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Aleister CrowleyProphet of a New Aeon
Priest of the Ancient Gods
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Aleister CrowleyThe Prince-Priest
The Beast
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Introduction
Paul FeazeyOwner & Editor
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This presentation includes information from biographies of Crowley by Kaczynski and Churton.Images (c) OTO are reproduced with kind permission.
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God of the moon - ‘the wanderer’. Adopted son of Amun and Mut
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First Visit: 1902
• Failed climb of K2 (aka Chogo Ri)
• Left Bombay on 30 September 1902
• Arrived 14 October 1902 on the SS Egypt, staying for three weeks
• Wrote to Gerald Kelly on 25 October: ‘How I look forward to civilisation... Cairo is a filthy low place with no beauty at all, unless you go to the Nile.’
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First Visit: 1902
• Avoided the Pyramids: I won’t have 40 centuries looking down on me.
• Shepheards Hotel and brothels
• Left 5 November 1902 for France
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First Visit: 1902Shepheards Hotel
New in 1897 and luxurious
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Second Visit: 1903• Arrived in November 1903 with Rose
• Honeymoon
• Overnight 22 November 1903 in the Great Pyramid’s King’s Chamber
• Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia: no need for candles
• Suggestion is that Rose conceived during this visit
• Left in December 1903, headed for Ceylon
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Third Visit: 1904• January 1904, Crowley wrote ‘Why Jesus Wept’:
• Arm! Arm, and out; for the young warrior of a new religion is upon thee; and his number is the number of a man.”
• 9 February: AC and Rose arrive in Egypt through Port Said.
• 11 February: ‘Lord and Lady Boleskine’ reported as staying at the Grand Continental Hotel, Cairo.
• 16 February: Back to Port Said (Eastern Exchange Hotel). Planning to leave?
• 18 February: Stays with Rose at the Tewfik Palace Hotel, Helwan, as Prince Chioa Khan (Great Beast).
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Third Visit: 1904
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Third Visit: 1904
The Michel Ayoub Pasha Building is visible to the right. The statue of Soliman Pasha is also visible in the middle of the place.
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Third Visit: 1904
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Third Visit: 1904
• March 14: AC and Rose move into a flat in Cairo.
• March 16: Rose began repeating, "They are waiting for you." Crowley’s apparently flippant remark re “Waiter”.
• March 17: Rose entered into the same state and began repeating her remarks: "It's all about the child" and "All Osiris".
• Visit to Museum. Perhaps not surprising that AC was shocked when he saw the stele...
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Third Visit: 1904
• March 18: Thoth Invocation was repeated, "Revealed that the waiter was Horus, whom I had offended and ought to invoke."
• March 19: Composes and performs the Invocation of Horus. Twice.
• March 20: "Startling" success. "The Equinox of the Gods had come" and he was to formulate a link between the solar-spiritual force of the new epoch and mankind.
• April 8, 9 and 10: Reception of The Book Of The Law.
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• March 23: “The ritual is of sex; Mars in the house of Venus exciting the jealousy of Saturn or Vulcan.”
Third Visit: 1904
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Fourth Visit: 1905
• Left Boleskine 6 May 1905 for Cairo: “He spent a week in Cairo ... to see the stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu.” (Symonds: The Beast 666)
• Port Said - sailed “on the beautiful breast of the Nile” with a male lover and wrote poem, “Said”.
• Then on to a failed attempt to climb Kangchenjunga and to shoot muggers in Calcutta.
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Museums
• Did Crowley visit the Boulaq Museum?
• The contents of the cache including the Stele of Revealing were placed in the Boulaq after their discovery in 1858.
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Boulaq Museum
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Boulaq
• Work in progress in 1902 to move the objects from the Boulaq to the Cairo Museum.
• Chaotic disruption to the Boulaq: items are transported in 5,000 wooden carts.
• Cairo Museum opened on 15 November, ten days after Crowley’s first departure.
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Cairo Museum
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Museums• Crowley wrote that he’d seen the stele in
the Boulaq Museum but at a time when the stele was at the Cairo Museum.
• What if Crowley - aged 27 - visited the Boulaq Museum, saw the stele and was photographed with it?
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Crowley’s reproduction of the stele, The Equinox I:8
(1913).
Oil on canvas.
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Published 1907-09
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• April 1906, summoned Aiwass with Sr Fidelis (Elaine Simpson).
• Aiwass: “Return to Egypt with same surroundings... Go with the Scarlet Woman, this is essential... Live in Egypt as you did before... Go at once to Egypt...”
• January 1920, Jane Cheron - 4’ silk reproduction of the Stele.
Intentions
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Intentions
• Several diaries called The Magical Record of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu.
• AC planned a visit during the writing of the Djeridensis Comment (letter to Norman Nudd, 1923 or 1924): “Fuller should walk with him to Egypt by way of Tunis ... and ‘abstruct’ from the Cairo Museum the original stele ... and help carry it to Boleskine.” (Symonds: The Beast 666)
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Rose - ‘Ouarda’
• Rose Edith Kelly - Skerrett - Crowley - Gormley
• Born 23 July 1874
• Sister of Gerald Kelly
• Grand-daughter of founder of ‘Kelly’s Directories’
• Widowed in 1901 from Major Skerrett
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Rose - ‘Ouarda’• Mother of 2 children: Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate
Sappho Jezebel Lilith (born 3 months after Cairo Working, died the following year) and Lola Zaza (1906 to 1990)
• Divorced from Crowley in 1909 - same year Crowley chose to publish AL
• Committed for alcoholism in 1911
• Married Dr Gormley
• Died 1932 aged 57
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Rose
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“Hassan or Hamid”
Our head servant, Hassan or Hamid, I forget which.
A tall, dignified, handsome athlete of about 30. Spoke good English and ran the household well;
always there and never in the way.
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“Hassan or Hamid”
• Hassan !"# = ‘handsome’ or ‘benefactor’
• Hamid $%&# = ‘praised’
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• aka Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu - Ankh-af-na-Khonsu - Ankh-f-n-Khonsu - Ankhefenkhonsu - ꜥnḫ-f-n-ḫnsw
• “The deceased, priest of Mentu, Lord of Thebes, the justified one for whom the doors of the sky are opened in Karnak.”
Ankhefenkhons I
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Ankhefenkhons I
• "His life is in Khonsu.”
• “Flourished around 725 BCE.” Time of the Nubian kings (ie Piankhi).
• Usually considered the 25th Dynasty (747-656 BCE). AC went with Budge’s 26th Dynasty.
• Budge thought the 26th Dynasty started in 666 BCE.
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Ankhefenkhons I
• Egyptian “priests” not as we would understand the term. Often translated “prophet” these days. Tended to be a hereditary role.
• Ankhefenkhons was a Kher-heb priest, responsible for reciting sacred texts and serving as oracle.
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Ankhefenkhons I
• Ankhefenkhons’ mother was the Lady Taneshi aka Ta-neshet: ‘Sistrum Bearer’ of Amun, the god most closely allied with Montu.
• His father was Besenmut aka Bes-en-Mut I
• He was married to Neskhons.
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Ankhefenkhons I
"...has left the multitudes and rejoined those who are in the light, he has opened the dwelling place of the stars; now then, the deceased, Ankh-af-na-khonsu, who has gone forth by day in order to
do everything that pleased him upon earth, among the living."
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Ankhefenkhons IAppears that he served at the Temple of Mentu
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Ankhefenkhons I... but resided in the Temple of Khonsu
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Macclesfield Museum H: 6.0 cm., W: 1.6 cm., D: 1.5 cm.
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• Funeral stele of Neskhons, wife of Ankhefenkhons
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GodsThen Now Function
Nuit Nut Sky goddess
HaditBehdetyHorus of Behdet (Edfu)
Winged solar disk - defender of Re. “A mathematical expression rather than a god.”
Ra-Hoor-Khuit Re-HorakhtySolar aspect of the combined Re and Horus
HorusSky god and god of war. Conqueror of Set. Worshipped throughout Egyptian history.
Mentu MontuFalcon-headed god of war. aka ‘Horus of the Strong Arm’. Son of Amun.
Khonsu KhonsGod of the moon - ‘the wanderer’. Adopted son of Amun and Mut
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Aiwass
• “I was the writer of a liberal book.”
• Arabic: “Aiwa” = Yes
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Aiwass
He seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage
king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw.
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Aiwass
• Was Aiwass (“a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong”) actually Hamid (“a tall, dignified, handsome athlete of about 30”)?
• “The ritual was of sex.”
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Aiwass
• “They are waiting for you.” A couple of days later, Crowley recorded in his diary that Rose had revealed to him “the waiter was Horus.”
• “I note in my diary that the food was ‘beastly, and abominable, and absurdly dear’. If I remember correctly, it was cooked by a Greek and served by an Armenian.”
• Այվազ = Ayvaz = Armenian for “servant attending on the guests”
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Aiwass
• So...
• Aiwass = Այվազ = Waiter = Servant = Hamid
•Այվազ = θέλημα
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Stele
• Unusually, framed by the sky-goddess Nuit (aka Nuith aka Nut).
• Unusually, wooden (covered with stucco).
• Unusually, inscribed on the rear. Verses from The Book of the Dead to ensure that his heart supported him at time of judgement.
• Also, a spell to enable “the astral form of the deceased to revisit the earth at will.”
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Montu was depicted
wearing a pair of tall plumes, to distinguish Montu from other hawk-
headed deities.
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Summary
• Not just one visit: four.
• Stele was apparently not ‘discovered’ until the third visit
• Visits to Port Said, Helwan and Cairo. But not Luxor (‘Warrior lord of Thebes...’)
• Apparent confusion over Museums
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Summary
• Publication of AL when AC and Rose divorced
• Very young-looking Crowley photographed “in 1910” with stele ... and volume of The Holy Books
• Crowley’s intention to return
• Aiwass / Aiwaz / Ayvaz / Aiwa / Hamid
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