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The Equinox of the Gods

Equinox III (3) · Book 4 Part IV · Genesis Libri AL · El Equinoccio de los Dioses

inglés; dentro del cuerpo van sin traducir los nombres egipcios y las palabras bárbaras tal como los imprime la capa de texto (Nuit, Nuith, Hadit, Hadith, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Ra Hoor Khuit, Heru-Ra-Ha, Hoor-Paar-Kraat, Heru-pa-Kraat, Hoori, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, Ankh-f-n-khonsu, Aiwass, Aiwaz, Khabs, Khu, Ka, Mentu, Bes-na-Maut, Ta-Nech, Khephra, Ahathoor, Harmachis, Mau, Tum, Khep-Ra, Abrahadabra, BABALON), y hay griego, hebreo y árabe que el OCR rinde como cadenas latinas sin sentido —«qelhma», «zwyu», «Ai#asj», «}wyrt», «ahyja», «To Mega Qhrion»— junto a un tramo de jeroglíficos transcritosla página de derechos imprime «First published London: O.T.O., 1936» (p. 2) y la portadilla de la revista «Vol III. No. III. … SEPTEMBER MCMXXXVI E. V.» (p. 7); el ensayo del capítulo VII lleva su propia data en nota, «Written in 1920, E.V.» (p. 106), y el capítulo I otra igual (p. 57); el dictado que el libro narra se fecha «On APRIL 8, 9 AND 10, 1904 E.V.» (p. 11)Magia ceremonial

Volumen que el propio Libro de la Ley encarga y que se presenta como el cumplimiento de ese encargo: «In The Book of the Law we find in the 3rd chapter and the 39th to the 41st verse an instruction to issue a book to say how theis Revelation was obtained, with certain details with regard to the style in which it is to be done. It has hitherto been impossible to comply with this injunction, although an attempt was made in “The Temple of Solomon the King.” We now proceed to do so; the subject divides itself into Eight Chapters.» «Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 51». La página de derechos lo data y lo sitúa: «First published London: O.T.O., 1936. Corrected reprint included in Magick: Book 4 Parts I-IV, York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1994.» «Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 2».

La convocatoria inicial fecha el dictado y nombra a quien lo hace: «On APRIL 8, 9 AND 10, 1904 E.V., this book was dictated to 666 (Aleister Crowley) by Aiwass, a Being whose nature he does not fully understand, but who described himself as “the Minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat” (the Lord of Silence).» «Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 11», y declara qué trae: «The book announced a New Law for mankind. It replaces the moral and religious sanctions of the past, which have everywhere broken down, by a principle valid for each man and woman in the world, and self-evidently indefeasible.» «Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 11».

El cuerpo es «Genesis Libri AL», ocho capítulos que van de la infancia de Crowley a la Golden Dawn, a la operación de Abramelin, al abandono de todo trabajo oculto y de ahí al Cairo de 1904: la vidente Rose Edith Kelly —a quien el libro llama Ouarda o W.—, la identificación de Horus, la estela de Ankh-f-na-Khonsu con el número de inventario 666 en el museo de Bulaq, la invocación del 20 de marzo y las tres horas de dictado. Sobre la autoría del texto recibido, la posición del volumen no se resuelve en un solo sentido: «Of course I wrote them, ink on paper, in the material sense; but they are not My words, unless Aiwaz be taken to be no more than my subconscious self, or some part of it: in that case, my conscious self being ignorant of the Truth in the Book and hostile to most of the ethics and philosophy of the Book, Aiwaz is a severely suppressed part of me.» «Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 107», y sobre el mecanismo: «There was, however, no actual voice audible save that of Aiwaz. Even my own remarks made silently were incorporated by him audibly, wherever such occur.» «Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 129».

El volumen reproduce además el Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX en tipografía (pp. 25-48) y anuncia el facsímil del manuscrito con una razón declarada: «This book is reproduced in facsimile, in order that there shall be no possibility of corrupting it.» «Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 146».

341 afirmaciones · 3 fuentes · 1 atribución

Atribución

se consigna, jamás se afirma
DECLARADA
Aleister Crowley · Persona
el troceo lo nombra en el cuerpo y en primera persona: «this book was dictated to 666 (Aleister Crowley) by Aiwass» (p. 11), el capítulo I se titula «The Boyhood of Aleister Crowley» (p. 51) y el capítulo VII declara «I, Aleister Crowley, declare upon my honour as a gentleman» (p. 114), con una nota que lo sitúa «written … by THE BEAST 666 Himself, in the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily» (p. 104). Los capítulos I a VI se reimprimen de «The Temple of Solomon the King» y hablan de él en tercera persona como Fra. P., con las notas trabajadas en colaboración con J. F. C. Fuller (p. 71); el editor del e-text anota que esa parte VII de aquel artículo la escribió Crowley (p. 96)
según Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004)
«Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004) · p. 11»

Cadena de la obra

el testimonio procesado, en esmeralda
EDICIÓN
Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004), ed. inglés 1936
inglés · 1936 · Londres — «First published London: O.T.O., 1936» (p. 2); la portadilla la presenta como número de revista, «THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS … Vol III. No. III. … SEPTEMBER MCMXXXVI E. V. Issued by the O.T.O. BM/JPKH, London, W.C.1» (p. 7), órgano oficial de la A∴A∴ y de la O.T.O. · Ordo Templi Orientis (imprimio)
EDICIÓN
Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004), ed. inglés 1994
inglés · 1994 · York Beach, Maine — «Corrected reprint included in Magick: Book 4 Parts I-IV, York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1994» (p. 2); el e-text la llama «Blue Brick» y declara haberla usado para cotejar «Genesis Libri AL», sin seguir sus convenciones tipográficas (p. 217) · deriva de Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004), ed. inglés 1936 · Samuel Weiser (imprimio)
EDICIÓN · PROCESADO
Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004)
inglés · 2004 · Leeds — «This electronic edition issued by Celephaïs Press, Leeds … March 2004» (p. 2), con «(c) Ordo Templi Orientis, JAF Box 7666, New York, NY 10116, U.S.A.» y la advertencia «Last revised 8th June 2004; one transcription error in CCXX II.26 fixed.» Las notas finales acreditan el trabajo persona por persona (p. 217) · deriva de Crowley — The Equinox of the Gods (1936; e-text Celephaïs Press, 2004), ed. inglés 1994 · Celephais Press (imprimio) · Frater T S (edito) · W E Heidrick (copio) · Soror Alice (copio) · Frater A U D C A L (edito) · Soror Luna 11 (edito)

Afirmaciones

341 entradas — la voz de la obra, con su pasaje

«A PARAPHRASE OF THE INSCRIPTIONS UPON THE OBVERSE OF THE STÉLÉ OF REVELLING Above, the gemmèd azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit.»paráfrasis en verso del anverso de la estela, que el capítulo VII declara obra del propio Crowley: la estrofa de apertura es la misma que el Libro de la Ley pone en I:14, con el esplendor desnudo de Nuit besando los ardores secretos de Hadit.

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«Are mine, o Ankh-f-n-Khonsu. I am the Lord of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veilèd sky, The self-slain Ankh-f-n-Khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, o Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee:— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it kill me!»continuación de la paráfrasis del anverso, con la adoración a Ra-Hoor-Khuit y la apertura de los caminos del Khu, del Ka y del Khabs. Aquí el volumen se contradice consigo mismo y la ficha no lo armoniza: el frontispicio cierra la estrofa con *kill* donde el Liber CCXX que el mismo volumen imprime en la plana 43 cierra con *fill*.

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«The Light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Tum, Of Khephra, and of Ahathoor. I am thy Theban, o Mentu, The prophet Ankh-f-n-Khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O Nuith! Bid me within thine House to dwell, O wingèd snake of light, Hadith! Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!»cierre de la paráfrasis del anverso, con la puerta secreta a la Casa de Ra y Tum; el frontispicio escribe Nuith y Hadith con hache final donde el Liber CCXX escribe Nuit y Hadit.

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«A PARAPHRASE OF THE HIEROGLYPHS OF THE 11 LINES UPON THE REVERSE OF THE STÉLE Saith of Mentu the truth-telling brother Who was master of Thebes from his birth: O heart of me, heart of my mother! O heart which I had upon earth! Stand not thou up against a witness! Oppose me not, judge, in my quest! Accuse me not now of unfitness Before the Great God, the dread Lord of the West! For I fastened the one to the other With a spell for their mystical girth, The earth and the wonderful West, When I flourished, o earth, on thy breast!»paráfrasis en verso del reverso de la estela: el corazón del difunto conjurado a no testificar contra él ante el Gran Dios, Señor del Oeste. Este tramo no entra en el Libro de la Ley.

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«The dead man Ankh-f-n-Khonsu Saith with his voice of truth and calm: O thou that hast a single arm! O thou that glitterest in the moon! I weave thee in the spinning charm; I lure thee with billowy tune. The dead man Ankh-f-n-Khonsu Hath parted from the darkling crowds, Hath joined the dwellers of the light, Opening Duant, the star-abodes, Their keys receiving. The dead man Ankh-f-n-Khonsu Hath made his passage into night, His pleasure on the earth to do Among the living.»cierre de la paráfrasis del reverso: el muerto Ankh-f-n-Khonsu se aparta de las multitudes oscuras, se une a los moradores de la luz y abre el Duant recibiendo sus llaves.

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«On APRIL 8, 9 AND 10, 1904 E.V., this book was dictated to 666 (Aleister Crowley) by Aiwass, a Being whose nature he does not fully understand, but who described himself as “the Minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat” (the Lord of Silence).»voz de Crowley en la convocatoria (plana 11). Fecha el dictado en tres días de abril de 1904, nombra al dictante Aiwass y declara a la vez que no entiende del todo su naturaleza; la única descripción que da de él es la que el propio Aiwass se dio, ministro de Hoor-Paar-Kraat.

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«The contents of the book prove to strict scientific demonstration that He possesses knowledge and power quite beyond anything that has been hitherto associated with human faculties.»voz de Crowley. Presenta el contenido del libro como demostración científica estricta de que quien lo dictó posee conocimiento y poder fuera de lo humano; es el argumento que el capítulo VII desarrollará.

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«The circumstances of the dictation are described in The Equinox I (7):1 but a fuller account, with an outline of the proof of the character of the book is now here to be issued.»voz de Crowley. Declara la procedencia del relato: las circunstancias ya estaban en un número anterior de The Equinox, y este volumen añade el relato completo con el esbozo de la prueba.

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«The book announced a New Law for mankind. It replaces the moral and religious sanctions of the past, which have everywhere broken down, by a principle valid for each man and woman in the world, and self-evidently indefeasible.»voz de Crowley. Enuncia la pretensión del volumen: una Ley Nueva que sustituye las sanciones morales y religiosas del pasado por un principio válido para cada hombre y cada mujer.

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«The spiritual Revolution announced by the book has already taken place: hardly a country where it is not openly manifest.»voz de Crowley. Da la revolución espiritual por ya ocurrida y no por venir, y la localiza en casi todos los países.

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«Ignorance of the true meaning of this new Law has led to gross anarchy. Its conscious adoption in its proper sense is the sole cure for the political, social and racial unrest which have brought about the»voz de Crowley. Adjudica a la ignorancia de la nueva Ley la anarquía y el malestar político, social y racial, y declara su adopción consciente la única cura; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana, justo antes de la enumeración.

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«World War, the catastrophe of Europe and America, and the threatening attitude of China, India and Islam. Its solution of the fundamental problems of mathematics and philosophy will establish a new epoch in history.»continuación en la plana siguiente: nombra la Guerra Mundial, la catástrofe de Europa y América y la actitud amenazante de China, la India y el islam, y anuncia que la solución que el libro da a los problemas de las matemáticas y de la filosofía abrirá una época.

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«But it must not be supposed that so potent an instrument of energy can be used without danger. I summon, therefore, by the power and authority entrusted in me, every great spirit and mind now on this planet incarnate to take effective hold of this transcendent force, and apply it to the advancement of the welfare of the human race.»voz de Crowley. Convoca por autoridad propia a todo espíritu y mente encarnados en el planeta a tomar esa fuerza trascendente, y a la vez advierte que no se usa sin peligro.

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«For as the experience of the past two and thirty years has shown too terribly, the book cannot be ignored. It has leavened Mankind unaware: and Man must make thereof the Bread of Life. Its ferment has begun to work on the grape of thought: Man must obtain therefrom the Wine of Ecstasy.»voz de Crowley. Data su propia experiencia con el libro en treinta y dos años y describe su acción con dos metáforas de fermento, el Pan de la Vida y el Vino del Éxtasis.

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«Come then, all ye, in the Name of the Lord of the Æon, the Crowned and Concquering Child, Hera-Ra-Ha: I call ye to partake this sacrament. Know—will—dare—and be silent! The Priest of the Princes, ANKH-AF-NA-KHONSU»cierre de la convocatoria: llama al sacramento en nombre del Señor del Eón, el Niño Coronado y Conquistador, con la divisa de las cuatro potencias del mago —saber, querer, osar y callar— y firma con el oficio y el nombre egipcio, no con el civil.

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«MARSYAS. I bear a message. Heaven hath sent The knowledge of a new sweet way Into the Secret Element.»voz de MARSYAS, el maestro del diálogo que el volumen extrae del poema AHA! y coloca como resumen de la doctrina; abre declarándose portador de un mensaje sobre una vía nueva al Elemento Secreto.

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«I am yet borne on those blue wings Into the Essence of the All. Now, now I stand on earth again, Though, blazing through each nerve and vein, The light yet holds its choral course, Filling my frame with fiery force Like God’s. Now hear the Apocalypse New-fledged on these reluctant lips!»voz de MARSYAS. Describe el estado en que habla —de vuelta en la tierra pero todavía con la luz recorriéndolo— y llama apocalipsis a lo que va a decir, con unos labios que declara reacios.

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«Do what thou wilt! is the sole word Of law that my attainment heard. Arise, and lay thine hand on God! Arise, and set a period Unto Restriction! That is sin:»voz de MARSYAS. Da la fórmula de la ley como lo único que su logro oyó, y manda poner término a la Restricción, que es lo que llama pecado; la nota al margen identifica al hablante con la Bestia 666.

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«O thou that chafest at thy bars, Invoke Nuit beneath her stars With a pure heart (Her incense burned Of gums and woods, in gold inurned), And let the serpent flame therein A little, and thy soul shall win To lie within her bosom.»voz de MARSYAS, ahora citando el culto de Nuit: invocarla bajo sus estrellas con corazón puro, incienso de gomas y maderas en oro, y dejar arder un poco la llama serpentina.

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«Thou wouldst give all—and she cries: No! Take all, and take me! Gather spice And virgins and great pearls of price! Worship me in a single robe, Crowned richly! Girdle of the globe, I love thee! Pale and purple, veiled, Voluptuous, swan silver-sailed, I love thee. I am drunkness Of the inmost sense; my soul’s caress Is toward thee! Let my priestess stand Bare and rejoicing, softly fanned By smooth-lipped acolytes, upon Mine iridescent altar-stone, And in her love-chaunt swooningly Say evermore: To me! To me!»voz de Nuit dentro del parlamento de MARSYAS. La misma inversión que trae el Libro de la Ley —dar todo no basta, hay que tomarlo todo y tomarla a ella— y la sacerdotisa desnuda sobre la piedra del altar diciendo la fórmula de llamada.

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«I am the azure-lidded daughter Of sunset; the all-girdling water; The naked brilliance of the sky In the voluptuous night am I! With song, with jewel, with perfume, Wake all my rose's blush and bloom! Drink to me! Love me! I love thee, My love, my lord—to me! to me!»voz de Nuit dentro del parlamento de MARSYAS: la autodefinición de la diosa como hija de párpados azules del ocaso y agua que ciñe el mundo, cerrada con la fórmula de llamada.

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«There is the Snake that gives delight And Knowledge, stirs the heart aright With drunkenness. Strange drugs are thine, Hadit, and draughts of wizard wine! These do no hurt. Thine hermits dwell Not in the cold secretive cell, But under purple canopies With mighty-breasted mistresses Magnificent as lionesses— Tender and terrible caresses!»voz de MARSYAS. Recoge de Hadit las drogas extrañas y el vino de hechicero, y traslada a los ermitaños del claustro frío a los doseles de púrpura, con la misma corrección que hace el capítulo II del Libro de la Ley.

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«Work; be the bed of work! Hold! Hold! The stars' kiss is as molten gold. Harden! Hold thyself up! now die— Ah! Ah! Exceed! Exceed!»voz de MARSYAS. Comprime en cuatro versos la secuencia de instrucción corporal con que se cierra el capítulo II del Libro de la Ley: sostenerse, endurecerse, morir, exceder.

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«My stature shall surpass the stars: He hath said it! Men shall worship me In hidden woods, on barren scaurs, Henceforth to all eternity.»voz de MARSYAS, citando la promesa que el Libro de la Ley hace al profeta y declarando que fue dicha: es una de las pocas veces en que el diálogo remite explícitamente a la autoridad del texto recibido.

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«I am the consecrated Beast. I build the Abominable House. The Scarlet Woman is my Spouse»voz de MARSYAS. Se declara la Bestia consagrada, constructor de la Casa Abominable, con la Mujer Escarlata por esposa.

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«Thou canst not know Till thou hast passed the Fourth Ordeal.»voz de MARSYAS. El límite que el diálogo pone a su propia exposición: la palabra no se comunica, se alcanza pasando la cuarta prueba.

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«The last spell! The availing word! The two completed by the third! The Lord of War, of Vengeance That slayeth with a single glance! This light is in me of my Lord. His Name is this far-whirling sword. I push His order. Keen and swift My Hawk's eye flames; these arms uplift The Banner of Silence and of Strength— Hail! Hail! thou art here, my Lord, at length! Lo, the Hawk-Headed Lord am I: My nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. Hail! ye twin warriors that guard»voz de MARSYAS. Asume los títulos del capítulo III del Libro de la Ley —el Señor de la Guerra y de la Venganza que mata con una sola mirada, el estandarte del Silencio y de la Fuerza, el Señor con cabeza de halcón cuyo nemyss cubre el cielo azul de noche— en primera persona; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«The pillars of the world! Your time Is nigh at hand. The snake that marred Heaven with his inexhaustible slime Is slain;»voz de MARSYAS, continuación en la plana siguiente. Añade algo que el Libro de la Ley no dice: que la serpiente que manchaba el cielo con su limo inagotable está muerta.

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«The Wand that waxes and that wanes; I crush the Universe this hour In my left hand; and naught remains!»voz de MARSYAS. La vara que crece y mengua y el universo aplastado en la mano izquierda, tomados del capítulo III del Libro de la Ley.

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«Ho! for the splendour in my name Hidden and glorious, a flame Secretly shooting from the sun. Aum! Ha!—my destiny is done. The Word is spoken and concealed.»voz de MARSYAS. Cierra el rapto con la fórmula de sello del Libro de la Ley y declara consumado su destino.

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«The rite is secret. OLYMPAS. Profits it? MARSYAS. Only to wisdom and to wit.»diálogo de OLYMPAS y MARSYAS. Al preguntar el discípulo de qué sirve, el maestro acota el provecho a la sabiduría y al ingenio: es el límite que el pasaje pone a su propia promesa.

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«Then prove Both by the master-key of Love. The lock turns stiffly? Shalt thou shirk To use the sacred oil of work? Not from the valley shalt thou test The eggs that line the eagle's nest! Climb, with thy life at stake, the ice,»voz de MARSYAS. La imagen que gobierna la sección: el amor es la llave maestra, el trabajo es el aceite sagrado, y la prueba no se hace desde el valle sino escalando con la vida en juego; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«The sheer wall of the precipice! Master the cornice, gain the breach, And learn what next the ridge can teach! Yet—not the ridge itself may speak The secret of the final peak.»continuación en la plana siguiente: dominar la cornisa, ganar la brecha y aprender lo que enseña la arista, con el límite de que ni la arista misma dice el secreto de la cumbre final.

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«Neither by faith nor fear nor awe Approach the doctrine of the Law! Truth, Courage, Love, shall win the bout, And those three others be cast out.»voz de MARSYAS. Excluye de la aproximación a la doctrina la fe, el miedo y el temor reverencial, y pone en su lugar verdad, valor y amor.

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«Yonder, faintly luminous, The yellow desert waits for us. Lithe and eager, hand in hand, We travel to the lonely land. There, beneath the stars, the smoke Of our incense shall invoke The Queen of Space; and subtly She Shall bend from Her infinity Like a lambent flame of blue, Touching us, and piercing through All the sense-webs that we are As the aethyr penetrates a star!»voz de MARSYAS. La operación en el desierto que el Libro de la Ley prescribe, contada como escena: el humo del incienso invoca a la Reina del Espacio, que se inclina como llama azul y atraviesa las redes del sentido.

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«Nay, we stir not. Everywhere Is our temple right appointed. All the earth is faery fair For us. Am I not anointed? The Sigil burns upon the brow At the adjuration—here and now.»voz de MARSYAS. La conclusión con que retira la necesidad del lugar sagrado: el templo está en todas partes bien dispuesto y el sigilo arde en la frente aquí y ahora.

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«Master, how subtly hast thou drawn The daylight from the Golden Dawn, Bidden the Cavernous Mount unfold Its Ruby Rose, its Cross of Gold; Until I saw, flashed from afar, The Hawk's eye in the Silver Star!»voz de OLYMPAS. El discípulo nombra la procedencia de lo que ha visto: la luz del día sacada de la Golden Dawn, la Rosa Rubí y la Cruz de Oro, y el ojo del halcón en la Estrella de Plata; es la genealogía de órdenes que el volumen se reconoce.

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«Peace to all beings. Peace to thee, Co-heir of mine eternity! Peace to the greatest and the least, To nebula and nenuphar! Light in abundance be increased On them that dream that shadows are! OLYMPAS. Blessing and worship to The Beast, The prophet of the lovely Star!»cierre del diálogo, en las voces de MARSYAS y OLYMPAS: la bendición a las criaturas y a quien duda, y el último verso, que es el que cierra también el capítulo II del Libro de la Ley.

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«LIBER VEL LEGIS SVB FIGVRÂ CCXX AS DELIVERED BY XCIII = 418 UNTO DCLXVI»portada del Liber CCXX dentro del volumen. El troceo no recoge el AL del título, que va en caracteres que la capa de texto no rinde. La fórmula de entrega difiere de la otra copia del corpus: aquí *unto* donde la edición NuVision imprime *to*.

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«A∴A∴ Publication in Class A»la clasificación con que el volumen publica el texto recibido: Clase A, que en su propio sistema es el rango en que no se altera ni el trazo de una letra. El ancla aparece dos veces en el troceo, aquí y en la portada del facsímil de la plana 150, y la primera es esta.

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«7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass»voz de Nuit (I:7) en la copia del Equinox. La cita se corta aquí a propósito: el resto del versículo lleva el nombre partido por el salto de renglón —Hoor-paar- / kraat— y span() lo une fabricando una palabra que la fuente no imprime.

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«36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it.»voz de Nuit (I:36). Es el versículo que encarga el comentario, y en esta copia el nombre del dios lleva un guion más, Ra-Hoor-Khu-it, donde la otra copia imprime Ra-Hoor-Khuit; el capítulo VII del propio volumen hace de esa clase de variantes materia de exégesis.

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«39. The word of the Law is qelhma.»voz de Nuit (I:39). Aquí el volumen imprime la palabra en griego —el troceo la rinde como cadena latina— donde la otra copia del corpus la transcribe THELEMA en mayúsculas.

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«49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating.»voz de Nuit (I:49). El versículo que fecha el cambio de eón por la toma de asiento de Ra-Hoor-Khuit en el Equinoccio de los Dioses, que es lo que da título al volumen entero.

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«All these old letters of my Book are aright; but x is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise.»voz de Nuit (I:57, cierre). Donde la otra copia del corpus imprime el nombre de la letra entre corchetes, aquí va el carácter hebreo, que el troceo rinde como una letra suelta: la misma enmienda y dos maneras distintas de imprimirla.

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«66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.»voz de Nuit (I:66): la propia voz declara terminado el capítulo, en la copia que el volumen imprime.

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«1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit. 2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.»voz de Hadit (II:1-2) en la copia del Equinox: la apertura del segundo capítulo, con Hadit declarándose complemento de Nu y no extenso.

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«21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily, thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.»voz de Hadit (II:21) en esta copia. Es el tramo que el capítulo VII llamará más adelante estilo complicado, brutal y burlón, y que el propio Crowley declara haber escrito odiándolo.

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«27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason.»voz de Hadit (II:27). Esta copia imprime *accursèd* con acento grave en los versículos siguientes donde la otra imprime *accursed*: la diferencia es de acentuación métrica, no de palabra.

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«38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law.»voz de Hadit (II:38). El único dato de duración que el texto recibido da de su propia escritura, y el que el capítulo VII del volumen convierte en tres sesiones de una hora.

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«55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.»voz de Hadit (II:55). El capítulo VII del volumen comenta este versículo diciendo que la tarea le pareció imposible; el mandato queda abierto dentro del propio libro.

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«70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!»voz de Hadit (II:70) en esta copia, que imprime *whoso seeth* separado donde la otra del corpus imprime una sola palabra: la comparación permite ver cuál de las dos copias está corrompida.

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«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 A L.»voz de Hadit (II:76). La cadena de cifras y letras sin resolver, conservada con sus espacios; esta copia la imprime igual que la otra del corpus, y la continuación difiere: aquí *chosen one* donde la otra imprime *chose none*.

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«77. O be thou proud and mighty among men! 78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418.»voz de Hadit (II:77-78). El número 418 que aquí se da como nombre de la casa del profeta es el mismo que el capítulo VII del volumen desarrolla como número de la fórmula mágica del eón.

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«1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut. 2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit!»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:1-2). La omisión de la i en el nombre del primer versículo es justamente lo que el capítulo VII señala como indicio de doctrina oculta, y lo enumera entre sus reglas de exégesis.

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«10. Get the stélé 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.»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:10) en esta copia, que escribe *stélé* con acentos donde la otra del corpus escribe *stele*. Es el versículo que manda tomar la estela del museo, y el volumen entero cuenta cómo se llegó a ella.

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«19. That stélé they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718.»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:19). El cómputo de la estela en 718 es una de las cifras que el capítulo VII usa como prueba interna del libro.

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«34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:34). El texto pone fecha de caducidad a su propio eón; el capítulo VII del volumen lo llama peroración poética y enunciado de sucesos por venir, no instrucción. El tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«37. I adore thee in the song— I am the Lord of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veilèd sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee :— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me!»voz del profeta (III:37): la paráfrasis de la estela que el capítulo VII declara insertada después, a permiso de Aiwaz, para ahorrar tiempo. Aquí cierra con *fill* donde el frontispicio del mismo volumen cierra con *kill*; el desacuerdo se consigna, no se arbitra.

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«39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly!»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:39). Es el versículo que el propio volumen cita como su encargo de existir, y que prescribe además la materialidad del libro: tinta roja y negra sobre papel hecho a mano.

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«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.»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:47). El versículo que anuncia a quien descubrirá la clave; el capítulo VII lo da por cumplido en Achad y acota que la obra de Achad no se extiende más allá de ese hallazgo.

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«51. With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. 53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:51-54) en la copia del Equinox: el tramo hostil contra las figuras de las religiones establecidas, que el volumen imprime sin atenuar.

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«70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand.»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:70-71). Los mismos títulos que MARSYAS asume en primera persona en la sección A Summary de este volumen, nueve planas antes.

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«72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains.»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:72) en la copia del Equinox, que imprime la raya como guion largo donde la otra copia del corpus la imprime como dos guiones seguidos; aquí el tramo entero cabe en una sola cita.

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«73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.»voz de Ra-Hoor-Khuit (III:73-74). El capítulo VII del volumen enumera los dos versículos entre los pasajes que exigen lectura cifrada: la ambigüedad de la instrucción y la identidad de sonido entre sol e hijo.

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«75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.»cierre del texto recibido y su colofón: escrito y ocultado a la vez. En esta copia el colofón va sin numerar, igual que en la otra del corpus.

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«THE COMMENT Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire. Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will. The priest of the princes,»voz del receptor: el Comentario que el volumen imprime tras el texto recibido, y que prohíbe estudiarlo, discutirlo y conservarlo. El capítulo VII lo llama el mensaje realmente inspirado, el que corta todas las dificultades de un solo tajo, y lo distingue del Comentario extenso que estaba en preparación. El troceo imprime este mismo texto dos veces, aquí y en la plana 216, y la primera es esta.

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«A∴A∴ Publication in Class B»voz del aparato de la orden: el relato de la recepción se publica en Clase B, no en la Clase A del texto recibido; el propio volumen separa así lo dictado de lo escrito.

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«In The Book of the Law we find in the 3rd chapter and the 39th to the 41st verse an instruction to issue a book to say how theis Revelation was obtained, with certain details with regard to the style in which it is to be done. It has hitherto been impossible to comply with this injunction, although an attempt was made in “The Temple of Solomon the King.” We now proceed to do so; the subject divides itself into Eight Chapters.»voz del editor, firmada (Ed.) en nota al pie del primer capítulo. Declara el encargo que este volumen viene a cumplir y reconoce que el intento anterior, dentro de The Temple of Solomon the King, no bastó.

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«AT 36 CLARENDON SQUARE, Leamington, Warwickshire, England, at 10.50 p.m. on the twelfth day of October, in the Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Year of the vulgar era, was born the person whose history is to be recounted.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, que es la de los capítulos I a VI: el relato empieza por la partida de nacimiento y no se nombra a sí mismo, sino que habla de la persona cuya historia va a contarse.

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«His father was named Edward Crowley; his mother, Emily Bertha, her maiden name being Bishop. Edward Crowley was an Exclusive Plymouth Brother, the most considered leader in that sect. This branch of the family of Crowley has been settled in England since Tudor times, but is Celtic in origin, Crowley being a clan in Kerry and other counties in the South-West of Ireland, of the same stock as the Breton “de Querouaille” or “de Kerval” which gave a Duchess of Portsmouth to England. It is supposed that the English branch—the direct ancestry of Edward Alexander Crowley—came to England with the Duke of Richmond, and took root at Bosworth.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Da la ascendencia, sitúa al padre entre los Hermanos de Plymouth exclusivos y le atribuye a la rama inglesa un origen celta con paso por Bretaña.

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«On March 5, 1887, Edward Crowley died. Two years later the boy was removed from the school. Those two years were years of unheard-of torture. He has written details in the Preface to The World's Tragedy. This torture seriously undermined his health.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. La muerte del padre y los dos años siguientes, que llama de tortura inaudita y a los que atribuye el quebranto de su salud, remitiendo al prefacio de otro libro suyo para el detalle.

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«His mental attitude was soon concentrated in hatred of the religion which they taught, and his will concentrated in revolt against its oppressions. His main method of relief was mountaineering, which left him alone with nature, away from the tyrants.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Explica el origen de su hostilidad religiosa por el trato recibido tras la muerte del padre, y da el montañismo por método de alivio: quedarse a solas con la naturaleza.

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«It must be stated that he possessed natural intellectual ability to an altogether extraordinary degree. He had the faculty of memory, especially verbal memory, in astonishing perfection.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El capítulo dedica varias planas a la memoria verbal, con pruebas fechadas: en 1900 lo examinaron sobre Shakespeare, Shelley, Swinburne, Browning y The Moonstone.

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«On the other hand, he could not be persuaded or constrained to apply himself to any subject which did not appeal to him. He showed intense repugnance to history, geography, and botany, among others. He could never learn to write Greek and Latin verses, this probably because the rules of scansion seemed arbitrary and formal.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, con el límite dentro: declara repugnancia por la historia, la geografía y la botánica, e incapacidad para el verso griego y latino, que atribuye a lo arbitrario de las reglas de escansión.

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«Again, it was impossible to him to take interest in anything from the moment that he had grasped the principles of “how it was, or»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El rasgo con que explica su propia obra: perdía el interés en cuanto captaba el principio de cómo se hacía la cosa; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«might be done.” This trait prevented him from putting the finishing touches to anything he attempted.»continuación en la plana siguiente: de ahí deriva que no rematara nada de lo que emprendía, y da un ejemplo, negarse a presentarse a la segunda parte del examen final por saberse dueño de la materia.

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«This almost inhuman unselfishness was not incompatible with consuming and insatiable personal ambition. The key to the puzzle is probably this; he wanted to be something that nobody else had ever been, or could be.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Nombra la clave del retrato: ambición insaciable compatible con desinterés, porque lo que quería era ser algo que nadie hubiera sido ni pudiera ser.

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«Even in Magick, having become The Word of the Æon, and thus taken his place with the other Seven Magi known to history, out of reach of all possible competition, he began to neglect the subject.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Se coloca entre los siete Magos conocidos por la historia y, en la misma frase, declara que empezó a descuidar la materia.

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«He has been known to write for 67 consecutive hours : his Tannhäuser was thus written in 1900. He has walked over 100 miles in 2½ days, in the desert»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. La serie de récords que el capítulo levanta acta, con la nota que los acota: fueron escritos en 1920 y podrían ya no valer.

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«HAVING WON FREEDOM, he had the sense not to waste any time in enjoying it. He had been deprived of all English literature but the Bible during the whole of his youth, and he spent his three years»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Declara qué hizo con la libertad recién ganada: reparar en Cambridge la falta de toda literatura inglesa salvo la Biblia; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«In October, 1897, he was suddenly recalled to his understanding of the evils of the alleged “existing religion,” and experienced a trance, in which he perceived the utter folly of all human ambition. The fame of an ambassador rarely outlives a century. That of a poet is almost as ephemeral. The earth must one day perish. He must build in some material more lasting. This conception drove him to the study of Alchemy and Magick.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Data en octubre de 1897 el trance que le hizo ver vana toda ambición humana —la fama de un embajador rara vez pasa de un siglo— y de ahí deriva su paso a la alquimia y a la magia.

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«He wrote to the author of The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, a pompous American named Arthur Waite, notorious for the affectations and obscurities of his style, and the mealy-mouthed muddle of his mysticism. This nebulous impresario, presenting an asthmatic Isis in»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, con el desprecio que reparte a lo largo del capítulo: llama a Waite pomposo y notorio por las afectaciones de su estilo; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«the Opera “Bull-Frogs,” had hinted in his preface that he knew certain occult sanctuaries wherein Truth and Wisdom were jealously guarded by a body of Initiates, to be despensed to the postulant who proved himself worthy to partake of their privileges. Mr. Waite recommended him to read a book called The Cloud on the Sanctuary.»continuación en la plana siguiente: a Waite le reconoce el dato que le abrió el camino, la existencia de santuarios ocultos guardados por un cuerpo de iniciados, y el título que le recomendó leer.

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«His taste for mountaineering had become a powerful passion, and he was climbing in Cumberland when he met Oscar Eckenstein, perhaps the greatest of all the mountaineers of his period, with whom he was destined to climb thenceforward until 1902. In the summer a party was formed to camp on the Schönbuhl Glacier at the foot of the Dent Blanche, with a view to an expedition ot the Himalayas later on. During his weeks on the Glacier, where the bad weather was continous, he studied assiduously the translation by S. L. Mathers of three books which form part of von Rosenroth’s Kabbalah Unveiled. On one of his descents to Zermatt, he met a distinguished chemist, Julian L. Bater, who had studied Alchemy. He hunted this clue through the valley, and made Baker promise to meet him in London at the end of the season, and introduce him to others who were interested in Occult science.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. La cadena de encuentros que lo llevó al ocultismo pasa por el montañismo: Eckenstein en Cumberland, el estudio en el glaciar de la traducción de Mathers de tres libros de la Kabbalah Unveiled de von Rosenroth, y el químico Julian L. Bater en Zermatt.

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«This happened in September; through Baker, he met another chemist named George Cecil Jones, who introduced him to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He made rapid progress in this Order, and in the spring of 1900 was its chief in England.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Data su entrada en la Golden Dawn por medio de George Cecil Jones y su jefatura en Inglaterra en la primavera de 1900; el troceo escribe Bater y Baker en dos planas seguidas, y la ficha no arbitra.

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«In the Order he met one Allan Bennett, Frater Iehi Aour»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Nombra a Allan Bennett por su lema de orden; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«and Bennett were both Adepts of high standing. The latter came to live with him in his flat, and together they carried out many operations of ceremonial magick. Allan Bennett was constant ill health, and went to Ceylon at the end of 1899.»continuación en la plana siguiente: Bennett se muda con él y juntos ejecutan operaciones de magia ceremonial hasta que la mala salud lo lleva a Ceilán.

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«It was on his entry into this Order that the subject of this history took the motto of “Perdurabo”—“I will endure to the end.”»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Da el lema con que tomó su nombre de orden y su traducción, que es la que el volumen usa como firma en los capítulos siguientes.

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«In July, 1900, he went to Mexico, and devoted his whole time to the continued practice of Magick, in which he obtained extraordinary success. (See Equinox Vol. I, No. III1 for a condensed account of some of these. It may be here stated summarily that he invoked certain Gods, Goddesses, and Spirits to visible appearance, learnt how to heal physical and moral diseases, how to make himself invisible, how to obtain communications from spiritual sources, how to control other minds, etc., etc.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El inventario de resultados mágicos que se atribuye en México —dioses a visión, curaciones, invisibilidad, comunicaciones, control de otras mentes— se enuncia entre paréntesis y remitiendo a otro número de The Equinox.

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«OSCAR ECKENSTEIN, on his arrival in Mexico, where he was to climb mountains with the subject of our essay, found him in a rather despondent mood. He had attained the most satisfactory results. He was able to communicate with thed divine forces, and operations such as those of invisibility and evocation had been mastered. Yet with all this there was a certain dissatisfaction. Success had not given him all that he had hoped for. He placed the situration before his companion, rather to clear his own mind than hoping for any help, for he supposed him to be entirely ignorant of all these subjects, which he habitually treated with dislike and contempt.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El giro del relato: quien le enseña a abandonar la magia no es un adepto sino su compañero de cordada, a quien creía ignorante y despectivo de todo eso.

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«His companion told him to abandon all magick. “The Task,” said Eckenstein, “involves the control of the mind. Yours is a wandering mind.” The proposition was indignantly denied. “Test it,” said the Master.»voz de Eckenstein dentro del relato de Crowley. El diagnóstico —tarea es el control de la mente, y la suya divaga— y el reto con que lo prueba; el volumen lo llama el Maestro.

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«A short experiment was conclusive. It was impossible for the boy to keep his mind fixed upon a single object for even a few seconds at a time. The mind, thougfh perfectly stable in motion, was unable to rest, just as a gyroscope falls when the flywheel slows down.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Reconoce el resultado del experimento en su contra, con la imagen del giroscopio: una mente perfectamente estable en movimiento e incapaz de reposo.

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«He soon became sufficiently expert in this initial practice to proceed to concentration on regularly moving objects such as a pendulum, and, ultimately, on living objects. A further series of experiments dealt with the other senses. He tried to imagine and retain the taste of chocolate or of quinine, the smell of various familiar perfumes, the sound of bells, waterfalls, and so on, or the feeling excited by such objects as velvet, silk, fur, sand and steel.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El programa de concentración descrito como serie de ejercicios sobre objetos fijos, móviles y vivos, y luego sobre los demás sentidos: el sabor del chocolate o de la quinina, el olor de perfumes conocidos, el tacto del terciopelo o del acero.

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«I.A. told him that in order to concentrate he must first see that no interruptions reached him»voz de Allan Bennett dentro del relato: para concentrarse hay que empezar por que no lleguen interrupciones del cuerpo; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«from the body, and counselled the adoption of Asana, a settled position in which all bodily movement was to be suppressed. Further, he was to practice Pranayama, or control of the breathing, which has a similar effect in reducing to the lowest possible point the internal movements of the body.»continuación en la plana siguiente: la secuencia de la práctica queda fijada en dos pasos, el asana que suprime el movimiento del cuerpo y el pranayama que reduce al mínimo el movimiento interno.

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«While in Pranayama he passed through the first stage, which is marked by profuse perspiration of a peculiar kind; the second, which is accompanied by rigidity of the body ; and the third, in which the body unconsciously hops about the floor, without in any way disturbing the Asana.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Describe tres estados sucesivos del pranayama por sus signos corporales: sudor peculiar, rigidez y el cuerpo saltando por el suelo sin romper la postura.

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«These practices continued into October, at the beginning of which he reached the state of Dhyana, a tremendous spiritual experience, in which the subject and object of meditation unite with»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Data el dhyana a principios de octubre y lo define por lo que ocurre en él, la unión de sujeto y objeto de meditación; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«excessive violence in blinding brilliance and music of a kind to which earthly harmony affords no parallel.»continuación en la plana siguiente: describe esa unión como violencia excesiva, brillo cegador y música sin paralelo terrestre, que es el límite que le pone a su propia descripción.

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«The result of this however was to cause so intense a satisfaction with his progress, that he gave up work.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, y es el patrón que el libro repite: el logro produce satisfacción y la satisfacción interrumpe el trabajo.

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«IN THE AUTUMN of 1898 George Cecil Jones had directed the attention of Frater Perdurabo to a book entitled The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. The essence of this book is as follows : The aspirant must have a house secure from observation and interference. In this house there must be an oratory with a window to the East, and a door to the North opening upon a terrace, at the end of which must be a lodge. He must have a Robe, Crown, Wand, Altar, Incense, Anointing Oil, and a Silver Lamen. The terrace and lodge must be strewn with fine sand. He withdraws himself gradually from human intercourse to devote himself more and more to prayer for the space of four months. He must then occupy two months in almost continuous prayer, speaking as little as possible to anybody. At the end of this period he invokes a being described as the Holy Guardian Angel, who appears to him (or to a child employed by him), and who will write in dew upon the Lamen, which is placed upon the Altar. The Oratory is filled with Divine Perfume not of the aspirant's kindling.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Resume la operación de Abramelin como receta: casa apartada con oratorio al este y logia al norte, arena fina, cuatro meses de retiro y dos de oración casi continua, hasta que el Ángel Guardián escribe con rocío sobre el lamen.

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«After a period of communion with the Angel, he summons the Four Great Princes of the Daemonic World, and forces them to swear obedience. On the following day he calls forward and subdues the Eight Sub-Princes; and the day after that, the many Spirits serving these. These inferior Dæmons, of whom four act as familiar spirits, then operate a collection of talismans for various purposes. Such is a brief account of the Operation described in the book.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. La segunda mitad de la operación: sometidos los Cuatro Grandes Príncipes, luego los Ocho Subpríncipes y después los espíritus servidores, de los que cuatro quedan como familiares.

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«This Operation strongly appealed to our student. He immediately set about to procure a suitable house, and to prepare everything that might be necessary for the operation. All was ready for the beginning in Easter of 1900, and it must be said that the preliminary work alone is so tremendous that a long story might be written of the events of these 18 months of preparation. The Operation itself was however never begun.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Dieciocho meses de preparativos y la operación nunca empezada: la frase con que el capítulo IV se desmiente a sí mismo.

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«A fortnight or so before the time appointed, he received an urgent appeal from his Master to save him and the Order from destruction. He gave up his own prospects of personal advancement without hesitation, and hastened to Paris.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Da la razón del abandono: una llamada urgente de su Maestro para salvarlo a él y a la Orden; la nota al pie identifica al Maestro como el difunto S. L. Mathers.

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«That the Master proved to be no Master, and the Order no Order, but the incarnation of Disorder, had no effect upon the good Karma created by this renunciation of a project on which he had set his heart for so long.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Consigna el desenlace sin atenuarlo —ni Maestro ni Orden, sino la encarnación del Desorden— y a la vez le adjudica buen karma a la renuncia.

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«(The whole of his magical career is best interpreted as the performance of this Operation. One must not suppose that Initiation is a formality, observing the “unities,” like being made a Mason. All life pertains to the process, and it pervades the whole personality; the official recognition of attainment is merely a token of what had taken place.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, en el paréntesis que reinterpreta todo el libro: la iniciación no es formalidad como hacerse masón, sino que toda la vida participa del proceso y el reconocimiento oficial es solo señal de lo ya ocurrido.

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«having conceived that Work in a subtler manner and having prepared to carry it out in the Temple of his own body, having seen Magick, in short, more of less in the manner in which it is seen in Parts II and III of the Book 4, he was able to dispense with the exterior physical appurtenances of this Operation.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Declara haber trasladado la operación de Abramelin al templo de su propio cuerpo y haber prescindido de los aparejos físicos exteriores.

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«During the winter of 1905-6, he was traveling across China. He had come to the point of conquering his mind. That mind had broken up. He saw that the human mind is by its very nature evanescent, because of the fact that nature is not unity but duality. Truth is relative. All things end in mystery. In such sentences have the philosophers of the past formulated this proposition, as announcing the intellectual bankruptcy which he, with greater frankness, describes as insanity.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Cuenta la ruptura de la mente como resultado buscado y la traduce a las fórmulas de los filósofos —la verdad es relativa, todo acaba en misterio— para llamarla, con más franqueza según dice, locura.

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«Passing from this, he became as a little child, and on reaching the Unity behind the mind, found the purpose of his life formulated in»voz de Crowley en tercera persona: tras la ruptura de la mente se hace como un niño pequeño y halla, detrás de la mente, el propósito de su vida; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«these words, The Obtaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.»continuación en la plana siguiente: ese propósito se formula en los términos del libro de Abramelin, la obtención del Conocimiento y la Conversación del Ángel Guardián.

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«He then accomplished the six months of Invocation, as prescribed in the Book of the Sacred Magic, and was rewarded in October, 1906, by complete success.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Data en octubre de 1906 el éxito completo de la invocación de seis meses, seis años después del abandono de la operación.

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«The wisest of the Popes, on being shown some miracles, refused to be impressed, remarking that he did not believe in them, he had seen too many.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, con la anécdota papal que da el argumento del capítulo V: el exceso de milagros produce incredulidad, no fe.

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«Everything was a phenomenon in mind. He did not as yet see that this conception is self-destructive; but it made him skeptical, and indifferent to whatever happened. You cannot really be impressed by anything which you know to be nothing more than one of your own thoughts.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El estado que describe: una concepción del universo puramente mental, que declara autodestructiva y que producía indiferencia porque nada impresiona si se sabe que es un pensamiento propio.

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«It was not to the Magician, not to the mystic, it was to a militant member of the Rationalist Press Association that the great Revelation was to be made.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El punto donde el volumen encaja su propia tesis: la revelación no se hizo al mago ni al místico, sino a un militante de la Rationalist Press Association.

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«The only point at issue is that there should be conscious Beings in possession of the deepest secrets of Nature, pledged to the uplifting of humanity, filled with Truth, Wisdom and Understanding. It is practical to prove the existence of individuals whose knowledge and power, although not complete—for the nature of Knowledge and Power is such that they can never be complete, since the ideas themselves contain imperfections—are yet enormously greater than aught known to the rest of humanity.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, con el límite dentro: le da igual que los adeptos sean encarnados o discarnados, humanos o divinos, y acota que su conocimiento y su poder no pueden ser completos porque las ideas mismas contienen imperfecciones.

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«For the great Message that came to him came, not through the mouth of any person with any pretensions to any knowledge of this or any other sort, but through an empty-headed woman of society.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, y es como el libro presenta a Rose Edith Kelly antes de nombrarla: por la boca de una mujer de sociedad sin cabeza, comparada con la burra profética de Balaam.

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«It has been judged best to reprint as it stands the account of these matters originally compiled for “The Temple of Solomon the King.”»declaración editorial que abre el capítulo VI: el núcleo del relato no se reescribe, se reimprime tal cual del artículo publicado en The Equinox I (7); la nota añade que las notas se trabajaron con J. F. C. Fuller y que se apuró todo medio de contrainterrogatorio.

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«Therefore since we are to announce the divine revelation made to Fra. P., it is of the last importance that we should study his mind as it was at the time of the Unveiling. If we find it to be the mind of a neurotic, of a mystic, of a person predisposed, we shall slight the revelation; if it be that of a sane man of the world, we shall attach more importance to it.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, enunciando el criterio de crédito que el propio volumen se impone: si la mente del receptor era la de un neurótico o un predispuesto, la revelación vale menos; si era la de un hombre de mundo cuerdo, vale más.

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«So we shall find that the A∴ A∴ subtly prepared Fra. P. by over two years' training in rationalism and indifferentism for Their message. And we shall find that so well did They do Their work that he refused the message for five years more, in spite of many strange proofs of its truth. We shall find even that Fra. P. had to be stripped naked of himself before he could effectively deliver the message. The battle was between all that mighty will of his and the Voice of a Brother who spoke once, and entered again into His silence; and it was not Fra. P. who had the victory.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Convierte en argumento su propia resistencia: dos años de racionalismo lo prepararon y cinco años más de rechazo prueban, a su juicio, que la victoria no fue suya.

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«What are phenomena! he asked. Of noumena I know and can know nothing. All I know is, as far as I know, a mere modification of the mind, a phase of consciousness. And thought is a secretion of the brain. Consciousness is a function of the brain.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, reproduciendo su propio materialismo de 1902: el pensamiento como secreción del cerebro y la conciencia como función suya.

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«He analysed free will, found it illusion. He analysed God, saw that every man had made God in his»voz de Crowley en tercera persona: la voluntad libre analizada y hallada ilusión, y dios hallado hechura del hombre a su propia imagen; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«own image, saw the savage and cannibal Jews devoted to a savage and cannibal God, who commanded the rape of virgins and the murder of little children. He saw the timid inhabitants of India, races continually the prey of every robber tribe, inventing the effeminate Vishnu, while under the same name their conquerors worshipped a warrior, the conqueror of demon Swans. He saw the flower of the earth throughout all time, the gracious Greeks, what gracious gods they had invented. He saw Rome, in its strength devoted to Jupiter and Hercules, in its decay turning to emasculate Attis, slain Adonis, murdered Osiris, crucified Christ.»continuación en la plana siguiente: el repaso comparado de las religiones como proyección de la necesidad de cada pueblo, con Roma pasando de Júpiter y Hércules a Atis, Adonis, Osiris y Cristo.

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«All that he had attained, then, he abandoned. The intui-tions of the Qabalah were cast behind him with a smile at his youthful folly; magic, if true, led nowhere; Yoga had become psychology. For the solution of his original problems of the universe he looked to metaphysics; he devoted his intellect to the cult of absolute reason.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. El inventario del abandono: la cábala descartada con una sonrisa, la magia por no llevar a ninguna parte, el yoga vuelto psicología, y el intelecto entregado al culto de la razón absoluta.

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«So we find that from November 1901 he did no practices of any kind until the Spring Equinox of 1904, with the exception of a casual week in the summer of 1903, and an exhibition game of magic in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid in November 1903, when by his invocations he filled that chamber with a brightness as of full moonlight (this was no subjective illusion. The light was sufficient for him to read the ritual by), only to conclude, “There, you see it? What's the good of it?»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, con el dato que el volumen usa como prueba de su indiferencia: la única excepción a dos años y medio sin práctica fue una exhibición en la Cámara del Rey de la Gran Pirámide, y la acota entre paréntesis diciendo que la luz bastaba para leer el ritual y que no era ilusión subjetiva.

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«Of this “withdrawl from the vision” the proof is not merely deducible from the absence of all occult documents in his dossier, and from the full occupation of his life in external and mundane duties and pleasures, but is made irrefragible and emphatic by the positive evidence of his writings. Of these we have several examples. Two are dramatisations of Greek mythology, a subject offering every opportunity to the occultist. Both are markedly free from any such allusions. We have also a slim booklet, Rosa Mundi, in which the joys of pure human love are pictured without the faintest tinge of mystic emotion. Further, we have a play, The God-Eater, in which the Origin of Religion, as conceived by Spencer or Frazer, is dramatically shown forth; and lastly we have a satire, Why Jesus Wept, hard, cynical, and brutal in its estimate of society, but careless of any remedy for its ills.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona. Argumenta su alejamiento por evidencia positiva y no solo por ausencia: cuatro obras suyas de esos años —dos dramatizaciones griegas, Rosa Mundi, The God-Eater y la sátira Why Jesus Wept— sin rastro de emoción mística.

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«We learn that, late in 1903, he was proposing to visit China on a sporting expedition when a certain very commonplace com-munication made to him by his wife caused him to postpone it. “Let's go and kill something for a month or two,” said he, “and if you're right, we'll get back to nurses and doctors.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, citándose a sí mismo: el viaje a China se pospone por el embarazo de su mujer, dicho en el volumen como comunicación muy común y respondido con una frase de cacería.

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«We here insert extracts from the diary, indeed a meagre production—after what we have seen of his previous record in Ceylon. Whole weeks pass without a word; the great man was playing bridge, poker, or golf!»voz del editor del capítulo VI. Presenta el diario con su propio juicio sobre él: producción magra, semanas enteras en blanco, el gran hombre jugando bridge, póker o golf.

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«(This diary is extremely incomplete and fragmentary. Many entries, too, are evidently irrelevant or “blinds.” We omit much of the latter two types.»declaración de método sobre la fuente que el volumen imprime: el diario es incompleto y fragmentario, muchas entradas son irrelevantes o son señuelos, y se omite gran parte de esos dos tipos.

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«“This eventful year 1903 finds me at a nameless camp in the jungle of Southern Province of Ceylon; my thoughts, otherwise divided between Yoga and sport, are diverted by the fact of a wife . . .»voz del diario de Fra. P., primera persona: pensamientos repartidos entre el yoga y la caza, desviados por el hecho de una esposa.

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«March 16. Began INV. (invocation). IAW.2 March 17. Qwouq appeared.3 March 18. Told to INV. (invoke) qwwri4 as¬!5 by new way. March 19. Did this badly at noon 30.»el tramo del diario que el volumen convierte en el eje del libro: las entradas del 16 al 19 de marzo de 1904, con el comienzo de la invocación, la aparición del dios de la sabiduría y la orden de invocar por una vía nueva. Las glosas entre paréntesis son del editor del capítulo, no del diario; el troceo rinde los nombres divinos en griego y los signos planetarios como cadenas latinas sueltas.

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«March 20. At 10 p.m. did well—Equinox of Gods»la entrada del 20 de marzo de 1904, que es la que da nombre al volumen: el diario anota que la operación salió bien y registra el Equinoccio de los Dioses. La cita se corta aquí porque enseguida viene el lema griego del operante, que el OCR rinde con un guillemet de cierre y rompería las comillas de la ficha.

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«C.R.C. (Christian Rosy Cross, we conjecture.) Hoori now Hpnt (obviously “Hierophant”).»continuación de la misma entrada, con las conjeturas del editor entre paréntesis: el paso de Hoori a Hierofante es el cambio de eón dicho en el vocabulario de grados de la Golden Dawn.

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«Fra. P. never made a thorough record of this period. He seems to have wavered between absolute scepticism in the bad sense, a dislike of the revelation, on the one hand, and real enthusiasm on the other. And the first of these moods would induce him to do things to spoil the effect of the latter. Hence the blinds and stupid meaningless cyphers which deface the diary.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, y es la admisión más costosa del volumen: el registro del periodo decisivo no se llevó a fondo, y los señuelos y cifras sin sentido que afean el diario los puso el propio Fra. P. por escepticismo y por disgusto con la revelación.

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«And, as if the Gods themselves wished to darken the Pylon, we find that later, when P.’s proud will had been broken, and he wished to make straight the way of the historian, his memory (one of the finest memories in the world) was utterly incompetent to make everything certain.»voz del editor del capítulo VI. Reconoce que después, cuando quiso enderezar el relato, su memoria —que el volumen llama una de las mejores del mundo— no alcanzó a fijarlo todo; y añade el criterio con que se sigue: no se consigna nada de lo que no estuviera seguro.

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«We have one quite unspoiled and authoritative document “The Book of Results,” written in one of the small Japanese vellum notebooks which he used to carry. Unfortunately, it seems to have been abandoned after five days.»voz del editor del capítulo VI. Presenta The Book of Results como el único documento intacto del periodo, y en la misma frase declara que se abandonó a los cinco días.

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«March 16th. Die #,1 I invoke IAW.»primera entrada de The Book of Results. El troceo rinde el símbolo del día de la semana como carácter suelto y la nota al pie lo resuelve como miércoles.

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«(Fra. P. tells us that this was done by the ritual of the “Bornless One,”2 merely to amuse his wife by showing her the sylphs. She refused or was unable to see any sylphs, but became “inspired,” and kept on saying: “They’re waiting for you!”»voz del editor citando a Fra. P., y es el punto de partida de todo el relato: la invocación se hizo para divertir a su mujer mostrándole las sílfides, ella no vio nada, y en cambio quedó inspirada repitiendo que lo esperaban.

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«(Note. The maiden name of his wife was Rose Edith Kelly. He called her Ouarda, the Arabic for “Rose.” She is hereafter signified by “Ouarda the Seer” or “W.” for short. Ed.)»nota del editor que nombra por primera vez a la vidente: Rose Edith Kelly, llamada Ouarda —rosa en árabe— y designada W. en el resto del volumen.

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«18. $.4 Revealed that the waiter was Horus, whom I had offended and ought to invoke. The ritual revealed in skeleton. Promise of success»entrada de The Book of Results del 18 de marzo: se revela que quien esperaba era Horus, a quien dice haber ofendido, y el ritual se revela en esqueleto.

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«The revealing of the ritual (by W. the seer) consisted chiefly in a prohibition of all formulae hitherto used, as will be seen from the text printed below.»voz del editor. Precisa en qué consistió la revelación del ritual: sobre todo en la prohibición de todas las fórmulas usadas hasta entonces.

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«He remembers that he only agreed to obey her in order to show her how silly she was, and he taunted her that “nothing could happen if you broke all the rules.»voz del editor citando la memoria de Fra. P.: aceptó obedecer para demostrarle a ella lo tonta que era, y la retó diciendo que nada podía pasar rompiendo todas las reglas.

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«HOW W. KNEW R.H.K. (Ra Hoor Khuit). 1. Force and Fire (I asked her to describe his moral qualities). 2. Deep blue light. (I asked her to describe the condition caused by him. This light is quite unmistakable and unique; but of course her words, though a fair description of it, might equally apply to some other.) 3. Horus. (I asked her to pick out his name from a list of ten dashed off at haphazard.) 4. Recognised his figure when shown. (This refers to the striking scene at the Boulak Museum, which will be dealt with in detail.) 5. Knew my past relations with the God. (This means, I think, that she knew I had taken his place in temple, etc., and that I had never once invoked him.) 6. Knew his enemy. (I asked, “Who is his enemy?” Reply, “Forces of the waters—of the Nile.” W. knew no Egyptology—or anything else.»voz de Fra. P. en primera persona, en la nota que enumera las pruebas de identificación: cualidades morales, luz azul profunda, el nombre elegido de una lista de diez, la figura reconocida, sus relaciones pasadas con el dios y el enemigo del dios.

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«We cannot too strongly insist on the extraordinary character of this identification. W. had made no pretension of clairvoyance, nor had P. ever tried to train her. P. had great experience of clairvoyants, and it was always a point of honour with him to bowl them out.»voz del editor del capítulo VI. La regla de crédito que el propio volumen invoca: W. no pretendía clarividencia ni había sido entrenada, y Fra. P. tenía experiencia de videntes y por honor los ponía a prueba hasta hacerlos fallar.

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«One slip, and Fra. P. would have sent her to the devil. And that slip was not made. Calculate the odds! We cannot find a mathematical expression for tests 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6. But the other 7 tests give us 000 168 21 1 15 1 10 1 7 1 6 1 4 1 84 1 10 1 , , = × × × × × × Twenty-one millions to one against her getting through half the ordeal!»voz del editor del capítulo VI. La prueba se convierte en cálculo: siete de los doce criterios se multiplican y dan veintiún millones a uno; el propio texto reconoce que para cinco de ellos no hay expresión matemática.

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«Even if we suppose what is absurd, that she knew the correspondences of the Qabalah as well as Fra. P., and had»voz del editor del capítulo VI, con el límite dentro: concede por hipótesis lo que llama absurdo, que ella conociera las correspondencias de la cábala tan bien como él; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«knowledge of his own secret relations with the Unseen, we must strain telepathy to explain test 12.»continuación en la plana siguiente: aun concediendo eso, el editor sostiene que habría que forzar la telepatía para explicar la última prueba, y añade que ella ignoraba las correspondencias sutiles.

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«To apply test 4, Fra. P. took her to the museum at Boulak, which they had not previously visited. She passed by (as P. noted with silent glee) several images of Horus. They went upstairs. A glass case stood in the distance, too far off for its contents to be recognized. But W. recognised it! “There,” she cried, “There he is!»voz del editor del capítulo VI, narrando la escena central del libro: ella pasa de largo ante varias imágenes de Horus —y él lo anota con silencioso regocijo— y señala una vitrina demasiado lejos para verse.

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«Fra. P. advanced to the case. There was the image of Horus in the form of Ra Hoor Khuit painted upon a wooden stélé of the 26th dynasty—and the exhibit bore the number 666!»voz del editor del capítulo VI. El hecho del que cuelga toda la prueba: la estela de la dinastía 26 llevaba el número de inventario 666. La nota al pie precisa que Fra. P. había tomado ese número como el de su propio nombre años antes, en la infancia.

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«(And after that it was five years before Fra. P. was forced to obedience.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, en el paréntesis que le quita fuerza a lo que acaba de contar: después de esa coincidencia pasaron cinco años antes de que obedeciera.

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«“In the museum at Cairo, No. 666 is the stele of the Priest Ankh-f-n-khonsu. Horus has a red Disk and green Uraeus.»voz de Fra. P. describiendo la estela: el número de inventario y los primeros colores del dios.

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«His face is green, his skin indigo. His necklace, anklets, and bracelets are gold. His nemyss nearly black from blue. His tunic is the Leopard’s skin, and his apron green and gold. Green is the wand of double Power; his r.h. is empty. His throne is indigo the gnomon, red the square. The light is gamboge.»continuación de la descripción en la plana siguiente: oro en collar, tobilleras y brazaletes, el nemyss casi negro tirando a azul, la vara del doble Poder verde y la mano derecha vacía.

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«[We print the most recent translation of the Stélé, by Messrs Alan Gardiner, Litt.D., and Battiscombe Gunn. It differs slightly from that used by Fra∴ P., which was due to the assistant-curator of the Museum at Bulak.]»declaración editorial que separa dos traducciones: la que el volumen imprime es la de Alan Gardiner y Battiscombe Gunn, y difiere ligeramente de la que usó Fra. P., debida al conservador adjunto del museo.

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«STÉLÉ OF ANKH-F-NA-KHONSU. OBVERSE. Topmost Register (under Winged Disk). Behdet (? Hadit ?), the Great God, the Lord of Heaven. Middle Register. Two vertical lines to left:— Ra-Harakhti, Master of the Gods. Five vertical lines to right:— Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, Opener of the doors of Nut in Karnak, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified. Below Altar:— Oxen, Geese, Wine, (?) Bread. Behind the god is the hieroglyph of Amenti.»traducción de Gardiner y Gunn, registro por registro del anverso: el disco alado de Behdet con la duda entre paréntesis sobre si es Hadit, Ra-Harakhti señor de los dioses, y el titular Ankh-f-na-Khonsu como sacerdote de Montu.

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«Lowest Register. (1) Saith Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, the Opener of the Doors of Nut in Karnak, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, (2) the»traducción de Gardiner y Gunn, registro inferior del anverso: el titular como sacerdote de Montu, señor de Tebas y abridor de las puertas de Nut en Karnak; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«Justified: “Hail, Thou whose praise is high (the highly praised), thou great-willed, O Soul (ba) very awful (lit. mighty of awe) that giveth the terror of him (3) among the Gods, shining in glory upon his great throne, making ways for the Soul (ba), for the Spirit (yekh) and for the Shadow (khabt). I am prepared, and I shine forth as one that is prepared. (4) I have made way to the place in which are Ra, Tôm, Khepri and Hathor.»continuación en la plana siguiente, con las precisiones de los traductores entre paréntesis: los tres términos que traducen como Alma, Espíritu y Sombra van con su transliteración, y la fórmula de haber hecho camino al lugar de Ra, Tôm, Khepri y Hathor es la que Crowley parafraseó en verso.

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«Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, (5) Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified; son of MNBSNMT»la filiación paterna en la traducción de Gardiner y Gunn; la nota al pie declara que la grafía del nombre muestra que el padre era extranjero y que no hay pista para vocalizarlo. La cita se corta antes del título de la madre, que el salto de renglón parte y span() uniría fabricando una palabra.

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«REVERSE. Eleven lines of writing. (1) Saith Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, Ankh-f- (2)na-Khonsu, the Justified:—“My heart from my mother, my heart from my mother, my heart2 of my existence (3) upon earth, stand not forth against me as a witness, drive me not back (4) among the Sovereign Judges,3 neither incline against me in the presence of the Great God, the Lord of the West.»traducción de Gardiner y Gunn, primeras líneas del reverso: el corazón conjurado a no testificar contra él ante el Gran Dios, Señor del Oeste; una nota al pie acota que la traducción de un término es arbitraria y convencional.

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«Now that I am united with Earth in the Great West, and endure no longer upon Earth. (6) Saith Osiris, he who is in Thebes, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified:—“O Only-(7)One, shining like (or in) the Moon; Osiris Ankh-f-(8)na-Khonsu has come forth upon high among these thy multitudes. (9) He that gathereth together those that are in the Light, the Underworld (duat) is»continuación de la traducción del reverso: el difunto sale a lo alto entre las multitudes y se le abre el mundo inferior, con el término egipcio conservado entre paréntesis.

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«19. '. The ritual written out and the invocation done—little success.»entrada de The Book of Results del 19 de marzo: escrito el ritual y hecha la invocación, poco éxito. El volumen la conserva junto a la del día siguiente, que declara gran éxito.

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«20. !. Revealed2 that the Equinox of the Gods is come. Horus taking the Throne of the East and all rituals, etc., being abrogated.»entrada del 20 de marzo, la que da título al libro: se revela que ha llegado el Equinoccio de los Dioses, con Horus tomando el Trono del Este y todos los rituales abrogados; la nota al pie declara no poder determinar si esa revelación viene de W. o del propio ritual.

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«I am to formulate a new link of an order with the solar force.»entrada de The Book of Results: el encargo de formular un vínculo nuevo entre una orden y la fuerza solar.

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«For P. writes: “I make it an absolute condition that I should attain Samadhi, in the god’s own interest.” His memory concurs in this. It was the Samadhi attained in October 1906 that set him again in the path of obedience to this revelation.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, acotando el propio vocabulario del volumen: gran éxito no significa samadhi, y lo prueba con la condición que Fra. P. puso por escrito; el samadhi llegó en octubre de 1906.

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«22. %.2 The day of rest, on which nothing whatever of magic is to be done at all. # is to be the great day of invocation. (This note is due to W.'s prompting, or to his own rationalising imagination.»entrada del 22 de marzo y su glosa: el día de descanso en que no se hace magia alguna. El editor no arbitra de dónde viene la prescripción, si de W. o de la imaginación racionalizadora del propio Fra. P.

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«INVOCATION OF HORUS ACCORDING TO THE DIVINE VISION OF W. THE SEER To be performed before a window open to the E. or N. without incense. The room to be filled with jewels, but only diamonds to be worn. A sword, unconsecrated. 44 pearl beads to be told. Stand. Bright daylight at 12.30 noon. Lock doors. White robes. Bare feet. Be very loud. Saturday. Use the Sign of Apophis and Typhon.»rúbrica del ritual, adjudicada en el propio encabezado a la visión de W.: ventana al este o al norte, sin incienso, la sala llena de joyas pero solo diamantes puestos, espada sin consagrar, cuarenta y cuatro cuentas de perla, mediodía y media, puertas cerradas, túnica blanca y pies descalzos.

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«Preliminary. Banish. L.B.R. Pentagram. L.B.R. Hexagram. Flaming Sword. Abrahadabra. Invoke. As before. [These are P.'s ideas for the ritual. W. replied, “Omit.”»el tramo donde el volumen deja ver la corrección: las ideas preliminares del ritual son de Fra. P. y la respuesta de W. es que se omitan. Es la prohibición de las fórmulas usadas hasta entonces, aplicada por escrito.

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«[The MS. of this Ritual bears many internal marks of having been written at white heat and left unrevised, save perhaps for one glance. There are mistakes in grammar and spelling unique in all MSS. of Fra. P.; the use of capitals is irregular, and the punctuation almost wanting.]»nota del editor sobre el manuscrito del ritual: escrito al rojo vivo y sin revisar, con errores de gramática y ortografía únicos entre los manuscritos de Fra. P., mayúsculas irregulares y casi sin puntuación.

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«CONFESSION Unprepared and uninvoking Thee, I,»apertura de la confesión ritual, en primera persona. La cita se corta aquí porque enseguida viene el lema griego del operante, que el OCR rinde con un guillemet de cierre.

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«am here in Thy Presence—for Thou art Everywhere, O Lord Horus!—to confess humbly before Thee my neglect and scorn of Thee. How shall I humble myself enough before Thee? Thou art the mighty and unconquered Lord of the Universe: I am a spark of Thine unutterable Radiance. How should I approach Thee?—but Thou art Everywhere. But Thou hast graciously deigned to call me unto Thee, to this Exorcism of Art, that I may be Thy Servant, Thine Adept, O Bright One, O Sun of Glory! Thou hast called me—should I not then hasten to Thy Presence? With unwashen hands therefore I come unto Thee, and I lament my wandering from Thee—but Thou knowest! Yea, I have done evil!»confesión ritual en primera persona: se presenta ante Horus a confesar su desprecio y su abandono, y viene con las manos sin lavar.

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«My trust is in Thee: shall I be confounded? This Ritual of Art; this Forty and Fourfold Invocation; this Sacrifice of Blood3—these I do not comprehend.»confesión ritual, con la reserva dentro: declara no comprender el ritual que ejecuta, ni la invocación cuarenta y cuatro veces cuádruple, ni el sacrificio de sangre. La nota al pie del volumen conjetura que la sangre es solo la gematría de cuarenta y cuatro y admite no estar segura.

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«It is enough if I obey Thy decree; did thy fiat go forth for my eternal misery, were it not my joy to execute Thy Sentence on myself? For why? For that All is in Thee and of Thee; it is enough if I burn up in the intolerable glory of Thy presence. Enough! I turn toward Thy Promise. Doubtful are the Words: Dark are the Ways: but in Thy Words and Ways is Light. Thus then now as ever, I enter the Path of Darkness, if haply so I may attain the Light.»cierre de la confesión ritual: obedecer basta, y entra en el Camino de la Oscuridad por si acaso así alcanza la Luz.

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«1. O Thou of the Head of the Hawk! Thee, Thee, I invoke! [At every “Thee I invoke,” throughout whole ritual, give the Sign of Apophis.] A. Thou only-begotten-child of Osiris Thy Father, and Isis Thy Mother. He that was slain; She that bore Thee in Her womb, flying from the Terror of the Water.»invocación de Horus, primera sección: la fórmula de llamada que se repite en todo el ritual y el signo de Apofis que la acompaña, con la filiación del dios como hijo único de Osiris e Isis.

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«Thou who didst avenge the Horror of Death; Thou the slayer of Typhon! Thou who didst lift Thine arms, and the Dragons of Death were as dust; Thou who didst raise Thine Head, and the Crocodile of Nile was abased before Thee!»invocación de Horus: el dios como vengador y matador de Tifón, ante quien los dragones de la muerte se vuelven polvo.

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«6. O Thou who bearest the Rose and Cross of Life and Light! Thee, Thee, I invoke! The Voice of the Five. The Voice of the Six. Eleven are the Voices.»estructura numérica del ritual: cinco voces y seis voces suman once, el número que el Libro de la Ley da a Nuit y a Hadit; la sección cierra con la palabra Abrahadabra.

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«1. By thy name of Ra I invoke Thee, Hawk of the Sun, the glorious one! 2. By thy name Harmachis, youth of the Brilliant Morning, I invoke Thee! 3. By thy name Mau, I invoke Thee, Lion of the Midday Sun. 4. By thy name Tum, Hawk of the Even, crimson splendour of the Sunset, I invoke Thee! 5. By thy name Khep-Ra I invoke Thee»segunda sección de la invocación: los cinco nombres solares egipcios repartidos por hora del día, del halcón del sol a la mañana brillante, el león del mediodía, el ocaso carmesí y el escarabajo de la medianoche.

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«A. By thy name Heru-pa-Kraat, Lord of Silence, Beautiful Child that standest on the Dragons of the Deep, I invoke Thee! B. By thy name of Apollo, I invoke Thee, O man of strength and splendour, O poet, O father!»continuación de la misma sección, donde el ritual mezcla panteones sin jerarquizarlos: al señor del Silencio egipcio le siguen Apolo, Febo, Odín, Jeheshua y el nombre secreto Hoori.

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«Behold! I stand in the midst. Mine is the symbol of Osiris; to Thee are mine eyes ever turned. Unto the splendour of Geburah, the Magnificence of Chesed, the mystery of Daath, thither I lift up mine eyes. This have I sought, and I have sought the Unity: hear Thou me!»invocación de Horus: el operante se sitúa en medio con el símbolo de Osiris y levanta los ojos a Geburah, Chesed y el misterio de Daath, con lo que el ritual egipcio queda montado sobre el Árbol cabalístico.

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«B. Mine is the Red Triangle Reversed, the Sign1 given of none, save it be of Thee, O Lord! By the Lamen I invoke Thee!»tercera sección de la invocación. La nota al pie declara que ese signo lo había comunicado antes W. y que era enteramente nuevo para P.: es una de las piezas con que el volumen sostiene que ella sabía lo que no podía saber.

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«[On the Saturday the string of pearls broke: so I changed the invocation to “My mystic sigils travel in the Bark of the Akasa, etc. By the spells I invoke Thee!»acotación firmada P. dentro del ritual: al romperse el collar de perlas cambió la invocación sobre la marcha; el texto conserva la enmienda en vez de borrarla.

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«Therefore I say unto Thee: Come Thou forth and dwell in me; so that every my Spirit, whether of the Firmament, or of the Ether, of the Earth or under the Earth; on dry land or in the Water, or Whirling Air or of rushing fire; and every spell and scourge of God the Vast One may be THOU. Abrahadabra!»cierre de la invocación de Horus: la petición de que todo espíritu del firmamento, del éter, de la tierra, del agua, del aire o del fuego sea el dios mismo.

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«During the period March 23rd—April 8th, whatever else may have happened, it is at least certain that work was continued to some extent, that the inscriptions of the stélé were translated for Fra. P., and that he paraphrased the latter in verse.»voz del editor del capítulo VI. Fija lo que se puede afirmar del periodo entre la visita al museo y el dictado: que se tradujeron las inscripciones de la estela para Fra. P. y que él las parafraseó en verso, y que esa paráfrasis se usó dentro del Liber Legis.

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«The MS. is a mere fragmentary sketch.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, con el límite dentro, al presentar las coincidencias cabalísticas: el manuscrito es un esbozo fragmentario.

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«Now 666 = My name. = the number of the»voz de Fra. P. en el esbozo cabalístico: hace coincidir su propio nombre, el número de la estela, el número de la Bestia del Apocalipsis y el del Sol en un mismo 666.

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«So much we extract from volumes filled with minute calculations, of which the bulk is no longer intelligible even to Fra. P.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, con la admisión dentro: el grueso de los cálculos ya no es inteligible ni para su autor.

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«His memory, however, assures us that the coincidences were much more numerous and striking than those we have been able to reproduce here; but his attitude is, we understand, that after all “It’s all in Liber Legis. ‘Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch!’ ” And indeed in the Commentary to that Book will be found sufficient for the most wary of inquirers.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, que aquí se apoya en la memoria de Fra. P. y en su propio veredicto —todo está en el Liber Legis, el éxito es la prueba— en lugar de en el documento.

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«Now who, it may be asked, was Aiwass? It is the name given by W. to P. as that of her informant. Also it is the name given as that of the revealer of Liber Legis. But whether Aiwass is a spiritual being, or a man known to Fra. P., is a matter of the merest conjecture.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, y es la abstención central del volumen: quién sea Aiwass —ser espiritual u hombre conocido de Fra. P.— queda declarado pura conjetura.

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«His number is 78,1 that of Mezla, the Channel through which Macroprosopus reveals Himself to, or showers His influence upon, Microprosopus.2 So we find Fra. P. speaking of him at one time as of another, but more advanced, man; at another time as if it were the name of his own superior in the Spiritual Hierarchy.»voz del editor del capítulo VI. Cifra el nombre en 78 y lo empareja con Mezla, el canal por donde el Macroprosopus se revela al Microprosopus; y consigna que el propio Fra. P. habla de él unas veces como de otro hombre más avanzado y otras como de su superior en la jerarquía espiritual, sin resolverlo.

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«And to all questions Fra. P. finds a reply, either pointing out “the subtle metaphysical distinction between curiosity and hard work,” or indicating that among the Brethren “names are only lies,” or in some other way defeating the very plain purpose of the historian.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, que aquí acusa a su propio sujeto: a toda pregunta responde con una distinción sutil entre curiosidad y trabajo duro, o con que entre los Hermanos los nombres son solo mentiras.

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«Similarly, with regard to the writing of Liber Legis, Fra. P. will only say that it is in no way “automatic writing,” that he heard clearly and distinctly the human articulate accents of a man.»voz del editor citando a Fra. P., y es la afirmación que el volumen entero defiende: la escritura no fue automática, sino que oyó clara y distintamente los acentos articulados de un hombre.

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«Once, on page 6, he is told to edit a sentence; and once, on page 19, W. supplies a sentence which he had failed to hear.»las dos únicas excepciones que el capítulo VI admite en el manuscrito: una frase que se le mandó editar y otra que no oyó y que suplió W.

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«It must have been on the 7th of April that W. commanded P. (now somewhat cowed) to enter the “temple” exactly at 12 o’clock noon on three successive days, and to write down what he should hear, rising exactly at 1 o’clock.»voz del editor del capítulo VI. La instrucción del dictado viene de W., no del dios: entrar al templo exactamente a las doce del día tres días seguidos y escribir lo que oyera, levantándose a la una en punto.

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«This he did. Immediately on his taking his seat the Voice began its Utterance, and ended exactly at the expiration of the hour. These are the three chapters of Liber Legis, and we have nothing to add.»cierre del capítulo VI: la voz empezaba al sentarse y terminaba al expirar la hora, y el editor declara no tener nada que añadir.

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«The full title of the book is LIBER L vel LEGIS svb figvrâ CCXX as delivered by LXXVIII to DCLXVI and it is the First and Greatest of those Class A publications of A∴A∴ of which is not to be altered so much as the style of a letter.»voz del editor del capítulo VI. Consigna el título original con que se pensaba publicar el libro en 1909, y ahí la entrega va de LXXVIII a DCLXVI, no de XCIII como en la portada de este volumen.

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«This was the original title devised by 666 to appear in the 1909 publication.1 The “Key of it all” and the true spelling of Aiwass had not then been discovered.»voz del editor del capítulo VI, que explica la divergencia en vez de ocultarla: en 1909 no se habían descubierto ni la clave de todo ello ni la grafía verdadera de Aiwass; de ahí que el número cambiara de 78 a 93.

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«FESTIVAL OF THE EQUINOX (Temple arranged as for 0° = 08) Ht. (knocks). Fratres and Sorores of all grades of the Golden Dawn in the Outer, let us celebrate the Festival of the Vernal Autumnal} { Equinox! All rise. Ht. Frater Kerux, proclaim the fact, and announce the abrogation of the present Pass Word. K. (going to Ht.'s right, saluting, and facing West). In the Name of the Lord of the Universe, and by command to the V.H.Ht., I proclaim the Vernal Autumnal} { Equinox, and declare that the Pass Word —— is abrogated.»el ritual del Equinoccio de la Golden Dawn que el volumen reproduce como término de comparación: cada seis meses la orden abroga su Palabra de Paso y proclama otra, y esa es la analogía con que el libro explica el cambio de eón.

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«Ht. Let us, according to ancient custom, consecrate the return of the Vernal Autumnal} { Equinox. Light. Hs. Darkness. Ht. East. Hs. West. Ht. Air. Hs. Water. Hg. (knocks). I am the Reconciler between them.»el ritual reproducido: la consagración por pares de opuestos —luz y oscuridad, este y oeste, aire y agua, calor y frío, sur y norte, fuego y tierra— con un tercer oficial que se declara reconciliador.

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«Each retiring Officer in turn, beginning with Ht., quits his post by the left hand and goes to foot of Throne. He there disrobes, placing robe and lamen at foot of Throne or Dais. He then proceeds with the Sun's course to the Altar, and lays thereon his special insignia, viz.:—Ht., Sceptre: Hs., Sword: Hg., Sceptre: K., Lamp and Wand: S., Cup: D., Censer: repeating out-going Password as he does so.»el ritual reproducido, en su rúbrica: los oficiales salientes se desvisten al pie del trono y depositan sus insignias en el altar —cetro, espada, lámpara y vara, copa, incensario— repitiendo la palabra que se abroga.

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«Ht. Let us adore the Lord of the Universe. Holy art Thou, Lord of the Air, who hast created the Firmament.»el ritual reproducido: la adoración del Señor del Universo por los cuatro cuartos, empezando por el aire en el este con la rosa.

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«Hg. Let us adore the Lord of the Universe. Holy art Thou, Who art in all things, in Whom are all things; If I climb up into Heaven, Thou art there; If I go down into Hell, Thou art there also; If I take the Wings of the Morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the Sea, even there shall Thy hand lead me and Thy right hand shall hold me; If I say “Peradventure the Darkness shall cover me,” even the Night shall be Light unto Thee; Thine is the Air with its Movement, Thine is the Fire with its flashing Flame, Thine is the Water with its Flux and Reflux, Thine is the Earth with its Eternal Stability.»el ritual reproducido: la adoración final del reconciliador, que cita el salmo de la omnipresencia y reparte los cuatro elementos con su atributo, del movimiento del aire a la estabilidad eterna de la tierra.

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«Imperator. By the Power and Authority in me vested, I confer upon you the new Password. It is ——.»el ritual reproducido: la palabra nueva la confiere el Imperator, y el texto impreso la deja en blanco. Es la mecánica que el volumen traslada al eón: una Palabra que se abroga y otra que se da.

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«Ht. Khabs. Pax. In. Hs. Am. Konx. Extension. Hg. Pekht. Om. Light.»cierre del ritual del Equinoccio, con la fórmula que reparte entre tres oficiales las palabras Khabs, Pekht, Konx, Om, Pax, Light: las mismas voces egipcias que el Libro de la Ley usa en su octavo versículo.

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«CERTAIN VERY SERIOUS QUESTIONS have arisen with regard to the method by which this Book was obtained. I do not refer to those doubts—real or pretended—which hostility engenders, for all such are dispelled by study of the text»voz de Crowley en PRIMERA persona, que es la del capítulo VII: plantea las preguntas serias sobre el método por el que se obtuvo el libro y descarta de entrada las dudas nacidas de la hostilidad.

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«no forger could have prepared so complex a set of numerical and literal puzzles as to leave himself (a) devoted to the solution for years after, (b) baffled by a simplicity which when disclosed leaves one gasping at its profundity, (c) enlightened only by progressive initiation, or by “accidental” events apparently disconnected with the Book, which occurred long after its publication, (d) hostile, bewildered, and careless even in the face of independent testimony as to the power and clarity of the Book»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Su argumento contra la falsificación se apoya en su propia conducta: ningún falsario se habría dejado a sí mismo dedicado a resolver el enigma durante años, desconcertado, hostil y descuidado ante el testimonio independiente.

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«I am certain, I the Beast, whose number is Six Hundred and Sixty Six, that this Third Chapter of the Book of the Law is nothing less than the authentic Word, the Word of the Aeon, the Truth about Nature at this time and on this planet.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), en primera persona y por su número: declara que el tercer capítulo del Libro de la Ley es la Palabra auténtica del Eón, y en la misma frase dice haberlo escrito odiándolo y burlándose de él.

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«The War of 1914-18 and its sequels have proved even to the dullest statesmen, beyond wit of even the most subtly sophistical theologians to gloze, that death is not an unmixed benefit either to the individual or the community : that force and fire of leaping manhood are more useful to a nation than cringing respectability and emasculate servility; that genius goes with courage, and the sense of shame and guilt with “Defeatism.”»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), leyendo la guerra como confirmación del libro: la muerte no es un bien sin mezcla, la fuerza vale más que la respetabilidad, y el genio va con el valor.

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«This long digression is but to explain that I, myself, who issue Liber Legis, am no fanatic partisan. I will obey my orders (III, 42) “Argue not, convert not;” even though I shirk some others.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con la reserva dentro: dice no ser un partidario fanático y anuncia que obedecerá la orden de no argumentar ni convertir, admitiendo a la vez que elude otras órdenes del libro.

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«I, of all men on this Earth reputed mightiest in Magick, by mine enemies more than by my friends, have striven to lose this Book, to forget it, defy it, criticise it, escape it, these nigh sixteen years; and It holds me to the course It sets, even as the Mountain of Lodestone holds the ship»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El argumento por la resistencia propia, dicho en primera persona: dice haber intentado perder el libro, olvidarlo, desafiarlo, criticarlo y escapar de él durante cerca de dieciséis años.

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«So much for the sceptics; put your heads in the Lion's mouth; so may you come to certainty, whether I be stuffed with straw!»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El desafío con que despacha a los escépticos, en la misma página en que declara que no responderá a preguntas sobre el origen del libro.

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«But, in the text of the Book itself, are thorns for the flesh of the most ardent swain as he buries his face in the roses; some of the ivy»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con la salvedad dentro: en el texto del libro hay espinas para quien hunda la cara en las rosas; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana, y del otro lado la hiedra resulta venenosa.

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«The question arises, especially on examining the original manuscript in My handwriting: “Who wrote these words?”»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La pregunta que organiza el capítulo, planteada por el propio manuscrito de su puño y letra.

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«Of course I wrote them, ink on paper, in the material sense; but they are not My words, unless Aiwaz be taken to be no more than my subconscious self, or some part of it: in that case, my conscious self being ignorant of the Truth in the Book and hostile to most of the ethics and philosophy of the Book, Aiwaz is a severely suppressed part of me.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es su formulación más medida: admite la escritura material y niega la autoría, y deja abierta la hipótesis de que Aiwaz sea su propio subconsciente, en cuyo caso sería una parte suya severamente reprimida.

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«If so, the theorist must suggest a reason for this explosive yet ceremonially controlled manifestation, and furnish and explanation of the dovetailing of Events in subsequent years with His word written and published.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El contraargumento que le opone a esa hipótesis: quien la sostenga tendría que explicar el encaje de los sucesos posteriores con lo escrito y publicado.

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«In any case, whatever “Aiwaz” is, “Aiwaz” is an Intelligence possessed of power and knowledge absolutely beyond human experience; and therefore Aiwaz is a Being worthy, as the current use of the word allows, of the title of a God, yea verily and amen, of a God.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con su propia definición de dios: sea lo que sea, es una inteligencia con poder y conocimiento fuera de la experiencia humana, y eso basta para el título.

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«The proof of His praeterhuman Nature—call Him a Devil or a God or even an Elemental as you will—is partly external, depending on events and persons without the sphere of Its influence, partly internal, depending on the concealment of (a) certain Truths, some»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Reparte la prueba en externa e interna, y admite de paso que puede llamársele Diablo, Dios o Elemental; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«previously known, some not known, but for the most part beyond the scope of my mind at the time of writing, (b) of an harmony of letters and numbers subtle, delicate and exact, and (c) of Keys to all life’s mysteries, both pertinent to occult science and otherwise, and to all the Locks of Thought»continuación en la plana siguiente: la prueba interna la funda en el ocultamiento de verdades que estaban fuera de su alcance al escribir, de una armonía de letras y números, y de claves de los misterios de la vida.

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«As an example of the first method above mentioned, we have, Cap. III, “The fool readeth this Book—and he understandeth it not.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) citando el versículo III:63 del texto recibido para leerlo al revés; es el método que el capítulo aplica una y otra vez.

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«This Parzival, adding to 418, is (in the legend of the Graal) the son of Kamuret, adding to 666, being the son of me The Beast by the Scarlet Woman Hilarion. This was a Name chosen by her when half drunk, as a theft from Theosophical legend, but containing many of our letter-number Keys to the Mysteries; the number of the petals in the most sacred lotus.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La lectura cifrada que aplica a su propia familia: el hijo que la Mujer Escarlata le dio y el nombre que ella se puso medio borracha, robado de la leyenda teosófica.

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«418 is the number of the Word of the Magical Formula of this Aeon. (666 is I, The Beast.)»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), fijando los dos números del sistema: 418 para la palabra de la fórmula del eón y 666 para sí mismo.

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«He took it for his Name on Entering the Gnosis where is Understanding, and he understood it—this Book—not. That is, he understood that this Book was, so to speak, a vesture or veil upon the idea of “not.”»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El juego con que lee el versículo III:63: quien entendió el libro entendió que era un velo sobre la idea de la negación.

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«That is, he understood that this Book was, so to speak, a vesture or veil upon the idea of “not.” In Hebrew “not” is LA, 31, and AL is»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El eje del comentario cabalístico: el libro leído como velo sobre la idea de la negación, y dos palabras hebreas que suman treinta y uno; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«31, while there is a third 31 still deeplier hidden in the double letter ST, which is a graphic glyph of the sun and moon conjoined to look like a foreshortened Phallus [X], thus [CQ] when written in Greek capitals. This S [C] or Sigma is like a phallus, thus, [s], when writ small ; and like a serpent or spermatozoon when writ final, thus, [j]. This T [Q] or Theta is the point in the circle, or phallus in the kteis, and also the Sun just as C is the Moon, male and female.»continuación en la plana siguiente: la tercera treintena va escondida en una letra doble que lee como glifo del sol y la luna conjuntos, macho y hembra.

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«Teeth are displayed when our Secret Self—our Subconscious Ego, whose Magical Image is our individuality expressed in mental and bodily form—our Holy Guardian Angel—comes forth and declares our True Will to our fellows, whether to snarl or to sneer, to smile or to laugh.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Identifica al Yo Secreto, al Ego Subconsciente y al Ángel Guardián como una sola cosa, y hace de los dientes su signo al declarar la Verdadera Voluntad.

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«Now the other letter, Theta or Teth, has the value of Nine, which is that of AVB, the Secret Magick of Obeah, and of the Sephira Yesod, which is the seat in man of the sexual function by whose Magick he overcomes even Death, and that in more ways than one, ways that are known to none but the loftiest and most upright Initiates, baptised by the Baptism of Wisdom, and communicants at that Eucharist where the Fragment of the Host in the Chalice becomes whole.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Empareja el nueve con la sefirá Yesod y con la función sexual, y declara que por su magia el hombre vence incluso a la muerte, por vías que reserva a los iniciados; la nota al pie añade que la comunión romana conservó la forma y perdió la sustancia.

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«And Teth means a Serpent, the symbol of the magical Life of the Soul, lord of “the double wand” of life and death. The serpent is royal, hooded, wise, silent save for an hiss when need is to disclose his Will; he devours his tail—the glyph of Eternity, of Nothingness and of Space; he moves wavelike, one immaterial essence travelling through crest and trough, as a man's soul through lives and deaths. He straightens out; he is the Rod that strikes, the Light-radiance of the Sun or the Life radiance of the Phallus.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La serpiente como glifo de la vida del alma: devora su cola, se mueve en onda como el alma por vidas y muertes, y se endereza como vara que golpea.

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«Now in the Tarot the Trump illustrating this letter Sh is and old form of the Stele of Revealing, Nuith with Shu and Seb, the pantacle or magical picture of the old Aeon, as Nuit with Hadit and Ra Hoor Khuit is of the new.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Empareja dos triadas: la estela vieja con Nuith, Shu y Seb es el pantáculo del eón antiguo, y Nuit, Hadit y Ra Hoor Khuit el del nuevo.

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«The Trump giving the picture of T is called Strength. It shows the Scarlet Woman, BABALON, riding (or conjoined with) me The Beast; and this card is my special card, for I am Baphomet, “the Lion and the Serpent,” and 666, the “full number” of the Sun.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Reclama para sí el arcano de la Fuerza —la Mujer Escarlata montando a la Bestia— y se identifica con Bafomet y con el número pleno del Sol.

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«So then, as Sh, XX, shows the Gods of the Book of the Law and T, XI, shows the human beings in that Book, me and my concubine, the two cards illustrate the whole Book in pictorial form.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Reduce el libro entero a dos naipes: uno con los dioses y otro con los dos seres humanos que en él aparecen.

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«Now XX + XI = XXXI, 31, which we needed to put with LA, 31 and AL, 31, that we might have 31 × 3 = 93, the Word of the Law, QELHMA, Will, and AGAPH, Love which under Will, is the Law. It is also the number of Aiwaz, the Author of the Book, of the Lost Word whose formula does in sober truth “raise Hiram,”1 and of many another close-woven Word of Truth.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El cálculo que da 93 por tres treintaiunos, y con él iguala la palabra de la Ley, el Amor bajo la Voluntad y el número de Aiwaz, a quien aquí llama el Autor del libro.

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«Now then this Two-in-One letter X, is the third Key to this Law; and on the discovery of that fact, after years of constant seeking, what sudden splendours of Truth, sacred as secret, blazed in the midnight of my mind!»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), fechando el hallazgo en su propia experiencia: la tercera clave apareció tras años de búsqueda constante.

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«Observe now: “this circle squared in its failure is a key also.” Now I knew that in the value of the letters of ALHIM, “the Gods,” the Jews had concealed a not quite correct value of p, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, to 4 places of decimals: 3.1415; nearer would be 3.1416. If I prefix our Key, 31, putting X, Set or Satan, before the old Gods, I get 3.141593, p correct to Six places, Six being my own number and that of Horus the Sun. And the whole number of this new Name is 395,2 which on analysis yields and astounding cluster of numerical “mysteries.”»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El cálculo con que resuelve ese versículo: anteponiendo su clave 31 al valor de los Dioses obtiene pi con seis decimales; la nota al pie del e-text advierte que el número hay que invertirlo, y el propio texto lo dice.

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«Now for an example of the `paronomasia' or pun. Chapter III, 17— “Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all.” (Note how the peculiar grammar suggests a hidden meaning.) Now YE is in Hebrew»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El segundo método de lectura, el retruécano, aplicado a un versículo cuya gramática peculiar toma por indicio de sentido oculto; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«the man and the woman; The Beast and BABALON, whom the God was addressing in his verse. Know suggests ‘no' which gives LA, 31; ‘not’ is LA, 31, again, by actual meaning; and ‘all’ refers to AL, 31, again.»continuación en la plana siguiente: lee las dos letras hebreas como el hombre y la mujer, la Bestia y BABALON, y hace que las tres palabras del versículo remitan al mismo treinta y uno.

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«Then we have numerical problems like this. “. . . six and fifty. Divide, add, multiply and understand.” 6 ÷ 50 gives 0.12, a perfect glyph-statement of the metaphysics of the Book.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El tercer método: el problema aritmético, aplicado al seis y cincuenta de Nuit.

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«The external evidence for the Book is accumulating yearly: the incidents connected with the discovery of the true spelling of Aiwaz are alone sufficient to place it beyond all quaver of doubt that I am really in touch with a Being of intelligence and power immensely subtler and greater than aught we can call human.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El argumento externo, apoyado en el descubrimiento de la grafía verdadera de Aiwaz, del que dice que basta por sí solo.

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«This has been the One Fundamental Question of Religion. We know of invisible powers, and to spare! But is there any Intelligence or Individuality (of the same general type as ours) independent of our human brain-structure? For the first time in history, yes! Aiwaz has given us proof: the most important gate toward Knowledge suings wide.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Formula la pregunta a la que dice responder el libro: si hay alguna inteligencia o individualidad del tipo de la nuestra independiente de la estructura cerebral humana.

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«I, Aleister Crowley, declare upon my honour as a gentleman that I hold this revelation a million times more important than the discovery of the Wheel, or even of the Laws of Physics or Mathematics. Fire and Tools made Man master of his planet: Writing developed his mind; but his Soul was a guess until the Book of the Law proved this.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con su nombre civil y en primera persona: sitúa la revelación por encima del descubrimiento de la rueda y de las leyes de la física.

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«I, a master of English, was made to take down in three hours, from dictation, sixty-five 8” × 10” pages of words not only strange, but often displeasing to me in themselves; concealing in cipher propositions unknown to me, majestic and profound; foretelling events public and private beyond my control, or that of any man.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La descripción material del dictado: sesenta y cinco planas de ocho por diez pulgadas en tres horas, con palabras que dice que le desagradaban.

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«I write this therefore with a sense of responsibility so acute that for the first time in my life I regret my sense of humour and the literary practical jokes which it has caused me to perpetrate. I am glad, though, that care was taken of the MS. itself and of diaries and letters of the period, so that the physical facts are as plain as can be desired.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con la admisión dentro: lamenta por primera vez en su vida su sentido del humor y las bromas literarias que le hizo cometer, y se apoya en la conservación del manuscrito, los diarios y las cartas.

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«I have fought this Book and fled it; I have defiled it and I have suffered for its sake. Present or absent to my mind, it has been my Invisible Ruler. It has overcome me; year after year extends its invasion of my being. I am the captive of the Crowned and Conquering Child.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Se declara cautivo del Niño Coronado y Conquistador y llama al libro su Gobernante Invisible.

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«I may observe that I should not have left such obvious grounds for indictment as these had I prepared the MS. to look pretty to a critical eye; nor should I have left such curious deformities of grammar and syntax, defects of rhythm, and awkwardness of phrase. I should not have printed passages, some rambling and unintelligible, some repugnant to reason by their absurdity, others again by their barbaric ferocity abhorrent to heart. I should not have allowed such jumbles of matter, such abrupt jerks from subject to subject, disorder ravaging reason with disconnected sluttishness. I should not have tolerated the discords, jarred and jagged, of manner, as when a sublime panegyric of Death is followed first by a cipher and then by a prophecy, before, without taking breath, the author leaps to the utmost magnificence of thought both mystical and practical, in language so concise, simple, and lyrical as to bemuse our very amazement. I should not have spelt “Ay” “Aye,” or acquiesced in the horror “abstruction.”»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es su argumento por los defectos: enumera lo que no habría dejado si hubiera preparado el manuscrito para el ojo crítico —deformidades de gramática y sintaxis, pasajes divagantes, ferocidad bárbara, una errata concreta.

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«Compare with this Book my “jokes,” where I pretend to edit the MS. of another: Alice, Amphora, Clouds without Water. Observe in each case the technical perfection of the “discovered” or “translated” MS., smooth skilled elaborte art and craft of a Past Master Workman; observe the carefully detailed tone and style of the prefaces, and the sedulous creation of the personalities of the imaginary author and the imaginary editor.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El contraste con sus propias falsificaciones literarias declaradas, en las que dice haber cuidado la perfección técnica y la creación de personalidades de autor y de editor imaginarios.

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«I, daring to snatch credit for these, in that brutal Index to The Equinox Volume One, dared nowise to lay claim to have touched the Book of the Law, not with my littlest finger-tip.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Consigna que reclamó la autoría de todos los demás libros de Clase A y que de este no reclamó ni un dedo.

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«I attack the Book of the Law at a dozen points of literature. Even so, with the same breath, I testify, as a Master of English, that I am utterly incapable, even when most inspired, of such English as I find in that Book again and again.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es la forma que toma su prueba: se declara a la vez crítico del libro y, como maestro del inglés, incapaz de escribirlo.

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«Nuit cries: “I love you,” like a lover; when even John reached only to the cold impersonal proposition “God is love.” She woos like a msitress; whispers “To me !” in every ear; Jesus, with needless verb, appeals vehemently to them “that labour and are heavy laden.” Yet he can promise no more than “I will give»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), comparando su libro con el evangelio: Nuit ama como amante y susurra al oído donde Juan llega solo a la proposición impersonal de que Dios es amor; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«you rest,” in the future; while Nuit, in the present, says: “I give unimaginable joys on earth,” making life worth while; “certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death,” the electric light Knowledge for the churchyard corpse-candle Faith, making life fear-free, and death itself worth while: “peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy,” making mind and body at ease that soul may be free to transcend them when It will.»continuación en la plana siguiente: opone la promesa futura del evangelio a la que el libro hace en presente, y glosa cada término de la promesa —certeza en lugar de fe, y paz, descanso y éxtasis.

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«I have never written such English; nor could I ever, that well I know. Shakespeare could not have written it: still less could Keats, Shelley, Swift, Sterne or even Wordsworth. Only in the Books of Job and Ecclesiastes, in the work of Blake, or possibly in that of Poe, is there any approach to such succinct depth of thought in such musical simplicity of form, unless it be in Greek and Latin poets. Nor Poe nor Blake could have sustained their effort as does this our Book of the Law; and the Hebrews used tricks of verse, mechanical props to support them.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Nombra a quiénes tampoco habrían podido escribirlo —Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Swift, Sterne, Wordsworth— y admite un acercamiento en Job, el Eclesiastés, Blake y quizá Poe.

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«I shall make what I may call an inventory of the furniture of the Temple, the circumstances of the case. I shall describe the conditions of the phenomenon as if it were any other unexplained event in Nature.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Anuncia el método con que va a describir el hecho: un inventario de las circunstancias, tratado como cualquier otro suceso inexplicado de la naturaleza.

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«1. The time. Chapter I was written between Noon and 1 p.m. on April 8, 1904.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El primer capítulo del texto recibido, fechado el 8 de abril de 1904 entre las doce y la una; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«Chapter II between Noon and 1 p.m. on April 9, 1904. Chapter III between Noon and 1 p.m. on April 10, 1904. The writing began exactly on the stroke of the hour, and ended exactly an hour later ; it was hurried throughour, with no pauses of any kind.»continuación en la plana siguiente: los otros dos capítulos en los dos días siguientes, con la escritura empezando en el golpe de hora y terminando exactamente una hora después, apresurada y sin pausas.

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«2. The place. The city was Cairo. The street, or rather streets, I do not remember. There is a “Place” where four or five streets intersect; it is near the Boulak Museum, but a fairly long way from Shepherd's. The quarter is fashionable European. The house occupied a corner. I do not remember its orientation; but, as appears from the instructions for invoking Horus, one window of the temple opened to the East or North. The apatment was of several rooms on the ground floor, well furnished in the Anglo-Egyptian style. It was let by a firm named Congdon & Co. The room was a drawing-room cleared of fragile obstacles, but not otherwise prepared to serve as a temple. It had double doors, opening on to the corridor to the North and a door to the East leading to another room, the dining-room, I think. It had two windows opening on the Place, to the South, and a writing table against the wall between them.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El inventario del lugar, con sus lagunas declaradas: no recuerda las calles ni la orientación, y deduce la de la ventana por las instrucciones del ritual de Horus.

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«3. The people. A. Myself, age 28½. In good health, fond of out-door sports, especially mountaineering and big-game shooting. An Adept Major of the A∴A∴ but weary of mysticism and»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), describiéndose a sí mismo como pieza del inventario: veintiocho años y medio, buena salud, aficionado al aire libre, Adepto Mayor de la orden pero cansado del misticismo; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«dissatisfied with Magick. A rationalist, Buddhist, agnostic, anti-clerical, anti-moral, Tory and Jacobite. A chess-player, first-class amateur, able to play three games simultaneously blindfold. A reading and writing addict.»continuación en la plana siguiente: insatisfecho con la magia, racionalista, budista, agnóstico, anticlerical y antimoral, ajedrecista capaz de tres partidas simultáneas a ciegas.

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«Morality—Sexually powerful and passionate. Strongly male to women; free from any similar impulse toward my own sex.1 My passion for women very unselfish; the main motive to give them pleasure. Hence, intense ambition to understand the feminine nature; for this purpose, to identify myself with their feelings, and to use all means appropriate. Imaginative, subtle, insatiable; the whole business a mere clumsy attempt to quench the thirst of the soul.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Su propio retrato moral, con el motivo declarado: la ambición de entender la naturaleza femenina identificándose con ella, y el conjunto como intento torpe de saciar la sed del alma.

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«Sense of justice and equity so sensitive, well-balanced and compelling as to be almost an obsession. Generous, unless suspicious that I was being fleeced: “penny wise and pound foolish.” Spendthrift, careless, not a gambler because I valued winning at games of skill, which flattered my vanity.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El inventario sigue por rasgos que se atribuye sin ordenarlos: sentido de la justicia casi obsesivo, generosidad recelosa, manirroto y no jugador.

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«Incapable of bearing a grudge, even for the gravest insults and injuries; yet enjoying to inflict pain for its own sake. Can attack an unsuspecting stranger, and torture him cruelly for years, without feeling the slightest animosity toward him.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El rasgo que consigna contra sí mismo sin atenuarlo: incapaz de guardar rencor y capaz a la vez de torturar por años a un extraño sin animosidad.

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«Fond of animals and children, who return my love, almost always. Consider abortion the most shameful form of murder, and loathe the social codes which encourage it. Hated and despised my mother and her family; loved and respected my father and his.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Declara aborrecible el aborto y odiados a su madre y a la familia de ella, frente al padre y la suya.

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«Critical events in my life. First travelled outside England, 1883. Father died March 5, 1887. Albuminuria stopped my schooling, 1890-92. First sexual act, probably 1889. Ditto with a woman March, 1891 (Torquay—a theatre girl). First serious mountain-climbing, in Skye, 1892. (The “Pinnacle Ridge” of Sgurr-nan-Gillean. First Alpine climb, 1894. Admitted to the Military Order of the Temple midnight, December 31, 1896. Admitted to permanent office in the Temple midnight, December 31, 1897. Bought Boleskine, 1899. First Mexican climb, 1900. First Big game, 1901. First Himalayan climb, 1902. (Chogo Ri, or “K2” expedition.) Married at Dingwall, Scotland, August 12, 1903.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La cronología personal que da como inventario, de la muerte del padre a la boda, con la fecha de su iniciación en la Orden del Temple militar y las primeras ascensiones.

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«My “occult” career. Parents Plymouth Brethren, exclusive. Father a real P.B. and therefore tolerant to his son. Mother only became P.B. to please him, perhaps to catch him, and so pedantically fanatical. After his death I was tortured with insensate persistency, till I said: Evil, be thou my good! I practised wickedness furtively as a magical formula, even when it was distasteful»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El origen que se atribuye a su propia práctica: la fórmula mágica de hacer del mal su bien, adoptada como respuesta a la tortura religiosa tras la muerte del padre.

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«Revolted openly when puberty gave me a moral sense. Hunted new “Sins” till October, ’97, when one of them turned to bay, and helped me to experience the “Trance of Sorrow.” (Perception of the Impermanence of even the greatest human endeavour.) I invoked assistance, Easter, ’98.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Fecha en octubre de 1897 el Trance de la Tristeza y lo define entre paréntesis como percepción de la impermanencia del mayor esfuerzo humano.

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«Initiated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, November 18, '98. Began to perform the Abramelin Operation, 1899. Initiated in the Order R.R. et A.C., January, 1900. Made a 33° Freemason, 1900. Began Yoga practices, 1900. Obtained first Dhyana, October 1, 1901. Abandoned all serious occult work of every sort, October 3, 1901, and continued in this course of action till July, 1903,»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La cronología oculta con sus fechas: Golden Dawn en noviembre de 1898, Abramelin en 1899, R.R. et A.C. en enero de 1900, masón de grado 33 y yoga ese mismo año, primer dhyana en octubre de 1901 y abandono de todo trabajo oculto dos días después; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«when I tried vainly to force myself to become a Buddhist Hermit Highland Laird.»continuación en la plana siguiente: el intento vano de hacerse ermitaño budista y terrateniente de las Tierras Altas a la vez.

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«Marriage was an uninterrupted sexual debauch up to the time of the writing of the Book of the Law.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El dato con que cierra su propio inventario y que enmarca lo que sigue.

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«B. Rose Edith Kelly. Born 1874 (July 23). About ’95 married one Major Skerrett, R.A.M.C., and lived with him some two years in South Africa. He died in '97. She indulged in a few feeble-executed intrigues till August 12, 1903, when she became my wife, becoming pregnant with a girl born July 28, 1904. Health, admirable robust at all points; she was both active and enduring, as our travels in Ceylon and across China prove.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) sobre la vidente, con su nombre civil: viuda de un mayor del cuerpo médico, casada con él en agosto de 1903 y embarazada de la niña que nació en julio de 1904.

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«Personality intensely powerful and magnetic, intellect absent but mind adaptable to that of any companion, so that she could always say the right nothing. Charm, grace, vitality, vivacity, tact, manners, all inexpressible fascinating.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) sobre Rose Edith Kelly, y es un retrato que da y quita a la vez: personalidad poderosa y magnética, intelecto ausente, mente adaptable a la de cualquier compañía.

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«From her mother she inherited dipsomania, as bad a case for stealth, cunning, falsehood, treachery, and hypocrisy as the specialist I consulted had ever known. This was, however, latent during the satisfaction of sexuality,1 which ousted all else in her life, as it did in mine.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) sobre Rose Edith Kelly. Le atribuye una herencia de dipsomanía y, en nota al pie, sitúa el estallido en 1906 y lo da por causa de que no pudieran reanudar las relaciones anteriores.

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«Education strictly social and domestic ; she did not even know schoolgirl French. She had read nothing, not so much as novels. She was a miracle of perfection»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) sobre Rose Edith Kelly, y es la afirmación que el volumen necesita para su prueba: no sabía ni el francés de colegiala y no había leído nada, ni siquiera novelas; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«as Poetic Ideal, Mistress, Wife, Mother, House-president, Nurse Pal and Comrade.»continuación en la plana siguiente: la lista de papeles en que la declara perfecta, ninguno de ellos intelectual.

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«C. Our head servant, Hassan or Hamid, I forget which. A tall, dignified, hansome athlete of about 30. Spoke good English and ran the household well; always there and never in the way. I suppose I hardly ever saw the servants under his authority: I do not even know how many there were.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), completando el inventario de personas con las lagunas declaradas: no recuerda el nombre del criado principal ni cuántos criados había.

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«E. Brugsch Bey of the Boulak Museum dined with us once to discuss the Stele in his charge, and to arrage for its “abstruction.” His French assistant curator, who translated the hieroglyphs on the Stele for us.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Nombra al conservador del museo con quien cenó para tratar de la estela y de su sustracción, y sitúa en su ayudante francés la traducción de los jeroglíficos.

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«Contradictory hints in one of my diaries were inserted deliberately to mislead, for some silly no-reason unconnected with Magick.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), admitiendo por segunda vez el defecto de su propia fuente: las pistas contradictorias del diario las puso a propósito para despistar, por una tontería sin relación con la magia.

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«March 16. Tried to shew the Sylphs to Rose.1 She was in a dazed state, stupid, possibly drunk; possibly hysterical from pregnancy. She could see nothing, but could hear. She was fiercely excited at the messages, and passionately insistent that I should take them seriously. I was annoyed at her irrelevance, and her infliction of nonsense upon me.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) rehaciendo el 16 de marzo con su nombre propio: la describe aturdida, posiblemente ebria o histérica por el embarazo, capaz de oír y no de ver, y consigna su propio fastidio.

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«She had never been in any state even remotely resembling this, though I had made the same invocation (in full) in the King's chamber of the Great Pyramid during the night which we spent there in the previous autumn.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es la comprobación que le da peso: la misma invocación completa hecha en la Cámara del Rey de la Gran Pirámide no había producido nada semejante en ella.

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«March 18. Thoth evidently got clear through to her; for she discovers that Horus is addressing me through her, and indentifies Him by a method utterly excluding chance or coincidence, and involving knowledge which only I possessed, some of it arbitrary, so that she or her informant must have been able to read my mind as well as if I had spoken it.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Fija en qué consiste la prueba: la identificación del dios por un método que excluye azar y coincidencia y que exige conocimiento que solo él tenía, parte de él arbitrario.

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«March 20. Success in my invocation of Horus, by “breaking all the rules” at her command. This success convinced me magically, and encouraged me to test her as above mentioned. I should certainly have referred to the Stele in my ritual had I seen it before this date. I should fix Monday, March 21, for the Visit to Boulak.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con su propio razonamiento a la vista: fecha la visita al museo por deducción —habría citado la estela en el ritual si la hubiera visto antes— y no por recuerdo.

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«Between these dates, too, my wife must have told me that her informant was not Horus, or Ra Hoor Khuit, but a messenger from Him, named Aiwass.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El nombre de Aiwass llega por Rose Edith Kelly y como mensajero, no como el dios mismo.

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«I thought that she might have faked this name from constantly hearing “Aiwa,” the word for “Yes” in Arabic. She could not have invented a name of this kind, though; her next best was to find a phrase like “balmy puppy” for a friend, or corrupt a name like Neuberg into an obscene insult.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), planteándose la objeción él mismo: sospechó que ella hubiera fabricado el nombre del árabe para sí, y lo descarta por lo que sabía de su manera de inventar palabras.

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«The silence of my diaries seems to prove that she gave me nothing more of importance. I was working out the Magical problem presented to me by the events of March 16-21. Any questions that I asked her were either unanswered, or answered by a Being whose mind was so different from mine that we failed to converse. All my wife obtained from Him was to command me to do things magically absurd. He would not play my game: I must play His.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Consigna el desencuentro: las preguntas quedaban sin respuesta o las respondía un ser cuya mente era tan distinta que no lograban conversar.

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«April 7. Not later than this date was I ordered to enter the “temple” exactly at noon on the three days following, and write down what I heard during one hour, nor more nor less.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La orden del dictado, fechada a más tardar el 7 de abril: entrar al templo a mediodía en punto los tres días siguientes y escribir durante una hora, ni más ni menos.

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«I imagine that some preparations were made, possibly some bull’s blood burned for incense, or order taken about details of dress or diet; I remember nothing at all, one way or the other. Bull's blood was burnt some time in this sojourn in Cairo; but I forget why or when. I think it was used at the “Invocation of the Sylphs.”»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es la abstención más limpia del capítulo: no recuerda nada de los preparativos, ni en un sentido ni en otro, y sobre la sangre de toro quemada dice no acordarse de por qué ni de cuándo.

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«5. The actual writing. The three days were precisely similar, save that on the last day I became nervous lest I should fail to hear the Voice of Aiwass. They may then be described together. I went into the “temple” a minute early, so as to shut the door and sit down on the stroke of Noon.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La única diferencia que consigna entre los tres días es su propio nerviosismo del último por si no oía la voz.

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«On my table were my pen—a Swan Fountain—and supplies of Quarto typewriting paper, 8” × 10.” I never looked round in the room at any time.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El inventario material del acto: la pluma de marca, el papel de mecanografía en cuarto de ocho por diez pulgadas, y la declaración de que nunca miró alrededor.

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«The Voice of Aiwass came apparently from over my left shoulder, from the furthest corner of the room. It seemed to echo itself in my physical heart in a very strange manner, hard to describe. I have noticed a similar phenomenon when I have been waiting for a message fraught with great hope or dread. The voice was passionately poured, as if Aiwass were alert about the time-limit.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Localiza la voz sobre el hombro izquierdo y en el rincón más lejano, y dice que resonaba en su corazón físico de un modo difícil de describir.

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«I wrote 65 pages of this present essay (at about my usual rate of composition) in about 10½ hours as against the 3 hours of the 65 pages of the Book of the Law. I was pushed hard to keep the pace; the MS. shows it clearly enough.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El argumento por la velocidad, medido contra sí mismo: sesenta y cinco planas de este ensayo en diez horas y media frente a las tres horas de las sesenta y cinco del libro.

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«The voice was of deep timbre, musical and expressive, its tones solemn, voluptuous, tender, fierce or aught else as suited the moods of the message. Not bass—perhaps a rich tenor or baritone.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El retrato acústico de la voz, con su acotación: no era de bajo, sino más bien tenor rico o barítono.

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«The English was free of either native or foreign accent, perfectly pure of local or caste mannerisms, thus startling and even uncanny at first hearing.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con la nota que lo precisa: el efecto era el de un inglés en sí mismo, sin el trasfondo que permite atribuir rasgos a quien habla.

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«I had a strong impression1 that the speaker was actually in the corner where he seemed to be, in a body of “fine matter,” transparent as a veil of gauze, or a cloud of incense-smoke. He seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. The dress was not Arab; it suggested Assyria or Persia, but very vaguely. I took little note of it, for to me at that time Aiwass was an “angel” such as I had often seen in visions, a being purely astral.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El retrato visual de Aiwass —hombre alto, moreno, de treintaitantos, con rostro de rey salvaje y ojos velados—, con dos límites declarados: la impresión parece haber sido una visualización en la imaginación, y en ese momento lo tomaba por un ángel astral.

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«I now incline to believe that Aiwass is not only the God or Demon or Devil once held holy in Sumer, and mine own Guradian Angel, but also a man as I am, insofar as He uses a human body to make His magical link with Mankind, whom He loves, and that He is thus and Ipsissimus, the Head of the A∴A∴»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es un cambio de posición fechado: ahora se inclina a creerlo además hombre, en cuanto usa un cuerpo humano para su enlace mágico, y cabeza de la orden.

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«6. The Editing of the Book. “Change not so much as the style of a letter” in the text saved me from Crowley-fying the wholde Book, and spoiling everything.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Adjudica a la prohibición del propio texto el haberle impedido reescribirlo a su manera.

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«A. On page 6 Aiwaz instructs me to “write this (what he had just said) in whiter words,” for my mind rebelled at His phrase. He added at once “But go forth on,” i.e., with His utterance, leaving the emendation until later.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La primera de las cuatro enmiendas que declara: se le ordena escribir el pasaje en palabras más blancas porque su mente se rebelaba contra la frase.

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«B. On page 19 I failed to hear a sentence, and (later on) the Scarlet Woman, invoking Aiwass, wrote in the missing words. (How? She was not in the room at the time, and heard nothing.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La segunda enmienda, con la pregunta que él mismo deja abierta entre paréntesis: la Mujer Escarlata escribió las palabras que faltaban sin estar en la habitación.

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«D. The versified paraphrase of the hieroglyphs on the Stele being ready, Aiwaz allowed me to insert these later, so as to save time. These four apart, the MS. is exactly as it was written on those three days.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). La cuarta enmienda —insertar después la paráfrasis en verso— y el alcance que le da: salvo esas cuatro, el manuscrito está tal como se escribió.

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«The problem of the literary form of this Book is astonishingly complex; but the internal evidence of the sense is usually sufficient of make it clear, on inspection, as to who is speaking and who is being addressed.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Abre la sección VIII declarando el problema y a la vez su solución: el sentido interno suele bastar para ver quién habla y a quién.

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«There was, however, no actual voice audible save that of Aiwaz. Even my own remarks made silently were incorporated by him audibly, wherever such occur.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es la clave de todo el mapa de voces del libro: solo una voz sonaba, y las observaciones que él hacía en silencio quedaban incorporadas por ella en voz alta.

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«Chapter I Verse 1. Nuit is the speaker. She invokes her lover and then begins to give a title to her speech in the end of verse 1—20. In verses 3 and 4, she begins her discourse.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) empezando el mapa versículo por versículo: la hablante del primer capítulo es Nuit.

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«Verse 4 startled my intelligence into revolt. In verse 5 she explains that she is speaking, and appeals to me personally to help her to unveil by taking down her message. In verse 6 she claims me for her chosen, and I think that I then became afraid lest I should be expected to do too much. She answers this fear in verse 7 by introducing Aiwaz as the actual speaker»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Explica el séptimo versículo como respuesta a su propio miedo: la voz introduce a Aiwaz como el hablante efectivo en acentos humanos articulados.

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«Verse 14 is from the Stele. It seems to have been written in by me as a kind of appreciation of what she had just said.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y con esto se atribuye a sí mismo la estrofa: la puso él, tomada de la estela, como una especie de apreciación.

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«Verse 26. The question “Who am I and what shall be the sign?” is my own conscious thought. In the previous verses I have been called to an exalted mission, and I naturally feel nervous. This thought is then entered in the record by Aiwaz as if it were a story that he was telling»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Adjudica esa pregunta a su propio pensamiento consciente y explica que Aiwaz la incorporó al registro como si fuera un relato suyo.

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«Verse 40. The word “us” is very puzzling. It apparently means “All those who have accepted the Law whose word is Thelema.” Among these she includes herself.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con la duda declarada: le desconcierta el nosotros del versículo I:40 y lo interpreta como el conjunto de quienes aceptan la Ley, incluida la propia diosa.

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«Verse 61. The word “Thou” is not a personal address. It means any single person, as opposed to a company. The “Ye” in the third sentence indeicates the proper conduct for worshippers as a body. The “you,” in sentence 4, of course applies to a single person; but the plural form suggests that it is a matter of public worship as opposed to the invocation in the desert of the first sentence of this verse.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Distingue en un solo versículo tres destinatarios gramaticales y les asigna dos regímenes de culto, el privado del desierto y el público.

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«Chapter II Hadit himself is evidently the speaker from the start. The remarks are general. In verse 5 I am spoken of in the third person. After verse 9 he notices my vehement objections to writing statements to which my conscious self was obstinately opposed. Verse 10, addressed to me notes that fact ; and in verse 11 he declares that he is my master, and that the reason for this is that he is my secret self, as explained in verses 12-13.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Adjudica el segundo capítulo a Hadit y explica su autoridad sobre él por identidad: es su yo secreto.

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«The interruption seems to have added excitement to the discourse, for verse 14 is violent. Verses 15 & 16 offer a riddle, while verse 17 is a sort of parody of poetry. Verse 18 continues his attack on my conscious mind.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII) juzgando el texto que transmite: el versículo 14 es violento, los 15 y 16 plantean un acertijo y el 17 le parece una especie de parodia de poesía.

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«the style is complicated, brutal, sneering and jeering. I feel the whole passage as a contemptuous beating down of the resistance of my mind.»continuación del mismo pasaje. La cita empieza aquí porque el número de versículos que la precede va partido por el salto de renglón —15- / 18— y span() lo une fabricando una cifra que la fuente no imprime. Crowley lee ese tramo como aplastamiento desdeñoso de la resistencia de su propia mente.

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«Verse 55 instructed me to obtain the English Qabalah; it made me incredulous, as the task seemed an impossible one, and probably his perception of this criticism inspired verse 56, though “ye mockers” applies evidently to my enemies, referred to in verse 54.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), admitiendo su incredulidad: la tarea de obtener la cábala inglesa le pareció imposible, y supone que esa reacción suya inspiró el versículo siguiente.

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«Verse 57 brings us back to the subject begun in verse 21. It is a quotation from the Apocalypse verbatim, and is probably suggested by the matter of verse 56. There is no real change in the essence of anything, however its combinations vary.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Identifica el versículo II:57 como cita verbatim del Apocalipsis y extrae de él una tesis: nada cambia en la esencia, solo varían las combinaciones.

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«Verse 69 is the return to consciousness of myself. It was a sort of gasping question as a man coming out of Ether might ask “Where am I?” I think that this is the one passage in the whole book which was not spoken by Aiwaz; and I ought to say that these verses 63-68 were writeen without conscious hearing at all.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), y es la excepción que él mismo abre en su propia regla: cree que ese versículo es el único de todo el libro que no habló Aiwaz, y que los seis anteriores se escribieron sin audición consciente.

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«Chapter III Verse 1 appears to complete the triangle begun by the first verses of the two previous chapters. It is a simple statement involving no particular speaker or hearer. The ommission of the “i” in the name of God appears to have alarmed me, and in verse 2 Aiwaz offers a hurried explanation in a somewhat excited manner, and invokes Ra-Hoor-Khuit.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Adjudica el tercer capítulo y explica la omisión de una letra en el nombre del dios como algo que lo alarmó y que Aiwaz explicó de prisa.

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«Verse 34 is a kind of poetical peroration, and is not addressed in particular to anybody. It is a statement of events to come.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), acotando el versículo que anuncia el fin de su propio eón: lo llama peroración poética y enunciado de sucesos por venir, no instrucción.

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«It is to be noted that the translations from the Stele in verses 37-38 were no more than instantaneous thoughts to be inserted afterwards.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Precisa el estatuto de los versos de la estela dentro del texto recibido: fueron pensamientos instantáneos para insertar después.

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«This order was given by a species of wordless gesture, not visible or audible, but sensible in some occult manner.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), consignando un modo de comunicación que él mismo declara ni visible ni audible.

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«1. It is “my scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu” (CCXX, I, 36) who “shall comment” on “this book” “by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit”; that is, Aleister Crowley shall write the Comment from the point of view of the manifested positive Lord of the Æon, in plain terms of the finite, and not those of the infinite.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), primera de sus once reglas de exégesis: quien comenta es él, y desde el punto de vista del Señor manifiesto del Eón, en términos de lo finito.

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«3. Where the text is simple straightforward English, I shall not seek, or allow, and interpretation at variance with it. I may admit a Qabalistic or cryptographic secondary meaning when such confirms, amplifies, deepens, intensifies, or clarifes the obvious common-sense significance; but only if it be part of the general plan of the “latent light,” and self-proven by abundatnt witness.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), tercera regla, y es la que pone freno al método cifrado: el sentido cabalístico solo se admite cuando confirma o aclara el sentido llano, no cuando lo contradice.

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«I refuse to consider mere appropriateness as conferring title to authority, and to read my own personal theories into the Book. I insist that all interpretation shall be incontestably authentic, neither less, more, nor other than was meant is the Mind of Aiwaz.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), con el límite dentro: rechaza que la mera pertinencia autorice una lectura y se prohíbe a sí mismo leer sus teorías personales en el libro.

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«4. I lay claim to be the sole authority competent to decide disputed points with regard to the Book of the Law, seeing that its Author, Aiwaz, is none other than mine own Holy Guardian Angel, to Whose Knowledge and Conversation I hace attained, so that I have exclusive access to Him. I have duly referred every difficulty to Him directly, and received His answer; my award is therefore absolute without appeal.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), cuarta regla, y es la reclamación más fuerte del volumen: se declara única autoridad competente porque el autor del libro es su propio Ángel Guardián, al que dice tener acceso exclusivo.

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«5. The verse, II, 47, “one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the key of it all,” has been fulfilled by “one” Achad discovering the number 31 as the key in question. But the work of Achad is not said to extend beyond this single exploit; Achad is nowhere indicated as appointed or even authorized to relieve The Beast of His task of the Comment. Achad has proved himself,1 and proved the Book, by his on achievement; and this shall suffice.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), quinta regla. Da por cumplida la profecía en Achad, que halló el número 31, y a la vez acota que su obra no se extiende más allá y que no está autorizado a relevarlo del comentario.

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«6. Wherever a. The words of the Text are obscure in themselves; where b. The expression is strained; where c. The Syntax, d. Grammar, e. Spelling, or f. The use of capital letters present peculiarities; where g. Non-English words occur; where the style suggests h. Paronomasia, i. Ambiguity, or j. Obliquity; or where k. A problem is explicitly declared to exist; in all such cases I shall seek for a meaning hidden by means of Qabalistic correspondences, cryptography, or literary subtleties. I shall admit no solution which is not at once simple, striking, consonant with the general plan of the Book ; and not only adequate but necessary.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), sexta regla: enumera once clases de anomalía —sintaxis, gramática, ortografía, mayúsculas, palabras no inglesas, retruécano, ambigüedad, oblicuidad— que autorizan a buscar sentido oculto, y exige que la solución sea simple, llamativa y necesaria.

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«v. III, 1. The omission of the “i” in “Khuit” is indicative that some concealed doctrine is based upon the variant.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), en la lista de ejemplos de la sexta regla: la letra que falta en el nombre del dios indica doctrina oculta apoyada en la variante.

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«vi. II, 27. The spelling of “Because” with a capital B suggests that it may be a proper name, and possibly that its Greek or Hebrew equivalent may identify the idea Qabalistically with some enemy of our Hierarchy; also that such word may demand a capital value for its initial.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). Lee la mayúscula del adversario del capítulo II como indicio de nombre propio, y sugiere buscarle equivalente griego o hebreo entre los enemigos de su jerarquía.

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«viii. III, 74. The words “sun” and “son” are evidently chosen for the identity of their sound-value; the inelegance of the phrase therefroe insists on some such adequate justification as the existence of a hidden treasure of meaning.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII). El ejemplo que convierte una torpeza de estilo en exigencia de sentido: la identidad de sonido entre sol e hijo obliga a justificarla.

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«7. The Comment must be consistent with itself at all points; it must exhibit the Book of the Law as of absolute authority on all possible questions proper to Mankind, as offering the perfect solution of all problems philosophical and practical without exception.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), séptima regla, y es la que fija la pretensión del comentario: autoridad absoluta del libro sobre toda cuestión propia de la humanidad.

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«11. The Comment must appeal on behalf of the Law to the authority of Experience. It must make Success the proof of the Truth of the Book of the Law at every point of contact with Reality.»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), undécima regla, que traslada la prueba a la práctica: el éxito ha de ser la prueba de la verdad del libro en cada punto de contacto con la realidad.

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«On these principles, to the pitch of my power, will I the Beast 666, who received the Book of the Law from the Mouth of mine Angel Aiwaz, make my comment thereon»voz de Crowley (cap. VII), firmando las reglas por su número y declarando haber recibido el libro de la boca de su Ángel.

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«Editorial Note to this Chapter The reader is now in full possession of the account of “how thou didst come hither.” The student who wishes to act intelligently will be at pains to make himself thoroughly acquainted at the outset with the whole of the external circumstances connected with the Writing of the Book, whether they are of biographical or other importance. He should thus be able to approach the Book with his mind prepared to apprehend the unique character of their contents in repect of its true Authorship, the peculiarities of Its methods of communicating Thought, and the nature of Its claim to be the Canon of Truth, the Key of Progress, and the Arbiter of Conduct.»nota editorial que cierra el capítulo VII, firmada por el editor del volumen: declara cumplido el encargo de contar cómo llegó todo esto, y enuncia lo que el libro reclama ser, canon de verdad, clave del progreso y árbitro de la conducta.

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«He will be able to form his own judgment upon It, only insofar as he is fixed in the proper Point-of-View; the sole question for him is to decide whether It is or is not that which It claims to be, the New Law in the same sense as the Vedas, the Pentateuch, the Tao Teh King, and Qu’ran are Laws, but with the added Authority of Verbal, Literal, and Graphic inspiration»voz del editor. Sitúa la única pregunta que le deja al lector: si el libro es o no lo que dice ser, una Ley Nueva en el mismo sentido que los Vedas, el Pentateuco, el Tao Teh King y el Corán.

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«If It be not wholly that, it is a worthless curiosity of literature; worse, it is an appalling proof that no kind or degree»voz del editor, y es la alternativa que el volumen se impone sin suavizarla: o el libro es lo que dice, o es una curiosidad literaria sin valor; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«soever is sufficient to establish any possible proposition, since the closest concatenation of circumstances may be no more than the jetsam of chance, and the most comprehensive plans of purpose a puerile pantomime. To reject this Book is to make Reason itself ridiculous and the Law of Probabilities a caprice.»continuación en la plana siguiente: rechazarlo obligaría, según el editor, a admitir que ninguna evidencia basta para establecer proposición alguna y a volver caprichosa la ley de probabilidades.

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«The reader must face the problem squarely; half-measures will not avail. If there be aught he recognize as transcendental Truth, he cannot admit the possibility that the Speaker, taking such pains to prove Himself and His Word, should yet incorporate Falsehood in the same elaborate engines. If the Book be but a monument of a mortal’s madness, he must tremble that such power and cunning may be the accomplices of insane and criminal archanarchs.»voz del editor. Cierra la disyuntiva por los dos lados: si hay verdad trascendente, no cabe que el Hablante incorpore falsedad; si es locura, hay que temblar ante ese poder y esa astucia.

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«IN THIS REVELATION is the basis of the future Æon. Within the memory of man we have had the Pagan period, the worship of Nature, of Isis, of the Mother, of the Past; the Christian period, the worship of Man, of Osiris, of the Present. The first period is simple, quiet, easy, and pleasant; the material ignores the spiritual; the second is of suffering and death: the spiritual strives to ignore the material. Christianity and all cognate religions worship death, glorify suffering, deify corpses. The new Aeon is the worship of the spiritual made one with the material, of Horus, of the Child, of the Future.»voz de Crowley en tercera persona, capítulo VIII: el esquema de tres eones por el que se ordena todo el volumen —pagano, cristiano y el nuevo—, con la fórmula que caracteriza a cada uno.

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«Isis was Liberty; Osiris, bondage; but the new Liberty is that of Horus. Osiris conquered her because she did not understand him. Horus avenges both his Father and his Mother. This child Horus is a twin, two in one. Horus and Harpocrates are one, and they are also one with Set or Apophis, the destroyer of Osiris. It is by the destruction of the principle of death that they are born. The establishment of this new Æon, this new fundamental principle, is the great work now to be accomplished in the world.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII). El niño Horus como gemelo, uno con Harpócrates y también con Set o Apofis, el destructor de Osiris: nace por la destrucción del principio de la muerte.

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«FRATER PERDURABO, to whom this revelation was made with so many signs and wonders, was himself unconvinced. He struggled»voz de Crowley en tercera persona (cap. VIII), consignando su propia resistencia como parte del caso: pese a las señales y prodigios, no quedó convencido; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana.

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«against it for years. Not until the completion of His own initiation at the end of 1909 did he understand how perfectly he was bound to carry out this work.1 Again and again He turned away from it, took it up for a few days or hours, then laid it aside.»continuación en la plana siguiente: solo al completarse su iniciación a fines de 1909 entendió que estaba obligado, y aun así retomaba y soltaba el trabajo.

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«He even attempted to destroy its value, to nullify the result. Again and again the unsleeping might of the Watchers drove Him back to the work; and it was at the very moment when He thought Himself to have escaped that He found Himself fixed for ever with no possibility of again turning aside for the fraction of second from the Path.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII). Declara haber intentado anular el resultado, y adjudica a la fuerza insomne de los Vigilantes el haberlo devuelto una y otra vez al trabajo.

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«The history of this must one day be told by a more vivid voice. Properly considered, it is a history of continuous miracle.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII), y es una deuda declarada: la historia de eso queda por contar, y el volumen se limita a llamarla historia de milagro continuo.

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«Enough if it is now said that in this Law lies the whole future: it is the Law of Liberty, and those who refuse it proclaim themselves slaves, and as slaves shall they be chained and flogged. It is the Law of Love, and those who refuse it declare themselves to be the children of hate, and their hate shall return upon them and consume them with its unending tortures. It is the Law of Life, and those who refuse it shall be subject to death; and death shall catch them unawares. Even their life shall be a living death. It is the Law of Light, and those who refuse it thereby make themselves dark for ever.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII). La Ley enunciada por cuatro nombres —Libertad, Amor, Vida y Luz— y cada uno con su reverso para quien la rechace.

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«Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law! Refuse this, and fall under the curse of destiny. Divide will against itself, the result is impotence and strife, strife-in-vain. The Law condemns no man.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII), con la formulación jurídica de la fórmula: dividir la voluntad contra sí misma da impotencia y contienda, y la Ley no condena a nadie.

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«Accept the Law, and everything is lawful. Refuse the Law, you put»continuación: quien rechaza la Ley se pone él mismo fuera de su ámbito; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana, que aquí coincide con el corte de chunk.

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«It is the Law that Jesus Christ, or rather the Gnostic tradition of which the Christ-legend is a degradation, attempted to teach; but nearly every word he1 said was mininterpreted and garbled by his enemies, particularly by those who called themselves his disciples. In any case the Æon was not ready for a Law of Freedom.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII). Adjudica la misma Ley a la tradición gnóstica de la que dice que la leyenda de Cristo es degradación, y le concede a san Agustín un atisbo; la nota al pie remite a un estudio suyo donde sostiene que Jesús es figura compuesta.

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«A further attempt to teach this law was made through Sir Edward Kelly at the end of the sixteenth century. The bondage of orthodoxy prevented his words from being heard, or understood.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII). Inserta a Edward Kelley en el linaje de intentos fallidos de enseñar la misma Ley a fines del siglo XVI.

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«Only now has success been attained. A perfect vehicle was found, and the message enshrined in a jewelled casket; that is to say, in a book with the injunction “Change not as much as the style of a letter.” This book is reproduced in facsimile, in order that there shall be no possibility of corrupting it.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII). La razón declarada del facsímil que ocupa la última parte del volumen: reproducir el manuscrito para que no quepa corromperlo, en cumplimiento del mandato de no cambiar ni el trazo de una letra.

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«Here, then, we have an absolutely fixed and definite standpoint for the foundation of an universal religion. We have the Key to the resolution of all human problems, both philosophical and practical.»voz de Crowley (cap. VIII). La pretensión final: un punto de partida fijo para una religión universal y la clave de todos los problemas humanos.

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«Consult Equinox III (2) “Jesus,” a study of the New Testment by THE BEAST 666, where it is proven that“Jesus” is a composite figure of several incompatible elements. There is therefore no “he” in the case. The Gospels are a crude compilation of Gnosticism, Judaism, Essenism, Hinduism, Buddhism, with the watch-words of various sacerdotal-political cults, thrown at random into a hotch-potch of the distroted legends of the persons of the Pagan Pantheon, all glued with a semblance of unity in the interests of sustaining the shaken fabric of local faiths against the assaults of the consolidation of civilization, and of applying the co-operative principle to businesses whose throats were being cut by competition.»voz de Crowley en la nota al pie del capítulo VIII, donde el volumen sostiene que Jesús es figura compuesta de elementos incompatibles y que los evangelios son compilación de gnosticismo, judaísmo, esenismo, hinduismo y budismo. La cita se corta antes del corchete del editor del e-text, que anota que ese número nunca se publicó como se pretendía.

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«We ask no more than one witness; and we call upon Time to take the Oath, and testify to the Truth of our plea.»cierre del volumen en voz de Crowley (cap. VIII): un solo testigo, el Tiempo, llamado a jurar y a testificar la verdad del alegato.

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«A L (LIBER LEGIS) THE BOOK OF THE LAW sub figurâ xxxi as delivered by 93 — zwyu — AIWASS — Ai#asj — 418 to Ankh - f - n - khonsu The Priest of the Princes who is To Mega Qhrion }wyrt 6 6 6»portada del facsímil del manuscrito, con la tercera fórmula de entrega del volumen: aquí la cifra 93 va acompañada del nombre Aiwass en dos alfabetos que el troceo rinde como cadenas latinas, y el destinatario es Ankh-f-n-khonsu, Sacerdote de los Príncipes, que es To Mega Therion y 666. La numeración de la obra cambia también: sub figurâ xxxi, no CCXX.

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Sobre la obra

22 entradas — lo que el aparato y la investigación dicen de ella

«First published London: O.T.O., 1936. Corrected reprint included in Magick: Book 4 Parts I-IV, York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1994.»página de derechos del e-text: declara las dos ediciones impresas de las que desciende, la primera de la O.T.O. en Londres y la reimpresión corregida dentro de Magick: Book 4.

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«This electronic edition issued by Celephaïs Press, Leeds, An. C. ! in a March 2004»el pie de la edición electrónica, con la fecha en notación propia de la orden; el troceo rinde los signos zodiacales del año como caracteres sueltos.

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«(c) Ordo Templi Orientis JAF Box 7666, New York, NY 10116 U.S.A.»el aviso de derechos del volumen electrónico, a nombre de la Ordo Templi Orientis y con su domicilio postal en Nueva York.

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«Last revised 8th June 2004; one transcription error in CCXX II.26 fixed.»la nota de revisión declara una corrección puntual: un error de transcripción en el versículo II:26 del Liber CCXX. Es lo único que el e-text declara haber enmendado en un libro cuyo texto prohíbe alterar hasta el trazo de una letra.

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«THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS The Official Organ of the A∴A∴ { Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law Love is the law, love under will The word of the law is θεληµα The Official Organ of the O.T.O. Deus | Homo est Vol III. No. III. An I x ! in g SEPTEMBER MCMXXXVI E. V. Issued by the O.T.O. BM/JPKH, London, W.C.1»portadilla de la edición de 1936, que presenta el volumen como número de revista y órgano oficial de las dos órdenes; imprime las dos fórmulas de la ley y la palabra griega, que el troceo rinde como cadena latina.

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«A∴A∴ Publication in Class E 93 10° = 18 V.N. Præmonstrator 666 9° = 28 P. Imperator 777 8° = 38} Pro. Coll. Summ. Achad. Cancellatius } Pro Coll. Ext. I.W.E. 7° = 48 O.M. 7° = 48 O.S.V. 6° = 58 Parsival 5° = 68} Pro Coll. Int»la clasificación del volumen y la lista de grados de la orden con sus números; el aparato editorial de 1936 no da nombres civiles.

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«CONTENTS THE SUMMONS 1 A SUMMARY 3 LIBER AL VEL LEGIS SUB FIGURÂ CCXX 13 GENESIS LIBRI AL 39 I. The Boyhood of Aleister Crowley 41 II. Adolescence—Beginnings of Magick—The Birth of FRATER PERDURABO. 48 III. Beginnings of Mysticism—The birth of FRATER OU MH 51 IV. The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage—The Birth of FRATER ——— 55 V. The Results of Recession 59 VI. The Great Revelation—The Arising of THE BEAST 666 61 VII. Remarks on the Method of Receiving Liber Legis 94 VIII. Summary of the Case 134 AL (LIBER LEGIS), THE BOOK OF THE LAW SUB FIGURÂ XXXI»el índice de la edición de 1936, con los ocho capítulos del Genesis Libri AL y sus folios; los números son folios impresos, que en este volumen equivalen a la plana del troceo menos diez.

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«ILLUSTRATIONS THE STELE OF REVEALING Frontispiece FOUR HOROSCOPES Facing Summons FIRST SKETCH OF A QABALISTIC KEY TO LIBER AL»la lista de láminas del índice, que anuncia tres: la estela como frontispicio, los cuatro horóscopos frente a la convocatoria y un primer boceto de clave cabalística.

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«THE NATIVITY OF FRATER P. [Leamington, England: 10.52 p.m., 12.10.1875 E.V.]»primero de los cuatro horóscopos que el volumen usa como cronología cifrada de la carrera mágica; las láminas las redibujó Frater T.S. de las publicadas en Equinox I (10) y el pie entre corchetes es suyo, con la hora y el lugar repetidos para poder leerlos. T.S. añade en las notas finales que la hora y el lugar dan Cáncer y no Leo en el ascendente, y que la figura parece haber sido ajustada.

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«THE FIRST INITIATION OF FRATER P. [M.M. Hall, London, England: 6.00 p.m, 18.10.1898 E.V.]»segundo horóscopo, con pie de Frater T.S. El pie fecha 18.10.1898 mientras el grabado imprime 18 NOVEMBER 1898 y el capítulo VII data la iniciación en la Golden Dawn el 18 de noviembre: la discrepancia queda consignada sin arbitrar.

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«THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS [Cairo, Egypt 30° N.: 20.03.1904 E.V.]»tercer horóscopo, el que da título al libro, con pie de Frater T.S.: el Cairo, latitud 30° N, 20 de marzo de 1904 — la fecha de la invocación de Horus, no la de las tres horas de dictado.

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«THE ANNIHILATION OF FRATER P. [Bou-Saada, Algeria: 11:15 p.m, 03.12.1909 E.V.]»cuarto horóscopo, con pie de Frater T.S.: Bou-Saada, diciembre de 1909, bajo el rótulo latino que el grabado imprime como NATUS NEMO; el capítulo VIII fecha ahí el término de su iniciación.

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«FINAL NOTES. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This electronic text of The Equinox of the Gods is the product of various people’s work.»notas finales del e-text, en voz de su editor: declara el texto electrónico producto del trabajo de varias personas, y abre con la fórmula de la ley como hacen todas las secciones del volumen.

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«Key-entry of “The Summons,” “Liber CCXX,” title pages, contents, etc., by Frater T.S. Initial key-entry of “A Summary” (an extract from Crowley’s “AHA!”) by W.E. Heidrick, Treasurer General O.T.O.; text taken from a copy of Equinox I (3) in Internet circulation. The text of “Genesis Libri AL” (except for chapter 6) derives from a plaintext initially key-entered in 1985 e.v. by Soror Alice for O.T.O., and edited by Frater A.U.D.C.A.L. Much further proof-reading and formatting of this copy done by Soror Luna 11. Chapter 6 was adapted and formatted by Frater T.S. from a key-entry of “The Temple of Solomon the King” in an online copy of Equinox I (7), key-entered by W.E. Heidrick.»el reparto del trabajo persona por persona, que es lo que permite adjudicar productores a esta edición: Frater T.S. capturó la convocatoria, el Liber CCXX, portadas e índices; W. E. Heidrick, tesorero general de la orden, el sumario; Soror Alice tecleó el Genesis Libri AL en 1985 y Frater A.U.D.C.A.L. lo editó; Soror Luna 11 corrigió y formateó.

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«In general, the edition of The Equinox of the Gods which appears in the “Blue Brick” edition of Magick: Book 4 parts I-IV (Weiser, 1994, 2nd edition 1997) was used for proofing “Genesis Libri AL.” The stylistic conventions of that edition were not followed»voz del editor del e-text: declara qué edición usó para cotejar y en qué no la siguió.

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«rather, pagination has been conformed approximately to the first print edition (in line with the page markouts included in the “Blue Brick.” I will not here enter into the controversy regarding the silent ‘correction’ in the New Falcon and “Blue Brick” editions of EotG of the statement in the first edition concerning the dates of writing of Liber AL.»voz del editor del e-text. Declara que la paginación se ajustó de manera aproximada a la primera edición impresa, y consigna una controversia sin entrar en ella: la corrección silenciosa que otras ediciones hicieron sobre las fechas de escritura del Liber AL.

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«Footnotes signed “Ed” are believed to be by Crowley acting as editor of materials he had written some time previously. Those in square brackets and signed “T.S.” are by the editor of the present e-text.»la clave de firmas que hace legible el aparato del volumen: las notas firmadas Ed se atribuyen a Crowley como editor de materiales suyos anteriores, y las que van entre corchetes y firmadas T.S. son del editor del e-text.

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«The reproduction of the MS of Liber AL is taken from a set of 300 d.p.i. black and white page images placed on the Web by persons unknown; in order to make this document a manageable size, these have been used in preference to the greyscale photographs in the “Blue Brick.”»voz del editor del e-text, y es lo que explica el hueco del troceo: el facsímil del manuscrito son imágenes de 300 puntos por pulgada en blanco y negro, puestas en la red por personas desconocidas, sin capa de texto.

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«The plates of the Stèle of Revealing, as per the original edition, are reproduced from the pictures of Crowley’s replica which appeared in Equinox I (7) (including the typo which I thought was amusing and so decided to keep); the “Blue Brick” gave instead photographs of the original.»voz del editor del e-text: las láminas de la estela no son fotografías del original sino de la réplica de Crowley aparecida en Equinox I (7), y declara haber conservado a propósito una errata que le pareció graciosa.

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«The horoscopes facing “The Summons” redrawn by Frater T.S. from those published in Equinox I (10) where they were first printed. Times and places have been repeated in the captions for the sake of readability. No further checking has been done, although I will note that the time and place on Crowley’s birth-chart give Cancer rather than Leo rising suggesting the figure has been fudged. The “Blue Brick” contains, besides reproductions of the four charts as printed in the Equinox, versions in modern notation, in which Crowley’s birth-chart was obligingly ‘corrected’ to 22:57 to make Leo the ascendent.»voz del editor del e-text, que audita una de sus propias láminas: la hora y el lugar de la carta natal dan Cáncer y no Leo en el ascendente, lo que le sugiere que la figura fue ajustada, y consigna que otra edición corrigió la hora para que saliera Leo.

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«Final assembly, tidying and formatting of the whole by Frater T.S. for Celephaïs Press, March 2004 e.v.»la firma del editor del e-text y la fecha de armado, que es la que la ficha toma como año de esta edición.

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«Celephaïs Press Ulthar - Sarkomand - Inquanok - Leeds»el pie de imprenta de la edición electrónica, que da la ciudad real junto a topónimos tomados de la ficción.

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Conceptos tratados

Gematría (aritmética de las letras)Es el método probatorio del volumen entero: el capítulo VII cifra el nombre del dictante en 78 y luego en 93, el propio nombre del receptor en 666, la palabra de la fórmula del eón en 418, la clave en 31, y llega a construir el valor de pi anteponiendo esa clave al nombre hebreo de los Dioses. El mismo capítulo admite que el grueso de los cálculos ya no es inteligible ni para su autor.

crowley-equinox-of-the-gods · pp. 94, 95, 96, 109, 113

Iniciación (recepción por grados / metamorfosis del ser)El relato se ordena por grados y fechas —Golden Dawn en 1898, R.R. et A.C. en 1900, la operación de Abramelin, el dhyana de 1901, el Conocimiento y Conversación del Ángel Guardián en 1906— y a la vez niega que la iniciación sea formalidad: toda la vida participa del proceso y el reconocimiento oficial es solo señal de lo ya ocurrido.

crowley-equinox-of-the-gods · pp. 67, 68, 122

Theurgia (obra divina)La invocación de Horus del 20 de marzo de 1904 se ejecuta contra las reglas heredadas, por orden de la vidente, y el volumen la reproduce entera con su rúbrica material: ventana al este o al norte, sin incienso, diamantes, espada sin consagrar, cuarenta y cuatro cuentas y sesenta y seis fórmulas de llamada.

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Evocación (llamar y constreñir espíritus)La operación de Abramelin culmina en la evocación de los Cuatro Grandes Príncipes del mundo demoníaco, los Ocho Subpríncipes y los espíritus servidores, cuatro de los cuales quedan como familiares; el volumen dice haberla completado en 1906.

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Talismán (imagen astrológica)En la operación de Abramelin los demonios inferiores fabrican una colección de talismanes para diversos fines, y el lamen de plata sobre el altar es donde el Ángel escribe con rocío.

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Pentagrama (estrella flamígera)El ritual de destierro por el pentagrama y por el hexagrama figura entre los preliminares que el operante propone y que la vidente manda omitir: es el ejemplo concreto de la prohibición de todas las fórmulas usadas hasta entonces.

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Secreto (lo que se jura no fijar por escrito)Lo reservado atraviesa el volumen por los dos lados: el diario lleva señuelos y cifras sin sentido puestos a propósito por su autor, el nombre del adepto de un grado no se divulga, la palabra masónica no se da, y el propio texto recibido cifra sus claves.

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Sefirot (las diez numeraciones)El ritual egipcio va montado sobre el Árbol: el operante levanta los ojos a Geburah, la magnificencia de Chesed y el misterio de Daath, y el capítulo VII empareja la letra Teth con Yesod y con la función sexual.

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Cadena de transmisión (quién tomó de quién)El volumen construye su propia cadena hacia atrás: la misma Ley la habría enseñado la tradición gnóstica de la que dice que la leyenda de Cristo es degradación, luego Edward Kelley a fines del siglo XVI, y solo ahora se habría logrado.

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Crítica de fuentes (criterios de inclusión y descarte)El libro audita sus propias fuentes y declara sus fallas: el diario del periodo decisivo es incompleto y fragmentario, la memoria no alcanzó a fijarlo todo, el único documento intacto se abandonó a los cinco días, y el editor del e-text separa por firma las notas de Crowley de las suyas.

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Cuatro elementos (fuego, aire, agua, tierra)El ritual del Equinoccio que el volumen reproduce consagra los cuatro cuartos con su instrumento —rosa al este por el aire, fuego al sur, copa al oeste por el agua, sal al norte por la tierra— y cierra con la fórmula que reparte movimiento, llama, flujo y estabilidad.

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