From: Christeos Pir Area: Thelema To: Fir 6 Apr 95 20:36:50 Subject: Unicursal Hexagram & The Abyss! UpdReq -=> Fir sent a message to Christeos Pir on 04 Apr 95 20:34:54 <=- -=> Re: Unicursal Hexagram & The Abyss! <=- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Fi> Congrats to you and your wife on your recent inits! Thanks! Happy Three Days to ya! Love is the law, love under will. - V - ... with Thy captains and Thy hosts; with Thy chariots and horsemen 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Mephisto Area: Thelema To: Rose Dawn 4 Apr 95 05:55:18 Subject: Re: JUGORUM UpdReq I recall reading something regarding Crowley and his attempts to rid himself of his various substance addictions... His method being to analyze the moment in which he felt the urge to, say, do a line or two, or what not, record why he did it, what justification he had, the time, all that sort of thing... And by so analyzing everything, was able to greatly control those addictions. . . It would seem that Jugorum would have been used had Jugorum "what it takes" to handle what amounts to an unconscious urge/prompting... Once he stopped "paying attention" so to speak, he fell under his addiction(s) yet again...On the surface a resounding cry that he should have perhaps tried his own technique and slashed himself a few times. . . But, perhaps, it is simply a very good lesson in Focus, Concentration, "paying attention", what have you. He was quite able to control himself so long as that was his intent. A "perfect" allegorical treatise on Will, maybe. If you, for example, slash your arm, or pop a rubber band on your wrist (Obviously the J.R.Ewingorum ritual, if anyone remembers that anti- smoking ad many many moons ago), you set up the question "Why?" every time you perform the undesired action/thought... "Do not do this." "Why?" This amounts to an imperfection of Will, to me. Much better "in the long haul" to perform this "ritual" by "sheer force of will" rather than surrendering yourself to a need for "props". Kinda like Magick. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Kevin Bold Area: Thelema To: Rose Dawn 5 Apr 95 23:32:52 Subject: LESSER HEX RITUAL UpdReq 93! RD> I'm not talking about the Star Sapphire, but the RD> Lesser Hex, replacing 'Virgo, Isis, Holy Mother,' RD> etc., with: "Virgo, Nuit, Holy Mother; Scorpio, RD> Hadit, Holy Father, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Holy Child. RD> Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, ABRAHADABRA!" Instead of ABRAHADABRA, try VIAOV. RD> That's about all I know about this version. :/ Would one then RD> continue on with the LVX signs, replace them with RD> the NOX Signs, or use some entirely different set RD> of signs with which I'm not familiar? Would RD> ABRAHADABRA replace ARARITA, or would ARARITA RD> still go in there after the Hex's are traced? Would RD> one use the elemental hexagrams, as in the standard RD> Lesser Hex, or a Solar banishing unicursal, or LVX sounds right, but ARARITA refers to the hexagram (A:A:A = 1:1:1) while ABRAHADABRA refers to the pentagram (5 A's = "pentalpha", the pentagram's other name). Also, you may wish to experiment with different hexagrams and then get back to us with your results (and there _are_ "elemental" unicursal hexagrams). I think I still have your snail-mail address; I'll send you a copy of the Fall 94ev _Annuit Coeptis_ with the essay on the LBRH. It sounds like you'd appreciate it. 93--93/93... 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Kevin Bold Area: Thelema To: Grey 5 Apr 95 23:45:48 Subject: Unicursal Hexagram & The Abyss! UpdReq 93! G> The pentagram is commonly used as an elemental G> symbol, representing the force G> of spirit or quintessence rising up out of the G> elements. In the Book of Lies, G> chapter 69, I equate this with the Blue Tongue of Prayer, as both are G> directional symbols. The pentagram is obviously a G> directional symbol because G> it is the act of spirit -transcending- the elements G> and rising upward. Or, the elements descending from Spirit. Chapter 69 in _BoL_ is about oral sex magick (succeed = suck seed [semen], eggs = ova). The "Blue Tongue of Prayer" is the Water (downward-pointing) Triangle of the Hexagram, representing the 40 years in the desert, but in this case referring to the direction of the tongue. G> The averse pentagram is also a directional symbol, G> but descending instead of G> ascending. It represents the act of spirit being G> directed downward into the G> elements and impregnating them, as in the G> consecration of a talisman. In G> chapter 69, this is the Red Tongue of Grace. It is The Red (Fire) Triangle is the upward pointing triangle of the Hexagram, standing for the heat of the desert, but again, in this case, there is a different, sexual meaning. Also, keep in mind that "David" is not always a man's name in Hebrew -- it means "beloved". G> formulating the averse pentagram. NOW, what happens G> when you lay a pentagram G> over top of an averse pentagram? You get, of all G> things, not one hexagram, but G> two. You get a standard bicursal (two triangles) You get a ten-pointed star when you do that, not a pair of hexagrams. The only connection between either hexagram and the Abyss is that when they are superimposed on the Tree of Life, with Tiphereth at the center, the uppermost point rests at the center of Da'ath. I hope that clears things up a bit. 93--93/93... 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Rose Dawn Area: Thelema To: Fir 6 Apr 95 11:11:34 Subject: Re: LESSER HEX RITUAL UpdReq 93 Fir, > I saw you do a Lesser Hex last October, que no? Que si! Or something like that. > I thought you did a beautiful job, and yes it was a soft vs. a hard > energy. ::blush:: Thanks! I'm still working on it...been tweaking it a bit lately, per discussion with Paul, Josh N. & others on the Thelema echo and in person, and I'[m liking the way it feels to me a *lot* more these past couple days! :> Next time you bop out for a visit, I should oughta be ready for the R.D. New Imroved Hex Rit, & you can tell me whatcha think. ;> 93 93/93 p.s. excuse the hozed typing, Hel's tiny keyboard again! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718