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Abrahadabra
What an awesome book. If you are interested in Thelema, it is a great foundation. Rodney Orpheus is the writer. Very easy to understand, and work.
Another random thought while invoking Babalon
Right now my nightly ritual is a Star Ruby followed by Invoking Babalon and the Spirits that I work with. A thought came to me.
It is a lot cooler to pray to the Mother of Abominations than the Virgin Mary
I was raised old style Catholic with the bullshit that comes with that. Such a hateful religion.
It is a lot cooler to pray to the Mother of Abominations than the Virgin Mary
I was raised old style Catholic with the bullshit that comes with that. Such a hateful religion.
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beginner question
Hi iam beginner in thelema system
and my question is who i need to offer the ritual to Ra hoor khuit , hadit, or nuit or all the 3 deity.
'see AL I. 52'
Thank you :)
and my question is who i need to offer the ritual to Ra hoor khuit , hadit, or nuit or all the 3 deity.
'see AL I. 52'
Thank you :)
Funny Uncle Al story from Christmas Dinner
Here I am at my mother's house for Christmas Dinner. I am talking to my brother in law and said "My religion's prophet was a guy by the name of Aleister Crowley. His response was "Isn't he the guy who taught Jimmy Page how to play guitar..."
The Healing Power of Thelema
Every night, part of my ritual practice is to do the Star Ruby. As I go through the Signs of N.O.X., I have noticed that has been helping me with some past abuse issues, some past body issues. I think by involving the body, it is helping me remember that my body is Holy too.
Then I started thinking about the Book of the Law,
Unlike Aeon of Osiris religions, we don’t start out ‘bad’ and require something to save us.
By default we are Spiritual Beings and Good. The trouble is that most people are taught to ignore that. At the same time, if they did remember that, how much money would the death cult churches make?
Our Gods love us, with the love of a Most Perfect Parent.
Our Gods love us, with a Holy Carnal Hunger
Just some thoughts that came to me as I did last night's ritual.
Then I started thinking about the Book of the Law,
Unlike Aeon of Osiris religions, we don’t start out ‘bad’ and require something to save us.
By default we are Spiritual Beings and Good. The trouble is that most people are taught to ignore that. At the same time, if they did remember that, how much money would the death cult churches make?
Our Gods love us, with the love of a Most Perfect Parent.
Our Gods love us, with a Holy Carnal Hunger
Just some thoughts that came to me as I did last night's ritual.
Liber B vel Magi
Liber B
vel
Magi
sub figurâ I
A∴A∴ Publication in Class A
00. vel
Magi
sub figurâ I
A∴A∴ Publication in Class A
One is the Magus; twain His forces; four His weapons. These are the Seven Spirits of Unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. Thus is the art and craft of the Magus but glamour. How shall He destroy Himself?
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Yet the Magus hath power upon the Mother both directly and through Love. And the Magus is Love, and bindeth together That and This in his conjuration.
1.
In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soul. Yet therein is the Mystery of Redemption.
2.
By His Wisdom made He the Worlds; the Word that is God is none other than He.
3.
How then shall He end His speech with Silence? For He is Speech.
4.
He is the first and the last. How shall He cease to number Himself?
5.
By a Magus is this writing made known through the mind of a Magister. The one uttereth clearly, and the other understandeth; yet the Word is falsehood, and the Understanding darkness. And this saying is Of All Truth.
6.
Nevertheless it is written; for there be times of darkness, and this as a lamp therein.
7.
With the Wand createth He.
8.
With the Cup preserveth He.
9.
With the Dagger destroyeth He.
10.
With the Coin redeemeth He.
11.
His weapons fulfil the wheel; and on What Axle that turneth is not known unto Him.
12.
From all these actions must He cease before the curse of His Grade is uplifted from Him. Before He attain to That which existeth without Form.
13.
And if at this time He be manifested upon earth as a Man, and therefore is this present writing, let this be His method, that the curse of His grade, and the burden of His attainment, be uplifted from Him.
14.
Let Him beware of abstinence from action. For the curse of His grade is that He must speak Truth, that the Falsehood thereof may enslave the souls of men. Let him then utter that without Fear, that the Law may be fulfilled. And according to His Original Nature will that law be shapen, so that one may declare gentleness and quietness, being an Hindu; and another fierceness and servility, being a Jew; and yet another ardour and manliness, being an Arab. Yet this matter toucheth the mystery of Incarnation, and is not here to be declared.
15.
Now the grade of a Magister teacheth the Mystery of Sorrow, and the grade of a Magus the Mystery of Change, and the grade of Ipsissimus the Mystery of Selflessness, which is called also the Mystery of Pan.
16.
Let the Magus then contemplate each in turn, raising it to the ultimate power of Infinity. Wherein Sorrow is Joy, and Change is Stability, and Selflessness is Self. For the interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole. And this contemplation shall be performed not by simple meditation— how much less then by reason? but by the method which shall have been given unto Him in His Initiation to the Grade.
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Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that trinity from its elements, and further to combine Sat-Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the grade of Practicus (which reflecteth Mercury into the lowest world) in Liber XXVII, “Here is Nothing under its three Forms.”
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And this is the Opening of the Grade of Ipsissimus, and by the Buddhists it is called the trance Nerodha-Samapatti.
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And woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe, woe, woe unto seven times be His that preacheth not His law to men!
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And woe also be unto Him that refuseth the curse of the grade of a Magus, and the burden of the Attainment thereof.
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And in the word CHAOS let the Book be sealed; yea, let the Book be sealed.
Liber 231
Any of you fools get to messing around with liber 231? My HGA seems to be steering me away from it but I'm curious to know more at the least. It seems to be the kinda thing that could raze or raise you from what I've read; nothing in between.
The Wife brought up an interesting question this morning
Hello All
My wife is very supportive of my religious beliefs. When I go do ritual, she makes a point not to interrupt me and gave me a man cave for this.
The question she asked was "If you were married to someone of your religious beliefs, would you do rituals together?" My first answer was "Some rituals" and my second was "I will have to think about it"
Now I work with Beings, Spirits, Angels and Demons and Something Else. That is what I am working on. Now I figure someone else would have different Beings that they would work with.
I would imagine that a pair of Thelemites might worship the Gods/Godforms together but would also do individual stuff. I know it boils down to the couple in question. I could see give and take about rituals being done.
Does anyone have any thoughts? The question kinda caught me by surprise.
My wife is very supportive of my religious beliefs. When I go do ritual, she makes a point not to interrupt me and gave me a man cave for this.
The question she asked was "If you were married to someone of your religious beliefs, would you do rituals together?" My first answer was "Some rituals" and my second was "I will have to think about it"
Now I work with Beings, Spirits, Angels and Demons and Something Else. That is what I am working on. Now I figure someone else would have different Beings that they would work with.
I would imagine that a pair of Thelemites might worship the Gods/Godforms together but would also do individual stuff. I know it boils down to the couple in question. I could see give and take about rituals being done.
Does anyone have any thoughts? The question kinda caught me by surprise.
Fall Shoes for Men
We've been talking a lot about women's ugg boots, of course, I give equal time to the kids. Of course, trends in men's shoes are never as dramatic as women, but there are enough subtle changes every season to maintain interest.
Altar to Babalon
Hello
We, Da Wife and I, have been working on the condo and it looks like I am getting the second bedroom as a man cave. We are discussing ideas. Funny story, when she was much younger, she stayed at her mom's house, in her brother's bedroom. When she woke up, it was to Farrah, in the red swimsuit poster looking down at her. When I mentioned that, she suggested Crowley.
Anyroad, what would be good on a Babalon Altar. I have some ideas myself and I am looking for other ideas. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
We, Da Wife and I, have been working on the condo and it looks like I am getting the second bedroom as a man cave. We are discussing ideas. Funny story, when she was much younger, she stayed at her mom's house, in her brother's bedroom. When she woke up, it was to Farrah, in the red swimsuit poster looking down at her. When I mentioned that, she suggested Crowley.
Anyroad, what would be good on a Babalon Altar. I have some ideas myself and I am looking for other ideas. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Postcards to probationers
This writing right here you're reading has always been a simple joy to me.
POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS
via The Equinox, Vol. I, No. II
(http://the-equinox.org/vol1/no2/index.html)
THEOREMS
I. The world progresses by virtue of the appearance of Christs (geniuses).
II. Christs (geniuses) are men with super-consciousness of the highest order.
III. Super-consciousness of the highest order is obtainable by known methods.
Therefore, by employing the quintessence of known methods we cause the world to progress.
ESSENTIALS OF METHOD
I. Theology is immaterial; for both Buddha and St. Ignatius were Christs.
II. Morality is immaterial; for both Socrates and Mohammed were Christs.
III. Super-consciousness is a natural phenomenon; its conditions are therefore to be sought rather in the acts than the words of those who attain it.
The essential acts are retirement and concentration --- as taught by Yoga and Ceremonial Magic. {196}
MISTAKES OF MYSTICS
I. Since truth is supra-rational, it is incommunicable in the language of reason.
II. Hence all mystics have written nonsense, and what sense they have written is so far untrue.
III. Yet as a still lake yields a truer reflection of the sun than a torrent, he whose mind is best balanced will, if he become a mystic, become the best mystic.
THE METHOD OF EQUILIBRIUM
I. THE PASSIONS, ETC.
I. Since the ultimate truth of teleology is unknown, all codes of morality are arbitrary.
II. Therefore the student has no concern with ethics as such.
III. He is consequently free 'to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him.'
II. THE REASON
I. Since truth is supra-rational, any rational statement is false.
II. Let the student than contradict every proposition that presents itself to him. {197}
III. Rational ideas being thus expelled from the mind, there is room for the apprehension of spiritual truth.
It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane.
III. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM
I. Man being a finite being, he is incapable of apprehending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact.
II. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet.
Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance.
IV. THE RESULT
I. Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditation on the idea corresponding to it.
II. Let the student therefore beware lest in that idea be any trace of imperfection. It should be pure, balanced, calm, complete, fitted in every way to dominate the mind, as it will.
Even as in the choice of a king to be crowned. {198}
III. So will the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king.
The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained.
YOGA AND MAGIC
I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea.
II. Ceremonial Magic is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea.
It has four Methods:
III. If this idea be any but the Supreme and Perfect idea, and the student lose control, the result is insanity, obsession, fanaticism, or paralysis and death (add addiction to gossip and incurable idleness), according to the nature of the failure.
Let then the Student understand all these things and combine them in his Art, uniting them by the supreme method of Silence.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
via The Equinox, Vol. I, No. II
(http://the-equinox.org/vol1/no2/index.html)
THEOREMS
I. The world progresses by virtue of the appearance of Christs (geniuses).
II. Christs (geniuses) are men with super-consciousness of the highest order.
III. Super-consciousness of the highest order is obtainable by known methods.
Therefore, by employing the quintessence of known methods we cause the world to progress.
ESSENTIALS OF METHOD
I. Theology is immaterial; for both Buddha and St. Ignatius were Christs.
II. Morality is immaterial; for both Socrates and Mohammed were Christs.
III. Super-consciousness is a natural phenomenon; its conditions are therefore to be sought rather in the acts than the words of those who attain it.
The essential acts are retirement and concentration --- as taught by Yoga and Ceremonial Magic. {196}
MISTAKES OF MYSTICS
I. Since truth is supra-rational, it is incommunicable in the language of reason.
II. Hence all mystics have written nonsense, and what sense they have written is so far untrue.
III. Yet as a still lake yields a truer reflection of the sun than a torrent, he whose mind is best balanced will, if he become a mystic, become the best mystic.
THE METHOD OF EQUILIBRIUM
I. THE PASSIONS, ETC.
I. Since the ultimate truth of teleology is unknown, all codes of morality are arbitrary.
II. Therefore the student has no concern with ethics as such.
III. He is consequently free 'to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him.'
II. THE REASON
I. Since truth is supra-rational, any rational statement is false.
II. Let the student than contradict every proposition that presents itself to him. {197}
III. Rational ideas being thus expelled from the mind, there is room for the apprehension of spiritual truth.
It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane.
III. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM
I. Man being a finite being, he is incapable of apprehending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact.
II. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet.
Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance.
IV. THE RESULT
I. Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditation on the idea corresponding to it.
II. Let the student therefore beware lest in that idea be any trace of imperfection. It should be pure, balanced, calm, complete, fitted in every way to dominate the mind, as it will.
Even as in the choice of a king to be crowned. {198}
III. So will the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king.
The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained.
YOGA AND MAGIC
I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea.
It has four methods.
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Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through Work. These are united by the supreme method of Silence. |
It has four Methods:
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The Holy Qabalah. Union by Knowledge. The Sacred Magic. Union by Will. The Acts of Worship. Union by Love. The Ordeals. Union by Courage. add The Invocations. Union by Speech. The Acts of Service. Union through Work. These are united by the supreme method of Silence. {199} |
Let then the Student understand all these things and combine them in his Art, uniting them by the supreme method of Silence.
ALEISTER CROWLEY