College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Regardie writes that the Golden Dawn rituals, for example, are akin to a psychological process of integrating the Shadow archetype (a term from Jungian psychology) and healing the psyche. Further, that performing such rituals at may lead to this, the knowledge and conversation of the HGA, the Great Work. Los, if I understand what he's getting at, only apparently shows preference for meditation as a way of clearly accomplishing this, since he himself does magick. I think he's just emphasizing the need to clearly formulate a goal before doing ritual work, and then reasoning about it afterwards. It's clear to me that he not only has a philosophical position of materialism and atheism, but that he claims that materialism and atheism are the only reasonable stances to hold, in the lack of any evidence to support any other stance. I think that The Temple of Solomon the King sheds some useful light on the adoption of "isms".

@hreefold31 said

"Dwtw

The establishment of a qabalah based on Liber Trigrammaton, and the fulfillment of Liber AL II:55, has been accomplished many years ago by R. Leo Gillis, whose massive work on the subject is titled The Book of Mutations. Basic details can be found at trigrammaton.com

Litlluw
RLG"

www.trigrammaton.com

Looks interesting to me.

It's not NAEQ qabala.

(Here's some stuff I found that's I didn't see on the trigrammaton.com website)

In the Trigrammaton system, the English letter I is mapped to the number 1.
I is the only letter of the English alphabet formed by one straight vertical line,
as is the numeral 1.

L is mapped to the number 2. A straight vertical line, and then a second line to the right.

C, another unicursal letter, is mapped to the number 3.

Here's the mapping I'm inquiring into:

I:1; L:2, C:3, H:4; P:5; A:6; X:7; J:8; W:9; T:10; O:11; G:12; F:13;
E:14; R:15; S:16; Q:17; K:18; Y:19; Z:20; B:21; M:22; V:23; D:24; N:25; U:26

Here are a few things I've discovered:

AUMGN : 93
(6+26+22+12+25)

RA HOOR KHUIT : 121 (11 x 11)
(15+6 4+11+11+15 18+4+26+1+10)

31 is a key to this gematria as well. 2 x 31 = 62
NUIT (25+26+1+10) : 62

I'll post more about this if it's helpful.

"An agnostic (literally, "not-knower") withholds belief. An atheist (literally, "not-godist") has a firm belief that there is no god."

I think there's a common or vernacular understanding of what the terms mean, and then there are somewhat different definitions used in philosophy.

In strong atheism, there's a positive claim: "There is no god, or gods".
In weak atheism, there's a negative claim, or simple absence of belief: "I don't believe in a god or gods".

"Strong", "weak", "positive" and "negative" here are technical terms, not value judgements.

Agnosticism is simply the position that, to quote Wikipedia, "claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity... are unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable". It's a claim about knowledge, not belief.

Thus it's possible to be an agnostic atheist, a gnostic theist, an agnostic theist or a gnostic atheist. The theist-atheist scale is about belief; the gnostic-agnostic scale is about knowledge.

In the vernacular, "agnostic" usually is the equivalent of "weak atheist".

At least that's how the atheists explained it to me over beer...

(edit): Yikes, the thread has moved on since then, my apologies for going off-track there.

@David S said

":D

Don't we all....."

I always wondered if Adam and Eve had them...

@indeed93 said

"
There is a rather big error in this video in the beginning."

Yeah, I noticed this too. He rang the 1st battery 1-3-1 instead of 1-3-3-3-1. Other than that i thought the video was quite good. Well, he omitted the ABRAHADABRA as well (didn't catch that but read the comments).

93,

Hi, I'm new to this site, interested in Thelema, yoga and esoteric philosophy. Looking forward to participating in the forums. Chris

93 93/93

I spotted a typo in Chapter 4 verse 6:

6. Seven Double Letters: Beyth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaf, Peh, Reysh, Tav, a foundation. He engraved them, carved them out, refined them, weighed them, and transformed them. He formed by them seven planets in the universe, seven days in the year, [and] seven gates into the soul, male and female.

The posted version reads "seven days in the year" instead of "seven days in the week".