Solitary Thelema

Magazine

Vol I Number 1

An V i Sol Taurus

April , 2015 e.v.

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IntroductionDear reader, thanks for picking up this issue of Solitary Thelema

Magazine, the official newsletter of Thelema for the Solitary Practitioner(http://facebook.com/solitarythelema) . In this magazine are the collected works of your fellow travelers who have submitted creative work throughout the five years of our existence as an 'unlodge of solitaries'. Hopefully, if your voice isn't here already, we will hear it in a subsequent issue of Solitary Thelema Magazine.

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Soror Harmony Pax, WillLinden, and most importantly, you, the reader.

ContentsThelema for the Solitary Practitioner Magazine ....................... 1

The Crowley Student .................................................................... 3

liber i knew it all along!the (?) of the hypocrite .............................................................. 12

The Veil of Nuit ........................................................................... 13

IN BED WITH CROWLEY .............................................................. 14

Allie Crow ................................................................................... 16

Egyptian Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram ................................... 18

Enochian Healing Ritual .......................................................... 20

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The Crowley Studentby Joe Marek

I want to write about the Crowley Curriculum; but Im concerned that, because Im going to use the names of grades such as Student, Probationer, Neophyte, etc., people will presume Im writing about the A A . That most definitely is NOT the case! I am a past member of both the O.T.O. and the A A , and I have been convinced that people are better off simply NOT joining an order. As I have previously written:

No matter what Order you join, you have to put up with ego-puffery, people who talk in word-salad and call it being sublime, backstabbing politics, lite-brites who go on and on about their crystals, and people who sit around and tell each other lies about their psychic experiences. *SIGH!*

I have found the easiest way to write about the Curriculum is to use those grade names. I just want you to understand that I am most definitely NOT recommending joining a magical order.

As a Thelemite I accept The Book of the Law completely. There area couple lines in it that address the Curriculum and I want to refer to them now.

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. II:5

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Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work ofthe wand and the work of the sword : these he shall learn and teach. He must teach. I:37-38.

My interpretation of this is that since Crowley was commanded to create a new Curriculum, then we as Thelemites have an obligation to study that Curriculum1, and that is what I have done.

And so that takes us to the first grade, Student; but first I want to digress:

The Mystical and Magical System of the A A , by James Eshelman has been an incredible aid to me in working my way through the Crowley Curriculum. Before you accuse me of depending too much on the work of someone who is NOT Aleister Crowley, let me add that I also went back and checked Eshelmans instructions against the original Crowley documents: One Star in Sight, Liber Collegii Sancti, LiberGraduum Montis Abiegni and Literature Recommended to Aspirants.I did not find any omissions!

And now, finally, back to the Student grade!

Checking http://www.outercol.org/ it is not hard to click the link to the Curriculum where we find:

The Book of Abramelin, by Abraham Von Worms.

1I realize that is just my opinion, but let me add that its a very strongly held opinion; and, indeed, it is a recommendation.

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The Goetia of the Lemegeton of Solomon the King, ed. by Aleister Crowley

Transcendental Magic, by Eliphas Levi.

The Spiritual Guide, by Miguel de Molinos.

Raja Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda.

The Shiva Sanhita or The Hathayoga Pradipika.

Konx Om Pax, by Aleister Crowley.

The Book of Lies, by Aleister Crowley

777, by Aleister Crowley.

Tannhuser, The Sword of Song, Time and Eleusis (all found inCollected Works of Aleister Crowley).

The Tao Teh King.

The Equinox, Volume I, Nos. 1-10 & Volume III, No. 1.

I have reordered (and renamed) these slightly for convenience, but they are all here.

If you think it might spur you on, you can also print out Student Task and Oath. After filling it out you can burn it, frame it or hide it in a drawer, but please dont feel you have to join an Order.

What follows are my own diary entries as I first read through these. I will admit that I was rather impatient with Uncle Al. I did not want poetry, allegory or subtle sublime writing and I certainly didnt

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want over 400 pages of sarcastic book reviews. I just wanted straight-forward magical instruction, which I eventually found in The Equinox, alongside fiction, poetry, drama, even sheet music and those darn bookreviews.

What follows are my first impressions of these, I hope they may beof at least limited value to some of you.

The Book of Abramelin, by Abraham Von Worms (the Dehn/Gothedition): Like many others, I am thrilled that a modern translation hasfinally appeared. It is too timely and too important to not be madeavailable. The appearance of this book is much more than just praise-worthy; just thinking about it, I feel a sort of spiritual earthquakeoccurring.

Combining this book with Liber VIII: The Ritual Proper for the Invocation of Augoeides and Liber Samekh certainly could lead to the Knowledge and Communication of the Holy Guardian Angel ... one hopes!

The Goetia: Reading this was, of course, nothing new. I have muchexperience with the Goetia; some, but not all, of that experienceimpacting the material world.

Ive decided to try again, utilizing a spirit Ive not worked withbefore.

The desire, of course, being to have the time to actually do whatIm supposed to be doing.

Transcendental Magic, by Eliphas Levi: This is a much better bookthan The Key of the Mysteries. I think, by the time of Key, that Levi was

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under fire for some of the things hed said before; and was now trying toback pedal.

Transcendental Magic could have moved on a little more quicklythough.

Compared to more modern authors, this is like reading a book onmythology. I fail to see how it influenced Crowley.

I have to laugh at Levis constant use of the term magnetic. Healso seems fond of the word analogy. (ed. Magnetic is a 19th centuryterm for magical, and it was also used by Bardon, Randolph etc.)

It must be AE Waites translation but this is one of the mostdifficult books to get through I tackled since beginning this journal. Ick!The word turgid comes to mind.

As I get into the Ritual section, it is much easier to read,although chapter four reads like superstition.

Konx Om Pax, by Aleister Crowley: Empty Headed Athenianslaments the frustration of trying to teach anything to those with a herdanimal mentality.

The Wake World is obviously about the relationship between theaspirant and the Holy Guardian Angel. Whenever you see Adonai inAleister Crowleys writings, he is referencing the Angel. This is also aQabalistic journey. I had earlier written that it was a Qabalistic/Tarotjourney up the Tree of Life, and that it read like a sort of Alice inWonderland kind of story.

Ali Sloper supposedly reflects on the Jones-Crowleycollaboration as they put together the A A . But most of it reads like

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some kind of inside joke. You may find a few gems in it, but Im notsure its worth the effort.

Thien Tao This seems to be both a parody, and a treatise on theequilibrium of all things.

The Stone of Abiegnus This reads like a debate amongdifferent types of atheists and agnostics. I am most drawn to the finalverse, The Poet.

The Book of Lies, by Aleister Crowley: I know enough aboutQabalah, Tarot, Astrology and Eastern Thought to understand most ofwhat Crowley is saying here. But is he saying anything new, or is hetrying to prove how clever he is?

It becomes more of a game of Oh, I know what hes talking aboutnow, and less a matter of Oh, he just said something utterly brilliantthat Ive never heard of before.

Anyone coming to Konx Om Pax and The Book of Lies for magicalinstruction is going to be disappointed. There is nothing practical here;there is nothing that someone can actually use (with very fewexceptions).

I would be much more impressed by direct, simple instructions,uncluttered by cuteness; offering actual information that a student canuse.

But that will, of course, come later.

777, by Aleister Crowley: This is just an incredible cross reference.I can tell that it will be handy for all kinds of things, such as charting thegods names for an Egyptian pentagram ritual.

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Tannhuser: This story is not original with Crowley but is aWagnerian re-working of an old piece of folklore. Personally, I wouldfind a journey to the land of Venus interesting, but I know there are somekinds of Religious Nuts who would be appalled by such a thing. Im not.I also dont know why he equates Venus with Lilith. Maybe that was inthe original.

The Sword of Song: Again, I did not find Great Truths in here;just Crowley being obnoxious and trying to be clever.

It is a hodgepodge combination of all he has studied up to thispoint in his life. The conclusions he would draw from this comes later.

Time: I am not much concerned with perceptions of Time; suchconceptions are convenient for the material world we deal with. Somesudden revelation about the conception of Time is not going to cause anystore to open at a different hour. There are times in which we shouldchallenge our perceptions, but I dont see anything other than a dead-endin challenging our perceptions of Time.

Eleusis: This was far better than I expected it to be. He addressesthe topic of science far better than he does in later works.

Transcendence is emotional to the extreme; and the fact that it mayor may not be able to be measured by science is immaterial.

The Tao Te Ching: while Crowleys re-working of this may not beabsolutely brilliant, I felt the Tao reaching out to me. If I had not been aThelemite I would have become a Taoist (if I had heard of itindependently of reading Crowley). Something inside of me responds toeverything Ive read about the Tao. Or rather, as I read Crowleys Tao TeChing, there is something I feel behind what Im reading, something that

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feels like its reaching out to me and then suddenly it all makes senseto me in a way that reaches far deeper than the reasoning faculty of mysurface brain. This is really quite incredible. I havent felt this way for avery long time.

The Equinox I(1)2: An Account of A A I can see why Crowley liked this, why he saw great promise in this; why he sought forsuch a thing it has the potential to be very inspirational.

Liber Libr I have always liked this; it is a lovely piece ofwriting. Its just wonderful, and needs to be constantly reread.

Liber E vel Exercitiorum This is excellent. This is what Ivebeen waiting for. What took him so long? Its interesting that we beginwith Yoga rather than Magick. At least he mentions Tarot decks. This issomething to figuratively sink our teeth into!

The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardula I can tell this iswell-written, but I must learn more alchemy to fully appreciate it.

The Soldier and the Hunchback: ! and ? This is a great piece ofanalytical writing, and great advice to the aspirant: have healthyskepticism and have all facts prove themselves, but dont be silly!

The Temple of Solomon the King I had read this introductionbefore. I really really enjoy this. The things this intro discusses, and theway it discusses them is just perfect. It is a magnum opus all by itself.

John St. John I could wish that Crowley spent less time talking

2In order to save space, only Equinox items that are part of the Crowley Curriculum will be reviewed.

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about his diet and more time talking and doing the actual work.Having had some exposure to heightened states of consciousness, Iunderstand the euphoria of the last couple days of this working.

The Equinox I(2): Liber O vel Manus et Sagitt The simplicityand directness of this is just wonderful. This is what Ive been waitingfor.

A Handbook of Geomancy There are apparently blinds in theseinstructions.

A Note on Genesis (Allen Bennett) This is absolutely quitebrilliant, but should be considered as for a very advanced student.

Postcards to Probationers These are ingenious littleencapsulations, and worth returning to time and again ... though Idaresay some are a bit long to fit on a postcard.

The Temple of Solomon the King This installment was good.But it would have been better to give synopses of the rituals, includingthe part where actual instruction was imparted; plus he completelyoverlooked the Knowledge Lectures. Instead, my interest is drawn towhat Crowley studied before joining the Golden Dawn: Alchemy, TheSpritual Guide, The Cherubic Wanderer, The Arbatel, The SevenMysterious Orisons, Key of Solomon and other grimoires, Qabalah, TheBook of Concealed Mystery, Knorr von Rosenroth, and The Book of theSacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.

The Equinox I(3): Graduum Montis Abiegni the syllabus of theGrades. All the vague allusions to things the reader of The Equinox hasnot seen serve no purpose whatsoever.

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Aha! I know a lot of people like this; but really Crowleys timewould have been better spent writing straight forward instructions, ratherthan this contrived allegory ... and it goes on and on and on.

The Temple of Solomon the King This is really quite dry, andthe installment in The Equinox I(1) was so promising ... Ive gotten tothe end of this, and Im a little bit more kindly disposed about thisinstallment.

I really dont see where this wordy messhas much to offer. It seems hard to read these lines with much emotion.

The Equinox I(4): Liber Jugorum Speech, Action, Thought! Iunderstand the need for self-control but these steps seem a little extreme.Someone using these practices today could very well get locked up.Things have changed since 1910.

Liber A vel Armorum To create these according to instruction,one would need, at any length, some very serious blacksmithing skills.

The Temple of Solomon the King An interesting section, but Ihad already read much on Yoga, written on it too, so that much of thiswas repetition ... I find John St. John and this installment of TheTemple of Solomon the King to be quite interesting. I, too, haveencountered atmospherics. This is an interesting package en toto.

The High History of Good Sir Palamedes ... Its all about thejourney. This also relates to the Angel. We search and search for him/her,but the Angel is right there within us3 ... I think this really is one ofCrowleys better pieces.3This was written before I read Crowleys final thoughts on the process in MagickWithout Tears.

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The Equinox I(5): Liber HHH These are more advancedmeditations but I am not so crazy about the high-falutin way these arewritten.

The Training of the Mind this is really very good. It does dragin places, and Im sure Crowley hated Bennetts moralizing; but it is stillexemplary.

The Temple of Solomon the King In an effort to explain howmuch Crowley had mastered the Qabalah, we are dragged through pagesof jumbled numbers with no very good explanation.

X-Rays on Ex-Probationers blah blah blah!

The Vision and the Voice One should perhaps instead read theversion of this with commentary. However, since I am bound to read TheEquinox all the way through, I will attack this version ... Although vagueand seemingly indecipherable I find The Vision and the Voice to also beintriguing this time around. I cant wait to perform the operation myself.

The Equinox I(6): Liber Porta Lucis to print the Class Adocuments4 without full commentary is pointless.

Liber Turris vel Domus Dei not bad; it is well to do this in itsplace.

4I maintain that Aleister Crowley was the stenographer of The Book of the Law. But allthe other Holy Books are merely very personal automatic writing, and are not in thesame class with The Book of the Law, and are hard to decipher without Crowleys owncommentary.

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Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus it is all well and good tostudy these at the appropriate time, but to print a bunch of these with noannotation is a waste of time.

Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni *SIGH!* Another Class Adocument.

Liber Resh vel Helios It is my personal experience that youproject your energy towards the sun while doing this ... after a while youwill be getting much more energy back from the sun than what you areprojecting.

Liber Aash vel Capricorni Pneumatici Oh boy! Another ClassA document.

The Rites of Eleusis Saturn: This seems okay. Its interesting. Iwould like to see the music scored for a heavy metal band. Jupiter: Iguess I like the structure of this one better. Mars: There is not much toadd to these. The structure is pretty much the same. The poetry is okay,and is quite obviously meant to be read aloud. I suppose one must seethese to appreciate them. Sol: eh. Venus: I didnt quite get this; and Idont like the resolution. Mercury: This was short and left me with a bigquestion mark. Luna: All in all these are okay I guess. They would comeacross as more of a poetry reading, than as a drama or a play. Im notsure if Id actually want to go see these performed, not without taking apillow.5

The Equinox I(7): Liber B vel Magi Again, class A documents

5This was written before I realized the Rites were being released as Rock Operas onDVDs.

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really need to be published with complete commentaries.

Liber Nu hard to comment on, not having done this yet.

Liber Israfel this has not worked for me before, I have afeeling that it would work now.

Liber Stell Rube Class A

Liber Astart vel Berylli (for the Philosophus) this is veryinteresting and I look forward to doing it.

Liber RU vel Spiritus (for the Zelator) more yoga.

Liber Carcerorum Qliphoth cum Suis Geniis / Liber DomarumMercurii cum Suis Geniis Class A

Liber Tau vel Kabbal Trium Literarum Class A

Liber Os vel Abysmi vel Dath Class B

Liber Had I think there should be a Liber Ra-Hoor-Khu!

Liber Tau no comment.

Liber Viarum Vi eh.

Liber BRAShITh eh again.

A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe this isnt really enough to do anything at all with the system.Additional information would be required.

Across the Gulf at least this isnt written in a poetic format.This is a nice story, like a parable. But I dont think its one of Crowleysprevious incarnations. It is more like a myth or fable he spun to reflect

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his current level of initiation. It is a satisfying read.

The Temple of Solomon the King since this installment wasprinted in The Equinox of the Gods, I have read it many many times. Ithas interesting, but not enough, information.

The Equinox I(8): The Temple of Solomon the King this is aninteresting chapter in Crowleys career, but how does it compare to hisattaining KCHGA in John St. John.

A Brief Abstract ... part 2 just to study these in part gets onenowhere. One needs most of the recent books on Enochian Magick toput together a comprehensible all-encompassing system.

Description of the Cards of the Tarot Im scanning this, butwhen it comes time to study divination, I will absorb The Book of Thoth.

Sephir Sephiroth This is, of course, very important. Its value tothe magician is beyond measure. Its uses are near infinite. It issomething that one would constantly refer to.

The Equinox I(9): The Temple of Solomon the King Crowleycontinues to write this piece, thus we see his own reactions to what hewas going through. I like this.

Energized Enthusiasm an intriguing and involved piece. It isworthy of further study.

An Evocation of Bartzabel this was okay, but I think he wrotebetter evocations later on.

The Equinox I(10): The Book of the Law how do you commenton this without writing an entire book?

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Liber An interesting practice; itwould surely lead to enhanced control of the mind.

A Syllabus of the Official Instructions of the A A a general description of the libri. You can find these descriptions everywhere.

The Ship I like the idea, but I didnt care for the execution.

Two Fragments of Ritual The Supreme Ritual: I didnt muchcare for it. A Ritual to Invoke HICE: I have to admit I didnt much carefor this either.

The Temple of Solomon King Reaching the conclusion of this,one must say that it is a quite uneven chronicle. The introductory chapterin The Equinox I(1) was beautiful, the relation of the Golden Dawn yearswas too truncated, and the rest seemed to ramble a bit. And the chroniclereally wasnt completed in 1913, and there seem to be holes in it. Thereader wants a more comprehensive uniform account. Hopefully it willcome from somewhere else.

The Key of the Mysteries (Eliphas Levi) Ive read a hundredpages so far, and I dont understand what Crowley saw in this book.Later: After saying that religion cannot be defined or measured byscience, Levi than proceeds to try to measure and define mysticism withscience. The use of terms like magnetism and electricity abound.These must still have been new concepts back then. Over all I amdisappointed in this. It is not the great classic I hoped it would be.

The Equinox III(1) Hymn to Pan I know some people reallylove this poem, but I didnt much care for this.

A A Curriculum of course I have read all this before, but

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reading it is no substitute for doing the Work.

The Message of the Master Therion I dont care for Crowleytrying to redefine unassuaged. It doesnt wash!

The Law of Liberty again, Ive read this before repeatedly. Ifind this to be very inspirational.

Liber Caus I have read this before and I feel no purpose isserved by being so vague.

Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente it is futile to print the Class Adocuments without commentary.

De Lege Libellum there wasnt much here that I haventencountered before.

A Master of the Temple Crowleys comments are moreenlightening than Jones stumbling around. Had Jones no more directionthan this? I thought, upon becoming a Probationer he would have gottenthe A A Syllabus.

Khabs am Pekht Crowley really was totally impractical in howthe word of could be spread. His actions, his attitudes and hisconstant need to rebel against his parents religion just made thingsharder for the rest of us I believe a whole new approach is needed topropagate as a religion.

Stepping Out of the Old on and Into the New this isnt muchmore than a rephrasing of things Crowely has said.

The Gnostic Mass this ritual thinly disguises the central secretof the O.T.O. Open your eyes and be wise. This is a potentially powerful

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magical ritual, but it must be done that way, and not just as a religiousservice.

The Voice of the Silence/The Two Paths/The Seven Portals Crowleys comments on Blavatsky: from Crowleys end, if youvealready read everything else he wrote on Yoga, this is nothing new. FromBlavatskys end: She was willing to make things up way too much!Blavatsky was either doing automatic writing or she was on some sort ofhyper-creative overdrive! 6

If nothing else, I hope youre saying to yourselves, Well, I can do better than this, and that youll do just that.

I know I seemed impatient with Crowley, and I was. I wanted hardcore magical instruction, and didnt feel I was getting it until I tackled the much-diluted Equinox.

You might be wondering, that if I was so unhappy with what I was reading, why did I stick with the Curriculum. My only answer can be that I had a calling and that I had the Certainty of Nuit7 that I must tacklethis work. Once I started The Work my doubts and concerns ceased. I just knew that I had to do it, I knew it had to be done.

6I freely admit that, for works not covered in this section, I was content to read thesynopses from Mr. Eshelmans book.

7See The Book of the Law, I:58: I give [] certainty, not faith, while in life. Thelemitesdont have faith, they have certainty (in my humble opinion).

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These entries were written back in the summer of 2010, and Ive never looked back.

So get busy with it already!

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liber i knew it all along!the (?) of the hypocrite

(infinity symbol) ha! I'm in love with myself again!won-know why?

tew-cause Ive caught another pretender being a hypocrite!free-feels so good!

far-why do these people do this?fhahive-don't they see what they write?

suhix-aren't they concerned about how they seem to others orare we just supposed to worship them at face value?

suhheven-of course "we" are, why Even ask?uhhate-short verse eek

by Eve Cheshier

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The Veil of Nuit

- Da Real Slim Archimedes

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IN BED WITH CROWLEY

-- Crowley books I have read while in bed. Literally.

Crowley books all over the bed. Crowley shoots seeds of magicaleternal wisdom, opinions, smartaleck know-it-all retorts, reviews, and everything else all over the bed. Little wiggly pearls of insight and experiences and all the time he hollers, dont follow me! Well, what are we supposed to do, then, with Crowley in bed.

Reading 418 in bed got me this vision.

I was in an apartment building, and I went up stairs (how many I dont remember) to an empty apartment, thru the front door, and from behind the wall just behind the door, there came a great, sonorous, louder than reality, from beyond the know-not-where, grandiose voice saying something, I couldnt understand a word it was saying. I knew it was talking to me, tho, and that the message must be important. How long this lasted, I dont know but in visions it usually doesnt last very long and seems like forever. Finally, it said, and now my servant has my bags packed and I have to leave. I thought it said something about having to catch a plane, or maybe that was just my impression(surely itsgoing to fly not go by train(?). Then it was gone, and I went down the stairs to a seemingly lower or maybe below ground level (those garden level apartments) and sawthe Brady Bunch. Imagine that.

I can only figure that the reason this vision was arranged as it was because, in 418, Crowley describes his working in the order of, doing the body of the ritual, and whatever else is involved, and then describes coming down from the expanded seemingly large consciousness to the mundane, earthly consciousness again. Maybe his description of that process made a firm impression on my own consciousness, or maybe rather, subconsciousness. I can only surmise

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that seeing the Brady Bunch means two things, that the BB is my deep unconscious symbol of mundanity, normality, the family circle as I grew up with the concept of, and that it got that way because I spent too muchof my time watching pop culture tv in the 60s. What a waste of a good adolescence. Not my fault, parents are supposed to guide and teach kids. Messed up my expectations too. At least now I know I gotta get a broader definition and classical version of mundanity going. But it just goes to show you that, while your life experiences are your gnosis, practically any of your life experiences can end up being an important part of your own personal gnosis.

Prior to this event, and after beginning to read diligently thru 418 for some time, I started seeing 418s following me around all over town, wherever I went. 418 on license plates (the most visible when driving), 418s on the clock (seems I still manage to somehow intuitively or strangely otherwise look at the clock when its 4:18 in the afternoon) whether at home or on the computer at work or on the phone display at work or anywhere and am usually not awake at 4:18 in the blessed a.m.

One of these 418s made itself all too clear at one point while I was trying to ignore all this 418 activity. I had parked downtown to go to the civic center for something, and was a block or so away and could not see the front of the civic center from where I parked. As I rounded the corner toward the front of the civic center where they have the huge electronic word display of recent events and ticket information, a marquee-I guess its still called- there displayed on the largest clock in town, was the time. 4:18. Well, I couldnt very well ignore that large and intrusive message, could I.

Liber 418 is Crowleys only liber which gave me such a personalgnosis-interactive feedback self-referential reaction when read before falling into the hypnogogic state just before sleep. Why, is not for me to

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ask, but I do. Suffice it to say, life is not normal when in bed with Crowley .

- Sor. Stellae

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Allie Crow

Allie Crow, Allie Crow;What were you told so long ago?Were you afraid at every word?

Did you shudder at what you heard?

Three hours time was all it tookAs you wrote down that famous book.

When wars began and cities fell,Was it the work of Nuits spell?

Aiwaz words, spoken clear and precise, did speak ofNuits command, as a word to the wise, did tell ofHadits potential, as infinite of size, did harbinger

Ra-Hoor-Khuit, always master of dice, did seize the old on fling it far, fling it fast,

til it became a part of the past.Old men wonder what revealed their lies,as the world flounders and old faiths die.Wars and destruction: chaos rains down

as from the ruins the Babe cries for his crown!

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I have to ask, in this dawning age,Are you some old and dusky sage?

What can you say? What do you know?Allie Crow, Allie Crow, Allie Crow?

by Joe Marek

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Egyptian Lesser Banishing Ritual of thePentagram

Touching the forehead say Au Nnatik.Touching the waistline say Tauy.Touching the right shoulder say Wazer.Touching the left shoulder say Nefrau.Clasping the hands upon the breast say Jet r Nah-ah Amun.

Turning to the East, make the Earth Banishing Pentagram. Vibrate Ra.Turning to the South, the same, but vibrate Het-Heru.Turning to the West, the same, but vibrate Shu.Turning to the North, the same, but vibrate Djehuti.

Extending the arms in the form of a Cross say:Before me Qebeh-sen-u-ef.Behind me Imset.On my right hand Hapi.On my left hand Dua-mut-ef.For about me flame the Pentagrams,And in the Column stands the six-rayed Star.

Touching the forehead say Au Nnatik.Touching the waistline say Tauy.Touching the right shoulder say Wazer.Touching the left shoulder say Nefrau.

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Clasping the hands upon the breast say Jet r Nah-ah Amun.

-- Joe Marek

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Enochian Healing Ritual-----------------------

Intent: To achieve relief of pain as well as relief from upper respiratory problems (severe cough, cold and breathlessness)

Invocation of the Good Angels of AIR of AIR:

00. Formulated my Statement of Intent

0. Banishing Ritual (not a traditional LBRP but a variant that Frater W.I.T.used in his book.)

1. Opening of the Temple in 2=9

2. Vibrated the 3rd Enochian Call.

3. Recited Enochian Conjuration:

Ol vinu od zodakame, Ilasa, Gahe

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+ The conjuration was done one for each Good Angel: czns, ToTt, Sias, fmnd

* Names used were:

ORO-IBAH-AOZPI

BATAIVAH

6 Seniors of Air: HIPOTGA (Saturn), AAOZAIF (Jupiter), HABIORO (Mars), AHAOZPI (Venus), AVTOTAR (Mercury), HTMORDA (Luna)

Calvary Cross Angels: IDIOGO, Ardza

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Given that this was the 2nd time I was performing this, and my condition is a rather chronic one, I added a single-letter from the vertical-line of the Calvary Cross for each Good Angel. So the names called were:

czons

ToiTt

Sigas

fmond

The same technique can be applied to the previous ritual posted or to any other sub-quadrant of the other watchtowers.

This is an alternate version of a Healing ritual I wrote sometime back. I did this for a number of reasons:

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1) The first version was a success. However, after a week or so, the swelling in my foot returned. Whilst the pain was almost completely gone and remains so, my other respiratory symptoms returned. I could have repeated the ritual again (as was even suggest but the Tablet of Union spirit EHNB), however I decided to try something different.

2) There are different variations of the uses of the Angels of the various sub-quadrants. In the hierarchy posted by Sharash on http://hermetic.com/enochia/enochian_hierarchy.html , it indicated that the Water sub-quadrants were associated with Medicine and the healing of disease, in the original Dee material, it indicated that the AIR of AIR subquadrant was used. I have done 2 versions and over the next week, I shall compare and contrast the differences between both.

3) I should point out that I had done this particular version of the ritual (AIR of AIR) before the previous ritual I had posted, but my results were less than satisfactory. I am repeating it but with a difference of adding a letter from the vertical line of the Calvary Cross (Have indicated at the bottom of the ritual).

-- Frater Temperatum

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