Liber AL analysis
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First of all, how about using this thread in the future for this subject as an easy accessible source? Or maybe it would be better to use the some thread already posted with this intention? Just a suggestion.
My specific question concerns the Nuit chapter of the book and the lines that go like this:- I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.
- Divide, add, multiply, and understand.
I have read some analyses on this around the web, but not enough to find one that did exactly as it says: first, the digits are 6, then 50, so I take that to mean that when they are operated with each other, the origo around which the other spins is 6, so it's something like the square in the circle to my mind. If we divide we get 0,12, then add 50 and it's 50,12 which is again multiplied with 50 to give us 2506. If I analyze this like Crowley seemed to have done according to an excerpt from what I suppose is his comment, I take the 2 and 0 to be the 2 = 0 equation, and 5 & 6 to represent 5 = human* and 6 = the connection between human and God or perhaps you prefer the designation Nuit. They are also set up so that one half of the one equation doesn't touch the other and are therefore separated, so in order to come out of the creative process of duality and go back into unity it seems one has to transcend logic, something that naturally seems like the Great Work in this context.
- Is this a thought any of you experts would agree with: the Hierophant represents kindness and some kind of forgiving nature that exists as the natural state of mind void of irrational desires which are diverging from the star's (Khabs's) orbit. In that case I see the connection between 5 = human and 5 = Atu V, if that represents "being human to the full extent of the word".
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" the Hierophant represents kindness and some kind of forgiving nature that exists as the natural state of mind void of irrational desires which are diverging from the star's (Khabs's) orbit. In that case I see the connection between 5 = human and 5 = Atu V, if that represents "being human to the full extent of the word"."
Yes, nicely said. On the tree it connects Wisdom to Mercy, and Chesed is the place of the Masters of Compassion.
www.byzant.com/Mystical/Kabbalah/Sefira.aspx?number=4.
Interesting Tzadkiel the archangel, which reminds me of the internal stars of the Tzaddi, and the Chasmalim which are the Brillant Ones (stars?).
Every man and every woman is a star, correct?In L.V.X.,
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Yes, thanks for the cofnirmation, Chris! Nice little site there too.
