Thelema various things

WT Joyce wrote:
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> > > <<>I don't know about this of Dr's then, certainly not now,
> > > > prescribing Heroin for respiratory ailments as one of the side
> > > > affects of Heroin, as Morphine, is that it surpresses the
> > > > respiratory tract. I believe that Crowley took Heroin because
> > > > he was, let's face it, a junkie; even though a infamous and
> > > > brillant one at that.
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> > > We use Morphine to soothe the respiratory distress of the
> > > dying. There are all sorts of junkies.... An addiction
> > > doesn't define a human being, however.
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> > Deal with a heroin junkie trying to get a fix for a full day.
> > Heroin defines that person.
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> Is it that bad, an addiction??
My uncle was a heroin junkie. In my experience, while the drug did not
"define" him as a person, heroin addiction certainly "defined" and
limited a major portion of his interactions with the world. In other
words, yes, addiction is "that bad."
As far as i know, Crowley was a flat-out opiod addict for most of his
life, although he made a few attempts to clean up and stay off the stuff
for a few weeks or months at a time. (One of those episodes he recounted
in detail: he described being in his early 50s and totally sexually
impotent and going on a health regimen to regain his sex drive).
Crowley did not just use doctor-prescribed heroin (a synthetic form of
opium) -- he also took laudanum (an alcoholic tincture of opium) and
morphine (another opium compound). He may have also smoked straight
opium resin. These seriously addictive substances are used somewhat
interchangeably by addicts when they experience fluctuations in the
supply of their preferred form of opioid, and Crowley's usage of them
all indicates to me that he was a junkie and not a casual user.

Abyssal Oaths Infernal

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"

There is no need to sell your freedom to a Masonic Order in exchange for
the discipline that it purports to offer. The whole of the Degree System of
OTO is available through Naylor/Koenig, so why not Self-Initiate? The
secret is, there has never been any other kind of Initiation, and in this
Aeon the same is true in the Work of the Transcendent Axis of Magick, as
typified by AA.
Take the Oaths and Obligations for yourselves, after invoking Hoor, the
Lord Initiating. Let the Current do the rest.
What about the fraternity of the Order? Build your own. What about the

instruction offered within the Order? You will find more of it freely
available on the Web than you ever would in the Order. What about building
a Thelemic Society? That begins with, and ends with, YOU, in Society and
your dealings with it. You are the unit upon which Society is built. What
about Community, and the public rituals that inspire us? If you really
believe that you need a Masonic Order to allow you to perform the Gnostic
Mass, or whatever, then you have missed the script. Organise your own group
and get on with it, whatever it may be. Leave the Officials to their
politics and their misery. However, a world populated by self-styled
Thelemites of such partisan extremes that they are unable to relate to each
other, does have a certain darkly splendid humour to it, perhaps that is
your intention after all?
What about the Secret of the Ninth Degree? How will you have what it takes
to succeed in doing your True Will if you are without the Great Secret?
First of all get hold of all the Papers that refer to this matter, then set
to at least attempting to put it into practise. Keep a good Record.
Then compare your Results with what you would expect of any other species
of Magickal Act and consider in what way you are falling short.
Change ONE item, and continue the experiments. As matters improve repeat
this process, with focus on one item at a time.
For example, if you have ever charged a Talisman using any other technique,
and have achieved a reasonable level of power, then the presence of the
Charge should have been quite palpable. Handling the physical material of
it will have "burned" with a cool fire, a penetrating rush that leaves the
skin tingling for minutes afterwards. (If you have not experienced this
then keep at it before moving onto proto-Ninth Degree practices ) It may
be that you are not succeeding in building anything like this degree of
manifest charge in your Ninth Degree work this would be a good place to
focus, until you do. There is no point letting the Serpents enter the
Menstruum before both parties are aware of the Charge, and it is the CHARGED
Menstruum that takes the imprint of the Logos.
When you are ready to put your skill in the Service of the Aeon, then you
may ramp up the power by accessing Binah.
AC said that when a Ninth Degree was performing on behalf of the Order, and
that Ninth Degree had already taken the PI Degree, (and that Degree had
"worked") then there was no difference in Power between the Ninth Degree and
a Master of the Temple in AA (the Tenth Degree should manifest as a Magus,
within the Order.)
The trick to self-initiating into this kind of power is to swear a modified
version of the Great Oath, limited to the performing of Ninth Degree Work on
behalf of the Current. The limited Understanding that then becomes possible
within the context of the practice itself will push the process of
perfecting of the technique to a level of Understanding OF the Secret
Itself. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and if you get Results
that show that you are succeeding with the technique, then in keeping with
"the Method of Science, the Aim of Religion", you HAVE the Secret. It is in
fact likely that you will have it in a far more solid form than most of
those who are grasping at it in the upper echelons of OTO, whichever OTO
that might be.
If you have the Knowledge and Conversation of your HGA then ASK! Just bear

in mind that it is in no way consistent with Thelema as Therion intended it,

to view the HGA as anything other than a fully separate individual, one who
was once a manifest agent upon the Earth, just like you. To think otherwise
is to disempower yourself with strange notions about how you are only asking
a higher part of you to answer your query. Unless you happen to be an
Ipsissimus it simply is not going to work. Then again, if you have the
Knowledge, then you have already successfully performed at least ONE Ninth
Degree operation, since that is what the Knowledge entails! It is just a
matter of repeating it until you remember enough detail to put it into
practise on the physical plane or perhaps you have been fortunate enough
to meet your Angel in the flesh, as happens to some of us.
Here is the amended Oath:
In so far as I am acting as an Officer of the Lord of the Aeon and carrying
out the Will of the Aeon in fulfilling my Duty in performance of Ninth
Degree Work, then do I take upon myself the Great Obligation as follows:
I.
I, NAME, a member of the Body of God, hereby bind myself on behalf of the
whole Universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of
suffering:
II.
That I will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the Order:
III.
That I will understand all things:
IV.
That I will love all things:
V.
That I will perform all things and endure all things:
VI.
That I will continue in the Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy Guardian
Angel: OR That I will strive ever unto the Attainment of the Knowledge of
my Holy Guardian Abgel:
VII.
That I will work without attachment:
VIII.
That I will work in truth:
IX.
That I will rely only upon myself:
X.
That I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with
my soul.
And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the Eye be closed upon
me!
Should I come finally to face the Ordeal of the Abyss, then will I swear
this Oath in its fullness, even as I now swear it as an empowerment of
Office in the Work of the Aeon!

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AEonic Mystification
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And then Frater Achad spoke his Word ALLALA, was expelled by
Crowley, and walked naked through the streets to show he had "cast
off the shakles of illusion".
And then Maggie (Nema) of the Ma'at current spoke her Word, to be
honest I've forgotten what it was, oh yes, IPSOS wasn't it?

Thanks for the reminders of these amazing events.

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And then in 1989 Joel Biroco spoke his Word JUBALCAIN (156 Current,
successor to the 93 current). He is currently the last known Magus
to have had the audacity to "utter his Word", although in KAOS 13 he
also satirised the entire notion and made out it was completely
unimportant to him, nonetheless he still uttered it, as maguses are
wont to do.

Surely Joel, you know that you are not the last known Magus to have had
the audacity to have done this.
I well recall when tyagi nagasiva proclaimed the Aeon of the Adversary
in 1996 and uttered the Word of the Aeon, FUCK. He has posted and
proclaimed it pretty often in usenet since then.
Also, panoptes, a Magus in his own right, has repeatedly proclaimed the
Aeon of Alice, but i do not recall his Word or the number of his
Current. Perhaps he will remind us ....
Oddly enough, when editing siva's thelema-93 post on Aeonic ambiguities
for re-posting here, i clipped out of it the following paragraph, as
being too specialized for many folks in alt.magick to understand -- but
i shall gladly pick it up and insert it here, because it speaks directly
to what you were saying:
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here it is prudent (and appropriately arrogant) to explain
some portion of the actual AEon (of the Adversary) and its
Logos, FUCK. one of its many extrapolations, this Logos,
is as an explanation of success in the alchemical Work:
Formula for the Understanding of Conversation and Knowledge.
this relates to the Adventure of the Holy Guardian Angel,
and of the sexual magic proclaimed the interest and even
the speciality of certain secret societies. in fact, the
great deal of attention paid to progenation as part of the
Work is a heinous travesty, as any biologist or ecologist
will be able to explain to the interested. this Word is
as much concerned with the external world and the perfection
of human experience through insightful placement and action
as it is with the internal world of the Magus, whose acute
redirection of energized enthusiasm toward NONPROCREATIVE
aims is astoundingly important to hir overall development.
--nagasiva

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I know you and siva have disrespect for each other, so i find it amusing
that each of you -- and panoptes -- have proclaimed, uttered, and
published an Aeonic Word.

African American lodge-oriented magic

Stephen C. Wehmeyer (wehmeyer@ucla.edu) wrote:

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Of course, anything by or about P.B. Randolph and the

Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (mid 19th century -- Chicago[?]),
is relevant to this discussion. In fact, a recently published
encyclopedic work dealing with the history of the HBL seems
to sew up most of the loose ends vis a vis the order's relationship
to the modern American Spiritualist movement. Unfortunately...
the title and authors are not at the moment on the tip
of my tongue. I'll post full bibliographic data soon...

Perhaps you mean 'The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor' by

Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, and John P. Deveney published
by Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1995? There's also a new bio titled
'Paschal Beverly Randolph' by John Patrick Deveney published
by State University of New York Press, Albany (SUNY), 1997.
Regards, Charla

GdelCampo: Animal Sacrifice

ON ANIMAL SACRIFICES
by Gerald del Campo
Old aeon magicians adopted the use of animal sacrifices as an
alternative to human blood. Animal blood, after all, is not exempt from
Prana (Life Force), and it was not illegal; in fact, the Old Testament
speaks very openly concerning the kind of sacrifices Jehovah likes best.
Because of its biblical popularity it was easier for the magician to
convince Church and State authorities that their sacrifices were
intended for "The One God."
The story of Abel and Cain illustrates how much Jehovah loves flesh:
God loved blood and flesh so much that he preferred Able's offerings
over Cain's because the first offered up flesh and the other
vegetables. Evidently, God dislikes vegetarianism; so Cain, out of
jealousy, killed Abel.
In modern day, those magicians who use animals for sacrifices justify
the act by proclaiming that since the animal's "spirit" was released
during a Magical operation it then becomes possible for that spirit to
somehow evolve into something more than "just animal."
Personally, I do not condone the destruction of anything but oneself.
We have a problem with people who conveniently draw lines between
animals in the meat packing houses and the animal who is used in a
magical operation. People have no problem purchasing parts of the
carcass in plastic covered styrofoam packages, yet they are capable of
criticizing ceremonial forms of slaughter. To them, the act of
ceremonial sacrifice is, for the reason that it has been connected to

Satanism by the media, more horrible than the way the animal perishes
at the slaughter houses. It is a hypocrisy.
The use of this particular kind of magick has a history going back
several thousands of years; it was (and IS, according to a recent U.S
Supreme Court ruling) a valid practice.
According to Sir James G. Frazer's "The Golden Bough" (1981, Avenel
Books N.Y. New York), many primitive cultures believed that when one
consumed an animal, one could inherit the virtues or vices of that
particular animal.
For example: There is an ancient Chinese tradition that the courage of
all animals resides in the gall-bladder; and that eating the vile of the
animal endowed the partaker of its courage. This tradition still
survives today, and the demand has become so great that the illegal
export of bear bladders by American poachers has potentially cut a place
for the American bear on the endangered species list.
In Morocco, one could cure their cowardice by eating Tiger flesh.
Another motivation for ceremonially consuming animals was people's fear
towards other creatures inhabiting the land. It was a popular practice
amongst the Eastern African Arabs to eat the fat of lions, as this would
make wild animals flee from them. (Perhaps the fat would cause their
bodies to secrete an odor which would signal the presence of a Tiger to
other animals?)
In Central Africa liver was a popular dish, as it was alleged that the
liver was the vessel of the soul, and one could enlarge their soul by
eating it.
There is a South American tribe of Indians who refuse to eat anything
but birds, monkeys, fish, and other agile animals because of their
belief that consuming slower, heavier beasts would cause them to become
sluggish, ineffective hunters. (Compare the sluggish, heavy felling of
your body after eating beef with the consumption of chicken or fish.)
The human animal was not exempt from the dangers of becoming part of the
food-chain: In Australia, Philippines, Africa, New Zealand, and in many
other cultures people were often consumed in order to endow their own
tribes with the courage, strength and skills of their enemies.
In at least one Amazonian tribe, it was considered a great honor to be
cremated shortly after death, and the ashes consumed in a ceremonially
preparedsoup by their loved ones; as this insured the continuation of
the individual through the life of their family members and friends.
Given the lack of nutrition (Prana) found in store bought flesh, it may
well benefit us as a race to raise cattle for the purposes of food; in
which case, the animal should be well treated and cared for. Later it
must be humanely killed for the purposes of sacrifice; and later to be
consumed.
Eating the animal (or vegetable) shortly after its life has been
terminated would make Westerners less volnerable to obesity and other
eating disorders which plague modern man, as his body's lack of prana
demands him to gorgue himself after he is full.

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