#hadit

Today is the second day of The Feast for the Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law in the Thelemic Calendar. On this day, April 9th, under direction from his first wife and Scarlet Woman, Rose Edith Kelly, Aleister Crowley wrote the second chapter of Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of The Law) as was "transmitted" to him from a shadowy presence which identified itself as "Aiwass".

The second day is sometimes called the "Feast of Hadit", after the second god of the Thelemic "trinity", and the speaker of the second chapter.

"I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.”

One of the benefits of channeling art on a daily basis is the opportunity to recognize patterns and recurring symbols, imagery, or themes over a span. Sometimes these are things we don't expect or understand at first, but over time or upon questioning, layers of meaning emerge.

For example, I channeled a set of images with Hadit yesterday. The resulting images were conceptual and forced me to expand my ways of thinking and seeing in order to engage with them. This morning, while working on something else, my attention was drawn to three collages from a series I had channeled a little over a year ago.

The first image was of Hadit, as we had learned after it was created. It is relatively minimal in appearance, but took many layers to create. When I zoomed in on the image, I noted that some of the geometric shapes were not perfectly symmetrically aligned. As someone who is generally obsessed with details like this, it irked me. I had spent many hours creating each of these collages in deep trance and each tiny nudge and digital placement was guided and confirmed. Knowing this, I mentally took a step back and realized that it was intentional.

When channeling the most recent images with Hadit, I received some imagery related to portals, wormholes, and interdimensionality. Often these initially rub me the wrong way because they do not exhibit the symmetry that I've been trained to desire. But they speak to something more, a way through. The way the geometric shapes in the collage were offset echoed this. Once I was able to grasp this, this reframing of my mindset helped me to better understand the collages as well as the newly channeled images and subsequently identify more symbolism and meaning that I had previously overlooked.

—IYNX