I suspect Crowley’s usage of equinoxes came from studying and appreciating Constantine I’s genius in imposing Christendom over the old Roman system in which seasonal change and the sun was harnessed in the service of a new ideology. His aeonic succession (Isis, Osiris, Horus) seems more like a simple and accessible schema - mommy, daddy, ME - rather than actually corresponding to any historical reality. The more I research Crowley’s ideas the more I see his genius at work in assimilating and co-opting systems (Tree of Life, Tarot, Egyptology, Enochian, I Ching) to insert his own ideas into them, as a method for disseminating and spreading his thought. I do not recall ever reading anything like that being explicitly stated. If Crowley’s aeonic succession was based on astrological aeons it seems he would have clearly stated so. If you can't read the map, how can you define the territory? The Method of Science. 365.25 days long, and even then it will *still* be equidistant from each of the Solstices.Ĭrowley used Astrological terms, and as an Astrologer who wrote books on Astrology, he can be presumed to know their meanings. The date of the Equinox will only change when the speed of the Earth's rotation around the Sun slows to the point that the Solar year is no longer approx. This point marks the begginning of Spring. Likewise the calender is quantatively defined-the Spring Equinox is a fixed point equidistant from each of the Solstices. You can measure the shift of the Earth's axis, and the amount of time it takes for Polaris to again become "The North Star", or you can measure how long it takes the Sun to travel through 12 Houses of the Zodiac, and it's the same, the Platonic Year that was first calculated 2,400-odd years ago by the Greeks. I'm pretty certain the Precession of the Equinoxes is quantatively defined. The point is that the human race has been and still is evolving on these levels. It is somewhat easier identifying the primary heralds of these changes. As for identifying the actual (mostly unknown and widely dispersed) causes of such an evolution, this can always be challenged as conjecture. To answer your question would be similar to naming the precise date that polytheism ended and/or monotheism began. In what year, during the 7th Century bce, did the Aeon of Horus actually begin? JoeĬrowley's aeonics, probably a classic example of oversimplification to the point of utter discredit, are better understood, IMO, as the gradual religious or spiritual development of the human race, progressing certainly not on single distinct global timeline but as a recognizable overall pattern. But as to the precise "Spring Equinox", of which there are only 100 possiblities of course, there is very little, if any, information publically available. According to Crowley, the Aeon of Horus ended on the Spring Equinox of 1904, an Aeon which began with the end of the Aeon of Isis, sometime in the 7th Century bce, a Century filled with enlightenment and struggle (i.e., the Buddha, and the Jewish Captivity, respectively).
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