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But what, for instance, if it never happened like it is written at all, that the version
we have is solely a retrospective “revision and editing”. Crowley doesn’t say what the
nature of the revision was. Now, there is a doubt in my mind about whether the operation
happened exactly as published, due to the fact that these vital pages were apparently
torn out and lost. This question seems important to me, it sort of gelled in my mind
while thinking about the 10 th and Choronzon.
The Weiser 98 edition I must say is very good, in the late 1980s I used the version
from Gems from the Equinox, which omits most of the notes. The new Weiser edition
has previously unpublished material, such as the diagram of circle and triangle from the
10 th Æthyr, redrawn, plus the convenient inclusion of the relevant section from
Confessions.
I confess I am uncertain what you mean about the “lie” of “abiding apart”. What are
you reading into this that I am missing exactly? When you say “because it was proof
that the story of Crowley ‘abiding apart’ during Neuburg’s ordeal was a lie”—do you
mean that the wrestling match where Crowley-as-Choronzon broke the circle made
you think there had been a lie? Or something else? I don’t get what you mean because
wasn’t the version including the wrestling match included in the original Equinox? So
why did you need “proof ” if it was already extant in print? You have me confused. Are
you saying that the extracts from the manuscript you have seen differ from the published
version?
Now, are we going to say anything about Makhashanah? Is Liber 418 called 418
because of Abrahadabra or because of Makhashanah? Does he say anything about
Makhashanah anywhere else? A single reference in the 27 th Æthyr of Liber 418 and one
in the Ab-ul-Diz Working seems sparse for such an important word.
Personally I feel Crowley wanted the 333 spelling of Choronzon rather than Dee’s
because that meant the reference to “dispersion” in the 28 th could be seen as a prophecy
of the 10 th , even though he claims not to have known the correlation at the time. Or
maybe he just preferred it to be 333, has a certain resonance.
Got the mp3 recordings of Crowley reciting the first and second Keys, hypnotic.
JOEL
Hi Joel—I hate to admit this, but haven’t even seen the 1998 Weiser edition. The last
“new” Caliphate oto tome I acquired was His Holiness Hymenæus Beta’s new-andimproved
Magick (or Book 4, or whatever it’s supposed to be called). It claimed to be the
definitive scholarly edition, had to be special ordered here locally, and set me back
about $50 US. I was so excited when it finally arrived, and decided to take the challenge
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