Great Work what it has repressed in order to integrate what has been repressed into itself. The term also appears in the Benediction at the end of Crowley's Gnostic Mass, where the Priest blesses the congregation with the words: The LORD bring you to the accomplishment of your true Wills, the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. Great Work The term Great Work (magnum opus) is a term used in Hermeticism and in certain occult traditions and religions such as Thelema. The Great Work signifies the spiritual path towards self-transcendence in its entirety. This is the process of
Latin obscenity E. Housman; he also wanted to read "prō tēlō" as "prōtēlō" with the meaning "there and then". Others, however, understand Catullus to mean that the boy was caught having sex with a girl; in which case, "prōtēlō" probably means "in a threesome", since a "prōtēlum", according to the agricultural writer Cato the Elder, was a team of three oxen pulling a plough. Uden (2007) translates: "I just caught a kid banging his girlfriend", explaining that "pūpulum" is a derogatory diminutive. The verb "caedere" (literally "to cut" or "kill") is used as slang for homosexual penetration elsewhere in Latin literature, such