College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

It's the language of the interior world, of course. 😄

As someone who has spent his life studying languages and linguistics, I can offer the confident informed opinion that there is almost certainly no human language characterized by words with long stretches of vowels. (But one must always be prepared to be surprised.)

This quotation is from a ancient magical text, and Crowley undoubtedly included it K.O.P. because it amused him to attribute something so seemingly nonsensical to Jesus, opposite a New Testament quote attributed to "Anonymous".

This long word was probably written down in the Greek alphabet (maybe Coptic?). The vowels should be pronounced as in Spanish or Italian (or almost any European language except English). I bet that Ō with a macron is not supposed to be a long O, but rather to represent the Greek letter Omega, as distinct from the Omicron represented by O. They should be pronounced the same ("oh" to rhyme with "hoe"). Likewise, Ē (with macron) and E are probably Eta and Epsilon, and can be pronounced "ee" (rhymes with "see") and "eh" (like the vowel in "bet"), respectively. KH is probably Chi, pronounced like the German "ch" in "Bach" or the Scottish "loch"; TH is probably Theta, pronounced like the "th" in "theta".

I would recommend -- but my advice here is no better than anyone else's -- pronouncing "AAA" as a very long "Ah", while mentally counting to three. It's a fun word to say.

Have fun in the interior world, and remember to take lots of pictures to share with us.

The Maronite tradition is fairly well preserved, IMO, and the Aramaic ending of the Lord's Prayer is, "l'alam al-mein. Aa-meen. " (L'alam derives from the Hebrew Le Olahm, I think)

This is rendered in the Tridentine Latin as Saecula Saeculorum which is 'Unto the Age of Ages' according to the way the early Christian Church rendered it, maybe 1700 years ago or so.

The King James translators thought that "Forever" captured the proper sense of it about 400 years ago. "Forever and Ever" was also used when I was a kid.

It sounds like you're just talking about understanding the pattern of the
Tarot, say, by putting them on the Tree etc.

@Embryon De L'Abîme said

"Agape all,

What authors deal with the subject of the natures of planetary Intelligences vs. Spirits most comprehensively?"

Franz Bardon's Practice of Magical Evocation deals with this to a certain extent, although I'm not entirely sure if this is what you're looking for.

Hm. Well that does answer a certain aspect of my question.

For all his wondrous ingenuity, however, Crowley was (in my own slightly haughty opinion 😱) a bit arrogant and close-minded in [some of] his views. I suppose this may be approaching heresy to claim on a Thelemic board, but if there is one thing my own approach and studies in the occult have reaped me, its the notion of analogue ambiguity, and nothing can be quite so black-and-white as to be deemed "incorrect".

Who knows, those pesky Adepts of old were known to spew a load of plainly wrong shit into public hands in their efforts of secrecy; I guess its a question of just how ancient and attribution it really is. I suppose only comparative meditation will yield an acceptable answer to me, and I do appreciate your reference.

I injured my left knee while doing seiza-bad vajrasana-dragon asana. My new rule - when you feel pain stop or do walking meditation. I was sitting for 30min my feet becoming lump, minor pain in knees and after 6 months I can't feel balance when I'm standing straight. I'm waiting for my doctor to look at it. Do your research on vajrasana or go to my site kult.private.lt - I got some links that show good posture.