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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Anne Macky
Aug. 18, 1943 e.v.
Dear Mrs. Macky: in furture Cara Soror:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Much thought has gone into the construction of your Motto. "I will become" can be turned neatly enough as "Let there be;" by avoiding the First Pronoun one gets the idea of "the absorption of the Self in the Beloved," which is exactly what you want.
"The creative Force of the Universe" is quite ready-made. Πυραμις, a pyramid, is that Force in its geometrical form; in its biological form it is Φαλλος, the Yang or Lingam. Both words have the same numerical value, 831. These two words can therefore serve you as the secret object of your Work. How than can you construct the number 831?
The Letter כ, Jupiter (Jehovah), the Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot—the Atu X is a picture of the Universe built up and revolving by virtue of those Three Principles: Sulphur, Mercury, Salt; or Gunas: Sattvas, Rajas, Tamas—has the value 20. So also has the letter י spelt in full. (יוד)
The Gnostic secret way of spelling and pronouncing Jehovah is ΙΑΩ and this has the value 811. So has "Let there be," Fiat, transliterating into Greek. (ΦΙΑΤ).
Resuming all these ideas, it seems that you can express your aspiration very neatly, very fully, by choosing for your motto the words FIAT IAO.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
Baphomet X° O.T.O.
P.S. Please study this letter, and these explanatory figures and meditate upon them until you have fully assimilated not only the matter under immediate consideration, but the general method of Qabalistic research and construction. Note how new cognate ideas arise to enrich the formula.
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