Alpha & Omega on Adjustment

Abrac

This is in response to a subject that was being in explored here in the RWS Forum.

Alpha and Omega in Crowley's Adjustment card are references to the Two Witnesses in Geomancy. First we have Crowley description in The Book of Thoth:

"The scales of the balance are the Two Witnesses in whom shall every word be established."​

And from Mathers' paper on Geomancy as found in Regardie's The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic:

"The two witnesses are without significance in the divination, except as they are the roots from which the figure known as the Judge is derived. The Right Witness is formed from the 9th and 10th figures by comparing the points in the manner before shown in the formation of the Resultants. That is the corresponding lines of points in the two figures are compared together, and the addition, whether odd or even, comprises the points of the Witness. The Left Witness represents the combination in a similar manner to the 11th and 12th figures. The Judge again is formed in precisely the same way from the Two Witnesses, and is therefore a synthesis of the whole figure. If he be good, the figure is good and the judgment will be favourable; and vice versa."​

Crolwey elaborates a little more in Magick in Theory and Practice:

"The letters Aleph and Lamed are infinitely important in this Aeon of Horus; they are indeed the Key of the Book of the Law. No more can be said in this place than that Aleph is Harpocrates, Bacchus Diphues, the Holy Ghost, the “Pure Fool” or Innocent Babe who is also the Wandering Singer who impregnates the King’s Daughter with Himself as Her Child; Lamed is the King’s Daughter, satisfied by Him, holding His “Sword and Balances” in her lap. These weapons are the Judge, armed with power to execute His Will, and Two Witnesses “in whom shall every Truth be established” in accordance with whose testimony he gives judgment."​

In divination by Geomacy, the Judge is derived from the two witnesses and its qualities depend on the "testimony" of the two witnesses. Crowley knew Geomacy and his inclusion of a reference to the two witnesses on Adjustment is clearly influenced by Geomancy. He later expanded and embellished on their occult significance.
 

Aeon418

The symbolism is repeated on Atu's III and XV. The Woman Satisfied by Iudex and Testes - the Judge and Two Witnesses.

Daleth(4) + Ayin(70) = 74 LMD, Lamed.

Venus rules, and Saturn(Capricorn) is exalted in Libra.

The final Adjustment wherein the Daughter is set upon the Throne of the Mother awakening the Eld of the All Father. :thumbsup: })