Nuit

Nuit (alternatively Nu, Nut, or Nuith) 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. Based on the Ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut, who arches over her husband/brother, Geb (Earth god). She is usually depicted as a naked woman who is covered with stars. Within this system, she is one-third of the triadic cosmology, along with Hadit (her masculine counterpart), and Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the Crowned and Conquering Child. She has several titles, including "Our Lady of the Stars", and "Lady of the Starry Heaven". In The Book of the Law she says of herself: "I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof", and in other sections she is called "Queen of Heaven," and "Queen of Space." Nuit is symbolized by a sphere whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is everywhere, (this idea is nearly identical to the definition of God attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and later Alain de Lille in the 12th century). Hadit is the infinitely small point at the center of the sphere of Nuit. According to Thelemic doctrine, it is the interaction between these two cosmic principles of Nuit and Hadit that creates the manifested universe similar to the gnostic syzygy. Some quotes from the first two chapters of The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis): "Every man and every woman is a star." (AL I:3). "Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!" (AL I:12). "Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing!" (AL I:22). "Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows [...]" (AL I:27). "For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union." (AL I:29). "Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, & said unto the Queen of Heaven; Write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law!" (AL I:33). "Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. [...]" (AL I:57).