“Bride of the Pyramid”
by IAO131Arabic text from Surah 112: The Chapter of Unity
Surah 112 (trans. from Book 4, Part I): “He is God alone! God the Eternal! He begets not and is not begotten! Nor is there like unto Him any one!”
“…The Angel, foreseeing difficulty in the higher or remoter Aethyrs, gave me this instruction. I was to recite a chapter from the Q’uran: what the Mohammedans call the ‘Chapter of the Unity.’ ‘Qol: Hua Allahu achad; Allahu assamad: lam yalid walam yulad; walam yakun lahu kufwan achad.’ I was to say this, bowing myself to the earth after each chapter, a thousand and one times a day, as I walked behind my camel in the Great Eastern Erg of the Sahara. I do not think that anyone will dispute that this was pretty good exercise; but my point is that it was certainly very good Yoga…” –Aleister Crowley, ‘Eight Lectures on Yoga’