Introduction to Aiwass.com

James Charles Beck was born in Los Angeles, California, at 23:30 PST on 30 November 1954, which was 07:30 GMT on 1 December in Hastings, UK, where Aleister Crowley had died precisely seven years earlier.

Jim Beck was not the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley. He was a reincarnation of Aiwass.

The fourth of five children in a family of practicing Lutherans, he grew up in Beaverton, Oregon. He was good at languages, played piano, and was interested in comparative religion.

“Him who is silent” is Hoor-paar-kraat, Harpocrates, Horus the Child, the Son of Silence.

The described event occurred when Jim was eight years old, one morning while he was getting ready for school.

He had real skills when he received Liber 718, as evinced in the following verse from chapter five.

It takes a lot of diligent practice to produce a “well-etched radiant four-starred circle,” but his motivation was as a student, a follower, not the master.

He believed he was very much a somebody, as he had been told again and again by Aiwass. Had he come through the Ordeal B, he would have known with certainty that he was nobody — merely a thin page in a thick book. Instead, he faced the Ordeal A unawares. The Ordeals X and A are blind ordeals.

The Ordeal A is the consequence of initiation to the grade Ipsissimus. The Ipsissimus enters the four gates of the Palace of Four Gates at once. Lesser grades enter the four gates, or doors, in turn: X, R, and B.

The Angel’s new incarnation comes into the world with potential for initiation to the grade achieved in the previous incarnation. The initiations can come in jumbled order, but during their lifetime in the world adepts work through all the corresponding ordeals in order, from the Ordeal X onward.

An Ipsissimus faces all the ordeals at once in the Ordeal A.

In the Book of the Law, Aiwass treated the 26^th dynasty Egyptian scribe Ankh-af-na-Khonsu — author of the Stélé of Revealing which cued the writing of the Book of the Law — and Aleister Crowley as the same person.

The “wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it” is the wisdom of experience.

James Beck inherited the potential-for-consciousness of an Ipsissimus. When Aiwass granted him initiation to the grade of Ipsissimus on 17 February 1977, in 77,3:26, the Ordeal A for the James Beck incarnation of Aiwass began.

James Beck’s life deteriorated after 1977. In 1980 he was in a car accident (as a passenger) in which he suffered the compound fracture of a femur. Within 13 years his wife, 181, who had loved and supported him while he soaked up red wine and made desultory efforts at writing, finally left him. In the subsequent 13 years Jim spent time as a crack cocaine addict in San Francisco; resided at a Catholic Monastery in Ava, Missouri, near his mother’s house; and became a Pentecostal lay preacher.

The demands were not met by the James Beck incarnation of Aiwass. He did not write a verse for verse comment on the Book of Codes. This task will fall to a subsequent incarnation of Aiwass.

Looking back on it, I think the James Beck incarnation could never have obeyed the ordeals given in the Book of Codes or fulfilled the stated tasks. After Crowley’s larger-than-life personality, Beck was a cypher.

Normally, the incarnation is the “person” of the Angel, but in the case of James Beck the Angel will go down in history as the person, or mask, of an important but next to unknown incarnation.

As I knew him in the last nine months of his life, by letters and telephone calls, James Beck was both bewildered and narcissistic to the point of solipsism. I was shocked at his decline, and deeply saddened.

He never realised that ordeals follow initiations. To initiate means to begin. He never had the gumption to seriously face his all-encompassing ordeal.

James Charles Beck died of bone cancer after many years of aplastic anaemia on 9 January 2004, about five weeks after his 49^th birthday.