#cerimonial magic
The title of ninth Sephira, or emanation of the Tree Of Life, is YSVD (Yezod). It is the Sephira of the Lunar magick of Aub, or Ob, the Serpent (whence “obeah”).
The Serpent is a Symbol common to the Yezidi, Voodooists, Tantrics, and Thelemites.
Yezod or Yesod as the secret center of the Yezidi is an apt description of the Sephira wich corresponds to the sexual center in the human body. Yesod means “Foundation”, and the Hadit of the Thelemites, is the Foundation of the World, as Yesod is the foundation of the Tree Of Life.
The accursed God of the South is, then no other than the lord of the reproductive forces typified by the southernmost Sephira-Yesod.
Yesod is attributed to the Moon. not to the Sun. The curious symbolism is explained by the connection of the Serpent or Dragon with the lunar current typified by Babalon- “for he is ever a sun, and she a moon”. The symbolism may be fathomed at the Hindu level of mythology where Shiva (the Indian Seth) is called “the god with the crescent” (i.e the moon) in the Bhagavad Gita. Also, Thoth the Moon-god, was originally the God of Sirius, identical with the Star-God-Seth, before the luni-solar mode of reckoning time supplanted the stellar reckoning.
This is the reason why the inverted pentagram, or pointed towards the south is usually abhorred as a seal of the devil. Is the seal of Satan because it invokes the snake sex, snake Obeah. The osirisian, and Christians, fled from this aspect of existence, and the pentagram of Set, the south, was considered the symbol of impurity and of abomination. It is still the star of Satan for those who consider the use the current of sexual magic as “evil” that is diabolic. Originally there was no moral pollution; it comes from the hands of the followers of the cult of the old Aeon, those represented in myth by God Dying: Adonis, Osiris, Christ, etc
Kenneth Grant
“The Magical revival”
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Babalon Is Represented As The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, And The Mother Of Abominations. Her Godform Is That Of A Sacred Whore, And Her Primary Symbol Is The Chalice Or Graal. Her Consort Is Chaos, The “Father Of Life” And The Male Form Of The Creative Principle. Babalon Is Often Described As Being Girt With A Sword And Riding The Beast, With Whom Aleister Crowley Personally Identified. As Aleister Crowley Wrote, “she Rides Astride The Beast; In Her Left Hand She Holds The Reins, Representing The Passion Which Unites Them. In Her Right She Holds Aloft The Cup, The Holy Grail Aflame With Love And Death. In This Cup Are Mingled The Elements Of The Sacrament Of The Aeon” (Book Of Thoth). In A More General Sense, Babalon Represents The Liberated Woman And The Full Expression Of The Sexual Impulse.
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METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF SEXUAL MAGIC:
There exists a talisman of universal application.
In the Elemental Kingdom it is represented represented by pyramis, fire; in geometric terms by the pyramid or triangle and in biological terms by the phallus. As the sun radiates life and light throughout the solar system, so the phallus radiates life and light upon earth, and, similarly, subserves a power greater than itself. For as the sun is a reflection of Sirius, so is the phallus the vehicle of the Will of the Magus.
In the non-initiate the phallic power operates independently of and often at variance with, its possessor; it functions capriciously, regardless of the individual. The phallic power possesses the individual, not vice versa. In the case of the initiate, however, the position is reversed.
The O.T.O. possesses the secret knowledge of rectification and the means of release from the thraldom of unregenerate instinct. It instructs the operator in the proper use of the Elemental Fire, the right building of the Pyramid, the successful wielding of the Magick Wand.
The control of the Elemental Fire involves the inhibition of the usual physical results of sexual congress. The libido is not “earthed”, but directed by the Will to incarnate in a form specially prepared for its reception.
Liber Agape, the enchiridion of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the O.T.O., shows how sexual magick is based on the assumption that no cause can be baulked of an effect. If the natural effect is annulled, the discharge of energy is not lost, it forms a subtle or astral image of the idea dominant in the mind at the climax of coitus. Ordinarily this idea is one of lust, and because of this a tendency or habit is set up in the mind, which consequently becomes increasingly difficult to control. This tendency must therefore be destroyed.
The mental exaltation generated by a magically controlled orgasm forms a lucent lenselike window past which stream the vivid astral imagery of the subconscious mind.
Specific images are evoked and “fixed”; they become instantly and vitally alive.
As their luminous presence is obsessive, magical safeguards are essential to offset actual obsession. These images are dynamic links with the deeper centres of consciousness and act as keys to the experience or revelations which form the object of the Operation. To incarnate such experiences is the object of sexual magick. It is necessary, therefore, to formulate the will with great care and with strict economy of means. There must be nothing in the mind at the moment of orgasm except the image of the “child” which it is
intended to bring to birth. Objurgations against masturbation, onanism, coitus interruptus, karezza and other apparently sterile methods of using sexual energy, follow logically upon awareness (however consciously unacknowledged this awareness may be) of the sacramental nature of the generative act. Erroneous conclusions drawn from incomplete apprehension of the factors involved led in the past to the “fire and brimstone” admonitions directed against “abuses”, which at one time were thought to lead to degeneration of the nervous system, blindness, paralysis and insanity. In actual fact, none of the energy is lost, though it fails to find a field of operation in the matrix which nature has provided for it. It breeds, instead of physical offspring, phantoms composed of tenuous matter. Through the deliberate and persistent practice of such “abuses”, qliphotic entities are engendered;
they prey upon the mind and feed upon the nervous fluid. As Crowley notes:
“The ancient Jewish Rabbins knew this, and taught that before Eve was given to Adam the demon Lilith was conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves, and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man”.1
Many long and tedious dissertations on the possibility of a “witch” giving birth to offspring after union with the devil in the form of an incubus should be understood in the sense that children are born of such unions, though not physical children. Any discharge of energy, of any kind, has an effect on all planes. If results on one plane are baulked-as would happen in the case of the incubus-then they appear on another. According to ancient authorities on Witchcraft, incubi and succubi were personifications of the devil himself. The devil is synonymous with the creative spirit in man. Crowley goes so far as
to declare that “the satyr is the True Nature of every man and every woman”.
The incubus or succubus is the exteriorization, or extrusion, of the satyr in each individual. It represents the subliminal Will; in effect, the Dwarf Self or Holy Guardian Angel. It is this principle in man that is immortal, and it is inextricably bound up with the sexuality, which, in turn, is the key to its nature and the means of its incarnation. (…)
Dr. Kellner, who reformed the O.T.O. In modern times was initiated in the use of the sexual current by an Arab named Soliman Ben Aifa, and two indianTantrics Bhima Sen Pratap and Shri Mahatma Agamia Paramahansa.
It is not certain, but it is very likely that they were initiates of the Vama Marg, or left-hand path. The cleary tantric element in some of the instructions of the ‘OTO Involving the use of sex becomes so clear.
The term Vama Marg, despite the details of Sir John Wodroffe, is still under a cloud of errete interpretations generated by emotional reactions to ideas alien to Western thought.
I do not expect to succeed where such authorities have failed, but I reaffirm once again that the expression “left-hand path” is a technical term indicating the magical use of sexual energy, sometimes with the help of female helpers (Shakti), as in the case of tantric, and female companions (Manjaris) as in the case of Sahajiya.
The tantric especially those of the sect Kaula, follow practices similar to those of certain African cults or neo-African such as voodoo and the Obeah. But the assistance of women is not always necessary and not always used.
In the system of spiritual culture that includes the sexual use of women and establishing a high ideal of reverence for the feminine principle as the Shakti, or power-aspect of the universe, not the product of psychopaths, unless we postulate the existence of an unbroken line of culprits that extends for countless centuries.
Neither the original African concept of sex is in no way inferior to the highly developed and complex formulas used by alchemists or Rosicrucians in their Great Work of transformation of the vulgar metal of the worldly passion into the pure gold of spiritual light.
Is the bigotry of the Orthodox religionist and the blind stagger in the dark of psychologists materialists which sees these systems as a morbid expression of the primordial creative impulse.
Crowley’s life was a struggle against a mindset that led to suppress in the name of a servile creed - whether it was religious, liberal arts or sciences - the secret and sacred source of life in favor of a reflection deformed psychological impotence typical of those who prescribe the suppression and restriction of a way of life. The only pity that AL recognizes is the restriction, cause of all the “sins”.
When Crowley took over the leadership of 'O.T.O. , It did so with the intent to promote individual liberty under the law of Thelema. He incorporated the fundamental principles of this law in Liber Oz, that published in 1942. In the space of a few hundred words, he declared what he described as the political program of the 'OTO In the outside world.
The old Aeon, like any other event was inevitable and it aroused exactly that current that his ministers were trying to suppress, if not destroy.
The sexual energy inhibited from 2000 years, as a result, it now consumes a tremendous orgasm, the impetus which in physical terms will projects the human consciousness with ultraphysical signs.ì. The projection is the formula of Ra-Hoor-Kuith; Horus is its active phase.
There will explosion, disintegration and reintegration of elements again downloaded in vehicles whose substance will have a subtle nature and relatively immaterial, approssimatosi to the scientific concept of entities seen in AL.
During dictation of AL, Crowley asked for a “sign” and Nuit exclaimed: “The sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body” (…).
Since an Aeon follows another, it will appears changes in the sexual nature of the organisms that will develop the thelemic concept. The pro-parent (Female) dominated the Aeon of Isis, parthenogenesis was the formula of that era. In 'Aeon of Osiris, the progenitor (Male) prevailed. The Aeon of Horus, is the Aeon of the “ Son Crowned and Conqueror ”- it will see the merging of the two sexes in one. The bisexual Baphomet of the Templars symbolizes this concept.
In the language of Thelemic magick, Heru-Ra-Ha - solar consciousness - phallic - it manifests itself as active current as represented by Horus Ra-Hoor-Kuith (IX) and as the passive current represented by Set, or Shaitan, or Hoor Paar-Kraat (XI). These are dual ways of the Baphomet operation.
adapted from:
The Magical Revival (1972), Kennet Grant
Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God (1973), Kennet Grant
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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. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Evening.
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THIS IS A MASK USED FOR CEREMONIAL MAGIC, OR AS PROTECTIVE AMULET CHANNELER OF SACRED ENERGY.
THE MASK USES A COMBINATION OF MAGIC SYMBOLS ADDRESSED TO MOVE THE CREATIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE ENERGY FROM THE UNIVERSE (YIN-YANG) - (HORUS-SET) - (LIGHT-DARKNESS ’), THE TWO FORCES ARE BALANCED IN CENTRAL POINT (THIRD EYE) Or AJNA CHAKRA THAT IS A STUD BALANCER REGULATOR, MORE HIGH THE SECOND STUD REGULATOR IS THE MAGIC HEXAGRAM THAT COINCIDES WITH THE SEVENTH CHAKRA (SAHASRARA).
OTHER SYMBOLS:
THE 3 HEBREW LETTERS CALLED THE 3 MOTHERS EXPLAIN IN KABBALAH THE SAME PRINCIPLE:
ש = “SHIN” MEANING: PRIMORDIAL FLAME. It IS THE ROOT OF PRIMORDIAL MALE ENERGY (FIRE / ACTIVE / LIGHT).
נ = “NUN” MEANING: PRIMORDIAL WATER. It IS THE ROOT OF PRIMORDIAL FEMALE ENERGY. (WATER / PASSIVE / DARK).
א = “ALEPH” MEANING: SPIRIT (AIR). IS THE ROOT OF THE SPIRIT THAT ALL PERVADES AND ALL ADJUSTS (GAS / NEUTRAL / BALANCING)
MEANING OF TWO staves:
PENTAGRAM TIP TOP: CONTACT WITH THE DIVINE, THE MAN WHO SUCK THE SKIES OF PARADISE, BACK TO THE PRIMORDIAL SOURCE.
PENTAGRAM WITH POINT DOWN: CONTACT WITH THE EARTH, THE ROOTS HOLDING WELL
BALANCE THE MAN ON THE EARTH, MATERIAL DESIRES.
V.I.T.R.I.O.L. = VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM.
IT IS AN ANCIENT ALCHEMICAL FORMULA, THE LITERAL MEANING IS : VISIT INSIDE THE EARTH, AND ASSESS (WITH SUBSEQUENT PURIFICATIONS) SO YOU WILL FIND THE HIDDEN STONE (LIGHTING).
INDICATES THE PROCESS OF UNION OF OPPOSITE IN WICH THE NEGATIVE POLE IS REUNIFIED TO THE POSITIVE POLE (ALCHEMICAL WEDDING), THIS CREATES THE END OF MINK DUAL EXISTENCE ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN PAIN ON EARTH.
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TWO rituals devised by Crowley involve the use of blood. They are the Mass of the Phoenix and a certain secret rite of the Gnosis taught in the Sovereign Sanctuary of the O.T.O. The Mass of the Phoenix has been published as Liber XLIV, both in the Book of Lies and in Magick. The number 44 is the Hebrew word DM (Dam), which means “blood”. It signifies the red source of creation from which man (i.e. A-dam) was created; ChVL, the phoenix, also adds up to 44. The other blood-rite has not been published.
In the Mass of the Phoenix, the magician gashes his breast and absorbs his blood orally; in the rite of the Gnosis he unites himself with the source of the manifestation of the’ Form (i.e. the yoni), and consumes the wafer soaked in blood. The act is thus a sacrament, imbued with the magical current of his own energy expressed in terms of Will; it is an electro-chemical formula. Blood is the great materializing agent, both for spirits that would incarnate in this world (or on this plane) and for spirits which, remaining in another world, wish to assume a shape in order to impress their presence upon human beings. Homer, and other writers of antiquity, have described magical rites involving the use of blood that manifested theshades of the departed to visible appearance. Blood also forms the physical basis for the materialization of elemental and daemonic forces.
The theory underlying Blood Rites is based on the biblical identity of Blood and Life (Gen. 9. iv.). The feminine seminal source is equated with the masculine energ (prana, ruach, Spirit). Hence blood is the vehicle of Spirit, and the means of mani festing spirits.
The dual components, male and female, refer to the soul of darkness and the soul of light, the spirits of Set and Horus respectively-these, again, are Hoor-paar-Kraat and Ra-Hoor Khuit, the dual polarities of Heru- Ra-Ha (Horus), through which the balance of the Cosmos is sustained. In moral terms this duality expresses itself as good and evil. In the symbolism of the Gnostics, the serpent and the dove are the typical glyphs of this polarity, and in The Book of the Law it says:
“There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.” The entire body of Crowley’s doctrine is a comment upon the balanced interplay of these two forces: the downward demon pull, the upward angel.
Confusion of symbolism has arisen because of the transition from feminine to masculine interpretations of Primal Energy. This was caused by the gradual evolution of ideas and the shifting of emphasis from one to the other, which has already been explained at some length. Similar transitions of symbols into their opposites are well known in connection with the Christianization of pagan deities; the process is markedly appar ent in the Voodoo Mysteries, where the “saints” retain their original dark powers along with their newly acquired virtues.
The twin forces in Crowley’s system are Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Herakhty) and Hoor-paar-Kraat (Harpocrates), the two aspects of Heru-Ra-Ha (Horus). Their significance as spiritual entities can be understood only with reference to the basic mysteries of physiology upon which they ultimately rest.
Applied to man, these twins embody the idea of the soul and the spirit. The soul is theastral shade, the stellar light in darkness represented by Set and Sirius; the spirit is the solar body of light, represented by the sun. One is of the night, the other of the day.
The Egyptian determinative of the human double was the sunshade, which combined these two ideas in one image. It was called the khaibit, and it survives in the English word habit, as something repeated or doubled, something put on or off as occasion demands. Every individual assumes and relinquishes this habit, or shade, each time he sleeps and awakens. During sleep, the light and dark aspects of the shade are unified and appear to be identical; unless the sleeper is an initiate, in which case he is conscious of the distinction. In death-which is a longer sleep- the two become discrete, the dark shade hovering over the corpse, the body of light finally breaking away from its twin and soaring aloft like a golden hawk.
Kennet Grant
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