College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

A point that has not been brought up: what is the quality of the Olive Oil menstruum that is being used? Virgin, Extra Virgin, Pharmaceutical Grade? I have a blend that I made with extra virgin olive oil the effects were much less dramatic and probably would become even more tolerable with virgin olive oil.

Also somewhere on the forums a discussion cropped up over the use of calamus over galangal. Recently, as I have been researching African based religions I discovered that calamus is an ingredient in most recipes for Van Van oil which is common dressing oil in most workings.

Tears in relation to the Angel is very usual.
It is a "good" sign. You are getting more and more ready for the gnosis.

@Laertes said

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"Sometimes I also get a pressure right above the bridge of my nose which will persist for sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes half an hour. It doesn't hurt, i'm just aware of it."

I am a beginner at meditation as well and this is one of the first things I have noticed as far as physical phenomenon, my first reaction was that this is the "third eye" opening and I have tried to almost imagine myself using this eye to focus on a tattwa, but I am no expert here, just speculation.

"I feel I should probably be working with the elements more formally. I feel I do have deficiencies in certain elemental departments and I'd like to try to correct it some."

A very simple exercise I have done to become more in tune with the elements is a different version of Liber Resh. Each time you say the words imagine yourself covered in the color that corresponds to which direction you are facing. So if you are facing south at noon, imagine yourself covered in red, feel yourself hot and dry as you say the words. This is from Kraig's Modern Magick and there are many other good excercises in that book for gaining a command of the elements. Check it out if you can."

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check that out in Modern Magick. Er, maybe someone should close this thread? It's just going to take me more research to get all answers I'm looking for, lol.

@frateruranus said

"Even then, it depends on your level of initiation in the system of the A.'.A.'. Pay attention to the syllabus of the grades. Until one is a Neophyte, some things just don't apply because until one become Ra Hoor Khuit, one is STILL Osiris. Osiris is a black god doesn't mean the formula is dead, evil etc. just not the main point of initiation anymore."

Based on your premise, I think you must have meant "Zelator," since one is most definitely sealed as Osiris in Neophyte.

It's a First Order/Second Order thing: 1=10 vs. 2=9.

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