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Upper cover and title page of For the Thelemites, 2017 E.V.

• ‘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.”

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

• The hieroglyph showing the Hawk: Falcon, ideogram in the name of Horus or Hoor, transliterated fully as ḥrw, commonly ḥr – thus, also found as 'Hor'; 'Har'; and 'Heru'.

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.

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• 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 (‘The Book of the Dead’), 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.

“But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen.” (Liber L vel Legis, III, 40.) For this, see Perdurabo ST's commentary on Liber L vel Legis: LIBER MCLXX; ON LIBER L – A Commentary on Liber L vel Legis by Perdurabo ST. (Published on this website, see: “Liber 1170”)

• Georges (Émile) (Jules) Daressy (1864-1938). Georges Daressy was the ‘French assistant curator’ at the Cairo Museum, mentioned by Aleister Crowley, who made the translations of the hieroglyphic text on ‘Stele 666’ that Crowley commisioned at the museum in March 1904 E.V.. The Author has found proof of that he made these translations, since the documents are in his handwriting! However, the Author has also found indications strongly suggesting that the Cairo Museum's Director Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), initiated the translation! But read the extract “Boulak Museum” from For the Thelemites!  Author's collection.

• Gaston (Camille) (Charles) Maspero (1846-1916), the Director of the Cairo Museum in 1904 E.V.. Research by the Author strongly suggests that he initiated the translation of the hieroglyphic text on ‘Stele 666’, which was commisioned by Aleister Crowley in March 1904 E.V. after the stele had been discovered by his wife Rose, during a visit to the museum, translations, which, as Crowley writes, were the work of the museum's ‘French assistant curator’. Research by the Author has proved that the documents containing these translations are written by Georges Daressy (1864-1938), the French assistant curator at the Cairo Museum at that time! But read the extract “Boulak Museum” from For the Thelemites! Author's Collection.

• 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 Ra-Hor-akhet – the ‘Ra-Hoor-Khut’ of Liber L vel Legis. From the ‘Stélé of Revealing’ – ‘Stele 666’ of Ankhefenkhons i, (now called ‘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! It is especially for Thelemites extremely important news that the name of the ‘Hawk-headed mystical Lord’ on the ‘Stélé of Revealing’ is ‘Ra-Hoor-Khut’ – the one found in the initial line of Liber L vel Legis’s Third Chapter, and not ‘Ra-Hoor-Khuit’, who took his Seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods in March 1904 E.V.! The right translation of the name was given in the translations that Aleister Crowley commisioned at the museum, however, he lost these high-class translations a few years after the Cairo Working [J. F. C. Fuller stole them, together with the original ‘title page’ to Liber L vel Legis], and before he could study them in details, and all later translations of the Stele incorrectly gave the wrong translation of the God-name, apparently owing to an ‘inherited tradition’ among Egyptologists! For that the God on the stele is ‘Ra-Hor-akhet’ (‘Ra-Hoor-Khut’), and not Ra-Hor-akhty (‘Ra-Hoor-Khuit’), see the extract from For the Thelemites “Ankh-af-na-khonsu”, together with “Liber 1170”; LIBER MCLXX; ON LIBER L – A Commentary on Liber L vel Legis by Perdurabo ST, a book also found on this website! For an explanation of why Aleister Crowley called the Cairo Museum “the Boulak Museum”, see the extract from For the Thelemites, “Boulak Museum”.  Author's collection.

• In the background on this photo from c. mid-1903 is seen the British owned Standard Life Insurance Building on Midan [i.e., 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.

• Section from a French map of Cairo from c. 1905-6 E.V., shoving the Cairo Museum (“Musée égyptien”) at Kasr en-Nil, and a part of the European quarter, with the Standard Life Insurance Building, opposite the “Savoy Hotel”, on “Mîdan Souleimân Bâsha”.  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 for Gods, 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”; together with 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.

• The obverse of the funeral stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu i (died c. 700-675 BCE in the late twenty-fifth Dynasty). The stele was in March 1904 E.V., exhibited in the new Cairo Museum's upper floor, in ‘Room F’, where it was discovered by Ouarda – Rose Edith Crowley (1874-1932) – on the day when she and Aleister Crowley visited the museum in order to “apply test 4”, and find out who this “Horus” was, who had taken his seat at the Equinox of the Gods! As the translations of the hieroglyphic text on the stele, commisioned by Aleister Crowley at the museum – the ‘Darressy/Maspero Translations’ – also revealed, so is the name of the Hawk-headed Lord Enthroned “Ra-Hoor-Khut” (i.e., ‘Ra-Hor-akhet’, Ra-Horus-of-the-Horizon), and not “Ra-Hoor-Khuit” (i.e., ‘Ra-Hor-akhty’, Ra-Horus-of-the-Two-Horizons)! Later Egyptologists have in their mentioning of the stele erroneously called him ‘Rā-Horakhty’, or similar, which equals the form “Ra-Hoor-Khuit” used in Liber L vel Legis! The new Cairo Museum, which was called ‘the Boulak Museum’ by Frater Perdurabo, was at that time often just mentioned as ‘the Boulak Museum’, since it contained the later! The ‘Stele 666’, officially, now called Cairo A 9422, was later moved to its ‘modern’ location in the upper floor's “Room 22”. The stele is in Liber L vel Legis spoken of as “the stélé of revealing” (Third Chapter, Verse 10). Today the stele has been removed to the new ‘The Grand Egyptian Museum’ in Giza, where its ‘atomic parts’ currently are on display – the museum was officially inaugurated on November 1, 2025 E.V.. (For the discovery of the stele together with its history, see the above “Book Preview” of For the Thelemites; and the extract “Ankh-af-na-khonsu”! For that the Hawk-headed Lord on the stele is ‘Ra-Hoor-Khut’, and not ‘Ra-Hoor-Khuit’, see “Liber 1170”, LIBER MCLXX; ON LIBER L – A Commentary on Liber L vel Legis by Perdurabo ST, a book also found on this website! – For why Aleister Crowley mentioned the museum as ‘the Boulak Museum’, see the extract from For the Thelemites, “Boulak Museum”!)

• Fascimile of the holograph 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 important books (first editions) from the Author's collection.  Perdurabo ST

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