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sermons in the hearing of the girl. Although attaching no meaning to the words, she had stored them mechanically
in her subconscious memory, to be reproduced when the action of the fever excited the group of cells where they
were recorded.
Our praeter-human Intelligence must convey a Truth not known to any human mind, past or present. Yet
this Truth must be verifiable.
There is but one document in the world which presents evidence that fully satisfies these conditions. This is
LIBER AL vel LEGIS
the Book of the Law.
of this New Aeon of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, the Aeon whose Logos is THE BEAST
666, whose name in the Outer Order was FRATER PERDURABO.
The nature of the proof of the separate existence of praeterhuman Intelligence, independent of bodily form, is
extremely complicated. Its main divisions may be briefly enumerated.
AIWAZ, the name of the Intelligence in question, proves:
(a) His power to pre-arrange events unconnected with His scribe so that they should fit in with that scribe s
private calculations.
E.g. The Stele which reveals the Theogony of the Book was officially numbered 666, in the Boulak Museum.
The scribe had adopted 666 as His magical number, many years previously. Again, the scribe s magical House,
bought years earlier, had a name whose value was 418. The scribe had calculated 418 as the number of the
Great Work, in 1901 e.v. He only discovered that 418 was the number of his house in consequence of
AIWAZ mentioning the fact.
(b) His power to conceal a coherent system of numbers and letters in the text of a rapidly-written document,
containing riddles and ciphers opening to a Master-Key unknown to the scribe, yet linked with his own
system; this Key and its subordinates being moreover a comment on the text.
E.g. The word of the Law is [Greek:] Thelma. (Will); this word has the value of 93.
Love is the law, love under will. Love, [Greek:] Agap, like
[Greek:] Thelma, adds to 93.
AIWAZ itself adds to 93.
This numeration was discovered years later. The question then arose out of consideration of this discovery through
S. Jacobs: Why is Aiwaz spelt Aiwass, not Aiwaz, in the Book of the Law? In Greek [Greek:] Aifass =
418. The author of the Book had concealed in His own name not one only but two numbers, those of supreme
importance in the Book.
This was all strange to the scribe; yet years later he discovered the Lost Word of one of his own Orders: it
was 93 also.
[WEH Note: This refers to the word of the IIIrd Degree of O.T.O., readers who may wish to acquire it may
apply for initiation and work their way up through the Degrees. Ordo Templi Orientis, JAF Box 7666, New
York, NY 10116, USA.]
The Word of His most holy Order proved equally to count up to 93.
This list by no means exhausts the series. In particular, Frater Perdurabo discovered in 1923 that the Hebrew
word for to will is also of the value of 93: and its special technical meanings throw yet further light on the
meaning of [Greek:] Thelma as used by Aiwaz.
{WEH NOTE: In this instance, Crowley refers not to the word of III Degree O.T.O., but to the Neophyte
word of A. . A. ..
Now 93 is thrice 31; 31 is LA, Not and AL, The or God ; these words run throughout the Book,
giving a double meaning to many passages. A third 31 is the compound letter ShT, the two hieroglyphs of Sh
and T (many centuries old) being pictures of the Dramatis Personae of the Book; and ShT being a haphazard
line scrawled on the MS. touch letters which added to 418, valuing this circle squared in its failure as pi
correct to six places of decimals, etc.
Again: thou shalt know not ,
[WEH Note: It is remarkable that Crowley succeeds in blowing every quotation of Liber AL on this page.
This despite the injunction of the Book itself: AL I,54: Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold!
thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. Crowley strongly resisted the idea that he
could not understand all of the Book. In later life, he came to grudgingly accept this limitation. Also, Achad did
not work out as his successor. Several of these mis-quotes relate to that belief. This particular mis-quote could come
from as many as six points in the text, but there is no part of the text in which this quote appears exactly.]
meaning thou shalt know LA ; and he shall discover the Key of it all
[WEH Note: This misquote could be from AL III,47: ... Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him,
whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all.... .]
id est, the Key AL.
(c) His power to combine subsequent events beyond the control of the scribe or his associates, so that they
confirmed statements in the Book. Or, per contra, to predict such events.
E.g. The first Scarlet Woman proved unworthy, and suffered the exact penalties predicted.
Again, one cometh after thee; he shall discover the key.
[WEH Note: misquoted from AL II,76: ...There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. ... ]
This one was to be the child of the scribe, and that strangely .
[WEH Note: This time the misquote is in the style of the letters: AL III,47: This book shall be translated into
all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their
position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh
after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle
squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be his child & that strangely. Let him not seek after
this; for thereby alone can he fall from it. interesting that these misquotes seem to hit verses that either appear
to warn Crowley against misquoting or of his limits.]
Nine months after THE BEAST 666 had gotten a Magical child upon His concubine Jane Foster, a Babe
of the Abyss was born, Frater Achad asserting his right to that grade, and thus coming after THE BEAST
666, who had been the last Adept to do so. And this child was definitely one , since one is the meaning
of his motto Achad. Finally, he did in fact discover the key of it all
[WEH Note: see the citation in an earlier note of mine. This time Crowley missed the style of the letter
again.]
after THE BEAST Himself had failed to do so in 14 years of study.
(d) His power to conceive and express in concise terms true solutions of the main problems of the Universe.
E.g. The formula of Nuith and Hadith explain Existence in the terms of Mathematical-Logical Philosophy, so
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