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Book of Lies, like much Crowley, is on and off with me. However, there is no doubt the man was onto many many things and this book proves it with its dense codes, often encoded within beautiful, elegant and impressively intelligent passages. Every time I start to think on these its in out of the way situations/places, like when I travel away from home. Times like these often get me thinking on irregular corridors of me mind and shed light on things like this that my everyday presona might not quite crack. However, now is the time to bring it on home, so to speak, and I wanted to start with Chapter 1, The Sabbath of the Goat because it always flows nice for me.
Now, interpretation wise, maybe this is just my knowing abit too much personals on Aleister, but it occurrs to me this may be decoded as a nod towards the powerful benefits he found in homosexual sex magick. Follow my logic (or lack thereof):
line1: 'O! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan' - wherein the commentary he identifies the X in N.O.X. as representational of the pahallus
line5 (wherein the commentary he stresses, "The student is then charged to understand the spiritual importance of this physical procession in line 5") Line 5 reads: 'Cast the seed into the Field of the Night.' If Seed is an obvious alias for male regenerative powers/organs/fluids, then wouldn't Field (capitalized during the line as is Seed) stand to reason as possibly symbolic of, in traditional terms the female regenerative organs? But modified here as 'Field of the Night' couldn't this, having already established the link herein of Night with Pan and N.O.X. and phallus, speak of the field as a male 'receiver' so to speak?
We know many of the Magickal orders of the time had grades specifically for homosexual magick, so could this not be the 'hidden meaning' imbedded within Chapter 1? |
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