DOCSLIB.ORG

Bp Jornal of College of Thelema V1.X3

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Bp Jornal of College of Thelema V1.X3 DLAC1{ P£ARL TH£ JOVRNAL OfTH£ COlL£G£ ofTH£L£MA , It ,' ,.' 0j("- " - --~- ,..-!:" .: Vol. 1, NO.3 BLACK PEARL COLLEGE OF THELEMA BlAC1{ PEARL TH£ JOVRNAt OFTH£ Cott£G£ OFTH£t£MA "I have descended, 0 my darling, into the black shining waters, and I have plucked Thee forth as a black pearl of infinite preciousness. " - Liber LXV, Cap. III, v. 60 Founded in Service totheA:.A:. Vol. I, No. '3. Vernal 'Equinox: • Anno XCIV.(IV6) EDITOR James A. Eshehnan EDI1'OR'S LETTER Editor's Letter by Fra; A.H. ....................................... 3 ASSISTANT EDITOR Anna-Kria King FEATURES Let the Scarlet Woman Beware by'Fra. L.F. ....... ............ 8 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Liber Gimel by FraterAleph Ben Ali ... ....................... .. 12 Joe Larabell, Gregory Peters, CeremoniaLMagick,Part 3: Health & Prosperity of the Order by Fra. A.H: ..... ............................................. ....... 26 Phyllis Seckler The Vision & ~e Voi~: lEthyrs 24,23 & 22 with As.trological & Qabalistk'Commemary bY Fra. A.H. 31 ART DIRECTOR Anna -Kria King COLUMNS Qabalists' Qorner: '1 L bY Ike Becker ............................. 5 It's In the Basics: The Pentagram Ritual bY Frater Yod ...... 14 Gems from THE EQUINOX Uy Aleister Crowley ............. 21 Reviews: Recent Books, Cla:ssics, &: Musick ................... 22 PUBLISHED BY COLLEGE OF THELEMA POETRY Anima Babalon~sbY , Howard Baptiste .......... ............ , ... .. 2 Executive Director The Lady1s Prayer <by.lt.i/hes A. Eshelman ...................... 2 Phyllis Seckler My Mother's C6dar Chest bY Anna-Kria King ........., ... " . .. 7 An End to Despair 'bYBa'a Seb Ankh ........ .. .. .... .. ........ 11 Deputy Executive Director The Pentagram bY Aleister Crowley .............................. 19 J ames A. Eshelman I Must by Frater Fiat Lux (Frank Salt) .......................... 20 What Joy by Soror Meral ................................ c. ........ 30 Treasurer Waiting by Soror Meral ............................................ 36 Anna-Kria King Nuk IbIn Suti bY Fra. S.H.A. (418) ............................. 49 Secretary Joe Larabell ARTWORK Archangel lroa,ges bY Jon Sewell & Doug Blake ............... 19 BLACK PEARL Vol. I, No.3, March, 1998 E.V. Published biannually, at the Equinoxes, by the College of Thelema (A Not-for-Profit Religious Corporation), 222 North Manhallan Place, Second Floor, Los Angeles. California 90004-4018. Copyright © 1998 by College of Thelema. All rights reserved. Annual subscription rate: $12.00 for two issues, postpaid (U.S ,). Per issue price: $6.50, postpaid (U.S.). Second class postage paid at Los Angeles, CA and additional mailing offices. Donations, legacies, contributions and bequests made to the College of Thelema are tax deductible in the United States. Submissions of articles, artwork, poems, lyrics or other contributions are welcome. By such submission, author/creator grants to Black Pearl one-time publication rights, with all issues kept in print in perpetuity. Send editorial correspondence, review materials, manuscripts, and other submissions to: Editor, Black Pearl, at the above address. For reply and/or return of materials, enclose SASE; no responsibility is assumed for lost or unreturned submissions. Publisher assumes no responsibility for products or services advertised by anyone other than College of Thelema and /or Temple of Thelema. Opinions expressed are those of the authors or advertisers, and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors or publishers. Cover art by Kimberley Edwards. ... 7 .. $o ANIMA BABALONIS THE LADY'S PRAYER (Soul of Babalon) Soul of Night, sanctify my soul; Thou! One! All! Naught! mend this body of Light, Infinite Mother whose Name is inscrutible! make me whole. Be Thou adored! Blood of Night, inebriate me; My Will, which is Thine, be realized, waters from the Grail of Light, a Thou who art both Earth and Heaven. purify me. Fulfill the needs of our Flesh That we may devote our Souls unto Thee. Passion of Night, strengthen me; Lead us each to embrace, by love under will, among your Children of Light Nature's equilibrating Justice. I will be. Lead us to experience all Thy boundless possibilities And at the hour of my ordeal, And thus deliver us from restriction. sweetly caress with a Kiss of Night Oh Thou! and I will heal. Who art the Kingdom! In Whom is given all Power! Soul of Night, sanctify my soul; Who hast the Secret Glory! mend this body of Light, Everlasting! make me whole. AUM. HOW ARD BAPTISTE JAMES A. ESHELMAN 2 Editor's Letter: EBONSEA OF THE UNKNOWN Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is nothing from which we can learn, save from the Unknown. Yet, in the face of the unillumined and uncharted Unknown, wherein no discernible nor identi­ fiable object reflects back the sunlight of thought, our Reason is stunned by the black vacuum of our own not-knowing. We fear the dark, and we hide. We withdraw from the enormity that would devour us, that dark immensity which reminds us so much of the unknown and uncharted darkness of death. We balk before the ebon sea whose depths are unimaginable, whose opposing shores are nonexistent, and in which we should surely drown. It is an ancient and primal human instinct. Human as well, however, is the spirit of the pioneer, impelled to penetrate the Unknown with ravenous, rapacious potency - defiant of death, and devouring the devourer of its own ignorance. In the pathways of our spiritual awakening, it is the Unknown and Unknowable that we con­ stantly desire. Spiritual pioneers are today, in this new reon, entering strange territory that few have explored, and far, far fewer have settled. Yet antique maps exist; they are accurate, and por­ tray the terrain with extraordinary fidelity. Four centuries ago, St. John of the Cross wrote with understanding of "this dark night of loving fire, [that] as it purges in the darkness, so also in the darkness enkindles the soul." All who dare to know the Divine will be engulfed by its silence. All who desire spiritual Light encounter periods of darkness, some of such profound black despair that they undo the fabric of all self-definition. But is not the profound, that is, the deep, what we seek? Oh, how long it takes to KNOW that the engulfing dark void is not absence of the Divine Light, but is that Light, of such intensity that we cannot withstand it, nor bear it until we grow a little stronger! It is the embrace of deific love, the fabric ofthat selfsame spiritual Unknown that we seek and have sought. As an experienced and discerning palate is to fine wine, so mature our inner fac­ ulties to the appreciation ofthis wine, aged from our own spiritual lifeblood. One traditional title of that ONE who leads us in our spiritual quest is "Lord of the light and the darkness." The Hebrew ~~N, Aleph, is an anagram both of N~:J, pelah, meaning "miraculous, wonderful," and of ~:JN, ophel, meaning "darkness, obscurity." Our quest leads us rhythmically into light and darkness, into wonder and obscurity, as from day into night before returning us to a new dawn. Our greatest light is followed by darkness and despair, in which it feels either that God has abandoned us, or that we have abandoned Her. How do we know this supernal blackness is not merely the pathological depression it sometimes resembles? St. John identified three ways. First, during such times we lose not only all pleasure in or consolation from spiritual things, but from every thing soever - the secular as much as the sacred. Second, we find ourselves focused more on the Divine, not less, despite the sometimes vacuous sense of abandonment. Third, our former means of worship and communion fail us; our old formulre seem as empty devices (often invoking 3 BLACK PEARL our rage at our pain), for the means by which our Beloved seeks to commune with us is now other - more subtle and more interior - and, in time, we hear this, too. We seek to run, whether forward or back, and are struck immobile, brought to stillness. We desire to cry out, whether of anguish or oflove, and are without voice, driven into silence. We can do nothing - except love, in that stillness and that silence. Our dryness, first painful and parching, ignites with a heat that "burns the bones," with yearning intense that cremates what we were. "But it is death, and the flame of the pyre. Ascend in the flame of the pyre, 0 my soul! Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light" (Liber VII, I: 39). It is with such thoughts that I welcome you to Issue No. 30fBLACK PEARL. ~ At the end of 1989, I was called out of retirement with a fraternal Order to which I then still belonged, to travel to Australia and New Zealand as an initiator and ambassador. In New Zealand, I had the very great pleasure to meet Frank Salt, who had been a member of the Whare Ra Temple of the Smaragdum Thalasses (New Zealand Stella Matutina) for many decades, beginning in the 1930s. He had served his temple as Demonstrator (the S:. T:. term for Prremonstrator) for much of that time. The two afternoons I spent with him in Auckland were the high point of the entire trip. Though of advanced years, he was physically strong and spry, and had a spiritual vitality I have rarely seen in anyone, of any age. The hours spent were quite remarkable. In the course of the first of these visits, he brought out his hand-painted S :. T : . Tarot deck, to show me some ofthe errors in the commercial Golden Dawn deck Robert Wang had published. As we looked at Key 13 (which closely resembled the B.O.T.A. version), he became reflective about the movement of the river which flows along and then turns sharply west to pour into the peace and brilliance of the setting Sun.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Liber II - a Mensagem Do Mestre Therion
    1 Liber II - A Mensagem do Mestre Therion Espaço Novo Æon www.thelema.com.br 2 Aleister Crowley A∴A∴ Publicação em Classe E. Espaço Novo Æon www.thelema.com.br 3 Liber II - A Mensagem do Mestre Therion LIBER II A MENSAGEM DO MESTRE THERIONi ii por Aleister Crowley “Faze o que tu queres deverá ser o todo da Lei” “Não há Lei além de Faze o que tu queres” “A palavra da Lei é Θελημα.” Θελημα —Thelema—significa Vontade. A Chave para esta Mensagem é esta palavra-Vontade. O primeiro significado óbvio desta Lei é confirmado pela antítese; “A palavra de Pecado é Restrição”. Novamente: “Tu não tens direito senão fazer tua vontade. Faze isso, e nenhum outro dirá não. Pois vontade pura, desaliviada de propósito, livre da sede de resultado, é toda senda perfeita.” Observe isto cuidadosamente; isso parece sugerir uma teoria de que se todo homem e toda mulher fizessem sua vontade—a verdadeira vontade—não haveria conflitos. “Todo homem e toda mulher é uma estrela”, e cada estrela se move por um caminho designado sem interferência. Há bastante espaço para todos; é apenas a desordem que cria confusão. A partir destas considerações deve ter ficado claro que “Faze o que tu queres” não significa “Faça o que você desejar”. Ela é a apoteose da Liberdade; mas é também o vínculo mais estrito possível. Faze o que tu queres — e então não faça nada mais. Não permita que nada desvie a ti daquela austera e santa tarefa. A Liberdade é absoluta para fazer a tua vontade; mas tente fazer qualquer outra coisa seja qual for, e instantaneamente os obstáculos vão surgir.
    [Show full text]
  • PDF Download by Names and Images : Bringing the Golden
    BY NAMES AND IMAGES : BRINGING THE GOLDEN DAWN TO LIFE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Peregrin Wildoak | 372 pages | 21 Mar 2012 | Skylight Press | 9781908011503 | English | Cheltenham, United Kingdom By Names and Images : Bringing the Golden Dawn to Life PDF Book Becoming visible in the midst of the nationalist fervor over the so-called Macedonian issue during the early s, GD is now active against immigrants, especially those coming from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Product Details. This problem can usually be overcome in time with steady and patient practice. Only 5 miles from Madrid, NM. This posture should be balanced but sufficiently comfortable. The young Probationer was made to sleep naked on a bed of gorse for a week, and early in the Retirement Crowley visited the shivering Neuburg at night and scourged him with a bundle of nettles. For the Minors the decan and Sephira are also included. While it is far beyond the scope of this book to treat aphantasia, some aphantasiacs have been able to increase their ability to visualize through Neurolinguistic Programming, image streaming, lucid dreaming, relaxation techniques, exercises for entering a hypnogogic state while awake, listening to guided meditations, or working with negative after-images, a kind of Getting Started 37 optical illusion in which an image continues to be seen briefly after exposure to the real image has concluded see the section Negative After-Images in chapter 9. Let's get you outside. The magic circle provided protection for the magician; the Triangle of Art was intended to contain any visible manifestation of the forces "called up" or evoked by Perdurabo.
    [Show full text]
  • Evoking the Sacred: the Artist As Shaman
    Evoking the Sacred: The Artist as Shaman Dawn Whitehand BAVA (Hons) This exegesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Arts Academy University of Ballarat PO Box 745 Camp Street, Ballarat, Victoria 3353 Australia Submitted in April 2009 The objects of [American] Indians are expressive and most decorative because they are alive, living in our experience of them. When the Indian potter collects clay, she asks the consent of the river-bed and sings its praises for having made something as beautiful clay. When she fires her pottery, to this day, she still offers songs to the fire so it will not discolor [sic] or burst her wares. And finally, when she paints her pottery, she imprints it with the images that give it life and power- because for an Indian, pottery is something significant, not just a utility but a ‘being’ for which there is as much of a natural order as there is for persons or foxes or trees.1 Jamake Highwater 1 Jamake Highwater, The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America. (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc., 1981), 77-8. ii Abstract This thesis examines, via a feminist theoretical framework, the systems in existence that permit the ongoing exploitation of the environment; and the appropriateness of ceramics as a medium to reinvigorate dormant insights. I argue that the organic nuances expressed through clay; the earthy, phenomenological and historic ritual connotations of clay; and the tactile textured surfaces and undulating form, allows ceramics to conjure responses within the viewer that reinvigorates a sense of embedment in the Earth.
    [Show full text]
  • Abrahadabra Encampment of O.T.O
    418 the quarterly newsletter of Abrahadabra Encampment of O.T.O. Anno IV:xiv Sol 0° Aries, Luna What’s In a Name? 5° Sagittarius Dies Lunæ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. March 20, 2006 e.v. “Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra-Hoor-Khut.” Volume 1, Number 1 – Liber AL, III:1 IN THIS ISSUE In founding the first body of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) in the state of Maine, What’s In a Name? 1 we had the privilege and opportunity to name the body, and we discussed a number of Fr. Eparisteros, Master potential alternatives. We finally settled on Source of Light 2 Abrahadabra, so I thought it worth noting the by Fr. Azazel Alephomen meanings and connections associated with this Thelemic Texts 4 word and how they may relate to our work. by Fr. L.N.N. Abrahadabra is derivative of the word Stewardship 5 “abracadabra,” whose most commonly cited by Fr. Ash root is from the Aramaic avra kehdabra History of the Tarot 6 meaning, “I create as I speak.” The change in spelling is in recognition of the tenets of by Fr. Eparisteros Thelema by investing the name of the Egyptian Events Calendar 10 god Hadit/Had in the central position. This word is referenced three times in the third chapter of the Book of the Law, the chapter attributed unto the god of force and fire, Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Interestingly enough, it appears in both the Copyright © 2006 opening and the closing lines of that chapter, a significant position for such a magickal word of Abrahadabra Encampment, O.T.O., power.
    [Show full text]
  • The Changing Role of Leah Hirsig in Aleister Crowley's Thelema, 1919
    Aries – Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 21 (2021) 69–93 ARIES brill.com/arie Proximal Authority The Changing Role of Leah Hirsig in Aleister Crowley’s Thelema, 1919–1930 Manon Hedenborg White Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden [email protected] Abstract In 1920, the Swiss-American music teacher and occultist Leah Hirsig (1883–1975) was appointed ‘Scarlet Woman’ by the British occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), founder of the religion Thelema. In this role, Hirsig was Crowley’s right-hand woman during a formative period in the Thelemic movement, but her position shifted when Crowley found a new Scarlet Woman in 1924. Hirsig’s importance in Thelema gradually declined, and she distanced herself from the movement in the late 1920s. The article analyses Hirsig’s changing status in Thelema 1919–1930, proposing the term proximal authority as an auxiliary category to MaxWeber’s tripartite typology.Proximal authority is defined as authority ascribed to or enacted by a person based on their real or per- ceived relational closeness to a leader. The article briefly draws on two parallel cases so as to demonstrate the broader applicability of the term in highlighting how relational closeness to a leadership figure can entail considerable yet precarious power. Keywords Aleister Crowley – Leah Hirsig – Max Weber – proximal authority – Thelema 1 Introduction During the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain (1665–1714), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660–1744), was the second most powerful woman in the kingdom. As the queen’s favourite, the Duchess overcame many restrictions hampering women of the time.
    [Show full text]
  • THE EQUINOX Vol. I No. 2
    THE EQUINOX No. III. will contain in its 400 pages AN OFFICIAL NOTE of the Ordeals and Examinations to be passed by the Aspirant to the A∴ A∴ from Probationer to Adept. [A∴ A∴ publication in Class D.] With a Comment by G. H. Fra. O.S.V. LIBER 963. A collection of litanies whose use will enable the student to acquire the direct consciousness of God. [A∴ A∴ Publication in Class B.] : THE ELEMENTAL CALLS OR KEYS, WITH THE GREAT WATCH-TOWERS OF THE UNIVERSE and their explanation. A complete treatise, fully illustrated, upon the Spirits of the Elements, their names and offices, with the method of calling them forth and controlling them. From the MSS. of Dr. DEE and SIR EDWARD KELLY. THE CONTINUATION OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING. A full account of the reception of Fra. P. into the Rosicrucian Order, with illustrations; and of his operations in Ceremonial Magic, &c. [His Studies of Eastern Magic and Meditation, &c., to follow in Nos. IV. and V.] THE CONTINUATION OF THE HERB DANGEROUS “The Poem of Hashish,” translated from the French of CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE SOUL-HUNTER, unpublished pages from the Diary of Dr. ARTHUR LEE, “The Montrouge Vampire.” AN ORIGIN, by VICTOR B. NEUBURG. MR. TODD: A Morality, by the author of “Rosa Mundi.” IN MANU DOMINAE: A Black Mass. THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH, by ETHEL RAMSAY. &c. &c. &c THE EQUINOX The Editor will be glad to consider contributions and to return such as are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed for the purpose.
    [Show full text]
  • Acknowledgments P. Xi Encountering the Scarlet Goddess P. 1 Western Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic P
    Acknowledgments p. xi Encountering the Scarlet Goddess p. 1 Western Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic p. 6 Notes on Methodology p. 8 Technicalities and Demarcations p. 10 Outline of the Book p. 12 Divine Women, Femmes, and Whores: The Theorization of Multiple Femininities p. 17 Feminism and Sex: Passion, Prostitution, and Pleasure p. 18 Difference, Divinity, and Multiple Femininities p. 19 Fem(me)ininity and Vulnerable Subversion p. 23 "The Sex That Is Not One": The Concept of Plural Femininities p. 26 The Scarlet Goddess and the Wine of Her Fornications: Crowley, Babalon, and the Femmep. 35 Fatale 1898-1909 Good, Bad, and Scarlet: Femininities of the Fin-de-Siècle p. 36 Scripture and Scourging: The King James Bible and Pariah Femininities before Babalon p. 39 "Fresh Blossoms from the Heart of Hell": Jezebel and the Influence of Decadence p. 39 "The Work of Wickedness": The Scarlet Woman in Liber AL vel Legis (1904) p. 43 "Into Unguessed Abysses": Lola of the Infernal Bliss p. 46 "I Was Really Being Married": Pain and Erotic Submission in Crowley's Early Work p. 49 The Dancing God and the Pyramid Gateway: Babalon in The Vision and the Voice p. 51 Dancers, Bulls, and Amphoras: Babalon below the Abyss p. 52 Enter the Mother of Abominations: Babalon above the Abyss p. 55 The Daughter and the Blasphemy: Babalon beyond the City of the Pyramids p. 58 Enthroned in Eternity: Babalon in the 2nd Aethyr p. 63 Erotic Destruction and Pariah Femininities: Blood, Receptivity, and Reframed p. 65 Whoredom Yielding Peaches and Women with Whips: Babalon, Crowley, and Magical Systematizationp.
    [Show full text]
  • (Title of the Thesis)*
    Dionysian Semiotics: Myco-Dendrolatry and Other Shamanic Motifs in the Myths and Rituals of the Phrygian Mother by Daniel Attrell A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2013 © Daniel Attrell 2013 Author’s Declaration I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. ii Abstract The administration of initiation rites by an ecstatic specialist, now known to western scholarship by the general designation of ‗shaman‘, has proven to be one of humanity‘s oldest, most widespread, and continuous magico-religious traditions. At the heart of their initiatory rituals lay an ordeal – a metaphysical journey - almost ubiquitously brought on by the effects of a life-changing hallucinogenic drug experience. To guide their initiates, these shaman worked with a repertoire of locally acquired instruments, costumes, dances, and ecstasy-inducing substances. Among past Mediterranean cultures, Semitic and Indo-European, these sorts of initiation rites were vital to society‘s spiritual well-being. It was, however, the mystery schools of antiquity – organizations founded upon conserving the secrets of plant-lore, astrology, theurgy and mystical philosophy – which satisfied the role of the shaman in Greco-Roman society. The rites they delivered to the common individual were a form of ritualized ecstasy and they provided an orderly context for religiously-oriented intoxication.
    [Show full text]
  • The Complete System of Thelemic Magick
    Thelemic Qabalah Volume I Publication in Class C by Frater Apollonius 4°=7□ ATAT Fable Once upon a time there was a Great Wild Beast whose mighty roar could be heard all over a sleepy kingdom. In this kingdom there were many lovely maidens. Each Maiden lived in a wonderful cottage by a lake or a stream or by the ocean or by an echoing valley. The Children of this kingdom knew no mother or father but rather sought sustenance and comfort in the house of one of the many Maidens. Each Maiden gathered about herself all of the beautiful Children that she came in contact with and taught them by the L.V.X. of Her Soul. Each Maiden could hear the roar of the Great Wild Beast and knew that with each roar, new Children would come seeking sustenance and shelter and knowledge. The maidens would leave on porch lights to guide the children to them for the Kingdom was enveloped in eternal darkness save in the presence of a Maiden. If a Child learned well, they became a Maiden and left the cottage, with a light of their own to build and light a cottage of their own. At intervals, a Great Wild Beast would be born and roar for a time. Each Great Wild Beast, nearing the time of His passing, would teach a Maiden how to roar like them and instruct them to pass the roar on until they heard another Great Wild Beast. One day, the Great Wild Beast died and his roar was not heard in the Kingdom for many a year.
    [Show full text]
  • Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) Ellen P
    Florida International University FIU Digital Commons FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations University Graduate School 11-13-2014 Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) Ellen P. Randolph Florida International University, [email protected] DOI: 10.25148/etd.FI14110766 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, History of Religions of Western Origin Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, New Religious Movements Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Randolph, Ellen P., "Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.)" (2014). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1686. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1686 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the University Graduate School at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Miami, Florida GNOSTICISM, TRANSFORMATION, AND THE ROLE OF THE FEMININE IN THE GNOSTIC MASS OF THE ECCLESIA GNOSTICA CATHOLICA (E.G.C.) A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in RELIGIOUS STUDIES by Ellen P. Randolph 2014 To: Interim Dean Michael R. Heithaus College of Arts and Sciences This thesis, written by Ellen P. Randolph, and entitled Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.), having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgment.
    [Show full text]
  • An Essay Upon Number
    An Essay Upon Number by Frater Hoor Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. CONTENTS Page 1. The Great Undefined 11 2. “Thelemic” Mathematics 5 3. The Enochian System and the English Alphabet 8 4. A Brief Analysis of The Book of the Law 11 Chapter One 11 Chapter Two 23 Chapter Three 28 1. The Great Undefined Top There is one essential problem with mathematics as it stands: the fact that it is based entirely on the concept of division. That is, all of its formulae and theorems are founded on the idea of the number one, which is divided (has separation) from zero by some amount only knowable as itself, the number one. Repeated division produces 2, and 3, etc. There is a system of mathematical shorthand called “Typographical Number Theory”, from which it should theoretically be possible to write any conceivable mathematical formula or theorem, using only five basic axioms. These axioms are the basis of the current model of mathematics in its entirety. However, Kurt Gödel showed that it is possible to create any number of theorems using that system which could neither be proved to be true, nor ultimately denied, within the rules of the system;1 and this is done by positing a theorem in T.N.T. which reads: “Sentence G: This theorem is not a part of T.N.T.” The actual formulation of this theorem within the rules of T.N.T. is theoretically possible; and it has been taken as proof that all possible systems of logic are necessarily incomplete.2 There is an obvious point to be made here, which is that in every respect the “G-sentence” is equivalent in its unknowability to the number zero.
    [Show full text]
  • Vernal Equinox Go-Live / Stream the Invocation of Horus from the Libri of Aleister Crowley – the Equinox of the Gods – Chapter 6
    Vernal Equinox go-live / stream The Invocation of Horus From The Libri of Aleister Crowley – The Equinox of the Gods – Chapter 6 The Arising of THE BEAST 666. 9○=2□ It has been judged best to reprint as it stands the account of these matters originally compiled for “The Temple of Solomon the King.” (Equinox Vol. I, No. VII, pp 357-386.) (The notes for this article were worked out in collaboration with Captain (now Major-General) J.F.C. Fuller. Every means of cross-examination was pressed to the utmost.) THE PRIEST In opening this the most important section of Frater P.'s career, we may be met by the unthinking with the criticism that since it deals rather with his relation to others than with his personal attainment, it has no place in this volume. (Projected by Fuller as no more than a record of the personal attainment of Aleister Crowley.) Such criticism is indeed shallow. True, the incidents which we are about to record took place on planes material or contiguous thereto; true, so obscure is the light by which we walk that much must be left in doubt; true, we have not as yet the supreme mystical attainment to record; but on the other hand it is our view that the Seal set upon Attainment may be itself fittingly recorded in the story of that Attainment, and that no step in progress is more important than that when it is said to the aspirant: “Now that you are able to walk alone, let it be your first care to use that strength to help others!” And so this great event which we are about to describe, an event which will lead, as time will show, to the establishment of a New Heaven and New Earth for all men, wore the simplest and humblest guise.
    [Show full text]