<![CDATA[Old Scratch]]>What exactly IS the deal with all that Satan My Lord stuff in Liber Samekh? Like I know the standard line on these being solar symbols, but it's a bit odd to be performing a ritual which purports to be summoning higher forces but reads like a ritual to sell your soul to the devil! 😡

Attached, Sammy Davis Jr. in "Poor Devil"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5vRbVGHyzE

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/topic/16221/old-scratchRSS for NodeSun, 13 Sep 2026 21:08:39 GMTSat, 23 Jul 2011 21:36:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Old Scratch on Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:12:47 GMT]]>Well that just simplifies everything, doesn't it? 😀 Thank you!

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/84408https://thelema.org/forum/post/84408Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:12:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Old Scratch on Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:47:21 GMT]]>Sounds to me like you're including the English analysis as part of the ritual. That part isn't recited. It's just commentary.

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/84407https://thelema.org/forum/post/84407Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:47:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Old Scratch on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:31:58 GMT]]>Considering the fact that the Devil card is one of the paths to Tiphareth, does it really seem all that inappropriate for Crowley to have used the symbolism in a ritual designed to attain to Tiphareth?

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/84406https://thelema.org/forum/post/84406Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:31:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Old Scratch on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:01:18 GMT]]>I see it like: O, Thou Binah-consciousness

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/84404https://thelema.org/forum/post/84404Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:01:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Old Scratch on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:08:57 GMT]]>I've always liked that deconstruction of the name to mean: Truth and Bliss.
As if Satan were a contraction of the Sanskrit terms Sat and Ananda.

O living lord of me
O self shining flame
Begotten of beyond
...and on and on

Love and Will

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