Ross G Caldwell
Aeon418 said:Possibly and maybe. When Crowley published Magick in Theory and Practice he had every opportunity to change the conventional hexagrams to unicursal hexagrams, but he didn't. Why? Maybe he still had a few objections to the symbol. His letters to Frater Achad indicate that he was hostile towards the Uni-Hex at one time but later changed his mind.
I guess it was a later development. I used Regardie's "Ritual Magic" (IIRC) a good deal at one time, and he suggested, based on Thelema, that the UH could be used instead of the old-fashioned Hex. in the LRH and the GRH. I took to using it all the time, but I never thought much about how hard it might have been for the old-timers to come to accept it.
Isn't there an A:.A:. ritual, authored by Crowley, that explicitly prescribes the UH? I can't remember... no sources around, been a long time, etc...
Maybe the rose at the centre represents Ra-Hoor-Khuit? In one sense Nuit = Possibilty. Hadit = Individual Point of View. Ra Hoor Khuit = the unification of both in an act of Love under Will to produce experience. That's only one interpretation of these sysmbols though.
As all are ;-) Maybe the Rose, with Five Petals, represents the Pentagram - Microcosm. Thus it symbolizes the illusory birth of one from two infinities that are actually identical (0=2). In Time, the One conceives of these two infinities as the Past and the Future; in Space, they are the infinite Outside and the infinite Inside; in philosophy and mathematics, they are Nothing and Everything, and the One - the illusion of One - arises from the fact that it cannot be either, but wants to be both. It is always actually only one point in the play between these infinities, until the moment it chooses to become another point. And the distance between the extremes of these infinities is always such, that the point is always the middle between them. This One is where they say - "hey, I'm you!".
Hence the Rose seems like an explosion in the centre - and this explosion is the sudden awareness of consciousness - "Holy shit, I'm here!", beholding the infinite expansion on either side of me. It seems like a liftetime to a one, but to an infinity suddenly seeing itself, it is just one of every thing.
Somewhere, I can't remember now, Crowley says that every line of a Unicursal Hexagram should be of equal length. Looking at the Hex in the Book of Thoth, is it a three dimensional shape viewed from a two dimensional perspective?
Sure you're not remembering the quote about "equal breadth"? (not "length"?)
I have a thought on this anyway, in another post.
Ross