Thoughts on Liber Resh
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Thank you for your detailed and knowledgeable comments.
I am wondering, what is the significance of the Hebrew letter Resh in relationship to Liber Resh?
Thank you.
Love is the law, lover under will.
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@Tamara_Tornad said
"I am wondering, what is the significance of the Hebrew letter Resh in relationship to Liber Resh?"
The letter Resh is attributed to the Sun astrologically, and to the Tarot card called The Sun.
Liber Resh is an adoration of the Sun.
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@Silenci said
"If one assumes the perspective of the sun there is no rising or setting, only continuity...of consciousness."
That's actually part of what one learns in this practice. The timing isn't about the Sun so much as oneself and one's relationship to it.
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While the 'bark' or body that carries the spiritual self has its 'risings,' 'peaks', 'settings' etcetera - our core remains unchanging. As, in performing the ritual the 'sun,' the 'heavens,' appear to move around our terrestrial selves. At the same time, from the perspective of our spiritual core the all revolves around its unending light.
The source of our perceptions, being that spiritual core, would come to naught without the terrestrial self to perceive it. It is the dance which occurs between the two that creates being and the drama of the ritual. Whose structure remains the same throughout the 'day' with a new name or face to mark the flow of time. Yet each face is just a different way of looking at the sun, also with the same faces coming to be day after day.
The terrestrial self like a fine mist; shifting around and giving the illusion of change, in an unending procession that never really occurs.
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I've read in the Upanishads that man has two ways. 1. To go to his ancestors via ancestor worship. 2. To go to various heavens via gods worship. Nr. 2 can lead to escape from sansara while Nr. 1 not.
Nr. 1 may be attributed to Tem, the Moon and Nr. 2 to Re, the Sun. Some observations by me. -
@Modes said
"I've read in the Upanishads that man has two ways. 1. To go to his ancestors via ancestor worship. 2. To go to various heavens via gods worship. Nr. 2 can lead to escape from sansara while Nr. 1 not.
Nr. 1 may be attributed to Tem, the Moon and Nr. 2 to Re, the Sun. Some observations by me."Interesting attribution of ancestor worship to the moon...Gurdjieff, as shady as that character was, did say that man, when he died, became food for the moon...
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@KRVB MMShCh said
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@Modes said
"I've read in the Upanishads that man has two ways. 1. To go to his ancestors via ancestor worship. 2. To go to various heavens via gods worship. Nr. 2 can lead to escape from sansara while Nr. 1 not.
Nr. 1 may be attributed to Tem, the Moon and Nr. 2 to Re, the Sun. Some observations by me."Interesting attribution of ancestor worship to the moon...Gurdjieff, as shady as that character was, did say that man, when he died, became food for the moon...
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Both apparently shady and ridiculous.
IAO131
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@Aum418 said
"Both apparently shady and ridiculous."
I am sure(or rather hope) it was a metaphor...probably reflecting the ancient Druidic aphorism "mineral becomes vegetable, vegetable becomes animal, animal becomes man, man becomes moon, moon becomes planet, planet becomes star, etc."...or possibly even a Qabalistic reference - who knows with Gurdjieff...maybe it was a prophecy for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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