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Liber Resh: Adoration of Khephra at Midnight
Aleister Crowley, Liber Resh vel Helios (Liber CC), The Equinox I(6), 1911
The fourth adoration falls at midnight, facing north, when the Sun is hidden beneath the earth. The practitioner salutes it as Khephra in his hiding, the scarab god who in Egyptian belief rolled the Sun through the underworld to its rebirth at dawn. As with the other three stations, the brief invocation is followed by the sign of silence, the further adoration and meditation. Taken together, the four turn the daily course of the Sun into a reminder of the continuity of the Great Work, since the Sun, in Thelemic teaching, never truly dies.
Purpose
Liber Resh says the four daily adorations keep the practitioner constantly mindful of the Great Work and strengthen them to pursue it.
Timing
- Season / time
- At midnight
Performed at midnight each day, facing north. The four adorations together mark sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight; Crowley also recommends keeping a record of them in the magical diary.