by Takamba » Sat Nov 11, 2017 6:52 am
Be it wisdom or folly, look at it through whatever lenses you have the skill to look at it through and take it for yourself as is. Yes, any aspirant is the "son" addressed in the letters. But also it was originally intended as meant for Frater Achad (Charles Stanford Jones) who Crowley believed was his magical "son" (or heir, or the one begotten not from his loins as prophecied in Liber AL). Hilarion was Crowley's then current "Scarlet Woman" (wife).
My recommendation: Read ALL of Crowley's published writings. You should even be able to locate currently out-of-print material through the various esoteric websites that put text versions of public domain materials. Then, after reading everything, read them again but in the order of the dates you can discover that Crowley wrote them in - so that you will know who all the names refer to in his lifetime and you can watch the evolution of his thinking over time (what he says in his essay attached to Mathers' "Lesser Key" is somewhat less advanced than what he says in Liber Aleph, so be sure not to take anything as "gospel" except for that moment you read it).
"If we are to have Beauty and Love, whether in begetting children or works of art, or what not, we must have perfect freedom to act, without fear or shame or any falsity."