Aleister Crowley, CERN & The Solar Eclipse - What Could Go Wrong?

There’s a lot of High Strangeness surrounding the date of April 8, 2024. The much ballyhooed Solar Eclipse. The path of that eclipse slices through Mexico, US, Canada and beyond. When superimposed over the path of the 2017 eclipse, we have a nicely formed X symbol right over the USA. There is some meaning there ripe for interpretation, I’m sure.

Also on December 8, NASA plans to shoot three rockets into the moon’s shadow to study the ionosphere. The curious thing about this is the name of the mission, whose acronym is APEP (Atmospheric Perturbations Eclipse Path).

Apep happens to be the name of an ancient Egyptian deity who is the embodiment of chaos and disorder. It was seen as a giant serpent or dragon, who was the arch rival of the Sun God Ra.

All this Egyptian symbolism seems appropriate enough for our discussion, as it relates to Aleister Crowley and the writing of his Magnum Opus, The Book of the Law.

Crowley wrote the book in 1904 over the course of three days - April 8, 9 and 10. More specifically, the book was dictated to Crowley by an ultra-terrestrial calling himself Aiwass. The book portends the arrival of the Aeon of Horus.

Which leads us to another significant event taking place on April 8, 2024 - the restart of the Large Hadron Collider. There are those who believe CERN’s particle accelerator is a portal to another dimension. And like Ritual Magic, it acts as a gateway for ultra-terrestrials to gain entrance into our world.

With this in mind, let’s take a closer look at the curious circumstances surrounding the writing of The Book of the Law.

The year was 1904. Aleister Crowley and his wife Rose Edith Kelly were visiting Cairo. While the two conducted ceremonial Sex Magick, Crowley was “brought to the brink of the only event of my life which has made it worth living.”

The event, in short, was contact with a preternatural being who dictated to Crowley, The Book of the Law, thus ushering in nothing less than the New Aeon, who Crowley was its singular Prophet.

It all began after Crowley and his wife Rose checked into a hotel in Cairo on March 14, 1904, near the Bulaq Museum. Crowley began a series of magical workings for the purpose of invoking ancient Egyptian deities the likes of Osiris, Thoth and Isis.

Certainly, the two newly weds were imbibing psychoactive drugs, most probably hashish, abundantly available in the region.

Two days later, while in the midst of a sex magic ritual, Rose, according to Crowley, “Was in a dazed state, stupid, possibly drunk; possibly hysterical from pregnancy. She could see nothing but could hear.”

The only words she spoke during this session were, “ They are waiting for you.”

During subsequent sessions in the days that followed, Rose would channel further messages from the Other Side, announcing the presence of Horus, and saying, “The Equinox of the Gods had come,” which Crowley interpreted to mean, “a new epoch had begun. I was to formulate a link between the solar-spiritual force and mankind.”

On March 21, Rose took Crowley to the Bulaq Museum and walked directly up to a display case containing a 26th Dynasty wooden funerary stele painted with hieroglyphs dedicated to the Egyptian god Horus, in his form as Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Though Rose knew little regarding the subject of Egyptian esoterica, she proclaimed this was the one who was waiting for Crowley.

Crowley noted the exhibit listed as number 666 in the museum catalogue, further proof, for him, of the significance of Rose’s psychic abilities.

Her psychic prowess made Rose more than a wife to Crowley. She in fact became his first Scarlet Woman. This meant that, while in her mediumistic state, she was the embodiment of Lady Babylon, spiritual consort of the Beast 666. In the higher spheres, she was Shakti, locked in eternal sensual embrace with her husband, the Hindu god Shiva.

She informed Crowley that the being that communicated through her was neither Ra-Hoor-Khuit nor Horus but rather, his messenger, a Secret Chief of a high order named Aiwass. She told Crowley that he must go to his temple from noon until 1 o’clock on April 8, 9 and 10, and write down everything he hears.

At the appointed hour on the first day, Crowley, sitting at his desk with a Swan fountain pen and notepad, heard a voice speak from over his left shoulder. Crowley noted: “The voice was of deep timbre, musical and expressive, its tones solemn, voluptuous, tender, fierce or aught else suited the message. Not bass - perhaps a rich tenor or baritone.”

Crowley scribbled away as fast as he could for exactly one hour then the voice went silent. This procedure was repeated for the next couple of days until Crowley had all three chapters of The Book of the Law in hand.

The Book of the Law proclaimed the arrival of the Aeon of Horus, a new age commencing in the year 1904, based upon the precept of “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

This new religion would overthrow the existing religions established during the previous Aeon of Osiris, based upon the symbol of the dying god ie. Jesus Christ. Horus was a symbol of the eternal man, or the Sun King. Crowley would be its titular prophet. But who, or what, was Aiwass?

Crowley was instructed not to look at this being as it dictated to him but, nonetheless, Crowley caught a glimpse of him over his shoulder. Hovering above, he “seemed to be a tall, dark man in his thirties, well knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest they destroy what they saw.”

Commentators have made out similarities between Crowley’s description of Aiwass with more modern sightings of the mysterious ‘Men in Black,’ often associated with UFO encounters and other incidents of a paranormal nature.

Crowley biographer Martin Booth, points out that Aiwass was a messenger of Honor-Paar-Kraat, otherwise known as Set, a god of destruction and murderer of his brother Osiris, likened to the Devil himself.

Indeed, Crowley himself has written, in a letter in 1920, “And Her Concoction shall be sweet in our mixed mouths., the Sacrament that giveth thanks to Aiwass, our Lord God the Devil.”

Undoubtedly, The Book of the Law is surrounded by controversy. Was it a conscious literary invention by Crowley? Critics cite stylistic and thematic consistencies with his other works and teachings, as well as thoughts and ideas derived from sources influencing Crowley.

Others claim that the work, and the being which dictated it, was a projection of Crowley’s subconscious, fueled by drugs, meditation and an intense imagination.

Still others believe Crowley’s claim, that the work was given to him by an extraterrestrial intelligence, a being residing in another dimension. Certainly, no one can argue that the changes forthcoming to society and the planet itself have been unprecedented, worthy of the designation as a dawning of a New Aeon.

Which brings us back to CERN. In two days, on April 8, during the solar eclipse, CERN will fire up literally, the world’s biggest machine and shoot particles at each other damn close to the speed of light.

This will create massive gravitational pull and generate extreme temperatures. How hot? More than 100,000-times the temperature at the center of the Sun. Back in 2012, CERN discovered the ‘God Particle,’ or Higgs Boson. But what are they up to now?

It’s curious to note that Sergio Bertolucci, former Director for Research and Scientific Computing of the facility, said in an interview that the collider could open a door unto other dimensions for "a very tiny lapse of time.” Just enough time to get a look around it seems.

"Of course," added Bertolucci, "after this tiny moment the door would again shut; bringing us back to our 'normal' four-dimensional world ... It would be a major leap in our vision of nature… And of course [there would be] no risk to the stability of our world."

One more thing of note: CERN's logo is made up of three swirling sixes. Crowley's monicker was of course The Beast 666.

Welcome to a brave new world. Or is that a brave New Aeon?

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Accelerator Report: Beams are circulating in the LHC

The LHC fixed display, just after both beams entered into circulation. The blue and red lines represent the number of protons in beams 1 and 2, respectively. The black line represents the energy of the beams. It is flat because the beams had not yet been accelerated at this point. (Image: CERN) On 8 March, three days ahead of schedule, the first proton beam was injected into the LHC; 20 minutes later, the second beam was injected, circulating in the opposite direction. Since the last Accelerator Report, the hardware tests and subsequent cold check-out were successfully completed, both ahead of schedule. Once the usual remaining wrinkles were ironed out, everything was ready to start the 2024 LHC beam commissioning. The single bunch low intensity probe beam, meticulously prepared in the injector chain in the past weeks, came knocking at the LHC’s door. Many of the LHC engineers in charge and system experts gathered in the CERN Control Centre (CCC) on 8 March, alongside members of the Management, to witness the process, eagerly waiting for the first beams to circulate again in the LHC. The LHC Operations team started the injection and threading process for beam 2 (circulating counter clockwise): they injected the beam at LHC Point 8, just in front of the LHCb experiment, and let it circulate up to Point 7, where a set of collimators was fully closed to intercept it. The measurements performed by the beam position monitors indicated that the beam trajectory could be improved. This was quickly done using an automated beam steering tool that powers corrector magnets to smoothen the trajectories of the particles. Confident in this correction, the Operations team opened up the collimators at Point 7 and closed the ones further along the ring at Point 6, before injecting the beam again. This process was repeated until the last collimators, at Point 1 (ATLAS experiment), were opened, leaving the way clear for the beam to make a second, third, fourth… and millionth turn. Another small correction to adjust the orbit of the circulating particles was made before attention switched to beam 1, which ended up circulating in the machine less than 20 minutes after beam 2 and was welcomed by many happy faces in the CCC. The next step – accelerating both beams up to 6.8 TeV – was also accomplished during the weekend. Witnessing both beams in circulation is something of a relief for everyone involved, although the real beam commissioning work starts at that point. For the 2024 run, it was decided to modify the optics of the accelerator and to replace them by reverse polarity optics (RP-optics). The objective is to mitigate the radiation suffered by some of the magnets of the inner triplet region on both sides of the ATLAS experiment. The inner triplet is a set of quadrupole magnets that focus the beam to very small dimensions at the centre of the experiments. Some of the collision debris – particles produced by the collisions and travelling parallel to the beams, outside the experiment – is intercepted by the magnets in the inner triplet regions, inducing radiation damage to their insulation. With different optics, the debris is deposited in other places in these magnets, so that the burden of the radiation damage is distributed more widely. This helps to extend the magnets’ lifetimes, even with an increased number of collisions. The commissioning and validation of the RP-optics are among the many beam commissioning steps that have to be taken in the coming weeks before beams enter into collision at 6.8 TeV, hopefully on 8 April. Depending on how work progresses, this milestone may shift forwards or backwards by a few days.

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Andrew K. Arnett is a writer and producer. He has been published in Paranoia Magazine, New Dawn, Nexus, Konbini and Alien Buddha Press. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and hunts ghosts with the Brooklyn Paranormal Society. Find him on Twitter: @AndrewArnett

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