That’s a pretty good synchronicity then.
I first found that passage in Crowley’s book describing an encounter during a powerful ritual, while you found it online.
When I read that a few weeks ago, I discovered that Choronzon wraps around the earth as the Ouroboros and I remember a long chain of previous related myths.
It was how things were connecting that made me feel I was being shown something.
That’s a really really good one.
Probably should follow that thread.
Probably the secret to the universe.
Whisperings of the Sphinx.
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Where Nietzsche called the Noble Man forth, Crowley called the True Man.
Great magicians both and liars.
But how to know what are the lies and what is true and whether it even matters
“You are familiar with the Four Powers of the Sphinx, attributed by the Adepts of old time to their Four Elements. Air is to Know, Scire; Fire is to Will, Velle; Water is to Dare, Audere; and Earth is to Keep Silence, Tacere. But now that a fifth Element, Spirit, is generally recognized in the Qabalah, I have deemed it proper to add a Fifth Power corresponding: to Go, Ire.”
“This then is the Adept, who doth Will with solid Energy as the Bull, doth Dare with fierce Courage as the Lion, doth Know with swift Intelligence as the Man, and doth Keep Silence with soaring Subtlety as the Eagle or Dragon. Moreover, this Sphinx is an Eidolon of the Law, for the Bull is Life, the Lion is Light, the Man is Liberty, the Serpent is Love.”
“To attain the SANCTUM REGNUM, in other words, the knowledge and power of the Magi, there are four indispensable conditions–an intelligence illuminated by study, an intrepidity which nothing can check, a will which cannot be broken, and a prudence which nothing can corrupt and nothing intoxicate. TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL, TO KEEP SILENCE–such are the four words of the Magus, inscribed upon the four symbolical forms of the sphinx.”
To summarize, the Four Powers of the Sphinx are the means by which Man becomes God. It is for this reason that Crowley refers to the Sphinx as “the True Symbol of this our Holy Art of Magick under the Law of Thelema” and “a Glyph of the Satisfaction and Perfection of the Will and of the Work, the Completion of the True Man as the Reconciler of the Highest with the Lowest.”
Just some fun myths and fairytales I guess. I love the old Egyptian story of the Sun’s journey to the Underworld. Some Egyptian eschatology.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_mythology#The_journey_of_the_sun
I love this stuff so much more than modern conspiracy theories, our myths say life is The Conspiracy of all Conspiracies
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