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and fifty and eight years,1 set forth upon a journey into the Mystic Moun-
tain of the Caves.  He took with him his Son,
2 a Lam b, Life, and  
Strength, for these four were the Key
s of that Mountain.  So by
 ten  
days and fifty days and two hundred day s and yet ten days he went forth.  
After ten day s 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 Redeem er, and Him self ; and joining together they
 were even as I  
am who write unto y ou.  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 is a great Mysterium of our art.  Whence a light hidden in a Cross. 
 
Now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and sm
itten with the 
Sword, and the Py
ramid being builded  in 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 sam
e.  And entering  
the Sarcophagus of that Roy al Tomb he laid him down to sleep.  Four 
guarded him, and One in the four; 
Seven enwalled him, and One in 
 
the seven, y et were the seven ten, a
nd One in the ten.  Now therefore 
 
his disciples came unto the Vault of th at Mystic Mountain, and with the 
Keys they  opened the Portal and cam
e to him and woke him.  But 
 
during his long sleep the roses had gr own 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 ta
sk was before him.  But slay ing  
his disciples with long Nails, he 
interred them there, so that they  were 
right sorrowful in their hearts.  May  we all die so !  And what further 
befell him ye shall also know, but not at this time. 
Going forth of that Mountain he met also the Fool. Then the discourse 
of that Fool, my Brethren ; it shall repay your pains.  They think they are 
a triangle, 3 he s aid, they  think as  the P icture-Folk.  Bas e they  are, and 
little infinitely. 
Ain Elohim. 
They think, being many , they are one.4  They think as the Rhine-Folk 
think.  Many and none. 
Ain Elohim. 
They think the erect 5 is the twined, and the tw ined is the coiled, and 
the coiled is the twin, and the twin 
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,  Biagenos,  Abiegnus , m etatheses of the nam e of the 
Mystic Mountain of Initiation.  The next pa ragraph has been explained in the essay 
“Qabalistic Dogma.” 
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 
I. N. R. I. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mysterium  
LVX. 
 
 
 
Pastos. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trinitas. 
 
 
 
 
Unitas. 
 
 
Serpentes