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Mohammed *One of the listed in Liber XV, * Muhammad (also spelled “Mohammad”, “Mohammed”; and formerly *Mahomet* in imitation of the Latin spelling; محمد in Arabic) is revered by Muslims as the prophet of Islam. According to his traditional Muslim biographies (called sirah in Arabic), he was born circa 570 in Mecca (or “Makkah”) and…

Path of Gimel In the , the (named after the letters of the Hebrew alphabet) connect the ten on the “.” The third is the Path of Gimel, which connects with . The 22 paths are: , , 13 Gimel, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,…

Udjat The Eye of Horus from Tutankhamen’s Tomb, 18th DynastyThe udjat is a famous Ancient Egyptian symbol of a human eye and eyebrow, with extra markings to make it resemble a falcon’s eye. It is also known as the Eye of (Horus), wadjet, utchat, or sometimes the . According to Egyptian mythology, during the contendings…

Path of Gimel In the , the (named after the letters of the Hebrew alphabet) connect the ten on the “.” The third is the Path of Gimel, which connects with . The 22 paths are: , , 13 Gimel, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,…

Lon Milo DuQuette Lon Milo DuQuette, IX° is one of a handful of individuals initiated (1975 ) by 777 (Grady L. McMurtry) after the death of and prior to McMurtry’s formal reorganization of the OTO. In 2004 EV, upon the death of his former teacher, , DuQuette inherited the distinction of being in the OTO…

Nag Hammadi Library The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of sacred texts that were discovered by Mohammed Ali Samman in 1945 in the small village of Nag Hammâdi (*Chenoboskion* in classical antiquity) in central Egypt. The thirteen codices, with fifty-two texts, were found buried in a sealed jar. The writings in these codices are…

Aristotle Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. Along with , he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosophers in Western thought. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, government, and biology. Table of Contents Introduction The three greatest ancient…

Enoch In the Book of Genesis, Enoch or Hanoch (חֲנוֹךְ “Initiated; dedicated; disciplined”, Standard Hebrew Ḥanoḫ, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥănôḵ) is a name shared by two individuals named in the Genealogies of Genesis and subsequent , , and writers. The first was the son of Cain and father of Irad. Cain later founded a city which…

True Will — | | | | — True Will Table of Contents Intro The phrase “True Will” is often used to indicate the specific and essential meaning of the concept of Will in Thelema, especially as in the – “Do what though wilt, shall be the whole of the Law” (AL I:40) as opposed…

Apis In Egyptian mythology, Apis (or Hapi-ankh) The “living deceased one” or Osiris incarnate in the sacred white Bull. He was the bull god of Memphis, Egypt. The symbol, (a black bull with a white triangle on its forehead), rather than Apis, was personified on Earth. Apis was the bull-god that, on reaching the age…