（外文电子版资料）Aleister Crowley - Across The Gulf.pdfVIP

gulf.txt Original key entry by Bill Heidrick, GTG OTO Extracted from EQX-7.AS2 by Fr. Nachash, Uraeus-Hadit Camp O.T.O. P.O.Box 430 Fairfax, CA 94930 USA (415) 454-5176 Messages only. *********************************************************************** ACROSS THE GULF CHAPTER I AT last the matter comes back into my mind. It is now five years since I discovered my stele at Bulak, but now until I obtained certain initiation in the city of Benares last year did the memory of my life in the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty when I was prince and priest in Thebai begin to return. even now much is obscure; but I am commanded to write, so that in writing the full memory may be recovered. For without the perfect knowledge and understanding of that strange life by Nilus I cannot fully know and understand this later life, or find that Tomb which I am appointed to find, and do that therein which must be done. There fore with faith and confidence do I who was -- in a certain mystical sense -- the Priest of the Princes, Ankh-f-na-khonsu, child of Ta-nech, the holy and mighty one, and of Bes-na-Maut, priestess of the Starry One, set myself to tell myself the strange things that befell me in that life. Thus. At my birth Aphruimis in the sign of the Lion was ascending, and in it that strange hidden planet that presides over darkness and magic and forbidden love. The sun was united with the planet of Amoun, but in the Abyss, as Page 1 gulf.txt showing that my power and glory should be secret, and in Aterechinis the second decanate of the House of Mast, so that my passion and pleasure should likewise be unprofance. In the House of Travel in the Sign of the Ram was the Moon my sweet lady. And the wise men interpreted this as a token that I should travel afa