College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@christibrany said

"So can I assume the solar timing is similar, just based on position in the sky although the date will be accurate since we are using a solar calendar?"

The solar cycle is a different sort of thing. In their simplest form, they follow metaphors of the seasons in an agrarian community. For example, spring is a time for eruptive new life, outpouring of vital force, and seeding. Summer is a time of maximum solar force, outward-turned activities, and the development and maturation of the seeds planted in spring. Autumn corresponds to full ripening of what was previously set in motion, and the harvest; but some seeds are planted in the fall that germinate through the winter. Winter corresponds to a time of outward latency, maximum in-turned activity, and the hidden (often unsuspected) gestation of things that erupt into quick growth of spring’s next coming. In the metaphor of the human life-cycle, spring corresponds to human birth, summer to the course of mature life, autumn to ripeness and death, and winter to the latency between incarnations.

In the book, I give a much more granular differentiation of the parts of each season - one rising and falling wave that moves around the whole year - but the above covers the basics.

Many thanks to both of you for helping 😄
I have been giving it some thought and you both seem right.
The work from getting all the oils and doing it the 'right way' would be good for me, and also this personal consecration is speaking to me strongly yet. Specifically the blood one for some reason, and as this is my first real wand that i have made from scratch, I will do it both ways.
First personally and then when I get the oils I will do it the proper way.
This will allow me to get the benefit of being able to do some work with it and also to get the discipline it takes to get all of the ingredients and make the oil.
How does that sound?
I thank you again 😄

Jim your AA book is still providing excellent advice and knowledge as well I am very happy I bought it!

I have had expierences where I was truelly terrified. Some of these expierences have taken many minutes to overcome, and get courage....and other times it felt like days or weeks that I was being haunted.
I dont like it, and I dont purposely do or say things to have them happen again.

"What I am dismayed about or perhaps not understanding is that while this seems negative to me as I had requested contact only if it was for the betterment of my positive spiritual and mental evolution..."

One of the lessons I learned hard (partly becuase of the above incidents) was that things are neither good nor bad, but our perception makes them so...
I think that by I think that by forming an agreement for betterment, you may not have clearly understood what that could and most likely would entail. When I ask for strenght, I am not blessed with muscles imediately...but am given opportunities in which to use my muscles so that they can grow.

Another thing is that often we can see the totality of an event when we are still so close to it, it may be be over....who knows you could make a great friend in the park by sharing that story with them.....

I've been perusing Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice," and among the first things he states is

"Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first!"

I've had much of the same problem with my practice. It has to do with the dissipation of energy. Especially with VIII work, one has to be careful regarding one's intent, frame of mind, and other such considerations. Also, even such simple rituals as the LBRP are dependent on a certain "cleanliness of consciousness" in order to be succesful. In order to do the ritual is not enough. One needs concentration, attention to detail, and undivided intent.

I mention all this only because I've had much the same problem myself recently. I noticed that I wasn't paying proper intention to the little things, the preparation of the area, my frame of mind, my stresses and mental flow...and I found that after taking care of these "little things," my original need to Banish quite disappeared. 😀

Thanks, Chris 😀

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that is fascinating. especially as my dreams in the other forum are almost all dealing with water and caves. i have loved these areas since i was small so perhaps its not an accident that i have them in my subconscious, also im a pisces.. its amazing that these can be so coherent though.

The example from Magick Without Tears is perfect. Often our exterior surroundings are in conflict with our interests. How is one to react? Well, in accordance with one's Will, of course.

Were it your Will to avoid the practice of Magick in a public area, in a way that draws unworthy interest to your person, you would be obliged to keep it under wraps. And when you think about it, one can't exactly undertake a Banishing in the middle of a crowded cafe. Such is imprudence. There is a time and a place for everything, etc.

On the other hand, perhaps your parents are Mormons. If so, I feel your plight acutely. I can imagine your father wouldn't be thrilled to find his son in full ritual regalia, screaming gibberish in unknown tongues at four in the morning. I faced this problem myself once. My advice, (if such is the case,) is this: perhaps it is your Will to find different parents.

But in all seriousness: there are other places to practice Magick other than your bedroom. Go out into the wilderness my son, like John the Baptist! Locusts and wild honey aren't bad at all once you get used to them.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.