Nuit


Nuit is a goddess in Thelema, the speaker in the first Chapter of The Book of the Law, the sacred text written or received in 1904 by Aleister Crowley.
Nut is an Egyptian sky goddess who leans over her husband/brother, Geb. She is usually depicted as a naked woman who is covered with stars.

Goddess of Thelema

Within this system, she is one-third of the triadic cosmology, along with Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the Crowned and Conquering Child. She has several titles, including the "Queen of Infinite Space", "Our Lady of the Stars", and "Lady of the Starry Heaven". Nuit represents the infinitely-expanded circle whose circumference is unmeasurable and whose center is everywhere. According to Thelemic doctrine, it is the interaction between these two cosmic principles that creates the manifested universe similar to the gnostic syzygy.
Some quotes from the First Chapter of The Book of the Law :
"Every man and every woman is a star.".

"Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!".

"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.".

"The word of the Law is Θελημα. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.".

"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.".

"Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. ".

"I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.".
In The Equinox of the Gods, Crowley writes of Nuit in comparison to Christianity:
The following are quotes from Crowley's commentaries to The Book of the Law.
In Egyptian mythology, Nut was the sky goddess. She is the daughter of Shu and Tefnut.
The sun god Ra entered her mouth after the sun set in the evening and was reborn from her vulva the next morning. She also swallowed and rebirthed stars. She was a goddess of death, and her image is on the inside of most sarcophagi. The pharaoh entered her body after death and was later resurrected.
In art, Nut is depicted as a woman wearing no clothes, covered with stars and supported by Shu; opposite her, is her husband Geb. With Geb, she was the mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.