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Book preview of ‘For the Thelemites’ by Perdurabo ST

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Upper cover and title page of For the Thelemites by Perdurabo ST

'Perdurabo' - Aleister Crowley - born Edward Alexander Crowley (1875-1947). Aleister Crowley wrote in Confessions: "For the purposes of the Cairo working, Ouarda and I had bought two abbai; one, scarlet, for me; one, blue, for her."

It was first several years after that the Cairo Working had taken place that Aleister Crowley started writing about it. However, as For the Thelemites demonstrates, he had, in fact, upon his return from Cairo mentioned the ‘Equinox of the Gods’ in a publication in 1905 E.V., something which has been totally overlooked, and furthermore, he had also started publishing some of the secrets of the Golden Dawn, a consequence of the Equinox of the Gods in March, 1904 E.V.

NEW CORRECTED 100-PAGE ILLUSTRATED VERSION!

• For the Thelemites book preview. Read the book's ‘Introduction’, and see ‘Contents’ and lists of illustrations, and, among many things, discover what “the “blinds” and stupid meaningless ciphers” in Aleister Crowley’s Cairo diary mean – the author of the book has performed a magickal work that reveals their meanings!

Discover, for example, also where Aleister Crowley got the folded piece of paper from that was used as a title page for Liber L vel Legis, and read about J. F. C. Fuller’s sabotage of the Law of Thelema! Regarding Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966), there is also new research by the author showing that it was not just Fuller's wife who had German roots, but both his mother and his maternal grandfather were Prussian-born.

Regarding the Cairo Working and Aleister Crowley’s later accounts of it, so is it very important to be aware of that when he wrote his accounts of what took place in Cairo in March/April 1904 E.V. in the seventh number of The Equinox in 1912 E.V., in Confessions in the 1920s, and in The Equinox of the Gods in 1936 E.V., then he had not access to several key documents related to the Cairo Working – key documents that J. F. C. Fuller had stolen, and which he later sold just before his death!

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The last two lines of the hieroglyphic text on the reverse of "the stélé of revealing", as it is called in Liber L vel Legis, III,10. - 'Stele 666' in the Cairo Museum, which was discovered there by Ouarda the Seer, Rose Crowley. In black (read from right to left, an from top to bottom): Lo, the dead man Ankh-af-na-khonsu, shall go forth by day in order to do what he will all upon earth among the living. - From Chapter 2 of Book of Going Forth by Day, called "Chapter of coming forth by day and living after death."

The reverse of the funeral stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu from Planche 15 in Album du Musée de Boulaq, publish by Auguste Mariette in 1872. The first half of the eleven horizontal lines of inscription on the reverse of the stele contains the first part of a version of Chapter 30 (or Spell 30) of Book of Going Forth by Day - also known as Book of the Dead - and the second half of the inscription is Chapter 2 of the same book. Chapter 30 is a chapter usually engraved upon funeral scarabs and very unusual to find upon a funeral stele. However, the first part of the chapter is also engraved upon Ankh-af-na-khonsu's inner coffin, known as 'the egg', and a larger portion of the chapter on his great sarcophagus. Chapter 30 is in Book of Going Forth by Day entitled: "Chapter of not letting the heart of a man be driven away from him in the underworld", and Chaper 2: "Chapter of coming forth by day and living after death" - the latter a most splendid chapter, which, as we know now, revealed the coming of Perdurabo - TO MEGA THERION - in order to 'do his will all upon earth among the living', proclaiming the Aeon of Horus, and the Law of Thelema!   Author's collection.

Ouarda the Seer - Rose Edith Crowley, née Kelly (1874-1932), Aleister Crowley's wife. 

The Cairo Working in March and April, 1904 E.V., took place in Lower Egypt, in what the ancient Egyptians called 'the northern land' (hieroglyph, top). However, Ankh-af-na-khonsu was living in Upper Egypt, 'the southern land' (hieroglyph, bottom), and the Stélé of Revealing found there.

• Ankh-af-na-khonsu invoking Re-Horakhet – the ‘Ra-Hoor-Khut’ of Liber L vel Legis. From the ‘Stélé of Revealing’ – Stèle 666 of Ankhefenkhons i, (Cairo A 9422), which during the Cairo Working in March and April 1904 E.V. was exhibited in the newly built Cairo Museum at Kasr en-Nil where Ouarda the Seer, Rose Edith Crowley, discovered it. – For an explanation of why Aleister Crowley called the Cairo Museum "the Boulak Museum", see the page "Boulak Museum".   Author's collection.

In the background on this photo is seen the British owned Standard Life Insurance Building on Midan (Square) Soliman Pasha in the European quarter of Cairo, where the apartment that the Crowleys rented to all appearances was located, and where the Cairo Working took place! Opposite this newly built building (the only remaining building from that time on the square today) was the Savoy Hotel, where the General Dickson, mentioned by Aleister Crowley, stayed in March and April 1904 E.V. together with his wife. For all this, read the extract from For the Thelemites, "Cairo Apartment"!  Author's collection.

Map showing the Cairo Museum at Kasr en-Nîl, together with Midan Soliman Pasha ('Souleimân Bâsha') with the Standard Life Insurance Building, c. 1906-7 E.V. - Author's collection

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: In the PDF files found on this website you will sometimes discover that there is an error in grammar when it comes to the word “not” – sometimes it appears in the wrong place. This happens to be a reminder that לא, lo, not, no, is the great challenge for man and therefore a subject of the greatest importance in Liber L vel Legis, as well as in For the Thelemites! (But see the two-page "Liber L – The Key" and "Liber 1170"; and the PDF file/ebook above!)

• 1900s photograph of a newly built Cairo Museum at Kasr en-Nil where Ouarda the Seer during the Cairo Working discovered the ’Stélé of Revealing’ in March 1904 E.V.   Author's collection.

Fascimile of the handwritten MS. of Liber L vel Legis, which was published in The Equinox of the Gods in 1936 E.V. - The MS. of Liber L vel Legis was the culmination of the Cairo Working, and "given from the mouth of Aiwass to the ear of The Beast on April 8, 9, & 10, 1904."   Author's collection.

Some books (first editions) from the Author's collection.   Perdurabo ST

The Word of the Law is θελημα – Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

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