College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@Takamba said

"Scarlet Woman is a title. It’s a role and it’s voluntary."

Cool.
Then, what are these qualifications to deserve this title?

One of the most pivotal characteristics of this woman is that she not only helps the aspirant know his True Will; but assist him effortlessly in doing so.
All hail Our Mother!

"and a private one I will simply say "ROCKS!"

ooohhhh
this made me think of a cool one!
(cues Over the HIlls and Far Away)

and when I just opened my news feed I saw that a remaster of the Song Remains the Same will be reissued. 👼

Voices ! Lights ! Sounds !
So MANY - now, and to come.
The 'Mystic' ignores them,
As should the Magician;
Heeding only those whom come
at the appointed hour

@danica said

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@Ab-ul-Az said
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I just feel like these are Old Aeon methods, which I'm not wholly devaluing, as I appreciate their technical precision, but I choose to take from them what is in conformity with my True Will."

The "methods" is The Holy Qabalah 😄
In practice, I personally see it as a matter of scientific approach (or lack thereof)."

And also some seem for forget that their "True Will" had them born in this certain historic period and in their individual conditions. If you were born a Catholic, for instance, Catholicism is not "against" your "True Will," it is there for its reasons to serve your "True Will." It's part of the science in the "science and..." thing.

or

go about things artlessly if you wish.

Jones taking the Oath of the Abyss was the necessary push Crowley needed to claim the grade of Magus.

I'll quote One Star In Sight..."No attainment soever is officially recognised by the A∴A∴ unless the immediate inferior of the person in question has been fitted by him to take his place."

By claiming 8=3 at this particular time, Crowley determined that Jones was his magickal son, seeing the Oath as an answer to his unspoken need for an inferior that would succeed him in that grade.

As many of us know, Crowley would later reconsider this designation, in light of certain documents produced by Achad and his apparent mental deterioration, showing a lack of emotional stability in situations such as joining the Catholic Church, or getting naked in a fountain square and invoking while the area was crowded with excessive foot traffic.

@Ab-ul-Az said

"I understand it's quite hard for most Western white people to overcome all the systematic propaganda and even spiritual enslavement done by the Demiurge of the Jews, which they've been fed with night and day, but for us Arabs it's probably easier as we've been fighting with this monster on physical and spiritual planes for ages, join us with the blessings of Ra-Hoor-Khuit! 😄"

I am utterly amazed and grateful for the contributions of Jewish culture throughout the world. What an extraordinary culture. Perhaps modern liberals or wingnuts get confused between the actions of Israel as a political state as opposed to the Jewish culture historically speaking.

I'm a bit miffed that wonderful underground ideas and systems such as Thelema are being opted in by far right wing nuts who are not proud of their race or culture, they are just proud about their anger.

Unless I'm mistaken, 93 means, and always will, unconditional love.

If there is no love in your worldview, I think you're far removed from Thelema at this point.

And unless I'm mistaken, there are hordes of asshole arab and israeli politicians, manipulating their bases to hold on to their power, often by dehumanizing the other side. Funny part is they don't realize they are both on the same side the whole time.

@Abdulaziz said

"I guess I didn't phrase my question well, since what I read was probably on how or what it feels like to cross the abyss, on a personal level."

That's the difficulty in talking about it - in a sense, the "personal level" has to give way to (but also be included by) the "impersonal level". (It's easy to talk about it intellectually, if you're careful enough and have a bit of mystical experience - by talking about this, I don't mean to suggest I myself have attained that level.)

One way to think of it is maybe this: below the Abyss, you're a human being having "episodes" of realizing you are God; above the Abyss, you are God, having an "episode" of being a human being.

That's why the "leap" is scary, such a fundamental shift from personal consciousness to impersonal consciousness seems like "too much"; you are leaving behind every small comfort of being a mere human being, nestling in his warm burrow. As that creature, all you had to contend with were scary monsters in the dark. To have to contend with the fact that you are the One who is responsible for it all - that's a whole other level of terrifyingness.

And in fact, the fully-formed adult consciousness can't handle it, only the consciousness of a child can take it in its stride.