See also the Old and New Comment by Aleister Crowley, here quoted:

“‘The many and the known’ both among Gods and men, are revered; this is folly.” – Old Comment on I, 11

“It is a fact of meditation that everything which becomes manifest is instantly recognized as unreal. All perfect unveiling solves, wholly or in part, the equation ‘Something equals 0/0.’ (See comment on verse 28.) Adeptship is little more than ability to perceive this 0/0 phase of ‘Something’ in respect of larger and larger ‘Somethings’.

A verse with so sacred a number as 11 is likely to mean very deep things. Probably much concerning the function of The Fool is concealed in it.

It has been shewn in a previous note that the principal Gods, and men, that men have adored, are in one way or another represented in the Tarot card ‘The Fool’. The statement in the text is, superficially, either a platitude or a petulance; neither sounds like the tone of Nuit. A third alternative? Can we have ‘phrased’ it carelessly, or punctuated it incorrectly? Or is there a Qabalistic puzzle or a mystic submeaning concealed? The subject changes instantly, as it seems. I prefer to suggest that these ‘fools’ are ‘Silent selves’, impotent babes unborn; then verse 12 continues ‘Come forth!’, that is, bring your Holy Guardian Angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. Then, ‘take your fill of love’; that is, do your True Will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter.” – New Comment on I, 11

See also the Djeridensis Comment, here quoted:

“The Secret of Government. Men adore Naught, although they deem Naught God and Man; thus the Pure Fool rules them, and saves them from base knowledge which is false.” – Djeridensis Comment on I, 11

See also the Old and New Comment by Aleister Crowley, here quoted:

“That Khabs is declared to be the light of Nu. It being worshipped in the centre, the light also fills the circumference, so that all is light.” – Old Comment on I, 9

“We are to pay attention to this Inmost Light; then comes the answering Light of Infinite Space. Note that the Light of Space is what men call Darkness; its nature is utterly incomprehensible to our uninitiated minds. It is the ‘veils’ mentioned previously in this comment that obstruct the relation between Nuit and Hadit.

We are not to worship the Khu, to fall in love with our Magical Image. To do this — we have all done it — is to forget our Truth. If we adore Form, it becomes opaque to Being, and may soon prove false to itself. The Khu in each of us includes the Cosmos as he knows it. To me, even another Khabs is only part of my Khu. Our own Khabs is our one sole Truth.” – New Comment on I, 9

See also the Djeridensis Comment, here quoted:

“Nature of Mankind. The essence of a Man and Woman – each being a Star or sovereign God poised in Space by its own act – is clothed in thoughts and deeds as is its Nature, hidden by them. This essence is all-worthy; adore it, and the light of all that may be shall be shed upon you.” – Djeridensis Comment on I, 8-9

See also the Old and New Comment by Aleister Crowley, here quoted:

“The recipient of this knowledge is to identify himself with Hadit, and thus fully express the thoughts of her heart in her very language.” – Old Comment on I, 6

“Nuit formulates me as Hadit, especially in the three centres of consciousness of her Being. In this way, for this purpose, I became the complement of Her.

These centres are those of Love, Life and Language. Duality is the condition of all three. It will appear later how it is that None and Two are identical; they are distinct in our minds only because those minds are conscious, and therefore think of “two” as their own state. But the unconscious mind thinks Nothing, and is Nothing. Yet it is the same mind.

Nuith selects three centres of Her Body to become ‘Two’ with Hadit; for she asks me to declare Her in these three. Infinite freedom, all-embracing, for physical Love; boundless continuity for Life; and the silent rhythm of the Stars for Language. These three conceptions are Her gift to us.” – New Comment on I, 6

See also the Djeridensis Comment, here quoted:

“666 as Artist. I am the Point of View (as of the artist) from which Nuit may be seen by all; for I am Her inmost thought, her sense, and her Voice.” – Djeridensis Comment on I, 6

See also the Old and New Comment by Aleister Crowley, here quoted:

“This is the rule of Thelema, that its adepts shall be invisible rulers. This, it may be remarked, has always been the case.” – Old Comment on I, 10

“The nature of magical power is quite incomprehensible to the vulgar. The prophet Ezekiel besieging a tile in order to destroy Jerusalem, and the adventure of Hosea with Gomer, seem as absurd to the ‘practical’ man as do the researches of any other scientific man until the Sunday Newspapers have furnished him with a plausible explanation which explains nothing. (“Book 4”, Part III, must be read in this connexion.)

“My servants”; not those of the Lord of the Aeon. “The Law is for all”; there can be no secrecy about that. The verse refers to specially chosen ‘servants’; perhaps those who, worshipping the Khabs, have beheld Her light shed over them. Such persons indeed consummate the marriage of Nuit and Hadit in themselves; in that case they are aware of certain Ways to Power.

There is also a mystical sense in this verse. We are to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought.” – New Comment on I, 10

See also the Djeridensis Comment, here quoted:

“Masters of Mankind defined. Those who adore and love all things alike, for that they are of Truth, are yet but few, and are not known of men. Yet being free of fear and lust their power controls the many whose souls are subject to limit, the limit of knowledge, which is always two, and can be counted.” – Djeridensis Comment on I, 10