Chapter I A Verse 7
31
while later Mary attributed her condition to the agency of a 
Spirit—spiritus, “breath,” or “air”—in the shape of a dove.
But the “Small Person” of Hindu mysticism, the Dwarf insane 
yet crafty of many legends in many lands, is also this same “Holy 
Ghost,” or Silent Self of a man, or his Holy Guardian Angel.
He is almost the “Unconscious” of Freud, unknown, unac­
countable, the silent Spirit, blowing “whither it listeth, but thou 
canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth.”1 It com­
mands with absolute authority when it appears at all, despite con­
scious reason and judgment.
1 [John 3:8.]
2 Six being the number of the Sun, the God-Man, etc.
3 See Liber 418. [Crowley, Liber XXX /Erum ... The Vision and the
Voice; see Works Cited. See especially the 16th /Ethyr.]
Aiwass is then, as this verse 7 states, the “minister” of this 
Hoor-paar-kraat, that is of the Saviour of the World in the larger 
sense, and of mine own “Silent Self” in the lesser. A “minister” is 
one who performs a service, in this case evidently that of reveal­
ing; He was the intelligible medium between the Babe God—the 
New £on about to be born—and myself. This Book of the Law 
is the Voice of his Mother, His Father, and Himself. But on His 
appearing, He assumes the active form twin to Harpocrates, that 
of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The Concealed Child becomes the Conquering 
Child, the armed Horus avenging his father Osiris. So also our 
own Silent Self, helpless and witless, hidden within us, will spring 
forth, if we have craft to loose him to the Light; spring lustily 
forward with his Cry of Battle, the Word of our True Wills.
This is the Task of the Adept, to have the Knowledge and 
Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, to become aware of 
his nature and his purpose, fulfilling them.
Why is Aiwass thus spelt, when Aiwaz is the natural transliter­
ation of TTI? [oivz]? Perhaps because he was not content with 
identifying Himself with Thelema, Agape, etc., by the number 93, 
but wished to express His nature by six letters1 2 whose value in 
Greek should be A = l, 1 = 10, F =6, A = l, £=200, £=200: total 
418, the number of Abrahadabra, the Magical Formula of the 
new /Eon! Note that I ['] and v [1] are the letters of the Father 
and the Son, also of the Virgin and the Bull,3 protected on either