College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@rwidner said

"Thank you for your response. Are these images available so that I have a starting place for medtation or do I start from scratch with whatever comes to mind? I truly appreciate your help."

The core images are given many readily available places - 777 column on magical images, Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah at each sephirothic chapter head, etc. Some people have developed them in very distinctive ways, and these ways don't always agree, so the better approach is probably to start with the core image and develop it yourself.

Here are the basic traditional definitions of the Magical Images of the Sephiroth from 776 1/2. They vary just slightly from others you can find:

White brilliance Elder patriarch (frequently enthroned) Elder matriarch, enthroned A mighty crowned & enthroned king A mighty warrior in his chariot, armed & crowned A majestic king, a child, a crucified god A beautiful naked Amazon An Hermaphrodite A beautiful naked man, very Strong (ithyphallic) A young woman, veiled and crowned

The Magical Images of the remaining 22 Paths (those attributed to the Hebrew letters) are the images which form the Major Arcana of the Tarot.

@Middleman said

"I like to think that TBOTL is addressed to die-hard seekers of truth and not the whole of humanity."

What do you think of TBOTL saying "the Law is for all."?

I read somewhere that "Perfect perception is reflection". I haven't studied for very long or been initiated or do anything except experiment with LBRP and occasionally utter some cryptic verse. Here is my reasoning for continuing to study without skepticism.
If the occult wasn't real...it wouldn't be present in my life.
Belly dancing is not present in my life either, but the term signifies it's existence.
If you sit quietly and witness events, and meditate on the events their patterns emerge.
Perfect reflection is pure perception.
That which has a name carries weight(or colour) in the mental, astral, physical, etheric planes. There is that which is weightless and has no colour and cannot be named. I now call it Had.

@craigp said

"can anyone give me any input into this verse or point to any references? i've been racking my brain trying to understand this.
i figure it must have something to do with "all is ever as it was" but can't put my fingeer on what is trying to be said here."

The Angel is making an ideological correction to his preceeding statements.

"When you come in contact with some entitiy, how does it manifest? "

I can only speak on my own experience. I have meet let's call him a contact on the inner planes (no not on the internet) during pathworkings and during meditations.
After a whily I asked for a name and proof. He gave his name, sort of a nick name for this one I got to know later but at the time it made no sence.
The day after I wisited a friend of mine, she hade painted an egyptian god and put on the wall, I didn't know who it was so she told me the name, but didn't give me the ordenary name but the "nick name". This knocked me off my feet 😄
And after this he has followed me to this day.

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