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This Essay examines certain psychological foundations relative to

Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law
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The Third Matrix

The third matrix, BPM III, the "Death and Rebirth Struggle," reflects our experiences as we move through the birth canal.

BPM III starts when contractions are still occurring, but the birth canal now opens. Immense forces squash the head and body. This feels like (and is) a life-and-death struggle with enormous emotional & physical tension.

The pattern in later life is of problems with control of self-destructive impulses. These are typified by cruel fantasies, sexual disturbances, preoccupation with demonic, perverted, or scatological themes. The world is a dangerous place, an existential battlefield ruled by the law of the jungle, where one has to be strong to survive.

(Grof's Definition) BPM III: "Many important aspects of this complex experiential matrix can be understood from its association with the second clinical stage of biological delivery . . . This involves an enormous struggle for survival, crushing mechanical pressure, and often a high degree of anoxia and suffocation . . . [Themes include] titanic fight, sadomasochistic experiences, intense sexual arousal, demonic episodes, scatological involvement, and encounter with fire."

"Related archetypal themes are images of the Last Judgement, the extraordinary feats of superheroes, and mythological battles of cosmic proportions involving demons and angels or gods and Titans . . . [These images] combine sex with death, danger, biological material, aggression, self-destructive impulses, physical pain, and spirituality."

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The third chapter of Liber AL describes these themes:

"I will give you a war-engine. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you." – Chapter 3, Lines 7 & 8.***

"I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough … Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears." – Chapter 3, Line 11.***

"I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me, & are abased. I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in battle & ye shall delight to slay." – Chapter 3, Line 46.***

*** It has been documented (by Crowley himself, and others) that Adolph Hitler based his tactics for world domination on Liber AL, a book to which he was introduced by Martha Kuntzel, the Magister Templi of the A\ A\ for Germany, against the wishes of the Master Therion (Crowley).

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Analysis – BPM III

Each uterine contraction restricts the blood supply to the fetus. In this stage of delivery, many complications can further reduce the circulation and cause suffocation. The umbilical cord can be squeezed between the head and the pelvic opening or be twisted around the neck. A cord that is short anatomically or shortened by forming loops around various parts of the body can pull on the placenta and detach it from the uterine wall. This disrupts the connection with the maternal organism and can cause a dangerous degree of suffocation.

BPM III takes the form of a determined death-rebirth struggle. The most common archetypes encountered are the elements of titanic fight, sadomasochistic experiences, intense sexual arousal, demonic episodes, scatological involvement, and encounter with fire.

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