Aeon418
You might find Crowley's vision of the first (30th) Enochian Aethyr to be fertile ground for speculation. http://hermetic.com/crowley/the-vision-and-the-voice/aethyr30.html
The Equinox of the Gods is compared to the apocalyptic Day of Judgement. Everything is thrown into confusion and disorder and there appear to be several links to recent BoL verses.
This passage seems to connect to the card swap and possibly the current verse:
Is the rushing together of the Rivers related to the crushing of the universe? I don't know. But it certainly is suggestive.
The curious, almost archaic phrase "an universe" seems strange. Today I think most of us would naturally say 'a universe' or 'the universe'. But 'a-n' might signify Aleph-Nun, 51.
According to Sepher Sephiroth 51 = NA, Pain. And also AN, Failure.
Is it 'an universe' of pain and failure that is being crushed as the Rivers rush together and Heh-Prima gushes forth once more? (There's a verse in Liber LXV that comes to mind also.)
On top of that I find it curious that the verse number, 72, should be made of the two numbers/sephiroth out of which these cards/paths emanate. 7-Netzach. 2-Chokmah. It's almost like a polarity reversal.
The Equinox of the Gods is compared to the apocalyptic Day of Judgement. Everything is thrown into confusion and disorder and there appear to be several links to recent BoL verses.
A possible connection to III:71? According to his notes Crowley thought so.Tremble ye, O Pillars of the Universe, for Eternity is in travail of a Terrible Child
This passage seems to connect to the card swap and possibly the current verse:
Commenting on this passage J. Daniel Gunther writes:Seal the book with the seals of the Stars Concealed: for the Rivers have rushed together and the Name הוהי is broken in a thousand pieces (against the Cubic Stone).
J. Daniel Gunther said:The old Hermetic Order of the Golden taught that the large Star was Sirius, primarily because the heliacal rising of Sirius after a seventy-day period of obscuration marked the beginning of the Nile flood in Egypt, hence a relationship to Aquarius, the water-bearer. The Woman herself was said to be "Aima Elohim, pouring upon the earth the waters of creation which unite and form a River at her feet, the River going forth from the Supernal Eden which floweth and faileth not."
The River floweth and faileth not, yet it may change course. In the Vision predating the Aeon of the Child by four years, there is the foreshadowing of such an event:
"Seal the book with the seals of the Stars Concealed: for the Rivers have rushed together and the Name הוהי is broken in a thousand pieces (against the Cubic Stone)."
The "Rivers" described in this Vision are the four rivers of Eden, the branches of the River that "floweth and faileth not." According to dogmatic Qabalah of western mysticism, the River Naher was described as flowing from the Supernal Eden unto Daath where it divided into four heads, being the rivers Pison (fire) flowing into Geburah, Gihon (water) flowing into Chesed, Hiddikel (air) flowing into Tiphareth, and Phrath (earth) flowing into Malkuth. After the so-called "fall of Adam" Tetragrammaton Elohim placed the four letters הוהי between the devastated Garden and the Supernal Eden. The four rivers formed a Cross upon which the "second Adam" (Jesus) was symbolically crucified.
The rushing together of the Rivers described in the Vision and the Voice predicts the annihilation of the Cross of Suffering (the throne of the Christian Messiah) and the destruction of the Name of Jehovah which seals it's establishment. The Cubic Stone against which the name of Jehovah is broken has six sides with twelve lines and eight points, the total of which is twenty-six, the balance of the elements in the Tetragrammaton. But more than this, the Cubic Stone is the Throne of the Emperor.
The Woman of the Star pours the bright dew over herself (ה final), and into the sand of the accursed Abyss so that the river (ה Prima) gushes forth. She is thus the Anima Mundi even as she is the Lady of the Great Sea.
Is the rushing together of the Rivers related to the crushing of the universe? I don't know. But it certainly is suggestive.
The curious, almost archaic phrase "an universe" seems strange. Today I think most of us would naturally say 'a universe' or 'the universe'. But 'a-n' might signify Aleph-Nun, 51.
According to Sepher Sephiroth 51 = NA, Pain. And also AN, Failure.
Is it 'an universe' of pain and failure that is being crushed as the Rivers rush together and Heh-Prima gushes forth once more? (There's a verse in Liber LXV that comes to mind also.)
On top of that I find it curious that the verse number, 72, should be made of the two numbers/sephiroth out of which these cards/paths emanate. 7-Netzach. 2-Chokmah. It's almost like a polarity reversal.