Bafomet
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The Philosophy of Thelema and the Book of the Law
Babalon, TAN and Nuit
Babalon is the scarlet whore. The archetype of all experiences possible to man through desire and lust on all levels; of the mind and body as well. She always gives and never takes away from all things. To become one with her is a form of Self –Love. TAN is the cosmic aspect of Becoming and all that is able to become and is also all that can be experienced. Nuit is the archetype of all the universe and space, the arch Goddess over the sky. She represents ALL experiences and events possible, all realms of possibility. She is a higher level of Babalon and Archetype of the TAN principle.
The Beast, SAT and Hadit
The Beast is the Core of the mind, the source of Desire and wanting for experience. The essence of consciousness on a Human level, the black flame within man. SAT is the cosmic aspect of BEING and all that is able to BE, the essence of life without any interaction of experience, the force of consciousness itself. Hadit is the atomic point, the winged globe. Hadit is the Archetype of the Sun, a star in space, symbolic of BEING, the SAT principle and a higher level of the Beast. The cosmic principle for all desires and wanting of experiences for all forces or centers of Being.
AL II,6: I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.
The Black Flame
*I;8. The Khabs (Light or logos) is in the Khu (body), not the Khu in the Khabs. *
I;9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!
SR: you are the Black Flame, the flame burning in Darkness from whence it came.
Aleister Crowleys commentary on the above verses from the Book of the Law.
"We are not to regard ourselves as base beings, without whose sphere is Light or "God". Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within. The uninitiate is a "Dark Star", and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by 'purifying' them. (SR: gaining clarity). This 'purification' is really 'simplification'; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principally in the solution of complexes. Everything in itself is perfect, but when things are muddled, they become 'evil'. The Doctrine is evidently of supreme importance, from its position as the first 'revelation' of Aiwass. This 'star' or 'Inmost Light' is the original, individual, eternal essence. The Khu is the magical garment which it weaves for itself, a 'form' for its Being Beyond Form, by use of which it can gain experience through self-consciousness. This Khu is the first veil, far subtler than mind or body, and truer; for its symbolic shape depends on the nature of its Star. Why are we told that the Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs? Did we then suppose the converse? I think that we are warned against the idea of a Pleroma, a flame of which we are Sparks, and to which we return when we 'attain'. That would indeed be to make the whole curse of separate existence ridiculous, a senseless and inexcusable folly. It would throw us back on the dilemma of Manichaeism. The idea of incarnations "perfecting" a thing originally perfect by definition is imbecile. The only sane solution is as given previously, to suppose that the Perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) Imperfection. (There are deeper resolutions of this problem appropriate to the highest grades of initiation; but the above should suffice the average intelligence.)"
The Law of Thelema
The law of Thelema is "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, love under will" the first law is not a call to do whatever one wants to do, it is a command to do what that person is meant to do, what they are inspired to do. The second law adds to this by saying the actions of the first law must be done in love. The idea of the muses and the inspiration that comes from the Vajra and the boundless Darkness are a similar expression of this True Will.
"Black Brothers of the Left Hand Path" : Crowley's klippoth and the system of the A.'.A.'.
The A.'.A.'. (Order of the Silver Star) is a magickal Occult School founded by Aleister Crowley and George Cecil Jones. The A.'.A.'. Degrees correspond to the 10 spheres of the Cabalistic tree of life. As the student ascends up the tree he or she learns practices of Meditation (Yoga) and Ceremonial Magick for the expansion and evolution of consciousness. When the initiate reaches Chesed just below the abyss he must do one of two things, cross the abyss and let your consciousness touch the supernal triad or stay at the base of the abyss and wall yourself up in daath thus cutting off the supernal triad and creating for yourself a false crown. Crowley calls this type of initiate (one who has blocked the flow and refuses to open up to the Supernals) a Black Brother of the Left Hand Path. In the Dark Tradition this type of person is known as a Klippoth, a person who has no vajra flowing in them from the supernal triad. When the non-klippothic Adept Reaches into the Supernals he becomes the Magister Templi (Master of the Temple) in Binah. A M.T. is a master of meditation and Yoga and can reach SAMADHI at will (he continually contemplates and feels the boundless Darkness of Kether. When the M.T. moves his consciousness into Chokmah he becomes the Magus, a master of Magick. the Magus can actively manipulate the energy from kether at will through the magickal Will and inner Logos. Crowley in his use of the label "Left Hand Path" eather used it as a blind or was just using it in the context of his time. Crowley's magickal name for the grade of the Magus (9 = 2) was TO MEGA THERION 666, The Great Beast is Leo the Lion, The Gnostic Lion headed Serpent. 666 is the total on the magickal table of the sun found in numerous hermetic texts. Thus the Great Beast 666 symbolizes the first out pouring of light from the boundless darkness which is Chokmah.
From Magick in Theory and Practice
"The Devil" is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that THE BEAST 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that AIWAZ --- the solar-phallic-hermetic "Lucifer" is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and "The Devil" SATAN or HADIT of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade "Know Thyself!" and taught Initiation. He is "the Devil" of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. The number of His Atu is XV, which is Yod He, the Monogram of the Eternal, the Father one with the Mother, the Virgin Seed one with all-containing Space. He is therefore Life, and Love. But moreover his letter is Ayin, the Eye; he is Light, and his Zodiacal image is Capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is Liberty. (Note that the "Jehovah" of the Hebrews is etymologically connected with these. The classical example of such antinomy, one which has led to such disastrous misunderstandings, is that between NU and HAD, North and South, Jesus and John.
The Crowleyan Method
By Thelemite Comrade
1. Western Occultism . The secret "illuminated" teachings out of 19th century Rosicrucianism, possibly going back through Renaissance magick societies, medieval witchcraft, the knights Templar, European Sufis, etc., to Gnosticism, and thence back possibly to the Eleusinian Mysteries and Egyptian cults. using Ritual to bring the mind to higher states of awareness. 2. Eastern Yoga, including meditation plus physical exercises to make meditation easier and more natural. Another System of methods to bring the mind to higher states of awareness.- Modern scientific method. Crowley taught total skepticism about all results obtained, keeping of careful objective records of each "experiment," and detached philosophical analysis after each stage of increased awareness.
Of God's, spirits, Angels and Demons.
These "Beings" are portions of the Human Brain.
Their symbols therefore represent methods of stimulating or regulating those particular spots of the mind.
The names of these beings are vibrations calculated to establish:
(a) General control of the mind.
(b) Control over the Brain in detail.
(c) Control of one special portion of the mind.
Liber LXXVII
by Aleister Crowley
"The law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world." AL. II. 2
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." --AL. I. 40
"Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay." --AL. I. 42-3
"Every man and every woman is a star." --AL. I. 3
''There is no god but man''
- Man has the right to live by his own law--
to live in the way that he wills to do:
to work as he will:
to play as he will:
to rest as he will:
to die when and how he will.- Man has the right to eat what he will:
to drink what he will:
to dwell where he will:
to move as he will on the face of the earth.- Man has the right to think what he will:
to speak what he will:
to write what he will:
to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:
to dress as he will.- Man has the right to love as he will:--
*"take your fill and will of love as ye will,
when, where, and with whom ye will." --AL. I. 51 *- Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.
*"the slaves shall serve." --AL. II. 58 *
"Love is the law, love under will." --AL. I. 57
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The image:
Where did Baphomet's lovely breasts go away to?
Now he looks too spookey and hollywood styled.
With only that skull face he cannot properly make kisses or sip tea and coffie."I think that we are warned against the idea of a Pleroma, a flame of which we are Sparks, and to which we return when we 'attain'. That would indeed be to make the whole curse of separate existence ridiculous, a senseless and inexcusable folly. It would throw us back on the dilemma of Manichaeism. The idea of incarnations "perfecting" a thing originally perfect by definition is imbecile. The only sane solution is as given previously, to suppose that the Perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) Imperfection. (There are deeper resolutions of this problem appropriate to the highest grades of initiation; but the above should suffice the average intelligence.)""
I was talking to my shaman-like friend, just a native buddy around here, about this very thing in nature:
#The fins of a fish are only perfect for swimming, and become insufficient if the fish is thrown out of water.
#Perfection suggests sufficiency, not too much and not too little. So that a fish with legs and lungs is imperfect but also a fish out of water shows that a normal fish in natural form is fallable, mortal, distortable, etc.
#Separations are kinds of reactions, relative to fire, and fire makes pure! When one part of the mind cannot get along with the other part, it separates, just like if you have met someone you very-much cannot get along with, not meant to be with the person, it is most wise to avoid such a person. To exist separately away from the conflicting is as automatic and natural as a burning tree. Either you move away by choice, into a more peaceful harmonious place, or you are destroyed by unbarable disharmony and in death you enter into peace, harmony, stillness, neutrality, etc. Both catastrophe and the avoidance of catastrophe produce peace.
#If reality's forces were only entropic then we would have nothing but equal peaceful deadness, even if it no-longer had any needs, imperfections, illusions or problems. -- But there is an anti-entropic force aswel, perhaps the cosmic Qi which exists as a law of self-overcoming, or some kind of process that moves away from its own nature, divides itself, re-arranges, etc. This may instead be a kind of chaos, instead of a lifeforce, perhaps it is that even the definition of balance and universal absolute laws are each in a constant state of change, so that everything must constantly be readjusting itself, due to nature being chaos not balance, chaos, not any kind of static-perfection or static-imperfection.The chaos may not have to be anti-entropic before it can necessitate entropy towards change, accumulation, forms, etc. For above listed "reasons", of which it also does not have to operate within.
Now either of these are the basis of magic power aswel : manas are pranas, that one's life force, spirit, soul, breath, spirus, vitality, are all the same things. But these things could also instead be, perhaps : chaos.
They relate theoretically already quite deeply to living accomplishments, change, animation, etc.
If chaos is the only perfect..?
I was gunu try to say how one piece fits into the other but it all just drifted away and I was barely able to type much.
Anyways I think Baph needs to ware some flowers, too, kindof like how buddha sits on that big-assed flower thing. Ya know what I mean..?
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@heWatcher said
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Babalon, TAN and NuitBabalon is the scarlet whore. The archetype of all experiences possible to man through desire and lust on all levels; of the mind and body as well. She always gives and never takes away from all things. To become one with her is a form of Self –Love. TAN is the cosmic aspect of Becoming and all that is able to become and is also all that can be experienced. Nuit is the archetype of all the universe and space, the arch Goddess over the sky. She represents ALL experiences and events possible, all realms of possibility. She is a higher level of Babalon and Archetype of the TAN principle.
The Beast, SAT and Hadit
The Beast is the Core of the mind, the source of Desire and wanting for experience. The essence of consciousness on a Human level, the black flame within man. SAT is the cosmic aspect of BEING and all that is able to BE, the essence of life without any interaction of experience, the force of consciousness itself. Hadit is the atomic point, the winged globe. Hadit is the Archetype of the Sun, a star in space, symbolic of BEING, the SAT principle and a higher level of the Beast. The cosmic principle for all desires and wanting of experiences for all forces or centers of Being. "
Cool! And the Crowned & Conquering Child?
"Like mists arising from a marsh, the dead came near and cried: Speak further unto us concerning the supreme god.
Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas. Its power is the greatest, because man perceiveth it not. From the sun he draweth the summum bonum; from the devil the infinum malum: but from Abraxas LIFE, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil.
Smaller and weaker life seemeth to be than the summum bonum; wherefore is it also hard to conceive that Abraxas transcendeth even the sun in power, who is himself the radient source of all the force of life.
Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void, the belittling and dismembering devil.
The power of Abraxas is twofold; but ye see it not, because for your eyes the warring opposites of this power are extinguished.
What the god-sun speaketh is life.
What the devil speaketh is death.
But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time.
Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.
It is splendid as the lion in the instant he striketh down his victim. It is beautiful as a day in spring. It is the great Pan himself and also the small one. It is Priapos.
It is the monster of the under-world, a thousand-armed polyp, coiled knot of winged serpents, frenzy.
It is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning.
It is the lord of the toads and frogs,, which live in the water and gets up on the land, whose chorus ascendeth at noon and at midnight.
It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness.
It is holy begetting.
It is love and love’s murder.
It is the saint and his betrayer.
It is the brightest light of day and the darkest night of madness.
To look upon it, is blindness.
To know it, is sickness.
To worship it, is death.
To fear it, is wisdom.
To resist it not, is redemption."
-Carl Jung, Septem Sermones ad Mortuos
IAO131
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Your material is also very cool Aum418
))I will soon post more interesting things ...
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@Uni_Verse said
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@Dannerz said
"Where did Baphomet's lovely breasts go away to? "That was the first thing to pop into my mind when I saw the picture!"
He-she should have a lion's eye tatoo above each nipple aswel,
To symbolize a vigilant, aggressive/actively attentive, rectifying, predatorily cleansing pure awareness overtop of the organs which are meant to provide for and give to underdeveloped smaller family members in the beginning.Ardhanarishvara knew what he-she was doing when she kept a hermaphro form. If ya are going to destroy illusions ya gotta do a good job and face each nature of them.
Baph also should wear sunglasses and a discreet hat on saturdays aswel as on sundays : Too much light causes blindness.
Quite silly.
But my main babbling point that I attempted to make
Was that *separateness is not an illusion.
*Separateness is the result of an entropic force, of which is a very fundamental balancing force in nature. Without separation we could not make pure iron, and would have nothing but dirty oar. So this means all dichotomy and appearant disharmonies, contradictions, lies, denial and whatever else like that - have a use, and are of this entropy in its active [more obvious] state, that an 'illusion' generally saps away excess force then distributes it out more equally over everything. For example if one becomes too obsessed with a particular ideology or idol, too much energy is focused to that point, distortions and degrading effects result, but to degrade is to balance out again, and a disruption in one direction soon moves in the opposite direction instead. No matter whether the human moral ideal is the overman or the christ, no matter whether they worship strength or decadent weakness, each process is the result of higher principal, a real universal nature, an actual purpose. -
The grade A.'.A.'. + Baphomatic Baphelling Baphtastic :::
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e378/fruitpooper/scan0001.jpg
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@Dannerz said
"The grade A.'.A.'. + Baphomatic Baphelling Baphtastic :::
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e378/fruitpooper/scan0001.jpg"
That is fucking hilarious and awesome at the same time.
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^^ thanks ^^
"Love is the law, love under will"