College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Evidence that they are similar ideas? Or evidence of some connection of the words?

I've always considered the two essentially identical ideas.

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@Scarecrow said

"What year was the ski incident?"

I'm speaking of the incident where he found the thought-to-be-lost Liber L. manuscript under some skis. It was at the summer solstice, 1909.

@he atlas itch said

"1. The four deuces, the four knights and all Wands are mapped onto Chokmah, suggesting a fiery quality to this sephira."

Yes, Chokmah is the Root of Fire. (However, in Hebraic Qabalah, it is attrributed to Water.)

"2. If you look at the overall pose of the Priestess and Emperor, they are imitating the signs for mercury and sulphur. Compare the Atus against the signs below: "

Yeah, I know you're stuck on that. Get over it. It holds up for The Emperor and The Empress, but not for Mercury, and is simply a wrong alchemical interpretation.

"3. AC's description of the Priestess is full of mercurial significance."

I can't find one. Not one. (OK, there is the sense, totally divorced from individual Trumps, in which the Middle Pillar itself might be deemed mercurial among the triad.) And there are at least a dozen explicit statements in his Book of Thoth description that are pointedly un-Mercurial.

(Every detail of the section you quote - other than the Middle Pillar = mediation idea - is decisively lunar, feminine, and non-Mercurial.)

Subset of a diary. I don't have a copy here at work to consult for the other particulars you asked about.

PS - To aid others in researching this, you might want to give citations on the line you quoted so that your question can be put into context.

And "Meral" was a contrived word to express Phyllis' magical formula. She created it by writing her initial articulation of her True Will (in English) in Hebrew cognates and getting 276. She then composed a word that would add to 276. She told me she wanted to be sure to have the -AL in it for Liber AL, which left 245, and this remnant easily provided the R, M, and H. The rest was scrabble!

I noted that the three parts were all linked in the letter Mem: mer- being a broad water-related root, -AL being the Divine Name of Water, and the whole, 276, being the Mystic Number of the 23rd Path. She kindly told me I was nuts and it meant no such thing! (I took this to mean that she hadn't ever consciously thought that particular thing about it 😆 ). Since it was her motto, I didn't press the point, but privately chuckled since the whole arose out of the phrase, I will to love (Y VYLL TO LOVH = 10 + 76 + 79 + 111 = 276).

Most helpful Froclown - thank you.

I was thinking along the lines of twigs and berries (sometimes the ol' brain gets stuck in that line of thinking decyphering AC)

Would you share a blind from The Book of Thoth and the thing which it veils?

@Scarecrow said

"I appreciate the graphic but it isn't the quality I'm looking for - it looks like you took the white on black graphic and did your best to remove the black... I'm hoping someone out there has a really clean vector art

Thanks again though"

I have a vector image of it. IM me your email address and I'll forward it to you. I also have it in large scale PDF and jpg.

As Crowley's secretary, he lived in Crowley's apartment. I didn't both to ask for fine details, but it was evident that there was occassion (e.g., when one was readying for a bath - in Paris in the 1920s) for Regardie to see the evidence.

I expressed myself badly. IHVH shows a sequence of creation and I was trying to understand the movement of the Daughter within that context.

Can we discuss them simply in terms of vectors of force?

For example, could they be related to this example:

I want to A I can't A because of B A lesser marriage is to solve B which allows me to now solve A which is a great marriage

?

I have almost no BP copies left at present.

In a group I was with during the 90's we saw Nepthys more like the dark side of Isis. That part we turn a blind eye to.

Wow, I had no idea that was a bird. Incidentally, the bird is actually called the "Great Auk". Extinct since 1852.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk

@nigris said

"having got them all, can you briefly detail which versions of the Book of the Law are covered, included, analyzed, or described within the Red Flame Volume 8?"

Sorry, I was speaking to the OP's original list of 3 commentaries; I do not have the Red Flame vol. 8 - but will ever be keeping an eye out for it 😄

Jim mentions a possible Theosophical source for the scorpion-snake-eagle triad.

I included circle-triangle-square in my table thinking of a Theosophical document I discovered when exploring meanings of those three symbols in an entirely different context. Unfortunately, I can't find it again! As I remember it had stick figures with circle as head, triangle (point down) as upper body and square as abdomen; the point being that those three aspects of our nature - thinking, emotional and "animal" instinctual - should be brought into an appropriate balance.

If anyone can find that document it may cast light on scorpion-snake-eagle.

OP

"The Rorshach blot, BTW, is clearly a vision of Babalon,with legs lustfully parted - in her Betty Boop incarnation. "

Nice 😄 Betty is awesome:
www.shopheadlines.com/images/products/Betty-Boop/betty-boop-star-struck.jpg

Right I'm listening to some tunes and see this guy:
mmonla.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/inspirational-gogol.jpg

or maybe this guy:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Salvador_Dali_NYWTS.jpg/300px-Salvador_Dali_NYWTS.jpg

this guy is just ridiculous though:
img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_02/law1110_468x608.jpg

Just noticed another thing.

Water can be 3 different forms (solid, gas, liquid), maybe like the three gunas (also like the holy triad which I only bring up to plug Bill Maher's Religulous, which was a fun movie and exactly what you would expect from Bill with a quite a bleak, threatening, serious msg at the end)

Alright I may have extended this post past the point of no return.