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Hello all. Over the summer I came to find out about Thelema (as a now former Roman Catholic) and I feel as though its principles really resonate with me quite deeply, more so than those of Catholicism, which I was already do quite disillusioned with because of several of its social teachings and attitudes towards particular issues, not to mention the enormous toll it was taking on my mental health. Discovering Thelema felt deeply clarifying to me and like I had just stepped out of a hot and stuffy room into a cool empty space, if that makes any sense, and so I continued to research and familiarise myself with it.

After several months of debating and research (plus some dreams featuring Crowley himself, which were deeply vivid and interesting) I think I am going to fully embrace Thelema from this point on. I am drawn in not only by its principles but also by its profound theurgical / mystical elements and practices and all that is entailed in doing “the great work.”

I don’t know what I really want from making this post but if anyone has any wisdom for a newcomer like myself that would be appreciated. Thanks

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I just feel nothing when doing it. Like i feel I either have to visualise things I’m not even sure on what to visualise. I feel more affinity for the star ruby with its thelemic correspondences. I’ve always felt more connection to the thelemic correspondences.

Liber Resh vel Helios: the midnight adoration.

Crowley gave every aspirant one daily practice before any other: salute the Sun four times a day.

Dawn: Ra, facing East.

Noon: Ahathoor, facing South.

Sunset: Tum, facing West.

Midnight: Khephra, facing North.

At midnight the Sun is hidden under the earth. Khephra is the scarab who rolls it through the dark so it can rise again. You give the sign of silence and say:

"Hail unto thee who art Khephra in thy hiding, even unto thee who art Khephra in thy silence, who travellest over the Heavens in thy bark at the Midnight Hour of the Sun."

Why? Crowley says it in the text itself: "So shalt thou ever be mindful of the Great Work which thou hast undertaken to perform."

Four times a day you stop and remember that you are a star, and that your light keeps moving even when no one can see it.

That's the ritual. Chicago, midnight.

#Thelema #LiberResh #Crowley #Khephra

A fascinating and gorgeous fusion of the Marseilles print style with the Harris/Crowley imagery.

In Thelema, Hadit is “the axle of the wheel.” And in Nuit, he is the “center in the sphere whose circumference is nowhere found.”

As axles are the center of wheels, he is the axle and she the wheel, but here referred to as a circumference, because she is not in motion as I’ll explain.

Reference is made to this in a different passage, where Hadit states: “I am the cube in the circle.”

But to really reinforce the way that cubic nature of Hadit spans both circle and sphere, in the thirtieth Aethyr, TEX, in The Vision and the Voice, is the following line: “I am in the vast crystal cube of the Great God Harpocrates. This cube is surrounded by a sphere.” (And Crowley links this explicitly to AL: II, 7, as I referenced, in the commentary.)

So what we have now is a cube inside a circle which is also a sphere: and Nuit is the circumference of that sphere.

This shows Hadit as the cube to connect to both the circle and the sphere, and therefore to Nuit as the circumference of the sphere, which is the circle he’s ultimately joined with.

This is why he says, “In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. Yet she shall be known & I never.”

This is why he knows that she shall be known: he, as the cube, is always connected to her totality. He is the axle in the wheel and the cube in the circle.

That shows that he is the axle in the circle of Nuit, which makes her the wheel…

Sort of. Nuit is the circumference of the sphere: the limits of possibility.

The axle, however, has to move: this makes the wheel itself, distinct from the circle.

The wheel is what is known by Hadit: paradoxically, this is what lets it become a part of motion.

But Nuit is referred to as a circumference, because she is frozen; in order to be able to be known, you must be something that isn’t in flux.

However, Nuit needs to be experienced as being in flux: without change there is no motion.

That change is Hadit, himself. He is what is changing, which is what turns the wheel: the wheel of his experience of reality.

What this equates Nuit to, then, is eternity itself.

This is where Liber Cordis Cincti Serpenti takes its place as the heart of all of this.

It is a description of how Nuit, as eternity, crosses with Hadit. (“Yet she shall be known, and I never.”)

Nuit is the Serpent. Hadit becomes the serpent and in so doing joins with Nuit, which creates The Heart as the product of that union.

That union is the purpose of A∴A∴ The inner order is devoted to attaining union of Heart and Snake, which is why Adonai is referred to as such, his name meaning Lord: The Heart is Adonai’s Heart. He symbolizes that attainment.

And to reach it, he had to climb up along all circumstances and situations in reality. (Thus making him “Lord”.)

This is why A∴A∴ is referred to as “The axle of R.O.T.A.” in The Equinox.

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I’m curious how others have approached discovering their True Will. Is it something you’ve come to recognize through meditation, ritual, introspection, or just through life experience?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and perspectives.

Ive been trying to learn online but everything seems contradictory :(

After a few months hiatus, I'm picking up Liber AL vel Legis again and getting into Chapter 2. Aiwass castigates Crowley for a while and then lets him off the hook.

https://youtu.be/AeVlh1ZQLE8

I think they’re pretty neato. I don’t need to worry about face tattoos because I’m a musician and it doesn’t affect my life or finances; before anyone wants to comment “oof.”

Im kind of gate keeping this place as I’ve found a massive little gold mine of occult books in this second hand book store in my city and I want to buy them all . I’m in north west England. The book shop owner said they had a huge haul of books from this one guy who passed away and he seems to have been on the exact same journey as me in terms of his esoteric and occult readings. I find the synchronicity fascinating.

I spent hours in there today…it’s one of those old school shops where nothing is organised it’s just on a shelf and you have to take the time to rummage. I’m headed back there later this week as there’s some first edition golden dawn books in there, but today I picked up this 1979 edition of Liber E and Liber O - there’s the original owners notations written in there too. I’ve picked up a bunch of other occult books from there over the last few weeks too, some pagan and Wicca writing and esoteric Christian books including a 1912 original Watkins Books publication with original readers annotations.

Thought I’d share in case any of you find the old prints and book notes a draw to your practice

Hadit’s lift begins with his area that possesses no thickness and does not require an ambient volume to exist.

To ascend, Hadit is lifted into a new base composed of six spheres, arranged at the six vertices of a hexagon.

These six positions form a single sixfold structure, allowing Hadit’s operation to act across the entire base rather than merely within an isolated two-state factor.

This is not a standard lift at all, which would just repeat his twofold operation independently across three sectors..

Instead, two pairs of opposite positions exchange places, while the two positions laying on the reflection axis remain fixed.

The reason positions two remain fixed is that they lay on Hadit’s axis of reflection.

A point on the reflection axis does not move when reflected, because the mirror image occupies precisely the same position.

The other four positions exchange in pairs.

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I’ve always been interested in the occult and magick, even though I wouldn’t personally get involved in rituals or anything like that because I’m a believer in Christ. However, something strange happened this morning. I’ve been reading a book about Crowley for the past week, and this morning I was reading it in my living room when I had to go outside to get something from my car. When I opened the front door, there was a bag sitting there that definitely wasn’t there last night when I got home from work. I brought it inside, and there was this pyramid in it. There was no return address, no name, nothing. The bag had seemingly appeared overnight, and the timing was very strange.

7=4.

Bound to the fixed cross.

Scorpio - Leo axis unimaginably active.

Aquarius - Taurus axis strangely silent.

What to expect?

My girlfriend's one year old blue brick vs my new copy. Been going thru the suggested reading of various lineages the last six months and reading tons of different material, I'm wrapping up Confessions now. It was a super inspiring read I'm so excited to keep going

93 all. Thanks to everyone for teaching and explaining. I said Will over two beverages. One prior to the other. Does the one prior take priority over the other? How do we factor in the limitations of time and death in this world.

Obviously we believe in continuity of existence, though we remain unsure of what that really looks like.

Not sure.

Crowley regularly cites Freud, and psychoanalysis pairs well with philosophy, both of which Crowley encourages as areas of study for the serious student of Magick. My guests and I will discuss the ideas of Lacan, a champion of Freudian thought and a major influence on psychoanalysis.

Hello everyone, I have recently learned that I share some things with Aleister Crowley! We have the same birthday, life path number, as well as Mars placement!

I feel strangely connected with Crowley, and I'm curious if we share anything else in common. If anyone has information please do let me know, I am rather curious! Thank you for your time :)