Konx om Pax

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Cover of Konx om Pax by Aleister Crowley.

'Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light is a publication by British occultist 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.

1 Partial contents
2 Editions
3 See also

[edit] Partial contents

[edit] 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.

[edit] The Wake World

An allegory for the ascent of a magickal practitioner through the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, accompanied by her Holy Guardian Angel. It was originally written by Crowley as a bedtime story for his daughter, Lola Zaza.

[edit] Thien Tao, or, the Synagogue of Satan

This parodic essay casts a Crowley character (Master Kwaw) as a Taoist advisor to the Japanese "Daimio" (daimyo) in a time of crisis. Kwaw advises a course of study in which people shall be taught the antithesis of their natural tendencies: the prostitute to learn chastity, the prude to learn sexual expression, the religious bigot to learn Huxley's materialism, the atheist to learn ceremonial magic.