Hadit

Hadit (sometimes Had) refers to the Thelemic version of an Egyptian god. Hadit is the principal speaker of the second chapter of The Book of the Law (written by Aleister Crowley in 1904).

Descriptions

He identifies himself as the point in the center of the circle, the axle of the wheel, the cube in the circle, "the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star," and the worshipper's own inner self. Hadit has been interpreted as the inner spirit of man, the Holy Ghost, the sperm in which the DNA of man is carried, the Elixir Vitae. When juxtaposed with Nuit in Liber Legis, Hadit represents each unique point-experience. These point-experiences in aggregate comprise the sum of all possible experience, Nuit.

Hadit, "the great god, the lord of the sky," is depicted on the Stele of Revealing in the form of the winged disk of the Sun. However, while the ancient Egyptians treated the Sun and the other stars as separate, Thelema connects the sun-god Hadit with every individual star. Furthermore, The Book of the Law says, "Every man and every woman is a star." [Book of the Law 1,3]

Hadit is the Secret Seed. In the "Book of the Law" he says; "I am alone: there is no God where I am." [Book of the Law II,23] . He is "the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star." [Book of the Law II,6] . He is identified with kundalini; [ [http://www.hermetic.com/220/crowley-comments.html the Old Comment] to "Liber AL" II:22 says this explicitly] in the "Book of the Law" he says, "I am the Secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. There is great danger in me..." [Book of the Law II,26-27] .

Hadit is the Fire of Desire at the Heart of Matter (Nuit). The combination of the upward-pointing triangle of Hadit and the downward-pointing triangle of Nuit forms the Star of Spirit (the Hexagram). The union of the infinitely small Hadit and the infinitely great Nuit causes an explosive rapture which leads to Samadhi.

His symbols are our Sun, the serpent, the Fire Snake, the star Sothis, the planet Pluto, sperm, the Will, the winged globe, the Hermit, and the hidden flame. He is Leo to Nuit's Aquarius. He is LVX to Nuit's NOX. The short form of his name, Had, forms the central syllable of the word of the Aeon, Abrahadabra.

History

The earlier, Egyptian version, went by the name of Hor-Behudeti or Horus of Edfu, Haidith in Greek. [see http://www.philae.nu/akhet/NetjeruH.html#Horus] Thoth let him take the form of the solar disk to help a younger version of Horus—Re-Horakhty, or Ra-Hoor-Khuit—in a battle with Set and his army. Both versions of Horus appear in the Egyptian image that Thelemites call Stele 666 (of the Boulaq Museum in Cairo) or the Stèle of Revealing. Around the time of its creation, Egyptian funerary teachings apparently included "the new idea that the deceased could become one with the sun god, previously only a royal prerogative." [Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, [http://www.wagenburg.at/staticE/page161.html online description of another wooden stèle] , retrieved January 20, 2008.]

ee also

*Book of the Law
*Nu
*Nuit
*Heru-ra-ha

References

Sources

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