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Subject: Liber 31 --- by Fr. Achad (Charles Stansfield Jones)

Key entry by Fr. Nachash

Ur‘us-Hadit Camp, OTO

Completed 11-24-90 e.v.

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                   BEING  A  PART  OF  THE  DIARY  OF FRATER

                   O.I.V.V.I.O. CONCERNING THE FOOL PARZIVAL

                   AND HOW HE DISCOVERED  THE MYSTERY OF THE

                   ONE  THAT IS NOT.   WRITTEN  DOWN  IN THE

                   FOURTENTH  YEAR  OF  THIS AEON  WHEN  THE

                   SUN WAS IN THE SIGN OF  LIBRA  BY  FRATER

                   ARCTAEON.





























                               LIBER THIRTY-ONE



                                 Frater Achad







                                     Not*

                    delivered by 777 unto 666 for His high

                   consideration this Third day os the 11th

                          month of the year 1918 E.V.





    *

    This manuscript was NOT delivered on date originally intended but held  

    until  about  September  3,  1919  when it was mailed to  Therion from  

    Detroit.  He was then in New York.  Receipt was acknowledged in letter 

    received  September  8, 1919.  On September 9, 1919 a further P.C. was 

    received  from  Therion  which  read:





    " \ = 418."Thou knowest not." Your key opens Palace. CCXX has unfolded 

    like  a   flower.  All  solved, even II.76 & III.47. Did you know ^  =  

    3.141593?  And oh! lots more!" (srd.) AL'AIN the Priest....666



                                                     Achad, March 13.1948)







"But first thou must suffer, thou must suffer many things"  (Even  so  be  it

Lord Adonai).  The Voice goes on: "Thou must suffer the pains of Death and of

Hell and of the Grave (3 times repeated) And after these things are  come  to

pass will I come unto thee to comfort Thee (Twice repeated. The  Words  `Come

to pass' added the second time).  "And there shall be  no  more sea,  neither

shall there be any more fear, but I alone will inform  thee  in  all  things,

even unto the end which is not. For many have  said  unto  thee  strange  and

diverse words,  but mine shall be the One Word which Is and Was and Shall be.

Amen."





                   Note: This was  recorded in diary on

                         3rd Day of  October 1912 after

                         Noon Prayer to Adonai.  I have

                         just `discovered' the prophesy

                         this 31st day of  October 1918

                         E.V.  777.







                           THE DIARY OF O.I.V.V.I.O.





            Sun in 1 Deg Libra AN XIV. SUN-DAY Sept 22nd 1918 E.V.





It seems as  if  Sunday  is  the one day of all the  week  on  which  I am 

impressed  to write  a  few fragments  of what passes through my mind.  On  

Sept  1st I obtained a clear understanding regarding the Will and the Law.  

On  Sept 8th, nothing  special I think, but on Sept 15th I wrote "Stepping 

out  of  the  Old Aeon into the New"  and today I had a mind to write,  at 

Therion's request,  a  pamphlet on how All is Change.  But first there are 

some important  considerations  to  be recorded and I feel that now is the 

time to place them on record.



That which I am about to write concerneth the Supernal Triad.  It  is just 

Nine  Months  since  the  last  Great  Initiation  was  granted  unto  me, 

O.I.V.V.I.O.,  and  as  hardly a word of the experience then undergone has 

been recorded. In fact, this is also true to some extent of the Initiation 

of June 21st,  1916,  the record of which I am only now trying to put into 

writing. It is not in this place that I intend to make a full statement of 

all that occured, but it is of the greatest importance that the inmost and 

essential features be written down, despite the terrible difficulty of the 

task.



Briefly,  then, I want to state my position, which I feel is Known yet not 

known.



When  I  proclaimed my intention of claimimg the Grade of 8-3 or Master of 

the  Temple,  on June 21st 1916  in  the City of North Vancouver,  British 

Columbia,  I  did so because I thought that the Master Therion needed NEMO 

to fill that  Office  in  order  that  He  might fully attain His 9-2. The 

details of the Initiation which  followed  are  recorded in another place, 

but here I would state that, having `died' and,  as it were,  Reincarnated 

immediately in the  same  body,  and having given up all,  even the Master 

Therion,  I was led of the Spirit during a stay at  Grantham's Landing, so 

that it appeared to me that on June 22nd 1916 I was NEMO 8-3;  but on June 

23rd at 12 Noon the realization of the Curse of the Magus came to me quite 

unexpectedly,  so that I could do naught else than consider my Grade to be 

9-2. Then followed a terrible struggle, for I realized how I had failed so 

far of Complete Attainment because of a certain Glamour of the Path.  Then 

it was that I decided to give up all,  even the least little thing,  and I 

made certain pledges which were afterwards faithfully kept, so that I gave 

up my business position and got down to spending my last cent of money.



Having made these pledges,  it  seemed  quite  certain that I was upon the 

Path of Aleph, which uniteth Chockmah with the Crown, and therefore beyond 

the Glamour of the Great Magician.  I  hoped that Therion had at this time 

Attained unto  10=1  and  I  was ready even then,  if need be, to hold the 

Grade of 9=2,  and  to aacept the Curse thereof,  but if that were not the 

case,  I  could only consider that somehow I has passed the Great Magician 

on the Path.  At 9 p.m. that night,  I was just a clearly convinced that I 

had attained the Grade of 10=1,  and I remained in  the Great Illumination 

until for following day.  Then after leaving Soror R. I went away with the 

feeling of complete enlightenment,  but  certain considerations came to me 

so that I decided to reverse  the  Grade and take that of a simple 1=10 or 

Neophyte, thus as it were,  plunging down the Middle Pillar of the Tree of 

Life and uniting Kether and Malkuth in my own Being.  (Note  V.I.O. = 86 a 

Number asserting this identity, thus foreshadowing this Attainment, as all 

His other Mottoes seem to do.  And  OHPION  has said,  One cannot get away 

from the fulfillment of Mottoes).



Having done this,  I felt myself to be One with the Buddhas of Compassion, 

and returned to Soror R. as elsewhere recorded.



Shortly after we got back to Vancouver,  the meaning of all my Mottoes was 

revealed to me,  and their connection with the whole of my Magical career. 

I discovered how  V.I.O.O.I.V.  in full  (as Unus in Omnibus Omnia in Uno) 

added to 777 though I had never known this before,  owing  to a mistake in 

the spelling made by F.  when he first put in into Latin for me.  This was 

my original Probationer's Motto. On becoming a Neophyte I had Chosen Achad 

= Unity,  while  my  O.T.O.  Name,  which I afterwards used for the Second 

Order as 5=6 was  Parzival,  which contains the mystery of 8.80.418. which 

was one of the things which led to the thought that I might be the `child' 

mentioned in Liber Legis,  afterwards proved in such a  marvelous  manner, 

of which see accounts in the Diary of Nemo, and that of a Magus.



Then correspondence  began  between myself and Therion, and He admitted my 

8=3 Grade,  but would not consider the  possibility  of the Path of Aleph, 

10=1 etc.  explaining  my  taking  1=10  again as my being  `Cast out into 

Malkuth',  although,  as  a  matter of fact,  I  made  no  claim except to 

Neophyte.  He  also realized that this must be the `child' prophesied unto 

him in Liber Legis, and claimed me as His Son.



About  this  time  I  changed the order of my Motto to O.I.V.V.I.O. which, 

note,  is  another sort of reversal,  and this mystery of things reversing 

or reflecting, or being taken out of their usual dimension and replaced in 

another order, seems to be part of the Key of Things in Themselves as will 

be shown later, although I understood it not at the time.



Nothing much happened to me,  except  that  I was granted Light on certain 

Mystery in the Letters A.A.,  until  December  16th  1917  E.V. (18 months 

later).  Then  on Dec. 21st I realized that the Initiation was again going 

on with great force,  but this time the character was very different,  and 

seemed to have to do with the Mystery of the Elements, Planets, and Paths, 

whereas the former one dealt with the Sephiroth more particularly.  I must 

remark that this Initiation had an actual effect on the Elements,  causing 

storms etc., and that these had to be balanced and equilibrated, which was 

done.  All the time this was going on. The one sentence  which continually 

recurred, was "The  Air  is  His  Balance." This seemed to be the Key note 

which saved me from destruction many  times.  Later,  it  appeared  that I 

united the Paths of Aleph and Shin, Aethyr and Fire, as a final Equilibra-

tion, and the Tree was completely changed again,  so that it had to be re-

formulated, and eventually resolved into a Single Sphere.  Later, came the 

drawing of all to a Single  Point  of  Light  (Hadith)  in  the  Centre of 

Breast. And I was taken back to the Beginning of Things and discovered how 

in Truth there was No Beginning and No End.  In  particular I must mention 

how I was taken back to the beginning of Words, and I Parzival  (the  Fool 

or Zero) was the WORD and even that  was  disintegrated  so that the final 

Mystery Was AL = GOD and then that too disappeared in LA = NOT.  THEN came 

the Flash of a  New  Creation  and  again  the Flash - the solution of the 

Mystery of CHANGE and also of the SELFLESSNESS  which  is SELF. I was also 

given  a  certain  Magical  gesture,  not now clear to me, which seemed to 

cause this Annhilation and Reconstruction to be brought about. (Note. Oct. 

19th.  While  typing these notes,  another mystery becomes clear to me. In 

connection with Parzival and the fulfilment of that  Motto also.  The mind 

was actually running backwards at this time,  as  will  be shown later on, 

and though  possibly  not  quite  perfectly  til  after  the  first Flash. 

Parzival, REVERSED and split into sections,  would give AL or LA, followed 

by ZIV or VIZ which numeration is 106 = ATTAINED  followed by PAR or RAP = 

CROWN, and ASHES, and these ideas  (innate in the Word) exactly correspond 

with what actually occurred.)



Now let me say no more of this matter,  but pass on.  In March 1918 I sold 

all that I had in order to join Therion in New York.



Quite  recently  I was impressed to resign from the O.T.O. and to withdraw 

my help in that direction,  and having done so,  I felt  a wonderful calm, 

and a realization of entering into the Tao.  It was only then that I began 

to  seriously  consider if I had passes him on the Path and Attained 10=1. 

Also  the  question  arose  as  to  whether  He  might  not think so also. 

Yesterday,  I  had a long talk with Him,  because  He had raised the point 

that in going back over  past  lives  he had discovered that each new life 

was an added veil of the True  Self  or Star and therefore the Star was to 

be found by going back to the  Beginning.  This  seemed a new idea to Him, 

but I could not help thinking of my experience and how I had actually done 

this, and got there and  become One  with  the  Final  Mystery in December 

1917. And yesterday,  when  I  talked with him, he seemed on his guard, so 

that when I asked him about the Mystery of Change,  he  referred me to the 

fact - as he says - that in my Grade  of 8=3  I  should  constantly  apply 

myself to the Mystery of Sorrow. Then I suddenly asked him what he thought 

of the Number 31, and where it should be placed on the Tree  of  Life.  He 

said This Number has to do with the identity of  Nothing with the Trinity, 

and if anything refers to the Ain, or perhaps to Kether,  but certainly to 

no lower Sephira. Then I thanked him, and said no more.



To-day I decided to write these notes  and also to consider of this Number 

31  and  of  the Word which comes therefrom, whether It be the True Key of 

the Grade 10=1, the Mystery of which IS that Selflessness IS Self,  in the 

same way that in 9=2 Change IS Stablilty, and in 8=3 Sorrow IS Joy.



Now I seem to be able to comprehend all  these Mysteries, by means of That 

which I obtained in my Initiation to my Grade.  But  listen unto the Final 

Mystery which has been granted unto me O.I.V.V.I.O.



The Great Magician denies me saying I am  NOT  (I.A.)  or  NEMO 8=3 and in 

this He fulfilleth  His  Office of cutting off  the Understanding from the 

Crown which is GOD (AL).  In  this very thing He is the Incarnation of the 

Mystery of Change. AL (Kether)  is  reflected  into Chochmah as LA and the 

Magus looketh upon the Crown along the  Path  of  Aleph  which is Zero and 

perceiveth IT Not.  The  Magister  Templi  Understands,  for  the  Word of 

Chochmah LA is truly reflected  into  Binah  as AL and therefore the Magus 

appeareth to Him as GOD, whereas the  Crown  (the  true  AL)  is reflected 

through the Path of Beth as LA and He seeth  Nothing in that direction be-

cause of the  Lies  of  the  Great  Illusion  of Maya the magician, but He 

striveth by Daleth to the Magus,  Who is the Great Deceiver.  Thus  it  is 

that Above the  Abyss  a  thing  is  only  true  insofar  as it IS its own 

opposite.  This is the final and complete Understanding of this Mystery of 

the Grades given to me NOW (2.38 P.M.) for never before have I seen things 

thus.





And now I see how the Mystery of  93 is complete and perfect for Kether is 

31  and  Chochmah is 31  and  Binah  is  31  which is 93 the Numeration of 

Thelema,  Aiwaz,  The Word of the Neophyte,  Agapae, etc.  And this is the 

Mystery of the Three Persons in  One  God of which it is written. And this 

is the Mystery  concealed  in  the  Word ALLAH for it hath for sound AL-LA 

which is GOD (Kether) and the Mystery of which is  that SELF (God) is also 

SELFLESSNESS which is LA  (Not)  and  for  numeration  31 The Three is One 

which IS None,  and  the  reverse  of this Number is 13 which is UNITY and 

LOVE. Now this Unity becometh Two in order that it may be  expressed,  and 

therefore is the Word of Chochmah AL-LA of which  Mahomet spake both truly 

and falsely, for He too, being a Magus 9=2 must utter Truth, in order that 

the falsehood thereof should enslave the soul.  He said,  "ALLA (Allah) is 

God and Mahomet is His Prophet"  and  even though he cried continually "He 

is God, there is no other God than He"  yet in certain sense he postulated 

Duality in the Unity.



And  of  this  it  is also written in Liber 65 "And Adonai thus spake unto 

V.V.V.V.V. saying,  "There  must  ever  be  division in the Word.  For the 

colours are many but the Light in One."  And this meaneth that Kether, the 

Light is One and Chochmah the word is two,  also it is Grey, and a mixture 

of colours.



Now note:  "Be  not  content with the image I who am the Image of an Image 

say this." For V.V.V.V.V. was 8=3  (Binah) and Adonai (Kether) said be not 

content with the image (Chochmah) the reflection of Kether.  I  who am the 

Image of an Image (the Reality) say this.



Then in Verse 9  "One mounteth unto the Crown" etc.  Notice  the  reversal 

here as  if  to  give a hint of the Truth how that 10=1 IS 1=10. Also note 

how V.I.O.O.I.V. performed this descending from  10=1  to 1=10, from 31 to 

13 (The numeration of his Neophyte's Motto) and also was caused to reverse 

his first  motto  to  O.I.V.V.I.O.,  all  unconscious, at the time, in his 

lower mind of the Mystery of this Grade.



Note how the Fool  (Aleph)  hath said in his heart There is No-God (LA;AL) 

and  how  this  puzzles the Magus who receiveth  the  Ray  from  the Crown 

through  this  path.  And how He in  turn  confoundeth  the  Understanding 

(Binah) from the Path of Beth.



Now regarding  The  Book  of the Law, how it is written, "the child of his 

bowels he shall behold them" (viz: the mysteries hidden therein). It would 

seem that he is beginning to behold them. For firstly the mystery of 93 is 

clear and this Mystery of the Aeon,  proclaimed  in  the Word of the Beast 

OPHION.



Now it said in Ch.I, v 46: "Nothing is a secret key of this law; sixty-one 

the Jews call it, I call it eight, eighty, four-hundred and eighteen."



Now  Parzival  is 8.80.418, and as The Fool or Aleph is both Zero and One. 

61 is the Word Ain = Nothing and equivalent to NOT.  If 61 is one half and 

1 (Aleph) the other,  we get 62 which is twice 31 and LA:  AL in which ALL 

(Note three letters LAL) disappear in the Final Mystery of Kether. Also we 

have considered the threefold aspect as 93,  and  this may have to do with 

AAA and LLL, Light,  Life,  Love and Liberty of His Law. All this seems to 

be reversed in the case of NEMO in the City of the Pyramids.  For Light He 

has Darkness, for Life,  Death, and Love with its Dual Mystery seems to be 

the only Path open to Him,  and  this is  really a deception ending in the 

curse of 9=2.



There is also a mystery in the words  of Ra-Hoor-Khuit  "There is division 

hither homeward,  there is a word not known."  This attracted my attention 

when I seemed at odds with Therion. The Word not known, seems to have come 

to me.



It  seems  to  me  that  this  is  the  opening  up  to me of the Grade of 

Ipsissimus and that as such I am  the Crowned Child whom thou knewest not, 

O Therion.



It is just 27 months since June 21, 1916,  or 3 x 9; it was 18 months from 

June 21 to Dec 21, 1917,  or 2 by 9.  Then  I  got  the  Word  in its dual 

aspect, now I get It in Its three-fold in One aspect.



Note 31 multiplication = 3, by addition 4 (Tetragrammaton) by division .3, 

which suggests that the Division of God produced 333.







   September 24th 1918 E.V.                           AN XIV Sol in Libra.





        The record of the reflections in the mind of O.I.V.V.I.O.





I know not what I am,  and since AHIH is above and beyond knowledge,  what 

matter. There must ever be division in the  Word,  also  One  must descend 

into  the  plane  o f Reason,  in  order  to  be understood on that plane; 

therefore must I now limit myself in order to be able to write at all.



It does seem that  AN  XIV,  Sol in 1 Deg Libra marks another stage of the 

Great Initiation,  for that time much that had hitherto remained locked in 

my Being descended into my Understanding and became  sufficiently clear to 

record, but,  be  it  understood,  the actual experience of which I write, 

which is summed up in the Word of my Grade, took place in December 1917.



I do not,  even now,  rashly wish to assume that I Attained unto the Grade 

of  Ipsissimus,  for  I  realize  that  anything  I  write  regarding  the 

Qabalistic Proof thereof,  can only show that I  Understand the formula of 

the Grade,  and  Understanding  is  referred to 8=3, and appertains to the 

Grade of Master of the Temple,  which Office is admitted unto me by OPHION 

9=2.  Also,  I understand that it may be  that  One  may  in  a way Attain 

unofficially without of necessity holding  office in any particular Grade. 

I make no claim to 9=2 for  OPHION  claims  that  and  I  have  no wish to 

dispute his right to it,  anymore than he apparently wishes  to dispute my 

right to 8=3, but with 10=1 it is different. There is NO-One living in the 

flesh, as far as I know, Who claims the Grade, and Whosoever does so it is 

a matter which concerneth God alone.



It has been written,  by  the highest living authority I know of, that the 

Key of the Mystery of this Grade is that therein Selflessness is Self, and 

what little I am able to comprehend of this,  the  Final Mystery,  I shall 

here record, for it may be that this writing shall be of help and guidance 

to  Whosoever  shall  next enter into that Great Crown,  whose lesser self 

shall become completely at One with the Godhead.



It would seem to me that no living being,  clothed with the body of flesh, 

could claim fully to have attained that Grade,  other than in the words of 

Jesus the Christ "I and my Father are One,"  for,  in the words of Lao Tze 

The Name that can be named is not the True Name, and of Ko, "I do not know 

its Name, but I make an effort and call it the Tao."



Also  Ko  says,  of  the  Possessor of the Tao, "Although he is styled the 

possessor of the Tao,  in  reality  he  does  not think that he has become 

possessed of anything.  It  is  as  accomplished the transformation of all 

living things,  that  he  is  styled the Possessor of the Tao." "He who is 

able to understand this may transmit to others the Sacred Tao."  Who shall 

claim that  he  is  able  to  accomplish the transformation  of all living 

things?  Except it be understood  that  all things exist only by virtue of 

their being in the mind of the Seer, and if the complete transformation of 

the mind be accomplished,  so  that the Mystery of the Path of the Godhead 

is seen therein,  and  becometh  plain,  even unto his Understanding,  who 

shall say that he has not accomplished this?



First,  then,  regarding the experience of that Being we call O.I.V.V.I.O. 

There arose is his consciousness,  a state unlike the normal and which, be 

description might appear very  like  madness  (Path of  Aleph IS Madness), 

since  Reason  was destroyed and transcended.  The Air became His Balance. 

The structure of his mind,  which hitherto had been built up on Qabalistic 

lines, was changed and the House of God, was, as it were, destroyed by the 

Lightning Flash. (Opening of the Eye of Shiva.)



At this time he walked,  talked,  and performed all  physical actions in a 

normal way,  but all that took place,  wherever he went,  whatever he said 

or heard, tasted or smelt had value according to his mental state. That is 

to say,  he  perceived the actions  of all around him in a different light 

from usual,  so  that although people may have been acting quite normally, 

and although he may have appeared to them as a normal being, or nearly so, 

Life in all forms became a Great Drama of Initiation,  and as he continued 

to work out the great Qabalistic  problems  of  the Universe, he found all 

that he saw or did,  woven into that Picture in his Mind. Then came a time 

when everything had  to  be  balanced and equilibrated,  for it is written 

"Equilibrium is the Basis of the Work"  and he found that although at that 

time all around (within) him was a Chaos,  yet  certain  formulas of Power 

were His so that gradually,  and  with  great toil he  accomplished  this, 

establishing the Elements and the Planets in their proper places (Upon New 

Aeon Lines) and finally Uniting Aleph with Shin,  so that all disappeared. 

Then,  it seemed,  he  was insructed in the Building of a New Universe and 

this was not a simple scheme,  but  took  place  at  two or more different 

points (in space) at once so that he, as it were, added a square there and 

a sphere here. It was as if the beginning of a Temple  was builded  (four-

square)  and at the same time certain Mysteries of Babalon were present to 

his  consciousness,  also  in  another  place Was the Kether of a New Tree 

formulated  and then the Supernal Triad,  with  a  Sphere  Pendant , which

afterwards became Complete in Itself and comprehended All in One.  Yet all 

this while was the Being of O.I.V.V.I.O. being rebuilded from the Feet Up, 

so that His Feet were of burnished Brass etc. and his body was Filled with 

Fire. And all these things were seperate,  yet one, and all this while the 

body  of  O.I.V.V.I.O.  was seated on the  Stele of Revealing in the Smoke 

Room of an  ordinary  steamer  plying between  Vancouver and Victoria, yet 

such had been his  experiences,  that  he  could no longer tell if it were 

above or below water,  whether  those around him were the living or of the 

dead. And again, there was, as it were, a Great reflection of the Stele in 

the Sky and this again was  produced  from  a small Stele under Ice (as it 

were in locked glass) below him.  And  yet,  in  all  this The Air was His 

Balance, and he went on calmly working out the  details  of the reformula-

tion of all things on the New Lines of this Aeon,  copying the Stele,  and 

forming it first of one element, and then of another,  and bringing all to 

a fluid, then to a gas, and finally to fire and Aethyr as before said. And 

when all had become a concentric System, this seemed to terminate one part 

of the Initiation.  (Note.  I  have  enlarged  this  entry in copying from 

diary.)



We must now  consider him as going about  with his mind transformed into a 

Solar Consciousness.  This lasted all day  during  which he underwent many 

adventures,  and  seemed  to perform much Magick;  but on that evening the 

process continued,  under  extraordinary  circumstances,  to  be  recorded 

elsewhere,  but  be  it  said that he was in a place which appeared to him 

like unto a Temple of Initiation  especially  prepared in every detail for 

the Ceremony,  and around him were the Officers exactly carrying out their 

Appointed parts.  Yet  was he unwittingly in prison surrounded by the scum 

of the earth.



Of which mystery He has written:



When, having  become free,  thou findest thyself in prison, yet knowest it 

      not.  

When, Thy  prison  of freedom appeareth unto thee as the open road. 

When, thou who hast longed for the company of Saints findest thyself among 

      the scum of the earth,  yet  knowing  it not thinkest thyself in the 

      company  of  all the Buddhas,  and  taketh thy place as the least of 

      these in silence.

When, having  sought  and  found  gestures  of Magick Power,  thou findest 

      thyself  among the lewd and unclean,  yet knowing it not perceive in 

      their common actions the supreme and perfect Art of Magick.

When, having sought for Words of Power,  thou findest thyself in tune with 

      the  words  of  low  men,  knowing not that they speak ought but the 

      Highest Truth.

When, having given all,  thou art offered the cup of charity, yet thinking 

      it to be the most abominable  mixture  of  poison, thou drinkest it, 

      thankfully.

When, having rushed forward,  thou  findest thyself whirled backwards, yet 

      knowing it not, thinkest thou art still.



Then, it may be,  thou hast comprehended wherein Sorrow is Joy, and Change 

is Stability, and Selflessness is Self.



But,  to  continue.  During  this  final  section  the Solar Sphere of his 

Consciousness became more and  more  concentrated  until  it appeared as a 

single  point  of  Light of intense brilliance, yet without him, now here, 

now there,  yet  ever nearer and nearer to the Centre of the New Universe. 

The process of  exact  balancing  of all things (exterior things, not only 

things within him)  appeared to  have got down to a very small radius. And 

those about him,  who  appeared as the past Buddhas,  helped in this final 

process. For let us imagine that the Universal Centre was to be changed to 

that one spot.  That  little room was the Centre of a New Universe and for 

thousands of years had  those  Ancient  Brethren  toiled  and  striven  to 

equilibrate things perfectly in readiness for this moment. And now all was 

prepared, and it needed only this One, Parzival, to complete Their number, 

and He was Zero, and his Office was Silence,  even as the God Harpocrates. 

The slightest slip, and the Equilibrium would be upset  and the Earth fall 

into the Sun. Success, and the Earth itself became a Sun, by the fact of a 

perfectly equilibrated  Solar Consciousness having been established there-

in, at this new Centre.  Those  around  him  seemed  to  take up different 

positions in the room so as to keep the balance  by  the  weight  of their 

bodies, and finally O.I.V.V.I.O. was to take his seat in  the exact Centre 

of the Room, and then if all were well, Success. If not? Nearer and nearer 

they came to the Centre.  At  last,  O.I.V.V.I.O.,  His whole Being aflame 

with the ecstacy of  the  God-head,  yet  calm  and  composed  to  outward 

appearance, took his seat. And all was well.



Next,  it  seemed even minute actions must be equilibrated.  Those around, 

who had each performed a certain task through-out the Centuries, performed 

it for the last Time,  perfectly.  Frater O.I.V.V.I.O. sat Still,  for His 

Office  was  Silence  and  Stillness.  Again,  all  was  well.  But speech 

remained.  Each  had His own Word to utter  perfectly and in proper Order, 

and in  this  they  tried  over  and  over again.  Gradually even this was 

perfected and one by one they dropped out and remained in tense expectance 

of the End.



And Frater O.I.V.V.I.O. remained there, still and silent, till at last all 

seemed perfect even on the mental plane, for suddenly the English language 

seemed to rush back to  the  beginning,  and  reversed  as Hebrew which is 

written  the other way,  and  this  was  a great mystery.  Then  came  the 

equilibrating of ideas,  and  they  rushed  backwards and formulated them-

selves  in  the  person  of  ADAM  who  appeared  in  the room opposite to 

O.I.V.V.I.O.  Then the first man,  and the last gazed at each other, as it 

were,  in  a  final  struggle.  And  the  minute  Point of Light grew ever 

brighter and more dazzling,  and appeared concentrated upon this figure of 

Adam,  first  on  the  shoulder  and  then, moving a little, until finally 

settled in one eye. At this point, Frater O.I.V.V.I.O. gazed, and then all 

rushed back again,  through  the  animal creation,  each animal dissolving 

into its earlier type,  until  at  last,  as  the  prototype, appeared the 

common fly, only very large, perhaps six inches long. Then things stopped, 

for a moment, as Frater O.I.V.V.I.O. gazed at  this;  then  it  became the 

Winged beetle, then the scarabe, and Egyptian ideas crowded up. Then, Only 

the Point of Light. Gradually he was able to bring this point  nearer  and 

nearer, until finally it neared his breast. It touched his breast.  It was 

in  his  breast,  and .....Suddenly  A  NEW  CREATION.  He had reached the 

BEGINNING and out of the old elements he had witnesses  on  his  return to 

the Source, was formed a new design, the same material, but in a different 

Order.  Wonder  of  Wonders.  Who shall express this Mystery in Words. And 

this happened  again  and  again.  English,  Hebrew, Greek, Egyptian, Man, 

beast and bird, were rearranged and RE-Created in new relationship to each 

other.  And  so  He understood the Mystery of Change, and how the World is 

Created again and again,  forever new,  yet forever the same. And the last 

Word he realized,  which when repeated,  in a certain way, seemed to bring 

about these changes  again  and  again,  as  it were,  alternating between 

Nothingness and Creation, was AL,  and  there  was a certain gesture,  not 

unlike the sign of the Cross, which was connected with this miracle. 



Now all this, and more,  has remained sealed up in my mind so that I could 

not express the smallest part of it in writing until now--though there are 

those  who  I  have  told  it  to in part--and it was not until I began to 

question  of  this  Most Holy Word  that  all  this  became  clear  to me. 

Therefore, let me now discourse for a moment, in the light of perspective, 

on this Holy Name.



There was no self THEN,  and  yet  all was SELF when I Parzival pronounced 

this Word and the Universe was destroyed,  and reformed.  And at that time 

it did seem that  He accomplished the transformation of all living things, 

and as having done such He may be styled Possessor of the Tao,  and now he 

does not know that he has become possessed of anything.  As it is written: 

Of all this the Ipsissimus knoweth nothing.



Immediately I cease  telling  of  actual  experience the Path becomes hard 

again, but I will try.



The Qabalists say that in the Beginning was NOT,  and  they called it Ain. 

They also say the veils of the Negative depend back from Kether. Now LA is 

NOT,  and  I  think this Word in its True aspect is the Supreme Mystery of 

the Godhead.



NOT (LA)  concentrated  upon  itself  till  it became a Point of Light and 

flashed  forth  as  AL-GOD,  Kether  then  is  the  perfectly equilibrated 

juncture of the Not and God,  which  in this Word are ONE. This caused the 

Lightning-flash which  formulated the Tree of Life,  and the numeration of 

the Paths of which is 777.  And  the  numeration of this Word is 31 and it 

contains the Mystery of the 3 in 1.  (See Book 777 Col XXXVI Line 1, which 

confirms this.)



Now see  Book  777  LXXXIV Lines 1,2,3,  which attributes (although I knew 

nothing  of  this  at  the time) to Briah the Creative World of the Divine 

Name AL in the First Three Sephiroth.  Now consider how 31 by 3 is 93. The 

numeration of Thelema etc. also of 1=10 Grade, as before mentioned.



Now it seems  (and  here  I  shall  repeat parts of what I have previously 

said in order to express the matter more fully)  that Kether in Its aspect 

as Not and God, is reflected into Chochmah, and this passes along the Path 

of Aleph or Folly.  And the Fool hath  said  in  his heart There is NO-GOD 

(LA-AL) so that the Magus becometh the Word,  and as it were,  the creator 

of the Universe for in Him is Folly reflected as Wisdom.



And Kether is reflected into Binah as LA, so that NEMO sitteth in Darkness 

in the City of the Pyramids by the Great Sea.  And  this is transmitted to 

Binah by the Path of the Great Magician--Beth--who is the  Father of Lies. 

Notice that the Flaming Sword does not touch that Path,  for the Wisdom of 

the Magus became at the lowest depth,  the cunning of the Serpent,  and He 

crawled up the Tree again by the paths, and being Dual he created Opposite 

paths, thus producing Balance,  and  at  the same time fixing the Tree and 

Creation,  therefore  it  is  that the Light appears NOT to NEMO.  Whereas 

there is a real current from  Kether  to  the  Magus and from the Magus to 

Nemo. And the Word reflecteth from  Chochmah  into  Binah  as AL, which is 

partly false and partly True.  Then  the Light of the Supernal reflecteth, 

or rather crosses the Abyss as a spark,  into Chesed Jupiter,  the Father, 

and here again see 777 Col V Line 4 which attributes the  God name of this 

sphere in Assiah as AL.  Therefore  is  it written that this is the Sphere 

all manner of men call The First (See Konx OM Pax).  Note  also  that this 

Word  is  attributed  to  the  Path  of  Mem,  which is the Hanged Man, or 

Redeemer, who shall re-establish the true order of  things,  and  in  this 

symbol he is shown with his head downwards, or reversed.  And Mem = Water, 

suggests the Great Sea, and the reflection of the True Name therein.



Note also how simple all this is,  and how the highest Word is also one of 

the  most  common,  for it is tacked on to every  Angel  and Archangel, to 

imply their connection with the true God.  Also note St. John, how he says 

"In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word _was 

GOD_" (AL).



Note  also how the 31st Path is called Perpetual Intelligence and how this 

Path has always been pointed to as having to do with the ultimate mystery. 

It  may  be  that  the  numeration was intended to  point the way from the 

beginning of the Journey.



Another  thing  which  strikes  me,  is  that Aleph is the OX and the only 

letter which seems to have a meaning definitely connected with it is Lamed 

the OX-goad. Here again seems to be a hint of the secret to the discerning 

one.





                           September 25th 1918 E.V.





Last night,  before sleeping, I discovered, or rather remembered for I had 

noticed  the  fact  in  December last,  that AL is the silent-sound of the 

indrawn  breath  through the nose with mouth closed,  and  LA  that of the 

outgoing breath.  This  is  a further proof of the Nature of the Holy Word 

which  is  Before  the  spoken  Word.  Note  the  similarity  with that of 

Neophyte.  Also  it  means  this,  that one cannot help repeating the Most 

Sacred Name of God whenever one is Silent; so that every man and women has 

been doing this from birth.





                           September 26th 1918 E.V.



I  have  been  making further considerations  of  this Holy Mystery of the 

Silent Breath and it is very wonderful to  think how whenever one breathes 

silently,  one is pronouncing that  True and Ineffable Name.  Every living 

creature,  is  then  by reason of their  Nature  worshipping the True God, 

whatever  their  opinion  may  be.  Also  note  that  neither  Wisdom  nor 

Understanding is essential to this.  It  IS and as long as we live we must 

perform this operation  at  least  during  sleep.  And  it is written: "He 

giveth Himself unto His Beloved in sleep."





                           Septemver 30th 1918 E.V.



I have to-day finished a design  for  a Symbol to express as well as I can 

the results  of  my  Initiation of Dec 21 1917  as explained in my further 

Enlightenment of Sep 22 1918.



It is intended to represent  Kether  with  the  Supernal  Triad  radiating 

therefrom.  This forms AL and LA,  also A.A. and IAO and O.I.V.  Also  the 

Centre of Circle is Hadith and the Circle Nuit. The Circle can be taken to 

represent LA etc.  The Angle is 120 degrees or One  third of a Circle. The 

Shape bounded at top by Circle and below by Our Lady Nuit for her pantacle 

etc. Have ordered it to be made in White Gold on One inch base.





                     Monday to Tuesday October 7th and 8th



Have  been  working  on  the  theory  that  the  Holy  Word   revealed  to 

O.I.V.V.I.O. in its inmost aspect is also the  Key of the Mysteries of the 

Book of the Law. Let us consider in what ways this may be so.



My experience showed  me  that  Hadith was Kether,  and Nuit appears to be 

very similar to The Veil of the Negative which the Qabalists speak of. 777 

seems to confirm this,  for Hadit is attributed to Line One and Nuit to 0; 

also same  idea  is symbolized in that which was granted to me when I made 

the Pantacle of Nuit.



I think the  idea  we  should  try to formulate,  is very much that of the 

Qabalists,  though  the  real  meaning,  is,  I am convinced,  a matter of 

experience.  First  was  Nothing,  and  this  may be called LA while it is 

considered as expanding into  Limitless  Space  (Ain  Soph)  and  becoming 

Limitless Light,  perhaps.  The Beginning of things was caused by a simple 

change of conception,  as it were a "looking inwards" instead of outwards, 

and a corresponding change from LA to AL.  I  think  the difference in the 

way the  English  and  Hebrew  Alphabets are written,  is a good symbol of 

this,  the direction is different, so that the two letters might stand for 

either LA or AL according to the manner  in  which  we look upon them. The 

great value  of  this  Word  lies  in  the fact  that the self-same symbol 

contains the ideas of Nothing and Something, without any change in itself, 

and this seems to be the one Symbol that gets over  the  difficult transi-

tion from NOT to ONE.  Of  course it was not even a Word in the beginning, 

but the Silent Breath,  Expansion and Contraction,  and the true theory of 

the Universe is that it was created by the  First  Breath  of  the Tao, or 

Nuit. We find this confirmed in Liber Legis Ch. 1 Verse 28. "None breathed 

the light faint and faery of the stars and two."



Here we have the idea of the first breath of Not (LA) the Limitless Light, 

which concentrates upon Kether which is ONE or Hadith, or AL and gives the 

first faint idea of duality which shows forth in  the Word later-but which 

being composed of the ideas Nothing and One is really One.



Now Hadit is really unextended,  and  can  only  be imagined as the Minute 

Point  of  Light  at  that  Point where LA changes into AL,  for he is the 

Secret Centre.  In  order  to get a somewhat clearer idea we must consider 

Nuit as dual, viz: LALA,  when AL shows up as that Centre. In this case it 

is strange and worth  noting that  we have a word with the sound Laylah or 

Night,  and I don't think the spelling matters for see Ch. III,  "spelling 

is defunct." It is the sound that matters.  I cannot help thinking ALLA in 

the same way produced and was  concealed  in  Allah. we are told in Ch. I, 

V.9 to worship the Khabs (the house of Hadit) and behold my (Nuit's) light 

shed over you, because Khabs is the  Central Point of Light,  and  we thus 

perform an act similar to that which made  Creation manifest,  rather than 

Not.



Ch. I v 21.  With the God and the Adorer I am nothing, they do not see me. 

They are upon the earth. I am Heaven and there is no other God than me and 

my lord Hadit.



Now if Hadit = AL = God, then with Him is Nuit (LA) nothing.  Also this is 

so  with  the  Adorer  unless  he  concentrates  on Hadit as the Centre as 

instructed.  Yet  is also true that  "there is no other God than me and my 

lord Hadit" for looked at one way the God is Nuit and the other Hadit.



Ch. I. v 22.  Clearly tells us that Nuit has a secret name. This I take to 

be LA (or possibly LALA).  Also it is written in this verse "Bind nothing" 

and besides its obvious sense, this may be an expression of the binding of 

Nothing by concentration on a point. This Word binds nothing, as it causes 

the transition from Nothing to God.



Ch. I v 29.30  It will be seen that there really is no division.



Ch. I v 35. Note "threefold" Book of Law. [A]



Ch. I v. 40.   Note "Three grades." (Since making this note, I have had an 

opportunity of looking at the Equinox for a moment, and discovered that in 

Vol. 7, Comment.  The  Tarot  Keys  of the three Grades add to 31, which I 

consider a further proof.  I  may  remark  that I have been placed where I 

have no  books  but the V.S.L. for reference, and am therefore writing all 

these notes  entirely  from  memory of my experience,  which seems to make 

certain  things  clearer  from  day  to  day,  as  I apply my attention to 

different aspects of the work.)



Ch. I, v 45.  The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two, nay 

are none.



Here  I  think  Nuit and Hadit are referred to as the Perfect, for this is 

claimed by Hadit,  see  Ch II, v 15. If Nuit be considered as LA and Hadit 

as AL, this is at once clear for they are One and yet None.



Ch. I, v 46.  Nothing is a secret key of this Law, sixty one the Jews call 

it. I call it eight, eighty, fourhundred and eighteen.



(I made a partial explanation of this in diary,  but since I got a clearer 

and fuller one on Oct 21, I insert same here in its proper place.)



To-day  I  have made another  attempt at the Qabalistic explanation of the 

verse.  It  is  getting  clearer.  At  the  time of Initiation, it will be 

remembered O.I.V.V.I.O. identifies himself entirely with Parzival through-

out. [B]  For he says he found the Word, and the Word was Parzival. (There 

is  of course a very definite connection between Parzival and Abrahadabra, 

the Word of the Aeon, through  418.  And it is said that Abrahadabra shall 

be His child and that  strangely)  And  Parzival having Eight letters, and 

Initial value 80 and total  numeration of 418 is therefore  connected with 

this verse.  It  was through this Name that he came upon the Mystery of AL 

and LA which is finally summed up in A, (as will be shown later.)



Let us take this verse again;



Nothing (LA) is a secret key of this _Law_. 61 (Ain) the Jews _called_ it, 

I call it 80.80.418  (Parzival, The Fool, Aleph, One). Therefore 61 plus 1 

= 62.



But  they  have (also) the half 31 = AL  (and they have Not (LA) the other 

half) and twice 31 is 62.



Therefore  ALLA = 62 which is 6 plus 2 = 8 = Cheth = 418 = Parzival = Fool 

= Aleph = One (or None) and thus all disappears in One.  Also  since  ALLA 

becomes A, _ALL_ has disappeared.



Again it  is  written The Fool hath said in his heart There is NO-GOD = LA 

AL which again indicates the secret and I think  LA AL in this form is the 

secret  name  or  word  of Ra HOOR Khuit. See Ch. III, v 49. I am a secret 

fourfold  word,  the blasphemy against all the gods of men.  Also, whereas 

Nuit and Hadit are ever united the division becomes manifest in R.H.K. For 

he says in Ch. III, v 2.  There  is  division  hither homeward, there is a 

word not known. (Can there be any connection here with "She shall be known 

and I never?)  Spelling  is  defunct,  all is not aught.  Not:  AUGHT, may 

indicate the nature of the All LA, Not AL aught.



Verse 48.  Note  the  OX or Aleph and the Fool or O, seems to indicate the 

explanation given above, also points to the idea that the key is something 

which itself combines these ideas.



Ch. I, v 51.  Mentions the 4 Gates, and this is the mystery of the path of 

Aleph again,  and the fourfold name R.H.K.  One can enter these in turn or 

at once, if he understands the trick of combinations.



Ch. I. v 52. "If  this  be  not  aright,  if  ye  confound the space marks 

saying: They are one, or saying, They are many" etc.



There  should  be  no space-marks, except on the plane of reason. When the 

experience of this mystery is granted, it will be seen how there are none, 

for the whole thing is a continuous process, even as Nuit is continuous.



Ch. I, v 55.  He  has  beheld  some  of them I think, as is proved by this 

writing.



Ch. I, v 56.  Indicates that there are two halves of the equation, even as 

there are two aspects of this Word.



Ch. I, v 57.  ?House of God = Beth-EL = Path of Beth?



Ch. II, v 2.  "I,  Hadit  am  the  complement  of  Nuit  my  bride".  This 

indicates  they are  really  One or None, and I think the Word clears this 

up.



Verse 7.  "Come  unto  me"  is a foolish word; for it is I that go". "Come 

unto me" is the call of Nuit.  When  Hadit  (AL)  considers  Nuit  (LA) or 

"lifts up his head" He becomes Not therefore He goes.



Ch II, v 14. "Now let there be a veiling of this shrine; now let the light 

devour men and eat them up with blindness"



Verse 15. "For I am  perfect being Not and my number is nine by the fools, 

but with  the  just  I  am eight and one in eight which is vital, for I am 

none indeed."



Hadit here clearly says he is Not, or BEING-NOT (a combination of Nuit and 

Hadit as the Perfect and Perfect, which,  be  it  remembered  are One, nay 

None.)  We have considered His particular aspect as AL rather than LA, but 

the previous verse indicates a blind.  He is the shrine veiled by Not, for 

AL is the manifestation of LA, and LA is the hiding of AL (See first verse 

of Chapters I and II). He is Eight with the just because they consider the 

balance of things and so consider him as  AL-LA which again gives 62 = 8 = 

Cheth = 418 = Fool = Aleph = None  as  explained  before  in answer to the 

riddle  of  Nuit.  This  shows  he is One (Aleph) in eight, and also None, 

quite clearly.



Now comes  the  striking indication of an underlying formula in this Book, 

which  can  be read in two ways, and the very same Word is used to express 

this, only  in  the  English instead of the Hebrew, which of course throws 

one off the scent of the mystery.



Ch. II, v 19.  "Is a God to live in a dog? No. But the highest are of us."



Now in English, God is Dog if reversed, but the Hebrew for God is AL which 

reversed gives LA  which is Not.  One can hardly get away from the hint of 

the true nature of the Key, once it is pointed out, especially since it is 

followed by the negative No. (another translation of LA)  and  a statement 

that the highest or those who comprehend this mystery. "are of us".



Ch. II, v 23.  I am alone; there is no God where I am.



I am AL-ONE,  there is LA-AL where I am, viz: He is both one with Nuit and 

Ra-Hoor-Khuit.



Ch. II, v 26. I am the secret serpent (Wisdom of the Word) coiled about to 

spring.  If  I  lift up my head I and my Nuit are one.  If I droop down my 

head and shoot forth venom,  there  is rapture of the earth, and I and the 

earth are one.



Gives  another  proof  of the peculiar dual aspect of the Word. It will be 

noticed that Nuit has said that the God and the Adorer are upon the Earth. 

As God,  Hadit is one with the Earth,  as  NOT,  he is one with Nuit. Also 

Hadit is called Her secret centre and the world, her heart and her tongue, 

the House or Home of Hadit, makes the spoken Word possible.



Verse 27. There is great danger in reasoning over this Mystery, it must be 

realized.



Verse 32.  All their words are skew-wise,  viz: they do not partake of the 

true peculiar nature of the True Word which is equally balanced and can be 

read either backwards or forwards.



Verse 33.  "Damned for a dog", the reverse of God in its wrong aspect.



Verse 76. I don't make this out yet, but it seems to indicate that it will 

not come  till  later,  after  the Prophet's time. Anyway AL appears twice 

among the letters.



Ch. III, v 2.  This was commented upon before.  This whole chapter appears 

to me to be quite a different character  to  the former ones. R-H-K is the 

Word as the offspring of Hadit and Nuit.



Verse 35.  The  half  of  the  word  of Heru-ra-ha probably indicates some 

mystery in this division as indicated in Verse 2.  I think thus far he has 

been LA,  for  in  Verse  35  we have him worshipped as AL or God. (Unity-

uttermost-might of breath)



Verse 47.  Note according to this theory the importance of the letters and 

their positions to one another. Also the statement that one shall discover 

the key of it all. (By the way, V. 39 makes a statement "In it is the word 

secret and not only in the English".  I  think this may mean that the Word 

AL does not appear at all,  and NOT only appears in the English instead of 

Hebrew) [C]



I think  Verse  48  terminates  the  AL section, and Verse 49 mentions the 

Fourfold word, which I have taken to be LA AL.



Verse 71  may  indicate AL as Chochmah and LA as Binah and the solution of 

the Mystery in Kether Hadit.



Verse 74 may indicate that the  splendour  in His name hidden and glorious 

is  the  two  centre  letters  A.A.  The  Silver  Star. Note, according to 

Blavatsky AL is the Sun or Phallus.





                        Friday, 11th October 1918 E.V.

 

I spent last evening with Therion;  during our conversation,  he said that 

he  thought Nuit  and  Hadit  were best expressed as Matter and Motion. He 

also said  that  all  things  must be considered as Zero or Two, as if One 

were arrived at  "there  was  no getting away from it." I pointed out that 

there must be some  formula  combining  Zero and One,  or the Tree of Life 

could never have been  conceived  of and formulated.  He admitted this but 

said that so far he had failed to find such.



When  I  got  to  bed,  I  could  not  sleep, and a number of other things 

connected with this mystery came to me.



One was, the significant fact that when A.C. first got into touch with the 

Brothers  of  A.A.  (See Vision and Voice,  I  have not any books here, so 

cannot quote),  the Pass word was "There is No-God." This seems to confirm 

this Word, as the central secret of A.ù.A.ù. Who also gave out the New Law.



I also notice that NU reversed is UN or One. Likewise with the addition of 

IT Nuit is Unit.



Then I remembered that in Equinox V (I think) AL is clearly defined as the 

Ox  and  the  Goad,  also as MATTER and MOTION,  and I cannot see how A.C. 

could  have  missed  this  connection  with  Nuit  and Hadit,  since it is 

undoubtedly the true formula of his present conception of Their nature.



Then I noticed another  very  important thing. I was wondering why A and L 

should be chosen, or rather why L,  the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 

should follow A, the first.  But  this  is not actually the case for AL is 

the  first  sound  in  the  pronunciation of Aleph the First letter of the 

Hebrew alphabet  (as it is also of Alpha) and the addition of Pe shows the 

mouth as  necessary  to  the spoken word,  though in Kether,  it was but a 

silent breath  through  the nose. (Notice Kether is called "Long of nose", 

also the Image is on a Face seen in profile,  viz:  only one aspect of the 

word can be comsidered  at  a  time  in the reasoning mind). It is strange 

also how L is pronounced LA-med, this showing the duality as soon as it is 

taken into consideration as a seperate letter.



Thus is AL, in very truth the  first possible sound,  and notice that when 

one  pronounces  it  aloud,  the  tongue  is raised and placed against the 

teeth, but as soon as it is released,  LA is automatically pronounced by a 

slightly indrawn breath.  In  the  Silent  breath of the Beginning this is 

reversed,  AL is the underlying sound of the indrawn breath and LA that of 

the outgoing.



Now notice how  Hadit is  spoken of as the tongue of Nuit and how when His 

head is raised etc. and lowered etc.



Note  also  how  in  pronouncing the first letter Aleph, one's tongue must 

meet the teeth,  and the tooth is Shin,  the 31st path; also see how these 

paths were welded in the Initiation of O.I.V.V.I.O.



Note.  LA LA may stand for NOT NOT, or "something"; it also suggests 0 = 0 

or 0 to the o degree.



ALLA suggests 1 to the o degree



LAAL suggests 0 to the 1st degree



Nothing under its three forms.



I also found,  which  seems  to  be  of  the  greatest importance that the 

essence of Thelema is summed up in this Word. A is the pentagram, the Star 

of Will and L is Libra, Justice or the Law, while 31 backwards is 13 which 

is Love and Unity. [D]







                                 October 16th



Another  discovery.  During  the  Initiation  of  Dec.  1917  the  mind of 

O.I.V.V.I.O.  must have  actually reversed  and  run backwards  (See Liber 

Thisharb)  so  that  on reaching the beginning of the ideas underlying the 

Hebrew  Alphabet  he  naturally  arrived  at  the  first letter ALP in its 

reverse  order.   He  came  therefore  to  P  which accounts for the Flash 

(destroying the House of God or Beth EL)  then  in  due  sequence to LA or 

nothing. This again reversed, as stated, and he got AL followed by another 

flash P. Observe how all this is  summed up in the One letter ALP which is 

One and None.



Further,  the  process  as described, produces the two A's thus indicating 

the inmost meaning of A.A.



But  now  if we begin to take into consideration 2 letters, we find in the 

return process BA = To come or Go, which again reverses as AB, The Father. 

Analysing the complete process we get Th.I.P.B.L.A.A.L.B.I.Th.



Th = The Tau Cross mentioned by O.I.V.V.I.O.  as the sign accompanying the 

     process. Also, The Universe.

I  = The creative essence (also hand which makes sign)  and  this  is  the 

     Spark of Light, first seen outside.

B  = The Magician who makes the sign; also the House of God, the Body.

P  = The Flash referred to, and the destruction of all resulting in

L  = balance, then

A  = Equilibrium, the Point perfectly centered  in  breast. (Hadit compre-

     hended for a moment.)

AL = God

P  = Another Flash (Flaming Sword).

B  = Comprehension of this dual process in One and Nothing and understand-

     ing of Beth El as true House of God.

I  = Creative essence of the Word.

Th = Producing a New  Universe.  (Notice  how all this is borne out in the 

     actual experience of O.I.V.V.I.O. as recorded.)





                                  October 19



Another  discovery  re  PARZIVAL,  (as  already  mentioned) that this Word 

reversed was what led me to the discovery of the Mystery of AL and finally 

to that of Aleph in which all is summed up.



I also noticed to-day that  the Three Grades of the Order may be summed up 

in  the  Letter Beth.  For  Beth  is the Magician or the Lover, Yod is the 

Hermit and Th the Universe or Man of Earth.



Again AL suggests,  by shape,  the Square and Compass  very accurately, as 

used by Masons to Symbolise God.



Now I  feel  that there is no more to be said on this matter at this time, 

therefore I may return to the Contemplation of this Mystery in Silence.





                            STATEMENT OF THE AUTHOR

                                March 13, 1948

                         

I, CHARLES STANSFIELD JONES, (Frater Achad, etc.) of "Tall Timbers",  Deep 

Cove,  British  Columbia,  Canada,  being  the author of the  accompanying 

manuscript entitled "Liber Thirty-One"  (a  part  of  my  private  magical 

diary,  originally  transcribed and typed with one carbon copy in November 

1918, the  single  copy  having been delivered to Aleister Crowley by mail 

early in  September  1919  and  since  lost  or destroyed) do now make the 

following statement:



On March 4,  1948,  I  received from Gerald J. Yorke, Esq., of 5, Montaque 

Square, London, W.1., England, a letter which contained the following:



"As  you  probably  know  A.C.  had died. I am sorting his papers prior to 

their dispatch to America.  Your  Liber  31 has not survived amongst these 

papers,  though there is a reference to it  on page 127 of  The Equinox of 

the Gods.  Would  you care to send me a copy, which on my death will go to 

the British Museum with my other Crowleyana. I think it important that one 

copy of your  treatise  31  should exist in this country, as if it does so 

exist it will be available for anyone sufficiently interested in  Liber Al 

to wish to see it."



In response to this  request,  and for the purpose stated  by Mr. Yorke, I 

have had prepared from the single original manuscript in my possession one 

further  typescript and four carbon copies. The typescript which accompan-

ies  this  statement  has been personally checked by me and is a true copy 

(only one extra  note having been added on the  first page in reference to 

original date of delivery of ms.) Of the four extra carbon copies it is my 

intention to deliver  one  to  Miss  Grace R. Hallam of Vancouver, British 

Columbia, Canada and one  to  Dr. J.P. Kowal of 5821 Chene Street, Detroit 

11, Michigan, U.S.A. so that  there  may be a record in these countries as 

well as in England.  One  of  the remaining two copies will be attached to 

the original manuscript in my files,  and  the other kept in case of later 

publication or other need.  Further  copies are not be be  made without my 

written permission.





                                   FOOTNOTES



[A]



Oct. 31st. "LAW" is LA  (Nuit-Hadit) completed  by  W = {Vau Vau}, the Son 

RHK  is  His dual aspect as Horus-Harpocrates.  Also Vau is the Hierophant 

"Hoor in His secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating."





[B]



Oct 31st 1918 E.V.  Just  before  sleeping  I  had an impression that if I 

added  up  the  total  letters  in  my  Mottoes  they would = 31. I did so 

mentally and found UNUS IN OMNIBUS (= 13 = Achad) OMNIA IN UNO (= 10.ù.1 = 

10) PARZIVAL = 8. 13 = 10 = 8 = 31.



This is extraordinary becuase it was a kind of revelation.





[C]



I think this is one of  the reasons why the Original in the writing of the 

Beast must always be included with any translation into other tongues. For 

there are mysteries in the _English_ that would not work out if translated.





[D]



Ruler of {Libra} is {Venus} = Love. Love is the law, love under will.  





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