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The Theory Of Tetragrammaton

On 18th November, 1898 e.v., Aleister Crowley was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He succeeded in uniting under the Schema of the Holy Qabalah, of which the Tarot is the greatest single element, all philosophical and magical systems soever, including that of the Chinese. This, and his Naples Arrangement are with little doubt his greatest achievements in scholarship.

(The Book of Thoth, a publication in class B, is also considered to be one of the most important works of this scholar by a great number of people. There is no doubt about it since The Book of Thoth is an extraordinary attempt to define the pictorial representations of the Tarot according to their true esoteric correspondences and under the ancient scheme of the Holy Qabalah).

The Tao is exactly equivalent to the Ain or Nothingness of our Qabalah, because equally it must be comprehended as necessarily possessing a phase of manifestation. The conception becomes more objective as it is developed, so that both Tao and its hidden correlative Teh are formulated in a quite positive way as the Yang and the Yin, which correspond exactly to the Lingam and the Yoni. These being clothed about become the popular symbols of Father and Mother. In the macrocosm they correspond to the Sun and Moon; and, by further descent into matter, are, on the masculine side, Fire and Air; on the feminine side, Water and Earth.

(In nature, there always exists the positive and the negative, the active and the passive, the masculine and the feminine. Wise men of old age veiled these twin forces in fables, in myths and in legends. Therefore we find out that The Persians had their Ormuzd-Ariman, The Egyptians had their Osiris-Typhoon and The Hebrews had their Abel-Cain. There exists both the good and the bad serpent but it is vital to keep in mind that they are one in essence, each one necessary to the other in the process of evolution, like the spermatozoon is to the ovule).

Obliged to describe Nothing, the only way to do so without destroying its integrity was to represent it as the union of a Plus Something with an equivalent Minus Something. One may call these two ideas, the Active and Passive, the Father and Mother. But although the Father and Mother can make a perfect union, when by returning to Zero, which is a retrogression, they can also go forward into Matter, so that their union produces a Son and a Daughter. The idea works out in practice as a method of describing how the union of any two things produces a third thing which is neither of them.

(Something similar may be the process in which the alchemists experimented in the manipulation of metals. They would take silver and gold for instance; gold being for obvious reasons the father and silver, the mother. When they combined these two metals they would give existence to a third kind of metal, in this case, argent-aurum, being the son, a metal that shares some of the characteristics of its metallurgic parents but does not partake of their purity any longer. It may be added that this type of experiment is considered as an act of magick because it was carried through the formula of Love under Will. In fact, all the processes of nature are magickal, because everything that happens in the Universe is in turn necessary and self-compensating).

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+= The Theory Of Tetragrammaton =
+On 18th November, 1898 e.v., Aleister Crowley was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He succeeded in uniting under the Schema of the '''Holy Qabalah''', of which '''the Tarot''' is the greatest single element, all philosophical and magical systems soever, including that of the Chinese. This, and his ''Naples Arrangement'' are with little doubt his greatest achievements in scholarship.
+(''The Book of Thoth'', a publication in class B, is also considered to be one of the most important works of this scholar by a great number of people. There is no doubt about it since ''The Book of Thoth'' is an extraordinary attempt to define the pictorial representations of the Tarot according to their true esoteric correspondences and under the ancient scheme of the Holy Qabalah).
+'''The Tao''' is exactly equivalent to the '''Ain''' or Nothingness of our Qabalah, because equally it must be comprehended as necessarily possessing a phase of manifestation. The conception becomes more objective as it is developed, so that both '''Tao''' and its hidden correlative '''Teh''' are formulated in a quite positive way as the '''Yang''' and the '''Yin''', which correspond exactly to the '''Lingam''' and the '''Yoni'''. These being clothed about become the popular symbols of '''Father''' and '''Mother'''. In the '''macrocosm''' they correspond to the Sun and Moon; and, by further descent into matter, are, on the masculine side, Fire and Air; on the feminine side, Water and Earth.
+(In nature, there always exists the positive and the negative, the active and the passive, the masculine and the feminine.  Wise men of old age veiled these twin forces in fables, in myths and in legends. Therefore we find out that The '''Persians''' had their Ormuzd-Ariman, The '''Egyptians''' had their Osiris-Typhoon and The '''Hebrews''' had their Abel-Cain. There exists both the good and the bad serpent but it is vital to keep in mind that they are one in essence, each one necessary to the other in the process of evolution, like the spermatozoon is to the ovule).
+Obliged to describe '''Nothing''', the only way to do so without destroying its integrity was to represent it as the union of a Plus Something with an equivalent Minus Something. One may call these two ideas, the Active and Passive, the Father and Mother. But although the Father and Mother can make a perfect union, when by returning to Zero, which is a retrogression, they can also go forward into Matter, so that their union produces a '''Son''' and a '''Daughter'''. The idea works out in practice as a method of describing how the union of any two things produces a third thing which is neither of them.
+(Something similar may be the process in which the '''alchemists''' experimented in the manipulation of metals. They would take silver and gold for instance; gold being for obvious reasons the father and silver, the mother. When they combined these two metals they would give existence to a third kind of metal, in this case, argent-aurum, being the son, a metal that shares some of the characteristics of its metallurgic parents but does not partake of their purity any longer. It may be added that this type of experiment is considered as an act of magick because it was carried through the formula of Love under Will. In fact, all the processes of nature are magickal, because everything that happens in the Universe is in turn necessary and self-compensating).
+The Union of the Father and the Mother produces twins, the son going fo