The Land Of No Desire

I've been waking up with this phrase in my mind. It goes back to a fellow, who's image is rotating on this blog. Aliester Crowley. I haven't written much about him, and in deed I think he's been mostly misunderstood.

But in looking up this passage via Google, i found the exact reference. It comes from Liber LXV - which was an "inspired work" (meaning it is not attributed as Crowley's own writing, but the spiritual inspiration working through him to write it) and it comes from Chapter III:

1. Verily and Amen! I passed through the deep sea, and by the rivers of running water that abound therein, and I came unto the Land of No Desire.

Yogananda states that ego is the Identification with a Physical Body - it is eternal and thus attaches to body after body, upon death. It is fueled by desires, fears, etc.

The Kabbalah Center states a similar idea of the ego:

2. Awareness of the ego is important: It is a voice inside all of us that directs us to be selfish, narrow-minded, limited, addicted, hurtful, irresponsible, negative, angry, and hateful. It is the force that tells us to do things that feel good in the short term, but in the long term brings us down. The ego is the source of all of our problems because it allows, even encourages, us to believe that others are separate from us. It is the opposite of humility.

When reading this passage, from that point of view, it seems the doctrine here is about overcoming the ego. The Land of No Desire.