College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

An adept is unlikely to receive noisy, social accolades, but through more intimate acts of teachers, fellow travelers and lovers, she will be fairly recognized and appreciated. Each will partake in the receptive darkness of nighttime, eager to receive the light.

In initiatory terms, the absorption of light is amoral, and could (and probably does) vibrate in taboo ways. Outside the palate with which most paint their lives, the aspirant is apt to be met with projections and criticism as dark or sinister or bad. But to move freely with the light and vibrate warmly in its absorption is praiseworthy under the law of do what thou wilt.

Black conceals the spectrum. The selective absorption of the full spectrum yields color, it's most limited absorption looks white. It's complete absorption, in a black surface, requires a complimentary frequency of vibration, and that spectral resonance converts the light to atomic movement and, thereby, into heat.

This is the holy sacrament of marriage, that one who are two can realize themselves as one again. Practically, this is about owning your projections and how karma operates--drawing toward us magnetically any truth denied. It is the real life experience of the way light is absorbed and reflected. We see everything we refuse to admit about ourselves on the outside. We need to marry that reality. This is the secret of the twins. Of fraternal relationships. "As brother fight ye." Be thou wedded each experience, each other thing. From the perspective of infinity, they are united anyway. This is Tantra and all the unifying Yogic practices. This is also the explanation for all turbulent relationships. The things in the other that we need to be complete. This is what draws us to the other, the image of what we need nestled within them.

Breath vivifies, spirit transforms. There is a certainty in the reshaping. It's effect is subtle, yet complete. It may disrupt a life of ease, eat away at ordinary structures, obliterate hardened views or postures. There is no promise of comfort here, only of truth.

There are truths unspoken, even more relentless than those we are able to say.

Perform the work of your grade. Focus on the task at hand. There is a lure of distraction to gossip about what's just out of reach. Leave that, for now at least. It is another type of infatuation with images.

Inner teaching and pedagogy. The free-flowing dharma talk emerging spontaneously from a place of balance and repose, surprising even the guru with its veracity. The relentlessness and tenacity of the truth. Inner anima figure suggests a kind of hermaphrodite, realization of feminine and the strengh of receptivity necessary to progress past the domineering Emperor. Hierophant faces forward, but eyes are closed. He is smiling. Has become a suitable receptacle for the Light. Integration of the inner child, like the star ever new born within, as the animating principle at the heart center. The dove and the serpent. He is the center between breaths, Heh to each side. The life power. He is a visionary. A teacher. He is the voice of clear intuition.

In a reading, generally means listen to yourself, focus inward and attend to the quiet still voice within. Get centered. Retreat (somewhat), but not disassociate like the Hermit. Trust your gut.
On the right track. Sometimes, a truth to tell, and encouragement toward candor.

Concentrated attention. The fishhook of meditation. The ability to direct focus, with passion and intensity, the path toward realization of desire. The conceptualizing function. Rendering and ordering things into meaning and form. Linking passionate intention with images. Envisioning. Suggesting. The imposition of language and structure. The selection of signal from noise.

In divination can be all things paternal, including resistance around growing up and other daddy issues. Reflects a strength of character, a willingness to commit and follow through. The identification of vocation. Also the beginning and implementation (Aries) of systems leading toward victory.

Look beyond the Kingdom, the world of images and distractions, toward that which lies further within, toward the Foundation where gathers the light from above in aethereal forms.

Precious can be found in various shapes and sizes.

In the pendant kingdom, the resplendent spectrum of the one light is refracted, reflected and absorbed.

A total repudiation of Manichaeism. This is the Word completely immersed and gloriously draped in flesh.

"Conquer! That is enough."

The false is vanquished. That is the central premise of it all. Give in, surrender, submit, succumb to the silent self within, and emerge entirely triumphant.

"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."

"I love you! I yearn to you!"

Passion as a key to the mysteries. The mystical evaporation of fire and water. She emerges in the space of separation. "Yet art Thou ever apart, even as I." This is surrender to the self, where one is moved to joy beyond intellect, toward the yearning for unity borne of solitude, silence and singularity.

The Star shines with ineffable identity, and she is reflected in the order of the Universe itself.

The spirit is Hoor let down into the Animal Soule of things," which burns within "as a pure flame without oil." It is the "Pillar 'stablished in the void." Accessible to the atheist, who can celebrate and copulate without false, partial images of god or misaligned hopes and false fears. Harvested with doubt, which cuts down faith like a sickle, and pieced viscerally with ecstasy. Worship her with offerings of pleasure and pain. Do not cry that the pinnacle of the pyramid is unquarried when the foundation of the pyramid is just now being laid. "There is no wine like unto this wine."

The operation of Air. Reunification and completion through assimilation of the abominable. Embracing the rejected resurrects the immortal. Impenetrable focus. Ecstatic journey nowhere. Secret revelations, surrendering to Death or Shame or Love, defiled by the profane who perceive its manifestation as weakness or agony. Choose what you already have. Apply the proportional response. Uplifted, perform thy Will.