Coph Nia
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Can anyone give me a definition or description of this? (AL 3:72)
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From my diary...
...this Wand is "the wand of the Force of Coph Nia." What is this? Crowley originally missed the words during the dictation. It was Rose who later wrote in, "Force of Coph Nia." Regardie pointed out that this bears a strange relationship to Ain Soph - the old Greek "S" looks like "C" - as though someone who had never seen Hebrew psychically saw AYN SVPh, understanding intuitively the import of the letters, but getting forward-backward all mixed up,. Okay, I thought, that might be plausible. But the idea only works if we can explain why a Greek-style letter - "C," not "S" - was used. Why not "Soph Nia?" Well, I thought, maybe this was to cue us to interpret it in Greek. Okay, so we have a "Double Wand of Power," which might be the "wand of the Limitless Force" =- Ain Soph means "limitless" - if we can only figure why we are cued to Greek. The answer is immediately obvious on adding it up:
COPh NIA = 831
831 is the value of the Greek word PhALLOS, phallus. The "Double Wand of Power," the "Wand of the Limitless Force," is the "Wand of the Force of the Phallus."
831 is also Greek for "pyramid," and the value of Aleph spelled in full.
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93, I did not come to so well a researched conclusion, relying mainly on meditation,etc. From my diary:as One, the Three, the Trinity of Thelema gives us a complete of the All. Here we find the Double-Wanded Magus; for on one hand we have Negative Existence, and yet on the other hand is Positive Existence. I somewhat they this as the true Great Pyramid--The base being infinite, the apex being infinitely tall. *can't say if I'm close or not. I appreciate the more studied view though. I've been unable to find this in any text thus far.
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@FiliusBeastia said
"93, I did not come to so well a researched conclusion, relying mainly on meditation,etc. From my diary:as One, the Three, the Trinity of Thelema gives us a complete of the All. Here we find the Double-Wanded Magus; for on one hand we have Negative Existence, and yet on the other hand is Positive Existence. I somewhat they this as the true Great Pyramid--The base being infinite, the apex being infinitely tall. *can't say if I'm close or not. I appreciate the more studied view though. I've been unable to find this in any text thus far."
So essentially the double wand represents power of the pairs of opposites? How esoteric.
IAO131
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93, Not saying that is it's only meaning, or even its meaning at all; but that is the conclusion I came to at this point. But it feels not whole, so I thought I'd ask openly. I am unsure exactly how to take it. To me, I saw it as two ends, we call Positive and Negative. Can't say much else.
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Thanks so much for this Jim! It makes perfect sense! Fascinating.
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This one is still nagging at me
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The Greek connection in Rose's use of the letter C is further cemented and elaborated upon by the Linear A inscriptions discovered at Knossos in Crete, which mention the goddess Nia, who is regarded as consonant with Neith and Nut/Nuit.
And as Nuit adjures us "Nothing is a secret key to this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it (AIN); I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen." Thus AIN/NIA are to be identified with the goddess. "I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia--but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains." Nought indeed - the Return we all seek after! The Force is that of the Limitless Nothing, Nuit.
The Greek Isopsephia of Coph Nia = 831 = phallos is particularly eye opening as it reinforces the double wand symbolism as the magickal weapon of this Limitless Force. I believe Paul Foster Case was right on the money in his Wand image for the BOTA Tarot, with a clear rhomboid crystal on one end and a black one on the the other, and all of the allusions to the Union of Opposites it engenders.