93,

if you have a local occult or metaphysical bookstore, then i recommend starting with some simple books (there is a small series, one cover is blue, the other orange, i forget the 3rd cover color in the series) entitled something to the efffect of "everything you always wanted to know about astrology" everything from planetary meangings, zodiacal sign interpratations, apsects, constructing charts, and so on.

crowley's book (General Principles... Astrology) is excellent though his "theory of complexes" really IS tuff, i think... and, from what i have observed, most people don't even open the book -- just throw it up on the shelf like a hard-cover collectors book. NOT. an excellent text book, but i do agree it needs some preparation and a good intermediate knowledge of astrology before diving in.

last but not least, i might mention that i think "sidereal" method is the bomb -- but most of the books that you might do an amazon search for with that phrase are really technical/heady/math oriented and not explanatory for a beginner.

most metaphysical/occult bookstores have good "beginner" astrology classes...

and here's a good online resources for free chart construction:

www.astro.com

make sure to puruse all the available OPTIONS and i recommend clicking on:

free charts, then scroll down the list and click extended chart selection add a new person's data click here to show chart (natal or other wil appear)

i believe if you scout around on the site, you can click various options for interpretation sets which will help you learn the basics of interpretation, also, if you are working with your text books/study guides by your side

good luck!

This was supposedly done by an independant adept... They had undergone the origional ritual within the framework of the OTO, and later wanted to be free from the solar/phallic influence of the OTO, and as a result re-did the initiation to keep Osiris Slain.

Phew! Thank you! 😆

93

yeah i can see that, the king is SOLOMON, who built the temple, which is the pyramid. so i can see that. but to me it really doesnt look like a pyrimad. of course after crossing the abyss you are (more or less of you or none) in the city of pyrimids. does this have more to do with the mystery of the sphinx? you no longer work on your pyrimid when in the city of pyrimads???

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Fr.418

The main thing is that is the Egyptian hieroglyphic meaning "life" - but you knew that. 😄

Probably anything beyond that is someone's extrapolation or add-on after the fact. For example, in some Western Mystery Tradition tantric-like traditions, the Ankh is seen as the union of an Omega as a womb (or squatting woman) and an Iota (or possibly Tav) as the phallus.

Even the traditional observation that an Ankh is in the shape of an old sandal strap is likely an after-the-fact observation, apparently no older than Sir Gerald Gardiner. (However, the Egyptian name for the sandal strap is a very similar word.) In modern times it is taken to mean that the common power inherent in the Egyptian gods (each of whom is routinely shown as bearing the Ankh) is "to go."

It is also hard to ignore the similarity of the Ankh to the astrological glyph for Venus, though I can't at all substantiate any actual derivation for either. Similarly, the Egyptian hieroglyph for death, Khopet, is essentially the Mars glyph.

As a symbol of emerging life, it is often thought to be a symbol of sunrise in particular - the loop showing the Sun rising above the horizon of the horizontal.

Bottom-line, it means Life.

Google, with search terms ankh symbolism, is fruitful.

Yes, thanks for pointing it out - I disabled it.

cool thanks for the ideas

THELEMA

this really helps out alot, i read in your AA book about the building up of the powers in a pyramid, but this really helped more, or maybe it just sunk in this time.

thanks anyways

AGAPE

Fr.418

@Jim Eshelman said

"The idea that it might have been the particular characteristic of being that magical hot-spot from which spiritual energies of the New Aeon burst forth for the planet is at least a reasonable possibility, given other principles. Compare the Islamic practice of directing all prayers to Mecca, no matter where in the world one is located"

This is a good point and it's always the way I pictured it. The Muslim, in fact, faces the "black stone" in the kaaba located in the heart of the Masjid al Haram Mosque in Mecca. By the same token, Thelemites facing Loch Ness are facing the "abstruction" of the Stele of Revealing that (supposedly) once occupied Boleskine House.

I believe this practice goes back to dynastic Egypt, specifically the astonomical temples, which contained an icon of a god that was supposedly charged by the light of a particular star. This energy than radiated out from the idol itself.

Parenthetically, the astronomical temple of Horus at Edfu is the only one in Egypt which still contains its icon.

Dan