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Hadit

Had and Hadit both refer to the Thelemic version of an Egyptian god. The earlier, Egyptian version, went by the name of Hor-Behudeti or Horus of Edfu. Thoth let him take the form of the solar disk to help a younger version of Horus -- Re-Horakhty, or Ra-Hoor-Khuit -- in a battle with Set and his army. Both versions of Horus appear in the Egyptian image that Thelemites call Stele 666 (of the Boulaq Museum in Cairo) or the Stele of Revealing.

Hadit, "the great god, the lord of the sky," is depicted on the Stele of Revealing in the form of the winged disk of the Sun. However, while the ancient Egyptians treated the Sun and the other stars as separate, Thelema connects the sun-god Hadit with every individual star. Furthermore, the religion's first holy book says, "Every man and every woman is a star." (AL 1,3)

Hadit is consciousness. Hadit is the manifestation of consciousness, while Ra-Hoor-Khuit is the projection of Hadit in the form of the external universe. The second (2) chapter of Liber AL is attributed to him.

Hadit represents the infinitely small yet supremely potent point which, in union with the circle of Nuit, generates the manifest universe. Hadit represents the Individual, the individual point of view, and the practices used to individuate. In the Book of the Law he says: "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy" (AL II,9). Liber Had is an instruction for attaining Hadit.

Hadit is the Secret Seed. In the Book of the Law he says; "I am alone: there is no God where I am." (AL II,23). He is "the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star." (AL II,6). He is identified with kundalini; in the Book of the Law he says, "I am the Secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. There is great danger in me..." (AL II,26-27).

Hadit is the Fire of Desire at the Heart of Matter (Nuit). The combination of the upward-pointing triangle of Hadit and the downward-pointing triangle of Nuit forms the Star of Spirit (the Hexagram), symbolic of Transcendental Consciousness and the IXº Secret. The union of the infinitely small Hadit and the infinitely great Nuit causes an explosive rapture which leads to Samadhi.

His symbols are our Sun, the serpent, the Fire Snake, the star Sothis, the planet Pluto, sperm, the Will, the winged globe, the Hermit, and the hidden flame. He is Leo to Nuit's Aquarius. He is LVX to Nuit's NOX. The short form of his name, Had, forms the central syllable of the word of the Aeon, Abrahadabra.

See also

• Book of the Law
• Had
• Nu
• Nuit
• Ra-Hoor-Khuit

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