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ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Ζ
THE DINOSAURS
None are They whose number is Six:5 else were they
six indeed.
Seven6 are these Six that live not in the City of the
Pyramids, under the Night of Pan.
There was Lao-tzu.
There was Siddartha.
There was Krishna.
There was Tahuti.
There was Mosheh.
There was Dionysus.7
There was Mahmud.
But the Seventh men called PERDURABO; for
enduring unto The End, at The End was Naught
to endure. 8
Amen.
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COMMENTARY (Ζ)
This chapter gives a list of those special messengers
of the Infinite who initiate periods. They are called
Dinosaurs because of their seeming to be terrible
devouring creatures. They are Masters of the Temple,
for their number is 6 (1 plus 2 plus 3), the mystic
number of Binah; but they are called "None", because
they have attained. If it were not so, they would be
called "six" in its bad sense of mere intellect.
They are called Seven, although they are Eight,
because Lao-tzu counts as nought, owing to the nature
of his doctrine. The reference to their "living not" is
to be found in Liber 418.
The word "Perdurabo" means "I will endure unto
the end". The allusion is explained in the note.
Siddartha, or Gotama, was the name of the last
Budda.
Krishna was the principal incarnation of the Indian
Vishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder of
Vedantism.
Tahuti, or Thoth, the Egyptian God of Wisdom.
Mosheh, Moses, the founder of the Hebrew system.
Dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the East.
Mahmud, Mohammed.
All these were men; their Godhead is the result of
mythopoeia.
NOTES
(5) Masters of the Temple, whose grade has the
mystic number 6 (= 1 + 2 + 3).
(6) These are not eight, as apparent; for Lao-tzu
counts as 0.
(7) The legend of "Christ" is only a corruption and
perversion of other legends. Especially of Dionysus:
compare the account of Christ before Herod/Pilate in
the gospels, and of Dionysus before Pentheus in
"The Baccae".
(8) O, the last letter of Perdurabo, is Naught.
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Original text by Aleister Crowley
Commentary by Karl Germer
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