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last year that the Stèle of Revealing in the Boulak Museum in Cairo is actually a fake,
with the original being salted away in a secret safe deposit box of said occult organisation.
Note that Liber AL 3:10 actually instructs Crowley to steal the Stèle of Revealing and
set it upon his own altar:
Get the Stèle of Revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple—and that temple is already
aright disposed—& it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous
colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world.
A copy of the Stèle is used in the Gnostic Mass. Kenneth Grant mentions on p 98 of
Hecate’s Fountain (London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1992) how in the 1920s Crowley
had a plan for J F C Fuller to spirit away the Stèle of Revealing from the Boulak
Museum, noting that “Fuller did not discover, until years after Crowley’s death, that he
had been earmarked to ‘abstruct’ the Stèle.”]
Hi Satyr—It is the Weiser 1998 edition of Liber 418 that says on p 159 and p 170 that
the pages on the 10 th were torn out of the notebook. The manuscript of this Æthyr
surviving as I understand it is in fact the “revised and edited” version, the original pages
torn out the notebook having been lost. (I had assumed Crowley tore them out himself,
but it could have been a certain occult organisation much later I suppose). Now, this
leads me to think that the version of events of the Call as we have them could well be a
“creative reconstruction”, which goes back to my question concerning how Crowley
knew the 10 th was accursèd. I am amused, incidentally, by your declaration that your
notes on this issue are a “thin tissue of an argument”, this is obviously what one says
when one has constructed a rather persuasive case. Certainly it is a much-needed
expansion on the rather brief and confusing note 2 about this that Crowley gives on
p 159 on the Weiser 1998 Vision and the Voice, but also I do wonder whether Crowley
had pieced it together so convincingly beforehand. In Algeria when he skryed the Æthyrs
he had only his notebook with the Calls in it, he didn’t have the Great Table, black
crosse of union, or the orphaned letters of Paraoan to muse upon the meaning of. It
may simply be the case that he fully expected to encounter Choronzon and that in
preparing to meet this demon he essentially invoked him regardless of whether
Choronzon is native to the 10 th Æthyr or not. He had the name of Choronzon inscribed
in Hebrew in the Triangle of Art, so it is hardly surprising that he should have
encountered Choronzon in the 10 th . That said, your argument makes much sense and it
is always possible that Crowley had previously worked out this association, even though
he doesn’t appear to have written about it before the Algerian operations.
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