Every Man and Woman is a Star:

Kenneth Anger quotes Aleister Crowley in his book Hollywood Babylon, ‘Every man and every woman is a star’ The double entendre as quoted in Anger’s book Hollywood Babylon can be taken as a nod to Hollywood film stars and the fact that most of us walk around feeling like we are at the center of our own quasi-universe (ego) where we write, produce and direct the story that is our life; or the quote can be taken quite literally, ‘Like Pythagoras before him, Paracelsus believed the Quintessence is what the stars are made of and that within every living thing there exists a hidden star that was that thing’s Quintessence. Indeed, one of the symbols for the Quintessence is the star’. (Sorcerer’s Stone, page 55-56 by Dennis William Hauck)

‘…The final step in the Great Work (Alchemy) is to redeem matter itself, to manifest the light of consciousness in a whole new embodiment, what the great Alchemist Paracelsus called the Star (or Astral) Body. The Star Child has been created through the purification and union of the universal forces within us, or as the alchemists would put it, through the “fusion of the planets.”’ (Sorcerer’s Stone: A Beginners Guide to Alchemy, by Dennis William Hauck, page 108)… ‘Alchemists believed that if you could not create this perfected body (Astral Body) during your lifetime, you were destined to be reabsorbed into the cosmos and recycled until you got it right.’ (page 238)

The essence of Thelema is contained within the axiom "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" and its rejoinder "Love is the law, love under will", and the statement "Every man and every woman is a star". Thus find your true will and do it under the constraints of the law, whose nature is love. Thelema recognizes the divine potential in everyone - we are all stars in the body of Nuit (the Stellar Goddess) containing the divine spark within us. This again is found in the Book of the Law "Every man and every woman is a star".
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‘Develop the Body of Light until it is just as real to you as your other body, teach it to travel to any desired symbol, and enable it to perform all necessary rites and invocations. In short, educate it…You may also try “Rising on the Planes.” With a little practice, especially if you have a good guru, you ought to be able to slip in and out of your Astral Body as easily as you slip in and out of a dressing gown.’ (Magick Book Four-Liber Aba, Aleister Crowley)

In Alchemy, the Pentagram (star within a circle) is thought to represent the body of humankind.

To better understand the Quintessence it is helpful to take a look at Western Alchemy’s Eastern counterparts, ‘In Chinese Alchemy, the fifth element is Wood, which is a product of the plant kingdom and things that grow. In Taoist Alchemy, the Quintessence is known as Chi, an unseen energy that flows through the body and can be accumulated and directed in moving meditations such as performed in Tai Chi and Chi Kung. In Tantric Alchemy, the quintessence is the kundalini sexual energy coiled like a sleeping serpent at the base of the spine. In Hindu Alchemy, the Quintessence is the spirit of breath known in Sanskrit as prana. In all of these traditions, both East and West, there is only one thing that the Quintessence can be. It is the life force itself.’ (Sorcerer’s Stone, page 56-57 by Dennis William Hauck)

Egyptian astronomical texts and representations mention many gods and goddesses of the night sky-some representing planets as well as astral bodies-which are conveniently called star deities. Most important of these were the “Imperishable Ones” representing the Northern circumpolar stars which were visible each night…These constant stars symbolized the idea of eternal survival for the Egyptians and it seems to have been the goal of early kings to join their numbers in the afterlife…so that the deceased king is said to be the morning star…The brightest object in the night sky after the moon, the planet Venus (the ‘morning star’) was viewed even from early times as an important deity; and from at least the Middle Kingdom the Egyptians recognized five of the planets which they called ‘stars that know no rest’ and which were represented as Gods who sailed across the heavens in their own barques. These were Mercury (Sebegu, perhaps a form of Seth), Venus (‘the one who crosses’ or ‘god of the morning’), Mars (‘Horus of the horizon’ or ‘Horus the red’), Jupiter (‘Horus who limits the two lands’), and Saturn (‘Horus bull of the heavens’).

Crowley’s Nuit (Stellar Goddess) may be seen as the Egyptian Goddess Nut who was primarily perceived as the, ‘personification of the vault of the heavens, though her character included many different aspects within this role…Nut thus fulfilled an important cosmogonic role-she was not only the great sky whose ‘laughter’ was the thunder, and whose tears were the rain, but she was also the ‘mother’ of the heavenly bodies who were believed to enter her mouth and emerge again from her womb each day. The sun was thus said to travel through the body of the Goddess during the night hours and the stars traveled through her during the day…fearing the usurpation of his own position, the sun god placed a curse on the sky Goddess stopping her giving birth on any day of the 360-day year. The God Hermes (Thoth) came to Nut’s aid, however, and won five extra days for the year enabling the Goddess to bear her children…Nut also became inextricably associated with the concept of resurrection in Egyptian funerary beliefs, and the dead were believed to become stars in the body of the Goddess. According to Heliopolitan (Greek) theology Nut united with her brother Geb, the earth god, to produce Osiris and those deities associated with him in the great mythic cycle of resurrection. (The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, page 160-161, by Richard H Wilkinson)

The Pentads: ‘Although not a common numerical grouping of deities, pentads are occasionally found in Egyptian mythology. The five ‘epagomenal’ days added at the end of the Egyptian year to raise the total of days from 360…to 365 were assigned as the ‘birthdays’ of the deities Osiris, Isis, Horus, Seth and Nephthys, making a distinct group of these related deities. In the Hermopolitan tradition the title ‘Great of Five’ was also applied to the God Thoth (Hermes)’ (The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, page 77 by Richard H. Wilkinson)

Thoth (Hermes) has been mentioned throughout this text; it is important to point out the connection that runs through Alchemy and the above systems. Traditionally, Thoth is considered the first Alchemist; he lived in ancient Egypt when anthropomorphic Gods and Goddesses lived side by side with humankind sharing their knowledge with ancient peoples, ‘Thoth (Tehuti, which is his most ancient name) was part of a “group of nine” who arrived in Egypt with an advanced spiritual technology that enabled them to manipulate matter.

Thoth was an intermediary between the godlike beings and the humans of the time. He was known as a scribe, the inventor of the sacred language of hieroglyphics (literally, “Holy Writing”)…His symbol was a pair of serpents twisted around a central staff (the caduceus). Since snakes represent the life force in most ancient cultures, the caduceus became the symbol of healing and medicine. There is a remarkable similarity between Thoth’s caduceus and the structure of the DNA molecule, the double helix of proteins that is the blue-print of all life. Perhaps this further explains his odd association with baboons. Could Thoth have manipulated the genetic material of baboons or apes to speed up the evolution of mankind? Such an act would certainly be in line with his role as the first Alchemist.’ (Sorcerer’s Stone, page 16-17 by Dennis William Hauck)