College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

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Dont worry rzk, I was not reffering to you.

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Which only goes to show what a useless comment it was in the first place...
warranted, useles none the less.

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Now, heres my problem: A man walks into a bar, sits down and sez:
"Doc, I think I might be a vampire..."

Barman turns toward him: " I guess there is no hope then, you got no soul and you are stuck leeching of other peoples energy for all eternity. Its your nature. Dont you watch the discovery?"

The guy then believes himself to be a vampire,its now confirmed, stumbles out of the bar, and starts honing his vampire skills to perfection, even styling himself nosferatu, printing little annagrams for Child of Cain at the bottom of his business cards, and otherwise making a total fool of himself.

When instead, the barman could have looked him sternly in the eyes and exclaimed: "Neglect not thy dawn meditations!" which is agreeable, since there actually are measures that can be taken.

Thats my issue.

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I once knew a guy who tried to cut his own face off. On top of that, he was a zippie, not an emo.

The release of transmittor substances when you cut yourself can get you pretty high, you know, and since they are released into the blood system, drinking it will get you high as well.

Try drinking the blood of a zippie on regular saturday night out, all wired on speed and ecstacy, frenzieing about the dancefloor to 180 Bpm electronic music. Hows that for an addiction? Zippie Sanguine Suckery!

But thats not the kind vampirism in question.

When I speak of vampirism, its a verb, not an uncurable cosmic condition of soulless pranic predatory, or Zippie sucking for that matter. (For Nuits sake, if you want to warp your mind into believing you are some inhuman monster of damnation...)

Vampirism according to my book, is the act of stealing other peoples energy, either consciously or unconsciously, which can become a pathological condition.

Drunk middleaged women moaning about how no one loves them is a good example of vampiric activity. Avoid at all cost. Or sternly pour all their alcohol down the sink. Congratulations! You are now a vampire slayer.

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The very fact that there are opposing fractions at all within the thelemic and occult communities quite frankly amazes me.

At least the level of it. Respecting each others respective reality tunnels might be a contribution to a more constructive cooexistence?

Edit: coexistence.

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Fallen Angel would be the vampire in this case. If you are right Cliff, there would still be no harm in trying, would there?

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Nay, anything that exist is interconnected. Vampires included. Leeching of other peoples energy is really the long route to the source which i like to call it. It is quite normal to exchange energies with other people, constantly draining others while not giving anything back is a weakness, a characterflaw, often seen in drug addicts, christian clergymen, and clinical psychopats, for instance.

Beeing consciouss of your own vampiric activities is actually a step forward, since you are then able to take measures against it. I do heartily agree with the suggested practices of liber O, as well as The ritual of the Middle pillar.

Picking up a copy of Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig and following his course, is perhaps the quickest way of launching yourself into these practicies in a constructive, clear and orderly manner.

Israel Regardie has written a nice little piece called The ritual of the middlepillar, might want to dig into that one as well.

If anyone wonders what A.C.s views on vampirism were, I suggest you look it up in Book 4, Part III, chapter XXI, if i remember correctly.

We all have our little quirks and faults that has to be resolved in order to fulfill the great work, perhaps vampirism is one of yours.

Good luck anyhow, little vampire, and a speedy recovery to you.

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How about SIRPing or invocation whenever you "dry up"?

Any experiences, concerning such?

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AHA!! GOT YOU THERE,"JIM"!

The REAL Jim Eshelman would surely have known that the RMP covers Kether-Gimel-Tiphareth-Samekh-Yesod-Tav-Malkuth, and thus, you are hereby exposed as an IMPOSTER!( dramatic music)

Kidding.

No, that actually seems a fair attribution. Thanx for the suggestion.

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Extreme accuracy? True?

Well, rejoice then, at the distance from here to the Sun!

I thought we where speaking of rough estimates, pardon.

(God, I really DO need to get laid)

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I understand that the RMP is not part of the A..A.. programme, that it is the product of another school of magic(k), but could it not still be attributed along with the other practices?

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Any suggestions as to where RMP would fit in Liber V.V.?

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Love the title of your post, while the inaccuracy inherit in interplanetary measurement, kind of ruins the point though.

JimmyD, 93 million miles from home.

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As far as I recall, the Master Therion was pretty witty himself. Ill look it up in book 4.

Meanwhile, as Lashtal.coms former resident comedian, I am inclined to take your question quite seriously. Remaining humourless in the face of lethal, well polished, and brutally efficient jokes installs a certain sense of superiority, while at the same time making one susceptible to all kinds of sophisticated covert ridicule: The "see-saw", the "hollowtip", the "friendly stray", the "offside indirect air support flangette", or even the "Peshawar 2nd degree clusterfill inflictor"(my favourite whenever locked up in closed terrain). This is bound to land you in a world of shit: Either you accept the validity of such lampoon, and thereby relinquish your status as omnipotent, all knowing, sole wise one e.t.c, or, you cling to your hurting ego, hoping for your dear life that it will somehow, by some means, pass, by his grace and mercy, leaving you to plod on with your exceedingly clever, monstrous, monlogouse lecture of how the universe was glued together by phillponeese underpaid children in a parallel existence, shaped entirely like a piano bar you used to frequent downtown Moscow on your rainy second honey moon in the spring of 1978. Which is true. It was. It is simply just not a laughing matter, considering the size of the taxi bills, the waiter’s complete inability to correctly perceive your order, or the maid’s consistent ignorance of the "Do Not Disturb" sign tucked nicely and properly on the brass doorhandle
of your luxurious hotel suite. It was about that time you first met Carrington, an elderly distinguished gentleman, who for some reason had the peculiar ability to remain invisible to your wife, and who taught you (the hard way) the obscure mysteries of Swedish chessboxing, an art lost for centuries!
A most profound experience, and thus, after haggling with armed Russian authorities, as well as your way out of mental hospital, you somehow managed to sneak yourself across the Hungarian border, and had to live....hm...I digress, the point is, that it is not a laughing matter, and you simply demand to be taken seriously, lest Carrington ruin your breakfast again with his exceedingly scornful remarks about the stature of your cornflakes. Holidays aside, I believe that the correct attribution of the Apple of Eris should be the path of Peh on account of its martian destructive qualities, as well as its liberating Discordian ability.

Yet it could be attributed to Gimel, on account of its Divine Intervention factor, depending on ones willingness to attribute Eris, the crazy woman herself, to either Binah or Daleth or Both, Im not quite sure frankly, I suddenly got this (kind of pleasing) sensation of being a thrashed violin, playing out of tune. God, I need to get laid.

Yours Sincerly,

Jimmy D, Uncharacteristically starved for both attention, as well as sex.

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It might be useful to remember that the planetary attributions are just that:
attributions, and not the sephira itself.

As I see it, the planets are utilized among the other correspondences to describe the idea that the Sephira represents.

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Read this thread, thinking: "The Jock needs to read, The geek needs to work out." I then went for a shave and a looong good shover.

Perspective crept back in as i toweled.

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Great Workers of the World: Love each other with burning hearts.

29 year old norwegian man, I used to be the resident comedian at Lashtal.com for a while (as AUM 418 will perhaps recall,) under the name Jimmy D.

I got into magick a couple of years ago, through Modern Magick, by one Donald M. Kraig, and I absolutely love this stuff! Before that, I used to be a complete atheist, believing only in hard science and such.

Attached to no order or organization, I work on my own mostly.

"May all attain."-A.C, Book 4

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Ok. Beautiful. Or rather usefull....

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That is the first time Ive seen the practices organized like this.

Is this something to substitute my daily programme for?
Who wrote this? Has it always been A..A.. official curriculum of practices?

Baffled I am. (reaching out for my copy of

Gems, scratching my head)

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