Indeed he does. This one of his three major descriptions of the
Amalantrah Working and it's central revelation, "The Jacob Incident". A similar treatment, but more focused on the the letter From Samuel Jacobs is found in the footnotes to Appendix 3,
Magick in Theory and Practice (Mandrake: 1929) beginning on page 257. The third, less complete, is in
The Urn (
Aleister Crowley papers Warburg & OTO Inc. 2002).
In
The New Commentary, he connects S. Aiwaz Jacob's name with a Yazidi Angel and/or Sumerian deity. Jacobs not only calculated ThRION = 666 (an obvious gematria which AC mysteriously could not see), he also inadvertently revealed a new spelling and numeration for Aiwass: AIWAZ = 93, and so therefore 78=418=93!
Nevertheless, AC nowhere visible mentions
The Amalantrah Working as a Liber, nor does he mention the title
Soror Achitha's Vision, or the
Liber sub figura 97.
It seems the origin of the title
The Amalantrah Working, referring to Warburg Yorke OS F5a, a collection of disparate typescripts recording various "seances" with Roddie Minor as the seer in communication with "The Wizard Amalantrah", one of which is partially annotated by AC, and presumably copied from a number of contemporary manuscripts which now appear to lost, is Gerald J. Yorke. Yorke gives this title in both his his 1951 catalogue, and in OS F5a both as the handwritten folder title and in his introduction thereto therein.
So far, the first appearance of
Liber 97 Soror Achitha's Vision as a technical title still seems to be the appendix in
The Holy Books of Thelema (Equinox 3:9 - issued by OTO Inc. under the imprimatur of Hymenaeus Alpha). I'm told Hymenaeus Beta, before he assumed that motto, was also significantly involved in the preparation of this volume.
So the question remains: what primary source reference was the basis of their (OTO Inc.'s) introduction of a "unpublished, presumably lost"
Liber 97 Soror Achitha's Vision? Presumably they had some justification for it somewhere in AC papers. In 1990, OTO Inc. released an incomplete draft hybrid electronic version, edited by HB and converted to ASCII by Bill Heidrick. They called this document "The Amalantrah Working [Liber xcvii]", and this is the basis of all on-line presentations of
Liber 729.
So, we Know Yorke is the author of the title "The Amalantrah Working", and "Liber 729" is an obvious technical title for the material as an A:.A:. Lber, though nowhere that I can find does AC discuss the Amalantrah material as being the basis for a Liber. In a letter to Yorke, he states that only notes for a draft of
Liber 265 The Structure of the Mind (included in the 1929 Ciriculum in Appendix 1 of
M.i.T.&P. as an "unpublished" A:.A:. Liber) exist in his various 1917-8 diaries, of which we have the holograph manuscripts of 3: the 2 parts of
Rex de Arte Regia and the diary labeled in Warburg Yorke as OS A2, both of which touch on the Amalantrah material, but are not the source for the typescripts collected as OS F5a.
yorke osf5a folder title.bmp (115.99 KB)
so, where does
Liber 97 Soror Achitha's Vision come from, and why?
Personally, given the nature particularly of first half of
Tha Amalantrah Working, before it dissipates into an AC Q. & mysterious A. session about mundane trivialities such as money, potential sex partners, paid employment and the like, I prefer the title
Soror Achitha's Vision as a just and more accurate description of what took place:
"While with The Lady of Our Dreams I had a vision of Myself being a spreading candlestick with thirteen candles. Over each flame was the opening of a tube which could hold water as a fountain. These tubes met the flame in a throbbing vibration which became almost excruciating when suddenly the part of the candlestick above the stem or staff, broke off and became a crown. The crown floated in the air tilted at a slight angle and a circle which was a halo came down from heaven and dropped into the crown. In the center a wand came and then it all hovered above the candlestick with a veil round it. The veil in some ways appeared as rays of light. After I told this vision T[herion] talked a long while about the number 93; how adepts were tested when they brought messages; and how messages had been sent to him through the Scarlet Woman.
I had another vision of myself being thirteen naked women lying in a row and all being caressed at one time. When I told this to T., in a somewhat indirect manner, he suggested that I see if I could get any messages through visions or otherwise.
I began by asking for a vision containing a message. I first heard gurgling water and saw a dark farmhouse in among trees and green fields. The house and other things disappeared and a dark yoni appeared just where the house had stood. I then asked where will a message come from? Immediately soldiers with guns appeared lounging about the place and a king on a throne where the house had stood. I then asked again for a message and saw an egg in which were many many tiny convolutions of some flesh-like substance which would form something. The egg was placed in an oblong as in a picture. Around it were clouds, trees, mountains and water, called the `four elements'. A camel appeared in front of the whole picture. I next tried to find out who the king was. He looked more like Prof. Shotwell than any one else. That is, he was `simple, democratic' and very learned and fine. He was certainly not a king belonging to any kingdom limited by a country's borders, but was a king of men, or a king of the world. I asked his name and the word `Ham' appeared between the egg in the oblong and the soldiers around the king.<<i.e. King of Egypt?>>
The king went out to one side and a wizard linked his arm in the king's as they disappeared. The wizard looked at me significantly as they left. It was a sort of look as if one would almost wink. He was an old man, with gray beard, dressed in a long black gown. He was infinitely wise. They seemed to go to a cave in the base of a low mountain on the shore of a large body of water. A spring of sparkling cool water bubbled up through a barrel near the mouth of the cave. I went into the cave and saw them doing something mysterious with a revolver. The wizard had the revolver. What they were going to do was a joke of some kind, but the wizard looked grim about it. At T.'s suggestion I went up to them and said, ``I am Eve.'' This seemed to stop everything. They both disappeared with the cave. Very soon I saw the king sitting in a niche covered with a canopy, cut in the side of the mountain. In quite another place the wizard was sitting under a tree fanning himself. At T.'s suggestion I went up to him and asked him his name. I became very frightened and had the same sensation as when I spoke to him in the cave. It was a kind of shyness and awe. He only smiled at me and would not speak. It seemed that I did not know enough for him to speak with me. In order for him to say anything to me I should have to build a fire of sticks, which he showed me how to do. There was a baby in some way connected with the act of my building the fire which was like a ritual. Then a most beautiful lion was standing by the fire. The wizard was standing and still held one or two sticks in his hand. He smiled and said, ``Child.'' I then saw a most beautiful naked boy 5 or 6 years old dancing and playing in the woods in front of us. T. asked how he would look dressed and when I saw him in conventional clothes he looked very uncomfortable and repressed. He looked as if he should be dressed in skins such as tigers'. To one side near the place where I made the fire was a large turtle standing up as a penguin stands.
The wizard was very happy and satisfied looking. He sat down and reached out his hand to me and had me sit down beside him. As we watched the boy he put his left arm around me tenderly and placed my head on the left side of his chest near the shoulder.
He said, ``It's all in the egg.''
The End."
