gate of the beginning.

Look in the Beneath and thou shalt see a new world!

A new order of the Temple.

I looked and saw a great abyss and a dark funnel of whirling waters or

fixed airs, wherein were cities and monsters and trees and atoms and

mountains and little flames (being souls) and all the material of an

universe.  And all are sucked down one by one, as necessity hath ordained.  For below is a glittering

jewelled globe of gold and azure, set in a World of Stars.

And there came a Voice from the Abyss, saying: "Thou seest the Current

of Destiny!  Canst thou change one atom in its path?  I am Destiny.  Dost

thou think to control me?  for who can move my course?"

What is ordained in the Stars will come to pass.  Though we can alter our own

individual destinies, the Will of God has also its own fiat.

And there falleth a thunderbolt therein: a catastrophe of explosion: and

all is shattered.  And I saw above me a Vast Arm reach down, dark and

terrible, and a voice cried:  I AM ETERNITY.

And a great mingled cry arose:  "No!  no!  no!  All is changed; all is

confounded; naught is ordered:  the white is stained with blood:  the black

is kissed of the Christ!  Return!  Return!  It is a new chaos that thou findest

here: chaos for thee: for us it is the skeleton of a New Truth!"

The changing of the guard; the old aeon dying with the new one birthing, brings with it

its new order.  And in order to establish this, the old order must be confounded.

I said:  Tell me this truth: for I have conjured ye by the Mighty Names of

God, the which ye cannot but obey.

The voice said:  Light is consumed as a child in the Womb of its Mother to

develop itself anew.  But pain and sorrow infinite, and darkness are

invoked.  For this child riseth up within his Mother and doth crucify

himself within her bosom.  He extendeth his arms in the arms of his

Mother and the Light becometh fivefold.

Lux in Luce,

Christus in Cruce;

Tarot and Mezla.

Deo Duce

Sempiterno.

And be the glory for ever and ever unto the Most High God, Amen!

Then I returned within my body, giving glory unto the Lord of Light and of

the Darkness.  In Saecula Saeculorum.  Amen!

(On composing myself to sleep, I was shewn an extremely brilliant

[Daleth]  in the Character of the Passing of the River, in an egg of white

light.  And I take this as the best of Omens.  The letter was extremely

vivid and indeed apparently physical.  Almost a Dhyana.)

Daleth is the door, which has been opened.  And the story of the Stars is now made

available to the Prophet.

This constellation is drawn as a woman holding a branch in her right hand and two ears of corn in her left hand. The Hebrew name for this Sign is ‘Bethulah’, meaning ‘a virgin’ and which in Arabic, means ‘branch’. The Arabic name is actually ‘Sunbula’, which mean