23 April - (Earth) Liber LXV, 1:30-31
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30. Thou shalt instruct thy servant in his ways, thou shalt speak often with him.
31. (The scribe looketh upwards and crieth) Amen! Thou hast spoken it, Lord God! -
@Jim Eshelman said
"**30. Thou shalt instruct thy servant in his ways, thou shalt speak often with him.
- (The scribe looketh upwards and crieth) Amen! Thou hast spoken it, Lord God!**"
A new character is introducted: the scribe, who is the Ruach (and the Crowley personality in particular). This is the servant of V.V.V.V.V., the Neshamah.
Adonai tells V.V.V.V.V., "instruct your servant." Servant/scribe overhears and answers, "You got it, boss."
Adonai intensifies the linkage and frequency of connection between Neshamah and Ruach.
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@Jim Eshelman said
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@Jim Eshelman said
"**30. Thou shalt instruct thy servant in his ways, thou shalt speak often with him.- (The scribe looketh upwards and crieth) Amen! Thou hast spoken it, Lord God!**"
A new character is introducted: the scribe, who is the Ruach (and the Crowley personality in particular). This is the servant of V.V.V.V.V., the Neshamah.
Adonai tells V.V.V.V.V., "instruct your servant." Servant/scribe overhears and answers, "You got it, boss."
Adonai intensifies the linkage and frequency of connection between Neshamah and Ruach."
Nested bodies—kosha's. I know there is a sophisticated system in Thelema concerning the the sheaths of the soul, but I am not aware of a definitive work outlining them to the degree to which they are mapped out in Buddhism and some schools of Yoga. The career of Crowley seems to be the best I can come up with—within the big lumpy thing called Aliester Crowley is a spotless, shining being symbolized by the five V's. I guess the Qabalah provides the structure I am craving, and still, there is another system here—not the Qabalah. I can smell it. It follows the career the prophet: AC, Perdurabo, Frater Heart Girt with the Serpent, O. M., etc...
I believe there would be a warmth to this system that I am not finding in the others, which are coldly theoretical, and not conducive to a devotional practice. And see, I have to use a Buddhist allusion to make my point: if the only difference between the enlightened man and the unenlightened man is the fact that the enlightened man knows he is enlightened, while the other is ignorant of the fact, then there is a comparable being inside me, one I do not have the habit of identifying with, that is my equivalent of V.V.V.V.V.. Nevertheless, this being is more me than anything I tend to take for myself—personality, mind/Ruach, physical body...
And so what am I doing now? In this half hour I am rolling some ideas about in my Ruach—the servant; and using this effort to excuse me from an otherwise cold meditation in an attempt to have another one that better warms the heart, the same heart that is wound tightly about by the serpent.
In my ignorance I am also the truth, and this truth loves and is loved by the one who is before all things. Even the action of my mind is just one fleeting instance of that vessel of quicksilver that is the outer, perceivable image of my lord.
Love and Will