College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Yes, I appreciate all the thoughts as well.

I left off the Cross earlier. I struggle to put words to it that fit with the de-emphasis of Osirian suffering.

I was thinking, though, of something like, "The Cross - the Crucible of Will."

As crucible - "a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development"

...indicating the cross of the elements and the rose that blooms upon it.

Thanks Jim and mojo for your answers. Still a bit obscure to me,but hopefully, meditating on it will eventually clear things up 😱

OK, makes sense, thanks.

I never really looked at it in that manner. I always thought the main purpose of the MP was to
fortify and strengthen the aura which, of course, the "Circulation of the Light" does. Obviously
the MP, looked at in the way you outlined above, has much more potential than I was "seeing".

Thanks for the insight.

@AvshalomBinyamin said

"Oh, I got one I came up with a while ago.

The riddle in chapter 2

4638 ABK 24 aLʛMOR 3Y
x 24 89 RPSTOVAL.

4 times 6 is 24. 3 times 8 is 24. "x" is the 24th letter. 89 is the 24th prime number.

So I map the first 26 primes to the English alphabet, and I get...

RPSTOVAL 61+53+67+71+47+70+2+37= 417, and I think I've got nothing, and then I realize that I left off the "period" at the end of RPSTOVAL. If you give it a value of "1", you suddenly get 418.

(although I'm not sure I get the ABK, the aLʛMOR, or the 3Y - although "ABK" sounds like Arabic for "your father" and "aLʛMOR" Arabic for "the moon", also a surah of the Qur'an of the same name)"

Sorry for the long quote but I couldn't get myself to edit this masterpiece;)

I was taught by a very wise person that the answer to this puzzle is 424. He said when I figured it out I would know why:p

Anyway, I haven't figured it out yet:p

@RegentLynx said

"Upon reading Crowley one frequently comes across his references to the 0=2 forumula? What is the significance of this, or more to the point, what exactly is the 0=2 forumula?"

The gist of it is this:

There is no such thing as the number 1. "Unity" can't mean "One-ity" because there is no such thing. If you reduce all of the universe to 1, and are perceiving it, then there are two: you and the universe. On the other hand, if you reduce all of the universe to 1 and don't stand as witness to it, then there are, in fact, none - there is nothing to count. Nothing is differentiated from everything else, therefore there is nothing.

Nuit, therefore, stated that she should be known as Two and None.

Years before receiving Liber Legis, Crowley worked this out as his solution to the philosophical problem of Creation. Every creation myth had a causative factor or source, the origin of which was ultimately left unexplained. The pre-adept philosopher Aleister Crowley solved this problem by saying that the Universe came, in fact, from nothing at all. There was no prior thing to explain. But then Nothing expressed itself as Two (again, Nuit claims this process as Her own), starting the creation process.

Very ovarian, I think, and would have made Elohim blush.

Thanks.

@Jim Eshelman said

"(I don't remember if you're still in touch with the Sac crowd.)"

No, when I left TOT the Sacramento Group was not yet formed. I did briefly meet a few of the Sacramento group once through Phyllis but that was 2-3 years ago.