NIA turns from martial forms to a blue rose, an unseen invitation, and TARO letters circling serpentine sentences; Crowley’s later sequence makes transition the twenty-fourth Aethyr’s governing device.
- Aethyr number
- 24 of 30
- Earthly-part positions
- 70–72
- Crowley’s 1911 chapter
- Printed pp. 25–29
Dee’s Liber Scientiae is the earlier manuscript setting. The Equinox I:8 (1912) supplies the spelling and number used here. Crowley’s Vision and the Voice (1911) supplies the much later vision described below.
NIA before the blue rose
The Equinox I:8 table prints NIA at twenty-four, between TOR and VTI. If the first twenty-nine Aethyrs each group three earthly parts as Whitby describes, its ordinal positions are 70–72. The part span is a transparent calculation rather than a new transcription of the place names in Dee’s Liber Scientiae.
The British Library locates that earlier book in Sloane MS 3191. Neither the manuscript catalogue nor the 1912 list contains the blue rose and chariot described below. Those images belong to the separate 1911 printing of Crowley’s Vision and the Voice.
Sources: The Equinox I:8 (1912), p. 125 ↗ · Whitby, John Dee’s Actions with Spirits, vol. 1, pp. 141–142 ↗ · British Library, Sloane MS 3191 catalogue ↗
NIA governor names: ordinals 70–72
The Equinox I:7 (1912) groups three names under NIA on printed page 242. These are the spellings in that later table; the comparison labels below identify only forms that differ in a modern Great Table reconstruction.
- 70 ORCANIR2010 comparison form: ORCAMIR
- 71 CHIALPSSame spelling in the 2010 comparison appendix
- 72 SOAGEELSame spelling in the 2010 comparison appendix
The warrior, rose, and chariot
Crowley’s chapter opens with an armoured angel, grey plumes, and a surrounding company of animals. Blue fire gathers at the figure’s lips into a rose; hummingbirds and honey-coloured dew appear. A voice from the rose describes a chariot drawn by doves, while the seer separately imagines a golden-haired companion in that chariot.
The distinction between the voice’s image and what the seer says he imagined is explicit in the text. The voice speaks of surrender and passage; it is not a statement that NIA has a single fixed “love” or “death” meaning across the Enochian record. The blue rose is a potent Crowley image, not an icon printed beside the name in the 1912 roster.
Sources: The Equinox I:5 supplement (1911), printed pp. 25–29 ↗
TARO letters and the chapter’s ending
As the blue fire spreads, the text describes serpent-shaped sentences and letters TARO around a wheel. The seer says he cannot read much of it because of the brightness, yet briefly speculates that the letters yield many rules. This is another moment of partial perception inside a visionary report. It is not an edition of Dee’s Calls or a usable table of ritual instructions.
The closing pages return to the rose, whirling gold sparks, a green dell, and an almost wordless account of exhaustion and renewed energy. Crowley’s date line reads Ain el Hajel, November 26, 1909. Keeping the chapter’s changes in view makes a more faithful guide than attaching one tarot correspondence or fixed personality to NIA.
Sources: The Equinox I:5 supplement (1911), printed pp. 25–29 ↗ · The Equinox I:8 (1912), p. 125 ↗
Source editions and page locators
- The Equinox I:8 (1912), p. 125 ↗
- Whitby, John Dee’s Actions with Spirits, vol. 1, pp. 141–142 ↗
- British Library, Sloane MS 3191 catalogue ↗
- The Equinox I:5 supplement (1911), printed pp. 25–29 ↗
The 1911 link opens a scan of the original supplement at PDF page 27, corresponding to printed page 25. The 1912 issue link is a modern reconstruction. This page paraphrases the original printing and does not treat the visionary report as independently verified.
Continue reading the Aethyrs
- 23. TOR A changing sequence of figures in Crowley’s vision, kept separate from Dee’s name and earthly-part structure.
- 25. VTI A visionary lion and its strange tail, followed by a printed note about the difference between heard speech and perceived meaning.
- 22. LIN A luminous tablet, a musician-angel, and a striking example of why visionary number claims need their own source label.
- 21. ASP The older name and earthly-part position beside a later report of wind, a throne, and speech that the seer cannot reliably hear.
- 10. ZAX How the famous Choronzon episode entered the later literature of the tenth Aethyr.
- 2. ARN A long vision with false starts, biblical speculation, a white rose, and a late burst of images.