A beginners guide to Kenneth Grants Typhonian Trilogies
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As an introduction to the magick of Kenneth Grant:
I found that this book, 'The Moonchild of Yesod, A Grimoire of Occult Hyperchemistry' by Karl Stone, provides a very unique and coherent explanation and exploration of the magical technology i.e. the psycho-physical drivers of the adept, that lie behind the complexities of Grant's qabalistic use of gematria and it also helps to meander ones way through some of the obscure descriptions of his magick within his Typhonian Trilogies.
The link can be found here www.theimaginarybook.com
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Cheers
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May I politely suggest another way of understanding Grant?
Achieve enlightenment
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I'm very interested in the magical nuances implied within Grant's writings in regard to them revealing a hint of the alchemical operation involved in the Great Work. Here is a quote I found interesting.
“The stone before it wholly part with its blackness and become white, like most shining polished marble or a naked brandished sword, will put on all colors that can be imagined”
—Dr. Sigismon Bacstrom, MD, The Seven Egyptian Seals.
Also, a metaphysic of the upper sephiroth in a Grantian and alchemical context:
"Out seeping from those spaces between the intersticies of oneiric being, is that non local mysterious gate, the aperture of cosmic chaos referred to here as the 'blackness' of Daäth (Ain) i.e. the 'light that is not'. Sexo-magically, the 'blackness' appears white and shining like polished marble during its transit or egress as 'intelligence' outwards into flesh. The white here, refers to that exalted tincture, or the crown (Kether) of the upper sephiroth, which conceals its secret antipole from the profane, Daäth, the gate to the other. In this respect, that exalted tincture of which we speak i.e. the white, is a primordium, a star STONE, which has been otherwise referred to as the SUBSTANCE. This is an intelligence of kind i.e. the "naked brandished sword" and it contains within it as a seed the sexo-magical 'drivers' (16 Kalas) of all magickal operations. The zoömorphic creature which imparts the spectral tinctures of the 'white' (intelligence) as the Kalas, is the spectral hyaena, as it is a creature of the 'blackness' but also contains within its menstruum, the spectra of the 16 Kalas in potentia".
-Karl Stone, The star stone and its primoridia as extrapolations of praeter-human intelligence.
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You aren't by chance the author of this book, are you?
93!
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Well, the attainment is known as the "Clear Light".
If one is still concerned with how white their own stone is compared to the blackness that makes white visible, then IMHO, one is far from being in true Knowledge and Conversation.
Now, I do agree that the stone dons itself in every colour imaginable from the transition from anything from the Clear Light to the Clear Light, and from the Clear Light back to lower levels. This is only natural.
You know the only reasons Chaos Magicians are successful at all is because they have a future, higher version of themselves organizing that chaotic Magic into something harmless that makes the lower magic itself seem "successful". True Chaos Magicians say that the only times they really were successful in their Chaos Magic is when they left it alone and got into proper Magick, ritual, meditation, etc.. they say their lower Magic came to pass as successful. This is a direct and obvious example of one learning to become one's messenger of one's Holy Guardian Angel.
Good-day, Fraters and Sorors.
Frankie
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