Liber 440 includes:
The Book of the Law, Liber 220
The Book of Codes, Liber 718
The Book of Oz, Liber 77
and Liber 75 vel Luciferi in an appendix.
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220,3:38. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 38
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-af-na-khonsu!
The Sun’s secret door leads to a perspective that Aleister Crowley called ‘Holy Guardian Angel’ and which I call ‘Eternal Self’. Our Angels occupy the place of the Sun in our hearts and minds.
718,3:16. Book of Codes,
chapter 3: verse 16
Study the threefold Book and the Book of Thoth; all works of Science are useful unto you. Yet become not as the Din who read and memorize, compare and analyze, yet are devoid of practice. The rituals shall be performed according to season, as of old. Let the year begin at the Yuletide [Capricorn] with a beautiful invocation of Earth [
]: for this represents the birth of the Beast out of the darkness of Time. Thou shalt make merry by nature, for the waxing of the Sun is powerful to uplift the Spirit.
718,3:17. Book of Codes,
chapter 3: verse 17
The Ram’s Equinox [Aries] shall be to you the celebration of fire [
]: and these feasts and rituals thou shalt celebrate as of old. Luna’s Solstice [Cancer] shall be Water [
] to my chosen, and the Fall of the Sun [Libra] shall be known to you as Wind [
]. For the Babe is born in the womb of the Mother [Capricorn], becomes inflamed as Therion the Great [Aries], unites with the Lady in the heat of celestial procreation [Cancer], ascends unto the Consciousness of Nu [Libra], and is subsequently reborn [Capricorn]. This is the scheme of the most ancient mythos, to be enacted once again by the maenads of Thelema.
The zodiac is a calendar. Its signs represent what was consequential to people, 2,500 years ago, marking the Sun’s journey through the seasons in the northern hemisphere. The four cardinal signs mentioned above are at the solstices and equinoxes.
I inserted comments in square brackets to help those who have not yet studied Liber 440 and The Book of Thoth to comprehend the daily and annual cycles represented in the text.
When I was twenty years old I experienced a vision which became foundational to my worldview.
I saw a large book before me. Its spine was wider than the height of its cover. Millions of pages were bound in that book; each page was gossamer thin; each page represented an entire lifetime in the world. The book was open to my present lifetime.
There seemed to be wormholes or channels of awareness running through from page to page, future and past. I could feel snippets of thoughts and emotions cascading down these channels — like reflections in parallel mirrors — as the same moments of contact were experienced in different lifetimes.
– Book of Lives vision, Nemo Pandragon, early 1971.
My Eternal Self sees the whole Book of Lives at a glance. My incarnated perspective sees only my present page, and that page edge-on, as I progressively perfect the narrative of this life.
I am not an incarnation of Aiwass, as were Ankh-af-na-khonsu, Aleister Crowley, and James Charles Beck. I am the Opener of the Ways.
718,1:17. Book of Codes,
chapter 1: verse 17
Know also that the Kings rise and set within their bodies as do the stars …
Kings choose. Slaves follow. Dogs die.
“Every man and every woman is a starBook of the Law,
chapter 1: verse 3.” The stars are our Angelssee
Book of Codes,
chapter 3: verse 8. Our Eternal Selves incarnate in our bodies and minds.
We are our Angels and they are us. When we link our workaday waking awareness with that most intimate level of our own consciousness, we see beyond the horizons of birth and death.
Our orison is: “a ka dua tuf ur biu bi a’a chefu dudu nur af an nuteru.” Aleister Crowley rendered this prayer from the Stélé of Revealing in verse,
220,3:37. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 37
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!
