22 June (Water) Liber LXV, 3:28-29
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28. The red three-angled heart hath been set up in Thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god.
29. Yet all the while Thou wast hidden therein, as the Lord of Silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus. -
Had to go to the commentary as the red three angled heart is a bit confusing.
The idea I get is that when on the path to the K&C of the HGA your perspective will necessarily change with time, maturity, and your receptivity. At one time something that you reject – in symbolism and in essence – may become predominant later. All things contain Divinity as all numbers spring from the source of 0 or no-thing. The important thing here from what I can understand is to seek the beloved in all things.
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@mojorisin44 said
"The important thing here from what I can understand is to seek the beloved in all things."
Yes. I think that's always "the important thing."
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28. The red three-angled heart hath been set up in Thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god.
When people ask me what religion I am or what my beliefs are, I have a hard time explaining myself. And I get flustered and frustrated. I don't have a simple straight forward answer. And what's underneathe that frustration is confusion about what God is to me. All I know is that I believe in SOMETHING, FAAAAAAAR greater than anything in existence. I'd rather not name it and I'd rather not be labelled anything. But for the sake of satisfying my inherent need for religious expression, I do religious "stuff". This verse, to me, illustrates this frustration I have.
29. Yet all the while Thou wast hidden therein, as the Lord of Silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus.
One day my dad told me I was God. One Halloween I was asked what I was going to be and I replied "God as Shariyf Clark like I am everyday" On March 27th of this year I was asked "What's doing the seeing behind your eyes?" The Sepher Yetzirah tells us "Kether is in Malkuth, but after another manner". Hadit tells us he shall not be known because he is the knower. It's like hide and seek is God's favorite game to play.
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28. The red three-angled heart hath been set up in Thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god.
29. Yet all the while Thou wast hidden therein, as the Lord of Silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus.Even in spiritual dryness, my HGA is with me. Even when I hate the shrine in my heart and it causes me intense frustration and (blind) emotional pain to worship there, the HGA is still there, even though I cannot see Him.
"The red three-angled heart" - I haven't looked at the commentary for this, but it immediately strikes me as the Fire Triangle, which is being associated with the heart... but why it "hath been set up in Thy shrine" is beyond me.
93, 93/93.
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From Crowley's commentary:
"“The red three-angled heart” is the peculiar symbol of Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and the Prophet objected to accepting the Book of the Law, which proclaims Him, as being incompatible with his Oath to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel."
I've also considered the "red three-angled heart" image as a possible metaphor for the entire BOL; 3 chapters - three angles to looking at consciousness/reality; red for blood / geburah.
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28. The red three-angled heart hath been set up in Thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god.
29. Yet all the while Thou wast hidden therein, as the Lord of Silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus.As I just got back home late last night I'm doing a little catch up today, taking each day I missed, separately. My comments for the 21st., finished a few minutes ago, seem to echo what I am reading now.
The specification for three-angles seems fussy to me. Maybe this will change in the future.
So I simplify this image, and this feels right, and it becomes the upright fire triangle, or the phallus.
I was once asked a rhetorical question by a reputed holy person: where are you? The answer was something of a clever puzzle, meant to get you puzzling, or meditating in a particular fashion. The answer was that you are inside.
It seems to me we are now talking about the center that is everywhere. This is the compliment to the intelligible sphere whose circumference is nowhere to be found that was just featured as the encircling circle of emerald. Complimentary colors of Red and Emerald.
[...here follows a series of images that are all composite forms suggesting the union of opposites from the whole of world mythology and mysticism.]
Love and Will
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@Liber LXV said
"**28. The red three-angled heart hath been set up in Thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god.
- Yet all the while Thou wast hidden therein, as the Lord of Silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus.**"
I meant to at least stop by yesterday long enough to add some technical notes on this.
The "red three-angled heart" is a symbol that presented itself to Crowley over and over, from the original Cairo working on. It is the solid descending red triangle, appearing as the distinctive symbol marking the presence of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Even in 1907, when this chapter was received, it seemed so private that it continued to be described obscurely. For a time it was far too private to him.
We can analyze it by several theoretical means. For example, I've always assumed it represented (in part) the Middle Triad on the Tree of Life. (Its equation to "heart" here seems to reinforce that idea.) It is the basic element of the Yoni Yantra in the East. Etc. But, all those theories asside, we at least can start with the basic definition that it is the signal of the presence of the Ra-Hoor-Khuit (or a cognate idea).
Starting from there... these verses seem, to me, to be saying to and of the Angel: Thy symbol has ever been in the inmost shrine. Priests (in the political-financial form of the job description) despise that which they can't manage - they despise the inmost, silent Sanctum and whatever is found therein. (It's bad for their job security.) - Yet, despite this, the Angel remains there eternally: hidden, silent, just as Harpocrates rests, still and silent, within the buds of the lotus.