College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

I'm somewhat artistic.
However, I havn't really drawn or painted much in the past 15 years. - Until I discovered and read Liber AL.
Immediately thereafter and ever since, my 'artistic side' has been re-awakened and 'on fire'.

So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will!

From psychedelic shamanic Jesus to Buddha growing an "enlightening" knob of flesh on his head.

I have these things that do that as well, but I would call them "Little Buddhas". They do grow flesh right on the top of their "heads", in a nice round knob.

It's actually identical in shape to the knob you mention on Buddha's head. You are to pick them before the veil breaks for maximum efficiency in medicine. This gives them a distinct round knob from the size of a fingernail to the size of a baseball.

Now dat-a baseball wouldda benna very good to me. But sadly, I have yet to grow one to baseball size.

@Escarabaj said

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What sort of circle disparages him? Hard-core thelemites?"

Also, there is a group (more likely a person) saying that Regardie was disappointed with GD magick, “because it did not work”.

Both the line(tree) and the circle variation are used in traditional kabbalah. They are simply different ways
of stating the same thing from a different perspective. I would suggest Luzzatto's '138 Gates of Wisdom' as a
standard reference text for insights into the complexity and formulation of the tree. The tree as used by traditional
kabbalists and myself, does not acknowledge the tarot and such attributions and there is no path leading from Malchut to either Hod or Netzach( this is the tree used by the Ari, and nearly all modern traditional Jewish kabbalah follows this). It connects only to Yesod, although, in reality the relationship between ZA and Nukva(Malchut) is highly complex.

The tree in itself is of no use without a thorough understanding of its formation, again something that the Hermetic
tradition generally ignores. Essential to this is the understanding and differentiation between the S'firotim and Partzufim. The tree is exceptionally misleading, although its more convenient for writers of magic to avoid the
complexities of the subject.

Atzilut

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

I've read so many of Crowley's works so many times. 😉

To me, 🆒 I've always found his paradigm to be most valuable because of its virtue of uniting virtually every popular religion on the planet, or at least every one within the popular cultural framework Crowley found himself able to travel about and immerse himself in at the time.

This fact in and of itself has surely afforded me (and perhaps others) much for thoughtful contemplation.

I was given a very, very narrow spiritual perspective focusing specifically on a pseudo-Christian tradition from the time I was born. There have been other authors of import for me, but the research and investment that this man in particular put into his own spiritual path I found to be utterly riddled with the deepest of sincerities, the most wholesome of intents.

Thanks to him, I've learned so much about the traditions across our planet Earth. I, of course, included his own pantheonic rendition of the mystic experience in my study, deliberately focusing on maintaining the integrity of his own figures and imagery by strictly observing them (as I did with every other tradition), in turn subduing any impulse to project or interpret meaning.

I am willing to bet the Knowledge and Conversation has as much to do with a state of dialogue as it does a state of attention, that it hasn't as much to do with "speaking in the third person" as it does with self-observation.

Really, this seems very basic to me; we're talking Elementary Theory here:

"As long as an idea is being examined, you are free from it."

Liber ABA, Pt. II cap XVI. The Magick Fire"

Your ego-consciousness or Ruach: its an idea you help to make about yourself. The Silent Watcher at the threshold, the sentient quintessence of dividual consciousness, can be expressed chiefly as an experience free of identity, the True Self as free from self.

In my own terms, I would say the "Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel" is a verbal convention conveying the mystic function itself; it is the devotion of the human experience to the manifestation of Godhead.

P. S. Sorry for all the edits. As no one's responded yet, I took it as an opportunity to make myself clearer.

Love is the law, love under will.

I've seen a poster that does something similar with yoga lineages, I remember being very impressed with it at the time and wishing I had gotten one to hang in my office. It took the form of a great tree with named branches and twigs and lots of contemporary names of movements as the leaves.

Still, I too think something like this for the AA would be very informative, putting the field into some sort of perspective without the necessity of doing all kinds of extended research oneself. I suspect the AA tree would be something more akin to a saguaro cactus! I would even be willing to pay a reasonable amount for it if it were well designed!

Love and Will

When he lived at Bolesmine, he had a formidable library. (He was a Virgo-Aquarius, after all.) Most of that didn't survive his later years, moving about, and relative poverty. What survived did make it into Germer's hands after his death.

His tools have floated through the hands of private collectors over the decades. He had some with him in Hastings T the end. Some never left Boleskine when he lost the house, and were still there as the property changed hands in the '70s and '80s.

I was very much turned off by Crowley when I read his slimy words about ladies. In fact I turned off for a decade or so.

I have acute asthma and allergies and have done quiet a bit of personal research into slime, mucus and things that produce it.

AC also was an asthmatic and most likely had personal insights into this biological function. Slime and mucus have many fascinating qualities, but unfortunately they are not seen in a positive light. Slimy things are often considered base, primal, lowest of low....things that irratate, propmt fear and reaction.

Consider that our orphasis are protected from the external environment with mucus, and AC deeply probed into qualities of the orphasis.....

@RobertAllen said

"I'm curious where on the Tree people would place Duende, a performance art value derived from Latin culture."

I have experienced this rapture during creation, and I call it Kether.

@Dar es Allrah said

"... I think I'd better coin a term for this branch of magick... 'Micro-Magick'. MM."

😆 Yes.. I see it as some sort of psychological plumbing, from the perspective of a magical thinker.
Funny, though.. My initials are actually MM.
I'll just call it Max Miller. 😆 😉

@Dar es Allrah said

"Yes.

Grow a batch of yeast,
consecrate it,
and immerse the sigils you've used in them for 24 hours.

When you're done - it's a 'bottom of the garden' job for the lot.

93's. 😄"

As all the sigils I made are either lost, destroyed, forgotten..
I think I'll just go ahead and thank God I still have a smile on my face.
I'll try and focus on that. 😄
Besides, I already introduced myself to Him.
He told me to get my lazy ass to work....

@Avshalom Binyamin said

"I think you need to decide what you really want... otherwise ambivalence will rule."

... Figuring out what it is that I truly want. 😀

@Takamba said

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@magictortoise said
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@Takamba said
"High five the angel you give the credit to. Good 'nuff. And have a drink on it. Celebrate it, then forget it."

May i shamelessly quote you in my signature, pretty please?"

I'd be honored."

Thank you, Takamba!

@Froclown said

"Crowley says as much in "the initiated understanding of ceremonial magic""

An early essay during a brief rationalist phase before he had any substantial initiation - later discarded.

But we have wandered far away from the original topic of the thread and are not returning to it, so I think the time has come to lock this thread. (I will unlock it at the request of the person who started the thread, if he disagrees with my assessment that we have permanently veered OT.)

Check out Crowley's description at the end of *John St. John. *

In their five-volume series (now a three-volume paperback), the first volume gives their history - that will fill in some gaps perhaps. - Actually, most of that is summarized pretty well on their Wikipedia page.

I have this trouble. I have been going at Enochian feverously in hopes of it sort of throwing me into the world of visualization so I know what phosphene sparks are most capable of setting me on fire. No success yet, unfortunately. As far as the actual visions go, that is. I have gained lots of insight from simply trying and failing to seek the objective Ma'atian Truth the Angels seem to boast in the process.

@Escarabaj said

"I'm curious if the principle behind Liber Resh can be applied to the other planets. In other words, you want to try and perceive Martian or Plutonian energy, or whatever, so you have a running astro program and wait for the planets to be precisely angular and try to tune into whatever vibe is there. Is this possible/recommended for the beginner?"

Yes, it seems to me this would be a worthy practice. You don't need to have a running astro program - you can calculate them in advance.

For example, it took me half a minute (counting launching Solar Fire) to calculate that, for Los Angeles, Mars is on the angles today as follows:

Asc - 4:16 AM
MC - 11:04 AM
Dsc - 5:52 PM
IC - 11:03 PM

I seem to recall an astronomy web site that calculates all of this (without the need of a separate program) - try googling for it - I'm haeding out the door or would dig around a bit for you.

Thanks Jim.

My 3 pillars question was prompted by some reading I did a few years back, maybe even coming from Dion Fortune, but I'm not sure. It had to do with "Ophic" intellectual magick being related to Hod, mysticism (I think?) related to Tiphereth, and some sort of "Dionysian" artsy rites related to Netzach. Or maybe I'm flipping Dionysian and Orphic rites. I get the impression whatever I read was based on some outdated theory of ancient cults.

Sequence of the emanation of the Tattwas is: Spirit, Air, Fire, Water, Earth.

This is also the attribution series to the chakras from throat chakra down.

I wouldn't call them authoritative. Useful, yes, - But in practical use of Yi Ching, the Chinese seems a completely self-contained system and quite elegant.

if you know that person's birth darta, you can compare your charts (at least planetatry positions) to take a look at the potential mutual experience. but this can not for sure reveal intentions per se - at least not the conscious, rational ones in all cases...