Religious Eclecticism in Thelema

Islam

* Liber AL I:49, "Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating." [Isa is the Muslim name for Jesus in the Quran]
* Liber AL III:10, "Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple -- and that temple is already aright disposed -- & it shall be your Kiblah for ever."
* Liber AL III:41, "Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way."

* Liber Ararita, "Qol: Hua Allahu achad; Allahu assamad: lam yalid walam yulad; walam yakun lahu kufwan achad.'" [this is in Arabic, and is from 'the Chapter of Unity' in the Quran, chapter 112]. Crowley mentions this in Book 4, Eight Lectures on Yoga, Confessions ch.66, and the Cry of the 9th Aethyr in Vision and the Voice. He translates this passage as, "Say: / He is God alone! / God the Eternal! / He begets not and is not begotten! / Nor is there like unto Him any one!"]

Christianity

* LIber AL I:15, "Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men." [the Beast and the Scarlet Woman are images from Book of Revelations]
* Liber AL II:57, "He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still." [a direct quote from Book of Revelations]
* Liber AL III:14, "Ye shall see that hour, o blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire!"

* Liber Cheth line 1 "This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast."
* Liber Cheth line 11, "For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacrament of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations."

Hinduism

* Liber AL I:18, "Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!" [a reference to the Ajna chakra between the eyebrows where the Kundalini, the sacred serpent power, arises and settles in enlightenment]
* Liber AL I:56, "Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked. But thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though not all, in the dark."
* Liber AL II:26, "I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one."
* Liber AL III:37, "...Appear on the throne of Ra! / Open the ways of the Khu! / Lighten the ways of the Ka! / The ways of the Khabs run through / To stir me or still me! / Aum! let it fill me!"
* Liber AL III:75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. / The Book of the Law is Written / and Concealed. / Aum. Ha."

* Liber B vel Magi line 17, "Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that rinity from its elements, and further to combine Sat-Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the grade of Practicus (which reflecteth Mercury into the lowest world) in Liber XXVII, "Here is Nothing under its three forms." [Sat Chit Ananda are Being Consciousness and Bliss... three non-dual qualities of Brahman, the Godhead. Crowley often attributed them to Netzach Hod and Yesod on the Tree of Life]

* Liber A'ash line 17, "Also concerning vows. Be obstinate, and be not obstinate. Understand that the yielding of the Yoni is one with the lengthening of the Lingam. Thou art both these; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on Mount Meru." [the Lingam-Yoni is a Hindu symbol cognate with the Gnostic Father-Mother and many other symbols of the 2-in-1. Mount Meru is the central mountain, the Tree of Life, the World Tree, etc.]
* Liber A'ash lines 34-35, "Now therefore thou knowest when I am within Thee, when my hood is spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned Indus, and resistless as the Giant Glacier. / For as thou art before a lewd woman in Thy nakedness in the bazaar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva." [the hood spreading over the skull is a reference to the Kundalini and perhaps Buddha's attainment. The Indus is the mighty river that runs through India. Pisacha, Yantras, and Devas are all sacred objects of worship/meditation]
* Liber A'ash line 40, "So therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is water in the cavern of the glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and through the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and water at the mouth thereof when it leaps forth into the mighty sea, yea, into the mighty sea." [the Indus is taken as a symbol of the infinite]


Egyptian

* Liber AL I:7, "Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat." [Hoor-paar-kraat is a form of Harpocrates or Harparkrat]
* Liber AL I:14. Above, the gemmed azure is / The naked splendour of Nuit; / She bends in ecstasy to kiss / The secret ardours of Hadit. / The winged globe, the starry blue, / Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!" [this is a poetic transcription of the hieroglyphs found on the Stele of Revealing, an Egyptian artifact. They depict the characters on the Stele]
* Liber AL I:49, "Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating." [Ra-Hoor-Khuit is the Egyptian Rahorakthy, found on the Stele of Revealing. Asar is a name of Osiris; Hoor is a name of Horus, especially in his form as a child]
etc. etc. etc.

* Liber A'ash line 1, "Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk." [The Hawk-headed god Horus]
* Liber A'ash line 8, "For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. SET is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of M.A.A.T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple of A.'. A.'., whose name is Truth." [Isis, Osiris, Horus, Harpocrates, Set, and Maat are all Egyptian symbols/deities. Isis, Osiris, and Horus/Harpocrates form a triad of Mother, Father, Child...]

* Liber Stella Rubeae line 1, "Apep deifieth Asar." [Apep is the destroyer Apophis, personification of darkness and chaos and the one who battled with Ra each day; Asar is Osiris]
* Liber Stella Rubeae line 38, "I, Apep the Serpent, am the heart of IAO. Isis shall await Asar, and I in the midst." [Apep is, again the serpent destroyer; Isis is the prototypical mother and Asar is again Osiris. This is formed into a symbolic word I [Isis] - A [Apophis] - O [Osiris]. Apep as the serpent should be understood in the context of the Heart and the Serpent of Liber LXV]
* Liber Stella Rubeae line 48, "I am Apep, O thou slain One. Thou shalt slay thyself upon mine altar: I will have thy blood to drink."

* Liber LXV I:1, "...On the corpse of Osiris afloat in the tomb! / O heart of my mother, my sister, mine own, / Thou art given to Nile, to the terror Typhon!... / Behold! we are one, and the tempest of years / Goes down to the dusk, and the Beetle appears. / O Beetle! the drone of Thy dolorous note / Be ever the trance of this tremulous throat!..." [Osiris is mentioned and 'the Beetle,' which refers to Keph-Ra, the Beetle which holds the sun in its mandibles. Typhon is equated with Apep/Apophis and the inundation of the Nile river]
* Liber LXV IV:24, "Arise, O serpent Apep, Thou art Adonai the beloved one! Thou art my darling and my lord, and Thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of Isis the mother of the Gods!" [Apep is identified with Adonai here, and the 'poison' or malefic aspect is understood as sweetness. Isis again appears and is understood to be 'the mother of the Gods']
* Liber LXV V:50, "Let not the priest of Isis uncover the nakedness of Nuit, for every step is a death and a birth. The priest of Isis lifted the veil of Isis, and was slain by the kisses of her mouth. Then was he the priest of Nuit, and drank of the milk of the stars."


Greek

*Liber Tzaddi line 23, "Only if ye are sorrowful, or weary, or angry, or discomforted; then ye may know that ye have lost the golden thread, the thread wherewith I guide you to the heart of the groves of Eleusis." [The Eleusinian Mysteries were a popular form of the Greek Mysteries]
* Liber Tzaddi line 32, "Only your mouths shall drink of a delicious wine --- the wine of Iacchus; they shall reach ever to the heavenly kiss of the Beautiful God." [Iacchus was part of the procession at Eleusis; Crowley sees him as Kether/Tiphareth, the highest Part of man]

* Liber LXV I:1, "Thou art given to Nile, to the terror Typhon!" [Typhon was the personification of chaos and powerful forces, being the enemy of the gods of Olympus]
* Liber LXV I:54, "Then said Adonai: Thou hast the Head of the Hawk, and thy Phallus is the Phallus of Asar. Thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are one. But why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence?"