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The Universe: The 0=2 Equation 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Yes, I admit everything! It is all my fault. Looking over 
my past writings , I do see .that my only one-pointed attempt 
to set forth a sound ontology was my early fumbling little 
brochure 
Berashith. 1 
Since then , I seem to have kept 
assuming that everybody knew all about it ; referring to it, 
quoting it, but never sitting down seriously to demonstrate 
the thesis, or even to state it in set terms. Chapter 0 of 
Magick in Theory and Practice skates gently over it ; the 
"Naplbs Arrangement" in The Book of Thoth dodges it with 
really diabolical ingenuity. I ask myself why. It is exceedingly 
strange, because every time I think of the Equation, I am 
thrilled with a keen glow of satisfaction that this sempiternal 
Riddle of the Sphinx should have been answered at last. 
So then let me now give myself the delight , and you the 
comfort , of stating the problem from its beginning , and 
proving the soundness of the solution-of showing that the 
contradiction 
of this Equation 
is unthinkable . Are you 
ready? Forward! Paddle! 
A. We are aware. 
B. We cannot doubt the existence (whether "real" or 
"illusory" makes no difference) of something, because doubt 
itself is a form of awareness. 
C. We lump together all that of which we are aware under 
1. See Oowley, Collected Works. 
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