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College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

  • CIA document on benefits of Meditation.

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    @Stef Yay!
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    For those interested in astrology, here is the birth chart of Marie Louise von-Franz: [image: 1755807153180-img_84e25e102c89-1.jpeg] Her Sun, Mercury, and Mars are conjunct in Sagittarius. Her Moon is on the MC in Cancer, aspecting Saturn and Uranus. Venus is in Scorpio, aspecting Neptune. Both Uranus and Neptune are angular.
  • Welcome!

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  • Proper pen or quill for writing Hebrew letters

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    I have tried the soft tip “paintbrush” style, but find the chisel point easiest and most accurate.
  • Liber L or Liber AL

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    https://thelema.org/aa/bookofthelaw
  • Carl Jung, The Red Book, "Imitation of Christ"??

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    I think about this frequently. Jung was highly fascinated by the Nag Hammadi Codex after it was discovered. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend it. In the Gospel of Thomas (perhaps one of the most popular writings in the Codex), the figure of Christ describes Thelemic ideology well before Crowley's time. So much so that more than a few in my life have argued Thelema is just an updated form of Christianity. The Gospel of Thomas includes descriptions by Christ that we are to discover our own unique connection to divinity, live in relationship to that divinity, and ignore those who claim to know better. Christ calls for a very personal relationship with the divine that does not require one to practice Biblical exegesis, or that strange spell "in Jesus's Name..." that the Church so adamantly grasps to. It is no wonder the Codex was hidden at the onset of Christian imperialism.
  • Carl Jung, "Seven Sermons to the Dead," Necessity of new God

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    As someone who adores Carl Jung, I thought I'd add my own thoughts for the sake of records keeping. In response to the first point, Jung was describing the New Aeon as an age of relativity. In other words, To enter the New Aeon, Jung's writings imply that without any external institutions, traditions, and/or powers for the common folk to fall back on, we are left with empiricism. Crowley seemed to think similarly. If this idea is an interesting one, I highly recommend a book called Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson. It offers a highly concise and entertaining guide to train the mind to experience as a scientist. It does so by targeting the thing we all use to think, language. In practice, empiricism looks a lot like the Chaos Magick maxim, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." (My Qabalistic thinking cap says, "Naturally, Nothing IS true, because Nuit describes herself as Nothing!") In regards to the second point, yes, Abraxas, though a solar deity, is a description of the Supernals in my understanding of Jung's work. Abraxas was described by Jung as the ultimate unification of opposites. Abraxas appears to Jung as the Lord of the Light and the Darkness. Abraxas is fundamentally beyond human comprehension because Abraxas transcends reality. If I remember correctly, in Jung's Sermons, he talks about how the average person is incapable of handling the reality that if "God" is all powerful, that means "God" causes all of the problems of the world just as much as all of the goodness in the world. His descriptions of Abraxas are similar to ancient Greek descriptions of Hekate, who both creates and destroys in her wake (many ancient Greeks believed Hekate to be similar to our descriptions of Binah). Jung was highly aware that the transcendent denies all descriptions, because to describe a limitless being would inherently limit it. In that regard, Abraxas is similar to Nuit in that we can't really "talk" about Abraxas. However, even Nuit limits her expressions in the Book of the Law to Joy, and so Abraxas seems to describe the interplay between human rationalism (which was traditionally seen as the Great Father) and chaos (which was traditionally seen as the Great Mother). To further complicate the discussion, Crowley argues that there has been a polarity shift in the New Aeon, to where the Father principle is now Chaos (Therion, the Great Beast), and the Mother principle is structure (Babalon, the Scarlet Woman).
  • Intro

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    Welcome, Scott!
  • Astrology exhibit at the Getty Museum

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    Oooooooooooh!!!!!! Thank you!!!! Anyone up for a field trip?
  • Gods of Thelema: Theurgy in theory and practice

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    It is Open Source, and none of it is particularly specific to me.
  • Adaption to Enviorment and Will

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    Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, Some argue survival IS adaptation. I see this was posted a few years ago, so I’m sorry if this doesn’t have the same relevance; but just in case &/or for others, I’v felt this same plea many times. Or at least, your words bring up recurring feelings I relate to. Not only have I always felt a sense of being at-odds with my environment; I’v moved quite a few times, wondering how to adapt. So I can’t help but share. Currently in Oregon, US, I live in a valley higher(ish) in elevation, against forested mountains. The towns have populated and grown into each-other so is pretty urbanized, not “out-there.” And this is the first time I chose to move solely based on circumstance. Iv always had (relative) difficulty with finances; chasing breaking-even. Adaptation is an alchemical process I personally liken to gardening. My spiritual practices–next to this physical correspondence I can engage with in the same world I am questioning–is how I have coped, now & in the past. They give immediately, material to observe & work with; adaptation becomes the side-effect. Did the whale really “try” to lose its limbs and push its nostrils above its skull? We can definitely say the cetacean tried to swim & never stopped. There are great anchors and vistas through the path when perseverance heads the course– –and as many have attested; Pearls of Wisdom (James Eshelman) has some particular nuggets of sheer gold that never cease to surprise. Meditations, practices, rituals, the breakdown of human-nature in relation to ritualistic value. These spiritual practices ground & sharpen my senses & concentration, my imagination & passion; and these are all we really have to interact & effect our universe about us & within us. A famous principle of Permaculture: “The Problem is the Solution.” I.e. I have legs for land & no mammal can swim far, but the most food freely swims in the ocean; to freely swimming, I become the largest, undisturbed mammal ever to live. Generally I only see a magickal act, or expression of my will, as an intentional action which produces a beneficial result–usually near or right in line with my intent. And so the adaptations necessary come to light next to the unintentional (“unmagickal” if-you-like) actions. Adaptations that supply security and fulfillment are definite expressions of my will. Habits and experiments are lessons to be learned from. Love is the law, love under will. L L L L
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    Really cool Stef, thank you! I will experiment with this.
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    There are adorations and annunciations to the Feminine and Daughter, but they are privileged.
  • An Annunciation of the Child

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  • Liber L with J.A.E. comments

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    This post was made by a former forum participant. As it is a reference to a source I have maintained the post for posterity.
  • Soror Meral on Success(ion)

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