College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

"I have equated "True Will" to Nietzsche's "Will to Power""

By one interpretation Nietzsche talks about the same will and about its ability to "create new horizons."

"7) an overiding feeling of Love, Acceptance, and Service between and toward all fellow brother/sister participants within the order, the Life-Power, and all of the sum total of creation, in every thought, word and deed..... (a.k.a Fraternal Harmony) "

Indeed. Especially H.P. Blavatsky underlined how important it is to have a good atmosphere in many levels between initiates. It has always been very important to me, thought I havent worked in groups a lot. Feels still like a disgusting idea to work with someone you don´t trust into and so on. No hidden jealousy or some ego-ridden purposes to finally ruin it all. Since I many times compare rituals into sex. Of course sometimes they are totally the same (sex-magick), but you see my point here.
It´s really important to pic the initiates you are working with really well. I havent worked with any people I would have been disappointed with, but even small things can make my will turn around in idea of working with Frater/Soror X/Y.

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As Ìve got SR is really an more thelemic variation of LBRP, containing Therion/Babalon/Nuit/Hadit instead of IHVH/Adni/Ahih/Agla. And I prefer it cause its effections are strong and feels more natural to do than normal LBRP. And Raphael/Gabriel/Michael/Auriel part didnt really feel good too. I prefer more this "pro mou iugges.."- part, though its still the part from Star Ruby that is the most abstract for me. Ive been studyingng the main-theory of the ritual from Lon Milo Du`Quettes Book "The magick of Aleister Crowley", but need to find more information about Lynges, Teletarchai, Synoches and Daimones, so that I could get more inside into it.
Just remembered I had this link of pictures related to those from Thelema.org. See those if you will.

Lynges: www.thelema.org/home/art_gallery_images/iynges.jpg
Teletarchael: www.thelema.org/home/art_gallery_images/teletarchai.jpg
Daimonos: www.thelema.org/home/art_gallery_images/daimonos.jpg
Synocheis: www.thelema.org/home/art_gallery_images/synoches.jpg

Edit: Aa, seems Jim Eshelman had allready posted a link before to aumha.org, where those same pics can also be found....

What are Sephirahs that Star Ruby is connected with? I wonder if SR is about Therion(=Chokmah/Chaos), Nuit (=Kether), Babalon (=Binah) and Hadit (=Malkuth). But how about compared to normal LBRP? What is the change from normal lbrp into star ruby from the aspect of tree of life?
As I`ve got normal LBRP is about Samekh and Tiphereth, Netzach, Hod and Yesod-sefirahs. Please give me better information as I believe many here knows about this more, thank you.

Normal meditation-forms help to concentrate on breathing and mental balance, and as man/woman gets his/her breathing more balanced, he can channel more energy easier. A simple meditation can play a role of just preparing for ritual. it is also good after the ritual if willed, for many rituals make initiate extremely creative compared to normal situation. Meditation after ritual is really recommended IMO, especially if you want to keep a close touch to art with your working.

Initiate should keep a close touch on the quality of meditation, for some meditations, when done wrong, are said to go closer in killing the mind, as normal meditationforms can be said (at least in Tibetian- Buddhish contect) to be about bringing the light of mind to surface, and to remove the veils of the mind.

Of course the preparation can be for example just sitting on chair and being quiet, as long as you slowly start preparing in what you are soon going to do. Everyone has their ways.

Especially if the ritual is complicated, containing many stages, and taking a lot of energy and concentration, it is conciderable to prepare really well.

I usually start preparing for rituals (especially in invocation/evocations) about 45 minutes before, and it usually contains also meditation, but not everytime. Starting a ritual is fucked up if you have all the thoughts about everything un-necessary in your head. But that is a simplicity.

Find your ways, try different technics. If you decide to use meditation, try to find a right way to do it.
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V.V.V.V.V. appeared as a camel-charecter in The Book of Lies. And it was the symbol of the path of Gimel, leading from sephirah Tipheret to sephirah Kether in cabbalistic Tree of life.