Конкс ом Пакс
 Обложка Konx Om Pax от Aleister Crowley | |
| Автор | Алистер Кроули |
|---|---|
| Язык | Английский |
| Издатель | Walter Scott Publishing Company |
Publication date | 1907 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light - это публикация британского оккультиста Алистера Кроули , впервые опубликованного в 1907 году.
Название, Konx Om Pax , является фразой, которая, как говорится, была объявлена в элевсиновских загадках , чтобы они стали инициативы, чтобы уйти после завершения тестов на получение степени EPOPT (SEER). Происхождение и значение этой фразы неясны, хотя были предложены многочисленные теории. Фейдия Мпурлас утверждал, что эта фраза получена из недопонимания ономатопоопоочищенных слов в записи «κογξ ομοίως παξ» словаря Хесихиуса , где «ο igroίως» мог быть сокращено к «ο ο ο». [ 1 ] [ 2 ] SL Macgregor Mathers утверждал, что эта фраза была получена из Khabs-Am Pekht , который на египетском языке означает примерно «свет в расширении» или «Свет, выбегающий в одном луче», который используется в герметическом порядке Золотого рассвета Весенние и осенние церемонии равноденствия . [ 3 ] Это значение, которое Кроули приписывает фразе в книге. [ 4 ]
The front cover image, portraying the title Konx Om Pax in stretched letters, is said to have been designed by Crowley while smoking hashish.[5]
Contents
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Introduction
[edit]Syncretic materials introduce the work:
- Ave: in John Dee and Edward Kelley's Enochian language;
- the Egyptian hieroglyphs for the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu
Three full pages of quotations introduce this work, signaling the syncretic intention of the author.[6] Many sacred texts and sources such as Dante, Catullus, and Jesus are quoted.
The Wake World
[edit]An allegory for the ascent of a magical practitioner through the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, guided by their Holy Guardian Angel (the "Fairy Prince"). After the fashion of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Crowley uses the narrative as an explanatory jaunt through this metaphysical schema. It was originally written for Crowley's daughter, Lola Zaza, as a bedtime story.
Thien Tao, or, the Synagogue of Satan
[edit]This parodic essay casts a Crowley character (Master Kwaw) as a Taoist advisor to the Japanese "Daimio" (daimyō) in a time of crisis. Kwaw advises a course of study in which people shall be taught the antithesis of their natural tendencies: the prostitute to learn chastity, the prude to learn sexual expression, the religious bigot to learn Huxley's materialism, the atheist to learn ceremonial magick.
Ali Sloper, or, the Forty Liars: A Christmas Diversion
[edit]A play that is over-presented with title credits, but is generally a simple dialogue based on Crowley's conversation with a friend and his wife on Christmas Day. With only two main speakers Crowley satirizes himself as "Bowley", with the whole a means to present his inserted essay Ameth. The title is a mock of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, a tale from the classic One Thousand and One Nights.
Stone of the Philosophers Which Is Hidden in the Mountain of Abiegnus
[edit]A satirical conversation between a number of men, including "a socialist" and "a doctor", each one contributing a poem into their philosophical debate. Here Crowley takes the stance as "Basil Gray"; the work contains La Gitana, his popular love poem. It is thought[by whom?] that this work was inspired by the Zohar, where each Rabbi would contribute a commentary on the Tanakh.
Editions
[edit]- Yoga Publication Society. June 1982. ISBN 0-911662-49-9
- Teitan Press. Reprint edition, March 1990. ISBN 0-933429-04-5
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Κογξ Ομ Παξ -απόκρυφες φράσεις χαμένες στην αιωνιότητα ή τυπογραφικό λάθος;". www.sarantakos.com. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ "κόγξ - Ancient Greek (LSJ)". lsj.gr. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ Mathers, S. L. MacGregor; J. W., Brodie-Innes (1983). Gilbert, R. A. (ed.). The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Unknown Hermetic Writings of S. L. MacGregor Mathers and J. W. Brodie-Innes. Aquarian Press. p. 50. ISBN 0850303745.
- ^ Crowley, Aleister (1907). Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light. Newcastle upon Tyne: Walter Scott Publishing Company. p. xi.
- ^ Starr, Martin (1990). Introduction. Konx Om Pax. By Crowley, Aleister. Chicago, Illinois: Teitan Press. pp. v–x. ISBN 0933429045.
- ^ Gordan Djurdjevic. The Great Beast as a Tantric Hero, collected in Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, ed. Henrik Bogdan, Martin P. Starr
External links
[edit]- Konx Om Pax PDF at Wikimedia Commons