The First Principles of Thelema are unchanging throughout all of Crowley’s life. In fact, one could argue that these principles represent the hidden skeleton of all Crowley’s thought. Every paradigm he encountered he reinterpreted in light of these ideas. 
The First Principles can be summarized by “0.12”
0 = Nuit, the infinite Nothing as Object, the Qabalistic Zero
. = Hadit, the infinite Nothing as Subject, also the Qabalistic Zero.
0 = Nuit, the infinite Nothing as Object, the Qabalistic Zero
. = Hadit, the infinite Nothing as Subject, also the Qabalistic Zero.
1 = Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the Monad, Unity, or God. The Star, or Khabs. Together, Nuit and Hadit unite in a Star. There are infinite possible Stars and each one represents a self-contained Universe. It can be represented as Kether or as the Supernal Triad as a whole.
2 = The manifested Universe of pairs of opposites that the Star weaves for itself to experience its own Nature. Duality represents illusion in one sense but in a higher sense represents the infrastructure to manifest a God.
Between the 1 and the 2 lies the Abyss that separates unity/the Absolute from the many/the Conditioned.
To reunite the separated, the individual as a Microcosm must reunite with their other half, the Macrocosm or Holy Guardian Angel, who is an image of the 1, the Star or God, projected into duality.
All of this takes place on Earth, in the body, a temple or engine wherein one may unite opposites in love under will through the Events of one’s experiences.
“I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty. Divide, add, multiply, and understand.”
—Liber AL vel Legis I:24-25
“6 / 50 gives 0.12, a perfect glyph-statement of the metaphysics of the Book.”
—Aleister Crowley
—Liber AL vel Legis I:24-25
“6 / 50 gives 0.12, a perfect glyph-statement of the metaphysics of the Book.”
—Aleister Crowley
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