College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@Jim Eshelman said

"They're both solar.

The first is an Semitic (Egyptian and Hebrew) name for the Sun. In fact, it's the old Egyptian name for the city the Greeks called Heliopolis, or "Sun-City."

IAO is a Greek-gnostic Divine Name of very high frequency and intensity, especially related to exalted ecstasy. I regard it as solar. (In fact, as Yod Aleph Vav, it's the notariqon, or initials, of the Hebrew Divine Name for Tiphereth.) It especially came to have a relationship to the Dying God formula, but isn't exclusively that - for its inherent virtues, as well as the notariqon mentioned above, I regard it as the most practicable Divine Name for the Sun."

Could you go over how both relate to the Gnostic Mass?
What other Gods do you equate/Assoc. each one with?
Crowley said "The second main point is the completion of the A, babe Bacchus, by the O Pan (Parzival wins the Lance, etc.)". How does Pan complete Bacchus? Could we then call Bacchus the "child" of Pan?

EM: Certainly I understand functional rules! I'm self-employed; self-discipline and punctuality are key to my wellbeing. Ooh, and just so you don't get the wrong idea, even though I may look like a menace, recreational drug use isn't a regular thing for me anymore, though it was a necessary part of my life to reach the point I am at now.
What I meant was that I tend to be very skeptical of so-called authority figures, and usually avoid putting myself in a position where I become part of a subculture or group which results in me assuming the group's general traits in the eyes of others.

I would like to pop in to a discussion group just to see how it goes sometime. After all, my life can always use an extra splash of wizardly colloquium! 😉

With Love,
Neko