Speculation on Future Aeons

"I may point out that the reign of the Crowned and Conquering Child is limited in time by The Book of the Law itself.  We learn that Horus will be in his turn succeeded by Thmaist, the Double-Wanded One; she who shall bring the candidates to full initiation, and though we know little of her peculiar characteristics, we know at least that her name is justice." - Aleister Crowley in Confessions (p. 400).

"Following him will arise the Equinox of Ma, the Goddess of Justice, it may be a hundred or ten thousand years from now; for the Computation of Time is not here as There" - Aleister Crowley in The Old Comment to Liber Legis and in Prolegomenon to the Second Edition of Liber Aleph by Hymenaeus Beta (p. XVI).

    It has been 100 years since the initial reception of The Book of the Law...See my essay on Freemasonry and the Magick Circle for more information on the Double-Wanded One.  The two sides of the wand are ascribed to Chokmah and Binah (or the "Beast" and the "Babylon").

    " 'the Double Wand of Power' is a curious variant of the common 'Wand of Double Power"; the general meaning is 'I control the Forces of Active and Passive" writes Crowley in The Law is For All (p.188).

    " Just as the Master of the Temple is sworn to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with his soul, so is the Magus to make his every act an expression of his magical formula" writes Aleister Crowley in The Old Comment to Liber Legis and in Prolegomenon to the Second Edition of Liber Aleph by Hymenaeus Beta (p. XVII)

    The Magus, Chokmah is Active while the Master of the Temple, Binah is Passive or receptive.   This places the wand as a timeline connecting the two supernals.  Crowley further elaborates in The Law is For All (p.189):

The Egyptian Gods are usually represented as bearing an ankh, or sandal-strap, in the left hand, the wand being in the right.   This ankh signifies the power to go, characteristic of a god.  But apparently Ra-Hoor-Khuit had a Universe in his left hand, and crushed it so that naught remains.  I think this "Universe" is that monistic metaphysics; in one hand is the "Double Wand", in the other "naught."  This seems to refer to the "none and two" ontology outlined in previous notes.

[see my essay The Formula of the Sun & Duality, Ego and the "Devil" - I.A.]

    Working with the Tree of Life we see that the progression of Aeons corresponds to (9) Moon; Yesod, (6) Sun;Tipharet, (5) Mars;Geburah [a movement from (5) to (3)].  This suggests that the next aeon will correspond to either (3) Binah;Saturn/(2) Chokmah or (4) Chesed;Jupiter.  Following the days of the week (switching Sunday and Monday) we get Sun;Sunday;God;Osiris reflects on Moon;Monday;Goddess;Isis giving birth to Mars;Tuesday; Horus. Crowley says that the next aeon will combine the qualities of Thoth and Maat.   Thoth corresponds to Mercury.  If the aeon of Horus corresponds to Industrial society (Aeon of Isis - Hunters Gatherers; Osiris - Agriculture; Horus - Industry), then the next aeon would be associated with Communication or Information Technology which is an aspect of Mercury.  However, if we consider Mercury or Thoth as corresponding to sephira (8) we are traveling down the tree of life, while all along the movement has been an ascent from Form to Formless.  The aeon of Horus is associated with the work of crossing the Abyss therefore, it makes more sense that the next aeon corresponds to the supernals (3) Binah and (2) Chokmah, and that Crowley is referring to a higher form of Thoth (Thoth as ascribed to the Magus) associated with (2) Chokmah/Maat (3) Binah [a movement from (3) to (2)].

The Aeon Following Thoth/Maat

    The progression of days (and planetary attributions) suggest that the aeon following Thoth/Maat will posses the qualities of Jupiter;Thursday(Thor).  However, since we must also take the fact that we are traveling up the Tree of Life into consideration, the next aeon will correspond to (1) Kether; Hadit and (0) Limitless Light, Limitless, No-Thing.  Isis does correspond to (4) in one sense as well as (0), a the higher form of Isis corresponding to Nuit.  This may in fact be a rough estimation of the matter.

(1) Ipsissimus - Kether
(2) Magus - Chokmah
(3) Master of the Temple - Binah
(4) Exempt Adept - Chesed
(5) Major Adept - Geburah
(6) Minor Adept - Tipharet
(7) Philosophus - Netzach; Fire
(8) Practicus - Hod; Water
(9) Theoricus - Yesod; Air
(10) Zelator - Malkuth; Earth

Bibliography

Crowley, Aleister. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. England: Penguin Books,  1989.

Crowley, Aleister. Liber Aleph. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1997.

Crowley, Aleister. The Law is for All - the Commentaries on the Book of the Law. Tempe Arizona: New Falcon, 1998.

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