College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Not much I can see to add to the above posts - just reminds me of Alan Watts conversation vis God 'understanding everything'. Do we understand how we open and close our hands? And if we could put it all into symbol/language would that make any difference to the ability to open and close our hands? 'Flowers are simple, but if you put them into language it would take you till the end of time to describe them fully. Like trying to drink the ocean with a fork'

Vintage - the best of it's kind - although three definitions of vintage allude to the concept of time. It seems Adonia is instructing to eat of the grape rather than the wine and be drunken. The time is now of ripeness - the grape itself is full of intoxication , the wine yet to be will be superlative.
The scribe wonders of this, maybe that people cannot see the earth, or the grape or the wine. So how shall it seem?
Adonai says that word has already flowered into fruit. The point of view of the word varies according to Hadits relation to the tongue taste of each.

That's fascinating Danica. Thanks.

Apologies for my absence.
My girlfriend is being drawn to the Persephone myth at the moment.
I see it as 'I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death' - The awareness of opposites united.

Would people recommend a detailed Magickal record of how you came to apply or a simple application knowing that after the examination more details will naturally be requested?
I don't want to write a short request when an essay is required or vise versa.

Gerry .IIRC the Islam Crowley liked was that of the desert tribes, not the politically driven catastrophe that happened after the fall of Iran.
Could be wrong but the confessions seem to suggest that via his encounters.

It is art to conceal art.

The light as musical tones - to fret a guitar is to make a specific tone - the tone of the Will.
If you fret yourself - you aren't in the Sephiroth that the Will has put you into.

The word of the Aeon - the silent Child.
Hadit utters the Magician.
Messiah! screams the Ape.

Down falls the fiery star into the soul of things.

Veiled eyes nail Satan to the Crucifix.
Those that see the word are abhorred.
The Pious know that the Devil has claimed them

Those that hear understand abominations are sacrament willfully given to the Sea.
To join the womb of the Silent Child.

Heheh.
Something very like that.

In best ways I can explain it -
The background becomes the foreground. The 'space' around everything becomes conscious and you realise what you are looking at - whatever object at all- is reflection of yourself. The space is yourself. Thoughts seem to be a slow echo of yourself experiencing yourself.
I had it full blown two years which altered my conception of the universe and self fundamentally but it faded after sleep.
Something very like it is happening at the moment. Not as strong but definitely the beginnings of the same viewpoint.
What actually is this trance called?

93/93

Performed the Earth Pentagram Ritual for the first time prior to reading.
The quite stark impression it all left me with is - I seemed start to suspect that the body, far from being a gnostic curse, is actually the vehicle /chariot for your will - your angel to manifest and redeem the world .

Ha.

Ah that was a great end to the start of the year.
Thank's to my companions!

@danica said

"I celebrated the second day of writing of Liber L. today by a simple ceremony of reading Chapter 2, before the altar, with candle lit and incense.

Verses 71-72 touch a deep cord. Today I see them not as an instruction, but a description of whole of my life in this incarnation."

I thought that's what we were to do lol. I've done every one as a reading before the altar

youtu.be/yMWcPAEpuq4
Rain falls hard, burns dry
A dream or a song
That hits you so hard
Filling you up and suddenly gone

Breathe
Feel
Love,
Give free,
Know in your soul
Like your blood knows the way
From your heart to your brain
Knows that you're whole

And you're shining, like the brightest star
A transmission on the midnight radio
And you're spinnin' like a forty-five
Ballerina - dancing to your rock and roll

Here's to Patti and Tina and Yoko, Aretha
And Nona and Nico and me
And all the strange rock and rollers
You know you're doing all right
So hold on to each other
You gotta hold on tonight

And you're shinin' like the brightest star
A transmission on the midnight radio
And you're spinnin', your new forty-fives
All the misfits and the losers
Well, you know you're rock and rollers
Spinning to your rock and roll

Lift up your hands
Lift up your hands
Lift up your hands

Even the curtains surrounding the stage are Nuit.
From Immortal Beloved.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fQG4CcoRuM
wipes eyes

...I had that problem too when I joined. Seemed my email was on a batch-ban list.

93
And welcome!
Looking at your research I think I'll be learning a lot more from you than you from me

93/93

31. But in that profound who shall answer: What is?

32. Not I.

33. Not Thou, O God!

A thunderous silence.

Oh Im really glad!

I'd just thought of something historically relevant . When I was taking driving lessons I basically coasted from lesson 10 to lesson 17. I didn't get better no matter how often I was in the drivers seat. I started feeling that he'd never put me in for the test, that it was a scam, that I wasn't going to learn anything new. Maybe I should go for compressed driving lessons? A new instructor?
And then one night before the next lesson while cursing everything I thought. 'Why don't you put some bloody effort in?'
Next day after the lesson he put me in for the test.
IAO.
I get the feeling I've missed that lesson a lot

Update on the 'too poor to not do it myself ' operation.
I decided to use symbols that I like and understand well, at this stage of development it would be best I think, rather than messing about with planetary or whatever exotic forces I decided on the four Kerubic elements as related to the Leary's interpersonal grid .

The Eagle (hostile strength) I have balanced, I can move in and out of this quarter fine. Hostile weakness - it's been worked on extensively in correlation to the friendly weakness with cbt and mindfulness so the Bull and the Angel are in hand so to speak. But the Lion? Friendly strength - that's the only one I basically have no experience of barring er Valium believe it or not. The famous love drug of the 90's just produced extreme fear in me due to the lack of the corresponding 'joy- everything can be wonderful' element in my psyche. So ego/I treated it as a hostile invader.
'I come in love! '
'It comes in love! Kill it!'

So anyway - using the middle pillar ritual charging method, bringing the force from Kether down to the throat and asking the angel to direct the energy. Tipareth charges the Lion image and Yesod inflames the imagination to see the new world view in the positive new reality.
Circle energy, throw it into a nice bar of chocolate , enjoy the chocolate as much as possible to experience the sensual joy.
Seems a simple ritual, that would use all the techniques I'm learning right now, directly pointed at the undoubted problem with appropriate force. Hopefully.
I'm on my third night of this practice and ... I feel deliciously languid. Like er, a big cat that has nothing to do right now .
Also noted negative temper issues/ irritations are being caught and transmuted before they are coming out of my mouth and once or twice half way through the negative thought itself. Much nicer to my long suffering girlfriend too.
Will keep this up for a few more days. There seems to no negative side effect apart from , again, a little too much energy to sleep and clogging up the threads here