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Robert Anton Wilson's eight circuit model as it corresponds to the tree of life.
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Eros (Rose) Magic Square (derived from the Sator Square).
Eros is the Greek God of love and desire. Using the numerical values of the Greek letters of his name (E = 5, R = 17, O = 24, S = 18), we can generate a magic square where each row, column and diagonal sums to 64.
Rose is an anagram of Eros, and is a symbol of Aphrodite or Venus, the Goddess of Love. The Roman name for Eros is Cupid, who appears in “The Tale of Cupid & Psyche” by Apuleius.
This tale appears in many forms, such as “Sleeping Beauty”, where the name of the princess is “Briar Rose”, or the tale of Tannhauser and Venus. The symbol of the rose also appears in Dante’s Paradiso, and the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral.
Phanes is a primeval Greek deity who is related to Eros, with love and desire being a prime motive force : “Love is the Law, Love Under Will” - Liber AL vel Legis.
The final diagram (by John Martineau) shows the Pentagram of Venus, which is the rose-like pattern generated by Venus and the Earth as they orbit the Sun over a period of eight years. Venus is known as the Morning Star, or Lucifer, the Light Bringer.
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"SOLVE ET COAGULA"
"Gnosis (mysticism become conscious of itself) is exactly what the image of The Priestess expresses both in its entirety and in its details, namely the descent of revelation (the pure act or essence reflected by substance) down to the final stage."
"The essence of pure mysticism is creative activity. One becomes a mystic when one dares to elevate oneself - i.e. "to stand upright", then even more upright, and ever more upright - beyond all created being as far as the essence of Being, the divine creative fire. "Concentration without effort" is burning without smoke or crackling fire. On the part of the human being it is the act of daring to aspire to the supreme Reality and this act is real and effective only when the soul is serene and the body completely relaxed - without smoke or crackling fire.
The essence of pure gnosis is reflected mysticism. Gnosis signifies that that which takes place in mysticism has become higher knowledge. That is, gnosis is mysticism which has become conscious of itself. It is mystical experience transformed into higher knowledge."
"That is why it is necessary to renounce "personal opinion" (the Magus in us) in order to receive the revelation of truth, "personal" action (the Priestess in us) in order to become an agent for sacred magic, the way (or method) of "personal" development (the Empress in us) in order to be guided by the Master of The Ways, and one's "personally" chosen mission (Emperor) in order to be charged with a mission from above."
(Anon. Meditations On The Tarot)
Are we then to renounce "personal things" to become an empty space to be filled by Divine initiative?
Should we become anonymous?
Regarding the six of Disks, we see this as a personal transformation described thus:
"It represents consciousness in its most harmonised form, not only in idea, as in the case of the number two. In other words, the Son is an interpretation of the Father in terms of the mind." (A.C. The Book of Thoth)
The six here is an interpretation of the Ace of Disks in terms of the mind - we are occupied with the values of our actions (inner/external), what does our earthly existence mean to us, how can we transform ourselves to find harmony in our body and soul using all the six planets seen here?
In the Cups we see that water no longer flows from them to nourish and sustain the plants.
The blossoms have withered and dried, the sea has become a stagnant pool - but a clue to salvation is found in the the outline of a butterfly (transformation into a higher consciousness) formed by the shape of roots in the image.
"It is not death that resists life but always the ego marking the boundaries against death by not letting the energies flow, accumulating them instead as protection against the fear of death." (Akron/Banzhaf)
We need therefore to actively involve ourselves in the process of letting go of old patterns and behaviours in order to experience new ones, to be like the alchemical Priestess seen in "14 - Art" incorporating our light and dark natures - to fully express who we are, to completely trust our intuition and renounce any obstacles in communicating with it.
The Priestess rules over these intuitive and unconscious powers - she combines both the dark and light side of our nature, she is the inner guide to these states and their energy.
"A great deal of what people now consider ignorance, of being themselves ignorant of what men of Old Time thought, comes from this misapprehension (of heating something in a retort over a flame, as opposed to letting it take place naturally). At the bottom of (Art/14) are seen fire+water harmoniously mingled, but this is only a crude symbol of the spiritual idea, which is the satisfaction of the desire of the incomplete element of one kind to satisfy its formula by assimilation of its equal and opposite." (A.C. The Book of Thoth)
The Priestess then is our connection between the inner world of our emotions/intuition/dreams and the external world of experience, she is "Isis the Eternal Virgin, the truth behind the veil of light, the idea behind all form.
"This is the contemplative sense, which follows on from concentration & meditation and commences the moment that discursive and logical thought is suspended. This occurs when there is the matter of a new dimension of knowledge, mainly depth. It occurs when it is a question of something deeper, the question of "true or false?" when the enquirer perceives more of the significance of the truth discovered by this discursive thought and why this truth is true in itself. We reach the mystical or essential source of this truth by listening in silence." (Lynda IH Hughes - 22 Keys To Wisdom)
"Each of us is linked to a spiritual being whom he/she calls the Holy Guardian Angel, until we have become spiritually wedded to this being, we are not fully equipped as human beings to rule the denizens of our lower nature or advance spiritually" (Lon Milo Duquette - Angels, Demons and Gods Of The New Millennium).
Aleister Crowley devised a magical word to illustrate knowledge of and conversation with this Holy Guardian Angel, a word found hidden in the imagery of the Chariot card and which symbolises the union of numbers five and six (seen either side of the Priestess here, as light and dark) - ABRAHADABRA, representing "magical change" when we combine our emotional nature to produce tangible results that have been influenced by our intuition which reminds us finally of who we really are.
"The direct wisdom of gnosis (the Priestess) and the productive power of magic (the Empress), whosever has these two, to a certain degree can found a "school"(teach). Whosoever has these two to a "still higher" degree can lay down the Law!" (Anon. Meditations On The Tarot)
"Love is the law, love under will." (A.C. The Book of the Law also known as Liber AL vel Legis)
"This is the harmony of the Universe, that Love
Unites the will to create with the understanding
Of that creation; understand thou thine own will.
Love and let Love. Rejoice in every shape of Love
And get thy rapture and nourishment thereof."
(A.C. The Book of Thoth)
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“Enochian Depth Charge” (2021-03-21-SUN-01-40-HST).
The Enochian System is a “Symbolic Representation of the Universe” c.f. “The Equinox Vol I, No. VII, March MCMXII” (1912 EV, Sol in Aries).
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“Celtic Archetypes on the World Tree” (2021-03-20-Equinox).
The Fool (Maiden/Gillie) goes zig-zag down the Tree, until they manifest within the Physical World (Kingdom).
The Way-Shower at the bottom is the Guide to the Wheel of Fortune (Zodiac) and Path of Return, reversing your way back up the Tree.
This is a more balanced Path, with the Divine Feminine on the RHS of the spread, and the Divine Masculine on the LHS.
The Fates (Maiden, Weaver (Mother), Keeper (Crone)) are all present, weaving your Life on their Loom, Ariadne’s thread thru the Labyrinth.
The Adultrach/Mistress beckons you into Daath, the Sitra Atra (“Other Side”), the Underworld.
The circle starts again at the top, with the maiden Spinner, and the young Hero.
The Poet appears twice, since he is the one telling you this tale, while the fire crackles, and the mead has made you drowsy ...
Cards: “The Celtic Wisdom Oracle” by Caitlin Matthews (2011).
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“Circular [LOGIC]” (2021-03-21-SUN-05-46-CET).
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Cartographies (Maps) of Consciousness.
For more on map-making and psychonautics, please visit “Noise vs. Signal”.
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Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
This diagram can be used as a map of whatever system you are working with, whether the microcosm (yourself) or the macrocosm (the universe), or any level in between.
“That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below“ - From a translation of the “Emerald Tablet” by Sir Isaac Newton.
A modern version of the statement above would be: “The Universe is a fractal, holographic, self-similar system”.
Energy (light, “Ohr”), constantly flows through the different spheres (”Sephirot”). Each sphere (”sapphire”) disperses the light in a different way, resulting in a different color and effect on the overall system.
The spheres shown (from bottom to top, with suggested correspondences) are:
Earth (Malkuth) - Sensory Input/Output, Physical World, Muladhara Chakra.
Moon (Yesod) - Imagination, Dreams, Fantasy, Svadhisthana Chakra.
Mercury (Hod) - Intellect, Language.
Venus (Netzach) - Emotion, Passion, Love, Music.
Sun (Tipareth) - Beauty, Balance, Anahata Chakra.
Mars (Geburah) - Will, Force, Energy, Manipura Chakra.
Jupiter (Chesed) - Compassion, Kindness, Mercy, Benevolence.
Uranus (Daath) - Ego, Vishuddhi Chakra.
Saturn (Binah) - Understanding, Gnosis, Ajna Chaka.
Neptune (Chokmah) - Wisdom, Ajna Chakra.
Pluto (Keter) - Sahasrara Chakra.
At any given time, if you take a “snapshot” of the system, you will see that there will be more energy in some spheres than others.
Each sphere influences others that it is connected to, and energy will flow from a sphere that has an excess of energy to one that has a deficit. Feedback loops (both “positive” and “negative”) are also common.
Note how the astrological symbols for the planets can all be generated from a combination of the circle and the line.
For example, moving the cross of the elements down from the circle of earth gives the Mirror of Venus or Ankh of Isis. Adding the crescent horns of the moon to this gives the glyph for Mercury. The signs for Jupiter and Saturn are variants of each other. For more on this subject, please see John Dee’s “Monas Hieroglyphica” (1564).
For practical work with this system, consult “Liber 777″. For example, if you wish to create a ritual to invoke or channel the energies of Mercury (intellect, facility with language, the Trickster etc.), then all rows with the number 8 (the number of this sphere) in each table will give you the correspondences for this energy, including colors, scents (incense), drugs etc.
Another example of practical work is using the Tree in combination with the Tarot e.g. see the “Tarot Tree Spread”.
One of the clearest overviews of the Hermetic Qabalah is given in “The Mystical Qabalah” by Dion Fortune (1935).
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“Coloured Reconstructions of the Golden Dawn Wands, Sceptres and Talismans” by Steffi Grant, from her essay “Mage and Image” (early 1960s). [Representations of the human nervous system, as found in the spinal column and brain].
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The Supreme Ritual is the Invocation of Horus, which brought about the Opening of the New Aeon. March 20, Noon, at Cairo Egypt⠀ ⠀
The Supreme Ritual - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library⠀ ⠀
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The Equinox of the Gods, Spring Equinox, 1904 (March 20, 2021 at 9:37 UTC)⠀ ⠀
The Equinox of the Gods - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library ⠀
#calendar #event #thelema #magick #knowledge #wisdom
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For 2021, Thelemic New Year V:vii, represented by the docosade Atu V The Hierophant and Atu VII The Chariot, occurs on March 20 at 9:37 UTC.⠀ ⠀
Thelemic New Year - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library ⠀ ⠀
#calendar #event #thelema #magick #knowledge #wisdom
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Spring Equinox 2021
Today is Spring Equinox; one of the balance points of the year where neither day nor night hold sway. Ahead there is more sunlight than darkness, new growth and warmth.
May we all find some light in ourselves today, to lift our moods and illuminate our paths.
A view of the stream in the wood, with a songbird and magpie soundtrack.
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Jimmy is thinking about Lucifer
On This Day | being the Vernal Equinox 2021/2012
So today is the spring (vernal equinox) which is when the daylight is equal to the night as the year turns towards summer. The Equinoxs and Solstices are major festivals in Thelema. Lucifer is the angel of light so referenceing him rising is about the equinox and the philosophical return of life and hope etc.
Oh Jimmy - still so observant
Image from HERE and also Aleister Crowley’s text for the Vernal Equinox ritual - other images via Jimmypage.com the pic of Lucifer being off the front cover of the album (cropped here)
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H.R. Giger Baphomet Tarot Deck (”Tarot of the Otherworld”).
The first image shows the cover, and the following are the numbered Tarot Trumps:
0) The Fool.
1) The Magician.
2) The High Priestess.
3) The Empress.
4) The Emperor.
5) The Hierophant.
6) The Lovers.
7) The Chariot.
8) Strength.
Some additional posts show the subsequent trumps:
9 - 18.
19 - 21.
For more on the Tarot and related topics, please visit “Noise vs. Signal”.
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“New Order” by Allyson Grey.
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