God the Father, God who guides Parliament. The title is a deliberately archaic and politicized epithet for the First Person of the Christian Trinity, drawn from the language of English state prayer. "Parliament" here is not merely a legislature but the archetypal council of governance, the earthly seat of authority that mirrors the divine ordering of creation. The phrase yokes the transcendent patriarchy of the Father to the specific machinery of human law, suggesting that the same wisdom that establishes cosmic order also inspires—and is invoked to steer—the debates of a national assembly. The name appears most notably in the Book of Common Prayer, where the sovereign’s government is commended to God’s guidance; it also echoes in the King James Bible’s liturgical formulas and later in Rudyard Kipling’s imperial hymns, where God is asked to "guide" the British Empire’s councils.

Position on the Tree of Life

This expression corresponds to Chokmah, the second Sephirah, the Supernal Father. Chokmah is pure, undifferentiated wisdom—the first burst of force that proceeds from Kether. To name this principle "God the Father" is conventional; to specify that he also guides Parliament is to emphasize the legislative, ordering aspect of that wisdom. In 777, this step anchors a sequence of Christian divine titles that shift as they descend the Tree: the Father in wisdom, the Rain-maker in mercy, the Judge in severity, the Son in beauty, the Messiah in victory, the Holy Ghost in splendor and foundation, and finally the Church in the kingdom. The "Parliament" tag marks Chokmah as the source of divine law, the blueprint from which all subsequent governance flows.

Historical context

The pairing of "Father" with "Parliament" is not original to occultism. It entered the English religious imagination through the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, specifically the prayers for the Parliament that were added after the Restoration. These prayers were read aloud at the opening of each parliamentary session, beseeching God to "guide and direct" the deliberations of Lords and Commons. The phrase thus carried a double charge: it was a sincere petition for divine oversight of the realm, and, for later commentators, a sign of the Church of England’s entanglement with state power.

In the 19th century, the spread of the British Empire repurposed this prayer for colonial use. Kipling’s "Recessional" (1897) echoed the theme: "God of our fathers, known of old… Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget, lest we forget." The "God who guides Parliament" is the same deity invoked to bless imperial expansion, a fact that Aleister Crowley—who had his own complex relationship with British institutions—would have relished.

Crowley’s inclusion of this title in Liber 777 is a typically sly maneuver. On the surface, it is a straightforward item from the Anglican liturgical canon. In context, however, it stands amid a row that also includes "God the Rain-maker" and "Christ coming to Judge the World." The effect is to treat established Christian titles as equally valid (and equally partial) hieroglyphs for forces on the Tree of Life. The Parliament-guiding Father is thus demoted from unique sovereignty to being one mask of Chokmah among many—a necessary step on the magician’s path up the Tree, not the terminus of worship.

The broader 777 schema places this title at step 2, directly opposite the column of Hindu gods, Egyptian gods, and Roman gods. On the same row, the corresponding demons include Beelzebub and other overlords; the corresponding angels include the Chokmah-specific Metatron and Raziel. The message is clear: every pantheon’s "Father" and "Lawgiver" converges at the same sephirotic point. "God the Father, God who guides Parliament" is, in this system, a local English refraction of a universal current.

In the table of 777, this object appears at the intersection of the row "Selection of Christian Gods" and the column corresponding to Chokmah. It is flanked by "God the 3 in 1" at Kether above and "The Virgin Mary" at Binah below. Its direct parallel in other columns is the supreme Father-figure of each tradition, but only the English version carries a political charter in its title.