LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI
ADYMBRATIO KABBALAE AEGYPTIORUM
SUB FIGURA VII
Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain Exempt Adept from his Adeptship.
These are the Birth-Words of a Master of the Temple.
The full knowledge of the interpretation of this book is concealed from all save only the Sixfold Star.
The Neophyte must nevertheless acquire a copy and thoroughly acquaint himself with the contents.
He must commit one chapter to memory.
By authority of V.V.V.V.V. This book is published and issued.
The comments penned in plain Italics were composed by Frater Orpheus at the end of His Neophyte period and represent solely that Aspirant's limited viewpoint. The comments lined in Italic Bold are by NEMO (NEMO is the Master of the Temple whose task it is to develop the beginner.) The comments of Frater 414 are penned in plain Red, in the thick of His Neophyte period and represent solely this Aspirant’s limited viewpoint, based upon His own Aspiration and Devotion to Nuit and to the Great Work.
PROLOGUE OF THE UNBORN
Comment penciled Sol in 20°l An. V [March 10-11, 1910ev] by NEMO.
1. Into my loneliness comes --
"loneliness". I.e. of Babe of Abyss.
2. The sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the uttermost hills.
"flute". The flute of Pan.
3. Even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness.
"river". Phrath. [One of the four rivers of Eden in Genesis.]
"wilderness". The Abyss where is Choronzon.
4. And I behold Pan.
"Pan". Sire of NEMO.
5. The snows are eternal above, above --
"snows". The three Supernals.
6. And their perfume smokes upward into the nostrils of the stars.
"stars". Nuith.
Here I see the Supernals dissolving into the Ain, Nuit.
7. But what have I to do with these?
"I" have nothing to do with these...
The Adept has not yet crossed the Abyss.
8. To me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of Pan.
"I" am not as the prophet is in a state of Samadhi...
He is still in the Rosey Triad, interacting with PAN.
9. On all sides Pan to the eye, to the ear;
In the Great Sea of Binah.
Eye and Ear, two of the five senses
10. The perfume of Pan pervading, the taste of him utterly filling my mouth, so that the tongue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech.
Hence, the Prophet speaks.
The Perfume and Taste, three and four of the five senses.
11. The embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure.
Each chakkra is enflamed.
The fifth sense is stimulated.
12. The sixth interior sense aflame with the inmost self of Him,
The third eye, the Ajna chakkra is given to seeing this great vision.
Now the 6th sense, the psychic sense is stimulated, as the ALL is observed via these 6.
13. Myself flung down the precipice of being
From Chesed to Binah.
14. Even to the abyss, annihilation.
That annihilation that enables one to cross the Abyss.
15. An end to loneliness, as to all.
For there are other Masters in the City of the Pyramids.
16. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan!
And what is to come in this Holy Book is the recording of what the Prophet beheld.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Pan is personified here as the Manifested Universe (as another aspect of Nuit) and He encompasses the Negative Existence- The Abyss. Nuit essentially is placed as negative existence on the Tree of Life, but Pan is the total manifestation of the negative existence). The embrace of this totality of being brings one into the Abyss. Pan to the Eye, to the Ear, the smell and taste of Him, along with this embrace, involves all five centers of perception. The sixth, being the psychic sense, completes this embrace. "The sixth interior sense aflame with the inmost self of Him," --- Hadit, the spirit behind the matter. As the Adept is not capable of perceiving Kether directly (he is an Adeptus Exemptus) Chesed is transmitting this essence from the Rosey Triad across the Abyss. "The snows are eternal above, above- "------ The snows are the Supernals, and the sounds of the flute reach to the edge of the wilderness, which is where the adept is standing hearing the flute, then subsequently feeling Pan in all regards. The Brave River being a river of Eden, thus suggesting perfected matter, the Kingdom. This is where Pan has His manifestation, and his pan-pipe has enchanted the Adept to the edge of the Abyss. This, to me, is also a key of Magick... experiencing fully the potential of each of our 6 senses... repressing none, fulfilling each to the love of Nuit, and to the advancement of our initiation. Enjoying all things of sense and rapture, always unto Nuit, to the breaking point. The perfume smoking upwards is the Soul, or the supernal triad, dissolving into Nuit, or the Ain Soph, but also the Night of Pan. The Adept works under the NOX. "But what have I to do with these?" ----- the adept has not yet reached the Supernals; The wilderness being just that, the edge of this level of reality. All the perceptions being heightened to the maximum capacity, the adept is flung forth into the Abyss; Pushed, in a sense, by that trickster Pan. Hence the title of the passage, the "Prologue" of the Unborn...meaning that the adept is not yet born as a Babe of the Abyss. Hence, the adept is still in Chesed. The last 4 verses, beginning with, "Myself flung down the precipice of being "-- This represents the decent into incarnation, even to the Abyss, which the Adept must inevitably face. The loneliness is over, because “being" is over. Loneliness is caused by our feeling of separateness from the world. In the Abyss, just as is stated, "Even to the Abyss, annihilation." The last verse is a Paean to Pan... an invocation to begin this particular crisis. This is also related to the Paean in Liber XXV, when giving the Nox signs. The Nox signs are related to the Supernals...N.O.X formula is descriptive of the cyclic formula of this universe. The Father coupling with the Mother, who then begets the Child, the Son, who in turn exalts the Daughter to Mother, beginning the cycle again. This is the relation of Pan to Binah. The Night of Pan, the formula of the creation of the universe, the complete physical, mental, etheric universe. Pan.
Love is the law, love under will.
Chapter I
(Attributed to the sacred planet Mars)
1. My God, how I love Thee!
2. With the vehement appetite of a beast I hunt Thee through the Universe.
The Shekinah yearning for the nuptial with the god-head.
Universe= the manifestation of Nuit.
3. Thou art standing as it were upon a pinnacle at the edge of some fortified city. I am a white bird, and perch upon Thee.
The heights--a view from the Supernals.
Pan is standing at the edge of the Abyss looking down. Fortified city is reminiscent of LXV I;55
4. Thou art My Lover: I see Thee as a nymph with her white limbs stretched by the spring.
The longing, the hunger, holy desire.
5. She lies upon the moss; there is none other but she:
"She is benediction. She is addicted to thee. She is the rude connection. She is connecting with he...She is sublimation. She is the essence of thee. She is concentrating on he, the chosen of she." Patti Smith.
6. Art Thou not Pan?
Pan is Nuit.
7. I am He. Speak not, O my God! Let the work be accomplished in silence.
The Prophet silences God!? How commandeering! How martial and so filled with testosterone! (The Adept has balls!)
The appearance of “I am He” in the same verse and line as the silencing seems to be the Adept declaring that He is Pan.
8. Let my cry of pain be crystallized into a little white fawn to run away into the forest!
Let desire reach out to stroke the hair of Nuit, the trees of eternity.
The ‘pain’ of ‘death’. In Liber LXV II;43, the Faun becomes Pan in the forest of Eternity. The trees are the hair of Nuit. The one shall become the all, or the Ain. I = not-I
9. Thou art a centaur, O my God, from the violet-blossoms that crown Thee to the hoofs of the horse.
The centaur is a symbol of Sagittarius which leads from Yesod to Tiphareth. This is an invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
The Centaur is, astrologically, described as reaching out to grasp Lupus (GK: Therion) and carry it to the altar (Ara) a nearby constellation. Alchemically, the animal part of the human being perfected in the Fires of the Spirit.
10. Thou art harder than tempered steel; there is no diamond beside Thee.
11. Did I not yield this body and soul?
The Exempt Adept gives up all to cross the Abyss.
"For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacrament of the Gra'al in the Chapel of Abominations." Liber Cheth, v.11.
An affirmation that the Adept gave every drop of blood into the cup of Babalon. Also, this relates to Liber LXV; II - Subdue thy fear and thy disgust, then yield. So it seems the adept has done this portion of the work, and has now yielded his being.
12. I woo thee with a dagger drawn across my throat.
"dagger" is equivalent to the Oath of the Abyss.
"throat" is equivalent to Da'ath.
13. Let the spout of blood quench Thy blood-thirst, O my God!
More blood for the Cup of Babalon. This is the sacramental blood of the saints poured out on this plane. And yet I wonder that it is not the bitter dregs for the higher life.
14. Thou art a little white rabbit in the burrow Night.
The Alchemical 'White Eagle'?
15. I am greater than the fox and the hole.
The Alchemical 'Red Lion'?
A metaphor that the Adept is greater than a fox hunting a rabbit, he has even surpassed the Hunt.
16. Give me Thy kisses, O Lord God!
A yearning, beckoning to God!
17. The lightning came and licked up the little flock of sheep.
And the dire to the crucible?
The God answers the beckoning; the lightening flash descends from the Supernals, then returns upward, redeeming the spirit from the matter by way of Light. The Sheep = the lower ego.
18. There is a tongue and a flame; I see that trident walking over the sea.
Flame= Shin, Tongue is also a description given to Shin. Sea is Binah. Perhaps a vision of the attainment. Shin=the spirit. Also the Trident, the weapons used to overcome the Abyss.
19. A phoenix hath it for its head; below are two prongs. They spear the wicked.
Phoenix Wand.
The Phoenix (Fire, Geburah, Mars) burns to ashes and is reborn from the ashes (Pile of dust in city of pyramids). The agent of Babalon, ‘slaying’ those that are wicked (adept)
20. I will spear Thee, O Thou little grey god, unless Thou beware!
Little grey god – the Demiurge?
21. From the grey to the gold; from the gold to that which is beyond the gold of Ophir.
Finally, the completion of the Alchemical process that I have been guessing at in my previous comments.
Grey= astral triad, Gold- Rosey Triad, Beyond= Supernals!
22. My God! but I love Thee!
23. Why hast Thou whispered so ambiguous things? Wast Thou afraid, O goat-hoofed One, O horned One, O pillar of lightning?
Again, a challenge to the god-head!? How impudent!
24. From the lightning fall pearls; from the pearls black specks of nothing.
Still, such vigor seems but to arouse the god-head.
Lightening = spirit, pearls = perfected man…. Black specks = annihilation, crossing the abyss, becoming not-I, or NOT-ALL, simply NOT.
25. I based all on one, one on naught.
It all seems so calculated.
One= Hadit, Naught= Nuit
26. Afloat in the aether, O my God, my God!
The Aether is the Astral- the link between Phenomena and out Khu.
27. O Thou great hooded sun of glory, cut off these eyelids!
Allow me to See! One closes the eyes when afraid. Banish the fear.
28. Nature shall die out; she hideth me, closing mine eyelids with fear, she hideth me from My destruction, O Thou open eye.
Nature clothing the spirit in flesh, cloaking the true reality of Nuit.
29. O ever-weeping One!
Binah--The Great Mother. She is the mistress of all Sorrow.
"And this is the wrath of God, that these things should be thus. And this is the grace of God, that these things should be thus." Liber Cheth, v. 17-18.
30. Not Isis my mother, nor Osiris my self; but the incestuous Horus given over to Typhon, so may I be!
This verse a thought from mention of a weeping one.
Crowley's insertion- the Sun (Adept) into Annihilation.
31. There thought; and thought is evil.
A correction from Aiwass.
32. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! it is enough.
Invocation to regain aspiration.
33. Fall not into death, O my soul! Think that death is the bed into which you are falling!
Do not rest. Maintain your strength of Aspiration. The bed indicates sleep, and the Goal is to Awake!
34. O how I love Thee, O my God! Especially is there a vehement parallel light from infinity, vilely diffracted in the haze of this mind.
The Ray of shaft of Arrows strikes Daath which disperses it.
35. I love Thee.
I love Thee.
I love Thee.
36. Thou art a beautiful thing whiter than a woman in the column of this vibration.
37. I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above.
An intimation of Sagittarius as in verse 9 of this chapter.
38. But it is death, and the flame of the pyre.
Death = crossing the Abyss. Flame of the pyre is the Abyss wherein the Adept is destroyed. Flames indicate Mars, which is Geburah with its own path to Binah.
39. Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my soul! Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light.
And again, the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
The Adept prepares his soul for the disintegration caused by the Fire. Cold emptiness is Nuit. The adepts god is Pan, the Soul’s god is Nuit.
40. When Thou shall know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in Thy great N. O. X.
"N.O.X." = [Tzaddi] [Ayin] [Nun] = V NOX. N=Mentu. O=Amoun. X=Isis Virgin.
41. What shalt Thou be, my God, when I have ceased to love Thee?
When that happens, there will be no God. “I am alone: there is no God where I am.” (AL II;23)
42. A worm, a nothing, a niddering knave!
Both Nuit and Hadit yearn to each other to complete each other and become as one...Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
43. But Oh! I love Thee.
44. I have thrown a million flowers from the basket of the Beyond at Thy feet, I have anointed Thee and Thy Staff with oil and blood and kisses.
“Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!” (AL I;9)
45. I have kindled Thy marble into life--ay! into death.
Such all-consuming energy (symbol for Mars).
46. I have been smitten with the reek of Thy mouth, that drinketh never wine but life.
Cf. Liber LXV, Cap I, v.14: "Even as evil kisses corrupt the blood, so do my words devour the spirit of man."
47. How the dew of the Universe whitens the lips!
CF. Liber LXV, Cap I, v.59: "Stained is the purple of thy mouth, O brilliant one, with the white glory of the lips of Adonai."
48. Ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother Supernal, begone!
The Adept reaches even unto Kether...
Reaching Binah, the incarnation will stop, he becomes NOT in contrast to his previous encounter with ALL.
49. I Am She that should come, the Virgin of all men.
To be wedded to the god-head as his Shekinah.
50. I am a boy before Thee, O Thou satyr God.
51. Thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure--Now! Now! Now!
The end is drawing near. The Adept has almost come to Binah. Binah teaches that Sorrow=Joy.
52. Io Pan! Io Pan! I love Thee. I love Thee.
53. O my God, spare me!
‘Spare me this separation O God, spare me this loneliness…I am hungry for thy union.’
54. Now! It is done! Death.
The last few verses have shown the Adept's throes of ecstasy in union with the Supernals.
55. I cried aloud the word --- and it was a mighty spell to bind the Invisible, an enchantment to unbind the bound; yea, to unbind the bound.
The marriage of earth and heaven.