ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Η ΟΥΚΕΣΤΙ ΚΕΦΑΛΗΟ!} (1)The Ante Primal Triad which isNOT-GODNothing is.Nothing Becomes.Nothing is not.The First Triad which is GODI AM.I utter The Word.I hear The Word.The AbyssThe Word is broken up.There is Knowledge.Knowledge is Relation.These fragments are Creation.The broken manifests Light. (2)The Second Triad which is GODGOD the Father and Mother is concealed in Generation.GOD is concealed in the whirling energy of Nature.GOD is manifest in gathering: harmony: consideration:the Mirror of the Sun and of the Heart.The Third TriadBearing: preparing.Wavering: flowing: flashing.Stability: begetting.The Tenth EmanationThe world.[10]COMMENTARY (The Chapter that is not a Chapter)This chapter, numbered 0, corresponds to the Negative,which is before Kether in the Qabalistic system.The notes of interrogation and exclamation on the previouspages are the other two veils.The meaning of these symbols is fully explained in "TheSoldier and the Hunchback".
This chapter begins by the letter O, followed by a mark ofexclamation; its reference to the theogony of "Liber Legis" isexplained in the note, but it also refers to KTEIS PHALLOSand SPERMA, and is the exclamation of wonder or ecstasy,which is the ultimate nature of things.NOTE(1) Silence. Nuit, O; Hadit; Ra-Hoor-Khuit, I.COMMENTARY (The Ante Primal Triad)This is the negative Trinity; its three statements are, in anultimate sense, identical. They harmonise Being, Becoming,Not-Being, the three possible modes of conceiving the universe.The statement, Nothing is Not , technically equivalent toSomething Is, is fully explained in the essay called Berashith.The rest of the chapter follows the Sephirotic system of theQabalah, and constitutes a sort of quintessential comment uponthat system.Those familiar with that system will recognise Kether,Chokmah, Binah, in the First Triad; Daath, in the Abyss; Chesed,Geburah, Tiphareth, in the Second Triad; Netzach, Hod andYesod in the Third Triad, and Malkuth in the Tenth Emanation.It will be noticed that this cosmogony is very complete; themanifestation even of God does not appear until Tiphareth; andthe universe itself not until Malkuth.The chapter many therefore be considered as the most completetreatise on existence ever written.NOTE(2) The Unbroken, absorbing all, is called Darkness.[11]1ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Α<strong>THE</strong> SABBATH <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> GOATO! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan.{Pi-Alpha-Nu}: Duality: Energy: Death.Death: Begetting: the supporters of O!To beget is to die; to die is to beget.Cast the Seed into the Field of Night.Life and Death are two names of A.Kill thyself.Neither of these alone is enough.
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