Thelemite Pentagram

wisenheimer

Originally, experimentation with this ritual foundation produced startling results:

Clockwise as the aforementioned ritual demonstrates; terriffic results were garnered & regular practice provided "clarity" for the magician, psychologically.

Counter-clockwise the force generated via practice casts a visible ray or current diametrically opposed to Ankh [examination below]. The current expressed itself as Enki or "death".

From Thelemapedia: The ankh is a cross with a loop at the top (also called a crux ansata), and was an important Egyptian symbol representing eternal life and the concept "to go".

Wearing a crux ansata as a lamen may provide a valuable examination of the force put to work during ritual; enabling the assessment of benevolent/malevolent energy on the fly.

KABALISTIC CROSS:

STEP 1. EAST
Kether: Wand Posture & Vibrate: "NUIT"
Malkuth: Sign of Osiris Slain & Vibrate: "HADIT"
Gevurah: Right Shoulder & Vibrate: "RA HOOR KHUIT"
Chesed: Left Shoulder & Vibrate: "HERU PA KRAATh"
Tiphareth: Sign of Osiris Risen & Vibrate: "HERU RA HA"

PENTAGRAM RITE:

STEP 2. EAST
ARIES – FIRE:
Sign of the Enterer – Pentagram: ASAR
Sign of Silence

STEP 3. SOUTH
CAPRICORN – EARTH:
Sign of the Enterer – Pentagram: SET
Sign of Silence

STEP 4. WEST
LIBRA – AIR:
Sign of the Enterer – Pentagram: AUSET
Sign of Silence

STEP 5. NORTH
CANCER – WATER:
Sign of the Enterer – Pentagram: NEBT-HET
Sign of Silence

STEP 6. EAST
Sign of Osiris Slain:
Before Me, the Fire of QEBSENUF
Behind Me, the Air of IMSET
To my right, the Earth of DAUMUTEF
To my left, the Water of HAAPI

Sign of Osiris Risen:
And amidst them the God HERU

STEP 7. EAST
<REPEAT KABALISTIC CROSS>

TheSilent1

Why do you not use the powers of the fixed signs? The other signs have mutable qualities so I would not feel comfortable with this symbolism unless using it for a very specific purpose.

wisenheimer

Silent One,

It's interesting to watch you haggle over the nuts & bolts of occultism. Not to insult you, but these two rituals you commented on are the result of 10 years of hard work. They do EXACTLY as advertised.

The Thelemite Hexagram gives birth to the homonculus; otherwise known as the higher self, the genius, or the holy guardian angel.

The Thelemite Pentagram completely replaces the dogmatic adherance to the christian original; & initiates a crystaline gnosis of the middle pillar within the psyche of the celebrant.

The results were unmatched by any other ritual methods I've made use of in 10 years of arduous practice. My humble regret is that I had been successful before I planned, & now my spiritual work is done. It's an odd feeling to walk away from spirituality knowing you've achieved something great.

Avshalom Binyamin

He didn't haggle; he asked why you did it a certain way.

But your defensive response is very telling.

Jim Eshelman

You actually have the (usual) implication of homunculus backwards - but I have no objection to your using it in that particular way.

I'm curious, though, why you refer to the classic Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram as the "Christian original." Obviously something in it pushed your buttons on religious grounds, but I can't find anything intrinsically Christian in it.

Possibly you mean that the Qabalistic Cross follows the pattern of the last part of some versions of the Lord's Prayer post 1600? If so, I should mention that this was added to Matt. 6:13 by King James' translators, and isn't in the original. (It's not in the Vulgate, for example, or in any Catholic Bible to this day.) I've always been intrigued that it was added exactly at the juncture when the Rosicrucian manifestoes were written. (Both the Fama and KJV were commenced in 1604 and saw light of day about 1611.)

Besides that, I can't find anything even remotely Christian about the ritual, so your off-hand remark puzzled me.

That said, I'm happy this has been so valuable to you; other than that, I really find nothing positive to say about either of these. They are badly composed, incoherent, symbolically inconsistent, etc. That, of course, doesn't matter a whit when you are creating something for your personal use, though it matters a lot when you are trying to pass it off to others. (I actually thought your G.O.A.T. ritual was a comedic spoof!)

gmugmble

@Jim Eshelman said

"I should mention that this was added to Matt. 6:13 by King James' translators, and isn't in the original. (It's not in the Vulgate, for example, or in any Catholic Bible to this day.) I've always been intrigued that it was added exactly at the juncture when the Rosicrucian manifestoes were written. (Both the Fama and KJV were commenced in 1604 and saw light of day about 1611.)"

But the addition is in the so-called Textus Receptus, a Greek version created by Erasmus around 1516. So now I'm intrigued to learn who did add it, but unfortunately it pre-dates the Rosicrucian manifestos by quite a bit.

Labyrinthus

@gmugmble said

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@Jim Eshelman said
"I should mention that this was added to Matt. 6:13 by King James' translators, and isn't in the original. (It's not in the Vulgate, for example, or in any Catholic Bible to this day.) I've always been intrigued that it was added exactly at the juncture when the Rosicrucian manifestoes were written. (Both the Fama and KJV were commenced in 1604 and saw light of day about 1611.)"

But the addition is in the so-called Textus Receptus, a Greek version created by Erasmus around 1516. So now I'm intrigued to learn who did add it, but unfortunately it pre-dates the Rosicrucian manifestos by quite a bit."

It is not in the Vulgate but I recall that it was recited during the mass, back in the 1960's and '70s, and I especially recall it being sung at the High Mass in rousing fashion. I have only attended a few times over the last few decades for weddings and funerals and I think it is still recited in the post Vatican II disaster.

The "for Thine is the power and the glory for ever," is in the very earliest Christian documents (Didache 1st Century AD);

...The Catholic Church has accepted it as part of the collection of Apostolic Fathers. [...]Nor must Christians pray with their Judaic brethren, instead they shall say the Lord's Prayer three times a day. The text of the prayer is not identical to the version in the Gospel of Matthew, and it is given with the doxology "for Thine is the power and the glory for ever," whereas all but a few manuscripts of the Gospel of Matthew have this interpolation with "the kingdom and the power" etc.