Duality, Ego, and "The Devil"

©2004 by Ian Axir.  All rights reserved.

"Magick is defined as a means of using thought in order to bring an idea into physical manifestation.  Basically, everyone is doing magick all the time except they are doing it without the concentration and balance that comes from knowledge and understanding .  Because people act in a manner that is disbalanced, because they are unable to transcend the ego, to feel another's pain,  to cultivate empathy they cultivate disharmony in the midst of Duality, and in supporting the ego play the role of the 'Devil'" - Ian Axir

"This Class of operations demands not only immense knowledge of the technique of Magick combined with tremendous vigour and skill, but a degree of Mystical attainment which is exceedingly rare, and when found is usually marked by an absolute apathy on the subject of any attempt to achieve any Magick at all." (Aleister Crowley in Magick in Theory and Practice)

"As was said at the opening of the second chapter, the Single Supreme Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.  It is the raising of the complete man in a vertical straight line.  Any deviation from this line tends to become black magic.   Any other operation is black magic.  In the True Operation the Exaltation is equilibrated by an expansion in the other three arms of the Cross." (Aleister Crowley in Magick in Theory and Practice)

It becomes apparent that if one is to succeed in any field of research one must expand on existing systems of thought.  My topic is qabalah and ceremonial/ritual magick (ceremonial magick is defined as a group working in contrast to ritual magick which is undertaken by the solitary practitioner).  It is obvious that much of this work was already completed by Aleister Crowley, (I have yet, to read a more knowledgeable author on magick) who expanded upon the teachings of the Golden Dawn, O.T.O., Freemasonry, Eliphas Levi incorporating them into his own system particularly by implementing qabalistic correspondences which lend themselves as convenient compartments for universal symbols.   The question is how I can bring magick into the forefront and restore it's reputation.  It is apparent that the path is rather elusive requiring the work of a subtle skeptic and master philosopher.  At this point a number of possibilities present themselves.

1) Simplify - Make Crowley's teaching more accessible.  How accessible?   Afterall we don't expect everyone to have the capacity (or the desire) to be a programmer for instance; less so a magician.  However, magick (like mathematics) lends itself to all fields of research for it is the science of mind, the mechanics of thought by which means all other fields of research are undertaken.  To put it simply we do everything using our minds and a trained mind is one that is more effective in every aspect of life.  It is for this reason that Crowley tried to show that magick was essential to all.  Yet, we cannot expect the common man to observe ritual practice as consistently as physical hygiene.  Crowley's teachings will never influence the average man directly for he has no interest beyond the mundane.  The magician understand the power of ideas to influence the masses.  The politician, orator, the economist will understand the principles (though he will not label his method magick) and use them to his advantage.  It is only the adept that is capable of linking the mundane with the existential.

2) Demonstrate the Aeon of Horus and the following Aeon of Thmaist. The Aeon of Horus was initiated in 1904 in sync with the end of Agricultural Economy (remember agriculture is associated with the planting of the seed which gives it's life, the Aeon of Osiris and the formula of the "Dying God". (see my paper The Formula of the Sun) and the onset of the In-dustrial revolution.  The Aeons of Horus and Thmaist imply the achievement of physical immortality. NOTE:  I am aware that Aleister Crowley considered physical immortality to be undesirable partly because he felt that the death of the physical body was necessary in order for an individual to transcend one's ego.  I will address this issue in greater detail in the future.

 "...for this sacrament is the Tree of Life itself, and whoso partaketh of the fruit thereof shall never die.  Unless he so will.  Who would not rather work through incarnation; a real renewal of body and brain, than contend himself with a stagnant immortality upon this mote in the Sunlight of the Universe which we call earth"

 "The use of the Elixir of Life is only justifiable in peculiar circumstances.  To go counter to the course of natural Change is to approximate perilously to the error of the 'Black Brothers'."

    As I demonstrated in my earlier paper (The 5 Steps and 3 Points to Enlightenment and Physical Immortality) physical immortality does not run contrary to the course of natural Change as Crowley puts it.  Individual cells die to be replenished (resurrected) by new one's.  There is no need for the body to die.  One can transcend ego by stopping thought.  There is no need for the body to die to experience the worlds beyond the body (normally experienced at death) through the practice of astral projection.  Physical immortality does not mean that you will be stuck on earth.  You are free to come and go as you will because you have a corresponding body on each of the levels as a vehicle for one's consciousness (which is oneself).

3) Show how magick and qabalah relate to computer programming, how the Hebrew language correspond to assembly language.  How binary relates to yin/yang, the sexual act, the symbolism of the magician in the circle (the one in the zero). NOTE: See The Formula of the Sun and Metaphysica.

    The first point implies clarification of concepts.  The problem is that it is impossible to understand Crowley without having crossed the abyss.   It is impossible to understand magick without the experience of transcending thought, self, ego.  One may understand the lower aspects (how thought creates on the astral plane) without understanding the deeper implications (the magician dreams the universe into existence).  Many magicians are stuck in their egos and many mystics have no interest in developing powers or siddhis.  It takes a mystic who has realized unity in the midst of duality.

1) Lower level magician - primary experience duality - 2

2) Mystic - primary experience unity, duality is absolved - 0 (the operation is 2 = 0; or duality canceling out and returning to No-Thing +1 + -1 = 0)

3) Magi - Unity in the midst of duality.  Whereas the mystic leave s the mind behind the magician masters thought be recognizing unity in the midst of duality (the formula for this operation is 0 = 2)

(see my early work the booklet Metaphysica for further information.  I have since amended many of my views.)

    Note the Final Gesture in Liber V vel Reguli:

   I also am a Star in Space, unique and self-existent, an individual essence incorruptible; I also am one Soul; I am identical with All and None. I am in All and all in Me; I am, apart from all and lord of all, and one with all.
    I am a God, I very God of very God; I go upon my way to work my will; I have made matter and motion for my mirror; I have decreed for my delight that Nothingness should figure itself as twain, that I might dream a dance of names and natures, and enjoy the substance of simplicity by watching the wanderings of my shadows.   I am not that which is not; I know not that which knows not; I love not that which loves not.   For I am Love, whereby division dies in delight; I am Knowledge, whereby all parts, plunged in the whole, perish and pass into perfection; and I am that I am, the being wherein Being is lost in Nothing, nor deigns to be but by its Will to unfold its nature , its need to express its perfection in all possibilities, each phase a partial phantasm, and yet inevitable and absolute.
    I am Omniscient, for naught exists for me unless I know it.   I am Omnipotent, for naught occurs save by Necessity my soul's expression through my will to be, to do, to suffer the symbols of itself.  I am Omnipresent, for naught exists where I am not, who fashioned space as a condition of my consciousness of myself, who am the centere of all, and my circumference the frame of mine own fancy.
   I am the All, for all that I am is not the absolute All, and all my all is mine and not another's; mine, who conceive of other like myself in essence and truth, yet unlike in expression and illusion.
   I am the None, for all that I am is the imperfect image of the perfect; each partial phantom must perish in the clasp of its counterpart; each form fulfil itself by finding its equated opposite, and satisfying its need to be the Absolute by the attainment of annihilation.
    The word, LAShTAL includes all this.
    LA - Naught
    AL - Two
    A is "the Fool", Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word (Harpocrates), and Action (Bacchus).  He is the boundless air, the wandering Ghost, but with "possibilities".  He is the Naught that the Two have made by "love under will".
    LA thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined, lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby.  Their child is begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught also, as yet.  LA is thus the Universe in that phase, with its potentialities of manifestation.
    AL, on the contrary, though it is essentially identical with LA, shows the Fool manifested through the Equilibrium of Contraries.  The weight is still nothing, but is is expressed as if it were two equal weights in opposite scales.  The indicator still points to zero. (335-336)

    After many years of study and practice following my first mystical experience I find Crowley extremely readable.  Although I do not claim to understand everything I am confident in claiming to understand 90 - 95 % of all of A.C. ' s writings.   Much of the focus of Crowley's work is aimed at the Exempt Adept, the crucial grade of Magister Templi (Master of the Temple) and higher grades.  The bulk of Crowley's work is aimed at getting the aspirant across the abyss so that he can begin to understand the magical alphabet (symbolism) from the vantage point of "occult puberty" (the capacity to see the big picture and focus in on individual details).

    The inability of the average individual to grasp these concepts, is both tragic and laughable to the Master of the Temple.  It is impossible to effectively communicate Infinity through the medium of a finite device such as the linear mind oriented in time and space.  One is left with thought, an idea, a method by which to concentrate, manipulate, doubt and ultimately since the mind.  As I sit here writing I think "What is the point".  Perhaps it's to convince the skeptic ho has achieved mystical experience that Crowley is worth the time to study and indeed necessary for the mystic to complete the process , to come full circle, to thread the path of the magi.  Par of the problem lay in A.C.'s antics.  "Unfortunately his shock tactics have left him in a negative light which leads people to ignore his teaching based on seemingly satanic rants that in fact conceal the secrets of white magick.  References to death imply the use of cloaked language to conceal sexual rites (remember the ego "dies" during sexual intercourse during the experience of union with one's opposite).  The general consensus during the period in which he wrote allowed for literature with references to death and murder but, sex was still considered taboo hence the need for cloaked language.   Crowley, explains himself in his book Magick in Theory and Practice:

There is a traditional saying that whenever an Adept seems to have made a straightforward, comprehensible statement, then is it most certain that He means something entirely different.  The Truth is nevertheless clearly set forth in His Words: it is His simplicity that baffles the unworthy.  I have chosen the expressions in the Chapter in such a way that it is likely to mislead those magicians who allow selfish interests to cloud intelligence, but to give useful hints to such as are bound by the proper Oaths to devote their powers to legitimate ends. (100)

    Crowley's true character (that of the master white magician)  is revealed in his novel Moon Child (young Crowley as an Adeptus Major is depicted by the character Cyril Grey while his older counter part the master Simon Iff represents a more mature Crowley as Magister Templi in a story that is probably closer to non-fiction than fiction) which will divorce any aspiring black magician, with some inclination for mystical experience, from his fascination with the dark arts in preference of the true path of the magi.  This is not to say that Crowley was not morally deficient.  He was definitely a playboy, or player by today's standards.  A great deal of this reasoning is based on Crowley's view of the impermanence of the material world.   There was no point, in Crowley's estimation, of cultivating a relationship with his soulmate based on unchanging unconditional love or agape because each individual (in terms of the persona) was impermanent.  Therefore, there was no point in making a commitment to another individual for all eternity.  Too many factors come into play to jeopardize the relationship.  This is part of the reason why I demonstrate shapeshifting as the solution for an individual that had achieved physical immortality (one might get bored with one's physically immortal sexual partner in a couple hundred or thousand years which could lead to infidelity).  The ability to morph enables the individual to assume the role of an infinite possibility of characters.   One's wife could become all the women in the world, there would be no reason to cheat.  The realization that mind and body are pliable would cause individuals to focus on the relationship between their true selves.  Crowley knew that physical death was not necessary to transcend the ego but, felt that reincarnation was part of a natural cycle:

"The death of the individual is his awakening to the impersonal immortality of Hadit.  This applies less to physical death than to the Crossing g of the Abyss; for which see Liber 418, Fourteenth Aether.  One may attain to be ware that one is but a particular "child " of the Play of Hadit and Nuit; one's personality is then perceived as being a disguise." (The Law is for All, 92)

    Crowley was morally corrupt in one sense but, he was probably more moral than your average free loving hippie.  To say that he was vastly more discipline is an understatement.  It is sad that the greatest writer in the whole universe, a man that was capable of shedding light on seemingly insoluble universal riddles should be ignored and misinterpreted by individuals lacking the "organ" by which to perceive the truth of the matter.  I have studied Judaism,Taoism, yoga, Zen, shamanism, wicca, the works of Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti and many others and I feel that Crowley (barring his twist on morals) had the most profound understanding of the universe.  This is the reason that I have decided to expand on his teaching while showing a morally based system similar in essence to Judeo/Christian principles (see my document entitled "The Eternal City").  As we can see the free love movement of the 1960's, that A.C. predicted before his death in 1947, proved to be a faulty formula for effective living.

    How do I know Crowley wasn't a Satanist?   Satanists are not capable of transcending their ego they may only go as far as the Exempt Adept at which point they conclude - "I am God", stopping here prevents one from realizing that one is "Not-God" or No-Thing.   Here is what the founder of the Satanic Church, Anton Lavey had to say about Crowley:

As early as 1951, Anton's attitudes had been formulated enough to try to seek out a group of "official" devil worshippers.   He visited a chapter of the Order of Thelema in Berkeley; followers of Aleister Crowley, who prided himself on being "The Wickedest Man in the World" and supposedly in touch with the darker elements. Anton was disappointed to find the Berkeley bunch mystically-minded card readers who emphasized the study of Eastern philosophy, Oriental languages, stars and contemplation to reach the spiritual Nirvana of Oness.   A few years earlier, Anton had ordered Crowley's books from Jack Parsons in Pasadena - Equinox of the Gods, Magic Without Tears, Moonchild, Diary of a Dope Fiend, Sword and Song, Tannhaeuser, The Book of Lies, Yoga For Yahoos, and The Book of the Law.   When John Symonds' biography of Crowley, The Great Beast, came out in 1952, Anton concluded that the Thelemites' founder was a druggy poseur whose greatest achievements were as a poet and mountain climber.  Despite hysterical tales of the wild Satanic orgies he was said to preside over and the blasphemous insights his writings were said to contain, Crowley's followers were rather innocuous - much more ethereal than Anton expected.  It occurred to Anton that people seemed compelled to manufacture fantasies about supposed Devil-worshiping cults, no matter how bland the group might actually be. (Anton Lavey, in The Secret Life of a Satanist).

Here is what Crowley has to say:

As far as the grade of Exempt Adept, they are on the same path as the White Brotherhood; for until that grade is attained, the goal is not disclosed.  Then only are the goats, the lonely leaping mountain-masters, separated from the gregarious huddling valley-bound sheep.  Then those who have well learned the lessons of the Path are ready to be torn asunder to give up their own life to the Babe of the Abyss which is - and is not they.

The others, proud in their purple, refuse.  They make themselves a false crown of the Horror of the Abyss; they set the Dispersion of Choronzon upon their brows; they clothe themselves in the poisoned robes of Form; they shut themselves up; and when the force that made them what they are is exhausted, their strong towers fall, they become the Eaters of Dung in the Day of Be-with-us, and their shreds, strewn in the Abyss, are lost.

Not so the Masters of the Temple, that sit as piles of dust in the City of the Pyramids, awaiting the Great Flame that shall consume that dust to ashes.   

    As a youth I dabbled in magick .  I was fascinated with the darker aspects of magick (prior to my experience of unity; although fascinated with the darker aspects I never worked magick to intentionally harm or manipulate other individuals.   I also wasn't fascinated with perverse or evil, or criminal activities.  It was more of a curiosity of why bad things happen and why God doesn't finally just make things better). Magick promised a means of satisfying my desires and I enjoyed cultivating an image of myself that I felt would ward away potential bullies, help me come to terms with the evils of the world and give me the confidence of a competitive "jungle beast".  In effect I was compensating for my Christian upbringing, the lack of answers and even, at one point thought that maybe the Devil was the good guy and God was some universal tyrant that had predestined  his children to eternal damnation.  I know that predestination is a fact because I have been seeing into the future beginning with a premonition of my father's death when I was four.  I actually tried to stop him from going the night before his accident.  This is one of my earliest memories. 

    The pivotal point came for me when I began to seriously contemplate the contradiction between predestination and freewill.  (Prior to this my focus was on achieving a level of experience that would enable me to know something in the same manner that I know that I exist.  To achieve this one must become one with the object of one's inquiry.  In yoga this is called samadhi - subject and object merge and one has true knowledge that goes beyond the intellect because one can doubt one's intellect but, not an experience as certain as one's existence.  If God is not at least as real, or more real than you, then you can doubt him out of existence.  However if your very experience of existence, your self is actually a part of God, then whatever God is he is more certain than your individual existence because your piece of self is one among many pieces that are one.  However, this faulty view is based on Mystic Monism (see below) ).   The Law is for All - the Commentaries on the Book of the Laww provide an elegant solution to this seemingly unanswerable riddle).  One finds oneself free from being angry at a tyrannical God (or Devil) and taking responsibility for one's own individual actions and godhood.

"This is the evident and final Solvent of the Knot Philosophical concerning Fate and Freewill, that it is thine own Self, omniscient and omnipotent, sublime in Eternity, that first dist order the Course of thine own Orbit, so that that which befaleth thee by Fate is indeed the necessary Effect of thine own Will. These two, that like Gladiators have made War in Philosophy through these many Centuries, art made One by the Love under Will which is the Law of Thelema. O my Son, there is no Doubt that resolveth not in Certainty and Rapture at the Touch of the Wand of our Law, an thou apply it with Wit..." (77)

"See "The Book of the Great Auk" for the demonstration that each "star" is the Centere of the Universe to itself, and that a star, simple, original, absolute, can add to its omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence without ceasing to be itself, and that therefore it enters into combinations in which its true Nature is for a while disguised, even from itself." (25)

"This theory is the only one which explains why the Absolute limited Itself, and why It does not recognize Itself during Its cycle of incarnations.  It disposes of "Evil" and the Origin of Evil, without denying Reality to "Evil", or insulting our daily observation and our common sense." (26)

"Therefore, you have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible.   This is also the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc. exist.  Evil is only an appearance because, (like Good) it cannot affect the substance itself, but, only multiply its combinations.  This is something the same a Mystic Monism, but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of Himself, so that their interplay is false.  If we presuppose many element, their interplay is natural.  It is no objection to this theory to ask who made the elements - the elements are at least there; and God, when you look for him, is not there." (26)

 

    To put it simply because each individual is god to themselves (remember God is typically viewed as the origin of the universe which is generally visualized as a single point in space [by those individuals mature enough to no longer conceptualize God as an old man on a throne somewhere in the clouds]).   There is more than one point at the center of the universe because any point (or individual) in infinity can be considered to be the center.  One is responsible for one's actions not because one has freewill but, because one created one's entire life before incarnating in time/space so that the future as well as the past determine who one really is.  One's environment is determined by one's position in space and hence the specific structuralization of the formless into that particular unit that is you as opposed to all other points of consciousness in space. In practice one should be able to step out of time/space re-write one's past/future and then re-enter the universe of duality.  Anotherwords, freewill is only possible outside of time and space.  Indeed there are magical rituals designed to send energy to one's past or future self in order to get immediate results in the present. (see the end of the book Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig).

    In reality the ego is at the root of duality, the two horns of the goat ("Devil") correspond to the two hemispheres of the brain.  However, it is not the evil devil of the bible (an independently conscious being) but, an unconscious structurallization of consciousness.  It is the magi that that harmonized polar opposites.  So in this context it was true that Crowley was the "Devil", all magicians are in Buddhist terms Mara makers of illusion (the physical world is considered illusion.  So that the magician that creates the "illusion" of a computer program may receive real currency for his efforts).  This "Devil" becomes evil when ego pits itself against ego.   An imbalanced duality produces evil, while a balanced duality effects good.   We may use the "Dragon" as a sturdy steed.  This "Devil" uses duality to achieve the highest good.  It may be best to dispense with the term "Devil" altogether and replace it with IFID (Imbalanced Forces In Duality perhaps).   Crowley, considered himself to be both the Christ/Anti-Christ rolled into one individual.  In actuality Crowley did not believe in either God (Crowley equates God with No-Thing this does not require faith or beliefs which are simply a congregations of thought supporting a particular view that can be doubted.) or the Devil and actually admired the story of Jesus in many respects (666 is actually a number of Tipharet which corresponds to the messiah. 

The number 6 (2 X 3 = 6; Chokmah X Binah = Tipharet; 5 is also the intermediary corresponding to Horus: 2 + 3 = 5) is relevant because it is the median (intermediary) between 10 - Malkuth (earth man) and 0 - Nothing (God, contrary to popular notion IS NOT (No-Thing) responsible for creation or the evil that results from the duality which is necessary for the individual experience of existence.  Creation can only take place in duality - time and space.).  He was definitely anti-Christian in that he showed Christianity to be a myth patterned on the story of the dying God and encouraged the life of the typical uncommitted bachelor.  Let me put it this way since it's rather easy to take things out of context Crowley was someone who was trying to save the world but, did not believe in the Christian way - that makes him anti-Christian (or Anti-Christ if you like; however, if there is no Devil or Christ then there is also no Anti-Christ).   This does not mean that he was a wonderful person but, that his knowledge of the universe generally outweighs his shortcomings.  One eventually learns to ignore his negative rambles (until one is able to, more often than not, interpret them as symbols for some wholesome aracana).  At this point you may ask - IF I BELIEVE IN THE THINGS I'VE WRITTEN HERE?  THE ANSWER IS I NEITHER BELIEVE NOR NECESSARILY DIS-BELIEVE ANY OF THIS.

           "The Devil does not exist.  It is a flase name invented by the Black Brothers to imply a Unity in their igonorant muddle of dispersions." (193)

"My primary objection to Christianity is "gentle Jesus, meek and mild", the pacifist, the conscientious objector, the Tolstoyan, the 'passive resister'." (181)

"One cannot say that is was "Sin" for Naught to restrict itself within the form of Two; on the contrary.  But, Sin is to resist the operation of the reversion to Naught" (41)

  

 
                 

 

    In another sense the magician by using thought and promoting it sets up a barrier against those that would transcend thought.  I think it suitable to inject a somewhat primitive, childish analogy that is in one sense both true and profound.   It is that if everyone were to transcend thought and duality the universe would cease to exist so that in cultivating duality the "black magician" assures the continuity of the universe (in time/space) and the existence of individual egos which might otherwise permanently relinquish their existence by returning to the source No-Thing (once again a partially faulty view ascribed to Mystic Monism).   Ironically, the magician also provides the mystical methods by which to transcend thought.  So in effect the Magi provides a two way door both in and out of zero (this itself being a polarity that establishes the existence of IS and IS NOT).

    I keep reading what I have already written and I keep realizing that there is just no way that the average person is going to be able to understand this.  I really don't have alot of time to go over various concepts to get the individual up to speed.  I will try to do so in the future.  Also, understand that the materials here represent a work in progress so that I am well aware of various grammarical error throughout the documents.  I'm going to try to put things as simply as I can here and tell you that everyone has an ego.   If you use Duality in a balanced fashion you will produce good.  If you use Duality in an inharmonious manner you will cultivate evil.  Everyone uses thought to effect change.  Example: I am hungry, I think of a sandwich and the idea motivates my body to go to the refrigirator and make a sandwich.  My idea of a sandwich has effected the material universe.  The idea of the sandwich has become a real physical sandwich.  Now if I didn't have an idea would I be able to carry out the physical motions necessary to make the sandwich (excluding making a sandwich in a drunken blackout)?

    As a child I once put together a makeshift shack that looked terrible because I did not have a blue print.   A structured idea such as a design for a building usually requires a blue print.   A blue print not only brings an idea one step closer to manefistation.  It lends the idea greater precission and inables more than one person, a carpenter to work on the idea, in this case a building.  This is the theory behind the construction of a talisman which may be a geometric shape representing an idea, or in some cases intangible concept that should prove difficult to visualize without being refered to some tangible object.  Magick is defined as a means of using thought in order to bring an idea into physical manifestation.  Basically, everyone is doing magick all the time except they are doing it without the concentration and balance that comes from knowledge and understanding .  Because people act in a manner that is disbalanced, because they are unable to transcend the ego, to feel another's pain,  to cultivate empathy they cultivate disharmony in the midst of Duality, and in supporting the ego play the role of the 'Devil'.

"It is not safe to use any thout in Magick, unless that thought has been thus equilibrated and destroyed."   (Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, 61)

"Any idea that is thus itself positive and negative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the Abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the Abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated duality or falsehood, and is to that extent qliphotic and dangerous." (Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, 62)

    Now if you read my earlier articles The Formula of the Sun and The Divine Geometry you understand that crossing yourself represents crossing the "abyss" between Form and Formlessness and that this involves transcending your ego. This means that when you return you will act and produce balanced ideas in you life, you will act with awareness and Ideas that are not in conflict with other individual's and in harmony with a divine plan that will bring about Heaven on Earth when everyone.   Note that the horizontal line on the cross represents the path between Geburah (5) and Chesed (4).  Remember that I said in The Divine Geometry that the abyss is between the 4th Sephira and the 3rd Binah because 4 points are necessary to create a Form in the Three Dimensional World, the simplest from being the Pyramid and how the Three points represent the Plane.  So that when you 'cross' from the level of the 4th sephira, which includes the horizontal bar of the cross between Geburah (5) and Chesed (4) that you transcend the 3 Dimensional World into the Two Dimensional and thence into One and Zero transcending Duality. (Notice also why the "Black Brother" who are not able to cross the abyss or transcend ego, who ultimately view themselves as God are stuck in the city of pyramids, unable to cross from Form to Formless.  Being stuck in the ego they act out of the ego, cultivating evil).  This gives one the experience of being one with everyone in the world.   When one returns from this experience one does only good to others because, in effect in this manner one is doing good to oneself. NOTE:  Some may view the horizontal line as being situated between Binah (3) and Chokmah (2) see Metaphysica.   Keep in mind because the vertical line represents in this case crossing the horizontal line from Form/Duality to Formlessness,  the vertical line being one's consciousness, the sun is traveling from the experience of Individual Consciousness in Duality to Unitary Conscious in Naught or No-Thing.

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Bibliography

Crowley, Aleister. The Law is for All. Tempe Arizona: New Falcon, 1998.