The Middle Pillar
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Scrivener - thanks for that tip on INVISIBILITY. I checked out Steve's book on Amazon and it appears to be heavy on theory but little on technique and practise. Does the book provide a specific technique for cloaking one's aura with quintessence and, if yes, can you describe it?
@Asraiya said
"But this thread is about SLEEP so I must be dreaming which brings me to why would you want to cloak your light in the astral or any other place? What have you really got to hide or hide from?!
I say let it shine! Here this sums it up perfectly:
"Asraiya - I think the need to be invisible on the astral depends on each person's experience. After a few spectacular and humiliating magickal blowbacks, one becomes less idealistic and more wary of feeding the local egregore.
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h2h wrote:
"Asraiya - I think the need to be invisible on the astral depends on each person's experience. After a few spectacular and humiliating magical blowbacks, one becomes less idealistic and more wary of feeding the local egregore."
I've reconsidered my statements and I do recall a certain time in my life when I can only describe that it was necessary to for me walk into a very dark place (if you could call it that) or situation where it was critical for me to be sort of undercover and conceal my purpose or intention as it felt I may be destroyed. I had to dim down my light to just a spark so that I could hide my true nature and wait til the time was right to fan it back to life. I can hardly describe exactly what the operation was only that it came from a higher calling but it was certainly mandatory to not draw the attention of the egregore like you said so I think I do understand to what you're referring...
Edward Mason wrote:
"Crowley has a chart in the Eight Lectures on Yoga which puts Pluto in Kether."
Do you think in light of more recent astronomical discoveries since AC's time like the declassification of Pluto as a planet to that of a moon more or less that perhaps we should examine the possibility of placing Kether in Nibiru/Planet X/or Eris?? That would be utterly unique since this planet, fact or fiction, supposedly has an elliptical orbit and is traveling in the opposite direction as the rest of us. Hmm... All Hail Discordia!
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Asraiya, 93,
You wrote:
"Do you think in light of more recent astronomical discoveries since AC's time like the declassification of Pluto as a planet to that of a moon more or less that perhaps we should examine the possibility of placing Kether in Nibiru/Planet X/or Eris?? That would be utterly unique since this planet, fact or fiction, supposedly has an elliptical orbit and is traveling in the opposite direction as the rest of us."
You could, sure. Trying to <i>pin down</i> Kether to any one astrological idea strikes me as an ongoing exercise in self-frustration, though.
Back in the day, the Rashith ha-Gilgalim, the First Stirrings or the Nebulae, were attributed to Kether. Then it was Neptune for while for a few people, then Crowley proposed Pluto. But these things function on a consensus that forms around particular ideas. Magick works better, at least within the context of a specific group or community, if we all sing from the same hymn-sheet.
Playing "Choose your favorite Kuyper Belt object" is intriguing, but I think Pluto works fine in Kether, and personally, I don't want to tinker with it. I like the idea that Pluto as a deity is the Underground Guy, hidden in darkness until he snatches Persephone/Malkuth. That marriage between Pluto and her ties in with the "Kether is in Malkuth after a different manner" idea.
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It might be useful to remember that the planetary attributions are just that:
attributions, and not the sephira itself.As I see it, the planets are utilized among the other correspondences to describe the idea that the Sephira represents.
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@Flight93 said
"Any suggestions as to where RMP would fit in Liber V.V.?"
The Ritual of the Middle Pillar didn't uyet exist when Liber V.V. was written, and doesn't exist anywhere in the A.'.A.'. system. Therefore, it doesn't go anywhere in this document.
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Sure. But you were asking about Liber V.V., and that's specifically a map of the A.'.A.'. system. So the Middle Pillar doesn't go on it.
As to where it could go... I can think of several places, depending on the particular system and framework.
As one suggestion, you might consider it the lower-octave expression of Work to be done on the Path of Samekh.
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AHA!! GOT YOU THERE,"JIM"!
The REAL Jim Eshelman would surely have known that the RMP covers Kether-Gimel-Tiphareth-Samekh-Yesod-Tav-Malkuth, and thus, you are hereby exposed as an IMPOSTER!( dramatic music)
Kidding.
No, that actually seems a fair attribution. Thanx for the suggestion.
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Sorry but I'm a bit lost. What chakras are activated in MP? My routine is:
AHIH - Crown; IHVH ELHM - 3rd eye, throat; IAO - heart, solar plexus; SHADDAI EL CHI - genitals, dantien(hara); ADNI Ha Ahretz - feet & knees.
Is this the Regardie method? Because reading him I got the idea that it is: crown, throat, solar plexus, genitals, feet. It would accord to the colors white, lavender, red, blue, russet Regardie used. And what about 3rd eye and heart chakras? Why are they not targeted? It seems the knees are important too.
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The Middle Pillar isn't really a chakra ritual. There is some overlap, to be sure. But the intent is different, and the focus isn't specifically on the chakras. (One difference rarely mentioned: The chakras, however seen through the front or back of the body, have positioned that overlap with the spine; yet the centers of the Middle Pillar are usually done along the front part of the body.)
Crown, throat, heart, and a consolidation of the two lowest chakras do overlap the areas, but others usually aren't included; and there is at least one vibrated center that isn't usually regarded as a chakra.
Similarly, the symbolism (colors, names, energies) associated with the areas mostly don't overlap those corresponding to the chakras.
The real purpose is the establishing of part of the Tree of Life in the aura, and the habituation of bringing energy through the Four Worlds to impact Assiah. I think it is usually more misleading than helpful to regard it as a chakra exercise.
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But MP is so like chakra exercises. I do understand that the intent is different from your erlier posts.
I saw a chakra clip that said: root chakra - earth (Regardie's russet), genital area - water (Regardie's blue), solar plexus - fire (Regardie's red). The heart was air - Regardie used it for the throat but the color lavender Regardie used matches the chakra. The crown chakra is symbolized by white and Regardie used white for AHIH.
I see a clear corespondence between the colors Regardie used and the chakras.
If you're talking about the feet I read that they are considered a part of the root chakra as the arms are a part of the heart chakra. But I do know other sources that write that feet and arms have minor chakras.Jim, your way would be: Crown, throat, heart, solar plexus and genitals, feet? Do you use the Regardie's colors or do you have your own? In Regardie's text I have he doesn't use the heart region but the solar plexus as color red. If you put the solar plexus with the genitals then it is blue?
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@Modes said
"Jim, your way would be: Crown, throat, heart, solar plexus and genitals, feet? Do you use the Regardie's colors or do you have your own? In Regardie's text I have he doesn't use the heart region but the solar plexus as color red. If you put the solar plexus with the genitals then it is blue?"
We use Sephirothic colors - from a different generation of Regardie publication. Blinding white for Kether, gray-white for Da'ath, yellow for Tiphereth, violet for Yesod, and four colors (or one particular one, depending on formula) for Malkuth.
From your notes, I'm guessing you're reading from The Art of True Healing?
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OMG! I got it! According to Robert Bruce the body has 3 energy containers 3rd eye, heart, solar plexus. In his practice filling the solar plexus container the energy circulates to the other 2 containers too. When he tried filling the 3rd eye or heart containers directly he got major disbalances! That is why Regardie doesn't target them! Because they are filled from the solar plexus! OMG! Jim thanks for the discussion!
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@Modes said
"Yes, thanks, The Art of True Healing, I forgot the title.
In what Regardie book can I find the colors you use?
I wonder why he changed the colors?"The colors used in The Art of True Healing were (IIRC) for a specific purpose - a preparation for healing work. He created an elemental model specifically for that.
But the underlying technique of the Middle Pillar Ritual, from the beginning, involved the Sephiroth of the Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life. Without pulling the books off the shelf and looking, I imagine you'll find what I gave in books The Middle Pillar, his various Golden Dawn books, some of the summary magical works at the end of his life (that I can picture but not remember the titles of at the moment), etc.