Pentad 1, No. 2

Liber 1, Pentad 1, Number 2: Of the BYTH.
The AH-AM of the transcendent SELF-IDEA split the primogenial void into AH and AM, that is, into the Ouranos and Pandemos, Identity and Possibility, Being and Longing, Plenitude and Emptiness, on whose basis the ORPHAEUM determines the phenomenal and intellective or higher soul of man, and whose initial uroboric configuration gives us the Image of Music; the heuresis of the Parmenidean universe and endopsychosis of the All-Being, stillness-in-motion, potency without will; recurrence without action. The BYTHOS is the hidden soul of Pandemos, carved away as we carve away our own hearts and shape our idea-masks and pretended visages; brought forth from it as the watery abyss as yet cleft pure from impure sea under the tentations of God, unmarred by congelations of land and metal and stone, a boon of glass and secrets, and fragile things only, for the recognition of gods gentler than our own, and of older sensibility toward the needs and worth of mortality, heedless of sacrifice or prayer; the first entity to emerge in the ontogenesis of the conceptual array and mythopoeic genealogy, and that to the end of squaring the mysterious circle of the aeon and flattening time, uncoiled the linear-serpent which will bring CHANGE from the lowest to the highest universe. However, Ouranos re-incarnated its own soul, the ennoea, into a new form as well, as a response to Pandemos: Sophia.

BYTHS: To affirm its existence is to refute it, and to deny its existence is to admit it. For, if self-consciousness is included in the All-Being, it cannot be conscious of self: but if it is not included in the All-Being, then the All-Being is not the All. This is the simplest formulation of aleph-null, as well as the riddle posed by the demiurge. *


* Understanding it depends on preserving the category of the negative contra dialectical synthesis, and it is the springboard through which mortals transcend divinities, as their perfect reason prevents them from conceiving of the solution. Hence the transcendent self as the Un-True Syllable between the True-Syllables of the AH and AM that split the void of AHAM into Being and Emptiness, Identity and Possibility.