Wow. I just started watching a series of lessons on JLTV on the teachings of the Kabbalah. Amazing spiritual value on the series thus far.
However I am seeking a complete translated Zohar in to English.
Would any have an I idea as to where this might be located whether it be a series of pdf's or even the whole series of books.
I saw have located a series of book, the whole set for 130 dollars and seems to be a good purchase but not sure of it is in English...
We can also take comfort, and I say this with love. Slow your mind down. A most excellent prescription for all. Every thing from A to Z. Is found in one sentence in Magick.
Crowley wrote. And I believe in capital letters.
MEDITATION IS THE WAY OF ATTAINMENT.
Also equally comforting he told us, that there are no precise where by a man obtain the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
But the one thing every one may seem to do or might be able to do is Meditate.
@gerry456 said
"According to Dr Shoemaker it doesn't look likely unless you have extensive pranayama asana experience. Crowley devised the system, well, you've all seen Liber E and Liber O, I presume. You've seen the way the grade exercises work, jugorum, astral rising on the planes, bhakti exercises, mastery of dharana and only then.....HGA."
Absolutely correct.....i posted earlier about my difficult marriage....it was during that time one of which i am completely thankful for, the spiritual awakening that occured has been similiar to being "born anew." because of the these described activities all by accident and only because it seemed natural. Having extened periods of alone time is vital to the process but the length of time may be different for all. Months is accurate.
@gerry456 said
"Surely you need a hellova lot of experience in angelic communication and euphoric invocation of angels and gods before you hope to invoke your ultimate god, your HGA?
I mean I just don't think it's happened to me."
Maybe not so, the HGA has been the only Person that I have relationship with, and have ever had.
As was said at the opening of the second chapter, the Single Supreme Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raising of the complete man in a vertical straight line...Any other operation is black magic...If the magician needs to perform any other operation than this, it is only lawful in so far as it is a necessary preliminary to That One Work.
@gerry456 said
"Also if I may ask the folk who attained. How is your knowledge and conversation of the HGA experience different to a new ager who ask his entities for practical solutions to his problems?"
Sorry but the Crowley quote kind of pasted in the wrong spot. But case in point what makes us different from any other is the vitalness of the knowledge in being exclusive. There is no other doctrine similiar, the Angel isnt just some conjured energy.
i remember it was soon after my first visit. And the first thing said. Im not sure if it was more understood realized or just autonomely just understood. The impacted me so much i wrote just three words down and taped them to the mirror. Although completely understood both mathematically and scientifically. I spent days meditating on those words mingling them with liberal love and just remembering the warmth and intimacy of how it just made all of me come alive, it was as if i had been infused internally.
But these words were key to all and i assimulated them over and over again.
Cause and effect.
Three simple words but they sent forth a cataclysmic internal combustion change that started to understand every motion, word and thought from henceforth on. Speak on the things i want to bring about always. Never go backwards always forward. Seeing cause and effect from that perception even just as glimpse was equally intimate.
Crowley said that we would have an affinity with other groups there wjll be some things that we would have in common with them, i think one example was nature. But tje coraltion of magick in relation to magick and is severly comjoined. It may that be thosr others i see may not adhere to such doctrine are black magicians.
but one may ask doesnt doctrine require dogma? Are we guilty of such a thing as dogma. But it is as if maybe we may see something others may not. In knowing we have a history full of witnesses to the same through out recorded history, testimony of this Angelic being.
To understand the Angel is might to try to understand who He was and is to others.
@gerry456 said
"The knowledge and conversation of the HGA is said to be the end result of arduous enflamed prayer to that end usually 6 months of practically dropping out from society?
How do you know did it right?"
It may and probably does require oodles of alone time. But it may be better also seen as what it is or what is being done during those times or that one is alone. But in fairness the length of time to attain may be different for all. It also maybe more significant to some in it maybe more beneficial towards attainment in consideration of the length of time one may need to reconcile all the polarities within the aspects of our individual lives up to the moment we are now at in order to seek attainment. And this is the process that to myself might take the length of time needed. While going through this gate one might subject to reconsider things forgotten, remembered or believed for what ever reasons that they themselves may have thought to be right or correct only to find it not to be as thought was.
Undoing all that mental, environmental and any kind of "programming" can be a long and grueling process my strongest and most intimate advice to be honest and fair with every aspect and perception you may encounter within the grasps of yourself.
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It was during my marriage. I was married at age 32. A few years after that I started meditating after a few years of what I now know or understand as the middle pillar exercise the life changing event of KCHGA occurred , so I would say it was around 34 to 35 or sso I'm 46 now.
Also during that time I didn't know anything about no grades or anything Thelema.
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No i am not specifically saying that. I am however presentong some of the arguments implemented that brought about the implementation of the giving women the right to choose that for themselves.
and sadly those items discussed concerning men and the overwhelming amount of testimony from women from all walks of life the idea that men are garnered with that perception is shared by most women who support the decision to obtain abortion services.
It could be said that because of these prevailing arguements a woman is not legally nor financially responsible for being pregnant or deciding to obtain an abortion.
Abortion. To do or not to is not the question. When we may and should be asking why abortion? Abortion isn't the problem, Abortion is the symptom or an ill attempt to solve the core issue concerning women, and until this one issue is resolved then it will continue to be an area of great dispute for many. Oddly it could be said that also in the examination of this issue that the problem is also as to why many and other sexual freedoms and liberties may still yet be taboo or out of context with many.
Until the male species change their perception of sex and the getting of and not doing so in such a predatorial and practically forcing themselves upon unsuspecting partners and expecting sex when no indication of such is wanted or thought of then abortions would either cease or decline.
To put it as mildly as possible the reports accross the board and by countless women telling men that the attitude towards sex is unwanted and unacceptable, practically forcing themselves into it.
For years as a previous prolifer i was ignorant or this because i am one some that had never or will never approach a sex partner in that matter. And yes those men do exsist and since i have encountered some throughout the years and at some times even stopped such a person from sexual activity with a woman who based upon my rather close proximity and observation not even thinking of or consenting to sexual activity based upon at all what was being observed while at a party i was having.
Until men approach sex in a nonforceful way then abortions will continue to be a part of our world and certian sexual liberties and freedoms will never become apart of the world we live in today.
Any creation theory that requires faith without evidence as is to how any such theory that exists is a very dangerous, and not mentioning unbalanced in the very nature of things. Since no evidence can be substaintiated as being true then to believe nothing is still best for me.
Given the science of things those evidences found somehow lean away from any evidence of intelligent design. But then even that idea is constantly changed and requestioned and on and on.
Until mankind really knows for sure as to how things came to be, then the theories and conspiracies from those religious minded people will continue on.
Sex is fun, sex is a fun way to insert your will into the cosmos....
Crowley and many others have written about tantra.
The chaos magickians has a lot to say to.
The point is if you have orgasm then that really maybe all you need to know.
At the point surrounding the orgasm there is an alleged moment gnosis.
This moment of gnosis can be reached, and so i would almost have to also add that the more erotically charged a moment or fantasy or whatever it is that one does to have these types of orgasms, the better. Quite maybe the experience the gnosis is that much more exhilarating as the orgasm as well.
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Does all biolgically reproductive species have sexual preference that may be specific to a group of others likeminded....that maybe different to another type in the same species?
Is sexual preference absolute? In that biolgically reproductive bioligical species that require a mate have one individually absolute to each individual?
All disputes, all controversies, all the things belonging to the false cares of this world, fruitless discussions, useless germs of opinions which spread the seeds of disunion, all error, schisms, and systems are banished. Neither calumny nor scandal is known. Every man is honoured. Love alone reigns.
I have had this discussion on my mind all day and this from the account of a.a. has come to mind.
Take away any belief structure, and there would be no differences, those uselss germs of opinion, opinions requires belief....
all of the aforementioned divisions would be gone.....
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Bind nothing, commit to nothing, give no alliegence to, have no preference, if one doesn't or isnt conditioned to believe or bind to the idea that there is any difference then the lines are easily blurred....
Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.
These words were penned by Aliester Crowley in the Liber AL. This is very much a fair statement and one of value and that what would be humanities most reasonable services to provide for the collective. For we find that the easiest thing to provide is somehow the hardest to give. To be more direct in saying that at most being sacrificed may be just a little co operation. To show or have an emotional, spiritual, environmentally or even economically conditioned predjudice then becomes an unbalanced force, and this in turn becomes evil, as was stated by crowley a little further on. This becomes a vicious cycle, because it could be stated that the root of this evil, is the belief in something. This is what creates our world the free man and the slave, the north the south, the christian, the muslim and all other things, Belief, and that alone, it is what shapes our intent and behavorial pattern. The idea of belief in anyone thing is to eventually lead to moral or actual activity that leads to casting out or away those who may not believe the same or even the exact opposite of what you may or may not see the same perception, and by now it must be quite evident of the absolute chaos that can occur just from those factors that have been mentioned. We can see the absolute insanity that faith has brought to all regions of our known measured environment and even beyond the scope of our reality of those that also dwell on the same plane, all those grasping at straws scurrying about in the dark like blind men, each proclaiming that each have found the way, all equally unable to exact the same design of getting there. And this scope just isnt limited to religion alone for it too has a great measure of comany and that along for the ride is any thing that is believed. This belief or any belief in anything could be the very reason for the consistent chaotic struggle that each of individually and collectively partake in each of us playing in the part not only in our own individual struggles that is brought on by what someone or others belief in something that may or may not have anything to do with you specifically, but you also maybe part of a collective that also has a pattern of belief that maybe the reason for the struggle for others striving to come to light. It has nothing to do with who has more anything or less of anything, whether it be resources or or more aspirants of a specific belief pattern it doesnt make it anymore less or more right or wrong, proper or grossly crude. To make that choice is to crush the choice of another and it is proper to make this alllowance because of belief of something, you see one doesnt have to be very wise, and not look very far away at all to see the friction that could and does occur, but knowledge in the application of it is another matter, one that has come to light but only some see it.
As we consider the words respect those who say they are seeking the truth, but be wary of those who they say have found it would appear to be be true, to seek becomes the wiser choice in that belief isnt present but the consideration of is there always in all things. Most have become so accustomed to believing that it becomes okay to refute evidence that may prove differently. And this becomes okay, because to consider something different requires change, do we see the issue here, and how slow this change will and eventually does occur?
The value of non belief is that it doesnt disvalue any one thing or any one but brings about a nature of balance and equality, the very thing all other beliefs aim for but fall very short of providing. Most political systems are a perfect example of such. So not believe becomes more nurturing and may lead to those energies that each of of may crave and brings about a collective type of thinking and may make reality a little less black and white, but if it means the mending of humanity then it may be worth absorbing this process in order to bring about the means of springboarding into what could be a more desired reality.
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Enthusiasm originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god." (Wikipedia)
Something carries you over the obstacles, a well or fount of energy.
could not have said it better....
My gosh.....I'm exuberantly enthusiastic.....everything is done with alot of gust and postive energy the hard and easy things...im like happy happy all the time....positive, progressive and forward Happily optimistic...love warm all of it..
And the it is all because of that One....
This is important to me spiritually because it seems it does impact the outcome of many things, wins alot people, it can and does actively manipulate any environment...
And this must also coincide so closely to the true meaning of Genius, that is also attributed to also being divine....
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The way it is is just perfect.The hardcover will make it more resilent to elements that can take place with books.
Suddenly i seem to realize the need to control as much as possible as to what i hear? More specifically that control of that specifically may lead to control over other more or less specific or possible intent application of Will.. just thought i would share that.
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In examining this concept, it might be best examined outside any religious context. Not in that we must pay or sacrifice a part of humaness, as an atonement for sins, or i have to do something in order to get something...
When we examine the sins found in such books as the scriptures i understand them to be acts arising from the ego? Maybe not all but some.
Ego is mankinds greatest challenge, i often can see this being the base of these 'sins' that the alledged holy book says mankind need atonement for.