| Common man’s Guide to the new Aeon This is for those that seem lost, or do not understand what the new Aeon is, or what their place in it is. First let me explain what an Aeon is. I am sure you have heard of the term “New Age” and have heard many people talk about what it is and what it means. Some people say that it is a religion or a new way of thinking. My experience is that those who talk about the New Age don’t really have a clue, and at best they repeat a mixture of things that they do not understand. The New Aeon is a different story. This world has passed through different Aeons. The last one was the Aeon of IAO, Osiris, and Jesus. The idea of the Aeon was sacrifice, and was put forth to the public through mostly Christianity and Buddhism. That Aeon is now over, however, since the advent of the Book of the Law. The Apocalypse happened and only a middle aged cynical rationalist Buddhist was there to see it. The Book of the Law was dictated to Aleister Crowley between noon and 1 p.m. on April 8th, 9th and 10th, in the year 1904. The Book of the Law announces to mankind the New Aeon of Horus that shall remain for a period of 2,000 years. Aiwass, the Angel who dictated the Book of the Law to Crowley, defined himself as the messenger of Hoor-Paar-Kraat. Hoor-Paar-Kraat is the Egyptian God of Silence. He represents the Secret Self of every man and every woman, that is, their Silent Self or Holy Guardian Angel. True understanding of this Silent Self is the Universal Key to understanding one’s purpose in life. According to the One Law of the Universe, every man and every woman is made a master in his/her own right. The Book of the Law contains three Chapters, which are sacred communications from three Egyptian Gods called Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The first chapter is the Voice of Nuit, our Lady of the Starry Heaven -- the Star-Goddess; the second chapter is the Voice of Hadit, the flame that burns in the heart of every man and woman. The third chapter is the Voice of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the Child of Nuit and Hadit, the Crowned and Conquering Lord of our New Aeon of Thelema. The picture is the Funerary Stele of the priest Ankh-af-na-Khonsu. In the Museum catalogue it was numbered Stele #666. The body of Nuit can be seen stretched across the sky above and around. The disk with wings represents Hadit. The priest is speaking to Horus, who sits on the throne. The principal message of the Book of the Law is the Law of Thelema, that is, "Do what thou wilt." This is our perfect code of conduct, our sole means to accomplish the Great Work in absolute freedom. According to this New Law, we are now to assume complete responsibility for ourselves, to advance forward in freedom, to realize and pursue our own paths in life unto the ultimate attainment of the supreme realization of our True Self. We are to develop and realize our True Self by way of our True Will; for the True Will is the True Self in action; it is the dynamic aspect of our true natures by which we rend the dark veils which blind us to the magnificent truth within. Until we take responsibility for ourselves, to understand and act out our True Will, we are bound to fail in our pursuits in this life. But if we take responsibility for our own lives, and cultivate love and freedom by the proper application of the Law of Thelema, then will we establish that Law, for in such manner we are living in harmony with the One Will of the Universe, moving with the New Current, uniting with all in perfect joy and harmony. We of Thelema must be strong and free to know our True Will; then, and only then, can we act aright. Only those who fear shall fail. Therefore we must be without fear, to exalt ourselves in strength and freedom, to do our True Will with all manner of energy and endurance. This is our Great Work by which we are brought to the Supreme Perfection, and by which we participate in the Cosmic Order of the Starry-Heaven of our Lady Nuit. When we are doing our True Will, there is nothing that can hinder us from going forth with indefatigable energy and endless ecstasy in our chosen course of endeavor; we are free to interpret every phenomenon as an essential part of our True Will; we may use every force of the universe to serve our means to accomplish the Great Work; we may use any act to achieve our magical end, yet all this without lust of result. In the Book of the Law, I: 42-44, it is proclaimed by our Lady Nuit: "So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect." We are not to allow reason to interfere with the free course of our true natures. Rather we must go forth in freedom to do our True Will, with complete confidence in ourselves to accomplish the task for which we have incarnated in the flesh. It is the act of a foolish man to ask why a star travels in its appointed orbit. It is philosophical nonsense and mere mental waste, which inevitably leads to confusion and disorder. The Book of the Law also proclaims, under the figure of our Lady Nuit: "Love is the law, love under will." To love is to unite, to join together. We are to unite ourselves passionately with all things, and thereby do we annihilate our false sense of separateness from the Universe; and we are to accept everything as it is in itself, as one of the elements of our own nature. Thelema is the Greek word for Will. It -- like Agape, the Greek word for Love -- has the numerical value of 93. Aiwaz (Aiwass) also has the numerical value of 93. According to the Qabalistic Science of Gematria, words that have the same numerical value are descriptions of each other or they are indications of a single phenomenon. Thelema is "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"; Agape is "Love is the law, love under will." Aiwass is the Angel of Thelema -- the New Law of Will and Love. This New Law is the Sole Commandment of Nature; it is our Law of Liberty, by which we perfect ourselves in Nature, to accomplish our True Will. We should all learn to apply this Law to our every problem in life and to determine our every action or question of conduct in accordance with it. The proper application of this One Law increases our efficiency on all levels of existence and it offers to us the complete fulfillment of all our true spiritual and material aspirations. By its application we can come to understand our own true natures, and to express in our lives the creative Will of our beings, to make joy and victory our lot. In the Book of the Law, I: 3, it is proclaimed by our Lady Nuit: "Every man and every woman is a star." We are all individual Centers of the Infinite, each with our own unique and essential orbit to pursue in the Cosmic Order. We are to be free of all standard ways and codes; we are to exist by our own light and truth in this Illustrious Way of Liberty. We are to calculate our own orbits, and to transcend all accidental phenomena. We are to come forth from our thick veils of darkness which blind us to the Truth, to lift ourselves up from the messy muddled mire of the mind, and to do our Will with all manner of ecstasy and delight. Freedom is now the One Law of Life; every man and every woman must now be free to realize their own True Self and to do their own True Will. Freedom is the power to determine your own path at Will; it is perfect self-control and emancipation from the false paths that lead us astray into the darkness of ignorance and the weakness of slavery. When we are fortified by Liberty, we are able to fashion ourselves according to our own True Will. We then make for our own progress and power as independent centers of our own universe. Freedom is the Sweet Ambrosia of the Gods, by which we nourish ourselves to prosecute the Master Work of our Royal Art of the Magick of Light. The magical doctrine of the Book of the Law asserts that every man and every woman has a proper course in life -- a True Will -- just as every star has its own orbit, and that the duty of each person is to pursue his own course, just as every star must move in its own orbit. It further states that we have no right but to do our own True Will; and that any deviation from this path is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema which is the Law of Liberty. If we all did our True Will there would be no conflict, and no interference with one another. Any act that is not in harmony with one’s True Will is a hindrance to one’s freedom. We must know our True Will and do it with one-pointedness, and without lust of result. Every act is to be a sacrament unto Nuit, a ritual of Love under Will. We should not restrict ourselves or repress any true part of our natures; on the contrary, we should be free to revel and rejoice in all that we are, and to devote ourselves and every part of our natures to the supreme task of doing our True Will. Therefore let us all arise and awaken in the New Law, to live in the majestic universe of the glorious stars, and to flame forth free with Light and Liberty! Horus, the Lord of the New Aeon, is the Child of Osiris and Isis, and he partakes of the elements of both his Father and Mother. This is the New Aeon of Horus; the Old Aeon of Osiris is dead! But Horus is just a babe and He is still clinging to Old Aeon principles, in fear of the unknown. We are Horus, the Child, and there is no escape from the fact that we are still clinging childishly to the false doctrines of Christianity and other Old Aeon rubbish. We fear the unknown and thereby remain bound to the old. But we must grow in freedom; it is the law of our nature. My point is this: We should take a jump into the Unknown, putting aside all Old Aeon ways of thinking, and by such a process it will become more possible for us to comprehend the revolutionary language of the Book of the Law. Let us therefore put aside our useless prejudices and beliefs based on Old Aeon principles, If we are to understand anything correctly in this New Aeon of Horus we must cast aside all systems, ways and beliefs of the Old Aeon, and be willing to judge things in the Spirit of the Times, free from the false notions of the dead past. Begone with the old; let us make way for the new! |