Liber Pennae Praenumbra

[6]In 1974, Nema Andahadna, a dedicated occultist and practitioner of ceremonial magick, received the text of Liber Pennae Praenumbra during a profound mystical experience.

At the time, Nema was deeply immersed in explorations of Thelema, Kabbalah, and Hermetic traditions, and had begun developing her unique perspective on magical practice.

[7] According to Nema's account, the channeling occurred during an intense meditative state, heightened by her invocation of the divine feminine and a focus on balancing the cosmic forces of the Aeons.

The result was a work imbued with poetic and cryptic language, filled with references to cosmic justice, personal enlightenment, and the formula of IPSOS, which she later understood to mean "themselves".

[8] Initially shared with close colleagues, including members of the emerging Horus-Maat Lodge, the text soon gained recognition for its visionary quality and its potential to complement Aleister Crowley's Liber AL vel Legis.

N'Aton is figured as the "collective humanity of the future",[10] identified as a shared superconsciousness which is dormant or asleep in most people, but which can be awakened through the theurgy of Maatian magic.

[11] He equates the word with part of a cryptic cipher in Liber AL (II, 76), RPSTOVAL, by virtue of the fact that in the qabalistic art of gematria, both evaluate to either 696 or 456, depending on whether an 'S' in each is taken as the Hebrew letter shin or samekh.

Karr explored its implications for Maatian Kabbalah,[14] while Laccetti has connected its vision of homo veritas to broader philosophical ideas, including those of Teilhard de Chardin and other 20th-century theologians.

[10] According to Nicholas Laccetti, the future vision of man as homo veritas (true human) resembles the mid-20th-century concepts of Catholic theologians Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Juan Luis Segundo, and Edward Schillebeeckx.

Cover of the 2022 Black Moon Publishing edition