College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

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@Selene said

"There's something marvelous about the simplicity of the finger. Part of your body."

Agreed. The best magicians are self-sufficient.

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@SerpentSeed123 said

"^ I've done both and like I said I'm really unsure Would Yoga or anything that expands my consciousness help?"

Step 4, as provided above.

There is, however, a secret way to expand your consciousness and discover your interests without having to figure them out for yourself. These ways are infinitely magickal and have been kept secret by the FBI, CIA, and the OTO for centuries.

It does have to do with Yoga. First stand on your head and say the following:

"I A O I call upon ye, O great Nuit!
I A O I call upon ye, O great Hadit!
I A O I call upon ye, O great Aiwass!
Lend unto me your divine wisdom, O great entities."

Light a hula-hoop on fire and jump through it six times. Then, balance a rubber ball on your nose until someone gives you a fish, which you will then eat--do this six times. Finally, stand on your right leg with your left arm straight up in the air, and face Israel. Roll your eyes back into your head and imagine yourself as swimming in a school of fish. Trouts and salmon are the best visuals. Imagine yourself having sex with all the boy trouts/salmons, and then all the girl ones. Light six hundred sixty-six candles in a perfect circle around you and do somesaults around the circumference six full times (no more and no less, otherwise the ceremony will fail).

Sacrifice a lamb or small cat and write Aleph-Yodh-Nun on a white T-shirt, and then don the t-shirt. Drink the remaining blood. Make sure it dribbles down your face and mingles with the blood currently depicting Hebrew letters on your T-shirt. Repeat the above chant and sacrifice a cow, chanting the obvious Hindu prayers as you do so. Do this six times.

Place a copy of Aleister Crowley's "777" in the center of the candle-circle. Place a copy of the Holy Bible atop it, and finally, a copy of Gertrude Chandler Warner's "The Boxcar Children" atop that. Sanctify this pile of literature by falling to your knees and worshipping it for six hours, six minutes, and six seconds. Any more or any less will cause the ceremony to fail.

Leaving the candles lit, go to sleep. If all goes according to plan, you will have a dream. This dream will involve shadows, demons, and you may have images of your residence burning down around you. Upon awakening, you must immediately begin meditating upon the dream. If you meditate on this dream for six hours, six minutes, and six seconds straight--at the complete and utter expense of all other subjects/needs--the Gods will bestow upon you a thought. This thought will be presented with complete and absolute clarity. In this case, you will hear the words "I like men" or "I like women" resonating through your head, depending on whichever notion your subconsiousness is inclined toward. Thus you shall have your answer.

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Step 1: Have sex with a woman
Step 2: Have sex with a man
Step 3: Meditate on which was more fun
Step 4: Repeat if necessary
Step 5: Do whichever is more fun

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This is very obviously the return of Jesus Christ, except that he wanted to be a girl this time around. I know I would.

Make sure your friend buys her new daughter a horn prior to the Endtimes, which as we know is December 21 2012. It can't be a Christmas present though, because we will all be dead by then. Maybe a birthday present. I suggest Fisher-Price, because they make some high-quality horns.

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When all else fails: try, try again

@Avshalom Binyamin said

""Ani" by itself doesn't mean "I am". By itself, it simply means "I"."

Okay, agreed...I just typed "I am" into Google translate and came up with the same thing, but then I reversed it--translated "ani" to english--and it says it only translates to "I".

Anyway, 61=I is pretty profound on its own.

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@Avshalom Binyamin said

"61 = ain = aleph-yod-nun = 1+10+50 = "nothing""

61 also equals "I am". The term "I am" is profoundly significant throughout history: Jesus uses the term "I am" to describe himself seven different ways in the Bible and there is a famous latin saying that goes "Cogito Ergo Sum" (I think, therefore, I am).

According to wikipedia:

The use of “I am” without a predicate was considered a name for Jesus by St. Thomas Aquinas who considered it the most proper of all divine names, for Aquinas believed it to refer to the “being of all things”.

Suffice to say..."61" is a very important number.

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@Mephis said

"The planets do not of themselves cause anything. Their "influence" is purely psychological."

Also, I disagree. All stellar bodies possess a gravitational field that influences the earth. The moon's gravity, for example, is attributed to the tides. While the gravitational field of--say--Pluto might not have as noticeable or profound an effect, it still contributes to the overall state of affairs. I would liken it to the flapping of a butterfly's wings, which have no discernable impact upon its immediate surroundings, but could ultimately be the catalyst of a typhoon halfway across the world.

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@Mephis said

"As has been said, the important thing is not "why" or "how" it works--it just does."

Adding to this point...

I've had this exact same problem--coming across something and wondering how or why it works. For example, when I first turned my attention to the Sepher Sephiroth, I couldn't help but wonder: WHY is "father" spelled Aleph-Beth in Hebrew? Wouldn't it be Peh-Aleph-Tau-Heh-Resh? 777, miscellaneous websites, Google Translate--they all said "Father is Aleph-Beth".

Eventually I realized: Father is Aleph-Beth because Father is Aleph-Beth. That is the agreed-upon Hebrew term, so that's what it is. Nobody really knows WHY, just that that is what it is.

You ask, "Why is the Zodiac important?" So let me ask: "Why do we call it the Zodiac?" Why not StarPictures? SpaceSymbols? (or my personal favorite) SuperMagickalConnectTheDots?

The important thing to realize is...nobody really knows why things are the way they are, they just have to accept that these are the circumstances of reality. It could have been different, but it's not. After all, if we knew why the Zodiac was important, why would we bother paying attention to it? We're scientists. We need questions before we can find the answers.

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@Veronica said

"Happy Holy days!!"

Neat! I never saw that before!

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@Veronica said

"I always thought that it was because of unreal numbers, or so called imaginary numbers.

How many possibilities can fit in-between one and two? An intimate, unreal amount.
There are an infinite number of numbers......
But there are even more imaginary numbers.

I also tend to think that this statement is in reference to zero, before any actual numerals appear. How many times can I divide zero, that sort of idea.....
0=2"

@Uni_Verse said

"A quick blurb...

In one facet of number theory, the number one is defined as the Reimanns sum of 9/10 from 0 to infinity.

Or, that 1 is defined as .99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 ad infinitum.
With 2 defined as 1.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 ad infinitum.

With each number being representative of a limit, since the "space" between any two numbers is infinite."

I'd been thinking about the space between numbers after I read Veronica's post--namely the part where she mentioned how many numbers can fit between one and two--and actually realized what UV said above.

Which means infinite can occur at the beginning and ending of a spectrum...

**Infinite<-----Total Conceivable Negative Numbers----(Zero)-----Total Conceivable Positive Numbers------>Infinite
**
...But it can also occur entirely within the confines of two predetermined boundaries.

One----------->(Infinite)<---------------Two

Which is entirely contradictory...because infinite is both boundary-less and confined at the same time.

So really...numbers are just dots floating around in infinite space. Every number and letter is a star!

If that is the case, maybe what we understand as '0' and what we understand as '1' are two very wrong definitions...maybe there is no '2', just the perpetual struggle to get from 0 to 1...okay, I have to think on this before I try talking about it, or this thread will get dumped in the 'nonsense' forum.

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Drunkenness results in the loss of inhibition, and without inhibition, we become like children--i.e., prone to doing "wrong" things. The barriers of the conscious mind come crashing down, and when that happens, what is left? --The flow of the subconscious mind, rushing forth like water through a freshly-opened dam.

The advent of adulthood requires the subconscious to become stifled--almost like someone holding their breath. Thus by indulging in drugs and liquor, we "open our mouths" so to speak, and fill our lungs with the sweet taste of air. Overindulgence, however, would be like hyperventilating, an act that results in unconsciousness.

It feels good to be irresponsible every once in a while. Otherwise, how would life be interesting? What purpose would we have to act responsibly in the first place? A system cannot function without some form of counteractive force to validate its existence. If we didn't get drunk and say/do stupid things, we would suffocate in our own tight-assery.

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What does "Every Number is Infinite, There Is No Difference" mean?

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In order to define this claim, we must first set forth certain truths. I refer you to the basic geometric principals of points. If we have a graph with one point on it, we cannot determine anything about this point. We cannot define length, height, or depth. Even if we add a second point, creating a line, we cannot define any of these traits either (using a ruler to measure the line does not count. Doing so would require you to assume that the perspective is correct, which might be true, but could also be like standing two miles from the Washington Monument and "determining" that it is three inches tall by holding up a ruler).

It is not until we add the third point that we have a plane, and now gain the perspective that line A is longer than line B, line B is shorter than line C, etc.

In summary, we cannot define any single point without (at least) two other points by which we can compare it.

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For the term "Every Number is Infinite", we would substitute 'points' for 'numbers'. After all, the number 1 on its own tells us nothing. It's not until we know that 1 is more than nothing but less than multiple things that we are able to define it. This is where we get the number's Identity.

The term "Every Number is Infinite" refers to the number of Identities available to any given number.

Let's add a 0 to the 1, giving us 10 (footnote: the number 10 is found somewhere between 9 and 11).

The number 10 contains three points (the 1 and the 0, which are independent numbers on their own, and the actual 10, whose Identity is independent of either of these. For the sake of simplicity, we'll write it as "010"). If any of these three numbers was to change its position, its Identity would change. For example, if we were to write it "001", then it would no longer be ten. Similarly, if we wrote it "100", it would still no longer be ten, but it would not be one, either. In other words, the specific Identities of the various elements creates a specific overall Identity.

Adding another 0: we have 100. At face value, there seems to be no difference between the zeroes (they are both round, they both follow the one). Their Identities are subtly different, however; there is the First Zero and the Second Zero. While interchangeable, the First and Second Zero are necessary to synthesize the overall Identity, i.e. one hundred (if you switch the First and Second Zero, you would still have one hundred, but with the Second Zero in place of the First Zero, and vice-versa. This would be stupidly overcomplicated).

Moving up to 1000: Even though we still have a First and Second Zero, their respective Identities within one thousand are different from those in one hundred, because of the overall Identity. Without the First Zero in one hundred, the overall Identity changes to ten; without the First Zero in one thousand, the overall Identity changes to one hundred. In other words, the particular positioning of the digits does not change, but their contribution to the overall synthesis does.

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We could do this ad infinium, because there are an infinite number of numbers. Every time a new number is added to an existing number, a new overall Identity is created. Thus, every number does not simply have an infinite number of Identities, every number must. Otherwise, how could the number '7' create the number 27 as well as 107, 7096, 534789513401853410, and countless others? How could infinite exist?

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"There is No Difference". While this statement seems to contradict the above, the above actually creates this statement. After all, if you have a truly infinite number of possibilities, then one such possibility must suggest that the entire system is flawed. This particular possibility contradicts the rule that each number is different by bringing to light that if every number, from 0 to infinite, has an infinite number of Identities, then they are all identical because they have an infinite number of Identities.

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I see now...I was using Yod Aleph Samekh Ayin Nun-Final. So far, I have four English letters attributed to Vau--V, U, W, and now (certain) Os.

As for personal names, I'm not looking to do much more than get used to properly translating words at this point, and these translations happened to be kicking around the Gematria for Beginners thread.

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I'm Trevor. I'm 24 years old and this is my second journey into Thelema. My first took place about three years ago, while I was into a lot of drugs and other destructive habits. Long story short: did you ever see that movie "The Number 23"? I pretty much went crazy and ended up losing my job (in the middle of a recession to boot) and after that happened, it took about four months to reverse all the paranoia and obsessive behavior I'd adopted.

Fast forward to this week: the other night, I picked up 777 and thumbed through it. It picqued my interest, but it wasn't until watching Pi last night that I considered taking another look at Gematria.

I found this forum by searching "Gematria for beginners" and have already made some progress. In that particular thread, someone dissected the name "Veronica" and came up with 362; I was able to replicate these results after a few tries and the process made sense. (Though I'm still wondering how "Jason" equates to 777, especially when the O and N alone equal 770. More study is needed).

It's good to be back!

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