Konx om Pax
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Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light is a publication by British occulist Aleister Crowley, first published in 1907. The name Konx Om Pax is a phrase purportedly used in the Eleusinian Mysteries. Its companion is Khabs Am Pekht, which in the Egyptian language means roughly "Light in extension" or "Light rushing out in a single ray", used pointedly in the Golden Dawn Vernal and Autumnal Equinox ceremonies.
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Contents
Introduction
A barrage of syncretic materials introduce the work:
- the Arabic for Sura 112, al-Ikhlas, from the Qur'an;
- Ave: in John Dee and Edward Kelley's Enochian language;
- the Egyptian hieroglyphs for the Stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu
Three full pages of quotations introduce this work, signaling the syncretic intention of the author. Many sacred texts and sources such as Dante, Catullus, and Jesus are quoted.
Dedication and Counter-Dedication
The Dedication and Counter-Dedication are perhaps the features of this work that will best interest the casual reader who is not a student of Crowley or ancient languages.
The Wake World
The Wake World is a disturbingly simple allegory and should inspire any Zelator, and is appropriately called 'a Tale for Babes and Sucklings.'
Ali Soper
After Dedication and Counter-Dedication and The Wake World (Liber XCV) - Class C there is: Ali Sloper, 'containing an essay on AMTh' (Hebrew for "truth").
Thien Tao (Liber XLI)
Crowley described this as a "Political Essay- Class C". It purports to retell a Japanese legend of some sort; it veers off characteristically into something more or less grotesque by apparently (?!) attempting to palm off Victorian morality onto Crowley's idea of the Other?
Stone of the Philosophers Which is Hidden in the Mountain of Abiegnus
This discusses the philosopher's stone; it contains La Gintana, a love poem.
Study of this book is recommended chiefly to serious students of Crowley's thought. Others may find it difficult and obscure.