LBRP Divine names
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Thanks for the back story. Another good reason for me not sharing my guess, is that I could be completely wrong, and without you being able to confirm or deny, it could be pretty misleading.
Perhaps I'll find myself in the position of learning this firsthand one day.
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93,
Thanks for the search words, there were some very interesting pieces of information, especially about the golden ratio.
After two hours of researching various qabalistic texts from a 'pre zohar' era (well at least the ones I could find scattered online) I give up for today. I did find a nice little website which had information on the sequence which may be the same thing however they never gave a source.
Either way, I'm not the only one who isn't sure about the pattern. I should have just stuck to the old chaos magician idea of "It doesn't matter how it works, just as long as it does.". I do have one question however; Is it likely that Mr Crowley knew the pattern?
93's.
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It is not likely that Crowley knew the underlying pattern. It was in none of the literature from which he learned initially, there is no clue I can find in his public or private writings that suggests he knew (or cared), and the work that has all the pieces wasn't translated until decades after he died - so he'd have had to read about a thousand pages of original Hebrew text to find it that way.
The ritual works by virtue of what the names are. The sequence causes actual effects.
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@mark0987 said
"93,
Thanks for the search words, there were some very interesting pieces of information, especially about the golden ratio.
After two hours of researching various qabalistic texts from a 'pre zohar' era (well at least the ones I could find scattered online) I give up for today. I did find a nice little website which had information on the sequence which may be the same thing however they never gave a source.
Either way, I'm not the only one who isn't sure about the pattern. I should have just stuck to the old chaos magician idea of "It doesn't matter how it works, just as long as it does.". I do have one question however; Is it likely that Mr Crowley knew the pattern?
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Mark, I would suggest that the point is to do, perform the Ritual & observe, in order to find out through your own experience - no other source is more reliable
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93,
I have resisted looking into the Torah and the Zohar. Qabalah is by far the most complicated subject have ever looked into and yet I believe it is worth my time. Crowley stated it in Magick wthout tears and every other magician I've read has agreed that the qabalah is a necessary tool in the magicans arsenal. I'm glad I've started young, otherwise I'd never have the time to study it as in-depth as I want to.
I shall scour the internet and my friends vast repertoire of occult resources for the lectures you mentioned. He has a copy of the zohar, the book of the sign and divorced names. The latter two are by Abulafia. But first I'm going to re read Fortunes Mystical Qabalah and then Regardie's A Garden Of Pomegranates.
As for your thoughts on Thelema, I agree completely. I was very much so drawn to Hinduism and in fact Ganesh still finds his image on my altar from time to time, as does Lakshmi. However I read the first two chapters of Liber Legis and that was it, I never looked back and never will. I actually even admire the last chapter, but Nuit's is by far my favourite.
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I have a Bhudda, a Sphinx, and a totem pole.
Thank goodness for these texts and their methods of instruction, but for me, my decyphering, is to examine the subtly different meanings of the names and the corresponding states of mind each evoke, when these differences in relationship to IT/I are emphasized in the mind in turn.
The easiest one to illustrate, for me, is the difference between the final state of mind/relationship created by AGLA, "Thou art Mighty Forever, Adonai," and the others - two of which are forms of "I Am" statements that sandwich the name "Lord."
So that's the pattern I'm "decyphering." That's how I meditate on it. For what that's worth.
Peace.
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93,
It never occurred to me to meditate on them like that. Perhaps using the instructions in liber O for the god names and then analyse the feelings of each one. I found a nice explanation of each letter in the words as well like Adonai
"Aleph is air, the magick light, the pentagram and is a symbol of the elements defined and unified. Daleth is the devotion to the path that is necessary for success and which leads to the consecration of the magician to the Great Work itself. Nun, a fish, is the transformative power of the initiation of death and rebirth that is the method of the Great Work and the final Yod is Virgo, the Hermit of the Tarot and thus the Holy Guardian Angel himself. "
Source-http://ankhafnakhonsu.net/tag/yhvh/
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