College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@dillanh said

"Quick question: anybody know what kind of knot Crowley was talking about in the book of lies. There's a tom fools knot and quick release knot and a naughty knot. They're all pretty likely candidates.

The Tom Fools knot is like handcuffs that pull apart when you bring them together, which is what I think he's talking about. The quick release knot, can't be pulled apart by the horse that it would be tied to, but the owner can pull it apart by pulling one one end and the last one is a knot that is a sexy knot that girls where, which pulls apart right away. For what ever reason I'm compelled to know."

I might as well do something useful for once...

The Answer:

A "Tom Fool's Knot" is, to quote wikipedia, "a good knot with which to commence a slightly fancy sheepshank."

Knowing Crowley's tendency towards homosexuality, I think we have a good idea of what this knot was used for...

As for the quick release knot:

"This knot sometimes happens when a human male has ingested an excess quantity of alcohol and is unable to bring the female (presumably human) to climax."--my defenition.

The quick-release knot, only to be used in event of emergency, is in fact an antiquated--(fucking English!)--an antiquated English term for "slip-knot," not to be confused with the band.

The naughty knot:

Here definitions fail. Just imagine what the man Crowley, given enough booze and cocaine, would do to your girlfriend (if you have/had one)--imagine what he would do to her in the dark, using an "advanced scottish sheepshank," (these being ancient Masonic techniques involving consensual [most of the time] sodomy)--imagine what he would do, given the chance. Only then do you have a dim conception of the "naughty knot."

I myself use these knots only in times of extreme religious persecution and when all other rituals fail.

This might also be of interest:

www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=18101

www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wiki/Main/MCTB+Appendix,+The+Cessation+of+Perception+and+Feeling,+Nirodha+Samapatti/pop_u

Dharmaoverground is a very good place to examine these topics.

inri

@Gnosomai Emauton said

"Also from One Star In Sight:

" Ipsissimus. —Is beyond all this and beyond all comprehension of those of lower degrees."

That's pretty much guided my thoughts on the subject. I.e.: Any answers I might come up with aren't going to even be on the right plane, at least until I cross the Abyss, so I might as well not worry myself with them. What I have come to terms with is that, whatever goes on up there, it's beyond mundane concepts like love or will. If you make it to Kether, you're on the verge of reuniting with the Tao. I doubt very much that these concepts mean much of anything at that point."

Indeed !

Fair enough.

@Deus Ex Machina said

"
It was as if every idea contained the seeds of its destruction. I also referenced it as the "word that eats itself", because every word that was spoken also "unsaid" itself in the process of being spoken. The reading of a word brought fundamental change to it. ."

Wow, nicely phrased... I felt that too, with and without lsd...

There was a time when we had took lsd with a friend, and we both experienced what you describe at the same time. It was hilarious because we couldnt finish our sentences. Everytime one of us would start formulating a sentence, we would communicate telepathically that there's no point finishing it as even the begining contains the rest and the end of it... We talked less and less, and ended up feeling the same stuff with THOUGHTS 😆 ... that is, one of us would start thinking about something, and we would both laugh out loud, feeling there was no point in finishing the thought ! 😆