@Jim said
"Would anyone like to get back on the original topic?"
Yes.
In fact, I can combine all of these in one simple post, (hopefully simple.)
The Tao, the circular Egg at the top center of the universe and cosmos, was the original manifestation. Now Abrasax was the original chicken that laid the egg. Bam! coercion of the first chicken and the first egg. However, both sides of the discussion are wrong since The Tao is very evolved as perfect, (an evolved "chicken",) laid by a half-chicken, half-reptile.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Abraxas,_Nordisk_familjebok.png/220px-Abraxas,_Nordisk_familjebok.png
The future emergence, (and laying,) of the egg of the Tao, I believe, is what they were looking at and pointing to, and is why He was distracted from beating and whipping the donkey and the naked child.
Opiates are normally sold on the street as "eggs", no joke, (or, no yolk). One dose of dirty, filthy H on the street is an egg. What do opiates have seriously to do with Creation, they are the endless,
(eternal, indestructible, as the "lower" forms of water are evaporatable, after the events of revelations, there will be no more sea,)
flow of water that flows down all the way from Binah, (and thus, Briah,) at it's "first" manifestation past the Tao, (I will go into how Tao is reflected in Water at the bottom of this lecture), reflected down to elemental water Chesed, then flowing down to the "initiatory" water of Hod, down to Yesod where water and Gabriel hold authority, even though it is initiatory air, still under Netzach, elemental Earth, as waters do flow. I will now speak something that is normally not to be spoken of, (as if I haven't begun to already,) but I believe it is late in the game so I will speak of it.
Opiates, if done effectively, give you this exact vision, all the way up to the Tao. Since we learn that the Tao breaks itself up into a mind of three, that further continues to Kether, Chokmah, and Binah. Binah is the first communicable flow of water that reflects this perfect divinity in a form that's not complete fiery male chaos.
The original poster has a problem with viewing divinity and the flow of the original divine power.
He splashes about in the lower Sephira looking for fun with "demons", when he should be learning to balance himself, and the balance of demons will no doubt follow. Removing this doubt is what all the sickness, fear, hurt, lonely agony, and weakness is about.
Is this good enough, or shall I explain more?
(I'm not going any further on the connection to opiates and water. The thought was checked by the SCs themselves after the initial idea was typed, and I'm done with that connection anyways as it feels....yes...)
I will mention that the Tao, is eventually associated with Water, or the Female quality of Creation, while Hadit, who springs up from the base of the foundation, (as Kundalini,) is more active, and I guess you could say, "Fiery"? It is in our neck of the woods, anyways. He leaps forth to strike into the Tao, or egg, to further produce more of existence, and Trees of Life.
I would recommend serious meditation and study of this subject before taking this into serious questioning. In my possession in PDF format is about all of Crowley's work. You can use a PDF reader or acrobat to search lines of text. This all fits together like pieces in a puzzle that make up the internal workings and machinery of the clock that is our Universe.