Intoning/Vibrating the Divine Names
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He was writing a joke book <vbg>.
BTW, although he wrote two versions of the Star Ruby, there's no evidence I can find that he ever performed it. It certainly wasn't standard for him. In the late '30s or early '40s, when he sent study materials to the O.T.O. Lodge in Southern California, it was specifically the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram that he sent - along with a new brief commentary.
And, as you of course know, you and I completely disagree on the Hebrew thing.
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My way of looking at is, without any attachment to the ritual, the angels, anything, is it's a tool. I've studied a lot of different banishing rituals and none of them seem to come close to replacing the LBRP. But, like I said, I'm not an expert. I'm also not too concerned about every ritual being a specifically Thelemic one. I'm willing to use any and all tools at my disposal to aid me in the discovery of my True Will and the Work in general. Until I come across a better ritual to replace it I'm going to be using the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram. So, while I'm working with it, I'd like to learn as much as I can to make sure I'm performing it correctly.
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I have been using the updated Qabalistic Cross, but I've been touching my chest when I intone Aiwass, not the throat.
As far as the exact reason, Aiwass I get, but touching my genitals and intoning Malkuth is still a little beyond me.
But I will admit I haven't spent any time researching or looking into why Malkuth is intoned at the genitals, I just ran with it. I've been spending all my time working on how to properly vibrate everything in the ritual.
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@00000 said
"I have been using the updated Qabalistic Cross, but I've been touching my chest when I intone Aiwass, not the throat."
Yes, the mid-sternum region, i.e., heart. That's correct.
"As far as the exact reason, Aiwass I get, but touching my genitals and intoning Malkuth is still a little beyond me."
Since the visualizations that accompany this have the energy flowing all the way to the feet, the simplest explanation is pragmatic: That's as far as the hand conveniently reaches.
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I wonder if you're confusing it with Liber Reguli? For the Pentagram Ritual, it's always (from Crowley) been the heart.
The heart is for Tiphereth . The adept, who knows the HGA's name, uses that name at the heart (in private). Prior to that (or for the adept who is working in a group context), "Aiwass" is used in lieu. The name equates to 93 in Hebre and 418 in Greek, and so embodies the whole of the Thelemic current.
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Another question I have about "Attah Gibbor le-Olahm Adonai" is when it comes to vibration, is this entire statement broken up like "AH-DOH-NAH-YEE," or just Adonai? Like with the archangels how "before me, behind me, etc." is normal and just the names are specially vibrated.
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@00000 said
"Another question I have about "Attah Gibbor le-Olahm Adonai" is when it comes to vibration, is this entire statement broken up like "AH-DOH-NAH-YEE," or just Adonai? Like with the archangels how "before me, behind me, etc." is normal and just the names are specially vibrated."
Yes. Broken up one syllable at a time. Yes, the words are spoken normal, you only vibrate the divine names.
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@00000 said
"Another question I have about "Attah Gibbor le-Olahm Adonai" is when it comes to vibration, is this entire statement broken up like "AH-DOH-NAH-YEE," or just Adonai?"
It tends to be vibrated more briskly, more like a sentence rather than even syllables, until the Adonai (which then gets the full treatment). I'm not sure I've ever heard A.G.L.A. (by which I mean the whole sentence) ever done letter-by-letter. Two syllables, two syllables, three syllables, then let her rip letter by letter on Adonai.
A good guide is that each Divine Name takes about the same amount of time and breath. Therefore, Eheyeh is more drawn out, Attah Gibbor le-Olahm Adonai is a said more briskly. (I just timed myself at my own normal pace, and Eheyeh took 6 seconds, A.G.L.A. took 8. (The other two take me 5 or 6 seconds.)
"Like with the archangels how "before me, behind me, etc." is normal and just the names are specially vibrated."
Exactly. (Or the textual part has a different quality of voice, a slightly chanty, resonant form.) If using melodic vibration (each Hebrew letter receiving its corresponding note), then the textual parts are chanted on a C-natural (for red).
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They have their own material, often not standard. (That's not a criticism or a compliment per se. <g>)
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@Dar es Allrah said
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@Jim Eshelman said
"They have their own material, often not standard. (That's not a criticism or a compliment per se. <g>)"Lol. Is that Motta's lineage behind the library?"
No, I don't think there's any main cross-over. (Could be wrong.) Here's the registration information for the domain ownership:
Aeonic Systems N Khuit Box 1087 Port Alberni British Columbia V9Y 7L9 Canada -
@Jim Eshelman said
"It tends to be vibrated more briskly, more like a sentence rather than even syllables, until the Adonai (which then gets the full treatment). I'm not sure I've ever heard A.G.L.A. (by which I mean the whole sentence) ever done letter-by-letter. Two syllables, two syllables, three syllables, then let her rip letter by letter on Adonai.
"Thank you. Between this and the other thread Avshalom Binyamin pointed me to, I'm good. I really appreciate all the help and information.
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Why? "Fourfold" means there are four parts. There are four words in Atah Gibor Le-Olahm Adonai.
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@Avshalom Binyamin said
"Why? "Fourfold" means there are four parts. There are four words in Atah Gibor Le-Olahm Adonai."
Then four four-lettered names.
It seems, to me, that the full sentence breaks the harmony of the ritual, so I use to vibrate AGLA, although keeping in mind the full significance. -
I think the idea of four four-fold Names is an interpretation that might not be inherent in the ritual. It's nice, symmetrical, cool-seeming - but that might not be the most important thing.
(It IS there, as Av said, in the sense that the notariqon refers to two words.)
There is a more important point: These four Names all relate, by their numeration, to the inherent geometry of the Pentagram (which is all based on the Fibonacci series of numbers, the basic geometric formula for the actual structure of things in nature). As Heh-final (relating circumferentially to the Vav at the center), the pentagram is particularly a formula of nature (and its relationship to other levels). I leave as a puzzle for you to solve the numeric relationship of each nmame (it's not too hard if you understand the basic arithemtic of the Fibonacci series, and the geometry of a pentagram) - but Attah Gibbor le-Olam Adonai (= 858) is the punchline!
Every line, every stroke, of making a correctly proportioned pentagram is a declaration that "the lesser is to the greater as the greater is to the whole." Every tracing similarly affirms the identity and reality of the Holy Guardian Angel, anchored by those four Hebrew Names.
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You're welcome to do it as you like, and yes, there is a superficial harmony to 4, 4-lettered names. However, when it comes to the deeper harmony of the ritual, 858 is much more harmonious than 35...
(EDIT: redundant cross-post; for some reason it didn't show Jim's post before I posted mine.)
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To say the LBRP is un-Thelemic is akin to saying the Great Work is un-Thelemic.
Another distinction I like to make:
They are not Hebrew God-Names.
They are names of God written in Hebrew.One must recall the notion that while you may be saying "X" you should be thinking, visualizing "X" as the principle you hold in the highest.
Thus I would advise you not get hung up on the word,
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@Dar es Allrah said
"When I use hebrew then I use a tongue that is strongly ... there is no stronger... a tongue of patriarchy: therefore - old aeonic. I doubt the jews mind too much though."
In recent centuries, yes. But I'm not at all convinced that it's inherently so.
There was a strong matrilinear thread through the earliest Hebrew - just as there is a compelling matrilineal thread through Hebrew culture. Hebrew was as subjectedf to an invasive patriarchy as the rest of Asia. Its scriptures still show the whole of creation being accomplished by the supreme female aspect of god, Elohim.
Now, I can totally understand that Hebrew strikes you as the strongest of the patriarchal languages, and I respect how you feel about it. I'm only disputing that it's either originally or inherently so. There's deep sexual polarity in the Hebrew language and scriptures, just as sexual polarity is at the root of the deep Hebrew mysteries of the tabernacle and of the most persistent and cherished customs of worship in Judaism today. (The joining of husband and wife sexually is the greatest grace of the sabbath observance.)
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Shekinah has always been explicitly feminine.
Elohim is recognized as the Mother as far back as the Zohar, and can be found attributed to Binah for about 1,00-1,300 years before that (that I can trace).
There are others, but those are the big ones.
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To do it without any at all, you'd have to rewrite the ritual. To do it with a mix of gender names, there are more options.
