The Cry of the 26th Aethyr, Which is Called DES[1]
26. "The Slave-Gods superseded (The Vision of Atu XX, the Stele)
The Vision of the Stele of Revealing, abolishing the
Aeon of the Slave-Gods."
Crowley meets his Augoeides
There is a very bright pentagram: and now the stone is gone, and the
whole heaven is black, and the blackness is the blackness of a mighty
angel.[2] And though he is black (his face and his wings and his robe
and his armour are all black), yet is he so bright that I cannot look upon
him. And he cries: O ye spears and vials of poison and sharp swords and
whirling thunderbolts that are about the corners of the earth,[3]
girded with wrath and justice, know ye that His name is Righteousness in
Beauty?[4] Burnt out are your eyes, for that ye have seen me in my
majesty. And broken are the drum-heads of your ears,[5] because my name is as two mountains of fornication, the breasts of a strange woman;[6] and my Father is not in them.
The theme of duality is reiterated here and in conjunction with “Beauty” —Tiphareth and the H.G.A. or Augoeides. The duality is connoted of course, but in the text, it is also reminiscent of the twin-peaked mountain of the Rosicrucians. (cf. The Alchemical Half of the Jews & the Rose Cross of Thelema)[7]