Commentary (ΚΓ) in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“Both ’23’ and ‘Skidoo’ are American words meaning ‘Get out’. This chapter describes the Great Work under the figure of a man ridding himself of all his accidents.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The penultimate paragraph shows the redemption of the universe by this law.”
  2. “The mind is called ‘wind’, because of its nature; as has been frequently explained, the ideas and words are identical. In this free-flowing, centreless material arises an eddy; a spiral close-coiled upon itself. The theory of the formation of the Ego is that of the Hindus, whose Ahamkara is itself a function of the mind, whose ego it creates. This Ego is entirely divine.”
  3. “There may be some significance in the chapter number, which is that of Jechidah the highest unity of the soul.”
  4. “In nature the Tortoise has 6 members at angles of 60°.”
  5. “The word ‘Phoenix’ may be taken as including the idea of ‘Pelican’, the bird, which is fabled to feeds its young from the blood of its own breast. Yet the two ideas, though cognate, are not identical, and ‘Phoenix’ is the more accurate symbol.”