Why did Crowley ignore the (2nd?) call of AIWASS
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from the wikipedia page on AC:
Elaine Simpson ... a fellow occultist who had been his colleague in the Golden Dawn ... fascinated by The Book of the Law and the prophetic message that it contained, something he had been ignoring, and together they performed a ritual to invoke Aiwass once more. The ritual proved successful, and Aiwass provided Crowley with the message that he should "Return to Egypt, with same surroundings. There I will give thee signs." Nonetheless,** Crowley ignored the advice of Aiwass**, instead heading off to America.
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Stopping off at the Japanese port of Kobe along the way, Crowley had a vision which he interpreted as meaning that the great spiritual beings known as the Secret Chiefs had admitted him into the Third Order of the Golden Dawn. Subsequently arriving in America, he found no support for his proposed mountaineering expedition, and so set sail to return to Britain.
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Upon arrival at Britain, Crowley learned that his daughter Lilith had died of typhoid in Rangoon and that his wife had begun suffering from alcoholism.
I can't help but wonder about this. Why did Crowley ignore Aiwass? Why would he? What could have transpired differently... what message was (possibly) missed?
Also, with the death of his daughter Lilith, and the downfall of Rose, can that be considered a 'fulfillment of prophesy' as contained within the pages of Liber AL?
Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered.
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From his Confessions at about this time:
"I resented intensely being told that I was "the Chosen One". It is such an obvious man-trap; it is the commonest delusion of the maniac and, in one form or another, the essence of all delusions."
He had a lot of personal reservations to overcome before he could accept the Book of the Law.
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"Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered.
-- AL III:43"I doubt that this is a kind of threat, but rather a prophecy about something that will happen in the future.
Or that is for all Scarlet Woman in general.
Maybe L.A is in some little parts comes from A.C-s unconscious.
But maybe only , I'm not sure. Wouldn't know really such thing. Just guessing.93
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"I think it's allegorical"
Yes, yes, of course.
Perhaps in the context of the time when that has happened.
This is related to A.C
And today it is related to others , maybe -:)93
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In dreams, many consider a "child" to symbolize a personal creation, whether it be something concrete or an abstract idea.
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Obviously we can't know why, though there are several factors which have been mentioned above, chief amongst them Crowley's ambivalence to The Book of the Law at the time. Nor was this an isolated occurrence of a return to Egypt being suggested. By Crowley's account, the Abuldiz Working terminated with an instruction for Crowley to go to the desert in search of an egg under a palm tree; unfortunately, the record of the Abuldiz Working is incomplete. However, the theme was picked up in the Amalantrah Working of 1918, Crowley being exhorted to go to Egypt. I recall reading Crowley saying somewhere or other that Amalantrah and Abuldiz contacted him in order to get him back on track; as such they can be regarded as masks of Aiwass.
In spite of successes, Crowley didn't really trust the Abuldiz and Amalantrah Workings, and the same goes for the Shanghai Working of 1906 with Elaine Simpson. In the record of the Amalantrah Working there are records where he is waxing very enthusiastically about the accuracy of everything Amalantrah is communicating, only to be followed by another session where he is very cynical about the worth of anything Amalantrah had to communicate, even going so far as to disrupt the session in his frustration..
He never did go back to Egypt. Gerald Yorke did say in correspondence with Jones in 1948 that Crowley did make plans to go to Egypt, but that these plans never came off.
Thus the only conclusion we can draw from all this is that, despite the reception of The Book of the Law being the major event of his life and work, for some reason or another he had an aversion to going back to the scene of the revelation. We can't, I'm afraid, know the reasons for this reluctance.