College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

How often do you re-read your diaries? What do you look for when you re-read them?
I suppose that knowing what you would look for when re-reading a diary, would help guide what you write in the first place.

"But if the receiver, the magician, is not ready for such contact it will not happen."

That makes sense.

"What can happen at best is that the pattern created via the ritual actions creates an open door for contact and any other being that feels like it will step in and chat away happily with you."

That scares me. You could fool yourself.

"So if you want to connect with your Holy Guardian Angel, throw away the numerous books that outline various rituals and disciplines to get you there (that will not work) and each morning be still for a moment, be quiet, and thank your guardian angel for being there and tell them that you wish to learn. Carry on whatever magical path you are on, and pay attention: the quiet but powerful voice will at some point, when you are able to understand the communion, begin to speak back. "

It concludes with very simple guidelines.

Thank you all for the discussion so far.

A related question - is the path of the magician different than the path of the mystic? How are the similar and how are they different - or are they the same path?

What is the difference between Magick and Mysticism?
How do you define the two?

Thank you

Is there anything you can say, or point us to what to read about visualizing better that is available to the public?

Thank you.

Those are beautiful, thank you.

I have never tried to imitate Crowley's lifestyle.

What would be your sources? I mean, where can we read about this?
Who has documented the cases?

When you use a candle in a ritual, what do you do with it afterward?

Is it possible to cleanse the candle and re-use it?

If not, how does one dispose of it properly?

Thank you

Deepak Chopra, I believe, talks about gratitude, and how it attracts more.

What are you trying to say? Do you believe witchcraft is something bad?
Are you asking how to do it?

"The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick" by Jason Miller

I haven't read this. I found it on amazon.com, they have a "peek inside" - there is an appendix on Greek vowels, so I suppose he uses Greek.

A better book is "Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts" by Donald Michael Kraig

Is Therion a Thelemic deity? Is Therion the same as the Beast 666? But Crowley called himself the Great Therion, right? So what did he mean by that?

Is this wiki article accurate?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therion_(Thelema

Thank you

@Jim Eshelman said

"High Magic is aspirational. Its practical goals are personal evolution and phenomenology from drawing on transfer-humanmanes.

Low magician draws on energies on the same plane, just rearranging the priorities. It's robbing Peter to payaul.

Low magick is about change. High magick is about transformation."

So, would that mean that casting spells for things such as money and love would be low magick?
Or would that depend on the energies used?

Deepak Chopra wrote about that in one of his books. As I recall, he said to go into meditation first, and then within the silence, to visualize your goal. And that you have to not be attached to your goal and not worry about it.

I forget which book that was in.

I had been told that it is a bad idea to fall asleep during meditation. Or to use meditation to fall asleep. That you need to keep meditation and sleeping two different things.

Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield is a good book.

Oh I thought you were going to write about magickal tools and if you should buy them new or vintage.

What about the terms "High Magick" and "lower magick" ?

What do they really mean?

I worry less about what Crowley/Aiwass meant, and more about how others may (mis)interpret it.
Am I right, did Hitler once read the Book of the Law?

Aside from Hitler, there are passages in the Book of the Law I (hope) I don't understand; in that it sounds like it's advocating violence, and I worry that someone will use it to justify their own violent inclinations....