Nevertheless magick and paganism did continue, and as science became ever more dominant, Aleister Crowley emerged as a figurehead of occultism. By this time practically anyone who dabbled in magick was branded 'black' or evil, so rather than try to deny this Crowley exploited a sinister image as 'the wickedest man in the world', playing the adversary and attracting many who were frustrated with the mediocrity of the Church and State.
Crowley's practises actually introduced an element of 'science' to magick like never before, introducing more precise methodologies while still revelling in the pure poetry of ceremony and ritual.
In 1904 Crowley inaugurated the 'Aeon of Horus', the Crowned and Conquering Child with his receipt of the Book of the Law, 'Liber AL vel Legis' The aeon of the Son or Child was born with the purging of the first World War, which Crowley saw as the cleansing of the rubble of the Old Aeon. Horus is the hawk-headed warrior lord, son of Isis the mother and Osiris the father, whose throne he inherits in the ancient formula of Tetragrammaton.

The influence of Crowley and his work on the occult world is huge, stretching to many dimly-lit corners of various secret sects and orders. The independent receipt of similar information, also with hawk imagery, by others such as psychic Uri Geller, psychologist and psychedelic revolutionary Timothy Leary and quantum philospher/author Robert Anton Wilson, fuels Crowley’s claims of transmissions from extraterrestrial sources, apparently through Sirius star; or at the least confirms the seeds in our collective consciousness planted by the ancient Egyptians (a culture very similar in architecture and astronomical interests to the Mayans) who worshipped Sirius.
On the outer, the aeon of the Child also indeed seems to be manifesting. Since the fifties a new spirit of youthful rebellion has emerged from the conservative values of the patriarchy, from the advent of rock music to the hippy flower power movement to the reactionism of punk to the current synthesis of all of these subcultures (and more) into a new breed which often embraces both modern technology and old world spirituality. Pagan, pantheistic and even animistic attitudes re-emerge and the christian church begins its decline into stagnation.

When I first read that Horus had a twin, Maat, and that Crowley felt her age was coming next, in another 2000 years or so, I was confused. If they were twins, surely their aeons would be concurrent? And this seems to be what is happening in modern society. While the patriarchy still has some dwindling hold on things, we are emerging into an age of sexual equality. The reactionary extremism of the Feminist movement has allowed the return of the feminine as a powerful political and spiritual force. This is linked with the growing ecological movement, with a long-due return to veneration of the Earth as a living entity, Gaia. It is the Age of the Child indeed, but that of the Son and the Daughter -Horus and Maat. It was a relief and confirmation to discover that there is actually a growing magickal current along these lines -the Magick of Maat, Goddess of Truth and Justice. This Egyptian deity, who traditionally weighs one's heart against a feather at death, represents truth and balance, and this is indeed her role in the modern world.
Crowley's Magickal Child, Frater Achad (‘Unity’-numbering 13 in Qabbala!) or Charles Stanfield Jones, inaugurated the 'Aeon of Maat' in 1948 but was largely ignored and rebuked by Crowley for this action. In 1974 Priestess Nema recieved a transmission from Maat, 'Liber Pennae Praenumbra', during a timetravel working. Working within the Thelemic tradition established by Crowley, her angle on the 'double current' of Horus and Maat is that the Maat current is coming backwards from a future aeon (thus the Maat current reflects the atavistic resurgence of Spare’s Zos Kia Kultus) when time is perceived differently, manifesting now through those open enough to receive the information, the 'mutants' who are the avatars of the coming race of 'homo veritas'. The aim of Maat Magick now is primarily to awaken the collective consciousness of humanity, linking us all in universal empathy. It is hoped that this can be achieved in time to save our planet.
Magickal historian and aeonic scholar Kenneth Grant elucidates on the nature of this backwards-flowing current in his book, 'Outside the Circles of Time' (Frederick Muller Limited, 1980). He draws threads between Maat and the Arachnean (Arachne is the 13th sign of the ancient matriarchal lunar zodiac) re-turn of lunar worship (Wicca and the neo-pagan movement), while also establishing the relationship between Maat and Horus. Achad called the aeon of Maat the 'Ma-nifestat-Ion'. Our increasingly materialistic paradigm seems to be creating exactly this.

In this current age Quantum Physics and Chaos Theory embrace and unify both science and magick. Peter Carrol's 'Liber Null and Psychonaut' (Samuel Weiser) established the idea of 'Chaos Magick', a new outlook on spirituality embracing multi-culturalism and mult-belief-systems, more scientific in approach even than Crowley's. The term he derived from both the topical 'chaos theory' emerging in science and mathematics, and the work of artist and sorceror Austin Osman Spare (1888-1956), who introduced the ideas forwarded by Carrol of personalized magickal symbology based more on innovation than tradition. A contemporary of Crowley, this attitude of Spare's was an extension of Crowley's own experimentation. While much more of a traditionalist than Spare, Crowley did adapt the traditional magickal systems and symbols he used to his own ends. A part of this was his minor mutation of the Qabbala. As eloquently put forth by Frater -0+ in his essay on Quantum Qabbala, we must in this age continue to update such ancient models and formulae to avoid becoming stuck in the rut of the patriarchal tradition which has employed them for so long.

As a part of this process, and as supreme Magus/Fool 2’3’of The Order of ChAos, direct descendants/ascendants of Spare's Zos Kia Kultus, I now re-present the revised formula of PENTAGRAMMATON: The fourfold formula of Tetragrammaton is being replaced by the fivefold formula of Pentagrammaton. In the tetragrammaton the letters of the father, mother, son and daughter also each represent one of the classic elements -Fire, Water, Air and Earth respectively. As usual, the etheric fifth element of spirit, the quintessence which underlies and imbibes the other four, has been largely ignored. After the initial inspiration of the concept of Pentagrammaton, I discovered that there is actually an ancient esoteric doctrine reflecting it -the formula YHShVH. This is a name of Jesus the Redeemer, Yeheshua, just as the YHVH is the name of his dad Yehovah. As I had surmised, the fifth letter is Shin, the triple firetongue which represents both spirit and fire. Interestingly, this letter is placed in the middle, just as spirit resides in the middle of the traditional elemental medicine wheels of most pagan and tribal cultures, as well as modern witchcraft and ceremonial magick. Again, this is the sushumna or axis of the aeonic caduceus/lemniscate. It has all-ways been there, and to it we shall re-turn. Just as the pentagram is as valid an elemental model as the medicine wheel, the letter Shin can alternatively placed at the beginning or end of the formula: YHVHS with its plural form suggests there is 'more than one God' ie the pagan animistic pantheon is implied, or the S suggests the feminine, ie. God/dess. ShYHVH spells Shiva, uniting the western and eastern traditions with YHVHS as the creator and ShYHVH as the destroyer (re-turning to). Shiva is basically the Horned One of the eastern traditions.
My transmission Liber Pentagrammaton reveals the new angles on the formula. It was released with a two-part transglobal Pentagrammaton Ritual in October 98.

My conception of the archetype for this extra letter applied to the aeonic formula is in contrast (yet ultimately complementary) with that of Jesus -it is Baphomet, the Hermaphroditic Horned God/dess. Both Creator and Destroyer, s/he is Kali Panphage Pangenitor. The image of this primal being has returned to us in modern magick through the Knights Templar and Eliphas Levi. Crowley, and Peter Carrol's Illuminati of Thanateros have also used this entity as a figurehead. (It has unfortunately also fallen into the hands of silly 'satanic' cults who can't seem to seperate the ancient Horned God from the 'Devil' created in his image by the Christian Church they purport to despise.)
Baphomet basically represents the primal instinctual nature of humanity -as such it seems natural for it to be either male or female or both, and thus most accurately represented (being a sexual entity) as hermaphroditic. While there is no historical evidence of the use of the name before the Knights Templar, Qabbalistic gematria suggests 'Baphomet' (=131=Pan) is actually an ancient formula. Could this hermaphroditic form of the Horned One been the original vision, and the masculization of Pan/Cernunnos a part of patriarchal his-story? There are ancient hindu and vedic texts describing Shiva as also being hermaphroditic, as was the original creator Atum in the earliest versions of Egyptian mythology.

In Iberian Craft, the magickal tradition of the region where the Knights Templar formed, the goat's-head super-imposed over the pentagram, with horns, ears and goatee forming the points, is a major symbolic key of initiation. Leonardo da Vinci overlayed the human figure over the pentagram/pentacle, and this has become a symbol of man aspiring to the heavens, the goatshead of the inverse pentagram thus becoming a symbol of man bound to carnality. This is a dualistic Christian perspective however. Baphomet is God/dess and Demon/ness, ultimately beyond these moral distinctions created by 'civilization'.
Baphomet is perfectly represented by the letter Shin. Hirs is the sexual passion and animal instinct of fire, but also the pure spirit of the Hermaphrodite, a traditional symbol of the alchemical marriage. The solar (masculine) and lunar (feminine) currents are united within the self to produce a balanced soul -not so different from Yeheshua, (whose 'second coming' is sometimes related to the return of Quetzalcoatl) after all!
Thus, the hermaphrodite is a symbol of the central dreaming axis throughwhich the male (Osiris/Horus) and female (Isis/Maat) serpent currents of the aeonic lemniscate (infinity symbol/ figure 8) caduceus cross:
Aion calls this axis the Nameless Aeon -as a primal essence it is ultimately beyond titles and symbols. Peter Carrol, in his chapter on 'Aeonics' in 'Liber Kaos' (Samuel Weiser) calls it 'The Shamanic Aeon' in the beginning, and projects at the end of his study of the ages that we are now going into the 'Pandemonaeon'. I prefer taking this name to its Greek roots and spell-ing it ‘Pandaemonaeon’ -suggesting both our current age of ChAos (undoubtedly as we fragment into a trillion different quantum perspective-realities) and also translating into 'All(Pan)-Spirit(daemon)-Aeon', suggesting a re-turn to the central dreaming axis. So perhaps the Nameless Aeon has All-ways had a name?

The pentagram or five-pointed star is a symbol of the earth in neo-paganism, but is also the symbol of Nuit, the Egyptian Universe Goddess who represents the unmanifest. Thus it is the most common symbol of magick, the means by which we can bring our hopes and dreams to earth, into manifestation. It is a star, and it is the human figure.
Crowley emphasised this fact: 'Every man and woman is a star'. The work of the A.^.A.^. , the Astrum Argenteum or Silver Star, continues to guide the 'spiritual evolution of humankind' from (and to?) the stars via the astral plane.
There is a large element of 'star magic' within the Maatian Current also, including feathered masks which I relate as much to the 'return of the Bird Tribes' prophesied by American Indians and embraced by 'New Age' culture as to their alchemical origins.
We seem to be approaching a major Cross-Roads. In the escalating frenzy of the millenium, it seems that something big is imminent, as we sit poised on the brink of destruction or breakthrough. In his book, "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012", John Major Jenkins reveals the results of decades of searching for astronomical reasons why the Mayans set solstice 2012 as the end-date of their calendar. He discovered that at this time the ecliptic (path) of the Earth's Sun lines up with the galactic core, Hunab Ku, which according to the Mayans and Arguelles is the source of information transmissions to our species, from extra-terrestrial intelligences or the galaxy itself as a sentience (an extension of the living Gaia concept). The Mayans called this alignment the 'Crossroads' of their Sacred Tree.
If this is applied to the model above, it seems that Crowley's inauguration of the Aeon of Horus was somewhat premature. Astrologically, we don't move into the Age of Aquarius, which is also considered the Age of the Child, until 2008. When it is considered that 'aeons' usually refer to periods of at least a couple of thousand years, it puts things into perspective: that this is actually only the beginning of the great transition, the Crossroads flip into the next great arc of the wheel. As usual, esoteric theories precede their exoteric manifestations -enlightened beings such as Crowley, Achad and Nema are prophets of the coming paradigm shift, into the presently-incomprehensible Aeon of the Immortal Child. Osiris and Isis merge at the Crossroads into the hermaphrodite, then birthing/splitting again to form the Twins, Horus and Maat. The galactic core our sun's ecliptic aligns with in 2012 is visible as a dark cleft in the middle of the Milky Way. The Mayans called this Crossroads the 'Path to the Underworld' or the 'Dark Path', and it was considered to be the 'Womb of the Great Mother' from which the universe was born; thus it is the means of rebirth through death and relates to Star-mother-goddesses such as Nuit or Isis, from whom the new aeonic child (ren) shall be spawned in 2012.
Perhaps the first apparent 108 years of the Horus age Crowley inaugurated are the reign of Ra-hoor-khuit, the hawk-headed warrior lord aspect of Horus, then the quickening into the Omega Point of 2012/2039 presents a shift into the ‘forever innocent’ (immortal child) aspect of Horus, Hoor-paar-kraat (‘Harpocrat’) which pairs with Maat as the two masks of the child gynander, the harlequintessence.
At this omega point not just Jesus or Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl will return, but all of our mythic archetypes will manifest for those who believe in them, in the great crossroads of all paradigms. Time itself will be percieved/manipulated differently. Our full potential as Homo Veritas will be eventually realized as we all link minds and ultimately, souls.
Thus we re-turn to the Dreamtime where we began, as the great serpent of time, Tiamait/Orobororos, swallows hir own tail, in what the Mayans call 'Zuvuya' -the circuit by which everything returns to it's source. This is the end result or ultimate Truth of the backwards-flowing current of Maat. In Qabbala Truth (‘Maat’) =131= Pan ('All') = Baphomet. Maat’s symbol is the feather of truth.
According to Kenneth Grant, TzITz is a fabulous bird of Jewish legend and also means ‘to be feathered’ or ‘fledged’. Its number, 190, is also the number of QTz, which means ‘the end’ or ‘the appointed time.’ Being a Qabbalistic rather than Mayan scholar, Grant fails to note the full cross-cultural significance of this: QTz suggest Quetzalcoatl, the ‘feathered serpent’!
The Mayan language has both backwards and forwards words, and those which read both ways are, like the mirror figure 131, words of ultimate Truth. Thus the number 13, sacred to both the moon (lunar cycles) and the sun (Mayan 13th baktun -solar consciousness), are mirrored and united in this Qabbalistic key.

The international chaos magick group IOT has as its axiom 'Nothing is True. Everything is permitted' (as Crowley said: 'Do what thou Wilt'. ) There are no rules -this is niether matriarchy nor patriarchy, it is just an-archy!

But in the future 'Everything is True', for the future is Maat ('Truth'). Think about this for a while, it may help you understand the backwards and forwards-flowing nature of emiTime... The Axis has all-ways been there.

In his study of Aeonics in 'Liber Kaos', Peter Carroll ends up wondering whether in this aeon we will end up scrabbling over tinned food in the post-apocalyptic rubble, or flying through the stars. This seems to be the question everyone's asking, but ultimately, either way -no matter how far we advance or extend ourselves into the multiverse of possibilities, we'll still look within and find only ourselves -an animal housing the quintessence of spirit.

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