Old Scratch

[Cygnus]

What exactly IS the deal with all that Satan My Lord stuff in Liber Samekh? Like I know the standard line on these being solar symbols, but it's a bit odd to be performing a ritual which purports to be summoning higher forces but reads like a ritual to sell your soul to the devil!

Attached, Sammy Davis Jr. in "Poor Devil"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5vRbVGHyzE

[RobertAllen]

I've always liked that deconstruction of the name to mean: Truth and Bliss.
As if Satan were a contraction of the Sanskrit terms Sat and Ananda.

O living lord of me
O self shining flame
Begotten of beyond
...and on and on

Love and Will

[Danica]

I see it like: O, Thou Binah-consciousness

[Avshalom Binyamin]

Considering the fact that the Devil card is one of the paths to Tiphareth, does it really seem all that inappropriate for Crowley to have used the symbolism in a ritual designed to attain to Tiphareth?

[Jim Eshelman]

Sounds to me like you're including the English analysis as part of the ritual. That part isn't recited. It's just commentary.

[Cygnus]

Well that just simplifies everything, doesn't it? Thank you!