IPSOS
IPSOS, meaning "themselves", is the
Aeon of Ma'at as transmitted by Nema Andahadna in her inspired magical work, Liber Pennae Praenumbra. It is used by the Horus-Maat Lodge and Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Order. According to Kenneth Grant, its initiated translation is "the same mouth".[1]
Aeons
Within the system of Thelema, history is broken down into a series of Aeons, each with its own dominant concept of divinity and its own magical formula of redemption and advancement.[2] According to Aleister Crowley, the last three Aeons have been the Aeon of Isis, the Aeon of Osiris and the current Aeon of Horus which began in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law.[3]
Aleister Crowley believed that the Aeon of
Ma'at will succeed the present one.[3] According to one of Crowley's early students, Charles Stansfeld Jones (a.k.a. Frater Achad), the Aeon of Ma'at has already arrived or overlaps the present Aeon of Horus.[4]
Crowley wrote:
I may now point out that the reign of the crowned and Conquering Child is limited in time by The Book of the Law itself. We learn that Horus will be in his turn succeeded by
Thmaist, the Double-Wanded One; she who shall bring the candidates to full initiation, and though we know little of her peculiar characteristics, we know at least that her name is justice.[5]
Meanings
According to Grant, the word IPSOS was received by initiates who were in communication with
References
- ^ a b Grant (1977), p. 116.
- ^ DuQuette (2003), p. 15.
- ^ a b Bogdan (2012).
- ^ Nema (1995), Introduction.
- ^ Crowley (1969), p. 400.
- ^ Grant (1977), p. 119.
Works cited
- Bogdan, Henrik (2012). "Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon: Dispensationalism and Millenarianism in the Thelemic Tradition". In Bogdan, Henrik; Starr, Martin P. (eds.). Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. OCLC 820009842.
- Crowley, Aleister (1969). The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. Hill and Wang. ISBN 0-80903-591-X.
- ISBN 1-57863-299-4.
- ISBN 0-584-10206-2.
- ISBN 0-87728-827-5.
Further reading
- Karr, Don (2013). Approaching the Kabbalah of Maat. York Beach, Maine: Black Jackal Press.