College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Yeah, makes sense.

My opinion is that magick can be objective when the inner and the outer become one.

Tell me if I understand this correctly:

The OP is asking for an opinion. But the expectation is that the opinion must be yes, no or neither, otherwise it's not acceptable.

We are talking about Magick here and it is in fact a "deep" subject. So that's very similar to trying to force a multidimensional experience into a linear answer.

Is my interpretation (hence my opinion of the question) correct?

**Edit: According to 777's definition of a Magus who has solved opposites etc. (wherein the answer of "Both" is also acceptable) this appraoch would be defeating in that it rules out any answer from that level of consciousness. May as well say "Here's the question, Magus' need not apply." It's like denying one-self the ability to listen to a right brain (or beyond) opinion.

Hmmm, that's interesting.

Yeah, I never did try to equate the edges of the pentagram as elemental pathways, to the pyramid, tho the pyramids havng edges aligned with the cardinal directions certainly implied an elemental attribution.

My take on it was a little more simplistic (suppose the Zen rubbed off on me after all) the 4 edges, or even the faces, became the elements with spirit aligned in the center.

I'm gonna go on a limb here and go very right brain thinking in this next bit, so bear with me.

Obviously there's the recurrency in the numbers revolving strongly around 4 and it's double, 8. Theres also 5 involved. There's some numerological ideologies that indicate that the number 4 has a lot of karma around it and using the number 8 is often the balance / solution to the karma. How good those numerology system are, I'm not yet convinced. Be that as it may, Liber AL has as it's number 220 or 31, both of which are 4 and if we include the 1 spirit point in the examle of the pyramids, near which Liber AL was written, along with it's double which is 8, leading us to the solution to Liber AL.

It requires a bit of imagination since that's what came to mind.

On another note, just counting nostril hairs of the double pyramid, there are 6 vertices, 8 planes, and 12 edges (or pathways through which the 6 travels anyone?). Which brings us back to the 20 you mentioned, since the next number in this exponentially expanding sequence that started with 6 would be 20. Unicursal sequence?

As you say, it could be a mathematical mental excersice, it could be a dream, but you never know

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Although Crowley writes that Will is fundamentally dynamic in many places ("The Will is the dynamic aspect of the self").
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I'm not implying that the nature of our "Being" is static and I'm not implying that it's Not. Though you're right, it could construed that way by some. Discovering that nature is part of it.

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Certainly, but does Thelema give that injunction anyways in Liber AL ch2 etc?

Indeed - although there seem to be definite suggestions in Liber AL and in Crowley's writings...
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I like where you're going with that one

"But exceed! exceed!" - Liber AL ch2

Possibly one could look at Will in phases. Pure Will would be Will as being. Doing one's True Will, would be that Will in action.

These two could be encapsulted as "Being true to one's Being."

This would have the fundamental injunction to answer to oneself first and foremost, without the the need to resort to invoking "Because it is my will," creating a more self-referenced responsibility and having less recourse or response to external validation.

At the end of the day, how we choose to interpret doing one's Will, the philosophy it instills, the resultant ways in which it would then manifest, are ultimately part of that individual quest.

Your opening post reminds me of a point I was pondering some time back. What prompted it was this observation:

The Pyramids in Egypt are arrayed according to the constellation of Orion, so is there a relationship between the pyramid as a geomtric shape and the concept of a "Star?"

*Edit: Baring in mind that two pyramids with their bases joined has 8 planes, vertices aside and that the Star if often depicted with 8 points. Bit of a dicotomy but there you have it.