RESH Atu Number Atu Letter&Translation Attributed Constellation Associated Quotation from Liber AL vel Legis XIX ר
– Head Lynx, Mensa, Dorado If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy forever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. There‟s a poetic point to be made in attributing the coital position
called Steadied to this Atu, when considering the verse from Liber AL. The soul, once brought to light is in a fixed or steadied position. And in this coital position, the couple
makes love standing upright, the sign of the Initiated Man. They of course, may also be leaning against a wall or pillar. But it is the head (Resh) that is where the soul is fixed to the body.
The constellation called Lynx fills a large area of sky between Ursa Major and Auriga. It is probably connected the mythological character Lynceus who was known to have the keenest eyesight in the world, which included the ability to see things underground. Here we seethe ability to formulate the Astral Body as key to the Magickal Immortality in the Egyptian formula. Lynx as shown on the Uranographia of Johann Bode. To see Hevelius‟s
version of Lynx, click here
The constellation Mensa is a small, faint constellation of the far southern sky commemorating the
Table Mountain near Cape Town, South Africa. It covers apart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, neighboring the Milky Way, and which gives it the appearance of a
being capped by a white cloud, like the so-called tablecloth cloud that can be found over the real Table Mountain when a virulent southeastern wind rushes over it. It immediately gives this idea of the many myths of godson mountains. Mensa, introduced under the name Mons Mensae, as illustrated in the Uranographia of Johann Bode.
Nubecula Major is the Large Magellanic Cloud, representing the cloud that caps the real Table Mountain.
Dorado is
a small southern constellation, also covering a portion of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is depicted as a colorful dolphin-fish popularly known as the Mahi-mahi and found in tropical waters. These fish are large predatory fish placed in the sky following the constellation of the flying fish, Volans. Also depicted as a swordfish, it is the allusion to flying (astral travel) that seems suggested here.
Dorado shown in the Uranographia of Johann
Bode under the name of Xiphias, the swordfish. Nubecula Major, above it, is better known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.