11 November (Nuit) Liber CCXX, 1:1-2
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1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
2. The unveiling of the company of heaven. -
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11-11-11
Namaste Day.
May the company of heaven be unveiled...!
May the company of heaven be unveiled...! -
I somehow find myself walking in a part of town I don't recognize. I turn and see a burlesque theater. Remarkably, my name is on the marquis. "Robert!" it proclaims, "Come see the Queen of Heaven do a stip tease!" How could I resist. I enter, wondering what might happen next.
(What a way to found a religion!)
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676?
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@Jim Eshelman said
"676?"
For some reason, I was thinking omicron was 60. Oh, well, I should know better by now than to try to be clever. -
That's OK... that's actually the "inspired Qabalah" sort of thing, where the angel warps your math and your perception to forge a language that communicates something. Totally cool.
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As Nuit is manifested the company of Heaven is revealed. The night sky, seemingly infinite stars, and celestial bodies. In Her manifestation we are allowed a glimpse of what is hidden by our self, delusions, or competing light. My first instinct is to view the company of heaven like a choir or a number of beings around the Throne of God. However, the night sky and stars appeals much more to the symbolism and later verses of course. Thinking of it, I don't remember ever consciously viewing and appreciating the night sky. Partly because in the city much of the light is drowned out and partly because I've never paid it much attention.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"That's OK... that's actually the "inspired Qabalah" sort of thing, where the angel warps your math and your perception to forge a language that communicates something. Totally cool.
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Thanks for the vindication. I'm always having Qabalistic "revelations" pop into my meditations that turn out to be based on misspelled words or misadded numbers. I'm very disappointed at this one, though; I thought I'd found definitive proof that the Fox Network was the Devil. -
Well, it's not an avatar of the Sun
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@Jim Eshelman said
"**1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
- The unveiling of the company of heaven.**"
It always grabs my attention that this chapter begins by establishing a point of view as, well, that which is the essence of any p.o.v. - Hadit. From our position as Hadit we witness this chapter.
...which means that this first couplet puts us in the place of something very, very small look outward from itself, in all directions, at something immeasurably vast that it adores. If we can manage to assume something of that point of view, we are very close to touching, and being touched by, the untouchable.
There is much more, of course; but this is the path of adoration which emerges for me this week from this couplet. The veil is withdrawn, the lover disrobes, her body laid naked and bare for all to see.
PS - Verse 1 is themed to Had = Kether. Verse 2, agreeing with zodiacal Chokmah, speaks toward Malkuth.