College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

@Silenci said

"This is a good example of when "The Comment" should be obeyed."

I obey "The Comment" to the letter and freely discuss the contents of the Book with anyone who will listen.

"The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading."

Yea! but I am a fool, a flutterer!

"Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire."

So is crossing the road in Camberwell.

"Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence."

Al-Quaeda have really got it in for me.

"All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself."

Fortunately, my inspired folly guided me to retain my copy of Liber Al and all my other Crowley books.

etc...

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I'd just like to note that my model above as said posits the four fixed signs to the four vertical poles of the cube of space. I didn't realize the importance of this. It resurrects the early visions of the "Chariot of God" and the four Kerubs. It makes me wonder if the four fixed signs to the four vertical poles of the cube of space have been posited in the past? To recap my model is color-coded, and by assigning the the 6 planets to the faces, one inherently assigns the 12 zodiac signs to the vertices (Orange Mercury in the East + Red Mars in the South = Red-Orange Taurus as the Southeast vertical pole). The traditional model of the cube of space does not put the four fixed signs in the four vertical poles (it only puts two of them there, Taurus in the SE and Scorpio in the SW). Here is how the four fixed signs are assigned in my model:

--------------------South
SE-Earth—Taurus (Bull)------SW-Aquarius (Man)—Air
-----East------------------------West
NE-Fire—Leo (Lion)-----------NW-Scorpio (Eagle)—Water
---------------------North

These can be seen as Temple Statues.

Key VII The Chariot
Crowley is the only one that places the four kerubs as the forces pulling the chariot. His center two kerubs should be switched (as said below), then the line up with the standard attributions. It is again seen that one is then looking into the west at the charioteer, and that he is riding eastward (the golden light of the sun hitting his body). The Kerubs are guardians to the astral, and the sky blue above the four poles represents Nuit and upper astral.

Key XXI The Universe
My attributions fit the classical attributions, and posit one is looking into the West in this card (note Crowley in the Thoth deck changed the Kerub symbolism to have the Eagle represent Aquarius and the Man Scorpio I believe, they are switched in others. This seems a flaw to me on Crowley's part.)

The Pentagram
The standard pentagram attributions fit in with this schema, as they are in line with the classic kerubic assignments. If one imagines a pentagram rotated rightwards so where its apex of Spirit extends way into the West, one can see how it may be overlaid.

I wanted to note per my YANG vs IHVH order of the four elements post that the two are intimately intertwined upon the standard pentagram, and that they will likely remain so. The Yang order of Spirit-Fire-Air-Water-Earth is interlaced in the pentagram. Starting at Spirit and drawing a pentagram clockwise gives the order. For the IHVH order, the IHShVH order on the pentagram, one starts at Fire and draws a counterclockwise circle around the pentagram.

It is interesting to think about from what direction one is looking in on the Tarot cards. In The Chariot one is looking westward at the charioteer. In The Universe, one is either looking westward, or downward from above. With the pentagram, although Spirit should be seen as the center and above, there is the interesting postulation that it is associated with the far West perhaps as the setting sun.

There is a good timeline in David Hulse's Enochian chapter. He mentions that when Kelley tried to receive corrections to the watchtowers in 1587, he was unable to do so. "He reverted to breaking off the session and hiding from Dee in order to recopy his original in secret. His revised edition contained many more errors than the original." From this, I do not doubt it was beyond Kelley's character to falsify some information to keep getting paid by Dee. I do think there is something to the Enochian system, due to him receiving the 91 governor names before the watchtowers. It would take a great feat of memory to recite the letters of all four watchtowers, and that the 91 governors are contained in the schema makes it unlikely. Honestly I quit using the Enochian system in my magick quite a while ago. I accept David Hulse's corrected watchtowers based upon the 91 governor names, but do not like the philosophy of the calls. I may take it up again at some point, I do like some of the god names; I am just cautious about using a system that is not very tightly worked out. I didn't really imply the communication was falsified in my last post, only that the angels could have taken the extant kerubic symbolism in Kelley or Dee's subconscious and reiterated it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac

This wiki article on the zodiac actually gives good information per the kerubs. Apparently the fixed zodiac sign reference is implicit in Ezekiel's vision itself (that is the symbolism would have been known to him), which I didn't want to conclude without evidence. Apparently the symbolism is implicit as well in the composition of the Revelation.

This still doesn't answer my question when the kerubic signs were correlated to the intermediate directions and the elements. I remember reading that the zodiac itself was not given its elemental correspondences until the 1700's, but cannot source this. If this is true, the four kerubic signs would obviously not be associated to the elements until then--as to when they symbolized the four corners of the world as the intermediate directions I am not sure.

Lastly per the zodiac wiki, note "Biblical writers were familiar with the same system of constellations as that which we know today, except that the name of the Eagle seems to have been usually substituted for the Scorpion." This lends support to the traditional association of Scorpio with the eagle, and goes against Crowley's switching of it to Aquarius.