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description: "The A∴A∴ is a living body. More so, the A∴A∴ is at the same time a living organism of that simplest, most wicked nature. The species which manages to survive over time, which adapts to all circumstances and every environment. The A∴A∴ is a virus of the deadliest kind, one transmitted by a thoughtful touch. Its incubation period is ever; although nobody has yet perished from it, no one has ever been cured for sure. That virus, once it has settled into its host, starts to do something that is an entirely unique phenomenon in the universe. Instead of changing its host, it changes the universe." "You can determine that your whole apparatus, your system of bloodstream is actually an open system and that it is just a part of a more extensive process and movement in the universe, so the moment you truly realize that you are the one conditioning the blood circulation, or who contracts the heart muscle, that moment you will be the one who shines with all the light from the stars." "All the troubles in our art come from the fact that we are not able to understand the simple thing – that every knowledge and every conversation is the Knowledge and Conversation with the A∴A∴. Think about how much forms it has, how many pieces of knowledge? How much A∴A∴? Your entire life is just one of the ways of performing one and the same dialogue between you and your God; no, it is precisely that "between". "The A∴A∴ is certainly not, neither will ever be a Thelemic order, but a pan-æonic, all-pervading, omnipresent. Like cosmic void, in which there is neither morning nor dusk, its spreading is not framed by the loom of time nor space. Moreover, its movement is always as its nature is everywhere. The Dawn of the New Æon will never experience its afternoon as long as we proclaim it as New." "It is essential to realize that our entire system consists of inseparable subgroups that all together contribute to the whole in specific symbiosis. Our art should only be understood as a whole; it is completely impossible to understand the system of numbers if we would favor the value of one number more than the other, or if we expel any number from the numeral system, whether it is a decimal, octal, binary, or any other. We are firmly against any specialist doctrine; our path is in interweaving and intercourse, not in exclusivity." "Grades are meridians of the soul, and like earthly meridians, they are just a matter of agreement, and as it does not mean that there are visible lines on the planet, it can be said that from the standpoint of LVX, Grades do not exist. All the Grades of all the Aspirants together are constantly impelling one single query, and that Where are you? What we truly need is an answer to another, a more important question which Who are you?" "Each Oath is primarily a natural phenomenon or more precisely – a natural occurrence, and giving it cannot be constrained by words, the shape of lips, a scribble on a piece of paper, but by Will. Once proclaimed, is not the Will expression of the whole universe? Who then gives an Oath when that universe is that pen, and that paper where the Oath is written, and those lips that pronounce it, and the one who witnesses it, and the one who swears it? Similarly, as we have mentioned it earlier, the Aspirant's Oath is the magical link of the highest kind."
language: English
title: Anatomy of the Abyss: The Probationer's Compendium