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This is some Ambient Music that I was deeply involved in; it's meant to be used for meditation, and is a free gift, if you download the four visible tracks separately. If you wish to have the two bonus tracks, you'll have to pay for the EP. Please note that, while there is an option to pay for the music, you are not by any means required to do so, although it would certainly be greatly appreciated.
Fiat LVX and enjoy!
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Frater CvP
The more I meditated on it, thought about it, meditated on it, read about it and finally meditated on it with my wand in my hand (the implement, not it's flesh counterpart), the more the Golden Dawn/Aurum Solis system made sense. (Despite the fact that the AS goes well beyond four implements). However, I still do fully intend to keep an air wand and fire dagger on reserve, if only to ease my mind. well, actually what made sense was that working through some minor discomfort initially can and will be very strengthening to my psyche, and may very well provide for the building of much needed discipline.
While it is starting to make sense now, I still have plans on experimenting before I settle on either one.
Okay, so it now sounds like I'm trying to convert, I am not.
Okay, so, I think we can say definitively that Fire is representative of Will, and that Air is representative of Intellect.
But, are the implements themselves not mere representations of the elements? That is to say that they don't distinctly possess any attributes, at least not without consecration. It is consecration that therefore aligns an implement with its element. Otherwise, why would we be bothered by consecration? It is consecration that means an implement is suitable for ritual work, is it not?
If this is the case, then who is to say that a Wand could not be consecrated as being the implement of Air, and the Dagger the same as being the implement of Fire?
"p.o.v. a small group of British magicians who defined the wand (often conceived as a winged wand) as Air"
Yes, and more to that end, the wand is often equated with the wand of Hermes Trismegistus (also certainly Thoth):
"The ancient Egyptians knew HERMES as THOTH or TEHUTI, the divine personification of WISDOM. Portrayed as the ISBIS-HEADED scribe of the gods, he was the inventor of HIEROGLYPHICS and the patron of the SACRED SCIENCES of GEOMETRY, MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY, MEDICINE, MAGIC, and ALCHEMY. Thoth exists at every level of being. He serves the gods but he also preceded them. Indeed, he brought them into BEING, for he is the self-creating ARCH-MAGICIAN. He has but to NAME a thing and it SPRINGS into LIFE. He is the cosmic alchemist, the INNER and OUTER TEACHER, the BALANCING POINT between all POLARITIES"
-from Francis Melville, The Secrets of High Magic, Copywrite 2002, 2003. (and yes, he used that same scheme of irritating Capitalization and italics. Through the whole book.)
I should also note that, despite giving Kameas for Sol, Mercury, Venus and Luna, he omits Saturn Jupiter and Mars, saying
" You will notice that those (kameas) for Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are omitted. this is because the spirits associated with those spheres are extremely difficult to connect with for talismanic purposes Those of Mars are dangerous because they are difficult to control, and those of Jupiter and Saturn are too remote and abstract from a human point of view for any but the most experienced and skillful mages to be able to engage successfully. "
Despite that he has already given the Hexagrams and Correspondances for all seven Astrological Lords.
"Techniques of High Magick by Francis Melville"
Should be Secrets of High Magic by Francis Melville. My mistake, sorry.
And, now that I re-read the passage on implements, he even calls the Dagger
"Athame in Wiccan Traditions"
and later in the book he even makes mention of Imbolc. Plus, he includes some weird recipe for salt derived from Hardwood ash-slurry
"Sal Salis"
. And he does quote King and Skinner considerably, given the content. I see the red flags now, as it appears that he approaches the subject as some sort of odd hybrid of European Witchcraft and Kosher Kabala, i.e. Wicca without the Goddess. I suppose that the sections on meditation still have some merit, but until I further peruse a friend's collection of Crowley's Libri, I will avoid them all save for the Middle Pillar Exercise. I should, also have Denning and Phillips' The Magical Philosophy Vols. I, II, and IIV by Tuesday at the latest, ordered them Friday Night.
Pardon my misspelling of Ordo Aurum Solis.
What I don't understand, is why it is such a great grievance to subordinate Will to Intellect. I know that
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
but is intellectualizing such a dogmatic problem? Does Will not follow Intellect, even at certain and rare intervals?
And, no I have no ambitions of being initiated into any tradition whatsoever. I have no issue with initiations or those established traditions, but it all seems a bit too "Organized Religion" for my personal tastes, at least at this point in my journey. Perhaps I will mature and seek initiation a few years down the road.
Well, Thank You Danica, for some reason that thought hadn't occured to me.
In other words: What is the big deal if I use the Dagger as the implement of Fire and the Wand as the implement of Air?
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I have both Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig and Techniques of High Magick by Francis Melville. For the most part the two are either copacetic or they just simply cover different aspects of High Magick. My question lies, however, in one of the limited few differences of opinion the two possess: Kraig says that the Dagger is the implement of Air, but Melville says the Dagger is the implement of Fire.
Most Thelemic Magickians and, in fact, all Golden Dawn Magickians (probably Aurum Solaris Magickians, too,) use the dagger as an implement of Air.
Doctrinally, this is sound, I suppose, but from my experiences in Wiccan and Vanilla QBL Ceremony, I have found that using the dagger as an implement of Air (and therefore, using the wand as Fire) just FEELS so wrong. My Intuition and Will both clearly state that the Dagger is Fire, the Wand is Air.
Should I subordinated my Intuition and Will to Doctrine, and if I don't, what could come of it? I know that it is unlikely that any QBL police will come to my private temple and arrest me, but would I risk grievous harm from astral entities, or anything which I have summoned?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Yours in L.V.X.
Frater C.'.P.'.
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And thanks for the complement on the motto.
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Not only is English my native languge, it's also my Major.
I am currently recovering from the One-Two punch of both a heart attack and a stroke, (which means, my practices currently involve the Calyx, Tarot Study, and keeping Journals to the best of my ability and NOTHING else, which kinda stinks) so it's entirely possible that I, in my backwrds-thinking state didn't type the title of The Holy Books of Thelema in correctly. (And why I didn't just say Holy Books...is beyond me) As far as I can tell, all of the texts are presented in both Serbian and English. I had simply assumed that the Serbian was whatever language Egypt spoke at the time of the reception of texts, and that, for posterity's sake, the texts had been presented in both languages. I feel quite foolish now. 
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Hello all, I have finally accepted the Call of Thelema, after over a year and a half of wrestling with it. It has been calling me ever since I stumbled upon the Gnostic Creed on Wikipedia as a Senior in High School. Since then, I have struggled with Roman Catholicism, Wicca, Druidism, QBL study with Roman Catholicism yet again, and finally decided to give it over and take up Thelema, I must admit that I know very little of Thelema and Ceremonial High Magick, but I know much of the Celtic Pagan stuff, which, I must admit, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Guidance and help would be greatly appreciated, I have Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig, and The Secrets of High Magic by Francis Melville, a .pdf of Svete Knije Teleme and I am a bit confused. Kraig says that the Dagger corresponds to Air, yet Melville says it corresponds to fire (which, imho makes more sense). Who is correct?
Also, my name means roughly "Strives to assume Priapus" or so I think.
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