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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{tree}}<br /> <br /> In the [[Qabalah]], the [[Key Scale#The 22 Hebrew Letters (The Paths)|22 Paths]] (named after the letters of the Hebrew alphabet) connect the ten [[Sephiroth]] on the &quot;[[Tree of Life]].&quot; The fifteenth is the '''Path of Samekh''', which connects [[Tiphareth]] with [[Yesod]]. <br /> <br /> {{Paths}}<br /> <br /> ==Qabalistic Attributions==<br /> ''The following attributions are mostly taken from ''777'', by [[Aleister Crowley]]. The small &quot;#&quot; links will show the full column of that attribution''<br /> [[Image:treeoflife0.gif|right]]<br /> <br /> *'''Key Scale''': 25 &lt;small&gt;([[Key Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Group''': {{Zodiacal Paths}}<br /> *'''Name (Hebrew Letter)''': Samekh (Prop) &lt;small&gt;([[Hebrew Alphabet|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Value of Hebrew Letter''': 60<br /> *'''Path joins''': [[Tiphareth]] (6) and [[Yesod]] (9)<br /> *'''Tarot Atu''': Temperance(Art) (IV) &lt;small&gt;([[Tarot and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Element''': Fire &lt;small&gt;([[Elements and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Astrology''': Sagittarius &lt;small&gt;([[Astrology and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''[[Astrology and the Tree of Life|Astrology]]'''<br /> <br /> *'''Sign of the Zodiac''': Sagittarius &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Planetary ruler''': Jupiter &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Exalted planet''': - &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Angels ruling Houses''': Soi'a'asal &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Twelve Lesser Assistant Angels in the Signs''': Serimial &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Angel Lords of the Triplicity in the Signs by Day''': Ahuz &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Angel Lords of the Triplicity in the Signs by Night''': Lebarmim &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Angels of the Decantes''':<br /> **'''Ascendant''': Mishrath &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Succedent''': Uhrin &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Cadent''': Abuhra &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Magical Images of the Decans''': <br /> **'''Ascendant''': A man with three bodies - one black, one red, one white &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Succedent''': A man leading cows and, before him an ape and a bear &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Cadent''': A man leading another by the hair and slaying him &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Perfumes''':<br /> **'''Ascendant''': Lign-aloes &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Succedent''': Fol Lori &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Cadent''': Gaxisphillium &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Goetic Demons of Decans by Day''':<br /> **'''Ascendant''': Glaselbul (A dog with gryohon's wings) &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Succedent''': Bim (Dragon with three heads-a dog's, a man's and a gryphon's) &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Cadent''': Rinuf (A monster[probably a dolphin]) &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Goetic Demons of Decans by Night''':<br /> **'''Ascendant''': Zann (Bull with gryphon's wings) &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Succedent''': Vales (Child with angel's wings rides a two-headed dragon) &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Cadent''': Andares (Angel with raven's head. Rides black wolf carries sharp sword) &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Egyptian Gods of the Zodiac''':<br /> **'''Ascendant Decan''': Tolmophta &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Succedent Decan''': Tomras &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Cadent Decan''': Zeraph &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Egyptian Names of the Decans''':<br /> **'''Ascendant''': Eregbuo &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Succedent''': Sagen &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> **'''Cadent''': Chenen &lt;small&gt;([[Zodiac and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Godforms'''<br /> <br /> *'''[[Egyptian Godforms|Egyptian]] (selection)''': Nephthys &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Egyptian (practical)''': Drayohereeg(?) &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Hindu Godforms|Hindu]]''': Vishnu(Horse-Avatar) &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Scandinavian''': — &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Greek Godforms|Greek]]''': Apollo, Artemis(hunters) &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Roman Godforms|Roman]]''': Diana(as Archer) &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Christian Godforms|Christian]]''': — &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''[[Tree of Life:Colors|Colors]]'''<br /> <br /> *'''King Scale''': Blue &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#King Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Queen Scale''': Yellow &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#Queen Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Emperor Scale''': Green &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#Emperor Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Empress Scale''': Dark vivid blue &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#Empress Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Material Correspondences'''<br /> <br /> *'''Animals''': Centaur, Horse, Hippogriff, Dog &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Animals|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Plants''': Rush &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Plants|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Precious Stones''': Jacinth &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Precious Stones|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Perfume''': Lign-Aloes &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Perfumes|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Vegetable Drugs''': - &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Vegetable Drugs|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Mineral Drug''': — &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Mineral Drugs|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''The Human Body''': Hips and Thighs &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:The Human Body|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Magick &amp; Mysticism'''<br /> <br /> *'''Genii of the Twelve Hours (Levi)''': Risnuch,Suelagus,Kirtabus,Sablil,Schachlil,Colopatiron,Zeffar &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Genii of the Twelve Hours|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''The Mansions of the Moon''': 20°-30° Shaulah, Na'aim(stars in Pegasus), and Baldah(no constellation) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:The Mansions of the Moon|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Order of Qliphoth''': Necheshiron(Snakey) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Orders of Qliphoth|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Forty Buddhist Meditations''': Limited Aperture &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Forty Buddhist Meditations|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Magical Weapons''': The Arrow(swift and straight application of Force) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Magical Weapons|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Magical Formula''': ON &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Magical Formulæ|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Magical Power''': Transmutations &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Magical Powers|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''System of Taoism''': - &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:System of Taoism|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Figure related to Pure Number''': The Rose(5×5) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Figures related to Pure Number|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Lineal Figures of the Planets, etc., and Geomancy''': Aquisitio &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Lineal Figures &amp; Geomancy|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Geomantic Intelligences''': Hanel &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Lineal Figures &amp; Geomancy|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Legendary Orders of Being''': Centaurs &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Legendary Orders of Being|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''[[The Four Worlds]]'''<br /> <br /> *'''Heavens of Assiah''': Quesheth (Sagittarius,Fire) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Heavens of Assiah|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''God Name in Assiah''': — &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:God Names in Assiah|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Quotes==<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1982). ''777 and Other Qabalistic Writings.'' York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Tree of Life]]<br /> [[Category:Paths]]</div>

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Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Magick&diff=8173 2022-01-21T01:48:48Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{93}}<br /> In the broadest sense, '''Magick''' is any act designed to cause intentional change. This term is often spelled with a terminal &quot;k&quot; to differentiate it from other practices, such as &quot;stage magic.&quot; Magick is not capable of producing &quot;miracles&quot; or violating the physical laws of the universe (i.e. it cannot cause a solar eclipse), although &quot;it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature&quot; (Book 4). [[Aleister Crowley]] saw magick as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's [[True Will]]. Crowley describes this process:<br /> <br /> :''One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, &quot;who&quot; one is, &quot;what&quot; one is, &quot;why&quot; one is...Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.'' (Book 4)<br /> <br /> Crowley also provides us with some fundamental statements about the nature of magick (also from ''Book 4''):<br /> *&quot;MAGICK is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.&quot;<br /> *&quot;Every intentional (willed) act is a Magical Act.&quot; <br /> *&quot;Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.&quot;<br /> <br /> For Crowley, the practice of magick—although it equally applies to mundane things, like balancing the checkbook—is essentially to be used for attaining the Knowledge and Conversation of one's [[Holy Guardian Angel]]. Since achieving this state with one's 'Silent Self' can be extremely arduous, magick can be used not only to reach that particular goal, but to clear the way for it as well. For example, if one needed a particular dwelling to perform the operation, one could use magick to obtain a suitable home. Crowley stated that magick that did not have one of these goals as its aim was 'Black Magick' and should be avoided.<br /> <br /> ==Traditional definitions==<br /> <br /> King Solomon, in his ''Lesser Key'' of the Goetia, says: <br /> :&quot;Magic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Modern definitions==<br /> <br /> In ''The Magick of Thelema,'' Lon Milo DuQuette expands on Crowley's definition of magick by saying that &quot;conversely, any unwilled action is an unmagical act: reaching for a cigarette; ordering that fourth Martini; or any habitual or reactive behavior that overrides the momentum of one's life focus.&quot; He goes on to say that &quot;magick also postulates a universal order—call it God, Nature, the Supreme Being, the Grand Architect of the Universe, the Tao, or just the-way-things-are. But the Magician knows that the pure Will of every man and every woman is already in perfect harmony with the divine Will; in fact they are one and the same. It is the Magician's Great Work to endeavor to remove the obstacles that hinder his or her perfect realization of that Will and then proceed to execute it.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==Magick as ritual==<br /> <br /> Besides those willed acts that are of a mundane kind, such as balancing checkbooks, many instances of applied magick involve the use of [[ritual]]s. Most magical rituals involve work with non-human beings (generally gods, but also demons, spirits, saints, Loa, etc.) and/or achieving non-normal psychological states (such as trance). There are many different purposes for conducting a magical ritual, including:<br /> <br /> *[[Initiation]]<br /> *[[Banishing]]<br /> *[[Consecration]]<br /> *[[Devotion]]<br /> *[[Celebratory ritual|Celebration]]<br /> *[[Evocation]]<br /> *[[Invocation]]<br /> *[[Purification]]<br /> *[[Visions|Vision seeking]]<br /> *[[Practical magick|Practical purposes]]<br /> <br /> ==Systems of magick==<br /> <br /> Almost all cultures have developed some form of magic, although definitions and purposes have been highly variable. There is evidence of sophisticated systems of magic in many ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians, Jews, and even Christians. The following list includes systems of magick that are relatively modern, even if they have their roots in ancient systems. <br /> <br /> *[[Chaos magick]]<br /> *[[Enochian magick]]<br /> *[[Goetia|Goetic magick]]<br /> *[[Ceremonial magick]]<br /> *[[Shamanism]]<br /> *[[Witchcraft]]<br /> *[[Voudon]]<br /> <br /> == History of Western European magic ==<br /> === Magical beliefs in Western Europe ===<br /> Belief in various magical practices has waxed and waned in European and Western history, under pressure from either organized monotheistic religions or from skepticism about the reality of magic, and the ascendancy of scientism. The time of the Emperor Julian of Rome, marked by a reaction against the influence of Christianity, saw a revival of magical practices associated with [[neo-Platonism]] under the guise of [[theurgy]].<br /> <br /> === In the Middle Ages ===<br /> Medi&amp;aelig;val authors, under the control of the Church, confined their magic to compilations of wonderlore and collections of spells. [[Albertus Magnus]] was credited, rightly or wrongly, with a number of such compilations. Specifically Christianized varieties of magic were devised at this period. During the early Middle Ages, the cult of [[relic]]s as objects not only of veneration but also of supernatural power arose. Miraculous tales were told of the power of relics of the saints to work [[miracle]]s, not only to heal the sick, but for purposes like swaying the outcome of a battle. The relics had become [[amulet]]s, and various churches strove to purchase scarce or valuable examples, hoping to become places of pilgrimage. As in any other economic endeavor, demand gave rise to supply. Tales of the miracle-working relics of the saints were compiled later into quite popular collections like the ''[[Golden Legend]]'' of [[Jacobus de Voragine]] or the ''Dialogus miraculorum'' of [[Caesar of Heisterbach]].<br /> <br /> There were other, officially proscribed varieties of Christianized magic. The [[demonology]] and [[angel]]ology contained in the earliest [[grimoire]]s assume a life surrounded by Christian implements and sacred rituals. The underlying [[theology]] in these works of Christian demonology encourages the magician to fortify himself with fasting, [[prayer]]s, and [[sacrament]]s, so that by using the holy names of [[God]], he can use divine power to coerce [[demon]]s into appearing and serving his usually lustful or avaricious magical goals. Not surprisingly, the church disapproved of these rites; they are nonetheless Christianized for all that, and assume a theology of mechanical sacramentalism.<br /> <br /> === Magic in the Renaissance ===<br /> Renaissance humanism saw a resurgence in [[hermeticism]] and other Neo-Platonic varieties of ceremonial magic. The Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, on the other hand, saw the rise of [[scientism]], in such forms as the substitution of chemistry for alchemy, the dethronement of the [[Ptolemaic theory]] of the universe assumed by astrology, the development of the germ theory of disease, that restricted the scope of applied magic and threatened the belief systems it relied on. Tensions roused by the Protestant Reformation led to an upswing in witch-hunting, especially in Germany, England, and Scotland; but ultimately, the new [[theology]] of Protestantism proved a worse foe to magic by undermining belief in the sort of [[ritual]]ism that allowed religious rites to be re-purposed towards earthly, magical ends. Scientism, more than religion, proved to be magic's deadliest foe.<br /> <br /> Alongside the ceremonial magic followed by the better educated was the everyday activities of folk practitioners of magic across Europe, typified by the [[cunning folk]] found in Great Britain. In their magical practices astrology, folklore, and distorted versions of Christian ritual magic worked alongside each other to answer customer demand.<br /> <br /> === Magic and Romanticism ===<br /> More recent periods of renewed interest in magic occurred around the end of the nineteenth century [[EV]], where [[Symbolism]] and other offshoots of Romanticism cultivated a renewed interest in exotic spiritualities. European colonialism, which put Westerners in contact with India and Egypt, re-introduced exotic beliefs to Europeans at this time. [[Hinduism]] and [[Egyptian mythology]] frequently feature in nineteenth century magical texts. The late 19th and early 20th centuries EV spawned a large number of [[magical organization]]s, including the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], the [[Theosophical Society]], and specifically magical variants on [[Freemasonry]] including [[Ordo Templi Orientis]]. The Golden Dawn represented perhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like [[Aleister Crowley]], [[William Butler Yeats]], [[Algernon Blackwood]], and [[Arthur Machen]] to its banner. <br /> <br /> === Magic in the twentieth century ===<br /> A further revival of interest in magic was heralded by the repeal, in England, of the last [[Witchcraft Act]] in 1951 EV. This was the cue for [[Gerald Gardner]], now recognized as the ''founder'' of [[Wicca]], to publish his first non-fiction book ''Witchcraft Today'', in which he claimed to reveal the existence of a [[witch]]-cult that dated back to pre-Christian Europe. Gardner's new religion combined magic and [[religion]] in a way that was later to cause people to question the Enlightenment's boundaries between the two subjects.<br /> <br /> Gardner's new religion, and many imitators, took off in the atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s, when the counterculture of the hippies also spawned another period of renewed interest in magic, divination, and other occult practices. The various branches of [[neo-paganism]] and other new [[earth religion]]s that have sprung up in Gardner's wake tend to follow his lead in combining the practice of magic and religion. The trend was continued by some heirs to the counterculture; feminists led the way when some launched an independent revival of goddess worship. This brought them into contact with the Gardnerian tradition of magical religion, and deeply influenced that tradition in return.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Magick in Theory &amp; Practice]]<br /> *[[Obeah and Wanga]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> <br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1997). ''Magick: Book 4.'' 2nd ed. York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser.<br /> *DuQuette, Lon Milo. (1993). ''The Magick of Thelema.'' York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser.<br /> *Wikipedia (2004). ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_%28paranormal%29 Magic (paranormal)].'' Retrieved March 3, 2005.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Systems]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Tarot&diff=8319 2018-08-16T20:50:20Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{MTP}}<br /> <br /> {{partial}}<br /> <br /> '''See also: [[Thoth Tarot]]'''<br /> <br /> '''Tarot''' (Tar-oh) is a system of symbolism and philosophy consisting of a set of 78 images, normally embodied in a deck of cards similar to a regular set of game-playing cards (see playing card). In the English speaking world, they are most often encountered as a form of cartomancy.<br /> <br /> There also exist in France a card game known as Tarot played with a 78-card set with similarities both to usual card sets and to [[cartomancy]] Tarot card sets. This is the most usual acception of the word tarot in France. See Tarot (card game).<br /> <br /> The earliest extant examples of Tarot decks are of Italian origin and roughly date back to the 15th century, when they were used to play the game of Tarocchi. In the course of its development it became connected to cartomancy and thence to occult studies. The set of 78 images, rich with symbolic meaning, is considered by students of this &quot;[[occult]]&quot; or &quot;[[esoteric]]&quot; Tarot (tarotists practising tarotism) to be independent of the particular representation as a deck of cards; consequently they focus on the study of the images (and their symbolic meanings) as distinct from any particular instance.<br /> <br /> In addition to its philosophical and [[Divination |divinatory]] uses, Tarot is also used as an aid to [[meditation]].<br /> <br /> The occult associations of Tarot are considered taboo in some competing philosophical circles. Strict forms of [[Christianity]], for example, may be incompatible with Tarot or any other occult studies.<br /> <br /> {{tarot2}}<br /> <br /> <br /> ==The Tarot Deck==<br /> <br /> The conventional 78-card deck is structured into two distinct sets. The first called the Major Arcana consists of 22 cards without suits typically referred to as &quot;trumps&quot;. The second called Minor Arcana consists of 56 cards divided into four suits. The cards in each suit are numbered 2 through 10 with four &quot;face&quot; cards. Arcana is the plural of the Latin word arcanum, meaning &quot;hidden truth&quot; or &quot;secret knowledge&quot;. Alternate names are the Minor Trumps and Major Trumps, or simply the Minors and the Trumps. The most common suits in Tarot decks are cups, balls (or coins), swords and batons, the same as the traditional Italian suits.<br /> <br /> ===Differences between decks===<br /> <br /> Tarot cards serve many purposes, and this leads to a variety of Tarot deck styles. Some decks exist primarily as artwork; art decks often contain only the 22 cards of the Major Arcana. Esoteric decks are often used in conjunction with the study of the Hermetic Qabala; in these decks the Major Arcana are illustrated in accordance with Qabalistic principles while the numbered suit cards (2 through 10) typically bear only stylized renderings of the suit symbol. In contrast, decks used for divination usually bear illustrated scenes on all cards. The more simply illustrated Marseilles style decks are used esoterically, for divination, and for game play.<br /> <br /> The most popular deck today is probably the fully-illustrated deck confusingly known as the Rider-Waite-Smith, Waite-Smith, or simply the Rider deck. The images were painted by artist Pamela Colman Smith, to the instructions of academic and mystic [[A.E. Waite|Arthur Waite]], and published by the Rider company. According to many accounts, Aleister Crowley also had substantial creative input. While the images are deceptively, almost childishly simple, the details and backgrounds hold a wealth of symbolism. The subjects remain close to the earliest decks, but usually have added detail. The chief aesthetic objection to this deck is the crude printing of colours in the original: several decks, such as the Universal Waite, simply copy the Smith line drawings, but with more sophisticated colouring.<br /> <br /> Probably the most widely-used esoteric Tarot deck is [[Aleister Crowley]]'s [[Thoth Tarot]] (pronounced tote). In contrast to the Thoth deck's colorful artistry, the illustrations on Paul Foster Case's [[B.O.T.A.]] Tarot deck are black line drawings on white cards; this is an unlaminated deck intended to be colored by its owner. Other esoteric decks include the [[Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn|Golden Dawn]] Tarot which is based on a deck by [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers|SL MacGregor Mathers]], the Tree of Life Tarot whose cards are stark symbolic catalogs, and the Cosmic Tarot which is unusual for an esoteric deck because it is fully-illustrated.<br /> <br /> The Marseilles style Tarot decks, used for playing the game of Tarot, generally feature suit cards which look very much like modern playing cards. The numbered cards sport an arrangement of pips indicating the number and suit, while the court cards are often illustrated with two-dimensional drawings.<br /> <br /> Other decks vary in their conventionality. Cat-lovers have the Tarot of the Cat People, a fairly standard deck complete with cats in every picture. The Tarot of the witches and Aquarian Tarot retain the conventional cards with varying designs. The witches deck became famous/notorious in the 1970s for its use in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die.<br /> <br /> Other decks change the cards partly or completely. The Motherpeace Tarot is notable for its circular cards and feminist angle: the mainly male characters have been replaced by females. The Tarot of Baseball has suits of bats, mitts, balls and bases; &quot;coaches&quot; and &quot;MVPs&quot; instead of Queens and Kings; and major arcana cards like &quot;The Catcher&quot;, &quot;The Rule Book&quot; and &quot;Batting a Thousand&quot;.<br /> <br /> A very spiritual Tarot deck is the Isis Tarot also known as Tarot van Isis, Tarot d'Isis, etc., by Erna Droesbeke, using archetypical symbols.<br /> <br /> Computing professionals might find the Silicon Valley Tarot most intelligible, which offers online readings. Major arcana cards include The Hacker, Flame War, The Layoff and The Garage; the suits are Networks, Cubicles, Disks and Hosts; the court cards CIO, Salesman, Marketeer and New Hire.<br /> <br /> ==Symbolism==<br /> <br /> The Tarot has a confusing and rich symbolism because it has a confusing and rich history. Not impenetrable, however; much of the fog around the symbolism can be dispelled if one bothers to study sources other than [[Occultism|occultists]] with a vested interest in the mystery of it all. We'll do some dispelling further on; in the meanwhile, the most important thing to note is that modern, occult readings of the cards often have little to do with their meaning in their original context -- and that, given the modern uses of the Tarot, this is actually a good thing.<br /> <br /> Today's Tarots have become far more interesting, expressive, and psychologically resonant today than their ancestors were. Interpretations have co-evolved with the cards over the centuries: later decks have &quot;clarified&quot; the pictures in accordance with their perceived meanings, the meanings in turn modified by the new pictures. Both images and interpretations have been continually reshaped, partly at random and partly in conscious or unconscious efforts to help the Tarot live up to its mythic role as a powerful occult instrument.<br /> <br /> For example, take a look at the Rider-Waite-Smith Strength card. We can know more about the symbolic intentions of the designer here, since he conveniently wrote many books on the subject. As with its Marseilles-deck ancestor, the card shows a woman holding the jaws of a lion, but this picture is far more elaborate. The strangely-shaped hat of the Marseilles card has traditionally been interpreted as a symbolic lemniscate: the sideways-figure-eight representation of infinity. In the newer card, this symbol appears explicitly. Other symbols are included: a chain of roses symbolizing desire or passion, against a white robe symbolizing purity. The mountains in the background demonstrate another kind of strength. Even here there is room for interpretation: the card is sometimes considered as showing intellect triumphing over desire, sometimes as the equal union of intellect and passion, sometimes just as a symbol of mental strength or endurance.<br /> <br /> The twenty-two cards most often in the major arcana are: Fool, Magician, High Priestess [or La Papessa/Popess], Empress, Emperor, Hierophant [or Pope], Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Judgement, World. Each card has its own large, complicated and disputed set of meanings. Altogether the major arcana is said to represent the Fool's journey : a symbolic journey through life in which the Fool overcomes obstacles and gains wisdom.<br /> <br /> There is a vast body of writing on the significance of the Tarot. The four suits are associated with the four elements: Swords with [[air]], Wands with [[fire]], Cups with [[water]] and Pentacles with [[earth]]. The [[numerology]] is usually thought to be significant. The Tarot is often considered to correspond to various systems such as [[astrology]], the [[Kabalah]], the [[I Ching]] and others.<br /> <br /> ==Psychology==<br /> <br /> Carl Jung was the first psychologist to attach importance to the Tarot. He regarded the Tarot cards as representing archetypes: fundamental types of person or situation embedded in the subconscious of all human beings. The Emperor, for instance, represents the ultimate patriarch or father figure.<br /> <br /> The theory of archetypes gives rise to several psychological uses. Some psychologists use Tarot cards to identify how a client views himself or herself, by asking the patient to select a card that he or she identifies with. Some try to get the client to clarify his ideas by imagining his situation or relationship in terms of Tarot images: Is someone rushing in heedlessly like the Knight of Swords perhaps, or blindly keeping the world at bay as in the Rider-Waite-Smith Two of Swords? The Tarot can be seen as a kind of algebra of the subconscious, allowing it to be analysed at the conscious level.<br /> <br /> It is instructive to note, however, that the older decks such as the Visconti-Sforza and Marseilles tend to have a cruder and less general &quot;algebra&quot; than the modern ones. This is not merely an illusion of the modern eye, it reflects the general direction of evolutionary change in Tarot art over the centuries, and especially since 1900. The Tarot symbolism has rather successfully universalized itself from parochial origins.<br /> <br /> *Self-discovery, personality-analysis &amp; situational-analysis with Jungian Tarot. (Robert Wang 1992)<br /> <br /> ==Tarot as a qabalistic text book==<br /> <br /> ==Divination==<br /> <br /> [[Divination]], or fortune-telling, is by far the most popular and well-known use of the Tarot. This is sometimes seen as an extension of the psychological use mentioned above. It can be argued that we sometimes perceive the signs of future events subconsciously only. For instance you might be subconsciously aware that a relationship or job is in trouble, before you admit it to yourself. In that sense, it might be said that the Tarot can give you insights into the future without having any supernatural or occult aspect at all. Meaning may emerge even from purely random patterns, as chance selections force you to consider concepts that you'd normally ignore, and the density of meaning is great enough that meanings can emerge from almost any selection of cards.<br /> <br /> That point of view is rare. Tarot diviners generally believe that Tarot cards simply allow them to exercise an innate psychic ability to see the future. It's popularly believed that the cards take on the &quot;aura&quot; or &quot;vibrations&quot; of someone who touches them. The cards are therefore &quot;insulated&quot; by wrapping them in silk or enclosing them in a box, and only touched by the diviner and person for whom the reading is done: the &quot;querent&quot;.<br /> <br /> There are many variations, but in a typical reading the querent shuffles the cards, then the diviner lays out the cards in a pattern called the spread. The most popular spread is the Celtic Cross. The cards are then analysed according to their positions, their relationships and whether the cards are upside-down. An inverted card has its own set of modified meanings; sometimes opposite, sometimes weakened, sometimes twisted.<br /> <br /> Divination may be seen as magical in itself, but the word &quot;[[magick|magic]]&quot; usually refers to the use of Tarot cards in a magical ritual designed to achieve some end. This is much less common than simple divination, however.<br /> <br /> ===Spreads===<br /> <br /> In Tarot divination, results can be achieved with analysis of just one card, but for more thoroughness combinations of several cards in set patterns are usually used.<br /> <br /> ====The Great Cross (&quot;Celtic Cross&quot;) Layout====<br /> <br /> One of the best known of spreads, its most common version consists of nine or ten cards. The first one representing the person or situation (this is sometimes considered optional, thus the spread can also consist of 9 cards), the next five are laid atop and around it in a cross shape, and the final four in a column to the right.<br /> <br /> ====The 15 Card Spread====<br /> <br /> ====Golden Dawn &quot;Opening the Key&quot;====<br /> {{partial}}<br /> ==Origin and History==<br /> <br /> The oldest surviving Tarot cards are three mid-15th century sets all made for members of the Visconti family, rulers of Milan. The oldest existing Tarot deck was painted to celebrate a mid-15th century wedding joining the ruling Visconti and Sforza families of Milan, probably painted by Bonifacio Bembo and other miniaturists of the Ferrara school. Of the original cards, 35 are in the Pierpont-Morgan Library, 26 cards are at the Accademia Carrara, 13 are at the Casa Colleoni, 4 cards being lost (the Devil, the Tower, the Three of Swords, and the Knight of Coins). This &quot;Visconti-Sforza&quot; deck, which has been widely reproduced in varying quality, combines the Minor Arcana (the original suits of (Swords, Wands, Pentacles &amp; Cups, and face cards King, Queen, Knave and Page) with Major Arcana that apparently combine already traditional iconography with considerable artistic license, a sign that the original significance of the designs was already lost.<br /> <br /> More simply-drawn decks survive from Marseilles, France, from the early 16th century.<br /> <br /> It is believed by many that the Tarot is far older than this. Based on similarities of the imagery and numbering, some associate the Tarot with ancient Egypt, or the Hebrew mystic tradition of the [[Qabalah|Kabbalah]], with the heretical Cathars of Languedoc and Piedmont, where the Tarot first appeared, or a wide variety of other origins. This is all, however, pure mythology. In fact, study of the iconography of the earliest tarots via standard comparative-historical methods suffices to pin their origin down to very near the time and place of the original Visconti deck; that is, Northern Italy in the early Renaissance period. We can, for example, place their origin after the Black Death, because the skeletal-death-with-a-scythe motif found on effectively all versions of Trump XIII does not predate the plagues. Before then, skulls in pictorial art were primarily a symbol of scholarship and learning.<br /> <br /> In fact, the earliest Tarots seem to have been depictions of the carnival parades that ushered in the season of Lent. These elaborate productions layered then-fashionable Graeco-Roman symbolism over a Christian allegory of sin, grace, and redemption; notably, the earliest versions of the World card (the final Trump, XXI) show a conventional image known from period religious art to represent St. Augustine's &quot;Heavenly City&quot;, and it is not coincidence that this closely follows the Judgement card.<br /> <br /> Several other early Tarot-like sequences of portable art survive to place the Visconti deck in context. Later confusion about the symbolism stems from the Marseilles decks, which began a process of steadily paganizing and universalizing the symbolism to the point where the underlying Christian allegory has been almost completely obscured (as, for example, when the Rider-Waite deck of the early Twentieth Century changed &quot;The Pope&quot; to &quot;The Hierophant&quot; and &quot;The Popess&quot; to &quot;The High Priestess&quot;) It is notable that between 1450 and 1500 the Tarot was actually recommended for the instruction of the young by Church moralists (reference is urgently needed here); not until fifty years after the Visconti deck did it become associated with gambling, and not until the 19th century and &quot;Etteila&quot; with occultism.<br /> <br /> In the Anglo-Saxon world today, the Tarot is usually seen as a means of fortune-telling. However, early references such as the sermon refer only to the use of the cards for game-playing and gambling; and in some European countries such as France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany; this is still seen as the primary purpose of the Tarot today.<br /> <br /> The relationship between Tarot cards and playing cards is often said to be unclear, but in fact the history is tolerably well documented. Playing cards are first recorded in 1321 in a Swiss monastic chronicle that notes their recent importation from the Orient; they thus predated the earliest Tarots by a century. They may have evolved by mutation from circular cards used in India to play a wargame called &quot;Chaturanga&quot; (&quot;Four Kings&quot;); some very early decks, including one preserved in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, were circular.<br /> <br /> Early European sources describe a 52- rather than 78-card deck, like a modern deck but without jokers. 78-card Tarots were what happened when the 21 Trumps were merged into early 52-card gambling decks. Why this happened is not completely clear, but there is some evidence that it may have been done as an end-run around anti-gambling laws that targeted the 52-card deck.<br /> <br /> The Tarot cards eventually came to be associated with mysticism and magic. This was actually a late rather than early development, as we can tell from period sources on card divination and magic. The Tarot was not widely adopted by mystics, occultists and secret societies until the 18th and 19th century. The tradition began in 1781, when Antoine Court de Gébelin, a Swiss clergyman and Freemason, published Le Monde Primitif, a study of religious symbolism and its survivals in the modern world. De Gébelin first called attention to the unusual symbols of the Tarot de Marseille, and asserted that the symbols in fact represented the mysteries of Isis and Thoth. De Gébelin furthermore claimed that the name &quot;tarot&quot; came from the Egyptian words tar, meaning &quot;royal&quot;, and ro, meaning &quot;road&quot;, and that the Tarot therefore represented a &quot;royal road&quot; to wisdom. De Gébelin wrote before Champollion had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, and later Egyptologists found nothing in the Egyptian language that supports de Gébelin's fanciful etymologies, but these findings came too late; by the time authentic Egyptian texts were available, the identification of the Tarot cards with the Egyptian &quot;Book of Thoth&quot; was already firmly established in occult practice.<br /> <br /> It was first practically applied by a charlatan named Alliette, aka &quot;Le Grand Etteilla&quot;, an ex-barber who reversed his name and marketed himself as a seer and card diviner in the Paris of the French Revolution. Etteilla designed the first esoteric Tarot deck, adding astrological attributions to various cards, altering many of them from the Marseilles designs, and adding divinatory meanings in text on the cards. The Etteilla decks, though now eclipsed by Smith and Waite's illuminated deck and Aleister Crowley's &quot;Thoth&quot; deck, remains available. Etteilla's best known successor was Marie-Anne Le Normand, whose cartomancy became fashionable during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, due largely to the influence Le Normand wielded with Joséphine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife. After the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbon kings, interest in cartomancy declined.<br /> <br /> Interest by more serious occultists came later, during the Hermetic Revival of the 1840s in which (among others) Victor Hugo was involved. The idea of the cards as a mystical key was first seriously developed by Eliphas Levi and passed to the English-speaking world by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Levi, not Etteilla, is the true founder of most contemporary schools of Tarot reading; his 1854 Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (English title: Transcendental Magic) introduced a new system for interpreting the cards. While Levi accepted Court de Gébelin's claims about an Egyptian origin of the deck symbols, he rejected Etteilla's innovations and his altered deck, and devised instead a system which related the Tarot to the Kabbalah and the four elements of alchemy.<br /> <br /> The breakthrough into mass popularity began in 1910, with the publication of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot and the book ''The Pictorial key to the Tarot'', which took the step of including symbolic images in the minor as well the major arcana. (Arthur Edward Waite had been an early member of the Golden Dawn) In the twentieth century, a huge number of different decks were created, some traditional, some wildly different.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> <br /> *Large portions of this text was originally taken from: Wikipedia. (2004). ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot Tarot]''. Retrieved Sept. 23, 2004.<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1981). ''The Book of Thoth.'' New York, S. Weiser.<br /> *Wang, Robert. (1987) ''Qabalistic Tarot.'' New York, S. Weiser.<br /> *Waite, Arthur E. (1975) ''The Pictorial Key to the Tarot.'' New York, S Weiser.<br /> *Regardie, Israel. (1984). ''The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.'' Phoenix, Ariz., U.S.A. : Falcon Press.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Tarot]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Holy_Guardian_Angel&diff=8392 2018-08-16T20:48:55Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{93}}<br /> The '''Holy Guardian Angel''' is representative of one’s truest divine nature. The term is equivalent with the Genius of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn|Golden Dawn]], the Augoeides of [[Iamblichus]], the [[Atman]] of [[Hinduism]], and the Daemon of the [[gnosticism|gnostics]]. <br /> <br /> In the system of [[Magick]], the single most important goal is to consciously connect with one’s HGA, a process termed “Knowledge and Conversation.” By doing so, the magician becomes fully aware of his own [[True Will]]. For [[Aleister Crowley]], this event was the single most important goal of any adept:<br /> <br /> :''It should never be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magician is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once he has achieved this he must of course be left entirely in the hands of that Angel, who can be invariably and inevitably relied upon to lead him to the further great step—crossing of the Abyss and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple.'' (Magick Without Tears, Ch.83)<br /> <br /> ==The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage==<br /> Crowley became aware of the book entitled ''The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage'' from [[George Cecil Jones]], a member of the Golden Dawn. The book describes the full procedure for “Knowledge and Conversation” and gave him the term &quot;Holy Guardian Angel.&quot; Crowley sums up the book in ''The Equinox of the Gods:''<br /> <br /> :''The aspirant must have a house secure from observation and interference. In this house there must be an oratory with a window to the East, and a door to the North opening upon a terrace, at the end of which must be a lodge. He must have a Robe, Crown, Wand, Altar, Incense, Anointing Oil, and a Silver Lamen. The terrace and lodge must be strewn with fine sand. He withdraws himself gradually from human intercourse to devote himself more and more to prayer for the space of four months. He must then occupy two months in almost continuous prayer, speaking as little as possible to anybody. At the end of this period he invokes a being described as the Holy Guardian Angel, who appears to him (or to a child employed by him), and who will write in dew upon the Lamen, which is placed upon the Altar. The Oratory is filled with Divine Perfume not of the aspirant's kindling.''<br /> <br /> :''After a period of communion with the Angel, he summons the Four Great Princes of the Daemonic World, and forces them to swear obedience.''<br /> <br /> :''On the following day he calls forward and subdues the Eight Sub-Princes; and the day after that, the many Spirits serving these. These inferior Daemons, of whom four act as familiar spirits, then operate a collection of talismans for various purposes. Such is a brief account of the Operation described in the book.''<br /> <br /> This book clearly had a powerful impact on Crowley, who adopted its general terms and concepts, and applied it to his own system developed in the [[A.'.A.'.]] Moreover, he actually attempted the full procedure as described in the book, which resulted in the purchase of [[Boleskine House]] and his [[Abramelin Operation]].<br /> <br /> ==HGA and Black Magick==<br /> Crowley felt that attaining Knowledge and Conversation was so important, that he staked the claim that any other magical operation was, in a sense, evil. In ''Book 4'' (Ch. 21) he explains:<br /> <br /> :''As was said at the opening of the second chapter, the Single Supreme Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raising of the complete man in a vertical straight line...Any other operation is black magic...If the magician needs to perform any other operation than this, it is only lawful in so far as it is a necessary preliminary to That One Work.''<br /> <br /> He then softens his position somewhat:<br /> <br /> :''There are, however many shades of grey. It is not every magician who is well armed with theory. Perhaps one such may invoke Jupiter, with the wish to heal others of their physical ills. This sort of thing is harmless, or almost so. It is not evil in itself. It arises from a defect of understanding. Until the Great Work has been performed, it is presumptuous for the magician to pretend to understand the universe, and dictate its policy.''<br /> <br /> The implication is that only magick devoted to the spiritual evolution of the individual and their attunement to the global and cosmic [[Will]] is honorable and in line with the ultimate goals of [[Thelema]]. Any magick that is self-serving or results-oriented is regarded as impure and in contradiction to the necessary evolution of the species.<br /> <br /> ==Methods of Achieving K&amp;C==<br /> Crowley said that the Abramelin procedure was not the only way to achieve success in this endeavor: <br /> <br /> :''It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; as secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother's God, or the Rite that invokes Him.'' (Book 4, &quot;One Star in Sight&quot;)<br /> <br /> Since the operation described in “Abramelin” is so complex and requires time and resources not available to most people, Crowley wanted to provide a more accessable method. While at the [[Abbey of Thelema]] in Italy, he wrote [http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib800.html Liber Samekh], a ritual designed specifically for attaining the Knowledge and Conversation with one’s HGA. In his notes to this ritual, Crowley sums up the key to success: “INVOKE OFTEN.”<br /> <br /> He also explains, in more detail, the general mystical process of the ritual:<br /> <br /> :''The Adept will be free to concentrate his deepest self, that part of him which unconsciously orders his true Will, upon the realization of his Holy Guardian Angel. The absence of his bodily, mental and astral consciousness is indeed cardinal to success, for it is their usurpation of his attention which has made him deaf to his Soul, and his preoccupation with their affairs that has prevented him from perceiving that Soul.''<br /> <br /> :''The effect of the Ritual has been''<br /> <br /> :# ''to keep them so busy with their own work that they cease to distract him;''<br /> :# ''to separate them so completely that his soul is stripped of its sheaths;''<br /> :# ''to arouse in him an enthusiasm so intense as to intoxicate and anesthetize him, that he may not feel and resent the agony of this spiritual vivisection, just as bashful lovers get drunk on the wedding night, in order to brazen out the intensity of shame which so mysteriously coexists with their desire;''<br /> :# ''to concentrate the necessary spiritual forces from every element, and fling them simultaneously into the aspiration towards the Holy Guardian Angel; and''<br /> :# ''to attract the Angel by the vibration of the magical voice which invokes Him.''<br /> <br /> :''The method of the Ritual is thus manifold.''<br /> <br /> Another detailed description of the general operation is given in ''The Vision and the Voice'', [http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib8.html Aethyr 8].<br /> <br /> ==HGA in writing==<br /> <br /> Crowley often wrote about his own experiences with his Holy Guardian Angel, whom he often referred to as [[Adonai]], but also claimed to be [[Aiwass]], the intelligence that dictated [[The Book of the Law]] to him in 1904. The key texts regarding the HGA are:<br /> <br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib65.html Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente]— An account of the relations of the aspirant and his Holy Guardian Angel.<br /> *''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib95.html The Wake World]''— A poetical allegory of the relations of the soul and the Holy Guardian Angel.<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib800.html Liber Samekh]— Being the Ritual employed by the Beast 666 for the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, along with many comments.<br /> *[http://mysteria.com/liber/L_418.txt The 8th Aethyr in ''The Vision and the Voice'']—describes the Angel and the operation for attaining K&amp;C.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> <br /> *[[Abramelin]]<br /> *[[Attainment]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> *[http://www.sacred-texts.com/grim/abr/index.htm ''The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage'']<br /> *[http://mysteria.com/liber/L_418.txt ''The Vision and the Voice''] by Aleister Crowley<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1997). ''Magick: Book 4.'' 2nd ed. York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser.<br /> *___. (1982). ''Magick Without Tears.'' Phoenix, AZ : Falcon Press<br /> *___. (1998). ''The Vision &amp; the Voice : the Equinox, IV(2).'' York Beach, Me. : Samuel Weiser.<br /> [[Category:Thelema]]<br /> [[Category:Thelemic terms]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Holy_Guardian_Angel&diff=6695 2018-08-16T20:47:24Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{93}}<br /> The '''Holy Guardian Angel''' is representative of one’s truest divine nature. The term is equivalent with the Genius of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn|Golden Dawn]], the Augoeides of [[Iamblichus]], the [[Atman]] of [[Hinduism]], and the Daemon of the [[gnosticism|gnostics]]. <br /> <br /> In the system of [[Magick]], the single most important goal is to consciously connect with one’s HGA, a process termed “Knowledge and Conversation.” By doing so, the magician becomes fully aware of his own [[True Will]]. For [[Aleister Crowley]], this event was the single most important goal of any adept:<br /> <br /> :''It should never be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magician is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once he has achieved this he must of course be left entirely in the hands of that Angel, who can be invariably and inevitably relied upon to lead him to the further great step—crossing of the Abyss and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple.'' (Magick Without Tears, Ch.83)<br /> <br /> ==The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage==<br /> Crowley became aware of the book entitled ''The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage'' from [[George Cecil Jones]], a member of the Golden Dawn. The book describes the full procedure for “Knowledge and Conversation” and gave him the term &quot;Holy Guardian Angel.&quot; Crowley sums up the book in ''The Equinox of the Gods:''<br /> <br /> :''The aspirant must have a house secure from observation and interference. In this house there must be an oratory with a window to the East, and a door to the North opening upon a terrace, at the end of which must be a lodge. He must have a Robe, Crown, Wand, Altar, Incense, Anointing Oil, and a Silver Lamen. The terrace and lodge must be strewn with fine sand. He withdraws himself gradually from human intercourse to devote himself more and more to prayer for the space of four months. He must then occupy two months in almost continuous prayer, speaking as little as possible to anybody. At the end of this period he invokes a being described as the Holy Guardian Angel, who appears to him (or to a child employed by him), and who will write in dew upon the Lamen, which is placed upon the Altar. The Oratory is filled with Divine Perfume not of the aspirant's kindling.''<br /> <br /> :''After a period of communion with the Angel, he summons the Four Great Princes of the Daemonic World, and forces them to swear obedience.''<br /> <br /> :''On the following day he calls forward and subdues the Eight Sub-Princes; and the day after that, the many Spirits serving these. These inferior Daemons, of whom four act as familiar spirits, then operate a collection of talismans for various purposes. Such is a brief account of the Operation described in the book.''<br /> <br /> This book clearly had a powerful impact on Crowley, who adopted its general terms and concepts, and applied it to his own system developed in the [[A.'.A.'.]] Moreover, he actually attempted the full procedure as described in the book, which resulted in the purchase of [[Boleskine House]] and his [[Abramelin Operation]].<br /> <br /> ==HGA and Black Magick==<br /> Crowley felt that attaining Knowledge and Conversation was so important, that he staked the claim that any other magical operation was, in a sense, evil. In ''Book 4'' (Ch. 21) he explains:<br /> <br /> :''As was said at the opening of the second chapter, the Single Supreme Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raising of the complete man in a vertical straight line...Any other operation is black magic...If the magician needs to perform any other operation than this, it is only lawful in so far as it is a necessary preliminary to That One Work.''<br /> <br /> He then softens his position somewhat:<br /> <br /> :''There are, however many shades of grey. It is not every magician who is well armed with theory. Perhaps one such may invoke Jupiter, with the wish to heal others of their physical ills. This sort of thing is harmless, or almost so. It is not evil in itself. It arises from a defect of understanding. Until the Great Work has been performed, it is presumptuous for the magician to pretend to understand the universe, and dictate its policy.''<br /> <br /> The implication is that only magick devoted to the spiritual evolution of the individual and their attunement to the global and cosmic [[Will]] is honorable and in line with the ultimate goals of [[Thelema]]. Any magick that is self-serving or results-oriented is regarded as impure and in contradiction to the necessary evolution of the species.<br /> <br /> ==Methods of Achieving K&amp;C==<br /> Crowley said that the Abramelin procedure was not the only way to achieve success in this endeavor: <br /> <br /> :''It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; as secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother's God, or the Rite that invokes Him.'' (Book 4, &quot;One Star in Sight&quot;)<br /> <br /> Since the operation described in “Abramelin” is so complex and requires time and resources not available to most people, Crowley wanted to provide a more accessable method. While at the [[Abbey of Thelema]] in Italy, he wrote [http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib800.html Liber Samekh], a ritual designed specifically for attaining the Knowledge and Conversation with one’s HGA. In his notes to this ritual, Crowley sums up the key to success: “INVOKE OFTEN.”<br /> <br /> He also explains, in more detail, the general mystical process of the ritual:<br /> <br /> :''The Adept will be free to concentrate his deepest self, that part of him which unconsciously orders his true Will, upon the realization of his Holy Guardian Angel. The absence of his bodily, mental and astral consciousness is indeed cardinal to success, for it is their usurpation of his attention which has made him deaf to his Soul, and his preoccupation with their affairs that has prevented him from perceiving that Soul.''<br /> <br /> :''The effect of the Ritual has been''<br /> <br /> :# ''to keep them so busy with their own work that they cease to distract him;''<br /> :# ''to separate them so completely that his soul is stripped of its sheaths;''<br /> :# ''to arouse in him an enthusiasm so intense as to intoxicate and anesthetize him, that he may not feel and resent the agony of this spiritual vivisection, just as bashful lovers get drunk on the wedding night, in order to brazen out the intensity of shame which so mysteriously coexists with their desire;''<br /> :# ''to concentrate the necessary spiritual forces from every element, and fling them simultaneously into the aspiration towards the Holy Guardian Angel; and''<br /> :# ''to attract the Angel by the vibration of the magical voice which invokes Him.''<br /> <br /> :''The method of the Ritual is thus manifold.''<br /> <br /> Another detailed description of the general operation is given in ''The Vision and the Voice'', [http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib8.html Aethyr 8].<br /> <br /> ***An invocation to higher self. (Holy Guardian Angel) employs Watchtower or elemental tablets.<br /> Robert Wang. The Secret Temple. 1980...NMF<br /> <br /> <br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jit0DLY8iA4&amp;list=RDjit0DLY8iA4<br /> <br /> ==HGA in writing==<br /> <br /> Crowley often wrote about his own experiences with his Holy Guardian Angel, whom he often referred to as [[Adonai]], but also claimed to be [[Aiwass]], the intelligence that dictated [[The Book of the Law]] to him in 1904. The key texts regarding the HGA are:<br /> <br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib65.html Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente]— An account of the relations of the aspirant and his Holy Guardian Angel.<br /> *''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib95.html The Wake World]''— A poetical allegory of the relations of the soul and the Holy Guardian Angel.<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib800.html Liber Samekh]— Being the Ritual employed by the Beast 666 for the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, along with many comments.<br /> *[http://mysteria.com/liber/L_418.txt The 8th Aethyr in ''The Vision and the Voice'']—describes the Angel and the operation for attaining K&amp;C.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> <br /> *[[Abramelin]]<br /> *[[Attainment]]<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> *[http://www.sacred-texts.com/grim/abr/index.htm ''The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage'']<br /> *[http://mysteria.com/liber/L_418.txt ''The Vision and the Voice''] by Aleister Crowley<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1997). ''Magick: Book 4.'' 2nd ed. York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser.<br /> *___. (1982). ''Magick Without Tears.'' Phoenix, AZ : Falcon Press<br /> *___. (1998). ''The Vision &amp; the Voice : the Equinox, IV(2).'' York Beach, Me. : Samuel Weiser.<br /> [[Category:Thelema]]<br /> [[Category:Thelemic terms]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=The_Book_of_the_Law&diff=8533 2017-10-21T06:53:18Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{partial}}<br /> <br /> The full title of this book is<br /> <br /> '''Liber AL vel Legis'''&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''sub figura CCXX'''&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''The Book of the Law'''&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI'''<br /> {{93}}<br /> The religion known as [[Thelema]] was established with the writing of '''The Book of the Law'''. It was written (or received) by [[Aleister Crowley]] in Cairo, Egypt in the year 1904. It contains three chapters, each of which was written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on April 8th, 9th, and 10th. Crowley claims that the author was an entity named [[Aiwass]], whom he later identified as his own [[Holy Guardian Angel]]. The teachings within this small book are clearly expressed in the Law of Thelema, expressed by these two phrases:<br /> <br /> *&quot;Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law&quot; (AL I:40) and<br /> *&quot;Love is the law, love under will&quot; (AL I:57)<br /> <br /> Interpretation of this book is considered a matter for the individual, and openly promoting personal ideas about its meaning is strongly discouraged. Although Crowley expressed the desire to see the Law of Thelema promulgated in all areas of society, success in this endeavor is to be based on others willfully following the the good example of Thelemites rather than by evangelization or direct attempts to convert others. &quot;Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not over much!&quot; (AL III:42) <br /> <br /> ==The Writing of Liber Legis==<br /> <br /> ===The Summons===<br /> <br /> According to Crowley, the story begins on March 16, 1904, when he tries to “shew the Sylphs” by means of a ritual to his wife, [[Rose Kelly|Rose]]. Although she could see nothing, she did seem to enter into a light trance and repeatedly said, &quot;They're waiting for you!&quot; Since Rose had no interest in [[magick]] or mysticism, he took little interest. However, on the 18th, after invoking [[Thoth]] (the god of knowledge), she mentions [[Horus]] by name as the one waiting for him. Crowley, still skeptical, asks her numerous questions about Horus, which she answers accurately—without having any prior study of the subject. The final proof was Rose’s identification of Horus in the [[Stele of Revealing]], then housed in the Boulak museum, with the exhibit number [[666]]. <br /> <br /> On March 20, Crowley invokes Horus, “with great success.” Between March 23 and April 8, Crowley has the hieroglyphs on the Stele translated. Also, Rose reveals that her “informant” was not Horus himself, but his messenger, [[Aiwass]]. Finally, on April 7, Rose gives Crowley his instructions—for three days he is to enter the “temple” and write down what he heard between noon and 1:00pm. <br /> <br /> ===The Writing===<br /> <br /> Crowley wrote the Book of the Law on April 8, 9, and 10, between the hours of noon and 1:00pm. He describes the “Voice of Aiwass” as coming from over his left shoulder, as if the speaker were standing in the corner of the room. The voice was said to be passionate, of deep timbre, and musical, without any recognizable accent. <br /> <br /> Although he did not look around the room, Crowley had the impression that Aiwass was a body of “fine matter” like a “veil of gauze.” He further describes Aiwass as a “tall, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, active and strong, with the face of a savage king, and eyes veiled lest their gaze should destroy what they saw” (Crowley, 1997).<br /> <br /> Crowley also makes it very clear that it was not “automatic writing,” but that the experience was exactly like an actual voice speaking to him. This is evidenced by several errors that the scribe actually had to inquire about. He does admit to the possibility that Aiwass was a manifestation of his own subconscious. But even were this so, he claimed that the message imparted by Aiwass was so beyond human experience or knowledge that it necessitated a praeternatural intelligence that only a god could possess.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Reception of Liber Legis]]<br /> *[[Thelema]]<br /> *[[Aleister Crowley]]<br /> *[[True Will]]<br /> *[[Holy Books of Thelema]]<br /> *[[Aiwass]]<br /> *[[Index to Topics in Liber Legis]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> <br /> *[http://oto-usa.org/l220.html Text version of The Book of the Law]<br /> *[http://oto-usa.org/l31.html Manuscript version of The Book of the Law]<br /> <br /> ===Comments on The Book of the Law===<br /> <br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/220/crowley-comment.html The Old and New Commentaries to Liber AL] by Aleister Crowley<br /> *[http://www.ashami.com/eidolons/The_Djeridensis_Working The Djeridensis Working (The Comment Called D)], Crowley's 1923 Commentary on Liber Legis. <br /> <br /> [[Category:Thelema]]<br /> [[Category:Sacred Texts]]<br /> [[Category:AL vel Legis]]<br /> [[Category:Holy Books of Thelema]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=A.%27.A.%27.&diff=8382 2017-10-21T06:52:06Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;, or &quot;Great White Brotherhood,&quot; is an organized fraternity of men and women dedicated to the spiritual advancement of humanity. The current structure of the organization was designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and [[George Cecil Jones]] in 1906 from the ashes of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; revealed ''[[The Book of the Law|Liber AL vel Legis]]'' to the world through the Prophet Aleister Crowley, as well as the other [[The Holy Books of Thelema|Holy Books of Thelema]].<br /> <br /> In ''An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;'', Aleister Crowley writes,<br /> :This community possesses a School, in which all who thirst for knowledge are instructed by the Spirit of Wisdom itself; and all the mysteries of nature are preserved in this school for the children of light. Perfect knowledge of nature and of humanity is taught in this school. It is from her that all truths penetrate into the world; she is the school of all who search for wisdom, and it is in this community alone that truth and the explantation of all mystery are to be found. <br /> <br /> In &quot;The System of the O.T.O&quot;, which originally appeared in ''Magick Without Tears'', Crowley says, <br /> <br /> :The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; concerns the individual, his development, his intitiation, his passage from &quot;Student&quot; to &quot;Ipsissimus&quot;; he has no contact of any kind with any other person except the Neophyte who introduces him, and any Student or Students whom he may, after becoming a Neophyte, introduce. <br /> <br /> ==Membership==<br /> A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; is unique in that members officially only know their superior and any inferiors they themselves are responsible for. There are no regular group rituals (measures are taken to hide the identity of the Officers during the few Temple initiation rituals), and members are expected to work alone, consulting as needed with their superior in the Order. In this way the founders of the system hoped to avoid the many social complications and ego problems that led to the downfall of the predecessor organization, the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; is a spiritual organization focused on enlightenment of the individual, with a strong emphasis on maintaining the chain of initiates from teacher to student, and devoting all of ones attainments to those that follow.<br /> <br /> In general, a member of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; will do the following:<br /> <br /> *Discover for himself his own [[true will]], and then do it, and do nothing else <br /> *Accept the ''Book of the Law'' as the sole Rule of Life<br /> *Acknowledge that &quot;The word of the Law is Θελημα&quot; and that &quot;Love is the law, love under will.&quot;<br /> *Acknowledge the authority of the offices of the [[Beast 666]] and the [[Scarlet Woman]]<br /> *Accept [[Ra-Hoor-Khuit]] as the Lord of the Aeon, and work to establish His reign upon Earth<br /> *Work to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of his [[Holy Guardian Angel]]<br /> *After the K&amp;C of the HGA, to enter into the [[Abyss]], and to emerge again therefrom<br /> <br /> ==Initiatory structure==<br /> The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; consists of eleven grades devided into a preparatory stage, and three initiatory &quot;Orders&quot;:<br /> <br /> ''Without all Orders''<br /> <br /> :'''Student''': His business is to acquire a general intellectual knowledge of all systems of attainment, as declared in the prescribed books. At the end of a fixed period, the Student sits an open-book examination to test his reading, after which he passes through a small ritual involving the reading of the History Lection (Liber LXI), and passes to the grade of Probationer.<br /> <br /> :'''Probationer''' (0°=0#): This grade exists primarily for the candidate to prove himself capable of executing the Great Work, and to prepare him for his initiation into the A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; proper. His principal business is to begin such practices as he my prefer, and to write a careful record of the same for one year. In this, he is charged with the tasks of attaining a &quot;scientific knowledge of the nature and powers of his own being&quot;. Crowley elsewhere mentions that the Probationer must demonstrate a reasonable level of proficiency in the core practices of the Order (as laid out in Libers ''E'', and ''O''). This is primarily to ensure that when advancement comes, the newly created Neophyte will have the necessary experience to guide his own Probationers in their work. Initiation into the following grade of Neophyte is conferred after at least one year, through an unpublished ritual titled ''Liber Throa''.<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the G&amp;there4;D&amp;there4; (Golden Dawn)''<br /> <br /> :'''Neophyte''' (1°=10#): The title of the grade is derived from the Greek ''neophutos'', meaning ''newly planted''. The Neophyte grade is the first grade in which true initiation takes place, and the candidate set in fertile spiritual soil in which to grow. The Neophyte is charged with the task of attaining &quot;control of the nature and powers of [his] own being.&quot; This is prosecuted through the acquisition and use of the technique of [[Rising on the Planes]], i.e. by acquiring perfect control of the Astral Plane. Initiation into the grade of Zelator is conferred a minimum of eight months, through a second unpublished ritual, titled ''The Passing through the Duat''.<br /> <br /> :'''Zelator''' (2°=9#): His main work is to achieve complete success in Asana and Pranayama. He also begins to study the formula of the Rosy Cross. The word &quot;Zelator&quot; probably stems from the Greek ''zealos'', zeal. This is in reference to the energy-building asanas and pranayamas that characterise the main work of the grade. The Oath of the grade states the Zelator is to &quot;obtain control of the foundations of [his] own being&quot;, a reference to the Sephirah [[Yesod]], to which the grade is attributed. Advancement to Practicus is administrative only, requiring no initiatory ritual as such, and may be conferred at any time.<br /> <br /> :'''Practicus''' (3°=8#): Is expected to complete his intellectual training, and in particular to study the Qabalah. The grade title suggests the &quot;practical&quot; use of the skills acquired through the previous grades. The Practicus is prosecuted to &quot;obtain control of the vacillations of [his] own being&quot;, which is to say that he must learn to control his own mind, and become one-pointed in thought, and so in word and action. Advancement to Philosophus, like the advancement to Practicus, is also a purely administrative process, and again may be conferred at any time.<br /> <br /> :'''Philosophus''' (4°=7#): Is expected to complete his moral training. He is tested in Devotion to the Order. In particular, this grade stresses the application of adorations to various deities, such as are outlined in ''Liber Astarte''. The oath of the grade characterises this; the Philosophus resolves to &quot;obtain control of the attractions and repulsions of my own being.&quot; This effort is the primarily directed toward transcending the likes and dislikes, deliberately defying one's morality, and so on. The aim is to break out of one's predefined idea of self, and reach a perfectly equanimous perspective. Advancement to Dominus Liminis is made at the perfection of this process, and may take place at any time, with no prescribed ritual.<br /> <br /> :'''Dominus Liminis'''—the link: The grade of Dominus Liminis is a &quot;bridge&quot; that connects the outer Order of the G&amp;there4;D&amp;there4;, centred in [[Yesod]], with the Order of the R&amp;there4;C&amp;there4;, centred in [[Tiphareth]]. The work of the Dominus Liminis extends and refines the work of the previous grades, synthesising it into a coherent whole. The self-control of the Neophyte, the energy of the Zelator, the one-pointedness of the Practicus and the indifference of the Philosophus are fused together, and turned to the work of strengthening and refining the faculty of aspiration. Indeed, the oath of this grade is precisely this, to &quot;obtain control of the aspirations of [one's] own being&quot;. The title &quot;Dominus Liminis&quot; is another reflection of this aspiration: it means &quot;the threshold of the Lord&quot;, a reference to the fact that in the next grade, that aspiration will be turned to the attainment of Communion with the [[Holy Guardian Angel]].<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the R&amp;there4;C&amp;there4; (Rose-Cross)''<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Minor''' (5°=6#): The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main theme of the instructions of the A&amp;there4; A&amp;there4; It is characterised by the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictates.<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Major''' (6°=5#): His work is to use Magical Powers to support the authority of the Exempt Adept his superior. He achieves self-reliance, the proper use of Force, and the authority to govern the lower grades.<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Exemptus''' (7°=4#): The Adept must prepare and publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe, and his proposals for its welfare and progress. He will thus be known as the leader of a school of thought. He will have attained all but the supreme summits of meditation, and should be already prepared to perceive that the only possible course for him is to devote himself utterly to helping his fellow creatures.<br /> <br /> :'''(Babe of the Abyss)'''—the link: The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a passage between the two Orders. It is an annihilation of all the bonds that compose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a resolution of all complexities into their elements, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in respect of their relation to, and reaction on, other things.<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the S. S.''<br /> <br /> :'''[[Magister Templi]], or Master of the Temple''' (8°=3#): His principal business is to obtain a perfect understanding of the Universe. The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. The Magister Templi is pre-eminently the Master of Mysticism, that is, His Understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction or external obscurity; His word is to comprehend the existing Universe in accordance with His own Mind. <br /> <br /> :'''Magus''' (9°=2#): Attains to wisdom, declares his law and is a Master of all Magick in its greatest and highest sense. His will is entirely free from internal diversion or external opposition; His work is to create a new Universe in accordance with his Will.<br /> <br /> :'''Ipsissimus''' (10°=1#): Beyond the comprehension of the lower degrees. An Ipsissimus is free from limitations and necessity and lives in perfect balance with Nature. Essentially, the highest mode of attainment.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1990). &quot;An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;&quot; ''The Equinox, I(1).'' York Beach, ME. : S. Weiser<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1997). &quot;One Star in Sight&quot;. ''Magick: Book Four.'' York Beach, ME. : S. Weiser<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1982). &quot;The System of O.T.O.&quot; ''Magick Without Tears.'' Phoenix, AZ : Falcon Press<br /> *Eshelman, James. (1993). ''The Mystical and Magical System of the A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;''. Los Angeles: College of Thelema<br /> *Seckler, Phyllis. (eds. Shoemaker, Peters, and Johnson). (2010). ''The Thoth Tarot, Astrology, &amp; Other Selected Writings''. York Beach, ME: Teitan Press<br /> *Seckler, Phyllis. (eds. Shoemaker, Peters, and Johnson). (2012). ''The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema. Selected Writings Volume II.'' York Beach, ME: Teitan Press<br /> *Shoemaker, David. (2013). ''Living Thelema.'' Sacramento, CA: Anima Solis Books<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> *[http://www.outercol.org/ Outer College Curriculum Resources]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib61.html Liber LXI vel Causae A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib33.html Liber XXXIII, An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib207.html A Syllabus of the Official Instructions of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/aba/app2.html One Star in Sight]<br /> *[http://oto-usa.org/thelema/aa/ O.T.O. USGL Statement on A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Organizations]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=A.%27.A.%27.&diff=6686 2017-10-21T06:51:37Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;, or &quot;Great White Brotherhood,&quot; is an organized fraternity of men and women dedicated to the spiritual advancement of humanity. The current structure of the organization was designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and [[George Cecil Jones]] in 1906 from the ashes of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; revealed ''[[The Book of the Law|Liber AL vel Legis]]'' to the world through the Prophet Aleister Crowley, as well as the other [[The Holy Books of Thelema|Holy Books of Thelema]].<br /> <br /> In ''An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;'', Aleister Crowley writes,<br /> :This community possesses a School, in which all who thirst for knowledge are instructed by the Spirit of Wisdom itself; and all the mysteries of nature are preserved in this school for the children of light. Perfect knowledge of nature and of humanity is taught in this school. It is from her that all truths penetrate into the world; she is the school of all who search for wisdom, and it is in this community alone that truth and the explantation of all mystery are to be found. <br /> <br /> In &quot;The System of the O.T.O&quot;, which originally appeared in ''Magick Without Tears'', Crowley says, <br /> <br /> :The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; concerns the individual, his development, his intitiation, his passage from &quot;Student&quot; to &quot;Ipsissimus&quot;; he has no contact of any kind with any other person except the Neophyte who introduces him, and any Student or Students whom he may, after becoming a Neophyte, introduce. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Membership==<br /> A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; is unique in that members officially only know their superior and any inferiors they themselves are responsible for. There are no regular group rituals (measures are taken to hide the identity of the Officers during the few Temple initiation rituals), and members are expected to work alone, consulting as needed with their superior in the Order. In this way the founders of the system hoped to avoid the many social complications and ego problems that led to the downfall of the predecessor organization, the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; is a spiritual organization focused on enlightenment of the individual, with a strong emphasis on maintaining the chain of initiates from teacher to student, and devoting all of ones attainments to those that follow.<br /> <br /> In general, a member of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; will do the following:<br /> <br /> *Discover for himself his own [[true will]], and then do it, and do nothing else <br /> *Accept the ''Book of the Law'' as the sole Rule of Life<br /> *Acknowledge that &quot;The word of the Law is Θελημα&quot; and that &quot;Love is the law, love under will.&quot;<br /> *Acknowledge the authority of the offices of the [[Beast 666]] and the [[Scarlet Woman]]<br /> *Accept [[Ra-Hoor-Khuit]] as the Lord of the Aeon, and work to establish His reign upon Earth<br /> *Work to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of his [[Holy Guardian Angel]]<br /> *After the K&amp;C of the HGA, to enter into the [[Abyss]], and to emerge again therefrom<br /> <br /> ==Initiatory structure==<br /> The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; consists of eleven grades devided into a preparatory stage, and three initiatory &quot;Orders&quot;:<br /> <br /> ''Without all Orders''<br /> <br /> :'''Student''': His business is to acquire a general intellectual knowledge of all systems of attainment, as declared in the prescribed books. At the end of a fixed period, the Student sits an open-book examination to test his reading, after which he passes through a small ritual involving the reading of the History Lection (Liber LXI), and passes to the grade of Probationer.<br /> <br /> :'''Probationer''' (0°=0#): This grade exists primarily for the candidate to prove himself capable of executing the Great Work, and to prepare him for his initiation into the A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; proper. His principal business is to begin such practices as he my prefer, and to write a careful record of the same for one year. In this, he is charged with the tasks of attaining a &quot;scientific knowledge of the nature and powers of his own being&quot;. Crowley elsewhere mentions that the Probationer must demonstrate a reasonable level of proficiency in the core practices of the Order (as laid out in Libers ''E'', and ''O''). This is primarily to ensure that when advancement comes, the newly created Neophyte will have the necessary experience to guide his own Probationers in their work. Initiation into the following grade of Neophyte is conferred after at least one year, through an unpublished ritual titled ''Liber Throa''.<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the G&amp;there4;D&amp;there4; (Golden Dawn)''<br /> <br /> :'''Neophyte''' (1°=10#): The title of the grade is derived from the Greek ''neophutos'', meaning ''newly planted''. The Neophyte grade is the first grade in which true initiation takes place, and the candidate set in fertile spiritual soil in which to grow. The Neophyte is charged with the task of attaining &quot;control of the nature and powers of [his] own being.&quot; This is prosecuted through the acquisition and use of the technique of [[Rising on the Planes]], i.e. by acquiring perfect control of the Astral Plane. Initiation into the grade of Zelator is conferred a minimum of eight months, through a second unpublished ritual, titled ''The Passing through the Duat''.<br /> <br /> :'''Zelator''' (2°=9#): His main work is to achieve complete success in Asana and Pranayama. He also begins to study the formula of the Rosy Cross. The word &quot;Zelator&quot; probably stems from the Greek ''zealos'', zeal. This is in reference to the energy-building asanas and pranayamas that characterise the main work of the grade. The Oath of the grade states the Zelator is to &quot;obtain control of the foundations of [his] own being&quot;, a reference to the Sephirah [[Yesod]], to which the grade is attributed. Advancement to Practicus is administrative only, requiring no initiatory ritual as such, and may be conferred at any time.<br /> <br /> :'''Practicus''' (3°=8#): Is expected to complete his intellectual training, and in particular to study the Qabalah. The grade title suggests the &quot;practical&quot; use of the skills acquired through the previous grades. The Practicus is prosecuted to &quot;obtain control of the vacillations of [his] own being&quot;, which is to say that he must learn to control his own mind, and become one-pointed in thought, and so in word and action. Advancement to Philosophus, like the advancement to Practicus, is also a purely administrative process, and again may be conferred at any time.<br /> <br /> :'''Philosophus''' (4°=7#): Is expected to complete his moral training. He is tested in Devotion to the Order. In particular, this grade stresses the application of adorations to various deities, such as are outlined in ''Liber Astarte''. The oath of the grade characterises this; the Philosophus resolves to &quot;obtain control of the attractions and repulsions of my own being.&quot; This effort is the primarily directed toward transcending the likes and dislikes, deliberately defying one's morality, and so on. The aim is to break out of one's predefined idea of self, and reach a perfectly equanimous perspective. Advancement to Dominus Liminis is made at the perfection of this process, and may take place at any time, with no prescribed ritual.<br /> <br /> :'''Dominus Liminis'''—the link: The grade of Dominus Liminis is a &quot;bridge&quot; that connects the outer Order of the G&amp;there4;D&amp;there4;, centred in [[Yesod]], with the Order of the R&amp;there4;C&amp;there4;, centred in [[Tiphareth]]. The work of the Dominus Liminis extends and refines the work of the previous grades, synthesising it into a coherent whole. The self-control of the Neophyte, the energy of the Zelator, the one-pointedness of the Practicus and the indifference of the Philosophus are fused together, and turned to the work of strengthening and refining the faculty of aspiration. Indeed, the oath of this grade is precisely this, to &quot;obtain control of the aspirations of [one's] own being&quot;. The title &quot;Dominus Liminis&quot; is another reflection of this aspiration: it means &quot;the threshold of the Lord&quot;, a reference to the fact that in the next grade, that aspiration will be turned to the attainment of Communion with the [[Holy Guardian Angel]].<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the R&amp;there4;C&amp;there4; (Rose-Cross)''<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Minor''' (5°=6#): The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main theme of the instructions of the A&amp;there4; A&amp;there4; It is characterised by the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictates.<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Major''' (6°=5#): His work is to use Magical Powers to support the authority of the Exempt Adept his superior. He achieves self-reliance, the proper use of Force, and the authority to govern the lower grades.<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Exemptus''' (7°=4#): The Adept must prepare and publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe, and his proposals for its welfare and progress. He will thus be known as the leader of a school of thought. He will have attained all but the supreme summits of meditation, and should be already prepared to perceive that the only possible course for him is to devote himself utterly to helping his fellow creatures.<br /> <br /> :'''(Babe of the Abyss)'''—the link: The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a passage between the two Orders. It is an annihilation of all the bonds that compose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a resolution of all complexities into their elements, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in respect of their relation to, and reaction on, other things.<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the S. S.''<br /> <br /> :'''[[Magister Templi]], or Master of the Temple''' (8°=3#): His principal business is to obtain a perfect understanding of the Universe. The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. The Magister Templi is pre-eminently the Master of Mysticism, that is, His Understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction or external obscurity; His word is to comprehend the existing Universe in accordance with His own Mind. <br /> <br /> :'''Magus''' (9°=2#): Attains to wisdom, declares his law and is a Master of all Magick in its greatest and highest sense. His will is entirely free from internal diversion or external opposition; His work is to create a new Universe in accordance with his Will.<br /> <br /> :'''Ipsissimus''' (10°=1#): Beyond the comprehension of the lower degrees. An Ipsissimus is free from limitations and necessity and lives in perfect balance with Nature. Essentially, the highest mode of attainment.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1990). &quot;An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;&quot; ''The Equinox, I(1).'' York Beach, ME. : S. Weiser<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1997). &quot;One Star in Sight&quot;. ''Magick: Book Four.'' York Beach, ME. : S. Weiser<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1982). &quot;The System of O.T.O.&quot; ''Magick Without Tears.'' Phoenix, AZ : Falcon Press<br /> *Eshelman, James. (1993). ''The Mystical and Magical System of the A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;''. Los Angeles: College of Thelema<br /> *Seckler, Phyllis. (eds. Shoemaker, Peters, and Johnson). (2010). ''The Thoth Tarot, Astrology, &amp; Other Selected Writings''. York Beach, ME: Teitan Press<br /> *Seckler, Phyllis. (eds. Shoemaker, Peters, and Johnson). (2012). ''The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema. Selected Writings Volume II.'' York Beach, ME: Teitan Press<br /> *Shoemaker, David. (2013). ''Living Thelema.'' Sacramento, CA: Anima Solis Books<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> *[http://www.outercol.org/ Outer College Curriculum Resources]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib61.html Liber LXI vel Causae A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib33.html Liber XXXIII, An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib207.html A Syllabus of the Official Instructions of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/aba/app2.html One Star in Sight]<br /> *[http://oto-usa.org/thelema/aa/ O.T.O. USGL Statement on A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Organizations]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=A.%27.A.%27.&diff=6685 2017-10-21T06:48:19Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;, or &quot;Great White Brotherhood,&quot; is an organized fraternity of men and women dedicated to the spiritual advancement of humanity. The current structure of the organization was designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and [[George Cecil Jones]] in 1906 from the ashes of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; revealed ''[[The Book of the Law|Liber AL vel Legis]]'' to the world through the Prophet Aleister Crowley, as well as the other [[The Holy Books of Thelema|Holy Books of Thelema]].<br /> <br /> In ''An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;'', Aleister Crowley writes,<br /> :This community possesses a School, in which all who thirst for knowledge are instructed by the Spirit of Wisdom itself; and all the mysteries of nature are preserved in this school for the children of light. Perfect knowledge of nature and of humanity is taught in this school. It is from her that all truths penetrate into the world; she is the school of all who search for wisdom, and it is in this community alone that truth and the explantation of all mystery are to be found. <br /> <br /> In &quot;The System of the O.T.O&quot;, which originally appeared in ''Magick Without Tears'', Crowley says, <br /> <br /> :The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; concerns the individual, his development, his intitiation, his passage from &quot;Student&quot; to &quot;Ipsissimus&quot;; he has no contact of any kind with any other person except the Neophyte who introduces him, and any Student or Students whom he may, after becoming a Neophyte, introduce. <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Membership==<br /> A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; is unique in that members officially only know their superior and any inferiors they themselves are responsible for. There are no regular group rituals (measures are taken to hide the identity of the Officers during the few Temple initiation rituals), and members are expected to work alone, consulting as needed with their superior in the Order. In this way the founders of the system hoped to avoid the many social complications and ego problems that led to the downfall of the predecessor organization, the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; is a spiritual organization focused on enlightenment of the individual, with a strong emphasis on maintaining the chain of initiates from teacher to student, and devoting all of ones attainments to those that follow.<br /> <br /> In general, a member of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; will do the following:<br /> <br /> *Discover for himself his own [[true will]], and then do it, and do nothing else <br /> *Accept the ''Book of the Law'' as the sole Rule of Life<br /> *Acknowledge that &quot;The word of the Law is Θελημα&quot; and that &quot;Love is the law, love under will.&quot;<br /> *Acknowledge the authority of the offices of the [[Beast 666]] and the [[Scarlet Woman]]<br /> *Accept [[Ra-Hoor-Khuit]] as the Lord of the Aeon, and work to establish His reign upon Earth<br /> *Work to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of his [[Holy Guardian Angel]]<br /> *After the K&amp;C of the HGA, to enter into the [[Abyss]], and to emerge again therefrom<br /> <br /> ==Initiatory structure==<br /> The A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; consists of eleven grades devided into a preparatory stage, and three initiatory &quot;Orders&quot;:<br /> <br /> ''Without all Orders''<br /> <br /> :'''Student''': His business is to acquire a general intellectual knowledge of all systems of attainment, as declared in the prescribed books. At the end of a fixed period, the Student sits an open-book examination to test his reading, after which he passes through a small ritual involving the reading of the History Lection (Liber LXI), and passes to the grade of Probationer.<br /> <br /> :'''Probationer''' (0°=0#): This grade exists primarily for the candidate to prove himself capable of executing the Great Work, and to prepare him for his initiation into the A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4; proper. His principal business is to begin such practices as he my prefer, and to write a careful record of the same for one year. In this, he is charged with the tasks of attaining a &quot;scientific knowledge of the nature and powers of his own being&quot;. Crowley elsewhere mentions that the Probationer must demonstrate a reasonable level of proficiency in the core practices of the Order (as laid out in Libers ''E'', and ''O''). This is primarily to ensure that when advancement comes, the newly created Neophyte will have the necessary experience to guide his own Probationers in their work. Initiation into the following grade of Neophyte is conferred after at least one year, through an unpublished ritual titled ''Liber Throa''.<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the G&amp;there4;D&amp;there4; (Golden Dawn)''<br /> <br /> :'''Neophyte''' (1°=10#): The title of the grade is derived from the Greek ''neophutos'', meaning ''newly planted''. The Neophyte grade is the first grade in which true initiation takes place, and the candidate set in fertile spiritual soil in which to grow. The Neophyte is charged with the task of attaining &quot;control of the nature and powers of [his] own being.&quot; This is prosecuted through the acquisition and use of the technique of [[Rising on the Planes]], i.e. by acquiring perfect control of the Astral Plane. Initiation into the grade of Zelator is conferred a minimum of eight months, through a second unpublished ritual, titled ''The Passing through the Duat''.<br /> <br /> :'''Zelator''' (2°=9#): His main work is to achieve complete success in Asana and Pranayama. He also begins to study the formula of the Rosy Cross. The word &quot;Zelator&quot; probably stems from the Greek ''zealos'', zeal. This is in reference to the energy-building asanas and pranayamas that characterise the main work of the grade. The Oath of the grade states the Zelator is to &quot;obtain control of the foundations of [his] own being&quot;, a reference to the Sephirah [[Yesod]], to which the grade is attributed. Advancement to Practicus is administrative only, requiring no initiatory ritual as such, and may be conferred at any time.<br /> <br /> :'''Practicus''' (3°=8#): Is expected to complete his intellectual training, and in particular to study the Qabalah. The grade title suggests the &quot;practical&quot; use of the skills acquired through the previous grades. The Practicus is prosecuted to &quot;obtain control of the vacillations of [his] own being&quot;, which is to say that he must learn to control his own mind, and become one-pointed in thought, and so in word and action. Advancement to Philosophus, like the advancement to Practicus, is also a purely administrative process, and again may be conferred at any time.<br /> <br /> :'''Philosophus''' (4°=7#): Is expected to complete his moral training. He is tested in Devotion to the Order. In particular, this grade stresses the application of adorations to various deities, such as are outlined in ''Liber Astarte''. The oath of the grade characterises this; the Philosophus resolves to &quot;obtain control of the attractions and repulsions of my own being.&quot; This effort is the primarily directed toward transcending the likes and dislikes, deliberately defying one's morality, and so on. The aim is to break out of one's predefined idea of self, and reach a perfectly equanimous perspective. Advancement to Dominus Liminis is made at the perfection of this process, and may take place at any time, with no prescribed ritual.<br /> <br /> :'''Dominus Liminis'''—the link: The grade of Dominus Liminis is a &quot;bridge&quot; that connects the outer Order of the G&amp;there4;D&amp;there4;, centred in [[Yesod]], with the Order of the R&amp;there4;C&amp;there4;, centred in [[Tiphareth]]. The work of the Dominus Liminis extends and refines the work of the previous grades, synthesising it into a coherent whole. The self-control of the Neophyte, the energy of the Zelator, the one-pointedness of the Practicus and the indifference of the Philosophus are fused together, and turned to the work of strengthening and refining the faculty of aspiration. Indeed, the oath of this grade is precisely this, to &quot;obtain control of the aspirations of [one's] own being&quot;. The title &quot;Dominus Liminis&quot; is another reflection of this aspiration: it means &quot;the threshold of the Lord&quot;, a reference to the fact that in the next grade, that aspiration will be turned to the attainment of Communion with the [[Holy Guardian Angel]].<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the R&amp;there4;C&amp;there4; (Rose-Cross)''<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Minor''' (5°=6#): The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main theme of the instructions of the A&amp;there4; A&amp;there4; It is characterised by the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictates.<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Major''' (6°=5#): His work is to use Magical Powers to support the authority of the Exempt Adept his superior. He achieves self-reliance, the proper use of Force, and the authority to govern the lower grades.<br /> <br /> :'''Adeptus Exemptus''' (7°=4#): The Adept must prepare and publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe, and his proposals for its welfare and progress. He will thus be known as the leader of a school of thought. He will have attained all but the supreme summits of meditation, and should be already prepared to perceive that the only possible course for him is to devote himself utterly to helping his fellow creatures.<br /> <br /> :'''(Babe of the Abyss)'''—the link: The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a passage between the two Orders. It is an annihilation of all the bonds that compose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a resolution of all complexities into their elements, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in respect of their relation to, and reaction on, other things.<br /> <br /> ''The Order of the S. S.''<br /> <br /> :'''[[Magister Templi]], or Master of the Temple''' (8°=3#): His principal business is to obtain a perfect understanding of the Universe. The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. The Magister Templi is pre-eminently the Master of Mysticism, that is, His Understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction or external obscurity; His word is to comprehend the existing Universe in accordance with His own Mind. <br /> <br /> :'''Magus''' (9°=2#): Attains to wisdom, declares his law and is a Master of all Magick in its greatest and highest sense. His will is entirely free from internal diversion or external opposition; His work is to create a new Universe in accordance with his Will.<br /> <br /> :'''Ipsissimus''' (10°=1#): Beyond the comprehension of the lower degrees. An Ipsissimus is free from limitations and necessity and lives in perfect balance with Nature. Essentially, the highest mode of attainment.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1990). &quot;An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;&quot; ''The Equinox, I(1).'' York Beach, ME. : S. Weiser<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1997). &quot;One Star in Sight&quot;. ''Magick: Book Four.'' York Beach, ME. : S. Weiser<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1982). &quot;The System of O.T.O.&quot; ''Magick Without Tears.'' Phoenix, AZ : Falcon Press<br /> *Eshelman, James. (1993). ''The Mystical and Magical System of the A.'.A.'.''. Los Angeles: College of Thelema<br /> *Seckler, Phyllis. (eds. Shoemaker, Peters, and Johnson). (2010). ''The Thoth Tarot, Astrology, &amp; Other Selected Writings''. York Beach, ME: Teitan Press<br /> *Seckler, Phyllis. (eds. Shoemaker, Peters, and Johnson). (2012). ''The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema. Selected Writings Volume II.'' York Beach, ME: Teitan Press<br /> *Shoemaker, David. (2013). ''Living Thelema.'' Sacramento, CA: Anima Solis Books<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> *[http://www.outercol.org/ Outer College Curriculum Resources]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib61.html Liber LXI vel Causae A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib33.html Liber XXXIII, An Account of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib207.html A Syllabus of the Official Instructions of A&amp;there4;A&amp;there4;]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/aba/app2.html One Star in Sight]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Organizations]]</div>

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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{MTP}}<br /> <br /> '''Qabalah''' (alt. ''kabbalah'') is an aspect of Jewish mysticism. It consists of a large body of speculation on the nature of divinity, the creation, the origin and fate of the soul, and the role of human beings. It consists also of meditative, devotional, mystical and magical practices which were taught only to a select few and for this reason Kabbalah is regarded as an esoteric offshoot of Judaism. In general usage, the spelling ''qabalah'' is used to distinguish the variation of kabbalah used by western or hermetic magicians from Jewish mystical kabbalah. <br /> <br /> '''See also''': [[Tree of Life]]<br /> <br /> Note: Crowley used the spelling &quot;Qabalah&quot; (an approximate transliteration) and that spelling is retained in Thelemic literature. The spelling &quot;Kabbalah&quot; is used in reference to traditional Hebrew mysticism, and &quot;Cabala&quot; in reference to the Christian overlays of the same.<br /> <br /> ==The History of Qabalah/Kabbalah==<br /> <br /> ===The Kabbalah in Jewish Mystical Tradition===<br /> <br /> The word &quot;Kabbalah&quot; is derived from the Hebrew root &quot;to receive, to accept&quot;, and in many cases is used synonymously with &quot;tradition&quot;. According to Jewish tradition, the Torah (Torah - &quot;Law&quot; - the first five books of the Old Testament) was created prior to the world and she advised God on such weighty matters as the creation of human kind. When [[Mosheh|Moses]] received the written law from God, tradition has it that he also received the oral law, which was not written down, but passed from generation to generation. At times the oral law has been referred to as &quot;Kabbalah&quot; - the oral tradition. <br /> <br /> The earliest documents which are generally acknowledged as being Kabbalistic come from the 1st. Century C.E., but there is a suspicion that the Biblical phenomenon of prophecy may have been grounded in a much older oral tradition which was a precursor to the earliest recognisable forms of Kabbalah. Some believe the tradition goes back as far as Melchizedek. There are moderately plausible arguments that Pythagoras received his learning from Hebrew sources. There is a substantial literature of Jewish mysticism dating from the period 100AD - 1000AD which is not strictly Kabbalistic in the modern sense, but which was available as source material to medieval Kabbalists. <br /> <br /> On the basis of a detailed examination of texts, and a study of the development of a specialist vocabulary and a distinct body of ideas, Scholem has concluded that the origins of Kabbalah can be traced to 12th. century Provence. The origin of the word &quot;Kabbalah&quot; as a label for a tradition which is definitely recognisable as Kabbalah is attributed to Isaac the Blind (c. 1160-1236 C.E.), who is also credited with being the originator of the idea of sephirothic emanation.<br /> <br /> By the early middle ages further, more theosophical developments had taken place, chiefly a description of &quot;processes&quot; within God, and a highly esoteric view of creation as a process in which God manifests in a series of emanations. This doctrine of the &quot;sephiroth&quot; can be found in a rudimentary form in the &quot;Yetzirah&quot;, but by the time of the publication of the book &quot;Bahir&quot; (12th. century) it had reached a form not too different from the form it takes today. One of most interesting characters from this period was Abraham Abulafia, who believed that God cannot be described or conceptualised using everyday symbols, and used the Hebrew alphabet in intense meditations lasting many hours to reach ecstatic states. Because his abstract letter combinations were used as keys or entry points to altered states of consciousness, failure to carry through the manipulations correctly could have a drastic effect on the Kabbalist. In &quot;Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism&quot; Scholem includes a long extract of one such experiment made by one of Abulafia's students—it has a deep ring of truth about it.<br /> <br /> Probably the most influential Kabbalistic document, the &quot;Sepher ha Zohar&quot;, was published by Moses de Leon, a Spanish Jew, in the latter half of the thirteenth century. The &quot;Zohar&quot; is a series of separate documents covering a wide range of subjects, from a verse-by-verse esoteric commentary on the Pentateuch, to highly theosophical descriptions of processes within God. The &quot;Zohar&quot; has been widely read and was highly influential within mainstream Judaism as well as Hermetic Qabalah.<br /> <br /> ===Historical Hermetic Qabalah===<br /> <br /> About the 16th century, Western European scholars began taking interest in the Jewish Kabbalah. In this century we first see documents refering to [[Hermes Trismegistus]], the &quot;father&quot; of Hermetic Magic.<br /> <br /> At the time it was believed that the Corpus really was the religion of the ancient Egyptians, and that Hermes was a kind of Egyptian Moses. The fact that they were written much later, and heavily influenced by Neoplatonism, had the effect of convincing readers at that time that Greek philosophy was founded on much older, Egyptian religious philosophy - this had a huge influence on liberal religious and philosophical thinking at the time. Into this environment came the Kabbalah, brought in part by fleeing Spanish Jews, and it was seized upon as another lost tradition, the inner, initiated key to the Bible. <br /> <br /> Two figures stand out. One was Giovanni Pico, Count of Mirandola, who commissioned several translations of Kabbalistic works, and did much to publicise Kabbalah among the intellectuals of the day. The other was Johannes Reuchlin, who learned to read Hebrew and became deeply immersed in Kabbalistic literature. It must be said that Jews were suspicious of this activity, finding that Christian scholars were using the Kabbalah as a bludgeon to persuade them to convert to Christianity. <br /> <br /> It was out of this eclectic mixture of Christianity, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, Kabbalah and Renaissance humanism that Hermetic Kabbalah was born. Over the centuries it has developed in many directions, with strong influences from Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, but continued input from Jewish Kabbalah has meant that many variants are not so different in spirit from the original. Its greatest strength continues to be a strong element of religious humanism - it does not attempt to define God and does not define what an individual should believe, but it does assume that some level of direct experience of God is possible and there are practical methods for achieving this. In a modern world of compartmentalised knowledge, scientific materialism, and widespread cultural and historical illiteracy, it provides a bridge between the spirit of enquiry of the Renaissance (the homo universalis or - in Hebrew - hakham kolel) and the emergence of a similar spirit of enquiry in our own time.<br /> <br /> ===Qabalah in Recent Ceremonial Magick===<br /> <br /> Qabalah was a subject of study for most Ceremonialists between the time of [[John Dee]] and the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. But [[Eliphas Levi]], whose influence on the Order of the Golden Dawn and on Thelema was great, rooted his Transcendental Magic (''Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie'') in a Qabalistic tradition. His ''Elements of the Kabbalah'' remains a fundamental text for the student of ceremonial magick. <br /> <br /> It would not be an overstatement to say that the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] was a Qabalistic organization. Its initiatory structure was based on the Tree of Life. Indeed, its entire magical system depended on the Qabalah.<br /> <br /> ===Qabalah and Thelema===<br /> <br /> Put simply, Qabalah is a ''sine qua non'' in the practice of Thelemic magick. Aleister Crowley summarized the importance of Qabalah in &quot;The Temple of Solomon&quot;, Liber LVII:<br /> <br /> :''Fortunately, there is one science that can aid us, a science that, properly understood by the initiated mind, is as absolute as mathematics, more self-supporting than philosophy, a science of the spirit itself, whose teacher is God, whose method is simple as the divine Light, and subtle as the divine Fire, whose results are limpid as the divine Water, all-embracing as the divine Air, and solid as the divine Earth. Truth is the source, and Economy the course, of that marvellous stream that pours its living waters into the Ocean of apodeictic certainty, the Truth that is infinite in its infinity as the primal Truth which which it is identical is infinite in its Unity.''<br /> <br /> :''Need we say that we speak of the holy Qabalah? O science secret, subtle, and sublime, who shall name thee without veneration, without prostration of soul, spirit, and body before thy divine Author, without exaltation of soul, spirit, and body as by His favour they bathe in His lustral and illimitable Light?''<br /> <br /> ==Principles of Qabalah==<br /> <br /> To summarize the principles of Qabalah within this space is similar to attempting to define &quot;love&quot; in three words. There are, however, a few concepts that are fundamental to the Qabalah. The student '''must''' do more research beyond this article. A beginning list of sources follows.<br /> <br /> ===The Sephiroth and the Tree of Life===<br /> <br /> [[image:treeoflife0.gif|right]]<br /> In the original Jewish tradition, the [[sephiroth]] (singular ''sephira'') are the ten aspects or manifestations of God. They begin with the highest aspect, [[Kether]], and as the energy or concepts of God pass through creation, reaches the created world, the world humanity dwells in, [[Malkuth]]. <br /> <br /> As Kabbalistic tradition grew, kabalists conceived of an interconnected pathway between the ten Sephiroth by which the energy of the Sephiroth traveled and by which adepts could travel to gain the benefits of each Sephira. This network of pathways became known as the [[Tree of Life]].<br /> <br /> Within the western magical tradition, the Tree was used as a kind of conceptual filing cabinet. Each sephera and path was assigned various ideas, such as gods, cards of the Tarot, astrological planets and signs, elements, etc. Within Thelema, the seminal book which defines all these correspondences is ''777'' by Aleister Crowley. To view the various correspondences from ''777'', you can start at the [[Tree of Life]] or the [[Key Scale]].<br /> <br /> ===Gematria, Notarikon, and Temura===<br /> <br /> ====Gematria====<br /> [[Gematria]] is a method of exegesis (critical explanation or analysis of a text) used since the time of the Second Temple to derive insights into the sacred writings, to obtain interpretations of the text, or to illustrate a secular matter. The Hebrew language uses its letters to represent numbers. The first nine letters represent the numbers I to 9 respectively; the next 10 letters represent the numbers 10, 20... to 90; and the next four represent 100 to 400.<br /> <br /> The cipher alphabet makes possible the method known in Hebrew as gematria. The term gematria is based on the Greek geometria. In talmudic times the rabbis began to mean by it &quot;calculation&quot; in general. In this sense, they used the numerical value of the letters of one word or verse to construct a different word or verse, the numerical value of whose letters equals that of the original passage, in order to give the original verse an added or a different meaning.<br /> <br /> Thelemites make use of Gematria to link words and concepts and to validate revelations given to them in magical operations. Perhaps the most useful Thelemic book on Gematria is Liber D, the Sepher Sephiroth. This book is a listing of Gematric numbers and some of the words associated with their gematric values.<br /> <br /> ====Notarikon====<br /> <br /> ====Temurah====<br /> <br /> ===The &quot;72 Names of God&quot;===<br /> There are three verses in the Old Testament which, in Hebrew, are made up of exactly the same number of letters. These are Exodus 14: 19-21. <br /> <br /> &lt;i&gt;14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: <br /> <br /> 14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night. <br /> <br /> 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided. &lt;/i&gt;<br /> <br /> Kabbalists believe that by lining up each verse, one atop the other, and then selecting the three letters that are aligned from top to bottom (starting from the left, as Hebrew is written from left to right), one derives 72 &quot;names of God&quot;. The nature of these verses are such that they represent great power: the power of God to part waters and call forth his angels. <br /> <br /> The &quot;72 names&quot; primarily appear in Jewish Kabbalah and are particularly prevalent in the current manifestation of Kabbalah taught through the &quot;Kabbalah Centre&quot; in Jerusalem. (www.kabbalah.com)<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> ===On the Web===<br /> *http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/ Colin Low's Qabalah Page. Far and away the best web resource for Qabalah. <br /> *http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/faq.htm Qabalah FAQ. <br /> *http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/nok/index.htm &lt;i&gt;A Depth of Beginning&lt;/i&gt; Low, Colin. Colin Low's free PDF introductory text on Hermetic Qabalah. A very good resource for the beginner. You can't beat the price.<br /> *http://www.kabbalah.com The Kabbalah Centre in Jerusalem. The modern center of popular Jewish Kabbalah study. This is the organization which brought pop singer Madonna to Kabbalah.<br /> <br /> ===Books===<br /> <br /> NB: These are introductory books only and by no means comprehensive. Refer to the bibliographies in these and other sources for original sources on Qabalah. <br /> <br /> *Duquette, Lon Milo. &lt;i&gt;The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed ben Clifford&lt;/i&gt;. Weiser Books (2001). Absolutely the best introduction to Qabalah for the person with no knowledge of the subject.<br /> *Fortune, Dion. &lt;i&gt;Mystical Qabalah&lt;/i&gt;. Weiser Books (2000). Dion Fortune considered the Qabalah to be &quot;Western Yoga.&quot;<br /> *Regardie, Israel. &lt;i&gt;The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic.&lt;/i&gt; Llewelyn Publications (2000). One of several books by Regardie on the Qabalah. Opinion varies as to which is the best. <br /> *Regardie, Israel. &lt;i&gt;A Garden of Pomagranates: Skrying on the Tree of Life.&lt;/i&gt; Llewelyn Publications (1999). Another of the best known of Regardie's books on Qabalah.<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. &lt;i&gt;Liber LVIII: The Temple of Solomon the King with An Essay upon Number.&lt;/i&gt;. Crowley's fundamental text on Qabalah. Try to find one complete publication, rather than the online PDF versions available, as they often are not complete.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Systems]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Qabalah&diff=6683 2017-10-21T06:27:42Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{MTP}}<br /> <br /> '''Qabalah''' (alt. ''kabbalah'') is an aspect of Jewish mysticism. It consists of a large body of speculation on the nature of divinity, the creation, the origin and fate of the soul, and the role of human beings. It consists also of meditative, devotional, mystical and magical practices which were taught only to a select few and for this reason Kabbalah is regarded as an esoteric offshoot of Judaism. In general usage, the spelling ''qabalah'' is used to distinguish the variation of kabbalah used by western or hermetic magicians from Jewish mystical kabbalah. <br /> <br /> '''See also''': [[Tree of Life]]<br /> <br /> A note on spelling: Crowley used the spelling &quot;Qabalah&quot; (an approximate transliteration) and is retained in Thelemic literature. The spelling &quot;Kabbalah&quot; is used in reference to traditional Hebrew mysticism, and &quot;Cabala&quot; in reference to the Christian overlays of the same.<br /> <br /> ==The History of Qabalah/Kabbalah==<br /> <br /> ===The Kabbalah in Jewish Mystical Tradition===<br /> <br /> The word &quot;Kabbalah&quot; is derived from the Hebrew root &quot;to receive, to accept&quot;, and in many cases is used synonymously with &quot;tradition&quot;. According to Jewish tradition, the Torah (Torah - &quot;Law&quot; - the first five books of the Old Testament) was created prior to the world and she advised God on such weighty matters as the creation of human kind. When [[Mosheh|Moses]] received the written law from God, tradition has it that he also received the oral law, which was not written down, but passed from generation to generation. At times the oral law has been referred to as &quot;Kabbalah&quot; - the oral tradition. <br /> <br /> The earliest documents which are generally acknowledged as being Kabbalistic come from the 1st. Century C.E., but there is a suspicion that the Biblical phenomenon of prophecy may have been grounded in a much older oral tradition which was a precursor to the earliest recognisable forms of Kabbalah. Some believe the tradition goes back as far as Melchizedek. There are moderately plausible arguments that Pythagoras received his learning from Hebrew sources. There is a substantial literature of Jewish mysticism dating from the period 100AD - 1000AD which is not strictly Kabbalistic in the modern sense, but which was available as source material to medieval Kabbalists. <br /> <br /> On the basis of a detailed examination of texts, and a study of the development of a specialist vocabulary and a distinct body of ideas, Scholem has concluded that the origins of Kabbalah can be traced to 12th. century Provence. The origin of the word &quot;Kabbalah&quot; as a label for a tradition which is definitely recognisable as Kabbalah is attributed to Isaac the Blind (c. 1160-1236 C.E.), who is also credited with being the originator of the idea of sephirothic emanation.<br /> <br /> By the early middle ages further, more theosophical developments had taken place, chiefly a description of &quot;processes&quot; within God, and a highly esoteric view of creation as a process in which God manifests in a series of emanations. This doctrine of the &quot;sephiroth&quot; can be found in a rudimentary form in the &quot;Yetzirah&quot;, but by the time of the publication of the book &quot;Bahir&quot; (12th. century) it had reached a form not too different from the form it takes today. One of most interesting characters from this period was Abraham Abulafia, who believed that God cannot be described or conceptualised using everyday symbols, and used the Hebrew alphabet in intense meditations lasting many hours to reach ecstatic states. Because his abstract letter combinations were used as keys or entry points to altered states of consciousness, failure to carry through the manipulations correctly could have a drastic effect on the Kabbalist. In &quot;Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism&quot; Scholem includes a long extract of one such experiment made by one of Abulafia's students—it has a deep ring of truth about it.<br /> <br /> Probably the most influential Kabbalistic document, the &quot;Sepher ha Zohar&quot;, was published by Moses de Leon, a Spanish Jew, in the latter half of the thirteenth century. The &quot;Zohar&quot; is a series of separate documents covering a wide range of subjects, from a verse-by-verse esoteric commentary on the Pentateuch, to highly theosophical descriptions of processes within God. The &quot;Zohar&quot; has been widely read and was highly influential within mainstream Judaism as well as Hermetic Qabalah.<br /> <br /> ===Historical Hermetic Qabalah===<br /> <br /> About the 16th century, Western European scholars began taking interest in the Jewish Kabbalah. In this century we first see documents refering to [[Hermes Trismegistus]], the &quot;father&quot; of Hermetic Magic.<br /> <br /> At the time it was believed that the Corpus really was the religion of the ancient Egyptians, and that Hermes was a kind of Egyptian Moses. The fact that they were written much later, and heavily influenced by Neoplatonism, had the effect of convincing readers at that time that Greek philosophy was founded on much older, Egyptian religious philosophy - this had a huge influence on liberal religious and philosophical thinking at the time. Into this environment came the Kabbalah, brought in part by fleeing Spanish Jews, and it was seized upon as another lost tradition, the inner, initiated key to the Bible. <br /> <br /> Two figures stand out. One was Giovanni Pico, Count of Mirandola, who commissioned several translations of Kabbalistic works, and did much to publicise Kabbalah among the intellectuals of the day. The other was Johannes Reuchlin, who learned to read Hebrew and became deeply immersed in Kabbalistic literature. It must be said that Jews were suspicious of this activity, finding that Christian scholars were using the Kabbalah as a bludgeon to persuade them to convert to Christianity. <br /> <br /> It was out of this eclectic mixture of Christianity, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, Kabbalah and Renaissance humanism that Hermetic Kabbalah was born. Over the centuries it has developed in many directions, with strong influences from Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, but continued input from Jewish Kabbalah has meant that many variants are not so different in spirit from the original. Its greatest strength continues to be a strong element of religious humanism - it does not attempt to define God and does not define what an individual should believe, but it does assume that some level of direct experience of God is possible and there are practical methods for achieving this. In a modern world of compartmentalised knowledge, scientific materialism, and widespread cultural and historical illiteracy, it provides a bridge between the spirit of enquiry of the Renaissance (the homo universalis or - in Hebrew - hakham kolel) and the emergence of a similar spirit of enquiry in our own time.<br /> <br /> ===Qabalah in Recent Ceremonial Magick===<br /> <br /> Qabalah was a subject of study for most Ceremonialists between the time of [[John Dee]] and the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. But [[Eliphas Levi]], whose influence on the Order of the Golden Dawn and on Thelema was great, rooted his Transcendental Magic (''Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie'') in a Qabalistic tradition. His ''Elements of the Kabbalah'' remains a fundamental text for the student of ceremonial magick. <br /> <br /> It would not be an overstatement to say that the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] was a Qabalistic organization. Its initiatory structure was based on the Tree of Life. Indeed, its entire magical system depended on the Qabalah.<br /> <br /> ===Qabalah and Thelema===<br /> <br /> Put simply, Qabalah is a ''sine qua non'' in the practice of Thelemic magick. Aleister Crowley summarized the importance of Qabalah in &quot;The Temple of Solomon&quot;, Liber LVII:<br /> <br /> :''Fortunately, there is one science that can aid us, a science that, properly understood by the initiated mind, is as absolute as mathematics, more self-supporting than philosophy, a science of the spirit itself, whose teacher is God, whose method is simple as the divine Light, and subtle as the divine Fire, whose results are limpid as the divine Water, all-embracing as the divine Air, and solid as the divine Earth. Truth is the source, and Economy the course, of that marvellous stream that pours its living waters into the Ocean of apodeictic certainty, the Truth that is infinite in its infinity as the primal Truth which which it is identical is infinite in its Unity.''<br /> <br /> :''Need we say that we speak of the holy Qabalah? O science secret, subtle, and sublime, who shall name thee without veneration, without prostration of soul, spirit, and body before thy divine Author, without exaltation of soul, spirit, and body as by His favour they bathe in His lustral and illimitable Light?''<br /> <br /> ==Principles of Qabalah==<br /> <br /> To summarize the principles of Qabalah within this space is similar to attempting to define &quot;love&quot; in three words. There are, however, a few concepts that are fundamental to the Qabalah. The student '''must''' do more research beyond this article. A beginning list of sources follows.<br /> <br /> ===The Sephiroth and the Tree of Life===<br /> <br /> [[image:treeoflife0.gif|right]]<br /> In the original Jewish tradition, the [[sephiroth]] (singular ''sephira'') are the ten aspects or manifestations of God. They begin with the highest aspect, [[Kether]], and as the energy or concepts of God pass through creation, reaches the created world, the world humanity dwells in, [[Malkuth]]. <br /> <br /> As Kabbalistic tradition grew, kabalists conceived of an interconnected pathway between the ten Sephiroth by which the energy of the Sephiroth traveled and by which adepts could travel to gain the benefits of each Sephira. This network of pathways became known as the [[Tree of Life]].<br /> <br /> Within the western magical tradition, the Tree was used as a kind of conceptual filing cabinet. Each sephera and path was assigned various ideas, such as gods, cards of the Tarot, astrological planets and signs, elements, etc. Within Thelema, the seminal book which defines all these correspondences is ''777'' by Aleister Crowley. To view the various correspondences from ''777'', you can start at the [[Tree of Life]] or the [[Key Scale]].<br /> <br /> ===Gematria, Notarikon, and Temura===<br /> <br /> ====Gematria====<br /> [[Gematria]] is a method of exegesis (critical explanation or analysis of a text) used since the time of the Second Temple to derive insights into the sacred writings, to obtain interpretations of the text, or to illustrate a secular matter. The Hebrew language uses its letters to represent numbers. The first nine letters represent the numbers I to 9 respectively; the next 10 letters represent the numbers 10, 20... to 90; and the next four represent 100 to 400.<br /> <br /> The cipher alphabet makes possible the method known in Hebrew as gematria. The term gematria is based on the Greek geometria. In talmudic times the rabbis began to mean by it &quot;calculation&quot; in general. In this sense, they used the numerical value of the letters of one word or verse to construct a different word or verse, the numerical value of whose letters equals that of the original passage, in order to give the original verse an added or a different meaning.<br /> <br /> Thelemites make use of Gematria to link words and concepts and to validate revelations given to them in magical operations. Perhaps the most useful Thelemic book on Gematria is Liber D, the Sepher Sephiroth. This book is a listing of Gematric numbers and some of the words associated with their gematric values.<br /> <br /> ====Notarikon====<br /> <br /> ====Temurah====<br /> <br /> ===The &quot;72 Names of God&quot;===<br /> There are three verses in the Old Testament which, in Hebrew, are made up of exactly the same number of letters. These are Exodus 14: 19-21. <br /> <br /> &lt;i&gt;14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: <br /> <br /> 14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night. <br /> <br /> 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided. &lt;/i&gt;<br /> <br /> Kabbalists believe that by lining up each verse, one atop the other, and then selecting the three letters that are aligned from top to bottom (starting from the left, as Hebrew is written from left to right), one derives 72 &quot;names of God&quot;. The nature of these verses are such that they represent great power: the power of God to part waters and call forth his angels. <br /> <br /> The &quot;72 names&quot; primarily appear in Jewish Kabbalah and are particularly prevalent in the current manifestation of Kabbalah taught through the &quot;Kabbalah Centre&quot; in Jerusalem. (www.kabbalah.com)<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> ===On the Web===<br /> *http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/ Colin Low's Qabalah Page. Far and away the best web resource for Qabalah. <br /> *http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/faq.htm Qabalah FAQ. <br /> *http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/nok/index.htm &lt;i&gt;A Depth of Beginning&lt;/i&gt; Low, Colin. Colin Low's free PDF introductory text on Hermetic Qabalah. A very good resource for the beginner. You can't beat the price.<br /> *http://www.kabbalah.com The Kabbalah Centre in Jerusalem. The modern center of popular Jewish Kabbalah study. This is the organization which brought pop singer Madonna to Kabbalah.<br /> <br /> ===Books===<br /> <br /> NB: These are introductory books only and by no means comprehensive. Refer to the bibliographies in these and other sources for original sources on Qabalah. <br /> <br /> *Duquette, Lon Milo. &lt;i&gt;The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed ben Clifford&lt;/i&gt;. Weiser Books (2001). Absolutely the best introduction to Qabalah for the person with no knowledge of the subject.<br /> *Fortune, Dion. &lt;i&gt;Mystical Qabalah&lt;/i&gt;. Weiser Books (2000). Dion Fortune considered the Qabalah to be &quot;Western Yoga.&quot;<br /> *Regardie, Israel. &lt;i&gt;The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic.&lt;/i&gt; Llewelyn Publications (2000). One of several books by Regardie on the Qabalah. Opinion varies as to which is the best. <br /> *Regardie, Israel. &lt;i&gt;A Garden of Pomagranates: Skrying on the Tree of Life.&lt;/i&gt; Llewelyn Publications (1999). Another of the best known of Regardie's books on Qabalah.<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. &lt;i&gt;Liber LVIII: The Temple of Solomon the King with An Essay upon Number.&lt;/i&gt;. Crowley's fundamental text on Qabalah. Try to find one complete publication, rather than the online PDF versions available, as they often are not complete.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Systems]]</div>

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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;div style=&quot;border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Ash&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:ash@ashami.com email me] | [http://www.ashami.com my website] | [[User:Ash/My Philosophy|my philosophy on Thelemapedia]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> <br /> Greetings! My name is '''Frater Ash''', the founder of Thelemapedia, which started in early 2004 and finally came online on September 18 of that year. I worked as its Managing Director until Oct. 26, 2005.<br /> <br /> By the time of my &quot;retirement&quot;, I had been a proud member of Scarlet Woman Lodge, a chartered local body of [[Ordo Templi Orientis|O.T.O.]], since 1995. By 2005 I had earned a charter to [[initiation|initiate]] members into the degrees 0 through III, and taken Orders of Ordination into the Priesthood of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]. <br /> <br /> In 2007 I officially retired from active membership in OTO. <br /> <br /> ----<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Love is the law, love under will.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;div style=&quot;border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Ash&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:ash@ashami.com email me] | [http://www.ashami.com my website] | [[User:Ash/My Philosophy|my philosophy on Thelemapedia]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> <br /> Greetings! My name is '''Frater Ash''', the founder of Thelemapedia, which started in early 2004 and finally came online on September 18 of that year. I worked as its Managing Director until Oct. 26, 2005.<br /> <br /> By the time of my &quot;retirement&quot;, I had been a proud member of Scarlet Woman Lodge, a chartered local body of [[Ordo Templi Orientis|O.T.O.]], since 1995. By 2005 I had earned a charter to [[initiation|initiate]] members into the degrees 0 through III, and taken Orders of Ordination into the Priesthood of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]. <br /> <br /> In 2007 I officially retired from active membership in OTO. <br /> <br /> If you are interested in non-theistic and non-supernatural spirituality, I invite you to visit my new site, [http://www.sacredriver.org Sacred River].<br /> ----<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Love is the law, love under will.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>The '''power structure''' of Thelemapedia has three main areas of power: content, policy, and function. <br /> <br /> ==Content==<br /> '''Content''' refers to Thelemapedia articles. With almost no exceptions, every single member of Thelemapedia has equal editorial power within this domain. As long as content fits within site policy, no editor has any more authority than any other editor. This means that articles should result from the process of consensus building. Sometimes, only one or two people work on an article, and little consensus-building is needed. When several editors are working on a page, some disagreement becomes likely. In such cases, disagreements should be solved with polite discussion (although this is more of a guideline than a policy...sometimes it is better to go ahead and edit. Just use your common sense to know the difference and please be polite). Just remember the golden rule: the object is to create a great encyclopedia article, not to win arguments or force a belief into the site. <br /> <br /> When it comes to editorial policy that guides content, pretty much all Thelemapedia rules and guidelines fall under the '''Primary Editorial Principles''':<br /> <br /> #Articles should be sympathetic with the principles, culture, practices, and beliefs of Thelema whenever possible.<br /> #Articles should promote clarity, accuracy, and the will to inform without distortion or fabrication.<br /> #Articles should reflect knowledge that is generally accepted in the Thelemic community, drawing from expert sources or common knowledge.<br /> <br /> See also: [[Thelemapedia:Editorial Policy|Thelemapedia Editorial Policy]] | [[Thelemapedia:Common Sources|Common Sources and Citing guidelines]]<br /> ==Policy==<br /> '''Policy''' refers to the overall conceptual parameters and objectives of Thelemapedia and the rules and guidelines developed to manifest them. Stewards are Thelemapedians who have &quot;administrator&quot; rights. Their primary responsibility is to care for the welfare and integrity of the site. Editorially, they have no more authority than any other site member, and are equally bound to Thelemapedia editorial policies. At the same time, they do have special security privileges which they use to enforce policy when necessary. For example, they have the ability to protect and delete pages, block and ban users, and delete obvious vandalism. More than that, they are available for dispute mediation and as a source of assistance, essentially providing guidance and leadership within the Thelemapedia community. (See: [[Special:Listadmins|List of Stewards]], which are technically called Admins). <br /> <br /> Since Thelemapedia is a project of [[Ordo Templi Orientis]], there are those who are in a position to make certain high level decisions. The Thelemapedia Managing Director &amp; Editor-in-Chief is [[User:Omega|Fr. Omega]], who may institute changes when content or policies might interfere with Lodge policy, Order policy or general wellbeing. He reports directly to the Lodgemaster of Scarlet Woman Lodge and the Grand Master of U.S. Grand Lodge.<br /> <br /> ==Function==<br /> '''Function''' refers to the general mechanics of the site. This includes code, visual design, wiki functionality, and all elements that affect the general user experience (such as the design of the main page, promotional efforts, etc.). The site is hosted on a server by [[User:Omega|Fr. Omega]], who donates his time and expertise in server maintenance. <br /> <br /> ==Where to go next==<br /> {{help}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Thelemapedia]]</div>

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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{steward}}<br /> [[Image:Award star.gif|frame|I, [[User:Ash|Fr. Ash]], award you this [[Thelemapedia:Awards#Star of Thelemapedia|Star of Thelemapedia]] in thanks for hosting the site on your server and keeping us up and running!]]<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Omega&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:omegabaphomet@gmail.com email me] | [http://www.omegabaphomet.com my website]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> <br /> My name is '''Frater Omega Baphomet''', and I assumed leadership as Managing Director of Thelemapedia from [[User:Ash]] on March 20, 2007.<br /> <br /> *Thelemapedian<br /> *Thelemapedia Steward<br /> *Thelemapedia Editor-in-Chief<br /> *Managing Director of Thelemapedia<br /> <br /> *Chartered Initiator (M&amp;there4;M&amp;there4;M&amp;there4; 0°-III°)<br /> *Ordained Priest of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]<br /> *Two-times Past Master of [[Scarlet Woman Lodge]], [[OTO|O&amp;there4;T&amp;there4;O&amp;there4;]]<br /> <br /> ----<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Love is the law, love under will.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Ordo Templi Orientis''' (O.T.O.) can be translated as ''Order of Oriental Templars,'' or ''Order of the Temple of the East.'' It is a secret, fraternal organization similar to that of [[Freemasonry]], with a series of graded [[Initiation|initations]]. For its teachings and principles of organization, it has accepted the Law of [[Thelema]], which is expressed as “Do what thou wilt.” Thelemites believe that this Law was established with the writing of [[the Book of the Law]] by [[Aleister Crowley]] in 1904 in Cairo, Egypt. <br /> &lt;BR/&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Philosophy &amp; Goals==<br /> <br /> According to Crowley, O.T.O. is &quot;the first of the great religious Societies to accept the Law.&quot; The rituals of O.T.O. have been entirely revised by Crowley and his successors in light of the Law of Thelema. Both within its private ceremonies and in the world at large, the Order seeks to promote the Law as the ultimate standard of human conduct and understanding.<br /> <br /> O.T.O. was also designated as the Crowley estate, and maintains possession of Crowley's intellectual property and literary remains. As the custodian of these materials, the Order seeks to make them available to the public in definitive editions. <br /> <br /> Even before accepting the Law, the Sovereign Sanctuary of the O.T.O. was a body that maintained a Supreme Secret, which is said to be of inestimable magical power. This secret still reposes in the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Ninth Degree, and its nature is indicated gradually by hints in the initiatory ceremonies of the Order.<br /> <br /> In common with Freemasonry, the [[Theosophical Society]], and many other esoteric bodies, O.T.O. espouses an ethic of [[Universal Brotherhood]].<br /> <br /> Of the entire system of O.T.O., Crowley wrote in ''Confessions:''<br /> <br /> :It offers a rational basis for universal brotherhood and for universal religion. It puts forward a scientific statement which is a summary of all that is at present known about the universe by means of a simple, yet sublime symbolism, artistically arranged. It also enables each man to discover for himself his personal destiny, indicates the moral and intellectual qualities which he requires in order to fulfil it freely, and finally puts in his hands an unimaginably powerful weapon which he may use to develop in himself every faculty which he may need in his work.<br /> <br /> The mission of O.T.O. U.S. Grand Lodge, which can largely be applied to the Order as a whole:<br /> <br /> :Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A. is the U.S. Grand Lodge (National Section) of Ordo Templi Orientis, a hierarchical, religious membership organization. Our mission is to effect and promote the doctrines and practices of the philosophical and religious system known as Thelema, with particular emphasis on cultivating the ideals of individual liberty, self-discipline, self-knowledge, and universal brotherhood. To this end, we conduct sacramental and initiatory rites, offer guidance and instruction to our members, organize social events, and engage in educational and community service activities at locations throughout the United States. <br /> <br /> ==Activities==<br /> <br /> O.T.O. has two core areas of ritual activity: initiation into the [[Mystery|Mysteries]], and the celebration of Liber XV, the [[The Gnostic Mass|Gnostic Mass]]. In addition, the Order organizes lectures, classes, social events, theatrical productions and artistic exhibitions, and publishes books, journals, and newsletters. <br /> <br /> ===Initiation===<br /> <br /> Within O.T.O., the process of initiation is unlike that of many college fraternities or the military, the goal of which is to bond the individual to the group by means of ego-collapse, often via methods of pain, exhaustion, and degredation. Within O.T.O., the rituals are designed to be challenging, but in a way that honors the candidate. If bonding does occur, it does so through a conscious and willed effort on the part of the initiate. The ultimate goal of initiation in O.T.O. is &quot;to instruct the individual by allegory and symbol in the profound mysteries of Nature, and thereby to assist each to discover his or her own true Identity.&quot;[http://oto-usa.org/init.html]<br /> <br /> O.T.O. uses a graded system, similar to that of Freemasonry. There are thirteen numbered degrees and twelve un-numbered. They are divided into three grades or &quot;triads&quot;: the Hermit, the Lover, and the Man of Earth. The entire system is as follows: <br /> <br /> *'''The Man of Earth Triad'''<br /> **0°—Minerval<br /> **I°—Man &amp; Brother / Woman &amp; Sister<br /> **II°—Magician<br /> **III°—Master Magician<br /> **IV°—Perfect Magician &amp; companion of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch<br /> **P.I.—Perfect Initiate, or Prince of Jerusalem<br /> <br /> *'''Outside all Triads'''<br /> **Knight of the East &amp; West<br /> <br /> *'''The Lover Triad'''<br /> **V°—<br /> ***Sovereign Prince Rose-Croix, and Knight of the Pelican &amp; Eagle<br /> ***Knight of the Red Eagle, and Member of the Senate of Knight Hermetic Philosophers<br /> **VI°—<br /> ***Illustrious Knight (Templar) of the Order of Kadosch, and Companion of the Holy Graal<br /> ***Grand Inquisitor Commander, and Member of the Grand Tribunal<br /> ***Prince of the Royal Secret<br /> **VII°—<br /> ***Theoreticus, and Very Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspector General<br /> ***Magus of Light, and Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica<br /> ***Grandmaster of Light, and Inspector of Rites &amp; Degrees<br /> <br /> *'''The Hermit Triad'''<br /> **VIII°—<br /> ***Perfect Pontiff of the Illuminati<br /> ***Epopt of the Illuminati<br /> **IX°—Initiate of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis<br /> **X°—Rex Summus Sanctissimus<br /> **XI°—Initiate of the Eleventh Degree (This degree is technical, and has no relation to the general plan of the Order)<br /> **XII°—Frater Superior, [[Caliph]], and Outer Head of the Order<br /> <br /> ===The Gnostic Catholic Church===<br /> <br /> The '''[[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]''', or Gnostic Catholic Church, is the ecclesiastical arm of O.T.O. Its cental activity is the celebration of Liber XV, [[the Gnostic Mass]]. In recent years, other rites have been written and approved for use within the church. These include Baptism, Confirmation (into the Laity), and Ordination (for Deacons, Priests &amp; Priestesses, and Bishops), and Last Rites. There are also several &quot;unofficial&quot; rituals that are celebrated within the context of E.G.C., including Weddings, Visitation and Administration of the Virtues to the Sick, [[Exorcism]], and Rites for [[Life]] and [[Greater Feast]]s. Clergy in local sanctuaries can also choose to celebrate original rituals, such as &quot;[http://www.hermetic.com/dionysos/liturgy93.htm Liturgy 93]&quot; or the &quot;[http://www.hermetic.com/dionysos/xquart.htm Feasts of the Cross-Quarters].&quot;<br /> <br /> See also: [[E.G.C. Ceremonies]]<br /> <br /> ====Membership in E.G.C.====<br /> <br /> #'''The Clergy'''<br /> #*'''The Father/Mother of the Church''' (The Patriarch or Matriarch)<br /> #*'''The Primate''' (or Presiding Bishop, and is the National Grand Master General)<br /> #*'''Bishops''' (The Episcopate)<br /> #*'''Priests &amp; Priestesses''' (The Priesthood)<br /> #*'''Deacons''' (The Diaconate)<br /> #*'''Novices''' (The Novitiate)<br /> #'''Lay members''' (The Laity)<br /> #'''Bishops in Amity''' (Advisory membership)<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Events===<br /> <br /> Other than initiations and ecclesiastical work, there are many activities that O.T.O. members can engage in. The U.S. Grand Lodge has hosted national conferences since 2000. On the local level, bodies host a wide range of events, including ritual theatre, classes &amp; workshops, original rituals, publication of journals and books, creation of a web presence, study groups, and informal social gatherings. Some lodges have hosted smaller conferences on topics such as business aspects of O.T.O., women in Thelema, and other subjects of interest.<br /> <br /> ==Structure==<br /> <br /> The Structure of O.T.O. is outlined in several historical documents, principally the ''Constitution of O.T.O.'' (1906, revised 1917), the ''Constitution of M.'.M.'.M.'.'' (1913), and ''Liber 194: An Intimation With Reference to the Constitution of the Order'' (1919).<br /> <br /> The governing bodies of O.T.O. include:<br /> <br /> #'''International Headquarters'''<br /> #*Presided over by the '''Outer Head of the Order''' XII° (OHO—also known as Frater Superior)<br /> #*'''Supreme Council''' (Administrative Body)<br /> #*The '''Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis''' of the IX°<br /> #*The '''Secret Areopagus of the Illuminati''' of the VIII°<br /> #'''National Sections''' or '''Grand Lodges'''<br /> #*Presided over by a '''National Grand Master''' X°<br /> #*'''Executive Council''' (Administrative Body)<br /> #*The '''Supreme Grand Council'''<br /> #*The '''Grand Tribunal''' of the VI°<br /> #*The '''Electoral College '''<br /> <br /> ===International===<br /> <br /> 1. '''International Headquarters''' (IHQ) is the body that governs O.T.O. worldwide. IHQ is presided over by the '''Outer Head of the Order''' (OHO—also known as Frater Superior), who possesses the XII°. Since the time of [[Grady McMurtry]], the office of Outer Head of the Order has been associated with the title of [[Caliph]]. <br /> <br /> 2. IHQ is administered by the International '''Supreme Council''', which consists of the Outer Head of the Order, the Secretary General, and the Treasurer General.<br /> <br /> 3. The '''Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis''' consists of members who have reached the IX°. Their prime duty is to study and practice the theurgy and thaumaturgy of the degree, consisting of the Supreme Secret of the Order. The Sovereign Sanctuary is not technically a governing body, however, as a collective, it has the authority to: <br /> *ratify and overturn the rulings of the Areopagus<br /> *act as representitives of the OHO and National Grand Masters when need arises<br /> *fill the office of Revolutionary<br /> *vote within the Secret Areopagus <br /> *have some powers over the installation and removal of the OHO and National Grand Masters<br /> <br /> 4. The '''Secret Areopagus of the Illuminati''' is a philosophical Governing Body comprised of those who have reached the VIII°. It has the authority to reverse the decisions of the Grand Tribunal. It’s duties are:<br /> *compose and resolve all conflicts between any of the governing bodies of the Order<br /> *Draft and approve all Amendments to the Bylaws of the Order<br /> *Resolve disputes between the various Guilds<br /> <br /> 5. In addition to the above-listed bodies, IHQ includes a number of administrative offices including:<br /> *Revolutionaries (2)<br /> *International Initiation Secretary<br /> *EGC Secretary<br /> *Quartermasters for Asia and Europe<br /> *Rights &amp; Permissions for the Estate of Aleister Crowley<br /> *International Archivist<br /> <br /> The International Headquarters of O.T.O. is incorporated in California as a non-profit, tax-exempt, religious corporation under the name '''Ordo Templi Orientis''' (O.T.O.). The Board of Directors of O.T.O. U.S.A. is constituted by the Supreme Council.<br /> <br /> ===National===<br /> <br /> 1. International Headquarters has the power to charter '''National Sections''' or '''Grand Lodges''', with their own Officers and Administrative and Governing Bodies, in countries that have developed an organization large enough to support independent operations. Each Grand Lodge is presided over by a '''National Grand Master General''', who possesses the Tenth Degree (X°).<br /> <br /> 2. A Grand Lodge is administered by an '''Executive Council''', or '''Executive,''' which consists of the National Grand Master General, the Grand Secretary General, and the Grand Treasurer General.<br /> <br /> 3. The '''Supreme Grand Council''' consists of nine members of the VII° appointed by the National Grand Master General. It is charged with:<br /> *the government of the whole of the Lovers Grade<br /> *Hearing and deciding appeals of the decisions of the Electoral College<br /> *Hearing reports of the Sovereign Grand Inspectors General VII° as to the affairs of the Initiate members of the Lovers Grade<br /> <br /> The National Grand Master General, the Grand Secretary General, and the Grand Treasurer General are ''ex officio'' members of the Supreme Grand Council, and consititute its Executive Committee.<br /> <br /> 4. The '''Grand Tribunal''' is composed of members of the degree of Grand Inquisitor Commander (a sub-degree of the VI°). Their primary duty is to hear and arbitrate disputes and complains not resolved at the level of Chapters and Lodges. They may also grant exemption from any consequences within O.T.O. for pursuing a civil case. They may also rule in cases of abuse of authority and membership privileges. The Grand Tribunal is technically a Governing Body at the National level, due to the degree of its members. However, even members of higher grades are subject to the decisions of the Grand Tribunal. <br /> <br /> 5. The '''Electoral College''' consists of eleven members of the V° appointed by the National Grand Master General. Its primary duty is to oversee the affairs of the Man of Earth Grade. It has the authority to:<br /> *appoint and remove Camp, Oasis, and Lodge Masters<br /> *authorize invitations for initiate members to take the V° and enter the Lover Grade<br /> *give full hearings to reports from initiate members of the degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General VII° as to the condition of affairs of the members of the Man of Earth Triad<br /> <br /> ====Current Grand Lodges====<br /> <br /> The '''U.S. Grand Lodge''' is the National Section of O.T.O. in the United States of America. The U.S. National Grand Master General is Fr. Sabazius X°, who was appointed on 30 March 1996. The U.S. Grand Lodge is incorporated in California as a non-profit, tax-exempt, religious organization named '''Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A.''' (O.T.O. U.S.A.). The Board of Directors of O.T.O. U.S.A. is constituted by the Executive.<br /> <br /> The '''UK Grand Lodge''' is the National Section of O.T.O. in the United Kingdom. The U.K. National Grand Master General is Fr. Hyperion X°, who was appointed on 1 May 2005 (93 years after the last Grand Master for the UK, Aleister Crowley, was elevated to that office).<br /> <br /> The '''Australia Grand Lodge''' is the National Section of O.T.O. in Australia. The Australia National Grand Master General is Fr. Shiva X°, who was appointed on 15 April, 2006.<br /> <br /> ===O.T.O. Bodies===<br /> <br /> At the Man of Earth level, there are three levels of Local Body, which are Camps, Oases, and Lodges.<br /> <br /> 1. '''Camps''' tend to be the smallest and are not required to perform intiations. They are encouraged to celebrate the Gnostic Mass.<br /> <br /> 2. '''Oases''' are the next largest, and should be able to initiate through the III°. <br /> <br /> 3. '''Lodges''' are the largest local body within the Man of Earth Grade, and are expected to celebrate the Gnostic Mass on a regular basis, work towards establishing a permenant temple, and have the ability to initiate through IV°/P.I.<br /> <br /> '''Chapters of Rose Croix''' are bodies established by members of the Lover Grade. A Chapter is headed by a Most Wise Sovereign and a High Priestess. They are generally charged with arranging social activities, such as plays, banquets, and dances. They also work to promote harmony among the members by tact and friendliness. <br /> <br /> '''Guilds''' are groups recognized by IHQ that are designed to promote a profession, trade, science or craft. Subject to approval by the Areopagus, they make their own regulations and coordinate their own efforts. There are currently three Guilds recognized by the Areopagus: the Psychology Guild, the Translators' Guild, and the Information Technology Guild.<br /> <br /> The term '''Sanctuary''' is sometimes used to indicate a group of initiates organized for E.G.C. activities. This designation currently reflects no formal chartering process or official standing within the Order.<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> <br /> The founding of Ordo Templi Orientis began with a wealthy paper chemist, [[Carl Kellner]] (1851-1905). A student of the occult and familiar with several modern secret organizations, he had come to believe that he had discovered a “Key” to the symbolism of Freemasonry and to the Mysteries of Nature itself. He then aspired to create an ''[[Academia Masonica]]'' that would unifiy the various systems of Masonry. Kellner, along with an associate, [[Theodor Reuss]] (1855-1923), decided to call it the ''Oriental Templar Order.'' In 1902, Reuss, along with Franz Hartmann and Henry Klein, purchased the right to perform the Scottish, Memphis and Mizraim rites of Freemasonry, the authority of which was confirmed in 1904 and again in 1905. These rites, along with the Swedenborgian Rite, formed the core of the newly established Order. When Kellner died in 1905, Reuss assumed full control, becoming the first Outer Head of the Order. <br /> <br /> Ruess met Aleister Crowley and in 1910 admitted him to the three degrees of O.T.O. Only two years later Crowley was placed in charge of Great Britain and Ireland, and advanced to the X°. The appointment included the operation of the Masonic degrees of O.T.O., which were called ''Mysteria Mystica Maxima''. Within the year Crowley had written the Manifesto of the M.'.M.'.M.'. which described the basic ten-degree system—which was still principally Masonic—with Kellner’s three degree ''Academia Masonica'' forming the VII°, VIII° and IX°. <br /> <br /> In 1913, Crowley composed the Gnostic Mass while in Moscow, which he described as being the Order’s “central ceremony of its public and private celebration.” In 1914, soon after World War I broke out, he moved to America. It was around this time that he decided to integrate Thelema into the O.T.O. system, and in 1915 had revised rituals prepared for use in his M.'.M.'.M.'.. He revised them again in 1918, and in so doing removed the ritual's ties to Masonry. <br /> <br /> In 1921, Reuss issued a charter to [[Charles Stansfeld Jones]] as X° for the U.S. The very next year, Crowley proclaimed himself as Outer Head of the Order of O.T.O. based on the claim that Reuss (who might have suffered a stroke) had become incapable of running the Order. Reuss died in 1923.<br /> <br /> In 1933, Agape Lodge #2 was formed in Los Angeles, California under the leadership of [[Wilfred Talbot Smith]] (1885-1957). He and [[Regina Kahl]] celebrated the first public performance of the Gnostic Mass. Smith was advanced to the X° for the U.S. in 1935. Soon after, the Lodge moved to Pasadena where it was run by [[Jack Parsons]] (1914-1952), a founder of the JPL. <br /> <br /> During WWII, the European branches of O.T.O. were either destroyed or driven underground. By the end of the war, the only surviving O.T.O. body was Agapé Lodge, although there were various initiates in different countries. Very few initiations were being performed. At this time, [[Karl Germer]], who had been Crowley’s representitive in Germany, came over to America after being released from Nazi confinement. In 1942, Crowley appointed him as his successor as OHO. <br /> <br /> In that same year, Crowley personally conferred the IX° to [[Grady McMurtry]] (1918-1985), a member of Agapé Lodge. It was then that he assumed his new Magical Name, ''Hymenaeus Alpha''. McMurtry received several letters from Crowley in 1944 stating his desire to have McMurtry assume the role of [[Caliph]] and to be in line for succession to OHO. In 1946, McMurtry was entrusted with documents of emergency authorization to operate O.T.O. within California (the location of the only operational Lodge), along with the appointment of being Crowley’s personal representitive within the U.S., second only to Germer.<br /> <br /> Crowley died on December 1, 1947 and Karl Germer became OHO. He served from 1947 until his death in 1962. During his time as OHO, O.T.O. activity came to a standstill, with no new initiations being performed. An O.T.O. camp was chartered in England to [[Kenneth Grant]], but he was expelled in 1955 for modifying the initiation rituals and claiming that the body was under joint leadership with another organization, ''[[Fraternitas Saturni]].''<br /> <br /> Germer died in 1962 without himself naming a successor. In 1969, Grady McMurtry invoked his emergency authorization from Crowley and assumed the title of [[Caliph]], which Crowley had granted him. He began performing intiations in 1970. Growth was very slow for the first few years, although McMurtry did pick up on the publishing front, such as issuing Crowely’s ''[[Tarot|Thoth Tarot]]'' deck. Grady McMurtry died in 1985.<br /> <br /> McMurtry requested that members of the Sovereign Sanctuary elect the next OHO, which they did in 1985. Frater [[Hymenaeus Beta]] was elected to become the next OHO and he continues in that office today. In 1996, [[Sabazius]] X° was appointed as National Grand Master General for the U.S. Grand Lodge. Since McMurtry's time, O.T.O. has greatly expanded its publishing activities, initiated thousands of men and women into its ranks, and become an international organization with groups in dozens of countries around the world.<br /> <br /> ==Legalities==<br /> <br /> *1976: the Superior Court in Calaveras County, California recognizes Grady McMurtry as the authorized representative of O.T.O. <br /> *1979: O.T.O. is incorporated under the laws of the State of California<br /> *1982: The corporation attains Federal Tax exemption as a religious entity under IRS Code 501(c)3 <br /> *1985: in the 9th Federal District Court in San Francisco, McMurtry is found to be the legitimate head of O.T.O. within the United States, and that O.T.O. under McMurtry is the continuation of the O.T.O. of Aleister Crowley, and the exclusive owner of the names, trademarks, copyrights and other assets of O.T.O. This decision is appealed and upheld.<br /> *1996: The existing corporation reorganizes as International Headquarters of O.T.O. and a new corporation is founded for U.S. Grand Lodge.<br /> *2002: The United Kingdom High Court finds that O.T.O. is the sole owner of the copyrights for all of the works of Aleister Crowley.<br /> <br /> ==Challenges to Leadership &amp; Legitimacy==<br /> <br /> Divergent claims to authority are a recurrent feature of the history of Ordo Templi Orientis. Over the years, several individuals and groups of various credibility have claimed the title of OHO or to be the ‘true’ O.T.O. <br /> <br /> *'''[[Gerald Gardner]]''' claimed in correspondence with the executors of the Crowley estate, &quot;Alister (&lt;i&gt;sic&lt;/i&gt;) gave me a charter making me head of the O.T.O. in Europe.&quot; Gardner had been admitted to the Order by Crowley, and chartered at one time to organize a &quot;Camp of Minervals.&quot; There is no evidence that Gardner took any further action to press his larger claim.<br /> <br /> *'''[[Hermann Metzger]]''', who had been a member of the early Swiss O.T.O. under Reuss, made the claim soon after Germer’s death in 1962. Supposedly there had been an election there which appointed him OHO. However, it was later shown that Germer had not considered Metzger a regularized member of O.T.O. as it had developed under Crowley. No one recognized his claim outside of his own group. Metzger died in 1990.<br /> <br /> *'''[[Kenneth Grant]]''', who had been expelled from O.T.O. in 1955, also made the claim to OHO after Germer’s passing. Grant did not initially provide any factual basis or evidence for his claim except to say he had a correspondence with Crowley, that Germer had never actually been OHO, and that McMurtry was not the legitimate OHO. He called his organization ''Ordo Templi Orientis;'' and others distinguished it as the [[Typhonian O.T.O.]]. Eventually his supporters produced a handwritten letter purporting to be Grant's authorization from Crowley, but this was later admitted to be a forgery. Grant's organization now calls itself the [[Typhonian Order]].<br /> <br /> *'''[[Marcelo Ramos Motta]]''' tried to assume control of the Order under the name &quot;[[Society Ordo Templi Orientis]].&quot; His claim was based on his story that Germer’s wife, Sasha, told him that Karl’s last words stated that Motta was “the follower.” Although Motta had been an [[A.'.A.'.]] student under Germer, he had never actually been initiated into O.T.O. He also sued for ownership of Crowley’s copyrights, which were denied to him by the U.S. District Court in Maine. Motta died in 1987, although various small groups calling themselves S.O.T.O. continue to exist. <br /> <br /> Other groups that have made use of the O.T.O. name or purported to offer genuine initiation into O.T.O. include:<br /> <br /> *The '''[[Solar Lodge]]''', organized by unauthorized former members of Agape Lodge in California in the 1960s.<br /> <br /> *'''Albion O.T.O.''', located in London, England, claiming to unify all the different “branches” of O.T.O. [http://www.uk-oto.org/oto_main.htm]<br /> <br /> *The '''Parzival XI° O.T.O. Foundation''', claiming to support and legitimize Motta’s Society O.T.O. [http://members.ozemail.com.au/~realoto/pf.html]<br /> <br /> *'''Ur-O.T.O.''', whose main goals are to “manifest A.M.I.C.I.T.I.A. (Amity, Magia, Inspiration, Companionship, Inclusion, Truth, Individuality, Agape) and to make this a living power in the Life of all Beings.” [http://members.aol.com/UROTO/index.html]<br /> <br /> ==Links of Interest==<br /> <br /> *[http://scarletwoman-oto.org/ Scarlet Woman Lodge, O.T.O.]<br /> *[http://oto-usa.org/ O.T.O. U.S. Grand Lodge]<br /> *[http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/main.html The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius]—site of the current Grand Master of U.S. Grand Lodge</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Shri_Gurudev_Mahendranath&diff=6674 2016-03-06T05:09:59Z

<p>Omega: /* External Links */</p> <hr /> <div>'''Shri Gurudev Mahendranath''' (April 29, 1911&amp;ndash;August 30, 1991) was a British [[occultist]], [[mystic]], writer, poet, [[sannyasi]], [[sadhu]], [[tantra|tantric]] [[guru]], and [[Avadhut]]. He was introduced to [[Thelema]] by [[Aleister Crowley]] and espoused the [[tantra|tantric]] philosophy of [[Svecchachara]] which he considered the Sanskrit equivalent of [[Thelema]].<br /> <br /> ==Biography==<br /> Born '''Lawrence Miles''' in London, England on April 29, 1911, his interests in the area of spiritual investigation and the [[Paganism|Pagan]] way of life began at an unusually early age. During his childhood, he had a number of unique experiences which began the course of his inner development and later led to his spiritual attainment and recognition by a vast public. He was initiated by his Great Aunt Madam Clay Palmer, the Witch of Rottingdean, near Brighton, England, into her line of Hereditary Witchcraft when he was in his early teens and he knew Gerald Gardiner, founder of Modern Witchcraft, or Wicca, was active in Gardiner's Bricket Wood coven in Hertfordshire, and informed Gardiner of traditional rites, which seem to have otherwise been borrowed from Aleister Crowley's writings.<br /> <br /> As a young man, Shri Mahendranath met and exchanged ideas with the advanced thinker and mystic, Aleister Crowley. Personal experiences and the advice of Mr. Crowley suggested that he might gain valuable insight by the deeper study of [[meditation]] and the [[I Ching]] oracle with Indian and other Asian Masters.<br /> <br /> After some years, and a detour to Australia where he was recorded as being active in Witchcraft, Shri Mahendranath travelled back across South East Asia and arrived in [[Wikipedia:India|India]] on [[Guru Purnima]], July 14, 1953. On this auspicious date, he was given initiation as a [[sannyasi]] into the [[Adinath]] sampradaya by H.H. Shri Sadguru Lokanath, the [[Avadhut]] of the Himalayas. He was later given [[Tantra|Tantric]] initiation by Shri Pagala Baba of [[Wikipedia:Ranchi|Ranchi]] into the [[Uttara Kaula]] sect of Northern Tantrics and became his successor.<br /> <br /> During his life as a [[sannyasi]], Shri Mahendranath traveled to Ceylon, Thailand, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Australia. He also received initiations as a Bhutanese [[Tibetan Buddhism|Lama]], Meditation Master in [[Soto]] [[Zen]], [[Taoism]], and both [[Mahayana]] and [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]].<br /> <br /> He founded ''Amookos'' and the ''International Nath Order'' (originally ''Western Nath Order'') to present and promote his own synthesis of the [[tantra|tantric]] teachings of the [[Adinath]] and [[Uttara Kaula]] lineages as a spiritual path for the western householder. Initiates of his ''International Nath Order'' and ''Amookos'' are known as [[Nath]]s.<br /> <br /> Shri Gurudev Mahendranath left his body and achieved [[Mahasamadhi]] on [[August 30]], [[1991]]. His last residence was his hermitage&amp;mdash;[[Shambhala]] Tapowan&amp;mdash;near the Vatrak river, in the state of [[Wikipedia:Gujarat|Gujarat]], [[Wikipedia:India|India]]. He thought he was the last [[guru]] of both the Adi-Nath and Uttara Kaula [[tantra|tantric]] lineages, but was unaware that Pagala Baba's guru in the Uttara Kaula line, Thakar Kalachand had also initiated a female yogini, Mahaswari Ma who had in turn initiated Kulavadhut Sampranand, who survives into the 21st Century. C.E., alongside the Westernised groups Shri Mahendranath started. He was therefore not in a position to merge the Uttara Kaula and Adi Nath traditions. The Adi Nath tradition is to rest in another Nath lineage as well as continuing in the various Westernised groups with Adi Nath origins that were begun with Shri Mahendranath's initiatives.<br /> <br /> ==Writings==<br /> Shri Gurudev Mahendranath wrote numerous articles and essays on [[tantra]] and the [[spiritual life]], including the ''Twilight Yoga Trilogy'', the ''Levogyrate Tantra'', and ''The Londinium Temple Strain'', subsequently collected under the title ''The Scrolls of Mahendranath''. These works present the essentials of spiritual life and the [[tantra|tantric]] path in a humorous, non-dogmatic and non-sectarian manner.<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> *[http://www.mahendranath.org/ The Scrolls of Mahendranath]<br /> *[http://www.mahendranath.org/order.mhtml The International Nath Order]<br /> * Amookos http://www.sivashakti.com/<br /> * Fellowship of Uttara Circles of Kaulas http://www.johnpowerweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/<br /> *http://www.nathsociety.org<br /> *http://uttarakaulatantra.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/uttarakaula-lineages.htm/?m=1<br /> <br /> [[Category:Gurus]]<br /> [[Category:Mystics]]<br /> [[Category:Occultists]]<br /> [[Category:Poets]]<br /> [[Category:Tantrics]]<br /> [[Category:Writers]]</div>

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<p>Omega: /* Biography */</p> <hr /> <div>'''Shri Gurudev Mahendranath''' (April 29, 1911&amp;ndash;August 30, 1991) was a British [[occultist]], [[mystic]], writer, poet, [[sannyasi]], [[sadhu]], [[tantra|tantric]] [[guru]], and [[Avadhut]]. He was introduced to [[Thelema]] by [[Aleister Crowley]] and espoused the [[tantra|tantric]] philosophy of [[Svecchachara]] which he considered the Sanskrit equivalent of [[Thelema]].<br /> <br /> ==Biography==<br /> Born '''Lawrence Miles''' in London, England on April 29, 1911, his interests in the area of spiritual investigation and the [[Paganism|Pagan]] way of life began at an unusually early age. During his childhood, he had a number of unique experiences which began the course of his inner development and later led to his spiritual attainment and recognition by a vast public. He was initiated by his Great Aunt Madam Clay Palmer, the Witch of Rottingdean, near Brighton, England, into her line of Hereditary Witchcraft when he was in his early teens and he knew Gerald Gardiner, founder of Modern Witchcraft, or Wicca, was active in Gardiner's Bricket Wood coven in Hertfordshire, and informed Gardiner of traditional rites, which seem to have otherwise been borrowed from Aleister Crowley's writings.<br /> <br /> As a young man, Shri Mahendranath met and exchanged ideas with the advanced thinker and mystic, Aleister Crowley. Personal experiences and the advice of Mr. Crowley suggested that he might gain valuable insight by the deeper study of [[meditation]] and the [[I Ching]] oracle with Indian and other Asian Masters.<br /> <br /> After some years, and a detour to Australia where he was recorded as being active in Witchcraft, Shri Mahendranath travelled back across South East Asia and arrived in [[Wikipedia:India|India]] on [[Guru Purnima]], July 14, 1953. On this auspicious date, he was given initiation as a [[sannyasi]] into the [[Adinath]] sampradaya by H.H. Shri Sadguru Lokanath, the [[Avadhut]] of the Himalayas. He was later given [[Tantra|Tantric]] initiation by Shri Pagala Baba of [[Wikipedia:Ranchi|Ranchi]] into the [[Uttara Kaula]] sect of Northern Tantrics and became his successor.<br /> <br /> During his life as a [[sannyasi]], Shri Mahendranath traveled to Ceylon, Thailand, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Australia. He also received initiations as a Bhutanese [[Tibetan Buddhism|Lama]], Meditation Master in [[Soto]] [[Zen]], [[Taoism]], and both [[Mahayana]] and [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]].<br /> <br /> He founded ''Amookos'' and the ''International Nath Order'' (originally ''Western Nath Order'') to present and promote his own synthesis of the [[tantra|tantric]] teachings of the [[Adinath]] and [[Uttara Kaula]] lineages as a spiritual path for the western householder. Initiates of his ''International Nath Order'' and ''Amookos'' are known as [[Nath]]s.<br /> <br /> Shri Gurudev Mahendranath left his body and achieved [[Mahasamadhi]] on [[August 30]], [[1991]]. His last residence was his hermitage&amp;mdash;[[Shambhala]] Tapowan&amp;mdash;near the Vatrak river, in the state of [[Wikipedia:Gujarat|Gujarat]], [[Wikipedia:India|India]]. He thought he was the last [[guru]] of both the Adi-Nath and Uttara Kaula [[tantra|tantric]] lineages, but was unaware that Pagala Baba's guru in the Uttara Kaula line, Thakar Kalachand had also initiated a female yogini, Mahaswari Ma who had in turn initiated Kulavadhut Sampranand, who survives into the 21st Century. C.E., alongside the Westernised groups Shri Mahendranath started. He was therefore not in a position to merge the Uttara Kaula and Adi Nath traditions. The Adi Nath tradition is to rest in another Nath lineage as well as continuing in the various Westernised groups with Adi Nath origins that were begun with Shri Mahendranath's initiatives.<br /> <br /> ==Writings==<br /> Shri Gurudev Mahendranath wrote numerous articles and essays on [[tantra]] and the [[spiritual life]], including the ''Twilight Yoga Trilogy'', the ''Levogyrate Tantra'', and ''The Londinium Temple Strain'', subsequently collected under the title ''The Scrolls of Mahendranath''. These works present the essentials of spiritual life and the [[tantra|tantric]] path in a humorous, non-dogmatic and non-sectarian manner.<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> *[http://www.mahendranath.org/ The Scrolls of Mahendranath]<br /> *[http://www.mahendranath.org/order.mhtml The International Nath Order]<br /> * Amookos http://www.sivashakti.com/<br /> * Fellowship of Uttara Circles of Kaulas http://www.johnpowerweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/<br /> *http://www.nathsociety.org<br /> http://uttarakaulatanntra.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/uttarakaula-lineages.htm/?m=1<br /> <br /> [[Category:Gurus]]<br /> [[Category:Mystics]]<br /> [[Category:Occultists]]<br /> [[Category:Poets]]<br /> [[Category:Tantrics]]<br /> [[Category:Writers]]</div>

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Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Path_of_Gimel&diff=8448 2013-02-26T00:27:33Z

<p>Omega: /* Qabalistic Attributions */</p> <hr /> <div>In the [[Qabalah]], the [[Key Scale#The 22 Hebrew Letters (The Paths)|22 Paths]] (named after the letters of the Hebrew alphabet) connect the ten [[Sephiroth]] on the &quot;[[Tree of Life]].&quot; The third is the '''Path of Gimel''', which connects [[Kether]] with [[Tiphareth]]. <br /> <br /> {{Paths}}<br /> <br /> ==Qabalistic Attributions==<br /> ''The following attributions are mostly taken from ''777'', by [[Aleister Crowley]]. The small &quot;#&quot; links will show the full column of that attribution''<br /> [[Image:treeoflife0.gif|right]]<br /> <br /> *'''Key Scale''': 13 &lt;small&gt;([[Key Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Group''': [[Key Scale#The Planets|Planets]]— &lt;small&gt;[[Path of Beth|12 Mercury]], 13 Luna, [[Path of Daleth|14 Venus]], [[Path of Kaph|21 Jupiter]], [[Path of Pé|27 Mars]], [[Path of Resh|30 Sol]], [[Path of Tau|32 Saturn]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Name (Hebrew Letter)''': Gimel (Camel) &lt;small&gt;([[Hebrew Alphabet|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Value of Hebrew Letter''': 3<br /> *'''Path joins''': [[Kether]] (1) and [[Tiphareth]] (6)<br /> *'''Tarot Atu''': The Priestess (II) &lt;small&gt;([[Tarot and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Element''': — &lt;small&gt;([[Elements and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Astrology''': Luna &lt;small&gt;([[Astrology and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''[[Planets]]'''<br /> <br /> *'''Planetary Number''': 9 &lt;small&gt;([[Planets|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Planetary Intelligence''': Malkah Be Tarshishim va A’ad Be Ruah Shehaqim &lt;small&gt;([[Planets|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Planetary Spirit''': Chasmodai &lt;small&gt;([[Planets|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Planetary Olympic Spirit''': Phul &lt;small&gt;([Planets|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Godforms'''<br /> <br /> *'''[[Egyptian Godforms|Egyptian]] (selection)''': Chomse &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Egyptian (practical)''': Chomse &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Hindu Godforms|Hindu]]''': Chandra (as Luna) &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Scandinavian''': — &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Greek Godforms|Greek]]''': Artemis, Hekate &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Roman Godforms|Roman]]''': Diana &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Christian Godforms|Christian]]''': Laodicea &lt;small&gt;([[Godforms and the Tree of Life|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''[[Tree of Life:Colors|Colors]]'''<br /> <br /> *'''King Scale''': Blue &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#King Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Queen Scale''': Silver &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#Queen Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Emperor Scale''': Cold pale blue &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#Emperor Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Empress Scale''': Silver rayed sky-blue &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Colors#Empress Scale|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Material Correspondences'''<br /> <br /> *'''Animals''': Dog [Stork, Camel] &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Animals|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Plants''': Almond, Mugwort, Hazel (as Luna), Moonwort, Ranunculus [Alder, Pomegranete] &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Plants|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Precious Stones''': Moonstone, Pearl, Crystal &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Precious Stones|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Perfume''': Menstrual Blood, Camphor, Aloes, all Sweet Virginal Odours &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Perfumes|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Vegetable Drugs''': Juniper, Pennyroyal, &amp; all emmenogogues &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Vegetable Drugs|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Mineral Drug''': — &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Mineral Drugs|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''The Human Body''': Lymphatic Systems &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:The Human Body|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Metals''': Silver &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Metals|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Magick &amp; Mysticism'''<br /> <br /> *'''Order of Qliphoth''': Gamaliel &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Orders of Qliphoth|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Forty Buddhist Meditations''': Loathsomeness of Food &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Forty Buddhist Meditations|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''[[Magical Weapons]]''': Bow and Arrow &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Magical Weapons|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Magical Formula''': ALIM &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Magical Formulæ|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Magical Power''': The White Tincture, Clairvoyance, Divination by Dreams &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Magical Powers|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''System of Taoism''': Kan and Khwan &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:System of Taoism|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Figure related to Pure Number''': Greek Cross (Plane), Table of Shewbread &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Figures related to Pure Number|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Lineal Figures of the Planets, etc., and Geomancy''': Enneagram &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Lineal Figures &amp; Geomancy|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Geomantic Intelligence''': Gabriel &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Legendary Orders of Being|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''The Noble Eightfold Path''': Samma Sankappo (Right Aspiration) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Noble Eightfold Path|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''Legendary Orders of Being''': Lemures, Ghosts &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Legendary Orders of Being|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> '''[[The Four Worlds]]'''<br /> <br /> *'''Heavens of Assiah''': Levanah (Luna) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:Heavens of Assiah|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *'''God Name in Assiah''': (daleth cheth) &lt;small&gt;([[Tree of Life:God Names in Assiah|#]])&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Quotes==<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Crowley, Aleister. (1982). ''777 and Other Qabalistic Writings.'' York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Tree of Life]]<br /> [[Category:Paths]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Frater_QVIF&diff=10073 2012-10-25T22:17:15Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Frater QVIF''' (aka Marcos Pagani), a Brazilian occultist, was a Probationer under instruction of [http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Marcelo_Ramos_Motta Marcelo Motta] in the 1980s. <br /> <br /> Today QVIF promulgates [http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Thelema Thelema] in Brazil. See http://www.astrumargentum.org.<br /> <br /> ==Criticism==<br /> <br /> This link, http://www.astrumargentum.org, contains information that has been credibly reported as being unreliable. First, the timeline biography of Euclides Lacerda (Frater Thor) contains a huge amount of manipulated information about the O.T.O. in Brazil. Also, information about the first group that was initiated in Brazil in 1995 contains an altered image, and gives a false account of Lacerda receiving the Initiation Team from the United States.<br /> <br /> For more accurate information, and an unaltered version of the image, see the Scarlet Woman Lodge publication &lt;i&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;/i&gt; Vol. III No. 2, Pp. 3-4, in the article about the initiations in Brazil.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Euclydes_Lacerda_de_Almeida&diff=10074 2012-10-25T22:16:48Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Euclydes Lacerda de Almeida (Frater Thor) 1936-2010'''- was [http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Marcelo_Ramos_Motta Marcelo Motta's] first A.'.A.'. disciple and achieved, under his orientation, the Zelator Grade. In 1975 they broke ranks and Thor kept his Way by himself. He founded two Thelemic groups in Brazil, the Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Thelema (Order of Knights of Thelema) and the Sociedade Novo Aeon (New Aeon Society).<br /> <br /> In October 2000, Soror Khali Athena (Motta's friend) wrote a letter to Frater Iskurus Australis about Frater Thor. <br /> <br /> He was the A.'. A.'. senior brother in Brazil.<br /> <br /> External links:<br /> <br /> *[http://www.astrumargentum.org/arquivos/ht/bios_thor.htm www.astrumargentum.org]- Thor biography and works (in portuguese)<br /> <br /> *[http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/sunrise/s2.htm Letter by Khali Athena]<br /> <br /> ==Criticism==<br /> <br /> This link, http://www.astrumargentum.org, contains information that has been credibly reported as being unreliable. First, the timeline biography of Euclides Lacerda (Frater Thor) contains a huge amount of manipulated information about the O.T.O. in Brazil. Also, information about the first group that was initiated in Brazil in 1995 contains an altered image, and gives a false account of Lacerda receiving the Initiation Team from the United States.<br /> <br /> For more accurate information, and an unaltered version of the image, see the Scarlet Woman Lodge publication &lt;i&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;/i&gt; Vol. III No. 2, Pp. 3-4, in the article about the initiations in Brazil.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Accountrequest&diff=10381 2012-10-25T03:27:31Z

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Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Scarlet_Woman_Lodge_History:Timeline&diff=10399 2012-10-24T07:15:30Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>December 15, 1992 e.v.<br /> <br /> The U.S. Electoral College passed a motion to grant a charter for the formation of Scarlet Woman Camp.<br /> <br /> February 14, 1993 e.v.<br /> <br /> The minutes of the U.S. Electoral College meeting were typed up and sent to the Supreme and Holy King, who was at the time the National Grand Master General (NGMG).<br /> <br /> May 4, 1993 e.v.<br /> <br /> Full approval to operate Scarlet Woman Camp was granted when the Charter authorizing it to begin the work of the Order was signed and sealed by the National Grand Master General.<br /> <br /> The signature block on the bottom right: 'Soror SA, Secretary, Electoral College'. The signature block on the bottom left: 'Hymenaeus B, X* National Grand Master General', with a wax imprint of his seal.<br /> <br /> July 18, 2009<br /> <br /> Soror V. is appointed Scarlet Woman Lodge Treasurer.<br /> <br /> December 3, 2011<br /> <br /> The Scarlet Bazaar<br /> <br /> December 17, 2011<br /> <br /> Br. Bob presents a lectures on the &lt;i&gt;Rosarium Philosophorum&lt;/i&gt; (1550) describing the common symbolism between Alchemy and Tarot.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Scarlet_Woman_Lodge_History:Timeline&diff=6357 2012-10-24T07:05:17Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>December 15, 1992 e.v.<br /> <br /> The U.S. Electoral College passed a motion to grant a charter for the formation of Scarlet Woman Camp.<br /> <br /> February 14, 1993 e.v.<br /> <br /> The minutes of the U.S. Electoral College meeting were typed up and sent to the Supreme and Holy King, who was at the time the National Grand Master General (NGMG).<br /> <br /> May 4, 1993 e.v.<br /> <br /> Full approval to operate Scarlet Woman Camp was granted when the Charter authorizing it to begin the work of the Order was signed and sealed by the National Grand Master General.<br /> <br /> The signature block on the bottom right: 'Soror SA, Secretary, Electoral College'. The signature block on the bottom left: 'Hymenaeus B, X* National Grand Master General', with a wax imprint of his seal.<br /> <br /> July 18, 2009<br /> <br /> Soror V. is appointed Scarlet Woman Lodge Treasurer.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Scarlet_Woman_Lodge_History:Timeline&diff=6356 2012-10-24T07:01:22Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>December 15, 1992 e.v.<br /> <br /> The U.S. Electoral College passed a motion to grant a charter for the formation of Scarlet Woman Camp.<br /> <br /> February 14, 1993 e.v.<br /> <br /> The minutes of the U.S. Electoral College meeting were typed up and sent to the Supreme and Holy King, who was at the time the National Grand Master General (NGMG).<br /> <br /> May 4, 1993 e.v.<br /> <br /> Full approval to operate Scarlet Woman Camp was granted when the Charter authorizing it to begin the work of the Order was signed and sealed by the National Grand Master General.<br /> <br /> The signature block on the bottom right: 'Soror SA, Secretary, Electoral College'. The signature block on the bottom left: 'Hymenaeus B, X* National Grand Master General', with a wax imprint of his seal.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User:Omega&diff=6678 2012-10-24T06:37:17Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{steward}}<br /> [[Image:Award star.gif|frame|I, [[User:Ash|Fr. Ash]], award you this [[Thelemapedia:Awards#Star of Thelemapedia|Star of Thelemapedia]] in thanks for hosting the site on your server and keeping us up and running!]]<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Omega&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:omegabaphomet@gmail.com email me] | [http://www.omegabaphomet.com my website]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> <br /> My name is '''Frater Omega Baphomet''', and I assumed leadership as Managing Director of Thelemapedia from [[User:Ash]] on March 20, 2007.<br /> <br /> *Thelemapedian<br /> *Thelemapedia Steward<br /> *Thelemapedia Editor-in-Chief<br /> *Managing Director of Thelemapedia<br /> <br /> *Scarlet Woman Lodge Publications Officer<br /> *Chartered Initiator (M&amp;there4;M&amp;there4;M&amp;there4; 0°-III°)<br /> *Ordained Priest of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]<br /> *Past Master of [[Scarlet Woman Lodge]], [[OTO|O&amp;there4;T&amp;there4;O&amp;there4;]]<br /> <br /> ----<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Love is the law, love under will.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Scarlet_Woman_Lodge&diff=10228 2012-10-24T06:31:54Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Scarlet Woman Lodge''' —- founded in 1993 and located in the Valley of Austin Texas — is a local body of Ordo Templi Orientis (O&amp;there4;T&amp;there4;O&amp;there4;) under charter from U.S. Grand Lodge. It is a fraternal, initiatory organization — similar to Freemasonry and the ancient mystery schools — that has accepted the Law of Thelema as revealed in &lt;i&gt;The Book of the Law&lt;/i&gt;. <br /> <br /> The primary elements of the Lodge:<br /> <br /> 1. Rites of Initiation<br /> <br /> The Lodge administers the initial degrees (0° – P.I.) in the Order's graded system of initiations. In the rituals of these degrees, O&amp;there4;T&amp;there4;O&amp;there4; seeks to instruct the individual by allegory and symbol in the profound mysteries of Nature, and thereby to assist each to discover his or her own true Identity. Find out more.<br /> <br /> 2. Circle of Stars Sanctuary<br /> <br /> Our Sanctuary is the church environment wherein we celebrate our ecclesiastical ceremonies — most especially [[The Gnostic Mass]]. <br /> <br /> 3. Cultural &amp; Educational Events<br /> <br /> Besides our formal rituals and celebrations, we perform numerous other events and projects. These include a tradition of ritual theatre stretching back to 1995, which began with seven years of performing &lt;i&gt;The Rites of Eleusis&lt;/i&gt;. We also hold social events; perform original ritual; hold classes for everything from astrology to yoga; publish a journal, &lt;i&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;/i&gt;; and other various projects that develop and extend Thelemic culture. <br /> <br /> 4. The Community<br /> <br /> Scarlet Woman Lodge represents an active community of Thelemites with various backgrounds, interests, and occupations. We believe that “the Law is for All” and so we welcome any individual who is sincerely interested in the Great Work. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, handicap, or religious beliefs. Becoming a formal member of the Lodge by way of initiation is restricted only to being “of full age, free, and of good report.” <br /> <br /> Our members participate in the community in numerous ways and all such participation is solely at the discretion of each member. One of our central goals is to provide opportunities for self-exploration through rewarding experiences and service to a growing community.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User:Omega&diff=6355 2012-10-24T06:27:11Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{steward}}<br /> [[Image:Award star.gif|frame|I, [[User:Ash|Fr. Ash]], award you this [[Thelemapedia:Awards#Star of Thelemapedia|Star of Thelemapedia]] in thanks for hosting the site on your server and keeping us up and running!]]<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Omega&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:omegabaphomet@gmail.com email me] | [http://www.omegabaphomet.com my website]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> <br /> My name is '''Frater Omega Baphomet''', and I assumed leadership as Managing Director of Thelemapedia from [[User:Ash]] on March 20, 2007.<br /> <br /> *Thelemapedian<br /> *Thelemapedia Steward<br /> *Thelemapedia Editor-in-Chief<br /> *Managing Director of Thelemapedia<br /> <br /> *Scarlet Woman Lodge Publications Officer<br /> *Chartered Initiator (M.'.M.'.M.'. 0°-III°)<br /> *Ordained Priest of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]<br /> *Past Master of [[Scarlet Woman Lodge]]<br /> <br /> ----<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Love is the law, love under will.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User:Omega&diff=6353 2012-10-24T06:26:02Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{steward}}<br /> [[Image:Award star.gif|frame|I, [[User:Ash|Fr. Ash]], award you this [[Thelemapedia:Awards#Star of Thelemapedia|Star of Thelemapedia]] in thanks for hosting the site on your server and keeping us up and running!]]<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Omega&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:omegabaphomet@gmail.com email me] | [http://www.omegabaphomet.com my website]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> <br /> My name is '''Frater Omega Baphomet''', and I assumed leadership as Managing Director of Thelemapedia from [[User:Ash]] on March 20, 2007.<br /> <br /> *Thelemapedian<br /> *Thelemapedia Steward<br /> *Thelemapedia Editor-in-Chief<br /> *Managing Director of Thelemapedia<br /> <br /> *Scarlet Woman Lodge Publications Officer<br /> *Chartered Initiator (M.'.M.'.M.'. 0°-III°)<br /> *Ordained Priest of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]<br /> *Past Master of Scarlet Woman Lodge<br /> <br /> ----<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Love is the law, love under will.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Scarlet_Woman_Lodge&diff=6354 2012-10-24T06:23:56Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Scarlet Woman Lodge''' —- founded in 1993 and located in the Valley of Austin Texas — is a local body of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) under charter from U.S. Grand Lodge. It is a fraternal, initiatory organization — similar to Freemasonry and the ancient mystery schools — that has accepted the Law of Thelema as revealed in &lt;i&gt;The Book of the Law&lt;/i&gt;. <br /> <br /> The primary elements of the Lodge:<br /> <br /> 1. Rites of Initiation<br /> <br /> The Lodge administers the initial degrees (0° – P.I.) in the Order's graded system of initiations. In the rituals of these degrees, O.T.O. seeks to instruct the individual by allegory and symbol in the profound mysteries of Nature, and thereby to assist each to discover his or her own true Identity. Find out more.<br /> <br /> 2. Circle of Stars Sanctuary<br /> <br /> Our Sanctuary is the church environment wherein we celebrate our ecclesiastical ceremonies — most especially [[The Gnostic Mass]]. <br /> <br /> 3. Cultural &amp; Educational Events<br /> <br /> Besides our formal rituals and celebrations, we perform numerous other events and projects. These include a tradition of ritual theatre stretching back to 1995, which began with seven years of performing &lt;i&gt;The Rites of Eleusis&lt;/i&gt;. We also hold social events; perform original ritual; hold classes for everything from astrology to yoga; publish a journal, &lt;i&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;/i&gt;; and other various projects that develop and extend Thelemic culture. <br /> <br /> 4. The Community<br /> <br /> Scarlet Woman Lodge represents an active community of Thelemites with various backgrounds, interests, and occupations. We believe that “the Law is for All” and so we welcome any individual who is sincerely interested in the Great Work. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, handicap, or religious beliefs. Becoming a formal member of the Lodge by way of initiation is restricted only to being “of full age, free, and of good report.” <br /> <br /> Our members participate in the community in numerous ways and all such participation is solely at the discretion of each member. One of our central goals is to provide opportunities for self-exploration through rewarding experiences and service to a growing community.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=8194 2012-10-24T06:12:23Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''March 20, 2007'''&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[user:Omega|Fr. Omega]] (Past Master of Scarlet Woman Lodge) becomes the Managing Director &amp; Editor-in-Chief of Thelemapedia.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''September 18, 2004'''&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Thelemapedia 1.0 goes live and is announced to O.T.O. members. The original proponent was [[user:ash|Fr. Ash]], supported the by technical assistance of Fr. Omega Baphomet (the Lodgemaster of Scarlet Woman Lodge). The first 24 hours saw the addition of 29 new members and several new articles.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=6350 2012-10-24T06:11:13Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''September 18, 2004'''&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Thelemapedia 1.0 goes live and is announced to O.T.O. members. The original proponent was [[user:ash|Fr. Ash]], supported the by technical assistance of Fr. Omega Baphomet (the Lodgemaster of Scarlet Woman Lodge). The first 24 hours saw the addition of 29 new members and several new articles.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''March 20, 2007'''&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[user:Omega|Fr. Omega]] (Past Master of Scarlet Woman Lodge) becomes the Managing Director &amp; Editor-in-Chief of Thelemapedia.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=6349 2012-10-24T06:10:53Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''September 18, 2004'''&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Thelemapedia 1.0 goes live and is announced to O.T.O. members. The original proponent was [[user:ash|Fr. Ash]], supported the by technical assistance of Fr. Omega Baphomet (the Lodgemaster of Scarlet Woman Lodge). The first 24 hours saw the addition of 29 new members and several new articles.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''March 20, 2007'''&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[user:Omega|Fr. Omega]] (Past Master of Scarlet Woman Lodge) becomes the Managing Director &amp; Editor-in-Chief of Thelemapedia.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User:Omega&diff=6352 2012-10-24T05:40:21Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>{{steward}}<br /> [[Image:Award star.gif|frame|I, [[User:Ash|Fr. Ash]], award you this [[Thelemapedia:Awards#Star of Thelemapedia|Star of Thelemapedia]] in thanks for hosting the site on your server and keeping us up and running!]]<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Omega&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:omegabaphomet@gmail.com email me] | [http://www.omegabaphomet.com my website] | [[User:Omega/My Philosophy|my philosophy on Thelemapedia]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> <br /> My name is '''Frater Omega''', and I assumed leadership as Managing Director of Thelemapedia from [[User:Ash]] upon his retirement in 2007.<br /> <br /> *Thelemapedian<br /> *Thelemapedia Steward<br /> *Thelemapedia Editor-in-Chief<br /> *Managing Director of Thelemapedia<br /> <br /> *Scarlet Woman Lodge Publications Officer<br /> *Chartered Initiator (M.'.M.'.M.'. 0'-III')<br /> *Ordained Priest of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]<br /> *Past Master of Scarlet Woman Lodge<br /> <br /> ----<br /> &lt;center&gt;''Love is the law, love under will.''&lt;/center&gt;<br /> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Thelemapedia:Power_structure&diff=6679 2012-10-24T05:31:30Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>The '''power structure''' of Thelemapedia is in an early phase. There are three main areas of power: content, policy, and function. <br /> <br /> ==Content==<br /> '''Content''' refers to Thelemapedia articles. With almost no exceptions, every single member of Thelemapedia has equal editorial power within this domain. As long as content fits within site policy, no editor has any more authority than any other editor. This means that articles should result from the process of consensus building. Sometimes, only one or two people work on an article, and little consensus-building is needed. When several editors are working on a page, some disagreement becomes likely. In such cases, disagreements should be solved with polite discussion (although this is more of a guideline than a policy...sometimes it is better to go ahead and edit. Just use your common sense to know the difference and please be polite). Just remember the golden rule: the object is to create a great encyclopedia article, not to win arguments or force a belief into the site. <br /> <br /> When it comes to editorial policy that guides content, pretty much all Thelemapedia rules and guidelines fall under the '''Primary Editorial Principles''':<br /> <br /> #Articles should be sympathetic with the principles, culture, practices, and beliefs of Thelema whenever possible.<br /> #Articles should promote clarity, accuracy, and the will to inform without distortion or fabrication.<br /> #Articles should reflect knowledge that is generally accepted in the Thelemic community, drawing from expert sources or common knowledge.<br /> <br /> See also: [[Thelemapedia:Editorial Policy|Thelemapedia Editorial Policy]] | [[Thelemapedia:Common Sources|Common Sources and Citing guidelines]]<br /> ==Policy==<br /> '''Policy''' refers to the overall conceptual parameters and objectives of Thelemapedia and the rules and guidelines developed to manifest them. Stewards are Thelemapedians who have &quot;administrator&quot; rights. Their primary responsibility is to care for the welfare and integrity of the site. Editorially, they have no more authority than any other site member, and are equally bound to Thelemapedia editorial policies. At the same time, they do have special security privileges which they use to enforce policy when necessary. For example, they have the ability to protect and delete pages, block and ban users, and delete obvious vandalism. More than that, they are available for dispute mediation and as a source of assistance, essentially providing guidance and leadership within the Thelemapedia community. (See: [[Special:Listadmins|List of Stewards]], which are technically called Admins). <br /> <br /> Since Thelemapedia is a project of [[Ordo Templi Orientis]], there are those who are in a position to make certain high level decisions. The Thelemapedia Editor-in-Chief &amp; Scarlet Woman Lodge Publications Officer is [[User:Omega|Fr. Omega]], who may institute changes when content or policies might interfere with Lodge policy, Order policy or general wellbeing. He reports directly to the Lodgemaster of Scarlet Woman Lodge and the Grand Master of U.S. Grand Lodge.<br /> <br /> ==Function==<br /> '''Function''' refers to the general mechanics of the site. This includes code, visual design, wiki functionality, and all elements that affect the general user experience (such as the design of the main page, promotional efforts, etc.). The site is hosted on a server by [[User:Omega|Fr. Omega]], who donates his time and expertise in server maintenance. <br /> <br /> ==Where to go next==<br /> {{help}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Thelemapedia]]</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=7416 2012-10-24T05:13:36Z

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The day of the week is recorded in Latin.<br /> <br /> ===== Precision =====<br /> <br /> The more precisely the solar and lunar positions are noted, the more precisely the date and time will be known. The [[Moon]] takes about 2.3 days to move through a [[zodiac|zodiacal sign]]. Simply recording the signs that the [[Sun]] and [[Moon]] are in will therefore only describe a period of slightly more than two standard days. Recording the day of the week eliminates the possibility of uncertainty about the day referred to. In addition, more precision can be had by indicating the degrees, minutes, and seconds of the position of the [[Sun]] and [[Moon]]. <br /> <br /> ===== Symbolism =====<br /> <br /> The planetary assignment of days of the week and the tracking of the sun and moon through the zodiac all tap into a great wealth of symbolism. Events may be scheduled according to their symbolic relevance: for example, the installation of a lodgemaster on ''Dies Jovii'' (the day of Jupiter).<br /> <br /> ===== Examples =====<br /> <br /> The following are examples of accepted ways to record the same Thelemic date, beginning with the most precise.<br /> <br /> *Sol 22°13'5&quot; Taurus, Luna 29°6'19&quot; Pisces, ''dies Saturnii''<br /> *Sol 22°13' Taurus, Luna 29°6' Pisces, ''dies Saturnii''<br /> *Sol 22° Taurus, Luna 29° Pisces, ''dies Saturnii''<br /> *Sol in Taurus, Luna in Pisces, ''dies Saturnii''<br /> *Sol in Taurus, Luna in Pisces<br /> <br /> '''[[Calendar|Read more...]]'''<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=James_Wasserman&diff=10398 2012-10-24T05:00:58Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''James Wasserman'''<br /> <br /> == Bibliography ==<br /> <br /> * &lt;i&gt;The Slaves Shall Serve: Meditations on Libery&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Sekmet Books, 2004.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=James_Wasserman&diff=6344 2012-10-24T05:00:35Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''James Wasserman'''<br /> <br /> == Bibliography ==<br /> <br /> * The Slaves Shall Serve: Meditations on Libery. New York: Sekmet Books, 2004.</div>

Omega https://thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=Euclydes_Lacerda_de_Almeida&diff=6359 2012-10-24T04:46:36Z

<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Euclydes Lacerda de Almeida (Frater Thor) 1936-2010'''- was [http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Marcelo_Ramos_Motta Marcelo Motta's] first A.'.A.'. disciple and achieved, under his orientation, the Zelator Grade. In 1975 they broke ranks and Thor kept his Way by himself. He founded two Thelemic groups in Brazil, the Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Thelema (Order of Knights of Thelema) and the Sociedade Novo Aeon (New Aeon Society).<br /> <br /> In October 2000, Soror Khali Athena (Motta's friend) wrote a letter to Frater Iskurus Australis about Frater Thor. <br /> <br /> He was the A.'. A.'. senior brother in Brazil.<br /> <br /> External links:<br /> <br /> *[http://www.astrumargentum.org/arquivos/ht/bios_thor.htm www.astrumargentum.org]- Thor biography and works (in portuguese)<br /> <br /> *[http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/sunrise/s2.htm Letter by Khali Athena]<br /> <br /> ==Criticism==<br /> <br /> This link, http://www.astrumargentum.org, contains information that has been credibly reported as being unreliable. First, the timeline biography of Euclides Lacerda (Frater Thor) contains a huge amount of manipulated information about the O.T.O. in Brazil. Also, information about the first group that was initiated in Brazil in 1995 contains an altered image, and gives a false account of Lacerda receiving the Initiation Team from the United States.<br /> <br /> For more accurate information, and an unaltered version of the image, see the Scarlet Woman Lodge publication &lt;i&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;/i&gt; Vol. III No. 2, Pp. 3-4, in the article about the initiations in Brazil.<br /> <br /> Many thanks to the O.'.T.'.O.'. brethern in Brazil who brought these issues to the attention of the Thelemapedia editors.</div>

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<p>Omega: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Frater QVIF''' (aka Marcos Pagani), a Brazilian occultist, was a Probationer under instruction of [http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Marcelo_Ramos_Motta Marcelo Motta] in the 1980s. <br /> <br /> Today QVIF promulgates [http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Thelema Thelema] in Brazil. See http://www.astrumargentum.org.<br /> <br /> ==Criticism==<br /> <br /> This link, http://www.astrumargentum.org, contains information that has been credibly reported as being unreliable. First, the timeline biography of Euclides Lacerda (Frater Thor) contains a huge amount of manipulated information about the O.T.O. in Brazil. Also, information about the first group that was initiated in Brazil in 1995 contains an altered image, and gives a false account of Lacerda receiving the Initiation Team from the United States.<br /> <br /> For more accurate information, and an unaltered version of the image, see the Scarlet Woman Lodge publication &lt;i&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;/i&gt; Vol. III No. 2, Pp. 3-4, in the article about the initiations in Brazil.<br /> <br /> Many thanks to the O.'.T.'.O.'. brethern in Brazil who brought these issues to the attention of the Thelemapedia editors.</div>

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