College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

I always encourage people to work through Initiation into Hermetics at least once. I found it to be useful, especially in connection with Enochian Elemental Magick.

There are even more spellings than that, but the four names of Ra-Hoor-Khuit are all in Liber AL

Fear arises from Ignorance.

I agree with secrecy and i think that its important for a number of reasons.

Each ritual is an energy in itself, and when dispersed for public usage, becomes filled with public (and often unbalanced, and mundane) energy. Compare, for example, how you feel in your bathroom at home compared to the bathroom in a gas station, its kind of like that (at least for me).

Furthermore without the proper understanding, being exposed to lofty spiritual and magickal ideas is only bound to mislead- look at how many various "opinions" there are about being Above the Abyss, but the truth is the truth and peoples opinions dont matter, though more often then not it will impede their development and any chance of ever succeeding such a trial.

Part of Initiation is shock and surprise, of not knowing what lay ahead, of not reading the back of the book for the answers, cause then you never learn the formula.

Those who just want "the secrets" and think they are held back because some jerk wont let them in on it are deluding themselves severely, and are seeking Magickal power and Initiation for what is likely the wrong reasons.

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Work it out by hand.

For the sake of magickal formulae, Crowley often changed a letter here and there to fit what he was trying to accomplish. As a magician there is nothing wrong with this, even if an orthodox speaker of the language would tell you its wrong.

An example of how you do Gematria:

YHVH = 10+5+6+5 = 26

26 is one idea, related to other ideas of the same number (though not every idea that has the number 26 for its gematria will relate, for example)
2 & 6 are seperate ideas
2+6 = 8 is another idea
26 = 12 is another idea
2 to the 6th power (222222 = 64) is another idea
Then... 6+4 = 10 another idea
6 and 4 another idea
6*4 = 24 another idea
6 to the 4th power (1296) is another idea-

Eventually you tend to hit a wall. Its important to understand the limit of Gematria, and when it has exceeded its usefulness. The idea is that, the more you analyze the numbers, the further away from the core idea (of 26) you are getting. This is also the da'athic danger of gematria, of knowing where the boundry between extracting hidden knowledge from an idea, and going off on a complete distraction.

You can then take YHVH, and spell it in full: YVD (20) HH (10) VV (12) HH (10)= 52, and on and on....

@MaKher said

"What good does it do for the evolution of human consciousness to hoard mystical secrets, "

For the sake of not casting pearls before swine. With what is published in this world, anyone can attain to the highest state possible for a human to achieve. But if you cant see your own inner light, you certainly wont see the light contained within mysterious texts...

@DavidH said

"Do you retain consciousness or like some say, do you dissolve into the ONE? The reason I ask is because of this idea that popped in my head today. If there is a total union and only ONE exists, then can there still be LOVE? Does not Love imply a union of two separate entities? And if only ONE exists then does Love then cease to exist? In fact, if there is truly only ONE then perception ceases also since you need to be separate to perceive. In other words, a total union of all into ONE would be a complete NOTHING, that is a stop in consciousness, perception, love, etc. etc. You would cease to exist, no?"

A lot of the answers to these questions are in Liber 418. But then... To paraphrase... "My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one. Is it not all, and none by the book?" Above the Abyss duality is abolished because contradiction becomes unity, rather than an expression of duality, and rather than leading to further questions, contradiction becomes the answers. Thus 2=0.