College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@Jim Eshelman said

"There are variations. "

Thanks.

So if I visualize the hexagram above me, is it to visualize one below me too?
As a reference, the blazing sphere, visualized during the Qabalistic Cross, is to display a few inches above the head, the hexagram has to stay at that height, or higher?

@MMe said

"Where is to be visualize the hexagram?
At which point exactly?"

I did the question, a bit stupid , because I realized, a few days ago, that in English it says "in the column" while in the translation that I have studied and used for years, is "above me", and I, therefore, visualize the hexagram above me.
Then I read the book of David Shoemaker(I also have your book, but does not say anything about it), and he says to visualize the hexagram at the heart.

So I'm a bit confusing...

@Fr Cognosco cum Lux
Thanks for the answer.
For the East question look here jim's answer.

Where is to be visualize the hexagram?
At which point exactly?

@IAO131 said

"
What ever works best for you in attaining your goal is what is "necessary." That is the reality check of the Law of Thelema."

I agree on everything, but at the same time this shouldn't be an excuse to not learn the basics.

Anyway thanks to all for the answers.

Or makes no difference?

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

This is the question!
Is better translate or memorize in english language the various rituals(LBRP, Liber Resh, etc...)?

After a few days of practice, I'm back

@Jim Eshelman said

"
Going literally out of Liber Resh:

Face the direction of the Sun.
Assume "the God-form of Whom thou adorest."
Give the sign of my grade.
Recite the verse specified.
Give the Sign of Silence.
Recite the adoration handed "taught [me] by [my] Superior," which is Unity etc. while standing in the Sign of Osiris Risen, and concluding again with the Sign of Silence."

Ok, I understand almost everything, but when I say, for e.g. at the dawn:

"
[...] who travellest over the Heavens in Thy bark at the Uprising of the Sun.
Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm. [...]
"

I don't have to visualize the sunboat with Tahuti and Ra-Hoor?
Or in the Adoration which follows, I don't have to visualize Ra, Tum, Khephra, Hathoor, Mentu, Ankh-af-na-khonsu, etc...
I just need to visualize the sun?

Thanks.

Excuse me, but I'm a little confused...

Ok!
Mr Eshelman and ThelemicMage, I am very grateful for the explanations.

@Jim Eshelman said

"I'm certain I've never used that particular visualization in 30+ years of doing Liber Resh FWIW."

You "only" facing the quarter, greet the Sun, give the sign and assume the god-form, right?

@Jim Eshelman said

"The main instruction is that you are wearing their god-form"

Thanks for the reply.
In addition to assume the god-form, isn't there other visualization to do?
I understood that I had to visualize myself in the god-form and the god in the solar boat with Tahuti and Ra-Hoor in the various quarters... Is it wrong?

In visualizing Hathoor and Khepera, I tend to place them where the sun is at the moment: above and below me.
Is it wrong?

After a while of time, I have two questions:

1. As for the LBRP also the MP is to perform mentally?
2. Eyes open or closed?

@MMe said

"Are there huge differences between the two?

@Takamba said

"Yes"

"

Can you explain which are they?

Are there huge differences between the two?

@Iugum said

"Daily exercise of what? Asana?"

Yes.

@Iugum said

"what pose are you using?"

Dragon Asana.

@Iugum said

"Is there a more specific question in there or are you just asking if others have had pain during Asana?"

I rephrase my question: Has anyone had problems in the instep, practicing dragon asana using the seiza bench after some time?

@Iugum said

"That is very common especially early on and at lengths of an hour it would almost seem superhuman if one did not have some type of annoyance or pain from it"

I'm not talking about small cramps, but severe pain in the instep.

After about a month of daily exercise(one hour), I start to fell pain on the instep of the foot(more on the left one): very strong at the end of the exercise and much less during the day.
Does it happens to you too?

In conjunction with the Sephiroth is it to visualize the middle pillar(a shaft of white light)?
After the MP it is necessary to perform a final LBRP?

Thanks.

very very noob questions, excuse me...

@MMe said

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• [:230rc9zz]The Kether center is situated just over the forehead or a little behind?[/230rc9zz]
  [:230rc9zz]In the Qabalistic Cross the shaft of white light that goes from Kether to Malkuth is the same as the MP? Is to be visualized as the latter? Slightly in front of me and don't within me, right?[/230rc9zz]
  [:230rc9zz]The hexagram is 2d or 3d? Should have a little thickness/depth?[/230rc9zz]
  "

@Edward Mason said

"
When I utter the final phrase of the invocatory segment ("For about me flames the pentagram... etc.") I don't hold the image of the Archangels in mind at all. They've been called in, or you might say "have been noticed yet again," and they remain in position.
"

But when I recall the pentagrams is it not to be intendet that the pentagrams ban the archangels?

@Jim Eshelman said

"
With the God-posture, I can't tell you from personal experience that it can trigger it, because I already had it moving pretty well by the time I started working with that posture."

If possible, which other asanas/practice you did before the God posture?
In your opinion, theoretically, there are asanas that can better trigger kundalini?

@Solitarius said

"Moreover I find that I get a much higher degree of rigidity if i combine it with a sort of pranayama, usually Inhale for 8, hold for 36, and exhale for 16, repeat as nauseum."

With or without Nadi Shodhana?