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June 1990 Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter (June and July events)
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Mailed free within 100 miles of San Francisco California
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Copyright (c) O.T.O. and the Individual Authors, 1990 e.v.
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Limited license is hereby granted to reproduce this file without fee, with
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this message intact. This license expires June 1991 e.v. unless renewed
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in writing. No charge other than reproduction costs is permitted under this
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license to the receivers of copies of this file without O.T.O. written
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permission.
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Ordo Templi Orientis
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P.O. Box 2303
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Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
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Temple Location: 590 63rd St.
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Oakland, California
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(Entrance in back, to the right)
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Phones: Lodge/Temple: (415) 652-3505
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Messages Only: (415) 454-5176
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Compuserve: 72105,1351
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Calendar events in the San Francisco Bay Area for June 1990 to July
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1990 e.v., in brief. Always call the contact phone number before
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attending. Some are limited in size, change location and may be subject to
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other adjustments.
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When you call, you don't get lost or disappointed. Initiations are private.
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Donations at all OTO events are welcome.
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We are experiencing difficulty with the Thelema Lodge phone, please call well
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in advance of the event you would like to attend. For this reason, the
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residence phone has been provided below in place of the Temple phone. When
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calling this new number, please remember that you are contacting a private
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number rather than the usual public access number.
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Date: Description: Contact: Sponsor:
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6/3/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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6/8/90 Initiations Wrkshop Minerval 8PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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6/10/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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6/13/90 Magick & Qabalah # 1 with Bill 8 PM (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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6/17/90 Gnostic Mass seminar 2pm (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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(1918 to the present)
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6/17/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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6/19/90 Reading of the "Tempest" 7:30 PM (415) 652-3505 Magick Thea
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6/20/90 Magick & Qabalah # 2 with Bill 8 PM (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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6/21/90 Summer Solstice, call for info (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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6/22/90 Initiations Wrkshop Ist Deg 8PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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6/23/90 Secret Meeting Thelema Ldg
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6/24/90 Cancer Birthday party 4:18 PM (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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6/24/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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6/27/90 History (OTO) Class 8 PM (415) 652-3505 Nefertiti Cmp
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6/28/90 Thelema Lodge meeting 8 PM (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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6/29/90 Aethyrmass at Ancient Ways 7:30 PM (415) 654-5801 THL-AW
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7/1/90 Fish & Chips Feed $5-$10 donation (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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(sliding scale) 4:18 PM ...
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--- come, eat & help pay the rent!
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7/1/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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7/5/90 "777" -- Chinese Attributions 7:30PM (415) 652-3505 Hypatia Cmp
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7/6/90 Initiations Workshop 2nd Deg 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/8/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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7/9/90 "New England" with Jerry 8 PM (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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7/11/90 Magick & Qabalah # 3 with Bill 8 PM (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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7/13/90 Brocken Mtn. Mass for IIIrds and up (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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only. 9:30 PM
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7/14/90 Magick & Qabalah #4 (field trip to (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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Mt. Tam, leaving San Anselmo.
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7/15/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset & Lodge (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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clean-up.
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7/17/90 Reading: "Household Gods" 7:30 PM (415) 652-3505 Magick Theat.
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7/19/90 Lodge of Perfection LOP
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7/20/90 Initiations Workshop 3rd Deg 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/21/90 John Dee's birthday and Eclipse (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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party, afternoon until ?
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7/22/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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7/23/90 Secret meeting
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7/25/90 History Class 7PM (location TBA) (415) 652-3505 Nefertiti Cmp
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7/26/90 Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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7/27/90 Intro. to Trance with Mordecai 8PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/29/90 Leo Birthday party 4:18 PM (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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7/29/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 652-3505 Thelema Ldg
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June 1990 e.v. at Thelema Lodge with advance dates for July.....
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Thelema Lodge wishes to express thanks to David Jones for the good work
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that he did as Lodge Master of Thelema Lodge. Brother David took charge at a
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difficult time and experienced the worst time, bar one, in the history of the
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Lodge. Brother Mordecai is the new Master of Thelema Lodge. He is known
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throughout the O.T.O., not least for his service as an officer of Grand Lodge.
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And now a word from 'is nibs:
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INITIATION POLICY STATEMENT
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Thelema Lodge is instituting some new approaches in its initiations
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procedures. From now on we will be adhering strictly to the order-wide policy
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requiring applications for initiation to be submitted 40 days in advance of
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the proposed initiation. Minerval applications will receive a little leeway,
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but waivers of the 40 day requirement will no longer be routinely granted for
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other initiations. If there is a special reason then a waiver may still be
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granted by the National Supreme Council, but it will be the responsibility of
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the candidate and/or their initiator to obtain permission. The lodge will no
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longer request waivers as a matter of course. Applications for initiation are
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available at the lodge, by mail, or by calling me (your Initiations Clerk!) at
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(415) 647-8147. Please leave your name, address, and degree sought with the
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mechanical slave, and we'll mail you the appropriate form.
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A new series of Initiator Training classes, two Friday evenings each month,
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will begin in June. See the Calendar for exact dates, and degrees, on which
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we will be working. Because of the attitude of the Electoral College, O.T.O.
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members in the Bay Area must demonstrate special competence in order to be
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recommended by them for a charter to initiate. Therefore the lodge is setting
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up these classes in order to enable members to familiarize themselves with the
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various officer roles, through Master Magician. Members who perform well, in
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practices and at actual initiations, will be strenuously sponsored when they
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decide to apply for a charter to initiate. All local members who are already
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chartered to do Man of Earth initiations are strongly urged to contact the
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Initiations Clerk and volunteer to help train new initiators. Here is an
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opportunity to serve your brethren!
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FROM THE GRADY PROJECT
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(N.B.: This issue we printed a sheet of music with lyrics by Grady McMurtry,
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Title: "The Combat Engineers". It was originally published in "The Military
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Engineer, March 1944 e.v. This is deleted from the Electronic Edition in as
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much as the musical notation doesn't work in ASCII and the lyrics don't work
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without the music. Available from Thelema Lodge in the printed copy.)
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AN ALLEGORY
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THE DEATH OF MAB
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The entire universe in which most of us live is just one leaf in an immense
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forest, the Big View Eternal Park. Inhabiting this forest are well over ten
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times the largest conceivable number of fairies. These are fairies in the
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sense of "invisible spirits of the woods"; any other sense is up to them and
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none of your damn business. In politics it is fair to say they are
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monarchists, though no one pays taxes, and the death penalty is impossible.
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All in all it is a happy state of affairs with nothing but courtesy,
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refinement, and empty ceremonial from eternal dawn to eternal dusk.
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Throughout this endless existence the one and only monarch of Big View was,
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is, and ever will be Queen Mab. Her beauty absolutely defies description, thus
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I must describe her. In one brief instant she is every possible woman and not
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woman; her radiance is darker even than grey; her justice the impartial bias
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of chance. Her lips are sweeter than trousers, and her eyes fiery zephyrs.
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Well, I told you it couldn't be done.
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Of Queen Mab it must be said that she was all-knowing. The most
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insignificant action of her most insignificant subject (the wedding of Charles
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& Di?) is as familiar to her as the clash of her favorite galaxies. And so it
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is all the more amazing that she should have done what she did, knowing full
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well the outcome of her action. It was during the fortieth infinite cycle of
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eternity when she decided to abdicate her throne. "Can't stand in the way of
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progress!" she crowed; a curious claim considering that nothing would or ever
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could change in Big View Eternal Park. Her resignation was duly accepted,
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since it is impossible to disobey Queen Mab. Her successor, identical to her
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in every way, was summoned out of the Void of Dispersion, arriving nameless
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and clothed in the largest perfect number.
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In the riotous celebration that followed the arrival of the new queen, Mab
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was almost forgotten. She sat alone in a corner, or I should say almost alone,
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because a tiny voice squeaked out from under her chair, "Well, what now?".
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"Eh?", Mab was unaccustomed to answering questions. "I mean, what do ex-queens
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do with themselves?". Mab saw that it was the new queen speaking to her from
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the mouth of a glowing embryo encased in a crystalline egg. "Hmmm...", Mab was
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also unaccustomed to thinking. And then she said, half in jest, "I suppose I
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could go find you a name." The babe shrieked furiously at this, "That could be
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dangerous! Besides," she started to calm, "I don't need a name to begin with."
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Something in Mab knew that the new queen was right, but still she overreacted;
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perhaps it was pride, or maybe she was regretting her recent decision to forgo
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her position. It's one thing to be the center of the universe, quite another
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to be the universe itself. Had she made the right choice? Was existence worth
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it? No matter, she'd chuck it all now to find a name for the Queen. And where
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else? Mab jumped into the Void of Dispersion.
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Tartarus as a way of life. Existence shredding itself into Klein bottles of
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psychoactive wine. Mabness assailed by tornadoes of possibility.
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A wave broke upon the shore of no sensation; a body, once Mab, cast up at
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the feet of the Queen of the Forest. "Your name," it heaved one final breath,
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"is Mab."
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In the first universe of the second infinity of the fiftieth eternity of
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the Big View Eternal Park (which is to say everywhere) there is a unique solar
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system. A single, massive blue-white star orbits a black hole blazing out a
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gravity wave transmission to all Existence, a single sentence, Mab's epitaph,
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"To sacrifice thyself to Thy Self is no sacrifice at all."
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--- Fr. HaLayL
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from Uncle Theo'
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INTRODUCTION BY THEODOR REUSS TO "LINGAM-YONI",
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HIS GERMAN TRANSLATION OF HARGRAVE JENNINGS' "PHALLISM"
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translated into English by Sor. N and Fra. Faustus
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The old life falls and new life rises out of the ruins. In this context I
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must say that our time is a time of transition. Old ideas, old habits, old
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opinions and principles of living vanish bit by bit, and new ideas, new
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habits, new opinions and principles of living, even new religion, seem to grow
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out of our modern Western cultural ferment. It is only natural that this
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fermentation makes for peculiar bubbles, and occasionally a lot of foul
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smelling gas. I need only point out the frightening growth of pornographic
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literature (which probably reached its height in "Karl Hetmann") and the
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decadence of the performing and graphic arts. But actually these are only the
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side-effects of a growth period of a new Weltanschaung, maybe even an entirely
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new world. Despite all these new creations, in fact, there is nothing that is
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absolutely new in the world. The new Weltanschaung, the new customs, and the
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new religion are built upon the old. Even the perversions in the excrescences
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of most modern fermentation are at their bases of divine origin. They are a
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subconscious continuation of the most ancient religious cults on earth (a
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usually unconscious reenaction of the ancient sex cult in modified form). In
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spite of the efforts of the Christian churches over 120 million people, of
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whom 100 million are subjects of the King of England, are still practitioners
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of the sex cult (Lingam-yoni), which surely shows the need to spread widely
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authentic material about phallism. With that a truer and fairer guideline for
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the modern sex cult movement (which should be condemned for its excrescences,
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but which reactivates the ancient divine worship in its inner core) can be
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found. The publication of this authentic material is even more appropriate
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because the Catholic Church uses, in a hidden form, the phallus worship,
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Lingam-yoni cult, and other similar practices (Cult of the Virgin) taken from
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so-called Pagan rituals.
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The subjects of the following text*, which is divided into seven books of
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six pages each, share one common source, but there are various branches, some
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quite complicated. The cult which is described in this book descends from the
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dimmest reaches of prehistoric antiquity. It was the leading religious cult
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during the fullest flowering of the cultures of classical antiquity, and is
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still a living factor in our time. It is interwoven with the development of
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the greatest and mightiest kingdoms in the world's history, and still today it
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is intimately connected with the lives and customs of whole peoples which
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belong to the British Empire.
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Partly, our material derives from the secret "holy books" of an ancient
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order descended from the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and the original inhabitants of
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India. The other part comes from recognized sources of our most well-known
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investigators of culture, history, and archaeology.
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As proof of our arguments we will offer old writings and oral traditions,
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as well as extant monuments, sculptures, stones, inscriptions, and symbols
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which have been indecipherable to most people until now.
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Such a work is not suitable for young and immature people, but adults of
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both sexes will gain a general knowledge and understanding of the world, as
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well as its peoples and their customs, by studying the material we publish.
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Some Tartuffe may say that we are "immoral", "corrupting", etc., but we are
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prepared for that, and we want to declare from the outset that attacks like
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that will not be in the least discomfiting to us. While treating of this
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subject as we do in this work we will touch upon and describe many things
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which might inspire libertines of both sexes to perverted thoughts, which is
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only natural, but not our fault. To the pure, as we know, everything is pure.
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In this time the East (which is now the mightiest representative of so-
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called Paganism) has conquered the West in bloody battle. After this
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Westerners can no longer sneer about "wild Pagans in faraway Asia", rather
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they should think about the future when as in a new Volkerwanderung the
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peoples of India, pushed aside by the Chinese and Japanese, will knock at the
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doors of Europe. Then we will see if the Christian religion has left the
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people of the West enough belief in God and enough resistance to successfully
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reject the inrushing masses of Asia, who serve the sex cult.
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To give our European Christian people such an inner resistance (which comes
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only from a fixed belief in God) it will be necessary for the old Christian
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belief to win back the many millions of pseudo-Christians, or a new kind of
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belief in God must be rooted in their hearts. If in the place of today's
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extreme unbelief a real living belief in a divinity could occur then it would
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not be bad if this belief was embodied in a phallus a cult of some sort.
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In response to all future suspicions and accusations we will answer already
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at this time: "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
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* (The rest of the text, by Jennings, is omitted.)
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From the Out Basket
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----- One of the long term projects around here consists of putting
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Crowley's works on computer diskette. While entering "The Equinox", I came
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across the following remark:
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"In Tiphareth the aspirant attains to no less a state than that of
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conversation with his Holy Guardian Angel, his Jechidah, 'The permanent
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principle behind the conflicting opinions.'"
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----ref: "Equinox" I, 4., "The Temple of Solomon the King," page 145.
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It seems unlikely that the Yechidah (Crowley's "Jechidah") could be the
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Holy Guardian Angel mentioned in Abramelin. This passage was published in
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1910 e.v., and was evidently written before. Crowley had attained the
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Knowledge and Conversation of the H.G.A. by then, but his major work across
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the Abyss started in 1909 e.v. (detailed in the next issue of the "Equinox",
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"Vision and Voice".). In that year Crowley strived to attain Magister Templi,
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the grade in A.'.A.'. corresponding to Binah on the Tree of Life. When the
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crossing is first made, all the upper Sephiroth appear as one (see the last
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issue of the "TLC" on the 50 Gates of Understanding). This is a temporary
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condition, and the three Supernal Sephiroth subsequently become distinct
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again. The same structure is seen in the Qabalistic parts of the soul or
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souls: Neschamah is used in two senses: (1) The combined Yechidah soul of
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Keter, Chiah soul of Chokmah and the soul of Binah. (2) As Neschamah, the
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soul at Binah exclusively. Very likely this is not a coincidence, but two
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different expressions of the same thing. When one first crosses the Abyss on
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the Tree of Life, all the supernals are as Binah and all remaining higher
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aspects of the soul appear as one, that one being Neschamah. From the
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viewpoint of one below the Abyss, the Yechidah and the Chiah are mere
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abstractions. It is only the Neschamah which can be indirectly experienced
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from Tipheret in that relation known as The Knowledge and Conversation of the
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Holy Guardian Angel. Lacking a direct experience of the Yechidah, it would be
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natural to think of the H.G.A. as being identical with it.
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The Yechidah is the highest soul: undifferentiated, immortal, unchanging,
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and absolute unity. The Holy Guardian Angel is a personality uniquely
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interacting with the personality of the mystic, which latter is the Ruach soul
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that centers on Tipheret but includes Chesed through Yesod. If the Yechidah
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is an absolute unity, it cannot have the property of personality. One can say
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"I Am", Eheieh, the divine name corresponding to Keter, only in a very tenuous
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way. Strictly speaking, this "I am" cannot be true of the Yechidah, for it
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subsumes and implies "I am not". The unity would be broken. Perhaps it is
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better to consider that Eheieh "proceeds" from Keter in the "creation" of
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Chokmah. In any event, the Yechidah cannot be the Holy Guardian Angel; for
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the Yechidah is the same for everyone in direct counterpoise to the Holy
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Guardian Angel being unique to each one. Only in the sense of the H.G.A.
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interpreting Yechidah to the Ruach or personality of the mystic is it ever
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possible to say "the aspirant,... his Jechidah". No one can possess a
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Yechidah, rather one enters into the single Yechidah that is one and the same
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for all. This also applies to the Ipsissimus grade, it is only one. There
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cannot be two.
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So; what is the Holy Guardian Angel? Is it Neschamah or Yechidah?
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Throughout his life Crowley struggled with the identification of Aiwass. At
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different times he considered Aiwass to be his Holy Guardian Angel, Satan as
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an aspect of Christ, Set, a servitor of the Gods, a God, a servant of the
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Secret Chiefs and an impostor pressed into service against its native desire.
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All these theories revolve and repeat without ultimate resolution in the
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different periods of Crowley's writing. Crowley felt Aiwass to be his H.G.A.
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at some time after 1904 e.v. and prior to 1910 e.v., the time span in which he
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attained the K. & C. of the H. G. A. by a magical retirement begun in 1900
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e.v., interrupted and then completed in 1909 e.v. Could he have attained the
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Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel and yet failed of the Knowledge,
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taking it to be the Aiwass of 1904 e.v.? Comparison of writings from that
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time with later ones would suggest so, but wouldn't that vitiate the whole
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attainment? How know and subsequently discover the knowing false? This
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problem offers a clue to the nature of the H.G.A.
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What if the H.G.A. is like Eheieh, a proceeding from rather than an aspect
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of the Sephiroth? Then it would have a nature much like that of the paths
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between the Sephiroth, an ephemeral and changing state, a road from one to
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another. The paths are not static. The Sephiroth alone possess equilibrium
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within their limits. The path between two Sephiroth is the communication of
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one to another, the knowledge of one by the other. Is this not exactly what
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is said of the Holy Guardian Angel, that the experience is one of Knowledge
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and Conversation?
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Consider then: If the Holy Guardian Angel is the first apprehension of the
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Supernals by the Ruach soul centered at Tipheret, surely then it is of the
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first point of that apprehension, Binah and the lesser Neschamah soul of
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Binah. As has been said, this gives the impression of being the whole of the
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Supernals, with the H.G.A. being the Adonai, the god and lover of the mystic.
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Then this: The pneumenon of the soul beyond the Abyss clothes itself in
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the phenomena of the mortal soul below the Abyss, using images derived from
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the sensory world to give it form. In the story of Plato's cave, this Holy
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Guardian Angel is a shadow cast upon the wall of the cave. The light which
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casts it (Yechidah), the passage which constricts it (Chiah), the structures
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which shape it (Neschamah) are not seen. It is the shadow which is seen, the
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absence and presence of that light upon the familiar world known to the
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personality (Ruach). When the shadow is recognized, it is the Ruach which
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comes to know it. When the shadow moves and appears in response to the
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actions of the mystic, that is conversation. The knowledge (Da'at) advances
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through this interaction. There is one definite constraint. The Knowledge
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and Conversation is at first limited to illumination and eclipse of ideas
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already familiar to the mystic. The Angel itself is a form created from parts
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already known to the Ruach of the mystic. There is nothing new save that
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disclosed by novel combinations of the known. For this reason, all
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revelations of sacred scripture speak over-much of the past Aeon and almost
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exclusively in words known to the scribe. There are mysteries and great
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puzzles. There are secret keys and echoing names. Yet even the light of
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revelation is at best perceived as a mottling of shadow on the wall of the
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cave, half revealed and half concealed. When the mystic turns to see the
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light direct, there is little that can be said.
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Then Aiwass was truly Crowley's Holy Guardian Angel at the time of the
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writing of "The Book of the Law". It matters not at all if this Aiwass was
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something else, for at that time it served the role and function. One could
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say that Allen Bennett was Crowley's Angel when he taught. Eckenstein had his
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turn, as did Rose, Roddie Minor, Alostrael and all the others. Places,
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people, thoughts, voices and visions; all comprise the Angel. With Knowledge
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and Conversation, the Angel assumes a less corporeal type. There is a later
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change more profound and likely the agency that sparked Crowley's doubts
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concerning Aiwass. If the Holy Guardian Angel is an ephemeral manifestation
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between Binah and Tipheret, between Neschamah and Ruach, what happens when the
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Exempt Adept passes to Babe of the Abyss, the transition Crowley noted as
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being common to both A.'. A.'. and O.T.O. (VIIIth Degree O.T.O, the only point
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of union of the two systems other than perhaps Minerval with Probationer)?
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This is well described in "Vision and Voice" as the encounter with Choronzon,
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the demon of illusion and Da'at. Only the formula of LAShTAL, the Hebrew word
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meaning, "without intention", can pass that test. Choronzon is the betrayal
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of the Angel in two senses. (1) The Angel is seen to be false. (2) The forms
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of the Angel become the illusions of Choronzon. Choronzon is the empty shell
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of the Angel, forced to manifest by the desire of the Seer in a place beyond
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its nature. As the Angel gives meaning to all things, Choronzon offers
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meaning when only detachment is correct. The Angel may teach though the
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symbol of water, but who so cries "water, water" in that place beyond Chesed
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shall fall to the snares of Choronzon. The higher as shadowed forth by the
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Angel is part true and part delusion enforced through the lower symbols which
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communicated it. Beyond those symbols, the truth stands. Choronzon insists
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on the symbols. The Angel, shorn of Choronzon, is the Neschamah; Angel no
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more, for the symbols have fled with the parting of the great veil, the symbol
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"Angel" amongst the others. After this experience, Crowley and Perdurabo
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still quested the Angel, but the Magister Templi knew better. Thus the doubts
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rising without resolution concerning Aiwass.
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-oOo-
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Want a puzzle? Get a copy of "Confessions" by Crowley, and "The High
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History of Good Sir Palamedes the Saracen Knight and of His Following of the
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Questing Beast", Crowley's epic poem from "Equinox" I, 4. This epic is an
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account of Crowley's mystical quest from the death of his father until about
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1905 e.v. Identify the metaphoric elements with Crowley's life from
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"Confessions". Hint: When Sir Palamedes kills someone or something, it's a
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renunciation by Crowley of some facet of his belief or hope. The person or
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thing killed represents a person or a manner of philosophy mentioned in
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"Confessions". Don't forget that this doesn't reach actual events beyond 1905
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e.v., a fact perhaps exemplified in the reconciliation toward the end with
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Christianity.
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--- TSG
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Non O.T.O. event:
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The Midwest Pagan Council's 14th annual Pan Pagan Festival will take place
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this year at a campground near Yorkville Illinois. The program includes
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camping, feasts, rituals, merchants and an ample workshop schedule. For
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information, write to: Program committee, P.O.Box 212, Matteson, IL 60445 or
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call (no collect calls!) (312) 767-1113. The festival runs from August 16th
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through 19th. Deadline for pre-registration is 8/4/90, $35 for adults and $15
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for children age 5 to 11, under 5 free. Registration after this date goes up
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to $50/$25. The cut-off date for pre-registration is the date RECEIVED, not
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the date mailed.
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The events of June:
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Greetings of the Summer Solstice! The Lodge will have a Solstice party
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June 21st, starting about 7 pm...Call Lew for info at 652-3505.
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The LODGEMEETING has MOVED to the LAST THURSDAY of each month...same time
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and place. Next three: 6/28, 7/26, 8/30. The Lodge Of Perfection will meet on
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June 14th...
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Gnostic Masses proceed right 'round sunset every Sunday. All for June are
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Liber 15 unless they change...there's a "Liber XV Text Seminar" 6/17 at 2pm in
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Horus Temple - we will study texts dated from 1918 to the present.
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Mordecai's Initiations Workshop starts June 8th at 8 pm. If you want to
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learn to assist with/preside over these events - here's your chance! 647-8147
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for info on the workshop AND June/July initiations. This workshop continues on
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6/22, 7/6, & 7/20 - in Horus Temple.
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Bill's Magick and Qabalah series begins on the 13th and 20th of June. The
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class on the 13th corresponds to Malkut and will present an orientation for
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the series. The class on the 20th will look at Astral projection, divination
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and related topics appropriate to Yesod. Next month the series continues with
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Ceremonial Magick on July 11th and a Natural Magick field trip to Mt. Tam in
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Marin County on Saturday the 14th of July. The July field trip will start at
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5 Suffield Ave., in San Anselmo, at 10 AM, with departure to Mt. Tam by 11:30
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AM. Wear old clothes, good walking shoes and be prepared for sun protection.
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Call (415) 454-5178 in early July for details.
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Nefertiti Camp's history class 5/30 was canceled - returning 6/27 at 8 pm
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to Horus Temple. "Grady talks" (is this more weird necromancy?) The July class
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is the 25th but may move to San Francisco...watch this space.
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The Magick Theatre presents "The Tempest" - we will read Shakespeare's
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classic play June 19th at 8 pm. Next month: New Crowley!
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A Cancerian Birthday Splash will manifest at 4:18 or thereabouts on the
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24th:(thanx 4 the Gemini bash, folks - I didn't think anyone remembered!)
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AETHYRMASS will take place 6/29 at Ancient Ways (41st and Telegraph) starting
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at 7:30 pm -
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it's the first of June - thanks to all for their Patience in this time of
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reorganization...realizing this one's late, July's calendar as published here
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in advance is firm for at least the first half of the month - and
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"FISH AND CHIPS FEED" July First, 4:18 pm
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'A Thelema Lodge Fundraiser' $5 - $10 sliding scale donation
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"Y'ALL COME!"
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see ya -C-
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June 1990 Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter (June and July events)
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Mailed free within 100 miles of San Francisco California
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Ordo Templi Orientis
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P.O. Box 2303
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Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
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Temple Location: 590 63rd St.
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Oakland, California
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(Entrance in back, to the right)
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Phones: Lodge/Temple: (415) 652-3505
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Messages only: (415) 454-5176
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Compuserve: 72105,1351
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