College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Robert Allen, I like you (oh, and yes, I think you got it right). 🍸

@Law said

"No,no, I made it up as far as I can see. I just used a combination of the name Valis as in the entity that got in Philip K Dicks mind for 20 odd years and cephala as in like cephalization. I thought that I could look up the letters in 777 or 776 1/2, and see if there was any numerical significancem, but thats not as as easy as I assumed. Also, as long as Im here, why does this forum automatically edit my spelling of Magick?"

I think what you're asking is how to figure out its enumeration??

Basically Hebrew Greek and Latin have a gematria associated with them. There's lots of threads here about it. There's also a school of thought that will take English words and put the English letters into the nearest Hebrew form, even though that is NOT the same as translating English into Hebrew- so Valis might be transcribed as Vav-Aleph-Lamed-Yod-Samekh, or something like that.

You'd need to play around with the alphabets. Cephal- is a Greek stem, I believe. Valis "sounds" Latin. IMHO you'd just want to take the English letters, put them into Hebrew in various ways (like would you choose Beth or Vav for V in Valis??), add them up and see what happens.

I think perhaps the best magickal mantra one can remember comes from Meatballs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9mf3Bypyk8

@Law said

"What is the significance of Malkuth being called the "Gate of Tears" ? is it some kind of alchemical reference?"

The "gate" reference is common to many Malkuth titles, and coincides with ShOR, "gate," being a rearrangement of the letters of the Hebrew word for "ten," OShR. Malkuth is the Gate.

The "tears" part, I think, is simply saying what Buddha mean in saying that all of existence is sorrow: In the realm of sensory life, characterized by impermanance and change, experience is sorrowful.

@PatchworkSerpen said

"Is a true astral vision unmistakable?"

Nothing is unmistakable. But an authentic vision has characteristics that someone experienced in the matter can easily recognize.

By comparison: I know the north half of Puerto Rico pretty well. If you told me that you had been there in the last year and we had a conversation about it, I would be particularly qualified to tell whether this was true or not - not just by the facts you stated, but by any number of more subtle indications that would be extremely difficult for you to get from any source but being there (even from a comprehensive briefing from someone who had been there). It's very hard for even really bright and skilled people to fake real experience.

bottom line is (as far as my opinion is concerned i suppose)
all reality is produced by our mind. so the concept of mind over matter is nothing but the most important concept in existence, because it IS existence.
so when something produces an effect mental or psychological, it is because we either consciously or subconsciously expected said effect to occur.
so ipso facto all neurological changes possibly caused by spiritual practice only occur through Will, and perhaps not because of specific practices involved, which are only a crutch for Will.
any thoughts?
ps feel free to move this where it should be since its not exactly about the book per say.

In quinary 93 is represented as 333.

"It is a manual for using sex magick & death simulation techniques to stimulate endrogenous production of dimethlytryptamine"

Okay, I am interested to know how it is that you have come to that conclusion, and what exaclty is a death simulation? I remember something about Blake saying he came up with a way to produce vibrations that would shake the crystals offf the pineal gland, but nothing else was said........ 😕 what I guess i am wondering, is how this information is encoded, iit is qabalah is it not?

Things were digressing off into another topic, and mostly silliness while going off-topic - so I just deleted those to get the thread back on track. (I'll delete this one soon.)

@Law said

"Well, if you have to, as a student of the AA read the Hatha Yoga Pridipika, or the Shiva Sanhita, my question is why do they require that you read 2 texts that contradict each other?"

“You are expected to spend three months at least on the study of some of the classics on the subject. The chief object of this is not to instruct you, but to familiarise you with the ground work, and in particular to prevent you getting the idea that there is any right or wrong in matters of opinion. You pass an examination intended to make sure that your mind is well grounded in this matter, and you become a Probationer.” (Eight Lectures on Yoga, Cap. VIII, ¶24)

@Scheotolin said

"Sethur has a point. The first thing to consiter should be the accuracy of the title to the contence of the book itself."

Maybe your right, although I can't help but have a common old phrase pop into my head - don't judge a book by it's cover. 😆

😆 well actually, friend, the thread was about my "desire" to know that meaning of the unicursal hexagram, as well as the "starfire" star, the likes of which has not been adequately stated "in a sufficient fashion." 😲

@mr tree said

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@Jim Eshelman said
"I meant it literally, yes."

Literally, yes, but not the second part? What about accelerating cell replacement?"

That question can't be answered until the technology is available. You don't want me just to make up an answer, do you?

And you were right, your digression was off-topic. If it needs to go further, please start a new thread.