College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@seekinghga said

"[All of these should be considered in light of (at least):
AL I: 22-23; 26; 30; 32; 45; 65.

Record them all. It's not fun, man. I've been there, done that. I'm still there, doing that. (For what it's worth!) 😄 It is important to make the journal a living extension of yourself. It should grow in tangency with your perception of your Tree of Life."

TOL extension. Nice!

Thank you SO much!!!! 😀 😀 😀

@Freya said

"I have just finished reading Franz bardon's Initiation into hermetics where he gives the process of creating, what he calls, elementaries. I have wanted to do this for some time now, so my questions are, before I attempt to do this;

1.is his method effective?
2.Are there better methods?
3. Do fluid condensers really make a difference?

Thanks"

Answers to questions one, two, and three:

Be careful; it works. 😉

The intended result is not always the actual result. I speak from painful experience.

I would not work with this sort of Magick unless one were an Adept. But do as thou wilt.

"Lust of result," and all that. Manifestation of this kind is useless unless one has first conquered the Mind.

Yes, there are a few that I did not recognise either. Some of them were co-authored with Julien Ernest Houssay, and they are about exorcisms, psychic self defence and rituals involving saints and psalms. There are the ones translated into Italian. But if, as you say, most of things are not revealed, it's probably not worth buying them for such a high price.

That's very true, Frater Horus

@Freya said

"Thank you Jim. What would you recommend to work with the outer planets in therms of sigils and symbols? I am not aware of sigils of the outer planets either, unless they have been created recently."

I'd recommend getting completely comfortable with the seven classic planets first. I wouldn't associate them with sigils in the classic sense (just my bias), although there are other ways of drawing these if necessary. For example, the Golden Dawn's Second Order would derive sigils from the pattern of Hebrew letters on the rose they wore over the hearts. This, of course, presumes that the name is renderable as Hebrew.

To generalize, if you want to apply the same sigillic approach to planets without their own magick squares, you need to find a framework that is neutral and not expressive of any particular planet. In theory, there are many of these, and I don't have specific recommendations.