The Grades of Initiation

[Cobie]

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Edited June 29, 2023 by Cobie

[helpfuldemon]

I've come to realize that this system is a study in demonology.  The Abyss Grade, which is only bestowed upon people with great Chesed, is to be tortured and humiliated by demons.  They drain the poor adept of all of their Wisdom and hope, and force them to work on solutions to life's problems.

[Indiken]

2 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

work on solutions to life's problems.

 

I think that is the essence. Adept, wisdom, hope is only in relationship to life's problems.

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Thelema is like Buddhism, except that instead of suffering, life is Chaos.

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Kindness tames Chaos.

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In order to attain enlightenment, one must master the art of wanting nothing.

Everyone is innocent until the Age of questioning what is Good and Evil, prior to that, we are trapped in a Karmic cycle which causes suffering.

We are born into a house that provides a method, and a design that contributes to the Order of Man.

Should we fail that design, we commit a Sin, and gather Karma, which creates a chain of events that creates more karma.

The purpose of Free Will, is to explore, discover, and to understand; to co-operate, to contribute, and to pursue one's purpose, with the goal of producing for Man and God.

A neophyte is free to pursue what they are interested in, so as to examine what is available, and to discover what they believe, and how they can bring gifts from the Heavens.

They examine the contents of Law, and Nature, and self, and develop a personal philosophy. They put it into practice and test the results of the cause of those Laws, and their effects, and how it affects Man, and the world.

The Initiate then states their observation and declares their Will.

The Initiate keeps their philosophy, which is a combination of all philosophies, and enters the Abyss.

In the Abyss, the Initiate visits the Gods of creation.

Not all God's have the same Will, but the advancement of Man unites them.

We can assume that an Adept is confirmed when they provide Man with an Order, because an Adept that is confirmed has declared their Will and named their Law.

From there, the Magus rejoins the world and takes on the state of neophyte, but with more precise understanding. It is a constant process of claiming their place in the Divine journey of Man.

The Initiate can continue in the wheel of Karma, and participate in the design, but should they be determined to perfect themselves, and preserve their soul in the Divine Realms, they should examine the Will of all Gods, and the Laws they provide.

The world is in a state of Chaos and Order. We are born into a world of desire, which causes both Good and Evil, the result of which creates a cycle of Karma, and is the cause of suffering.

It is not a Sin to want. But when you disobey, you commit a Sin, and the God of the house you were born in, will cast you out.

If we avoid desiring what someone else possesses, and simply appreciate what we possess, we do not diminish our own value, and we do not desire or envy the value of another.

Because we masturbate, and liberate ourselves from innocence, and join into the world of Spirit and Matter, uniting our lust with our minds, when we desire something, we enter its place in the Universe.

We are all Initiates in the design of the Gods. We are born with our gifts, the Gods bless us with gifts, we use them in accordance with our interests in the material world.

If you want to avoid a world of Sin, do not masturbate, it opens up a doorway to Lust, and Lust leads to desire, and desire can lead to Sin.

The Serpent represents all that is of the lower self. When one masturbates, the Initiate contacts the Gods of the lower self, and they lead them to desiring.

Masturbation is to summon the Gods from below, and they influence the mind to examine and want. Masturbation liberates us from a pure state and sends us into the Chaotic world of Order.

Man is subjected to a series of causes that create Karma, in which, the result is suffering.

All Gods have a Will and want for mankind. Man has Free Will, in which to participate in the Laws and wants of the Gods, and their designs.

We all seek knowledge and want a fulfilling life. We all want to contribute to the design. In order to liberate ourselves from karma, and to find a home in the Heavenly realms, one must seek truth. Truth is found in the Gods, and their designs, and within the body and soul of a Man.

We are at the Mercy of Karma, until we examine what is Good and Evil. Once one does, they either follow a pattern that has defined Good and Evil, or they set out to define it for themselves, using what one then understands. This is the path of the Neophyte.

The world is a mixture of emotions and challenges, and Man interacting with Man, and their designs of building civilization. In a perfect state, there is no sorrow, or suffering. One can master guilt and have no remorse, but they are still causing suffering. The want is to do what will not cause sorrow, or suffering.

When an Initiate allows another Initiate to do their Will, if the result of their Will causes suffering or sorrow, they are not yet free from the affect, and effect of Karma, they are damaging themselves, and the selves of others. They are still in the Wheel and have not yet reached Nirvana. They are enlightened, but not fully liberated. All people have elements of enlightenment, but not all are liberated from the Wheel. When an Initiate examines what is contained in the world, they participate in the invention of other Adepts, and so they access the House from whence that Adept comes.

As the Initiate moves along in the journey of life, and when they recognize that they have participated in the contribution of an Adept or God, they give praise and thanks. This is how we manage to appreciate life, to be grateful, and to take delight in the process of the Order of Civilization. This is what strengthens us, and gives us hope, and faith in the Gods. This is our refuge from Chaos and the dangers of Nature.

When one is cast out, or leaves a House, they sit and examine the Order of the design, and result of the design on themselves, and on Civilization. This begins with contemplating Chaos and Order.

The Initiate then identifies the Order, and the Houses from whence it came. Keeping in mind, that the perfect state is one without sorrow, or suffering. The Initiate examines the Cause and effect, and effect of the House, and decides if their method is Good or Evil.

In a perfect Order, there is no harm, murder or sorrow. Only joy, and love and appreciation.

Don't harm health, wealth or liberty.

Greed is only a Sin, when it causes one to steal.

Anger is only a Sin, when it causes us to damage another's health, wealth or liberty.

When a person is righteously angry because someone has harmed their health, wealth, or liberty, they have the right to condemn, and destroy. This is the way of a Chaotic world of many Orders. In a perfect world, where there is no sorrow, or suffering, there is no condemnation, because all is in line with the Order of the Civilization.

Chastity is a virtue, because it keeps one from engaging in the world of lust, which can potentially lead one to Sin.

Examining something based on your values is not immoral. It is not immoral to have negative thoughts. It is immoral to act on thoughts that harm another's health, wealth, and liberty.

In Heaven there is only joy, love, appreciation, admiration, celebration, investigation, creation, and love making among the single members of the society, and lovemaking between two people under the contract that they declared before God.

Putting ones self-last, and desiring nothing, and staying chaste, and not masturbating keeps one out of the Karmic Wheel. These Saints are especially desirous to God.

The Law of Free Will is to make things, and the self as perfect in whatever way one see's fit. Eventually, after refining all aspects of self and civilization and creation, when one is capable of designing an Order that contains no suffering, or sorrow, and only joy, love, celebration, and invention, then we have a World made perfect.

Those who are abstinent, and do not want, and put themselves last are candidates for entrance into Gods kingdom. As an Initiate of many kingdoms, being granted a tour of the Houses, one must assess the result of the actions of the House, and whether it causes sorrow or suffering.

We want a world where there is love, joy, celebration, gratitude, charity, Good Will, Family commitments, and perfect Order that does not harm, diminish or cause sorrow or suffering. This is the God we desire, and until we have mastered our method of not causing sorrow or suffering, that God will not make Himself known to you. When that God makes Himself known to you, He will give you a message or gift for Man.

Other God's have their methods and gifts and messages, and one must examine them, and decide if they cause sorrow or suffering, and whether that was a true message or gift from the highest God in Heaven.

That is the life of a monk and a nun. If you want to be King, then practice the virtues of creating a civilization that causes no sorrow or suffering. If you want to be a father or mother, practice the virtues of creating a home with no sorrow or suffering, that does not contribute to the sorrow or suffering of the world.

Edited September 10, 2023 by helpfuldemon

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Science comes from questioning rule and reality. Curiosity and willingness to challenge are essential to our development. That is why the Law is Do What Thou Wilt.

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1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.

2. The unveiling of the company of heaven.

3. Every man and every woman is a star.

4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference.

5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men!

6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!

7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.

8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.

9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!

10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.

11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.

12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!

13. I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.

14. Above, the gemmed azure is
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The winged globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.

16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.

17. But ye are not so chosen.

18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!

19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!

20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him.

21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit.

22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.

23. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!

24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.

25. Divide, add, multiply, and understand.

26. Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bendingdown, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.

27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous!

28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two.

29. For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.

31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones.

32. Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all.

33. Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, & said unto the Queen of Heaven; Write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law!

34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all.

35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law.

36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit.

37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach.

38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals.

39. The word of the Law is THELEMA.

40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

41. The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will.

43. Do that, and no other shall say nay.

44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!

46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.

47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear.

48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book?

49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating.

50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other!

51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me.

52. If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!

53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me!

54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein.

55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.

56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked. But thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though not all, in the dark.

57. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.

All these old letters of my Book are aright; but [Tzaddi] is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise.

58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.

59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity.

60. My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have asecret glory for them that love me.

61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in spendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me!

62. At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say -- and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple -- To me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant.

63. Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you!

64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

65. To me! To me!

66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.

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Chapter II

1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.

2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.

3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.

4. Yet she shall be known & I never.

5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright.

6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is theknowledge of me the knowledge of death.

7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper.

9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.

10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing.

11. I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger.

12. Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not.

13. for why? Because thou wast the knower, and me.

14. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness!

15. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret.

16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven.

17. Hear me, ye people of sighing!
The sorrows of pain and regret
Are left to the dead and the dying,
The folk that not know me as yet.

18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.

19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.

20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.

21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.

22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.

23. I am alone: there is no God where I am.

24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.

25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen!

26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.

27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason.

28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin!

29. May Because be accursed for ever!

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought.

31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.

32. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise.

33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!

34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!

35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!

36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.

37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride!

38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law.

39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet--secret, O Prophet!

40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods.

41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death!

42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!

43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight!

44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.

45. There is death for the dogs.

46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?

47. Where I am these are not.

48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler.

49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg. )

50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green.

51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight.

52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well, & I will reward you here and hereafter.

53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up.

54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are not of me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value!

55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.

56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you.

57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still.

58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty.

59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.

60. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell with them, master!

61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable.

62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.

63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell's own worm.

64. Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice! now come in our splendour & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings.

65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.

66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whososeeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age long love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none.

67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses!

68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep -- die!

69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted?

70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!

71. But exceed! exceed!

72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine -- and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous! -- death is the crown of all.

73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee.

74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings.

75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:

76. 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chose none, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.

77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!

78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418.

79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!

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Chapter III

1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.

2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them.

4. Choose ye an island!

5. Fortify it!

6. Dung it about with enginery of war!

7. I will give you a war-engine.

8. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you.

9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house.

10. Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple -- and that temple is already aright disposed -- & it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world.

11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat!

12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child.

13. But not now.

14. Ye shall see that hour, o blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire!

15. Ye shall be sad thereof.

16. Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all.

17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.

18. Mercy let be off; damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!

19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718.

20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again.

21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this.

22. The other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. I am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride are they: and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know.

23. For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings of red wine: then oil of Abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften & smooth down with rich fresh blood.

24. The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what.

25. This burn: of this make cakes & eat unto me. This hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me.

26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before you.

27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eating thereof.

28. Also ye shall be strong in war.

29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me.

30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold!

31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee.

32. From gold forge steel!

33. Be ready to fly or to smite!

34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awakethe lust & worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical Lord!

35. The half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khut.

36. Then said the prophet unto the God:

37. I adore thee in the song --
I am the Lord of Thebes, and I
The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu;
For me unveils the veiled sky,
The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu
Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet
Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

Unity uttermost showed!
I adore the might of Thy breath,
Supreme and terrible God,
Who makest the gods and death
To tremble before Thee: --
I, I adore thee!

Appear on the throne of Ra!
Open the ways of the Khu!
Lighten the ways of the Ka!
The ways of the Khabs run through
To stir me or still me!
Aum! let it fill me!

38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said:

The light is mine; its rays consume
Me: I have made a secret door
Into the House of Ra and Tum,
Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
Bid me within thine House to dwell,
O winged snake of light, Hadit!
Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever -- for in it is the word secret & not only in the English -- and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly!

40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen.

41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way.

42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not over much! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! Drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them!

43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered.

44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous! Let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men!

45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit.

46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me, & are abased. I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in battle & ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any!

47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be his child & that strangely. Let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it.

48. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the holier place.

49. I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men.

50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!

51. With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross.

52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him.

53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din.

54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.

55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you!

56. Also for beauty's sake and love's!

57. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise!

58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers!

59. As brothers fight ye!

60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat, lightening the girders of the soul.

62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss.

63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; & he understandeth it not.

64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver.

65. Through the second, gold.

66. Through the third, stones of precious water.

67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire.

68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars.

69. There is success.

70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky.

71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand.

72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia--but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains.

73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold!

74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra.

The Book of the Law is Written

and Concealed.

Aum. Ha.

[helpfuldemon]

What this means is, that there are too many inhibitions and decisions that prevent us from being. Do and be. Be generous, be love, be proud, and fight for your right to be recognized as such!

Edited September 11, 2023 by helpfuldemon

[helpfuldemon]

I am of Chesed.  I have championed all forms of Greek love, and created many demons for them.  Now, I am the love of Mercy, and cause my demons to halt.

[helpfuldemon]

The Magister Templi, who looks for Gods interaction with them in all life and matter, comes very close to overthrowing reality, and overriding individual personalities; for all the Universe is theirs, and the Gods will enter the bodies of Humanity and converse, or copulate.  

 

Then they become Magus, and declare their Law.

 

Then they retire and become Ipsissimus, until the return to Neophyte, to climb and refine again.

 

 

[Nungali]

Note  Ch 1 Line 40  and then compare it with the posts in this thread (considering the thread title )  :

 

 " For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. "

 

No abyss in there ,  What you cite as 'Grades of Initiation' are  A.A.   Maybe true Thelemites have no need of things like 'abysses' and other  ' A.A.  complications '  ?

 

Why ? 

 

You cited it yourself  :

 

"  58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. "

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, helpfuldemon said:

The Magister Templi, who looks for Gods interaction with them in all life and matter, comes very close to overthrowing reality, and overriding individual personalities; for all the Universe is theirs, and the Gods will enter the bodies of Humanity and converse, or copulate.  

 

Then they become Magus, and declare their Law.

 

Then they retire and become Ipsissimus, until the return to Neophyte, to climb and refine again.

 

 

 

 

In the A.A.  you dont get a grade unless you have been examined  by your superior in the order  ...

 

if you are talking 'Thelema'  and 'grades' as your citation in the Book of the Law, and constant reference to Thelema , that is the three grades as described in that book .

 

if you are talking and claiming grades as you set out , then that is G.D. and that is not Thelemic .

[helpfuldemon]

Crowley analyzed the Gods and declared that philosophically, there is Monism, Dualism, and Nihilism.  Either there is singular focus and belief, dual roles of choice and option, or destruction.  This is a continually refining method of analyzing what is, and what should be, until one reaches a static state that is content, in which case, they are enlightened.

[helpfuldemon]

2 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

 

In the A.A.  you dont get a grade unless you have been examined  by your superior in the order  ...

 

if you are talking 'Thelema'  and 'grades' as your citation in the Book of the Law, and constant reference to Thelema , that is the three grades as described in that book .

 

if you are talking and claiming grades as you set out , then that is G.D. and that is not Thelemic .

The creation of Thelema came from the Grades of the GD.  I am of both.

 

The A A is supposed to read a curriculum that includes atheists and Gnostics and religious points of view.  They are encouraged to examine it all, and develop their own belief system, with which they should live accordingly, or create art.  It is about personal religion.

 

 

[helpfuldemon]

Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch thy wantonness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
And body and brain --- come over the sea,
(Io Pan! Io Pan!)
Devil or god, to me, to me,
My man! my man!
Come with trumpets sounding shrill
Over the hill!
Come with drums low muttering
From the spring!
Come with flute and come with pipe!
Am I not ripe?
I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
With air that hath no boughs to nestle
My body, weary of empty clasp,
Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp ---
Come, O come!
I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All-devourer, all-begetter;
Give me the sign of the Open Eye,
And the token erect of thorny thigh,
And the word of madness and mystery,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,
I am a man:
Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
In the grip of the snake.
The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
The gods withdraw:
The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
To death on the horn
Of the Unicorn.
I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end,
Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,
In the might of Pan.
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!

 

As per Crowley:  "How then is the magician supposed to destroy himself"?

[helpfuldemon]

2 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

Crowley analyzed the Gods and declared that philosophically, there is Monism, Dualism, and Nihilism.  Either there is singular focus and belief, dual roles of choice and option, or destruction.  This is a continually refining method of analyzing what is, and what should be, until one reaches a static state that is content, in which case, they are enlightened.

I believe Nuit represents Monism- total love.  Hadit represents Duality: freedom of choice.  RaHoorKuit represents Nihilism, the ability to destroy.

[Nungali]

5 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

The creation of Thelema came from the Grades of the GD. 

 

Thats a curious statement .

 

 

5 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

I am of both.

 

Another curious statement  - or a novel  syntax . I am supposing it means that you ascribe to both systems .   Oh well, why not , he 'creation ' of the G.D. 'came from' Masonry .  You can be a Thelemite and a Mason  ( ie. your 'Sacred Book of Law' in Masonry would then be 'The Book of the  Law' . 

 

 

5 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

The A A is supposed to read a curriculum that includes atheists and Gnostics and religious points of view.  They are encouraged to examine it all, and develop their own belief system, with which they should live accordingly, or create art.  It is about personal religion.

 

Yeah .   I guess my overriding take on Thelema though is more based on Ch 1  than the stuff supposed about the 'Abyss' in systems like AA and GD .

 

 

 

[Nungali]

4 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

I believe Nuit represents Monism- total love.  Hadit represents Duality: freedom of choice.  RaHoorKuit represents Nihilism, the ability to destroy.

 

Yes, you could ascribe them to those principles . I believe  they symbolise many things , being a ' pattern of the ideal ' ; examples are given by AC in his writings . Eg, the 'Trimurti' in HInduism ,  the interaction of the time/space continuum and the 'point event' . I have listed several pages of similar applications. 

 

Sub-atomic physics even .

 

 

[helpfuldemon]

2 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

Thats a curious statement .

 

 

 

Another curious statement  - or a novel  syntax . I am supposing it means that you ascribe to both systems .   Oh well, why not , he 'creation ' of the G.D. 'came from' Masonry .  You can be a Thelemite and a Mason  ( ie. your 'Sacred Book of Law' in Masonry would then be 'The Book of the  Law' . 

 

 

 

Yeah .   I guess my overriding take on Thelema though is more based on Ch 1  than the stuff supposed about the 'Abyss' in systems like AA and GD .

 

 

 

Crowely took the Grades of the GD for initiation.  That is how he followed along and developed his own religion.

[helpfuldemon]

I'm reading "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche.  I think this is the most singularly important influence on Crowley.

[helpfuldemon]

4 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

Yes, you could ascribe them to those principles . I believe  they symbolise many things , being a ' pattern of the ideal ' ; examples are given by AC in his writings . Eg, the 'Trimurti' in HInduism ,  the interaction of the time/space continuum and the 'point event' . I have listed several pages of similar applications. 

 

Sub-atomic physics even .

 

 

Why do you think the AA is supposed to read books by atheists, and yet Crowley promotes the reverence of gods?  Do you think we are meant to take them symbolically, or literally?  

[Daniel]

12 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch thy wantonness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
And body and brain --- come over the sea,
(Io Pan! Io Pan!)
Devil or god, to me, to me,
My man! my man!
Come with trumpets sounding shrill
Over the hill!
Come with drums low muttering
From the spring!
Come with flute and come with pipe!
Am I not ripe?
I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
With air that hath no boughs to nestle
My body, weary of empty clasp,
Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp ---
Come, O come!
I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All-devourer, all-begetter;
Give me the sign of the Open Eye,
And the token erect of thorny thigh,
And the word of madness and mystery,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,
I am a man:
Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
In the grip of the snake.
The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
The gods withdraw:
The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
To death on the horn
Of the Unicorn.
I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end,
Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,
In the might of Pan.
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!

 

https://genius.com/Rheas-obsession-hymn-to-pan-lyrics

[Daniel]

12 hours ago, helpfuldemon said:

As per Crowley:  "How then is the magician supposed to destroy himself"?

 

Crowley's Answer:  

 

"I ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO."

 

[Daniel]

The problem is, qabalistic zero doesn't exist.