Chapters 0-9 Summary

The book opens with a mark of interrogation and exclamation and then leads into "The Chapter that is not a chapter," which itself begins with "O!" In Crowley's note, he explains that this symbol refers to phallus and sperm as well as an ecstatic exclamation. The rest of the chapter attempts to set forth a complete theory of how the universe came into existence. It does this in four separate triads. The first of these is referred to as the Ante Primal Triad, which exists even in the nothingness before God. God is both the first and second triads. In the first, God comes into existence and creates both knowledge and light. In the second, Crowley tells us that God is concealed in nature but obvious in the heart. In the third triad, existence goes from wavering to stable and the...