College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Ah no no it's fine Frater, sorry to confuse you, I have the patience to study the Atu.

I see Frater, do you suggest I meditate on the Thoth Deck(Atu)? I am not sure by what you mean as Atu, the first thing that came to my mind was the tarot, Rider-Waite and B.O.T.A.

Hello I'm back, I would like to ask if there had been some occasions where you put Hermetic Qabalah in a non-hermetic way.

I don't mean that this limits to non-Thelemic reasons but also very mundane reasons. ( What I mean by Thelemic reasons is strictly mysticism in a Thelemic general way, we view Will differently and study the Liber Al differently.)

I've kinda got the hang of Qabalah as a schema for solving some problems in life in a philosophical manner and it's pretty easy to classify one's problem based on the ten sephiroth, I've yet to add the 22 paths to it though.

So what are your opinions and do you have experiences to share? I wish to know. This can help me understand Hermetic Qabalah much better on certain matters- I feel a bit confused about knowing when to categorize and what to categorize in terms of the 32 paths of wisdom. Meditative dilly-dallying? Yeah, seems like it.

^ - a guide(an easier guide than the popular texts- Dion, AC, et cetera) for hermetic kaballah, I've been rummaging with book after book, after book, but I'm getting nowhere near understanding the nitty gritty.

I know Gematria, Temurah and Notariqon as mathematical work for practical occultism. But what I'm more concerned here is how to pick through the everyday phenomena and attributing it to the paths and sefirot.

Paul Foster Case's Lecture on the Neophyte suggests that I meditate on a particular Hebrew letter Aleph, for example as Ox, and obviously he mentions agriculture, goes on with tilling the soil, and the animal ox yadda. Now my concern here is, it doesn't seem to be meditating but noticing the obvious associations with every letter. It seems arbitrary and I don't know whether I'm doing it right. Is there something I've come amiss?

In the long run I would like to apply hermetic qaballah with what crowley suggest as "mapping out oneself" from Liber ABA or else I risk the imbalance of anybody starting to get their feet wet in the occult.

Yeah, obviously I need more education on the subject. Any suggestions?

@BanishingBook said

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Man I feel really exhausted on re-reading the "foundations" of Temple of Solomon the King at hermetic.com

Does anyone have any idea on how to read it? I know if I dedicate my time to it I'll come to understand it eventually but you know Crowley's style of writing isn't exactly contemporary, so it takes a lot of guesses and scavenging the dictionary till I really know what he means.

I'm only beginning to appreciate Hermetic Qaballah, but my understanding is really meager and I'm frustrated by too many "old school" ideas about it, it makes me wonder how ever I shall be practical in the future. I might see myself speaking Hebrew than getting into the hermetic business.

Any help?"

Anybody?

or can any guide me on what Crowley exactly means with:
"Now you are armed! Ask yourself: why is the influence of Tiphareth transmitted to Yesod by the Path of Samekh, a fence, 60, Sagittarius, the Archer, Art, blue—and so on; but to Hod by the Path of Ayin, an eye, 70, Capricornus, the Goat, the Devil, Indigo, K.T.L.

Thirteen is the number of Achad {Hebrew option}, Unity, and Ahebah {Hebrew option}, Love; then what word should arise when you expand it by the Creative Dyad, and get 26; what when you multiply it by 4, and get 52? Then, suppose the Pentagram gets busy, 13 x 5 = 65, what then?"
-from Magick Without Tears/ from:www.hermetic.com/mwt/mwt_04.html.

@__@

Man I feel really exhausted on re-reading the "foundations" of Temple of Solomon the King at hermetic.com

Does anyone have any idea on how to read it? I know if I dedicate my time to it I'll come to understand it eventually but you know Crowley's style of writing isn't exactly contemporary, so it takes a lot of guesses and scavenging the dictionary till I really know what he means.

I'm only beginning to appreciate Hermetic Qaballah, but my understanding is really meager and I'm frustrated by too many "old school" ideas about it, it makes me wonder how ever I shall be practical in the future. I might see myself speaking Hebrew than getting into the hermetic business.

Any help?

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