Icon of Aiwass
$710.00
Aiwass is the name given to the voice that dictated Liber Al vel Legis or The Book of the Law to Aleister Crowley, in 1904.
But what exactly was he? A messenger of the Secret Chiefs? Crowley’s own personal Holy Guardian Angel? Or a manifestation of the scribe’s unconscious higher self?
Till this day, there is great debate of what Aiwazz really was. But that doesn’t really matter. What truly matters is the message that he brought to the world, and that message is the Law of Thelema. – Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.
There are various descriptions of Aiwass in Crowley’s entire corpus. The best known is the one in The Equinox of the Gods (ch. 7) where the voice actually had «a body of fine matter».
Less known but strongly important is the vision of Aiwass in the cry of the 16th Aethyr in The Vision and the Voice. In its pages, and with great poetic skills, Crowley writes the following lines…
«… And dimly dawning in this unutterable gloom, far, far above, is the face that is the face of a man and of a woman, and upon the brow is a circle, and upon the breast is a circle, and in the palm of the right hand is a circle. Gigantic is his stature, and he hath the Uraeus crown, and the leopard’s skin, and the flaming orange apron of a god. And invisibly about him is Nuit, and in his heart is Hadit, and between his feet is the great god Ra Hoor Khuit. And in his right hand is a flaming wand, and in his left a book. Yet is he silent; and that which is understood between him and me shall not be revealed in this place. And the mystery shall be revealed to whosoever shall say, with ecstasy of worship in his heart, with a clear mind, and a passionate body: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man…»
The spiritual artisan of our artistic workshop, daemon Melissyios, by combining Egyptian aesthetics with Byzantine style, creates a hand painted Icon of Aiwass as revealed in Liber 418, in all his glory and mystery.
The Icon is made of natural 3 cm fir wood, impregnated with an antimicrobial substance and hand painted with paints/powders of byzantine hagiography using the traditional technique of egg tempera. The gold in the background of the image is made of 22 carat gold foils and specially treated to give it the appearance of aging. In its final stage, it was coated with a transparent beeswax varnish and the sides are lined with purple velvet tape.
The Icon is offered within a velvet case.
The dimensions of the Icon is 51X31 (just like the Stele of Revealing) and weighs 3kg.
Please note that each Icon of Aiwass is unique and hand painted from the beginning only after a request because it’s an offspring of spiritual practice, not a mass production.
As a result, each Icon is numbered and stamped by the artist to confirm its authenticity.
