From thelema93-l-owner@www.hollyfeld.org Wed Oct 13 06:24:23 1999 Return-Path: thelema93-l-owner@www.hollyfeld.org Received: from www.hollyfeld.org (209-67-233-180.bst0.flashcom.net [209.67.233.180]) by prop.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA01419 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 06:24:22 -0700 X-envelope-info: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by www.hollyfeld.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA28434 for thelema93-l-outgoing; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:41:35 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www.hollyfeld.org: majordom set sender to owner-thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org using -f Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by www.hollyfeld.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28429 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:41:32 -0400 Received: from kiblah.demon.co.uk ([194.222.62.222]) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11bONr-0008LG-0C; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:24:00 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:22:02 +0100 To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org, eq-list@e-groups.com From: jake Subject: The Forgotten Holy Book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 4.01 Sender: owner-thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org Status: ROr THE FORGOTTEN HOLY BOOK A NOTE UPON LIBER DCCCCLXIII 1. Let the student recite this book, particularly the 169 adorations, unto his Star as it ariseth. 2. Let him seek out diligently in the sky his Star; let him travel thereunto in his Shell; let him adore it unceasingly from its rising even unto its setting by the right adorations, with chants that shall be harmonious therewith. 3. Let him rock himself to and fro in adoration; let him spin around his own axis in adoration; let him leap up and down in adoration. 4. Let him inflame himself in the adoration, speeding from slow to fast, until he can no more. 5. This also shall be sung in open places, as heaths, mountains, woods, and by streams and upon islands. 6. Moreover, ye shall build you fortified places in great cities; caverns and tombs shall be made glad with your praise. 7. Amen. The above text is in Class A, it precedes the book of astrological invocations composed by J.F.C. Fuller, called The Treasure House of Images or Liber 963. The invocations themselves are arranged in an astro-qaballistic pattern, and both the invocations and the pattern upon which they are composed are worthy of close attention. Besides this the A}A} aspirant is instructed to memorise and use the invocation corresponding to their Ascendant, or if this is not known the chapter of the Sun. This provides the beginnings of an astro-qaballistic modus operandi in Thelemic magick. The historical A.'.A.'. i.e. the group of that name at the time of the publishing of the first volume of The Equinox, used this book extensively in group rituals. Accounts of ritual dances, on Sabbatic lines (i.e. partners back to back, darkened room and involving some psycho-active substance such as Anholonium Lewinii etc.) using these chants and dating from this period have been published here and there. Besides this usage these chants also appear in the planetary rituals called The Rites of Eleusis, which contain passages and dramatic formats of great use in astrological rituals. The Rite of Jupiter is perhaps the best of the series for adaptation - to celebrate a Sun conjunct Jupiter for example. The origins of the Class A note are to be found in the John St. John record, in which Crowley is working with the Pyramidos ritual. He mentions ‘editing’ Liber 963 in the course of this retirement. The climax of the retirement - intended to enhance his communion with his Angel - seems the likely source for the inspiration that resulted in this Class A note. While 963 itself is not a Holy Book the note has Class A authority, and is therefore a ‘forgotten Holy Book’, no matter that it is composed of only seven verses. It provides an entirely astro- qaballistic context for Thelemic ceremonial magick and, as may be seen by comparing the ‘Note’ with the material in Energised Enthusiasm, an astrologically linked sex magick system is at very least implied.. The relation with Pyramidos and the traditional Thelemic ritual methodology is to be sought in the diagrams that accompany Liber 963, i.e.: # The magick square of 13, linking through traditional Kabbalah with the god name AL. # The Sephirothic Tau Cross of ten squares surrounded by a triangle of yonis (thus thirteen) as also found in the circle design in Magick, practical use of this layout is extensively demonstrated (in a particular context which does not exhaust its possibilities) in Liber Yod. # The Snake entwined Greek Cross of the Zodiac (with its central thirteenth square attributed to Spirit, not the Sun as in conventional GD usage). A link between the 26 (2X13) letters of the English Alphabet and this thirteenfold motif in Thelemic ritual is highly likely to be intentional as well as fortuitous. ALways JSK. The Gnostic Alchemical Church of Typhon-Christ http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/7770/ http://members.aol.com/kiblah1/index.html All events and institutions other than those portrayed in this Journal are fictitious ____________...oooOOO---thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org---OOOooo..._____________ To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe" to thelema93-l-request@hollyfeld.org To unsubscribe your@email.com send "unsubscribe your@email.com" To unsubscribe from the digest send to thelema93-l-digest-request@hollyfeld.org http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven/elists/thelema93-l.phtml