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The Star Sponge and the Fifty Gates,
Two Passages to Attainment.

Copyright (c) 1975 and 1990 by Bill Heidrick

Crowley's Star Sponge vision at Lake Pasquaney around 1916 e.v. was a very
profound perception but a very ordinary conception. Crowley saw "Nothingness
with twinkles" and elaborated the vision subsequently to include many
insights.

"... Each stage in the process was like the joy of a young eagle soaring from
height to height in ever increasing sunlight as dawn breaks, foaming, over the
purple hem of the garment of ocean, and, when the many coloured rays of rose
and gold and green gathered themselves together and melted into the orbed
glory of the sun, with a rapture that shook the soul with unimaginable
ecstasy, that sphere of rushing light was recognized as a common-place idea,
accepted unquestioningly and treated with drab indifference because it had so
long been assimilated as a natural and necessary part of the order of Nature.
At first I was shocked and disgusted to discover that a series of brilliant
researches should culminate in a commonplace. But I soon understood that what
I had done was to live over again the triumphant career of conquering
humanity; that I had experienced in my own person the succession of winged
victories that had been sealed by a treaty of peace whose clauses might be
summed up in some such trite expression as "Beauty depends upon form".
It would be quite impracticable to go fully into the subject of this vision
of the Star-Sponge, if only because its ramifications are omniform. It must
suffice to reiterate that it has been the basis of most of my work for the
last five years, and to remind the reader that the essential form of it is
'Nothingness with twinkles.'"
--- From Crowley's new comment to "Liber AL", Ch. I, v. 59.

(See also "Confessions" p. 810 and ff; "Liber Aleph" generally in many of the
passages citing the term "Star(s)"; and many passages in "Vision and Voice".)

This vision discovered the concept of a simple mathematical field, later
extended to include vector and functional fields. Crowley's contact with
Sullivan (see "Confessions", p. 922) led him to investigate mathematical
authors. He was deeply impressed with the writings of Bertrand Russell and A.
Eddington. Crowley's interest in the mathematics of fields and series came to
dominate many passages of his later writings, especially the commentaries to
"Liber AL" and "Liber LXV".
What made the Star Sponge vision pivotal for Crowley was his state of
readiness at the time he perceived the relation. Some studies and
experiences, especially initiations, must occur in sequence.
"Digamma-chi SEQUITUR DE HAC RE."
"I believe generally, on Ground both of Theory and Experience, so little as
I have, that a Man must first be Initiate, and established in Our Law, before
he may use this Method. For in it is an Implication of our Secret
Enlightenment, concerning the Universe, how its Nature is utterly Perfection."
--- from "Liber Aleph", p. 181