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'''Aiwass''' is the name given to a voice that the English [[occultist]] and ceremonial magician [[Aleister Crowley]] reported to have heard on April 8, 9, and 10 in 1904. Crowley reported that this voice, which he considered originated with a non-corporeal being, dictated a text known as ''[[The Book of the Law]]'' or ''Liber AL vel Legis'' to him through the channeling of his wife Rose Edith Kelly during their honeymoon in Cairo, Egypt. | '''Aiwass''' is the name given to a voice that the English [[occultist]] and ceremonial magician [[Aleister Crowley]] reported to have heard on April 8, 9, and 10 in 1904. Crowley reported that this voice, which he considered originated with a non-corporeal being, dictated a text known as ''[[The Book of the Law]]'' or ''Liber AL vel Legis'' to him through the [[channeling]] of his wife Rose Edith Kelly during their honeymoon in Cairo, Egypt. | ||
==Appearance== | |||
Crowley got a "strong impression" of the speaker's general appearance: Aiwass had a body composed of "fine matter," which had a gauze-like transparency. Further, he "seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. The dress was not Arab; it suggested Assyria or Persia, but very vaguely." | |||
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Hoor-paar-kraat (Egyptian: Har-pa-khered) is more commonly referred to by the Greek transliteration Harpocrates, meaning "Horus the Child", whom Crowley considered to be the central deity within the [[Thelema|Thelemic]] cosmology. However, Harpocrates also represents the Higher Self, the Holy Guardian Angel. | Hoor-paar-kraat (Egyptian: Har-pa-khered) is more commonly referred to by the Greek transliteration Harpocrates, meaning "Horus the Child", whom Crowley considered to be the central deity within the [[Thelema|Thelemic]] cosmology. However, Harpocrates also represents the Higher Self, the Holy Guardian Angel. | ||
Crowley described the encounter in detail in his 1936 book The Equinox of the Gods, saying: | Crowley described the encounter in detail in his 1936 book ''The Equinox of the Gods'', saying: | ||
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The Voice of Aiwass came apparently from over my left shoulder, from the furthest corner of the room. It seemed to echo itself in my physical heart in a very strange manner, hard to describe. I have noticed a similar phenomenon when I have been waiting for a message fraught with great hope or dread. The voice was passionately poured, as if Aiwass were alert about the time-limit ... The voice was of deep timbre, musical and expressive, its tones solemn, voluptuous, tender, fierce or aught else as suited the moods of the message. Not bass – perhaps a rich tenor or baritone. The English was free of either native or foreign accent, perfectly pure of local or caste mannerisms, thus startling and even uncanny at first hearing. I had a strong impression that the speaker was actually in the corner where he seemed to be, in a body of "fine matter," transparent as a veil of gauze, or a cloud of incense-smoke. He seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. The dress was not Arab; it suggested Assyria or Persia, but very vaguely. I took little note of it, for to me at that time Aiwass was an "angel" such as I had often seen in visions, a being purely astral. | The Voice of Aiwass came apparently from over my left shoulder, from the furthest corner of the room. It seemed to echo itself in my physical heart in a very strange manner, hard to describe. I have noticed a similar phenomenon when I have been waiting for a message fraught with great hope or dread. The voice was passionately poured, as if Aiwass were alert about the time-limit ... The voice was of deep timbre, musical and expressive, its tones solemn, voluptuous, tender, fierce or aught else as suited the moods of the message. Not bass – perhaps a rich tenor or baritone. The English was free of either native or foreign accent, perfectly pure of local or caste mannerisms, thus startling and even uncanny at first hearing. I had a strong impression that the speaker was actually in the corner where he seemed to be, in a body of "fine matter," transparent as a veil of gauze, or a cloud of incense-smoke. He seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw. The dress was not Arab; it suggested Assyria or Persia, but very vaguely. I took little note of it, for to me at that time Aiwass was an "angel" such as I had often seen in visions, a being purely astral. | ||
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Regardie noted that in 1906 Crowley wrote: "It has struck me – in connection with reading Blake that Aiwass, etc. "Force and Fire" is the very thing I lack. My "conscience" is really an obstacle and a delusion, being a survival of heredity and education." Regardie argued that because Crowley felt that his Fundamentalist upbringing instilled him in an overly rigid conscience, when he rebelled against [[Christianity]] “he must have yearned for qualities and characteristics diametrically opposed to his own. In ''The Book of the Law'' the wish is fulfilled.” | Regardie noted that in 1906 Crowley wrote: "It has struck me – in connection with reading Blake that Aiwass, etc. "Force and Fire" is the very thing I lack. My "conscience" is really an obstacle and a delusion, being a survival of heredity and education." Regardie argued that because Crowley felt that his Fundamentalist upbringing instilled him in an overly rigid conscience, when he rebelled against [[Christianity]] “he must have yearned for qualities and characteristics diametrically opposed to his own. In ''The Book of the Law'' the wish is fulfilled.” | ||
Crowley's description of Aiwass has led many [[occultist]]s to believe the being is one of the [[Ascended Masters]]. | |||
[[Category:Deities]] | [[Category:Deities]] | ||
[[Category:Thelema]] | [[Category:Thelema]] | ||