14 August (Spirit) Liber LXV, 5:7
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7. My prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. Thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with somewhat that hath no name. For it is as the abyss of the Arcanum that is opened in the secret Place of Silence.
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7. My prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. Thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with somewhat that hath no name. For it is as the abyss of the Arcanum that is opened in the secret Place of Silence.
Intense!
Brushing aside the prophetic innuendo, there are some other symbolic suggestions I can grab hold of, easier to swallow.
Maidens equates with phases of the moon, as Diana and Artemis are the maidens, and they become pregnant with the light of the sun, or with bright babes. Related to this thought is the attribution of Khonsu as a lunar god, and Crowley identified himself as the reincarnated scribe—Ank-af-na-Khonsu!
Hoor then, who is who we are talking about, is revealed as the solar deity he is, making bright the moon. And this chapter is centered on Tiphareth, which is an expanded thought from something Jim said during the last chapter about the elements of previous chapters referring to the four lower sephiroth.
If there was any doubt, pride and abasement are both attributed to Tiphareth. And the idea that enlightenment, another association of Tiphareth, enhances or balloons all previous qualities! Hence pride becomes infinite, and/or abasement becomes an ecstasy...
In the last clause—all this shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with somewhat that hath no name. For it is as the abyss of the Arcanum that is opened in the secret Place of Silence—I read the promise of crossing the abyss implied in the K&C of the HGA. The Place of Silence being an obvious reference to Binah.
...all this shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with somewhat that hath no name suggests a couple of possible takes. The one I prefer has to do with the a simple substitution:
Known = the Conscious mind
Unknown = the Unconscious
...somewhat that hath no name = the consciousness, if we can call it that, that exists in Samadhi...In other words, the initial experience of Tiphareth, Briah based consciousness, is the deal. Its maturation results in the crossing of the Abyss...
Love and Will
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7. My prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. Thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the Known and the Unknown with somewhat that hath no name. For it is as the abyss of the Arcanum that is opened in the secret Place of Silence.
To me, this verse speaks of the True Will being acted out in the proper expression, and that all True WIlls are pure and equal. For the proud ones, infinite reward in expression...for the humble ones, infinite reward in expression -- each according to their true nature. I try to look at this in the light of the Chapter of Spirit -- the coordinator of All.
This transcends all reason and non-reason (Known and Unknown -- finite and infinite) in the completion of the desire and the desired. To echo Robert, this seems to fit well with unconscious and conscious realizations when united.
The True Will is to be found in Silence. Silence is fostered out of training. The 'abyss of the Arcanum' is opened through this Silence, and could be considered the freedom that is realized in the void where "self" was once thought to be.