The Star Sponge and the Fifty Gates
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Description: Notes on Crowley's Star-Sponge vision at Lake Pasquaney and the traditional Fifty Gates of Wisdom formed by pairing the lower spheres of the Tree of Life.
-oO from _Thelema Lodge Calendar_ 5/90 e.v. Oo- From the Out Basket (TLC regular column) The Star Sponge and the Fifty Gates, Two Passages to Attainment. Copyright (c) 1975 and 1990 by Bill Heidrick Crowley's Star Sponge vision at Lake Pasquaney around 1916 e.v. was a very profound perception but a very ordinary conception. Crowley saw "Nothingness with twinkles" and elaborated the vision subsequently to include many insights. "... Each stage in the process was like the joy of a young eagle soaring from height to height in ever increasing sunlight as dawn breaks, foaming, over the purple hem of the garment of ocean, and, when the many coloured rays of rose and gold and green gathered themselves together and melted into the orbed glory of the sun, with a rapture that shook the soul with unimaginable ecstasy, that sphere of rushing light was recognized as a common-place idea, accepted unquestioningly and treated with drab indifference because it had so long been assimilated as a natural and necessary part of the order of Nature. At first I was shocked and disgusted to discover that a series of brilliant researches should culminate in a commonplace. But I soon understood that what I had done was to live over again the triumphant career of conquering humanity; that I had experienced in my own person the succession of winged victories that had been sealed by a treaty of peace whose clauses might be summed up in some such trite expression as "Beauty depends upon form". It would be quite impracticable to go fully into the subject of this vision of the Star-Sponge, if only because its ramifications are omniform. It must suffice to reiterate that it has been the basis of most of my work for the last five years, and to remind the reader that the essential form of it is 'Nothingness with twinkles.'" --- From Crowley's new comment to "Liber AL", Ch. I, v. 59. (See also "Confessions" p. 810 and ff; "Liber Aleph" generally in many of the passages c
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