0=2 “None… and two.” –Liber AL I:28 “Meditate upon Nuit as the Continuous One Resolved into None and Two as the phases of her being. This is the second practice of Meditation (ccxx,I:27).” -Liber Nu “10 is the stable number of the established system, which regards 11 the number of Magick (by the equation 0 = 2 = 11, 11 being the active form of 2) as “Evil”. Hence the Beast took 11 as his formula and thereby destroyed the 10.” –Liber 418, 16th Aethyr “In the Ontology of the New Aeon, whose prime theorem is 0 = 2, Kether exists only as the Child of any Marriage of one particular Hadit with one particular aspect of Nuit. There are thus as many Kethers as there are positive possibilities. More, Kether is not in any case a sole Unity, for each Marriage produces a Twin, ה + י = ה + ו. There is a positive “Third Being”, a Kether; and there is an Ecstasy, or dissolution into Nothing, by the same Event. One is the Magical, the other the Mystical, Result of an Act of Love under Will.” –Liber 418, 21st Aethyr “Now this was the Error of Elder Philosophers, that perceiving Changeful Duality as the Cause of Sorrow, they sought the Reconcilement in Unity and in Stability. But I shew thee the Universe as the Body of Our Lady Nuit, who is None and Two, with Hadit Her Lord as the Alternator of those Phases. This Universe is then a perpetual By-coming, the Vessel of every Permutation of infinity, wherein every Phenomenon is a Sacrament, Change being the act of Love, and Duality the Condition prodromal to that Act even as an Axe must be taken back from a Cedar that it may deliver its Stroke.” –Liber Aleph “I have known Thee who Thou art, Bacchus Diphues, none and two, in thy name I A O!” -Liber Aleph “Sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority: Zero is Two. Somehow I am aware—like a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiated—that the strange phrase declares a final Mystery of Truth, the word of the Plan of Battle, the Key of the Campaign. But in my mind its meaning is most utter darkness.” –The Heart of the Master “The World LAShTAL includes all this. LA—Naught. AL—Two. L is “Justice,” the Kteis fulfilled by the Phallus, “Naught and Two” because the plus and the minus have united in “love under will.” A is “The Fool,” Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word (Harpocrates), and Action (Bacchus). He is the boundless air, and the wandering Ghost, but with “possibilities.” He is the Naught that the Two have made by “love under will.” LA thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined, lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby. Their child is begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught also, as yet. LA is thus the Universe in that phase, with its potentialities of manifestation. AL, on the contrary, though it is essentially identical with LA, shows “The Fool” manifested through the Equilibrium of Contraries. The weight is still nothing, but it is expressed as it were two equal weights in opposite scales. The indicator still points to zero.” –Liber Reguli “This is the true Magical Doctrine of Thelema: Zero equals Two.” –Book of Thoth “The card represents two Pantacles, one above the other; they are the Chinese symbols of the Yang and Yin duplicated as in the Hsiang. One wheel is dextro- and the other laevo-rotatory. They thus represent the harmonious interplay of the Four Elements in constant movement. One may in fact consider the card as the picture of the complete manifested Universe, in respect of its dynamics. About them is entwined a green Serpent (see Liber 65, chapter iii, verses 17-20). His tail is in his mouth. He forms the figure Eight, the symbol of the Infinite, the equation 0=2.” -Book of Thoth, 2 of Disks “The Universe is a mathematical expression… The simplest form of this expression is 0 = 2, elsewhere expounded at great length. This 2 might itself be expressed in an indefinitely great number of ways. Every prime number, including some not in the series of “natural numbers”, is an individual. The other numbers with perhaps a few exceptions (e.g. 418) are composed of their primes.” –Magick Without Tears, ch.4 “Now, at last, we come to the point of real importance to our thesis: how shall we interpret X⁰? We may write it, obviously, as X¹-¹ or Xⁿ-ⁿ. Good, divide. Then X¹ ÷ X¹ = 1. This is the same, clearly enough, whatever X may be. Ah, but what we started to do was discover the meaning of Nothing. It is not correct to write it simply as 0; for that 0 implies an index 0¹ or 0², or 0ⁿ. And if our Nothing is to be absolute Nothing, then there is not only no figure, but no index either. So we must write it as 0⁰. What is the value of this expression? We proceed as before; divide. That is, we have a clash of the “infinitely great” with the “infinitely small;” that knocks out the “infinity” (and Advaitism with it!) and leaves us with an indeterminate but finite number of utter variety. That is: 0⁰ can only be interpreted as “The Universe that we know.”” –Magick Without Tears, ch.5 “I want you to realize that this collaboration of the equal opposites is the first condition of existence in any form. The trouble (I think) has always been that nobody ever looked at things from outside; they were always at one end or the other. This is because one haphazard collection of Point-Events chooses to think of itself as a Male; another, as a Female. It is totally absurd to think of Winnie as a woman, and Martin as a man. The quintessence of each is identical: “Every man and every woman is a star.” It is only a superficial accident that has made one set determine to function in one particular incarnation as the one or the other. I say function; for there is no difference in the Quintessence. Yet, since it is with a Being in its present function that one has to deal, it needs must that one acts in practice as if “does” were the same as “was.” You might be described as one instance of the 0 = 2 equation, and I as another; and any 0 = 2 is indistinguishable from any other. Yet you and I are not identical, because all that I can know of you, or you of me, is a presentation of a part of that 0 = 2 “Universe;” if we were both equally conscious of that Whole, there would be no means of becoming aware, as we are in fact aware, of that distinction.” –Magick Without Tears, ch.38 “I have to assume in all that follows that you have thoroughly understood the doctrine of 0 = 2. All Magical action may be classed as under the formula of progression from the “0” to the “2”; in other words it is complete extraversion.” –Magick Without Tears, ch.83 Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Like this:Like Loading…