1. The
Formulae of the Universe
IAO (iota,
alpha, omega) was the Greek form of the Tetragrammaton,
IHVH (Yod-He-Vau-He,
or Jehova, the “Bringer of Light”),
the Hebrew divine name for God. Although a reference
to Jahova (or Yahweh), IAO
was also widely associated with both Hermes and
Bacchus (Iacchus), especially in ancient magical
texts and amulets.
As a Gnostic god form, IAO
is both a sun-god and mystery-god.
- Free Encyclopedia
of Thelema
The Supernal Triad
- It should be noted that the
primordial Trinity of Father-Mother-Son
is in fact a gloss of a deeper formula, which
is Father –
Mother – Son –Daughter.
This is expressed clearly in the related forms
of IAO and
YHVH. The
relationship between them may be written as IAO
== YHVH, with
IAO (81) and
YHVH (26),
the sum of which, 107 = 1+0+7=8. IAO
is 8+1=9 and Y (or I ) HVH is 2+6=8 and the form
holds as 9+8=17 and 1+7=8. The IAO
formula is more perfect theosophically as it expresses
the form in fewer terms but the formula of YHVH
expresses a deeper mystery in that the second
letter, Heh, represents the Mother, the Unborn
or Thought of the Bythos, Depth or Father and
the fourth letter, Heh again, represents the Daughter
but with the same letter as the Mother. Now the
meaning of this should be clear; the Son is a
Hypostasis of the Father, but has come into being
via the Mother or the First, whereas the Daughter
being an extension of the Mother has no intermediate
form, that is, She (Babalon-Hekate) IS THE MOTHER
projected into the Universe, whereas the Son is
the SUBSTANCE of the Father MANIFESTED (the Father
or Bythos is Himself the Uncreate or Eternal Unmanifested
Potential) and thus reveals the perfectly the
Alchemical formula of the Universe.
It hardly needs to be mentioned that the misunderstanding
of this relationship has caused much error due
to the attempt by various schools of philosophy
to force one or the other of the formulae to be
the foundation of a theological structure, which
of course can never achieve stability if it takes
into account only one half of the formula.
Now the form balances as YHVH = IAO which is
[81 =26] or [(81-26) == (26-26)
which gives [55 , (5+5) = 10] == 0
{1+0=} +-1 == 0.
2. The Hermetic
Axiom in the New AEON
Every number is infinite;
there is no difference.
-Liber Al vel Legis I 1:4
For that which is above
is that which is below and that which is below
is thus that which is above, one substance, one
being in the divisions of time and space.
- The Book of Transmutations
…representing
the formula of cyclic return by the equation 0-2;
that is, 0= (+ 1)+ (-1). This formula is represented
biologically by the congress of the sexes. The
positive element of the equation is Will (Thelema),
dynamic, masculine; the negative element is Love
(Agape), passive, feminine. Their union is the
basis of the magical ecstasy that polarizes the
active and passive components of existence, reducing
them to Zero. From that Void (Naught or Nuit)
a new creation emerges, ready to begin the process
again.
- Grant, Kenneth The Magical
Revival
In Crowley’s Cult
she is Nuit, of whom 0=2 is the mystical formula
- Grant, Kenneth The Magical
Revival
One meaning of the 0=2
formula is that everything is made of Nothing
or manifests spontaneously from Nuit. In a vacuum,
pairs of particles, matter and anti-matter, are
continuously being created out of nothing only
to come together again in annihilation. As Aleister
Crowley elaborated on the 0=2 formula, 0=(+1)
+ (-1).
- Free Encyclopedia of
Thelema
Thus the
formula, 0==+-1 is equivalent to 0==2 ( or abstractly,
0==(+-x) since any number produces the same result.
) which signifies the identity of the (totality
of the) Universe with the infinite.
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