From tyagi@bjt.net Mon Nov 18 16:21:29 1996 Return-Path: tyagi@bjt.net Received: from kudonet.com (kudonet.com [165.227.52.1]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00779 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:21:09 -0500 Received: from kudo20.kudonet.com by kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA11308; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:12:37 -0800 Received: by kudo20.kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA07818; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:05:06 -0800 From: tyagi@bjt.net (Tyagi Nagasiva) Message-Id: <199611182005.MAA07818@kudo20.kudonet.com> Subject: Misc/9611.aurmsls.jn To: tyagi@hollyfeld.org Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:05:06 -0800 (PST) Orientation: House of Kaos, St. Joseph, Kali Fornika, US -- Kali Yuga X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O >From enochian-l-owner@hollyfeld.org Mon Nov 18 11:02:15 1996 X-Authentication-Warning: bitsy.hollyfeld.org: majordom set sender to owner-enochian-l using -f Date: Mon, 18 Nov 96 13:42 EST Message-Id: <2.2.16.19961118134156.110fd1dc@megalinx.net> X-Sender: browe@megalinx.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: enochian-l@hollyfeld.org From: Josh Norton Subject: Re: aurum solis Sender: owner-enochian-l@hollyfeld.org Precedence: bulk content-length: 1975 At 06:37 AM 11/18/96 CST, CENSORED wrote: >I've come across several references to to a group called aurum solis >who did enochian workings but i have had a had time finding out >much more than that about them. I believe i remember seeing some >book by the very scary Llewellyn book people about them, but considering >the umm, err "quality" of most Llewellyn books I didn't go to the trouble >of ordering it, but that has been the only source i've come across. Any >body out there know anything about them or other sources of info >on them? > The Aurum Solis stuff is actually one of the best things Llewellyn has ever published. There was a five or six-volume set under the title _The Magical Philosophy_, by Melitta Denning and Osborne Phillips. (I've since seen editions with the volumes combined in various ways. Check your local bookstore.) These books are a compilation of the initiatory system and related materials of a working occult order. The material is vaguely Golden Dawn-ish, but much better organized, and with a somewhat different viewpoint. I disagree with some of their theoretical constructs (which get somewhat Jungian at times), but their practical material is first-rate. Everybody who uses the Enochian magick ends up putting their own unique spin on it in some way. The Aurum Solis added their own special touch in their method of using _Liber Scientiae_. They combined the Second Call with the Call of the Aethyrs to force the manifestation of the Parts towards the material pole of existence, and then concentrated on the numbered "ministers" in each Part. For each set of ministers, they obtained a name, an image of their appearance, and the aspects of existence over which they could exercise control. These ministers, once invoked to evoked to visible appearance, could be put to various purposes. Ben ------------------------ Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. -- John Lennon Josh Norton (aka Benjamin Rowe) -- browe@megalinx.net ----- End of forwarded message from Josh Norton -----