The Cry of the 25th Aethyr
The Cry of the 25th Aethyr, Which is Called VTI[1]
25. "The Path of Teth (Atu XI. The Fire-Kerub in the Initiation).
The Vision of the Fruit of the Great Work of the Beast -
666. The Lion."
Development of the symbolic Chemical Wedding; being the particular nature of Crowley’s Initiation.
There is nothing in the stone but the pale gold of the Rosy Cross.
Now there comes an Angel with bright wings, that is the Angel of the 25th Aire. And all the aire is a dark olive about him, like an alexandrite[2] stone. [In the attribution of Gemini, we find the dual theme between the lower and higher ego.] He bears a pitcher[3] or amphora.[4] [719 is the resurrection theme of the Stele of Revealing (718) with the colel added. The Amphora holds the water of life.] And now there comes another Angel upon a white horse,[5] and yet again another Angel upon a black bull.[6] And now there comes a lion[7] and swallows the two latter angels up. The first angel goes to the lion and closes his mouth.[8] And behind them are arrayed a great company of Angels with silver spears, like a forest. And the Angel says: Blow, all ye trumpets, for I will loose my hands from the mouth of the lion, and his roaring shall enkindle the worlds.[9]
That the “silver spears” are “like a forest” we find a symbolts, clarified here to be symbols of Nuit and highly reminiscent of VII:7.36—
The forest of the spears of the Most High is called Night, and Hades,and the Day of Wrath; but I am His captain, and I bear His cup.