Ritual To Have Any Knowledge...Thoughts or Experiences?
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93,
This coming weekend we're going to do the "Ritual To Have Any Knowledge" from page 682 of the Big Blue Brick. Does anyone have any thoughts, experience or advice to share on this? One of the footnotes says that Crowley annotated this ritual as NG, possibly meaning no good. Right now I am going on the assumption that after step 12, the adoration unto Khephra, the Seer will scry the triangle of art. I am also assuming that the Seer does an invocation of Ma in section 8. For the invocation of Thoth I am using Liber Israfel.
Thanks in advance for any input,
93 93/93
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Yes, NG was Crowley's usual notation for "no good."
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>> I hope you'll let us know if the ritual was any good for you.
Certainly, I'll let you know how it goes. Despite the NG, it's worth checking out. You know that saying about sex? When it's good, it's great. When it's just ok, it's still pretty damn good. Magick is like that.
BTW Robert, it is never too late to seek out the Philosophers' Stone.
Regards,
Let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshippers. The foundations of the pyramid were hewn in the living rock ere sunset; did the king weep at dawn that the crown of the pyramid was yet unquarried in the distant land?
There was also an humming-bird that spake unto the horned cerastes, and prayed him for poison. And the great snake of Khem the Holy One, the royal Uræus serpent, answered him and said:
I sailed over the sky of Nu in the car called Millions-of-Years, and I saw not any creature upon Seb that was equal to me. The venom of my fang is the inheritance of my father, and of my father's father; and how shall I give it unto thee? Live thou and thy children as I and my fathers have lived, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the Mighty Ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld.
Then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. Yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died.
But an Ibis that meditated upon the bank of Nile the beautiful god listened and heard. And he laid aside his Ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying Peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the Exalted One.
And behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an Uræus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever.
O thou Serpent Apep, my Lord Adonai, it is a speck of minutest time, this travelling through eternity, and in Thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. Therefore Thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. Amen.