Thelema various things WT Joyce wrote:> > >> > > <<>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.> > >> > > 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.> >> > Deal with a heroin junkie trying to get a fix for a full day. > > Heroin defines that person.> > 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" andlimited a major portion of his interactions with the world. In otherwords, yes, addiction is "that bad."

As far as i know, Crowley was a flat-out opiod addict for most of hislife, although he made a few attempts to clean up and stay off the stufffor a few weeks or months at a time. (One of those episodes he recountedin detail: he described being in his early 50s and totally sexuallyimpotent and going on a health regimen to regain his sex drive).

Crowley did not just use doctor-prescribed heroin (a synthetic form ofopium) -- he also took laudanum (an alcoholic tincture of opium) andmorphine (another opium compound). He may have also smoked straightopium resin. These seriously addictive substances are used somewhatinterchangeably by addicts when they experience fluctuations in thesupply of their preferred form of opioid, and Crowley's usage of themall 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 forthe discipline that it purports to offer. The whole of the Degree System ofOTO is available through Naylor/Koenig, so why not Self-Initiate? Thesecret is, there has never been any other kind of Initiation, and in thisAeon the same is true in the Work of the Transcendent Axis of Magick, astypified by AA.

Take the Oaths and Obligations for yourselves, after invoking Hoor, theLord Initiating. Let the Current do the rest.

What about the fraternity of the Order? Build your own. What about theinstruction offered within the Order? You will find more of it freelyavailable on the Web than you ever would in the Order. What about buildinga Thelemic Society? That begins with, and ends with, YOU, in Society andyour dealings with it. You are the unit upon which Society is built. Whatabout Community, and the public rituals that inspire us? If you reallybelieve that you need a Masonic Order to allow you to perform the GnosticMass, or whatever, then you have missed the script. Organise your own groupand get on with it, whatever it may be. Leave the Officials to theirpolitics and their misery. However, a world populated by self-styledThelemites of such partisan extremes that they are unable to relate to eachother, does have a certain darkly splendid humour to it, perhaps that isyour intention after all?

What about the Secret of the Ninth Degree? How will you have what it takesto 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 setto at least attempting to put it into practise. Keep a good Record.

Then compare your Results with what you would expect of any other speciesof Magickal Act and consider in what way you are falling short.

Change ONE item, and continue the experiments. As matters improve repeatthis 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 theCharge should have been quite palpable. Handling the physical material ofit will have "burned" with a cool fire, a penetrating rush that leaves theskin tingling for minutes afterwards. (If you have not experienced thisthen keep at it before moving onto proto-Ninth Degree practices… ) It maybe that you are not succeeding in building anything like this degree ofmanifest charge in your Ninth Degree work… this would be a good place tofocus, until you do. There is no point letting the Serpents enter theMenstruum before both parties are aware of the Charge, and it is the CHARGEDMenstruum that takes the imprint of the Logos.

When you are ready to put your skill in the Service of the Aeon, then youmay ramp up the power by accessing Binah.

AC said that when a Ninth Degree was performing on behalf of the Order, andthat Ninth Degree had already taken the PI Degree, (and that Degree had"worked") then there was no difference in Power between the Ninth Degree anda 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 modifiedversion of the Great Oath, limited to the performing of Ninth Degree Work onbehalf of the Current. The limited Understanding that then becomes possiblewithin the context of the practice itself will push the process ofperfecting of the technique to a level of Understanding OF the SecretItself. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and if you get Resultsthat 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 infact likely that you will have it in a far more solid form than most ofthose who are grasping at it in the upper echelons of OTO, whichever OTOthat might be.

If you have the Knowledge and Conversation of your HGA then ASK! Just bearin 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 whowas once a manifest agent upon the Earth, just like you. To think otherwiseis to disempower yourself with strange notions about how you are only askinga higher part of you to answer your query. Unless you happen to be anIpsissimus it simply is not going to work. Then again, if you have theKnowledge, then you have already successfully performed at least ONE NinthDegree operation, since that is what the Knowledge entails! It is just amatter of repeating it until you remember enough detail to put it intopractise on the physical plane… or perhaps you have been fortunate enoughto 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 carryingout the Will of the Aeon in fulfilling my Duty in performance of NinthDegree 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 thewhole Universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross ofsuffering:

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 GuardianAngel: OR That I will strive ever unto the Attainment of the Knowledge ofmy 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 withmy soul.And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the Eye be closed uponme!

Should I come finally to face the Ordeal of the Abyss, then will I swearthis Oath in its fullness, even as I now swear it as an empowerment ofOffice in the Work of the Aeon!

End of Statement.

AEonic Mystification> 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.

> 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 hadthe audacity to have done this.

I well recall when tyagi nagasiva proclaimed the Aeon of the Adversaryin 1996 and uttered the Word of the Aeon, FUCK. He has posted andproclaimed it pretty often in usenet since then.

Also, panoptes, a Magus in his own right, has repeatedly proclaimed theAeon of Alice, but i do not recall his Word or the number of hisCurrent. Perhaps he will remind us ....

Oddly enough, when editing siva's thelema-93 post on Aeonic ambiguitiesfor re-posting here, i clipped out of it the following paragraph, asbeing too specialized for many folks in alt.magick to understand -- buti shall gladly pick it up and insert it here, because it speaks directlyto what you were saying:

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here it is prudent (and appropriately arrogant) to explainsome portion of the actual AEon (of the Adversary) and itsLogos, 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 eventhe speciality of certain secret societies. in fact, thegreat deal of attention paid to progenation as part of theWork is a heinous travesty, as any biologist or ecologistwill be able to explain to the interested. this Word isas much concerned with the external world and the perfectionof human experience through insightful placement and actionas it is with the internal world of the Magus, whose acuteredirection of energized enthusiasm toward NONPROCREATIVEaims 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 amusingthat each of you -- and panoptes -- have proclaimed, uttered, andpublished an Aeonic Word.

African American lodge-oriented magic

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

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

Regards, Charla

GdelCampo: Animal SacrificeON ANIMAL SACRIFICES

by Gerald del Campo

Old aeon magicians adopted the use of animal sacrifices as analternative to human blood. Animal blood, after all, is not exempt fromPrana (Life Force), and it was not illegal; in fact, the Old Testamentspeaks very openly concerning the kind of sacrifices Jehovah likes best.Because of its biblical popularity it was easier for the magician toconvince Church and State authorities that their sacrifices wereintended 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 offeringsover Cain's because the first offered up flesh and the othervegetables. Evidently, God dislikes vegetarianism; so Cain, out ofjealousy, killed Abel.

In modern day, those magicians who use animals for sacrifices justifythe act by proclaiming that since the animal's "spirit" was released

during a Magical operation it then becomes possible for that spirit tosomehow 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 betweenanimals in the meat packing houses and the animal who is used in amagical operation. People have no problem purchasing parts of thecarcass in plastic covered styrofoam packages, yet they are capable ofcriticizing ceremonial forms of slaughter. To them, the act ofceremonial sacrifice is, for the reason that it has been connected toSatanism by the media, more horrible than the way the animal perishesat the slaughter houses. It is a hypocrisy.

The use of this particular kind of magick has a history going backseveral thousands of years; it was (and IS, according to a recent U.SSupreme Court ruling) a valid practice.

According to Sir James G. Frazer's "The Golden Bough" (1981, AvenelBooks N.Y. New York), many primitive cultures believed that when oneconsumed an animal, one could inherit the virtues or vices of thatparticular animal.

For example: There is an ancient Chinese tradition that the courage ofall animals resides in the gall-bladder; and that eating the vile of theanimal endowed the partaker of its courage. This tradition stillsurvives today, and the demand has become so great that the illegalexport of bear bladders by American poachers has potentially cut a placefor 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 feartowards other creatures inhabiting the land. It was a popular practiceamongst the Eastern African Arabs to eat the fat of lions, as this wouldmake wild animals flee from them. (Perhaps the fat would cause theirbodies to secrete an odor which would signal the presence of a Tiger toother animals?)

In Central Africa liver was a popular dish, as it was alleged that theliver was the vessel of the soul, and one could enlarge their soul byeating it.

There is a South American tribe of Indians who refuse to eat anythingbut birds, monkeys, fish, and other agile animals because of theirbelief that consuming slower, heavier beasts would cause them to becomesluggish, ineffective hunters. (Compare the sluggish, heavy felling ofyour body after eating beef with the consumption of chicken or fish.)

The human animal was not exempt from the dangers of becoming part of thefood-chain: In Australia, Philippines, Africa, New Zealand, and in manyother cultures people were often consumed in order to endow their owntribes with the courage, strength and skills of their enemies.

In at least one Amazonian tribe, it was considered a great honor to becremated shortly after death, and the ashes consumed in a ceremoniallypreparedsoup by their loved ones; as this insured the continuation ofthe 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; inwhich case, the animal should be well treated and cared for. Later itmust be humanely killed for the purposes of sacrifice; and later to beconsumed.

Eating the animal (or vegetable) shortly after its life has beenterminated would make Westerners less volnerable to obesity and othereating disorders which plague modern man, as his body's lack of pranademands him to gorgue himself after he is full.

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