Icon of Perdurabo
$55.00
Ten years after the founding of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, on November 18, 1898, Aleister Crowley was initiated into the Outer Order of the Golden Dawn by the group’s leader himself, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. The ceremony took place in the Golden Dawn’s Isis-Urania Temple, where Crowley took the magical motto “Frater Perdurabo”, which he interpreted as “Brother I shall endure to the end”.
And so it was, as until the end of his life in 1947, Perdurabo remained faithful to the Hermetic values, and devoted his every breath to the study of the occult arts as well as to the propagation of the Law of Thelema as delivered to him in 1904.
In this agiography, Daemon Melissyios, the artisan of LOGOS 373, presents the initiate of the great mysteries of Magick and the Esoteric Arts, Aleister Crowley as Perdurabo (dressed in an Egyptian garment of leopard skin and the nemyss-like headdress of the Golden Dawn) to hold the Hierophant’s cross for he is a true “pontiff”, in that he is the builder of the bridge between the physical realm and the metaphysical.
He is also the Great Beast (Το Μεγα Θηριον in greek) for that is another name of the magus who, through opposition, sought to break the stereotyped thinking in man and to release it into the dynamics of the archetypal forces that it hides. Powers that coil like a reptile in the innermost parts of the soul, awaiting the way for their awakening and emergence.
This snake – this kundalini, are just some of the symbols of the mysteries that surround the Icon of Perdurabo. With his right hand (abhayamudra) he is blessing the seeker of the mysteries of the Beast and of Babalon, being himself inside a mandorla that is, in a symbolic gateaway.
This Hierophant is surrounded by the Four Cherubs in their classic arrangement, along with the four magical tools that form the four pillars of a magician’s inner work.
This icon is not a photographic representation of Aleister Crowley rather the magical archetypes he embodied.
Each copy of the original painting is printed on high quality paper (constellation flandra 280gr | 28 X 36cm), stamped by the artist’s sigil and personalised with the holder’s name. In order to preserve the good condition of the paper, the print travels on a full handmade wooden case (as seen in pictures), with velvet interior, bearing LOGOS 373 artistic workshop’s logo, and sealed with wax to be broken only by the receiver, for «a thing of beauty is a joy for ever» (Keats, Endymion I)
