College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

I think the post-enlightenment sadana's as you described are accurate Hermitas.
The Non Dual path - the closest to the Tao in philosophy and acti... practice - deals with these in the same way that you break through in the first place by staying put as NOT. Nothing can harm thee if thou art not.
In practice Ramana and the great sages stayed put by being well out of sight for many years, dealing with these monstrous forces by being not.
They certainly didn't teach or engage with the world at these phases and in the West, we have to engage with the world all the time. Even in India - in the sacred Temple people kept throwing things at 'the boy sage' in disgust. He then had to be put in the catacombs area of the temple and semi-cared for, (if at all other than some rice ) by monks . e ended up with all sorts of maladies of the body while his mind was elsewhere. He had to be completely looked after for years. He hadn't even physically developed his body or brain when his entrance to the Abyss began.
Bodhidarma stared at a wall for ten years well after his initial enlightenment , I forget his name off the top of my head but one of the greatest Zen monks broke through , left the temple to go and teach, came back after a day and stayed in the temple for another 30 years , stating that he was no-where near ready.
So , I think the path of the AA with it's focus on containing and experiencing these forces before the floodgates really open is a much more sensible and gentle way of doing the work. Ok we may not feel it's gentle when half-way through Probationer , let alone later, but compared to what holy men have had to suffer in the past...

"":3q5gcf56]In the evocation of the intelligence of Mercury I see that part of the operation involves utilizing the color scales. Can someone please explain to me why we incorporate the color scales specific to the path of "Beth" rather than the scales of "Hod"? "

You could theoretically use either Hod or Beyth for different kinds of Mercury rituals. The pure essence of the planets, though, are in the Paths, and the planetary intelligences aren't technically even in the hierarchies of the s'fiyroth.

"When working with a planetary force, what is the practical difference between incorporating the sephiroth vs. one of the 7 double letter paths?"

This requires a small essay, but I'll try to hit the key bullet points.

First, in very broad terms (meaning, please allow me to cut a few corners, and allow for the fact that any statement is sometimes contextually false), s'fiyroth represent states and paths represent forces. For example, in the progress of initiation, s'fiyroth are new, stable plateaus that give a resting place and new context for the next stage of work, whereas paths are processes-in-motion, transitions, and flows. The former, therefore, is more static, and the latter more dynamic.

Although both both paths and s'fiyroth have many attributions, primarily the paths are the pure, energetic expressions of forces, whereas the s'fiyroth are combinations of more complex ideas. For example, Hod is every bit as much Water as it is Mercury (and, for those below T'fereth, is arguably more Water than it is Mercury).

S'fiyroth have their own hierarchies that, beginning in Y'tzirah, vary from those of the paths. They even vary at a higher level if you integrate the elemental attributions, e.g., for a balanced invocation of Hod one might (depending on the occasion and the particular working) invoke El (for Water) equally with Elohiym Tz'baoth for Mercury, and call on Gabriel equally with Mikhael; though that would only usually be done in very rounded, balanced expressions of the s'fiyroth, as in an initiation rite (for example).

But it gets clearer in Y'tzirah, where the expression in Hod is Beni Elohim, but Beyth doesn't connect to that Choir at all, but through a different path involving an angel, intelligence, and spirit.

We can also take comfort, and I say this with love. Slow your mind down. A most excellent prescription for all. Every thing from A to Z. Is found in one sentence in Magick.
Crowley wrote. And I believe in capital letters.
MEDITATION IS THE WAY OF ATTAINMENT.

Also equally comforting he told us, that there are no precise where by a man obtain the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.

But the one thing every one may seem to do or might be able to do is Meditate.

"":2xan6980]"Had! The manifestation of Nuit" - First line of Liber AL.

I've understood Hadit to be the first point of manifestation, yet beyond duality. I didn't think that unity was outside the scope of manifestation since Kether is still below the veils of the unmanifest.

-93"

god beyond manifestation we know nothing about... the unity level of godhead is the only godhead level we are able to speak about, etc. but it is still higher than the creatures which are simply made in god's image but not at the same level as godhead... they have work to do in order to attain godhead...namely to blend and harmonize the seeming opposites which only appear at our level but not at the (manifested) godhead level where all is one, and perfect, etc.

do what thou wilt.

Doesn't the Heh/Tzaddi switch, by definition, require a breaking of an egregore built up since the teachings of the Sepher Yetzirah came into use? How is it less disruptive to correct two millennia of work based on incorrect correspondences but not to correct a hundred years of work that continued the mistake? Especially when the core purpose of Case's color/sound theory rests on visualizing the color at the same time one is intoning the note. Shouldn't we be correcting this now so that it doesn't continue another century into the future?

Based on my own experimentation, intoning the Heh of YHVH on a C-natural creates a red thoughtform which pushes me towards Aries and Mars. This is certainly in keeping with the connections between He, 5, Geburah, and the pentagram, but not in connecting it (correctly?) with Violet and The Star.

93,

"LL = Lamed x 2 = I interpreted two Lameds to be the expression of duality. The Law of duality established by the subordinate reflection of Kether -> Chokmah is what entices the life-breath of NO-THING to move.
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I really like this. The idea of duality, two opposing forces which balance and cancel each other out to return to a state of perfection or union. Personally for me, lamed represents balance, adjustment' a constant ordering of the chaotic nature of the microcosm so it may realise and be one with the macrocosm. 30+30= 60= 6- Tiphareth, the most balanced sphere of the tree of life (below the abyss) and the zone of the HGA.

So for me, I'd agree with your analysis of Kaph. This leads into the balancing of your individual consciousness, which is in a state of duality before knowledge and conversation, which leads to the knowledge of the true will

Yod is fire, the core of the alphabet, the phallus, the solar Will and the creative faculty of the Self truly awakened.

Of course, all this is creative speculation!

93, 93/93.

Have you tested your results? You say that you get the "sense" that you've uncovered an inner truth but have you then gone on to put the new insight into practice and found it to *be *actual truth?

That's where I'd put my focus, if I were in your position.

While we're on the subject, Hadit must be a Sun god if He is at the core of every Star. The Sun is a Star. This is what it's like to be 93 million miles from a Star.

Thanks for the clarification. I've been studying ritual 8, and I've got a few more questions!

"...You provide a body at a lower level of manifestation than the spirit normally occupies (Assiah is a lower vibratory rate than Yetzirah), and incarnating it temporarily."

"...The technique isn't to bring the spirit up to your level, but for you to adjust your level to that of the spirit"

This makes sense to me in ritual 8, where we provide an astral body of the talismanic image. I am attuning my consciousness to that vibrational state in yetzirah, where the spirit can occupy the talismanic image. But when I consider a body of smoke however, this is where I get confused. I am no longer attuning my consciousness to the vibration of the spirit, but now the spirit is changing its vibration to meet me in assiah, which appears to contradict the definition of evocation. Whats the flaw in my reasoning?

During the specific invocation, we start by ascending the ladders of colors up to atziluth, then back down to yetzirah.
We then switch between a grey mantel and end with a light purple mantel. Is visualizing a purple mantel the same thing as ascending back up the ladder to the briatic aspect of the principle, or does it have a more precise meaning (i.e maintaining the vibration of yetzirah, but just referencing a higher chain of command?). I'm inclined to believe the latter, because we want to remain attuned to spirit.

You describe a visualization in which a vortex of indigo rayed violet increases in intensity upon the pentacle. Within is a grey astral light with the talismanic image of the spirit shining through and "striving" to manifest. I interpreted this to mean the magician is essentially building a channel to assiah (indigo rayed violet) that the spirit can act upon. And as you said, the spirit can manifest if the visualization is harmonious with its nature, so the grey light is providing a microenvironment for it to manifest. Is my interpretation correct?

Lastly, could you please explain why we use the color ladders of Beth instead of 8th Sephiroth? They both refer to mercury, how did you decide which one to use?

Thanks again!

Here's the BOTA version just to add to your versions:

www.joyousworld.com/qabalah/tarotattributions.html

@Jim Eshelman said

" In other words, God is the dick shoved as deep into your {****} as inhumanly possible.
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LOL Jim.

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Haha-aha! Sometimes it's right to be beautiful, be-you-too-full. Even if you all you are left with afterwards is sorrow, sewing-for-tomorrow.

Shake the tree for apples till they get lodged in your teeth. Then you are eternally full and bitterness can turn into sweetness.

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Hi V

DWTW

My advice, from experience with this particular name (Archetype, angel, whatever) is to work with it, don't get scared of the idea of demons or any such nonsense, I suggest you read the Book of Enoch, Leviticus and the Yezidi and Islamic scriptures regarding Azazel. You might just find a diamond in the rough. 😉

Not a primer, no. It's relatively advanced. (IX° O.T.O., at least a very mature 2=9 A.'.A.'., etc/)

Are you looking at Chapter 26? If not, then that has the best pointers I could give you. Chapter 27 may help "between the lines."

Spontaneously i thought about this: 9 sephtiroth+4, first 9 normal, then Malkuth split in 4, 1 for each hand and foot 😉 I do use it like this, and some other variant like 12, 15, 40... and some interesting things with the paths also. Like Jim said, there are many many systems you can find out. You can see what works for you.

Then i googled "13 chakras" and saw them drawn in the middle path, so i guess that was what you were refering to. I've never tried that many in the middle path. 1 to 7 mostly. But why not.

A good thing with chakras is focusing on their electromagnetic part. As in the tree, first there is the 1, the 2, then the 3... Electromagnetic force is the dynamism inside any element, chakras, sephiroth, the 3 in one, the potent medicine. It is also the secret link between them. A square can be seen as a circle and vice versa. It is a matter of scale, which itself is a matter of perspective. And the other way around too. And an infinte circle, which is also eight.

@Hermes said

"Not sure at who it is directed but thanks anyway, i guess several here are experimenting this breakthrough ! "

Original post.

Thank you both for your thoughtful replies. I will take this advice under consideration as I move forward!

Thanks for the thoughtful replies. Shortly after posting this, I decided to give my ritual work another shot after my meditation. I was surprised when I spontaneously understood an even deeper meaning behind "Heruraha" than I had previously understood. This inspired me to keep my AA work closer. Perhaps I was a bit premature to think the AA no longer serves me.

-93 😀