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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 30 August 1923
Die Jupiter
9.40 p.m. (An attempt at a Comment on CCXX verse by verse.)[1]
1. The possibilities of existence can only be manifested through the experience of individuals.
2. This book reveals the divine nature of each individual consciousness.
3. Every man & every woman is a divine unit, sovereign, imperishable, unique, necessary.
4. Each individual possesses limitless possibilities. The total in each case is consequently the same.
5. The work of The Beast is to show mankind what possibilities are open to them.
6. In order to achieve this, The Beast, stripped of his human personality, becomes, feels & speaks in the character of the impersonal individual essence, which is common to all individuals alike.
7. The essential truth necessary at the present period of history is revealed by Aiwass, the H.G.A. [Holy Guardian Angel] of The Beast, whose name expresses equally the ideas of the Law itself & of the Formula of the Aeon. He is called the minister of the God of Silence, as if to assert that his message is not a disturbance of spiritual equilibrium but the means of correcting an existing error.
8. The manifested qualities of any individual are expressions of his essence but his nature cannot be discovered by investigating them.
9. Mankind should therefore seek the inmost truth behind the phenomenal manifestation thereof. Finding this, he will become aware of the totality of his possibilities, instead of imagining as hitherto, that his actual characteristics suffice to express his nature completely.
10. Few individuals, & those beyond the understanding of mankind are fitted to work to complete the scheme of nature which contemplates the realization in actual experience of all the possibilities of every individual. Such persons commanding types of experience exceeding the normal are able to direct the actions of the majority whose scope is universally understood.
11. The ordinary man constructs & worships an ideal which he calls God or hero according in the image of the phantasm of his vanities.
12. I exhort men to cease to hide themselves in the refuges which they have constructed in themselves from fear of facing reality. I bid them take cognizance of the existence of their fellow individuals to realize the infinite possibilities of experience open to them & to satisfy their sense that they are incomplete by uniting themselves with all other beings.
13. A man’s possibilities are the heights to which he should climb. They are inherent in his own nature. Possibility fulfils itself whenever any individual makes it actual. The effect of any such act is to create the ineffable joy which accompanies the satisfaction of the ache resulting from the sense of imperfection.
14. All such acts of love rekindle the ecstasy of creation & recreate the universe. New powers & possibilities spring afresh from every achievement of those already existing.
15. The Beast is chosen to show by example & also by exposition that man’s perfection depends upon his realizing that his possibilities are infinite & demand realization. The woman associated with him in this work thereby gives form to his idea. Their cooperation inspires mankind to follow their example with the result that men become aware of the sublime nature of every individual consciousness.
16. The Beast is thus the source of Light & Life & bestows these openly upon such as understand clearly the nature of the Universe. Her function is to reflect his light to such as walk in ignorance yet dream & aspire. He is the type of the individual & she of the forms by which he is able to express himself.
17. The Beast & The Scarlet Woman are the sole authorized exponents of this doctrine.
18. The creative genius which is the quintessence of individual existence is manifested openly by them.
19. All possibilities soever may be realized by & will be attributed to them.
20. The general method of attainment is explained by the word ABRAHADABRA. Its virtue may be thus described. The aspirant should discover for himself what elements are lacking to the perfection of his being are required to make him a complete expression of the Universe. He should than make it his business to infiltrate himself in all possible ways with this complementary idea so that there is ultimately no element of his being which is not completely satisfied by intimate union with each & every other idea conceivable.
Felt better—thanks to Invocation to 93. Dictated letter to 516 [Leah Hirsig] & Comment K on CCXX & then a long essay on the Elements of Reality. a A. The individual (infinite variety of such) b B. Possibility (also infinite). c C. Event (any α plus any β). I showed how all γ s were infinite with no difference between them. Then: the combination of γ s produces Events of the Second Order (d) which differ & develop Ahamkara. This begins to resent Change, thinking it means destruction instead of life. Finding change in every new contact, it thinks ‘Existence is Sorrow’. This causes it to shut its eyes to the facts: thereby Understanding is lost altogether; the Coherence of Events ‘explodes’, & the Ego takes each fragment for a reality, whereas it is only the (meaningless) letter of the Alphabet invented in order to express Truth. I then showed how to set about the recovery of the Lost Word.
1—Comment K on The Book of the Law.
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