College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Crowley drew it. Not sure when. Seems to have been part of his doddling on the manuscript (which he did here and there) in an effort to solve the puzzle on that page.

@Oliver P said

"AC was honest about the fact that some passages in Liber Legis were added or changed later - for example, the "five-pointed star" passage and the one written in "whiter words"."
agreed. this is an obvious contradiction to the portion stipulating no changes, thus disclosing the corruption of the Scribe and his overall unreliability.

@Oliver P said

"However, I can't find any comment on the obviously different character of the first word of the book, "Had!" It is written outside the margin of the rest of the page and in a somewhat "heavier" hand, possibly with a different pen."
I don't know how you evaluated a different pen, but it is definitely outside the otherwise fairly consistent margin and definitely heavier of hand (compare the 'Hadit' on the same page).

@Oliver P said

"Is there an "official" explanation of this? ..."
apparently the "official" explanation is that it didn't happen. why any official explanation should be believed is quite another matter. religious cover up things all the time in order to bolster the reputation or august state/condition/authority of their heros.

this is, by the way, the precise explanation for "to what end?". a hefty emphasis and cosmic importance is sometimes ascribed ("prophet of the Aeon", "Magus", etc.) to religious or occult persons, and this individual in particular, due to his skill with the English language. at times, such persons distract the cultists who follow them and their successors for decades, obsessing on their words.

pointing out the errancies and lack of integrity of the presumed religious authorities with respect to their 'important' scripture lends reason to doubt their authority or condition, and this may assist the impressionable. one might also evaluate the religious figure's confessions, disclosures of being repeatedly under the influence of intoxicants and recreational substances, and of being a racist and a sexist individual, so as to size him up as insufficiently mature or (in the language of Hermetics and occultism) 'advanced' (/initiated; despite his claims to the contrary) to merit further attention. the obvious 'spiritual value' which comes from such exposures is that wasted time on the perplexed who are not genuinely of the mystical state they claim or are touted as having by their misguided followers might be minimized.

Hmmm, that's interesting.

Yeah, I never did try to equate the edges of the pentagram as elemental pathways, to the pyramid, tho the pyramids havng edges aligned with the cardinal directions certainly implied an elemental attribution.

My take on it was a little more simplistic (suppose the Zen rubbed off on me after all) the 4 edges, or even the faces, became the elements with spirit aligned in the center.

I'm gonna go on a limb here and go very right brain thinking in this next bit, so bear with me.

Obviously there's the recurrency in the numbers revolving strongly around 4 and it's double, 8. Theres also 5 involved. There's some numerological ideologies that indicate that the number 4 has a lot of karma around it and using the number 8 is often the balance / solution to the karma. How good those numerology system are, I'm not yet convinced. Be that as it may, Liber AL has as it's number 220 or 31, both of which are 4 and if we include the 1 spirit point in the examle of the pyramids, near which Liber AL was written, along with it's double which is 8, leading us to the solution to Liber AL.

It requires a bit of imagination since that's what came to mind.

On another note, just counting nostril hairs of the double pyramid, there are 6 vertices, 8 planes, and 12 edges (or pathways through which the 6 travels anyone?). Which brings us back to the 20 you mentioned, since the next number in this exponentially expanding sequence that started with 6 would be 20. Unicursal sequence?

As you say, it could be a mathematical mental excersice, it could be a dream, but you never know 😉

@AUM418 said

"If we are Nature why should we impose human ideals on something that doesnt care about them? "

The notions of care or lack of care, that we are or are not nature, that there is climate let alone change in it are human ideas.

@AUM418 said

"I believe that to respect something, you must not deny a part of it. Love encompasses all things - including hate. Part of Nature is destruction, rape, murder, overcoming, death, transformation & change, so to deny these is to disrespect Nature."

Look at the Hawk! With the Sun as his tail. We, we once flew like this - free of care and needing no more than a warm nest and a full belly. Perchance our intellect is more a burden than a blessing...

Instead, we have Physics. Where there are small infinites and large infinities. That is to say infinitely infinitely small infinities and infinitely infinitely large infinities.
Then, there are mathematicians who say: Infinity = Infinity
Some go as far as to call this the Law of Identity ( I personally disagree with the choice of words).

Presupposing alternative infinities the Universe (not me, the other one) does not care. It would appear to be obvious that humans do, or why do at all? Reasonably speaking, the problem is one of a humans perspective.

To respect, is to be mind-ful of ones use. One could be un-mind-ful, but then you are a zombie and what do zombies do ? Why, they drool and shuffle about looking for minds!

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.