Aire Vaiolent

De Natura Deorum

OF THE NATURE OF THE GODS

De Natura Deorum

Baphomet X° O.T.O. Rex Summus Sanctissimus, from the Throne of Ireland Iona and all the Britains

that are in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis to all Members of the Supreme Grand Council of Very

Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspectors General VII° Greeting and Peace.

Under the seal of the Obligation of the VII°.

From the Beginning of Years the Initiates of all peoples have held one central secret as a sure Bond of

Brotherhood, as a unity whose truth is able to harmonize all men upon the Earth.

No fabrications of knavish priests, no vain dreams of mystics, can hide from the sane this one fact:

Not only is the Earth but a chilled spark of the Sun, a dropt petal of the Rose of Heaven, but the source

of all Light and Life upon the planet is that same Sun. Not only is he creator, but sustainer, and it is He

also that destroyeth in due season, and redeemeth when the time is come.

Therefore in the Macrocosm is one sole God, the Sun.

Now in the Microcosm, which is Man, the viceregent of the Sun, sole giver of life, is the Phallus. He is

also sole giver of Light in a certain secret sense not fully declared in the VII°. This much may We hint:

the Phallus is the physiological basis of the Oversoul (see also Liber 333, The Book of Lies, Caps. A, H,

IA, IE, IF, IH, LB) And also of His own nature is He Liberty and Love.

Now of old our brethren hid this doctrine in tradition, and in fable, and in great buildings, and in the

Rituals of Freemasonry. With this Key all these Rituals become intelligible, luminous, radiant; without

it they are dark, the just scorn of the ignorant. Search and see.

In this book we have no need to speak of local and tribal Gods, of animistic personifications of partial

phenomena, and the like.

But of universal Gods, as these:

The Fire; an image of Sol, and a fable of the Phallus.

The Moon; an image of Kteis, only worshipped with Sol in his aspect as an extension of the Phallus.

The Mountain; reverenced as the home of the Gods, the visible place of the rising of Sol, and as by shape

symbolical of the Phallus. Some mountains are female, from shape or tradition.

The Ancestor; revered as an incarnation of the Phallus.

The Yoni or Kteis; revered as the House of the Phallus, and his complement.

The Snake; revered as giver of Death, and as a symbol of the Spermatozoon. He has often the head of

The Lion; to indicate the mighty power of the Spermatozoon.

The Egg; revered as Solar, and in itself as the vehicle of Phallic energy.

The Eagle; and many other winged creatures; also wings attached to the symbols. This represents the

flight of Life from one resting-place to another, and is therefore a proper attribute of the Phallus.

The Tree; is but the flowering Phallus.

The Stars; these being the concourse of the Brethren of the Sun are venerable for the Wise even as He.

And the star-universe is as it were His Mother, whence Nuit is the highest and holiest of all that may be.

And her mate is Hadit, the secret and essential energy of Life whose raiment is the Phallus, wherefore is

Hadit equal with Her, the highest and holiest of all that may be. And Their Child Ra-Hoor-Khuit is the

visible Sol-Phallus upon earth. But this is a mystery of the Adepts of Thelema and the vulgar may not

attain to it.

All other Gods should be referred to this synthesis in the Microcosmic Sun.

Thus Corn-goddesses conceal Mysteries of Germination, Wine-gods are Phallic and Solar in the Ecstasy

of overflowing Life of which the proper use of wine makes even the common people conscious.

There are also gods invented to represent things useful to man; but these are by nature subservient to

the prime God whose use and beauty are fundamental.

In that Sanctuary of the Gnosis to which, Very Illustrious Sir Knights your valour and chastity may one

day obtain your admission, there is a certain deeper interpretation. Nor are ye wholly ignorant of how

in the Figure called Baphomet and Babalon is a Measure of Heaven and Earth.

Again, those, Initiates indeed, who have penetrated in truth into the Sanctuaries of their own Being, and

found That God Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent who is Light, Life, Love, and Liberty, beyond

Time and Space, without quantity or quality, One Eternal, the very essence of the Sun and of the Phallus

alike, will possess in their own consciousness, illuminated by That, a certain apprehension of the Truth