kaos

As for why 333, merely being half of 666 makes it attractive enough I would have
thought. But interesting its equivalence with “dispersion” goes unremarked upon in
Sepher Sephiroth. I think you may have a point about the Choronzon spelling potentially
being bequeathed to Crowley by Allan Bennett on the latter’s departure to Ceylon in
1899, I hadn’t considered that. Of course we don’t know whether “Choronzon” was
included in Bennett’s original material or was a later addition.
Interesting that in the “Note by Scribe” (p 171, Weiser 98) Neuburg says: “The
account of the further dealings of Choronzon with the Scribe will be found in the
Record of Omnia Vincam.” A note says this is not believed to be extant. One wonders
whether Victor Neuburg Jnr might have it, if he’s still alive. Did I tell you I met him in
the 80s?
JOEL
“it shall become full of beetles…”
Hi Satyr—Re-reading The Vision and the Voice I couldn’t help but think that it is to an
extent tainted by the “revelations” of Liber AL. Not entirely fresh but force-fitted into
his established worldview. The Book of the Law, when examined, is hardly anything
more than a cut-up of phrases and personages from the catalogue entry for Exhibit 666
at the Boulak Museum, Cairo, 1904, combined with a will to world occult domination
with a pseudo-Apocalyptic flavour coupled with a recent reading of Rabelais still fresh
in the mind, but even then it is hardly a “breakthrough in gray room”.
Liber AL has little binding or profound vision holding it together, all it is is a first try
by someone who really pulled it off five years later, but by that time the die was cast.
Hard to avoid the leakage of one’s own stuff into genuinely channelled material, that I
certainly realise, every ardent ufo believer channels aliens to voice the message. Though
the visions of Liber 418 are to me very genuine despite this, the authenticity of a vision
I feel is nonetheless marked by how much of one’s own stuff one manages to keep out.
Which is probably reflective of depth of trance. Now Crowley of course thought his
Liber AL and Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Stèle of Revealing and all that was a universal truth,
so to have it swilling around in the background of his Algerian visions probably didn’t
seem like an imposition, rather a confirmation of the authenticity of the newly skryed
material. But to me, who doesn’t see it that way, who sees Liber AL as a transitory
inspiration blown out of all proportion to its actual worth and built up into something
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