Beelzebub and the Beast

352 Pages·2012·56.105 MB·English

by  David Hall

A Comparative Study of Gurdjiejf and Crowley
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Frontispiece: Beelzebub and the Beast by Richard T. Cole
BEELZEBUB
AND
THE BEAST
A comparative study of the teachings of
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Aleister Crowley
By David Hall
Starfire Publishing Ltd.
2012
© Janet Audley-Charles, 2012.
First published in England at the Autumn Equinox, 2012
in an edition of 750,
of which 75 copies comprise a deluxe edition
bound in quarter goatskin, slipcased, and numbered.
Signed by the publisher, Michael Staley.
Standard: ISBN 978-1-906073-14-5
Deluxe: ISBN 978-1-906073-15-2
Both formats © Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2012
The photographs of David Hall used throughout
this book © Jan Magee, 2012
The image Melek 7b’us - used as plate 5 as well as
the basis for the jacket design - © Stuart Littlejohn, 2012
The image Beelzebub and the Beast, used as frontispiece,
© Richard T. Cole, 2012
Starfire Publishing Ltd.,
BCM Starfire, London WC1N 3XX, U.K
[email protected]
www.starfirepublishing.co.uk
All rights reserved.
The reproduction of any portion of this book,
other than for review purposes,
is strictly forbidden, without the prior
written consent of the publishers and the copyright holder.
Setting of text and images by Stephen Pochin, a project of Laminal Salvos.
Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wilts.
Contents
Preface by Michael Staley ix
Foreword by Alistair Coombs xi
Introduction 1
1 Time and the Ages of the World 9
2 Aleister Crowley (1875-1947):
The Man and the Magick 39
3 Liber AL and Do What Thou Wilt 67
4 George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1877-1949):
The Man and the Work 95
5 Gurdjieffs Cosmology 125
6 Origins and Influences 153
7 Sex and the Aeon 183
8 Love under Will 211
9 Time and the Aeon 239
10 Summary and Conclusion 269
Bibliography 277
Index 283
Afterword: David Hall Remembered 303
Plates
Frontispiece: Beelzebub and the Beast by Richard T. Cole
1 Aleister Crowley at 56.
2 Design, 1923, for the work of GurdjiefFs Institute.
3 George Ivanovich Gurdjieff in old age.
4 Liber Oz, a postcard issued by Crowley in 1939.
5 Melek Taus by Stuart Littlejohn.
6 GurdjiefFs Institute at Fontainebleau in the early 1920s.
7 Whirling Dervishes, from a demonstration of Sacred
Dancing in the early 1920s.
8 The Stele of Revealing, associated with the transmission
to Crowley in 1904 of The Book of the Law.
9 The site of Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema at Cefalu, Sicily,
from a recent photograph.
Line Drawings
Figure 1. The Qabalistic Tree of Life 68
Three Laws and Seven Centres 118
Figure 2. The Ladder Reaching from Earth to Heaven 143
The Pentad 144
Figure 3. The Diagram of Everything Living 145
The Pentad, showing the Nature of Man 146
The Enneagram 149
The Sevenfold Scheme of Essence and Existence 228
The Extent of the Present Moment 253