College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

Wheels within wheels...

And just when I was beginning to think I had a fair understanding of Liber O as well 🙄

I know what I'm mostly going to be doing today then...

Thanks for the concrete info. He definitely needs to start a regular sleep pattern and the diet makes sense. Anchoring astral travel to a physical gesture is useful information.

I will forward ToT’s healing email and tell him to provide his horoscope as well.

Thanks again.

@ForceFire said

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"Most magicians function in Yetzirah."

Are you referring to a specific grade or just the ritual in general?"

I mean that, in general, most magicians are incapable of entering a Briatic state of consciousness, let alone persistently living there. They function in Yetzirah.

"I asked because I wanted to start working with the elements. I wanted to choose the most beginner friendly invocation (besides pentagram rituals) and to me the word Briah (Uriel) and beginner seemed
like incompatible things."

One can work with archangel without being awake in (or operating in) Brian. The routine method is to compose a Yetziratic form (image) for the Briatic being to occupy. That's a Yetziratic, not a Briatic, operation.

Thanks for that detailed explanation. The warning about Passive Spirit was especially helpful...

Thanks for those comments.

I already explored my personal Shadow 15 years ago when reading up on Jung and made it my personal ethos to confront every aspect of my "self" that I did not like. I believe the Self is ultimately unknowable, but residual traces of the Shadow can still affect us.

One thing that has always bothered me for the last 15 years is that I have never achieved where I wanted to be financially even though I am highly ambitious (my Moon is in Capricorn) and know the orientation of my True Will. Over this summer I carried out a personal audit, following Jim's three moral considerations of Intent, asking myself what secret benefit do I gain by not achieving more financially? The answer relates to questions of responsibility and duties. Namely my current financial state provides the perfect excuse to 1) avoid assuming the traditional role of provider in relationships 2) not start a family and 3) not be able to afford visiting my family who reside halfway around the globe. On the other hand I have lived an very interesting life, had time to pursue my creative and spiritual interests and do not have any debts. Right now I am between jobs and looking to make a radical change. I can get a desk job and survive comfortably enough, but I do not want to repeat the past. I am part of a generation that no longer expects to retire or have a pension waiting. So I am looking for a work opportunity that leads to total financial freedom within 5 years, no longer tied to employers, providing the means whereby I can support a family, buy a house, afford visiting my family, etc. for the rest of my life. Needless to say, the current financial state of the world stacks the odds against my favour.

I do not consider myself materialistic or money-hungry. Rather what is more important to me is the need for self-sufficiency and independence and to provide for myself and those I care about. I have harnessed the lessons of my past to drive myself forward, but what I want to be careful of is performing rituals that lead to worse karmic enslavement. Hence the questioning of the Shadow-side of one's intent and question about the Qlippoth of one's sun sign.

(Incidentally, while meditating on these thoughts over the summer, I sailed up the coast of Portugal for one month. At the port of Lagos, an old slave trading center, I performed a ritual in the historical center of the city. I used figs from a tree growing in the center and afterwards had a vision of an African slave sitting behind the walls, white teeth and red sensuous lips biting into the fig, the sensation of warm sunlight on the skin, an overwhelming feeling of gratitude...The themes from that vision are still playing out in my life today)

I've used this formula as suggested by Crowley in 8 Lectures to great affect. I suggest it to people as a way to bring their own negative thoughts back in line, a sort of NLP approach.

Thanks for that clarification - I was confusing the Neophyte's task with the vampire ordeal.

[EDIT: I had another lengthy question but deleted it as I noticed that you already answered it in the first post - thanks for the thoughtful response]

Yes I finally figured out that Regardie combined the values of Yod + Aleph and denoted it simply as 11.

So just to confirm, since IEL is a common ending for most intelligences, should this be traced out on kameas as separate values, namely Yod + Aleph + Lamed = 10 > 1 > 30? Or is Regardie correct in combining the values of Yod and Aleph as 11, hence IEL = 11 > 30?

I'm guessing that there is more than "artistic" reasons to Regardie's 11. Yod and Aleph fall within the first chamber. Is there some hidden rule of AIQ BEKER that permits values of letters falling within the same chambers to be combined? This odd 11 makes intuitive sense to me, but I am not aware of any explicit rule in AIQ BEKER confirming this point.

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

@Jim Eshelman said

"A ritual that allows for emotional completeness will likely be more effective."

Thanks for that insightful point. Would a ritual for emotional completeness involve invoking the Sun or invoking the element of water in the LBRP?

I did think of another touch to take or leave , its just keeps popping in my head the past two days like i should have mentioned it before, but it didnt come to me then...

Leave a photo album laying around .....

Dont want to go reading into things that may or may not be there, but if you'd like to hold her hand and show her where you lived and grew up on memory lane... leave it around like on a coffee table ... i beleive it would be a good idea if there are harder memories you wish you could share, but the opportunity doesnt present itself.

David Hulse's The Key of it All Book One: The Eastern Mysteries has a chapter on Arabic. Maybe not quite what you want, but a good start.

There's no such thing as a flawless online tool. The best way is simply to learn the alphabet.

A rambling Poem:

The ordeals and my very own personal mortality guard.

So as time would have it things have improved remarkably insofar as these perceived ordeals are concerned. The boogey man has proved to be nothing more than a protective lap dog with large teeth and a network of little doggie friends that extend into the nether reaches of creation - this was the point. It was an unwillingness to confront the awesome potential that seats itself in the Northwest cerebellum. I ran ... with an army of bewildered animal companions in hot pursuit shitting and crapping and chewing everything they came across. As i looked at their destructive capabilities i ran into a solid steel lightpost which rose so high in the sky it seemed to support the Universe. It left a rather nasty scar on my left forehead. But it got me thinking that i should always look where the hell i'm going.

It's all downhill from here as i realize that iam appointed to round up all these little confused shit disturbers and show them the proper place to defecate and how to share the little dogggie treats rather than hoard them. It's no easy task and i'm still a little uncertain how this is gonna pan out but i have an enormous light post to make sure my message is seen as well as a network of sleeping shit kickers to randomly shit, chew and cause general mayhem as a treat for the non-compliant...

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Reflecting, the Temple of Thelema has been very helpful in allowing me to go orbital with my thinking... I've another forum which is a little less rigid in terms of doctrinal certainty. I really don't care for partisan or protocol laden religiosity no matter who delivered it. I'm concerned with kindness and compassion not robotic, emotionless spiritual incantations... But whatever works for you. Mr. Fezz a very special thank you for you kindness and Fr. Aster Lux, keep shining... I will check in every now and again to see how things are brewing.

And so begins the next ordeal, i wish you all LOVE in life. 😀

@he atlas itch said

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@Jim Eshelman said
"Basically, reverse the process by which it was exuded in forming the Body in the first place."

As I understand it, the "substance" of the astral allows Tibetan lamas to create tulpas and then reabsorb them back into themselves:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa

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very interesting information, Atlas. Thanks.

@TheSilent1 said

"From my understanding of the Kundalini it wakes up in you not you waking it up. I was warned by a practitioner of magic for about 40+yrs not seek the Kundalini because you might get Kali rather than Shakti. I got a similar warning from sufis I used to meditate with."

Yes, I got very similar warnings from the Sant Mat folks who are strongly influenced by the Sufis.

That's why I prefer play a fretless instrument 😉 All of the tuning systems are a compromise at some level. Good singers and fretless instrumentalists can achieve the best of both worlds - 4th and 5th interval harmonies in pythag-worthy tuning, and the ability to modulate keys in a song.

@Jim Eshelman said

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@Alias55A said
"How exactly do you vibrate IAO? I've never tried to vibrate before."

Eeeeee-Ahhhhh-Ohhhhh"

Ohhhhhhhh! ok gotcha 😉
I love that song. Old McDonald had a farm, eeeeee ahhhhh eeeee ahhhhh ohhhhh! hehe.

Fantastic!

My question is a follow-up to a post made some time ago. I was researching why Ankh-f-na-Khonsu addresses an ancient Egyptian lunar deity called Iah/Yah in the Stele of Revealing, calling him “O Unique One”. Edward Mason noted the odd coincidence between Yah and the Assiah Divine name for Chokmah, whose element is fire. This suggested a strange connection between this Egyptian lunar deity and the origins of the Hebrew Yah-weh cult (for example, in the contest between the prophet Elijah and priests of Baal, the supremacy of Yahweh over Baal is manifested through the element of fire, which descends from heaven to consume the water-soaked wood on which the sacrifice is placed). My intuition was that the Egyptian Iah/Yah became adopted by the Israelite slaves in Egypt, which then became the origins of the Yahweh cult after the Exodus.

I put out a query to a friend at the Biblical Archeological Society and he sent back a link confirming this hypothesis and suggesting the origins of the Hebrew religion lay in a lunar cult:

alex.alexmayers.com/?p=5

If Chokmah was once being a lunar deity, this would suggest at the oldest origins of Kabbalah, the concept of Kether was once associated with the Sun. This would conform to the Egyptian conception of Ra as the supreme being and Unity. This would suggest that only later, in keeping with the divine mandate that “thou shalt have no other gods before me”, of separation from Egypt and, centuries later, through study of the Torah and ever-deeper exploration of the inner planes, the Sun became associated with Tiphareth and Kether became as conceived of today.

Uh, the "falling in love" description is not one I came up with. It's a fairly common description. Also, like I said, one is a personal entity, the other is a technique or action.