Collected Works (Vol. II)

AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM 219 and fifty and eight years,! set forth upon a journey into the Mystic Moun- tain of the Caves. He took with him his Son,* a Lamb, Life, and Strength, for these four were the Keys of that Mountain. So by ten days and fifty days and two hundred days and yet ten days he went forth. After ten days fell a thunderbolt, whirling through black clouds of rain: after sixty the road split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the Star shone in the day-time, making it night. After the last day came his Mother, his Redeemer, and Himself; and joining together they were even as I am who write unto you. Seventeen they were, the three Fathers: with the three Mothers they were thirty-two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. Yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion isa great Mysterium of our art. Whence a light hidden ina Cross. Now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the Sword, and the Pyramid being builded in its just proportion, was that Light fixed even in the Vault of the Caverns. With one stroke he rent asunder the Veil; with one stroke he closed the same. And entering the Sarcophagus of that Royal Tomb he laid him down to sleep. Four guarded him, and One in the four; Seven enwalled him, and One in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and One in the ten. Now therefore his disciples came unto the Vault of that Mystic Mountain, and with the Keys they opened the Portal and came to him and woke him. But during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. Yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before him. But slaying his disciples with long Nails, he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. May all we die so! And what further befell him ye shall also know, but not at this time. Going forth of that Mountain he met alsothe Fool. Then the discourse of that Fool, my Brethren; it shall repay your pains. They think they are a triangle,? he said, they think as the Picture-Folk. Base they are, and little infinitely. Ain Elohim. They think, being many, they are one.* They think asthe Rhine-Folk think. Many and none. | Ain Elohim. They think the erect® is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twins are the stoopers. They think as the Big-Nose-Folk. Save us, O Lord! 1 Nechesh the Serpent and Messiach the Redeemer. 2 Abigenos, Abiagnus, Bigenos, Abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the Mystic Mountain of Initiation. The next paragraph has been explained in the Appendix to Vol. I. 3 The belief in a Trinity—ignorance of Daath. 4 Belief in Monism, or rather Advaitism. Crowley was a Monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 Confusion of the various mystic serpents. The Big-Nose-Folk=the Jews. We leave the rest to the insight of the reader. Abiegnus, Mysterium ILN.R.I. Mysterium LVX. Pastos. Trinitas. Unitas. Serpentes,