BETH Atu Number Atu Letter&Translation Attributed Constellation Associated Quotation from Liber AL vel Legis I ב
– House Ophiuchus AL:I.3 "
Every man and every woman is a star." Two positions are shown here both imitative of the shape of the letter Beth. Of the larger position, it is a position called Steadied (noting that Beth is the letter used by God to formulate the Universe according to the Hebrew Qabalah).
In this position, the couple makes love standing or leaning against a wall.
The attributed constellation, Ophiuchus depicts a man whose heel is being stung by the scorpion the serpent, Draco that has been depicted as tempting
Eve to eat of the Tree-of-Knowledge. In Greek myth, Ophiuchus is referred to as Aesculapius, the son of Apollo (the Sun god suggesting the solar-phallic nature of divinity. He is
credited with having restored Hippolytus to life and was subsequently worshipped as the god of health. It is from this that the Cadeucus is derived as a symbol of the practice of medicine. The Serpent then is that rod, held with both hands, that brings redemption or regeneration to the earth.
The house of God is then the human body and the work of this atu is in the manufacture of medicines that restore the vitality of the body. ALI
Every man and every woman is a star. In his commentary
to this verse from AL, Crowley writes Its main statement is that each human being is an Element of the Cosmos, self-determined and supreme, coequal with all other Gods…each 'star' is the Centre
of the Universe to itself, and that a 'star' simple, original, absolute,
can add to its omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence without ceasing to be itself that its one way to do this is to gain experience, and that therefore it enters into combinations in which its true Nature is for awhile disguised, even from itself.