Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I am the subsequent incarnation of the Holy Guardian Angel whose previous incarnation was Charles Robert John Stansfeld Jones (2 April 1886 – 24 February 1950). I was born on 3 February 1951.
I am mentioned in Liber 75 vel Luciferi, verse 42.
75:42. Liber Luciferi:
verse 42
Also shall there be success for the duteous one, that little child so sweet to my heart, burdened with travail and depression.
The very mercurial Frater Alzba, who actually owned an eight-sided house, was mentioned in verse 41.
Yes I am diffident, but I adore Liber 440 and duty calls.
I believe conversations like Liber 75 vel Luciferi have a temporal scope largely coincidental with the incarnations of their amanuenses. They may be one way to identify subsequent incarnations of Aiwass.
Liber 440, by contrast, has a temporal scope of about 2,200 years.
My rôle in this incarnation is Opener of the Ways. My guess is that successive incarnations of my Angel will also be Openers of the Ways.
Frater Altzba of 93 Publishing was arguably the first Opener of the Ways for Liber 440 in 1977, insofar as he typeset — on a Linotype caster — and paid for the first (letterpress) printing of Liber 440, proofread in collaboration with James Beck.
In addition to 625 copies printed on high-quality book paper with a soft cover, 93 copies were printed “in red and black ink upon beautiful paper made by hand.”
I saw my Holy Guardian Angel as an opaque and seemingly objective entity in a deeply affecting vision in 1972. My Angel gave its name as Ω, Omega, and instructed “I must be created.”
At first I thought the statement was an oxymoron. Eventually, I realised that all “I”s are created, not just the Angel’s persona.
I have been struggling with an internal conflict all my life. On the one hand, I have been betrayed by belief so often that I have become an adamant empiricist.
On the other hand, I have experienced telepathy, clairvoyance, astral travel, and other senses of my body of light (Ka) since I was a child. In none of those experiences were the four fundamental conservation laws of physics abrogated.
I concur with Arthur C. Clarke’s statement: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
The technology of brain training with sexual secretions is called magick. Recent neuroscience has detailed much of magick’s physical cause-and-effect, from Pavlov’s dogs to fMRI.
With Dharana, ritual, and autosexual magick I was able to silence my internal dialogue and intuit the centre of temporal cycles of which I had previously experienced only the quotidian rim.
Thelemic practices gave me the ability to see past the physical and recognise my life partner and Scarlet Woman when I met her. And she had been through her own ordeals to recognise me. (All I Ask Of You [music video].) In success and in failure my Eternal Self was leading me, its incarnation, from within, as her Eternal Self was leading her.
Some years of effective psychotherapy gave me another language allowing me to connect my felt experience to my philosophical worldview. Thus the demons flushed from my psyche with the Ritual of the Pentagram became both the “peoples” of 220,3:8 and the neuroses inhibiting my mental health.
The psychotherapy also assuaged fears that the vision of the Angel, 25 years earlier, was a sign of incipient insanity.
Time and space are so tightly bound together — one defined in terms of the other — that they appear to be simply different dimensions of the same thing. So as time is perceived differently, when we shift our point of view more intimately into the present, spatial dimensions also appear differently.
If it is supernatural it is not real in the world, though it may be real in the imagination, and if it is real in the world it cannot have supernatural causes.
I think in terms of signal-to-noise ratio regarding inspiration from the Eternal Self — the “thou” in Do what thou wilt — informing the unconscious mind, rising to the symbol-making facility of the subconscious mind, then rising to waking awareness as impetus.
You must be able to zero your instrument, that is, calibrate your mind-body complex by bringing your focus of attention so deeply into the present that the internal dialogue is silence: no thought.
Asana reduces the noise. Ritual increases the signal. Magick drives focus deeply into the present. Science keeps it all in perspective.
The supernatural is not an option, for it is magical thinking which answers sincere questions with superstition and belief, blocking growth and understanding.
I resolve the conflict between perceived reality and imagination by shifting my perspective inwards from the gross material world toward vistas of adeptship. Time, distance, and causality look different from different points of view. Nature is deeper than it appears on the surface.
The self-discipline required to develop sufficient proficiency in ARMS to achieve the Knowledge and Conversation of your Holy Guardian Angel is a great tool for managing the necessities of life in the real world.
Self is a persona — a mask — created by the mind-body complex to aid competition in human society. LSD can temporarily remove the “I,” permitting information which would otherwise remain obscure to rise from the unconscious mind, through the subconscious, to waking awareness, where it can be objectively examined. ARMS: Asana, Ritual, Magick, and Science — the tools of the trade — enable the ability to sideline the ego at will.
The vision of my Holy Guardian Angel capped a mass of information that had been uploaded into my unconscious mind and revealed briefly to waking awareness during a number of LSD trips. Only small amounts of that information rose to waking awareness at the time, for I had limited emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual resources to accommodate it.
Thus, I was intuitively attracted to the Book of the Law and motivated to learn the basics of Crowley’s Qabalah: the Tree of Life and The Book of Thoth — the language of Liber AL vel Legis.
The Science aspect of ARMS supplies the intellect with the resources needed to make use of the information gleaned from the other practices.
All my previous visions had been strictly conceptual. The vision of my Angel was objective and opaque. Its voice was loud and clear.
Certainly the vision of my Angel was created by my brain. The identification of the vision with Aleister Crowley’s notion of a Holy Guardian Angel came after the experience. To my knowledge only Llee Heflin and James Beck had similarly vivid visions, probably necessitated by the need to move on rapidly to more internal initiations.
On 8 January 1976, James Beck was tasked with describing a rather elaborate vision of Aiwass, his Holy Guardian Angel.
Kings and slaves — of whatever gender or sexual orientation — are the physical incarnations of their Holy Guardian Angels. Adeptship is aquired over many incarnations. Each new incarnation must quickly go through the initiation-ordeal cycles up to the degree achieved in the Angel’s previous lifetime in the world. Then work can continue on the next initiation-ordeal cycle. Thereafter, the Angel’s evolution continues page after page in its Book of Lives. Its incarnations allow their Kas and their Khus to dissolve quickly, so to save as much potential for consciousness as possible for the next incarnation.
I am unable to deny the overwhelming telepathic presence of my Angel in that vision, or the previous and subsequent influence of my Eternal Self in my life in the world.
It is real to me, but fiction to you. Just as your Holy Guardian Angel is fiction to me and, if you link your waking awareness to your Angel, real to you.
We are not to worship the Khu, to fall in love with our Magical Image. To do this — we have all done it — is to forget our Truth. If we adore Form, it becomes opaque to Being, and may soon prove false to itself. The Khu in each of us includes the Cosmos as he knows it. To me, even another Khabs is only part of my Khu. Our own Khabs is our one sole Truth.
– Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law, comment on 220,1:9.
In the first chapter of Little Essays Toward Truth, Aleister Crowley wrote “that the perceptible Universe is an extension, or phantasm, of the nervous system.”
In his 1944 The Book of Thoth, Crowley wrote,
…each one of us has his own universe all to himself, and it is not the same as anybody else’s universe.
– The Book of Thoth, Introduction, page 17.
In Anil Seth’s 2021 book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, the computational neurologist proposes
the idea that the brain is a “prediction machine,” and that what we see, hear, and feel is nothing more than the brain’s “best guess” of the causes of its sensory inputs. …that the contents of consciousness are a kind of waking dream — a controlled hallucination — that is both more than and less than whatever the real world really is.
– Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, chapter 4.
Professor Seth writes that a hallucination is an “uncontrolled perception.”
Our nervous and sensory systems evolved to advantage survival, not to perceive objective reality accurately. We can change our subjective experience of the world by changing our perspective.
Nothing is worse for children than to be humiliated; they should be brought up to realize that they are “kings and priests unto God.”
– The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, page 473.
The humiliations of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) cause shame, which divides us from ourselves, leading to self-doubt, low self-esteem, and a wide variety of physical and psychological diseases, not least addiction.
77,2:12. Book of Oz,
chapter 2: verse 12
Thou art no celestial slave.
Thy race has advanced
Not all of past deeds are hon’rable.
The Aeon is a New Way
The old Ways are but partial in their truthfulness.
Prayer works, due to neuroplasticity. Worship, particularly worshipful gratitude, lowers stress hormones, increases happy hormones, benefiting health.
If we wish to be free from external control, to choose for ourselves, we must take responsibility for the gods we make.
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
– Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Opinion, 1913.
