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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Β
THE CRY OF THE HAWK
Hoor hath a secret fourfold name: it is Do What Thou Wilt.3
Four Words: Naught-One-Many-All.
Thou-Child!
Thy Name is holy.
Thy Kingdom is come.
Thy Will is done.
Here is the Bread.
Here is the Blood.
Bring us through Temptation!
Deliver us from Good and Evil!
That Mine as Thine be the Crown of the Kingdom,
even now.
ABRAHADABRA.
These ten words are four, the Name of the One.
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COMMENTARY (Β)
The "Hawk" referred to is Horus.
The chapter begins with a comment on Liber Legis III, 49.
Those four words, Do What Thou Wilt, are also
identified with the four possible modes of conceiving the
universe; Horus unites these.
Follows a version of the "Lord's Prayer", suitable
to Horus. Compare this with the version in Chapter 44.
There are ten sections in this prayer, and, as the prayer
is attributed to Horus, they are called four, as above
explained; but it is only the name of Horus which is
fourfold; He himself is One.
This may be compared with the Qabalistic doctrine
of the Ten Sephiroth as an expression of Tetragrammaton (1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 = 10).
It is now seen that this Hawk is not Solar, but
Mercurial; hence the words, the Cry of the Hawk, the
essential part of Mercury being his Voice; and the
number of the chapter, B, which is Beth the letter of
Mercury, the Magus of the Tarot, who has four
weapons, and it must be remembered that this card is
numbered 1, again connecting all these symbols with
the Phallus.
The essential weapon of Mercury is the Caduceus.
NOTE
(3) Fourteen letters. Quid Voles Illud Fac. Q.V.I.F. 196=142.
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Original text by Aleister Crowley
Commentary by Karl Germer
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