College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Here is another one. In the comments someone says that Jerry Kay did the cover illustration as well.

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I stumbled upon a picture of the cover of a 1938 edition of the Book of the Law edited by Jerry Kay. What is the story with that? How did he edit it?

Here is the picture:
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Thank you so much.

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Crowley assigned fire to wands and air to swords.

Donald Michael Kraig assigned fire to swords and air to wands.

Sometimes Swords are assigned to Air and sometimes to Fire, the same with Wands assigned to sometimes to Air and sometimes to Fire.

What is the reasoning?

I read this account, that the Golden Dawn attributed Swords to Fire and Wands to Air. But when Waite published his tarot he changed the attributions to not violate his GD oath of secrecy.
[hadowdb dot net/discussion/view/16953/attributions-of-wandsair-and-swordsfire]

What do you think?

Thank you

Marvelous!

I saw a show at the planetarium which explained a little about our expanding universe. It showed in special effects how the galaxies are all moving away from earth, but also that from the point of view of any other planet or star, the galaxies seem to be moving away from it as the center. And that the detectable circumference is different in size depending on the size of the star and shows different parts of the universe.

It was exactly like Liber AL 2:3
"In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found."
Not sure how 2:4 applies or not:
"Yet she shall be known & I never."

Did they know about the expanding universe in Crowley's day?

This is how the wiki entry on expanding universe explains it:
The metric expansion of space is of a kind completely different from the expansions and explosions seen in daily life. It also seems to be a property of the universe as a whole rather than a phenomenon that applies just to one part of the universe or can be observed from "outside" it.

I don't understand it thoroughly, but I was just fascinated.

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I am not familiar with the "Whare Ra Pentagram Ritual";
What is it? What was this pentagram used for?

hermetic.com/gdlibrary/pentagram/pent1

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Here is my drawing of Heru-Ra-Ha
It is based on ancient Egyptian art of composite, 2-headed gods.

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Now I am totally lost! LOL

I haven't studied Lacan. Thank you for the summary, it's fascinating.

It's just personal feelings.

Part of my decision is that this would be a last-minute inclusion in a pre-planned event.

I've decided to not read it at all if I can't read the whole thing.

Thanks
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I have an offer to read chapter 1 on April 8th at the art gallery where my painting of Nuit is showing. But the curator hesitates on how long.... It takes me 15 minutes to read the whole chapter - she wants me to make it shorter. How would it be to read only part of chapter 1 ? And which part would I read?

Feels weird to read only part of it... but maybe that would work? It would be part of a poetry and music event, not centered on Holy Days, just a coincidence that it's a Holy Day.

Any thoughts on this?

Thank you, 93s

I finished reading this book. It was a fascinating read. It explained mathematical concepts for the layperson, and it also went into the personal lives of famous mathematicians.

It explained ideas about infinity that were fascinating.

I haven't looked up his source for his information on the Kabalah, so I still don't get that. I see that my public library system has it - "Kabbalah and Consciousness" by Allen Afterman - but I am so busy, not sure when I will get to it.

It's not footnoted. The back of the book has a list of References. The only book I see listed on Kabbalah is "Kabbalah and Consciousness" by Allen Afterman

I am reading "The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity" by Amir D. Aczel
The first chapter is about ancient Greek mathematics, which was fascinating. The second chapter is about Kabbalah.
Here I become puzzled.

He lists the Sefirot: 1. Keter 2. Binah 3. Chochma 4. Gevura 5. Chesed 6. Tiferet 7. Hod 8. Netzach 9. Yesod 10. Malchut
Does anyone ever list the sefirot in that order? Seems all wrong to me. I wondered if there was a different method, or did he screw up?

He gives different colors also. I know there are different color scales, but I haven't studied them.
Keter-black and white, Binah-green Chochma-blue Gevura-red Chesed-white Tiferet-white Hod-green Netzach-red Yesod-white Malchut-white
Are these correct in some system?

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Here is a beautiful rendition of the chant, sung by two young men from Brazil:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9jcXn5hb4k

@danica said

"
@AliceKnewI said
"I notice that the sun rays curve as if it were rotating widdershins - counterclockwise. Why would that be?
I would have expected Deosil - "sunwise"

Any insights for this?"

this is how it appears the Zodiac is moving on daily basis (diurnal Earth rotation), what we see from earth"

Oh, thanks so much!

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