thelema & christianity
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Example 3 (and final): Spiritual castes. In Liber Legis 3:57 we read:
"He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still."
The adept through whose nervous system Liber Legis was delivered spent his childhood reading the Bible and especially The Book of Revelations. In Revelations 22:11 we find:
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
It is, at the very least, a related verse and almost certainly the inspiration of the one in Liber L. What is most interesting to me is that the original is much richer than the derivative - and that the original in Revelations appears to be a direct reference to the caste system of India or something nearly identical. The Unjust, Filthy, Righteous, and Holy are quite clearly demarcated, and worth study on their own.
And, of course, Revelations itself is, front to end, a Qabalistic work heavily encoded in gematrical language and other Qabalistic references. But that's another story (one I gave verbally in a half-day seminar to initiates a couple of years ago and still hope to get finished and written down one of these years for mass availability).
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THELEMA
so when people say "there is POWER in the word of christ" they are absolutely correct! lol
wow thats a lot of really really good information!
like the other night i had the strange sensation so pickup the bible and read the book of revelations (trust me this is really strange for me, i wasnt even rasied christian), and like it keep me up for hours cause i was so amazed:
a. how much qabalah was to be seen without "really" looking into it.
b. how much it went in hand in hand with what liber AL proclaimed.my opinion before the other night was the bible has been to manipulated by the 1000s of years rulers that have been in power, for there political gain and you know money. but what i read was some accually pretty cool stuff, 7,7,7, and the beast and babalon and the cherbims and all kinds of goodies.
on the sleep of siloam, like a week or 2 ago i read your writing on that in the AA book and for some strange odd reason decided to make a short poem out of it LOL!!!! well i am going to embrass myself and post it here, i must warn you its one of my not good poems and thats pretty bad
give unto you,
the sweetest i can brew,
the holy amrit,
the blood of the sacred IT,
having the most holy powers,
of mud mixed with christ's spit
found right here in salem
where all spirits are grim
though i will not let,
the holy light start to dim
only multiply 10 by 10
in the unity of 1
this is the alchemy of,
unifying my flesh to the love
with the life of the holy dove.i am sure i got alot of things wrong in it, but i literaly just spit it out, and didnt change it afterwards. o by the way i live in a town called salem.
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@bethata418 said
"so when people say "there is POWER in the word of christ" they are absolutely correct! lol"
Exactly. The name! And, actually, that's literally what the New Testament says. Consider, "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. 18:20). Or, "Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me" (Mark 9:37). Or Acts 2:38 or 3:6 or 4:10 or 16:18. These are all technically exacting statements given the technical understanding of the Name I wrote above. It is a precise Qabalistic and Theurgic statement in Philippians that, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth."
Consider the power of the pentagram!
On a wholly different angle, Paul Foster Case wrote a small article - available as a tiny book from BOTA - called The Name of Names. He argues based primarily on Hebrew grammar that the name Jesus translates to: "Reality shall set you free." Now, that's a Name of Power!
"like the other night i had the strange sensation so pickup the bible and read the book of revelations"
Very good to explore with an open mind. I'll give you the key, but it is going to take me a hundred pages or so to spell it all out in detail when I get to it: Revelations, thogh in the form of a Greek mystery play, is also a highly technical document - specifically, a very exacting and detailed instruction in kundalini yoga, balancing and equilibrating the centers through something pretty much equivalent to the Four Worlds, and the awakening of superconsciousness that results from it. All of this, of course, is wrapped in the rhetoric and language of a particular school of thought.
PS - On the poem, the key thing is that you are seeking to express yourself that way. That's good! You have some nice images in there, but the giving birth to it is even more important. In case you happen to be interested, several of my poems are at aumha.org/a/poems.htm - at least some of them make a good case for why I don't make a living as a poet
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THELEMA
tyeha i know in order for me to find the TRUTH in the bible, i MUST forget anything a christian has told me "such & such" means. and find the truth through god or what i call my HGA. i have already basically decided to look at it almost as i look at liber 65, maybe this is wrong, but christ to me is ADONAI.
i thank you for the key of revelations is a kundalini work! from breifly looking at it (chapter 22) it seemed like it makes things fit together, i will remember this when i begin my studues on this chapter. i am sure i will gain much from looking into this chapter of the bible looking at it from that veiw point.
any other hints you may want to give me to keep in mind while studying this? not that the kundalini doesnt seem to show much by my glance at it.
thanks alot!
AGAPE
Fr.418
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btw, i really like your poetry my favorite is AMORIS VEL CALICIS. i have read these before once, in the AA book is the "daughter of the lantern" your work?
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Thanks. Interestingly, I hadn't read Liber Amoris in a while and printed out a copy to take around with me today on the bus.
Yes, "Daughter of the Lantern" is mine, too. (I think the Table of Contents says that, doesn't it?)
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THELEMA
thats cool about the printing the poem today and showing it to people!
yes looking in the front it does say you wrote it, and that is may favorite poem!
AGAPE
Fr.418
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Well, I wasn't printing it to show people - not the way I do things
- I printed it just to take it with me and have the chance to read it for the first time in several years. -
yeah i was going to say that would be a little strange, showing that poem to random stranger. but hey i am not one to judge.
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G., I was thinking this morning that I should have mentioned - for your entertainment and enjoyment - some of the patterns in these poems.
In Amoris vel Calicis, I'm guessing you discerned the pattern in the verses numbered 1-22 - but can you tell what the pattern is for the first three verses? These are written based on a very exact qabalistic pattern (no, it has nothing to do per se with the 3 Veils), and was in fact the pattern that I used to jumpstart receiving the others, and their inspiration. That is, there is a qabalistic formula in these three verses which was inspiration of all the rest of it, and which gave me an exact approach to the rest flowing in. Can you discern it?
Second - this one is more obvious, at least once you know it - Is it clear what Locked in Love is (besides a devotional love poem)? I'll give this one away, because that opens the way to learning more things: It is a versification of the Pentagram Ritual (excluding the Qabalistic Cross).
Several of the others follow Qabalistic formulae, though usually private patterns. That is, the verses are usually inspired by Hebrew or Greek letters from some formula I was working at the time. One pretty obvious example is Thalia, named after one of the Muses, where the verses are the first two letters of her name - Theta (=Teth) and Alpha (=Aleph). I originally thought I'd go through the other letters, too, but at the end of the second verse it was done. Also, the Invocation of Israfel is a letter-by-letter working of the spelling of Israfel's name (rendered in Hebrew, though the actual name is Arabic).
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THELEMA
On the meaning of the 1st 3 verses (000-0) of your poem, i would guess it it:
000: this is nuit i would say, which is of course the all, and female. the star.
00:this would be the force of hadit, penetrating nuit, and the human uniting with her (or with the HGA) (the devil)
0.in a sexual sense i would say this would be baphomet, you know male and female force combined to create baphomet. (the fool)but from more a technical "AA" standpoint i would say its more
000=yesod- where you are looking up at your HGA with out the moon in its way, also yesod=chalice
00=samekh, traveling up that path to tiphareth, where you acheieve K&C w/ HGA
0=is you and your HGA working on your relationship, love i think in geburah, the portal to binah. or maybe this is zain as being the portal instead of geburah to binah?
but if i was a betting man i wouldnt bet money i was right. am i amy where close.
thats very cool that you put alot of qabalic thougt into your poems. i really like how that poem was written in like class A form, never thought of doing something like that.
since we are talking about qabalah like influenced poetry i will show you a poem i think is a little better than the last one i posted that has some qabalah into it. hope you dont mind.
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god guide me through the most sightless night,
giving me liberty, love, life & light,
the source of the eternal whirling fire,
enlightenment of man's desire,
this is the law of all free men,
they have abolished that which is sin.one must first discover inner liberty,
this is the 1st step to set yourself free,
submitting yourself to self restriction,
the holy knight is ruled by disiplene,
forming his mind & body into his slave,
until his true will is all thats saved.through liberty god's love comes pouring in,
devouring the knights soul in the joy of sin,
he learns that love is just as the weather,
changing from wet to dry unveiling gods treasure,
giving & receiving just as our beloved Nuit,
taking ecstacy& agony as all is sweet.the holy knight then devotes his life unto god,
giving every moment to the splendour of hod,
thru love he unites to create life in union,
conjoining as beast & babalon in reunion,
filling the ark of life with his internal light,
making himself the most holy eternal knight.only then does he understand love under will,
thru the creation of the holy elixar etheral,
this light is as bright as a moon & star-less nihgt sky,
and as the intense silence of a dead man's cry,
this light so bright it shall be called the nothing,
burning in our knights heart it ecomes all consuming.burning out every bit of himself called I,
leaving only in its place the force Coph Nia,
sitting in content no longer a knight,
but now in his place the illustrious lord
living in unity by the 2-edged sword,
he is no longer a star but the bright light,
that is known as dark night by those without sight.AGAPE
Fr.418
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The first three verses each relates to a Hebrew letter. The letters then spell something. What is it?
(I'll come back tomorrow when I'm more awake to read your poem - and give itdue attention.)
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thelema
000= heh
00= ayin
0= alephbut ot me EOA isnt really cool and 000 acually sounds like yod also now so i would say IOA which is IAO
and is cool cause yod is sperm, ayin is the hole the sperm shoots out and A is baphomet, and in the devil card you can see the little baphomet on his way out. or course IAO is also the union of male and female creating the baphomet.
- Behold the Grail, uplifted in the heart of She who is He that I adore. It is an offering of perfect love. All that is pure, amethestine splendor asparkle, refracting the fluid and liquid dance of Her kiss that sips the nectar-blood of my soul.
and the yod adores the grail, and her liquid consumes yod.
i am i right?
thanks that was fun.
AGAPE
FR.418
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Look again at the visual imagery in the second verse in particular.
The first one isn't a bad guess, but is wrong.
The qabalistic clues in the third verse are almost every word, and all point in one direction.
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THELEMA
well 000 could be i think either Ch or yod or Heh
00 either samekh or ayin
0 probably aleph if not dalethso ISA or ChSD or HAD
i dont know what is it?
AGAPE
Fr.418
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Cheth Samekh Daleth - Chesed.
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Great stuff Jim,
Can you give me any Qabalahistic viewpoints on Adam Kadmon?
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@DJHOHL said
"Can you give me any Qabalahistic viewpoints on Adam Kadmon?"
I've been long taken with the fact that qadmon - QDMVN - enumerates to 200, Resh. Therefore, Adam Qadmon is "solar humanity." This is at least a good mnemonic, since Adam Qadmon is the Tipheric universal human ideal.
Did you have a more specific question on this?
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To quote Robert Ambelain:
Man is composed of
Neschamah (Divine Spark) SHIN
Ruach (Mediator) ALEPH
Nephesch (Form) MEMMan was emanated as Neschmah (Adam Kadmon).
Genesis says that "male and female created him" The divine spark was polarized and there was a neschamah male and female. So we see that Adam Kadomn has the association Chokmah-Binah.Do you agree with any of this?
Also, I'd like to hear any info on the interplay between Adam Kadmon vs. Adam, and between EVE & ADAM. What does the Kabbalah tell us of their relationships and states to one another?
Thanks!
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@DJHOHL said
"Do you agree with any of this?"
I agree with the composition of Neshamah, Ruach, Nephesh - and the attribution of the three Mother Letters is traditional, and perfectly good symbolism. (The translation is a bit whacked, but it communicates well enough.)
No, I wouldn't represent the emanation that way. This may be a semantics issue, though. By "human" (what is apparently meant by "man" here) I mean the animal that has evolved up to the more sophisticated animal, and happens to be the housing of a particular Star at present. So I don't start talking about it as originating in Neshemah. On the other hand, the Star itself - the incarnated spiritual being - is Neshamic inherently.
"male and female created him" - The ideal (primarily as evolved from Greek thought) is always the apex of a triangle, the transcendant synthesis of a polarity, so in that sense it is so. But this is only one particular polarity. You could model it in any of several ways, of course, and the above sounds very gnostic-kabbalistic, something of the flavor of the 13th Century Spanish kabbalists, though I don't recognize the particular source.
The key thing to remember about Adam Qadmon, though, is that it is the collective of humanity - not a particular or individual human at all, except to the extent that the individual is identified with the Human Archetypal Ideal of the whole of humanity in Tiphereth.
"Also, I'd like to hear any info on the interplay between Adam Kadmon vs. Adam, and between EVE & ADAM. What does the Kabbalah tell us of their relationships and states to one another?"
To the extent that Adam doesn't mean a particular person - i.e., to the extent that it is understood simply as the word for "humanity" - it is still "typical" (non-ideal, non-archetypal) humanity. Adam Qadmon, the Primal Humanity, is the transcendant ideal behind the iindivuals.
I would have to go to an hour or so of research to know if anything I've written here matches source literature - but what you asked is whether I agreed with it, so that's what I answered <vbg>.