postmodern Satanism

eductionism, or the notion that causality (the pit called Because) hasan application in the meta-physical analogous to its scientificapplication in the physical. The gematria is a series of causal-chainanalyses of metaphysical symbols (these runes), and as such, is acategory mistake of the first order.II:32 – Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; &all their words are skew-wise.Exegesis: Within the objective world of phenomena, causal analysis,or reason, achieves its validity due to the finite (demarcated) natureof the individual parts. Their limits allow for measure and hencecategorization. But as this verse makes clear (see also I:4 above), thisclassification cannot be carried over to the realm of the infinite andunknown without distortion of meaning (words are skew-wise).II:75 – Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:II:76 – 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V AL.What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thouknow ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. Butremember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in thestar-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.Exegesis: The “glad word” is none other than thelema, the Word ofthe Aeon. That this has nothing to do with the cipher is evident in thefact that “word” here is singular, whereas the cipher is introduced inthe plural: “numbers & the words”. The use of an ampersand in averse directly connected to a supposed gematrial riddle, whenunderstood in light of I:54 and II:54, is an even further level ofconfirmation of the central thesis under consideration. Space-marks,punctuation, stylistics - these are all blind alleys which have beendeliberately emphasized in order to ensnare those who are incapableof transcending the old ways of thinking. Note also the deliberate useof “expound” - which has connotations of a second-order logic, ormeta-explanation. The riddle won’t be answered (the answer is“nothing”), but it will be explained (as a snare for the unwary). Thisone verse encompasses the complete truth of Aleister Crowley’srelation to the New Aeon. He received the Law and the Word, andthough complete, it is only half understood by the Beast (see I:56).Here, Crowley is being encouraged to continue on in what he is