Eye) by theformulaof the Initiation of Horus elsewhere described indetail.This "Devil" is called Satan or Shaitan, and regardedwithhorror by people who are ignorant of his formula, and,imaginingthemselves to be evil, accuse Nature herself of theirownphantasmal crime. Satan is Saturn, Set, Abrasax, Adad,Adonis,Attis, Adam, Adonai, etc. The most serious chargeagainsthim is only that he is the Sun in the South. The AncientInitiates,dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was thewaterof the Nile or the Euphrates, connected the South withlife-witheringheat, and cursed that quarter where the solardartswere deadliest. Even in the legend of Hiram, it is at highnoonthat he is stricken down and slain. Capricornus is moreoverthesign which the Sun enters when he reaches hisextremeSouthern declination at the Winter Solstice, the seasonofthe death of vegetation, for the folk of the Northern hemisphere.Thisgave them a second cause of cursing the South. Athird;the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous winds; the menace ofdesertsof oceans dreadful because mysterious and impassable,thesealso were connected in their minds with the South.Butto us, aware of astronomical facts, this antagonism totheSouth is a silly superstition which the accidents of theirlocalconditions suggested to our animistic ancestors. We seenoenmity between Right and Left, Up and Down, and similarpairsof opposites. These antitheses are real only as astatementof relation; they are the conventions of an arbitrarydevicefor representing our ideas in a pluralistic symbolismbasedon duality. "Good" must be defined in terms ofhumanideals and instincts. "East" has no meaning exceptwithreference to the earth's internal affairs; as an absolutedirectionin space it changes a degree every four minutes."Up"is the same for no two men, unless one chance to beinthe line joining the other with the centre of the earth."Hard"is the private opinion of our muscles. "True" is anutterlyunintelligible epithet which has proved refractory totheanalysis of our ablest philosopher. "Wehave therefore no scruple in restoring the "devil-worship"ofsuch ideas as those which the laws of sound, andthephenomena of speech and hearing, compel us to connectwiththe group of "Gods" whose names are based uponShTor D, vocalized by the free breath A. For these Namesimplythe qualities of courage, frankness, energy, pride,powerand triumph; they are the words which express thecreativeand paternal will. "Thus"the Devil" is Capricomus, the Goat who leaps upontheloftiest mountains, the Godhead which, if it become manifestinman, makes him Aegipan, the All."TheSun enters this sign when he turns to renew the year intheNorth. He is also the vowel O, proper to roar, to boom,andto command, being a forcible breath controlled by thefirmcircle of the mouth. "Heis the Open Eye of the exalted Sun, before whom allshadowsflee away: also that Secret Eye, which makes animageof its God, the Light, and gives it power to utter oracles,enlighteningthe mind. "Thus,he is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has comeconsciouslyto his full stature, and so is ready to set out on hisjourneyto redeem the world. But he may not appear in thistrueform; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear.Hemust conceal Himself in his original guise."Liber 333OCANO DA ARMA-Poderoso e ereto e esta vontade minha, estapiramide de fogo, cujo cume e perdida no ceu. Sobre ele terqueimado o cadaver de meus desejos.Poderoso e ereto e