College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

A note on this, as an aside that might be interesting to some:

Consider this sequence of verses as sequence of all Tifereth and Y'sod, i.e. every pair of Sun-and-Moon, verses in the book! - And take into account how the Chapters flow into each other: Nuit and Hadit meet in the Noon, The Fish verse (i.e. between Tifereth and Netzah verse) of Zayin, the Lovers sequence (I, 61 - II, 4); and the Child springs out from their Union via the Lamed, The Ox Goad (i.e. between G'boorah and Tifereth) in the Samekh, the Prop sequence (II, 75 - III, 5)!

@Takamba said

"When Volume II of the Equinox was supposed to come out, there was nothing for Crowley to offer (lack of money and whatnot plus maybe other things). Crowley dubbed Volume II of the Equinox "The Volume of Silence."

What a pun!

Anyway. He claimed in one writing or another to have taken it up as an A.'.A.'. tradition. I don't remember if it is supposed to be one year or five years of silence. I am suspecting that Jim has adopted this tradition and it is why we haven't heard from him in so long (this is all assumption at this point). Let's hope it's one year and not five."

In addition to the Holy Books of Thelema, I would recommend Crowley's "Confessions" as required reading. Read "The Confessions of Aleister CrowleY" and "John St. John". (Not necessarily directed towards Takamba) Reading those two texts/books will integrate your brain with Crowley's thinking. I would say that such reading is more important than anything Abramelin ever wrote... Compare the Abramelin technique with what I suggested in my Psalms of an Aeon (stupid, ridiculous title) #20. It's all about increased devotion. Devotion is just thought, belief, dogma, rubbish. True devotion represents a diminishment of thought so that thought becomes one-pointed, and then through that one-pointedness the mind subsides and all that is left is awareness. HGA?

Go Eagles! Down with the Patriots!

Roses are for root.
Fear, shame and guilt are for uprooting.

Practical advice. There's no "politically correct" way to go about disseminating the Law when there are those who will seek to trap you. Deal heartily with them!