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May 14 (Air) Liber LXV, Cap II, v. 8-9

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Meditation of the Day - Thelemic Tefilah
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    8. I gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did I love her, burning beautiful incense before her.
    9. Yea! I gave her of the flower of my youth.

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    Following the laid out symbolism in the commentary by A.C. the "boat" is consciousness itself and the river it floats in is the stream of consciousness. The boat being a specific point in consciousness. I think of this like the distinction of self-consciousness as the boat and sub-consciousness as the river, but some of that doesn't line up for me (close enough for now).

    He gives all of his days and nights to his ideal and dedicates himself to it. The lifeless image (a projection of his own higher self?) is given the fruit of his youth.

    Perhaps this is a necessary stage. Just as in "first love" we seek out someone that we can place all of our ideas on that we condense as our idea of love as a projection. Most of the time, once we get to know the person for who they actually are they don't fit our initial ideas of what we thought they were which has various results. Indeed, I can see this as giving of the flower of my youth.

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    There are numerous small elements through this book that are reflected directly in the A.'.A.'. initiation. This likely is no mistake, since Liber LXV was received ahead of the time that the founders wrote Ritual CXX.

    Just a couple of examples: The initiation is explicitly a passage of the Duat. A significant portion of the initiation occurs in a boat, floating on a stream.

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