I made inquiries about the stele and had the inscriptions translated into French by the assistant curator at Boulak. Her instructions were that Crowley should enter the room "exactly at noon on April 8, 9 & 10, and write down what I had heard, rising exactly at one o'clock. A month earlier Rose Crowley, Ouarda the Seer, had told her husband "they are waiting for you" and later directed his attention to Stélé 666 in Cairo's Boulak museum. On April 8 1904, the voice of the Goddess Nuith spoke through the intermediary of the intelligence known as Aiwass, to deliver the first chapter of The Holiest Book of Thelema, The Book of the Law, Liber AL vel Legis. It is rounded at the top and measures 51.5 by 31 centimeters. It is wooden, covered with stucco and painted on both sides. It is a funerary tablet created to commemorate his death. He Lives in Khonsu), who lived in Thebes in the 26th dynasty (apx. The Stele of Revealing was created by an actual Egyptian priest of the god Mentu, Ankh-af-na-khonsu (lit. The discovery of the Stele of Revealing was an important step in the events leading to the writing of The Book of the Law. What struck Crowley was that it did indeed show Horus, and attached to the top was the exhibit number: 666, the number that he strongly identified himself with. When Aleister took her to the museum to point out the speaker to him, she finally settled on this small, unassuming funerary stele. For the previous two days, she had been receiving the message, “They are waiting for you” and claimed that it was from Horus. The Stèle of Revealing (also called Stèle 666) was discovered by Aleister Crowley and his wife Rose in the Boulaq Museum in Cairo, Egypt on March 18, 1904. (It has a typo in hieroglyphs.) The original stele can be seen below. The image of The Stele of Revealing above is taken from the first edition of the Equinox of the Gods and is not a photo of the original stele. When I flourished, o earth, on thy breast! Stand not thou up against me as a witness!īefore the Great God, the dread Lord of the West!
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