The Liber AL vel Legis – a well-known mystical text – was channelled by Aleister Crowley in Cairo in 1904. Crowley himself published numerous commentaries on the work, in his endeavours to understand and share just what he’d received.
One central theme of Crowley’s writing on the Liber AL was the idea that it predicted the arrival of a “Child of the New Aeon,” who would be indicated by his or her capacity to solve the work’s many riddles. The first place that one finds mention of this child is in Liber AL I.55-56…
I.55 The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.
I.56 Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child…
It surprises me that AC, with his knowledge of the Western traditions, did not appear to spot the obvious alchemical reference here.
The “house” from where you wouldn’t expect a child to come is Virgo, which rules the stomach and bowels, and is the origin of the alchemical process on a physical, bodily level.
A related metaphor is that of Jesus, who is born in Beth-Lehem [house of bread = stomach] to a virgin.
Devaraj Sandberg 2025