College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

I've been using www.sunrisesunset.com.

Thanks for the quick reply Jim. I've been wondering about this for some time and was actually planning on doing the Noon Adoration at 1:05 PM today. This info helps a lot. Thank you!

Is it acceptable to do the mid-day adoration at the actual Solar Noon rather than at 12:00 Noon?

I would highly recommend ordering a copy of ECPYROSIS The Best of Starfire Volume One for further reading on Jack Parsons and his Babalon Working.

By candle meditation I mean that I'm basically just sitting in a darkened room with one candle lite and focusing on it while I do some breathing patterns. I find this visual occurance to be a distraction. I don't do this type of meditation often though.

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I'm inclined to think that if you look at a candle for an amount of time then you will see the after-image everywhere you look for some time afterwards.

Best get your eyes tested for retina burn before assigning meaning to this phenomena!

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It's not an image of the flame and it starts happening after only a minute or so. It comes out of the flame and is usually a red/purple color with a green outline. It moves around the room regardless of where I'm looking. It can move around and behind me and if I'm looking forward I do not see it. However, I can turn around and then seeing it moving to other areas of the room. Eventually it returns to the flame and that's it. I have my eyes tested once a year. No medical issues up to this date.

I too experience 'purple swirls' during meditation with my eyes closed. I don't start off seeing the colors. It's only after I've gotten into it.

My strangest experience with seeing colors and swirls has been when I've done candle meditation. Just about everytime I've done this type of meditation I've had a 'blob/orb' of light rise from the candle and actually move around the room. Circling me. I'll see this 'orb' move to the far end of the room completely away from the candle. It's not a frightening thing but I really wonder what it is. Anyone else have an experience like this?

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Hello everyone. I've been visiting these forums and lurking around for about a year now. I finally decided to go ahead a register today. I've been interested in the occult since childhood. Bought my first Wicca book around the age of 12. Though I studied and practiced Wicca on and off for 20 some years, it wasn't till I found Thelema about 4 years ago that my occult interest turned quite serious. Sadly, I live in an area that has no Thelemic groups or support of any kind that I've found, so I've had to do all my study/practice without a guiding hand. Meaning after four years I'm still quite 'green.' I've learned a lot lurking on this forum, and I'm glad to be in the cyber company of like minded people.

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