THE BATTLE OF THE ANTS
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{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta
Epsilon}
That is not which is.
The only
Word is Silence.
The only Meaning of that Word is not.
Thoughts are
false.
Fatherhood is unity disguised as duality.
Peace implies
war.
Power implies war.
Harmony implies war.
Victory implies
war.
Glory implies war.
Foundation implies war.
Alas! for the Kingdom
wherein all these are at war.
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COMMENTARY ({Epsilon})
He is
the letter of Aries, a Martial sign; while the
title suggests war. The ants
are chosen as small busy
objects.
Yet He, being a holy letter, raises the
beginning of the
chapter to a contemplation of the Pentagram, con-
sidered
as a glyph of the ultimate.
In line 1, Being is identified with
Not-Being.
In line 2, Speech with Silence.
In line 3, the Logos is
declared as the Negative.
Line 4 is another phrasing of the familiar
Hindu
statement, that that which can be thought is not true.
In line 5, we
come to an important statement, an
adumbration of the most daring thesis in
this book-
Father and Son are not really two, but one; their unity
being
the Holy Ghost, the semen; the human form is a
non-essential accretion of
this quintessence.
So far the chapter has followed the Sephiroth
from
Kether to Chesed, and Chesed is united to the Supernal
Triad by
virtue of its Phallic nature; for not only is
Amoun a Phallic God, and
Jupiter the Father of All,
but 4 is Daleth, Venus, and Chesed refers to
water,
from which Venus sprang, and which is the symbol of
the Mother in
the Tetragrammaton. See Chapter 0,
"God the Father and Mother is concealed in
genera-
tion".
But Chesed, in the lower sense, is conjoined
to
Microprosopus. It is the true link between the greater
and lesser
countenances, whereas Daath is the false.
Compare the doctrine of the higher
and lower Manas in
Theosophy.
The rest of the chapter therefor points out
the duality,
and therefore the imperfection, of all the lower Sephiroth
in
their essence.
