Ku and the Khabs? The Book of the Law.
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What is a Ku, Ka and Khab? Seriously?
I have been told to do the adoration after RESH, from Liber Legis, CH III vs 37-38. When doing Resh i can visualize all of the gods, etc. I find this very powerful, but when I get to the lines:
Open the ways of the Khu!
Lighten the ways of the Ka!
The ways of the Khabs runs through...It seems like gibberish.
Secondly, am I even allowed to discuss the Book of the Law? Or analyze it?
Thanx in advance, as always your guidance is helping greatly.
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First things first:
"Secondly, am I even allowed to discuss the Book of the Law? Or analyze it?"
F'ing yeah! Go at it. It's heavily encouraged here.
"What is a Ku, Ka and Khab? Seriously?"
This is complicated, because what Crowley thought they were - and what, therefore, worked its way into Liber Legis as part of standard terminology - are quite different. Though all exploration of ideas is encouraged, the general point of view I think is best is "screw what the ancient Egyptians might have thought of it, and go with what the prophet had in mind when he wrote the poetic paraphrases that Aiwass told him to include."
In case I don't have time to finish before I have to rush out the door, you might look here:
aumha.org/arcane/ccxx10.htm#v8Budge (Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I, p. 39) gave the following:
ba, a soul
kau, a double
khu, a spirit [he gives “spirits”]
sahu
sekhem
He says the last two are difficult to translate, “but they are rendered with approximate correctness by ‘spiritual body,’ and ‘power.’”To Budge, the Khu “was the seat of the spiritual part of man, and gods and divine personages were credited with the possession of several spirits [Khus].” AC calls khu “the magical entity of a man.”
I regard Khabs as Briatic and Khu is higher level Yetziratic.
The bottom line meaning of CCXX 1:8 is that the Khabs, or light, or star, is within what we usually call “us.” The Khu is something closer to what we usually call “us,” “ourselves.” AC uses “mind and body” very roughly to allude to this, although Khu is clearly not the guph (physical body). AC calls Khu a “form,” a “garment” woven by the Khabs by which it can gain self-consciousness and thus experience.
(These notes, remarks, and thoughts should be compared, and reconsidered in light of, my remarks on Florence Farr’s writings, included in the Notes of 776½.)
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Thanx again Jim, I hope I didn't make you late.
For some reason I thought that AC had advised us to read the Book of the Law then burn it, and not to analyze it, or discuss it. Basically so we don't end up like catholics and protestants fighting over their different interpretations of the bible or something like that, or maybe my mind made that up... ...
Anyways thanx again.
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@Dee6 said
"For some reason I thought that AC had advised us to read the Book of the Law then burn it, and not to analyze it, or discuss it."
He did write a comment which said things like that. He also wrote initiation rituals in which he told people to study it constantly.
And you'll find some who give that comment a great deal of weight - calling it Class A and of the same standing as the book itself. I'm not one of those people. I regard it as "an interesting idea" at most.
"Basically so we don't end up like catholics and protestants fighting over their different interpretations of the bible or something like that, or maybe my mind made that up... ...
"What's wrong with different interpretations? Sounds like quite a positive thing to me!
The thing to watch out for isn't divergence of opinion, but trying to force others to accept your opinion. There's a big difference between sharing a point of view with others, and shoving it down their throats.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
@Jim Eshelman said
"The bottom line meaning of CCXX 1:8 is that the Khabs, or light, or star, is within what we usually call “us.” The Khu is something closer to what we usually call “us,” “ourselves.” AC uses “mind and body” very roughly to allude to this, although Khu is clearly not the guph (physical body). AC calls Khu a “form,” a “garment” woven by the Khabs by which it can gain self-consciousness and thus experience."
Thanks for this, Jim.
Love is the law, love under will.
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To me, I see the "Ba" as Spirit, the Ka as soul. Akh is the personality, or a Shell of the ego that splits after death from the others. The Khat is known to be the Physical body and the Khubit is the Shadow, sometimes seen as the Servant of Yinepu...
I would call the Ba similar to the HGA, But then I'm still trying to understand both concept of Kemetic Soul (I would call myself Kemetic) and the Concept of the HGA
An interesting text is "Discourse between a Man and his Ba" Where a man and his Ba argue when his Ba threatens to leave him if he commits suicide.
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@Dee6 said
"Thanx again Jim, I hope I didn't make you late.
For some reason I thought that AC had advised us to read the Book of the Law then burn it, and not to analyze it, or discuss it. Basically so we don't end up like catholics and protestants fighting over their different interpretations of the bible or something like that, or maybe my mind made that up... ...
Anyways thanx again."
I remember when his comment really bothered me because I was always afraid I was breaking the rules an screwing up, but then I got that joke.
'Do WHAT thou WILT shall be the WHOLE of the LAW' + Study of this book is FORBIDDEN = a very hilarious zen like riddle - enjoy the contradictions
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I always thought that it was an esoteric statement- stating that the infinite devine is within and not without. Stating that present day religions have it wrong. That god is within yourself.
There is of course much more detail. It says to seek Hadit and to behold the light/in finiteness of Nuit. Experience Nuit (sexual bliss)- unite the two.