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The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading.
Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.
Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself.
Originally posted by Osbert
Excellent post frater Cug, very much for dummyes though.
Is it the Sun in the sky one worships or is it a more personal Sun ?
The frase " And was the Pharao worried when the tip of his Pyramid was still unquarried in distant lands" means what to you ?
Originally posted by Seraphim_Serpente
Cug - you called Thelema a Religion. I dis-agree. I believe that it is more of a Philosophy.
To sum up, our system is a religion just so far as a religion means an enthusiastic putting-together of a series of doctrines, no one of which must in any way clash with Science or Magick.
Call it a new religion, then, if it so please your Gracious Majesty; but I confess that I fail to see what you will have gained by so doing, and I feel bound to add that you might easily cause a great deal of misunderstanding, and work a rather stupid kind of mischief.
(in which Practitioners might fall into the same traps of Dogmatic Literalist Interpretation - like that of Fundamentalist Christians)
Originally posted by ConspiracyNut23
So the only thing a Thelemite shouldn’t discuss is the meaning of the Book of the Law?
He/she is free to discuss anything outside of this?
Is it easy to set up participating in a Gnostic Mass?
Originally posted by Cug
You should also be aware of the ingredients of the cake of light, and you might wish to inquire if they make it "by the book."
Originally posted by Tamahu
Yes, you just might wish to enquire.
Originally posted by Cug
It not a secret, it's blood*
*Blood can also be sexual fluids.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Of the chastisement of a foul act of sorcery:
Thomas said: “We have heard that there are some on the earth who take the male seed and the female monthly blood, and make it into a lentil porridge and eat it, saying, ‘We have faith in Esau and Jacob.’ Is this then seemly or not?”
Jesus was wroth with the world in that hour and said unto Thomas: “Amen, I say: This sin is more heinous than all sins and iniquities. Such men will straight way be taken into the outer darkness and not be cast back anew into the sphere, but they shall perish, be destroyed in the outer darkness in a region where there is neither pity nor light, but howling and grinding of teeth. And all the souls which shall be brought into the outer darkness will not be cast back anew, but will be destroyed and dissolved.”
Originally posted by Tamahu
Fair enough.
Does the modern O.T.O.(which claims to practice Gnostic rituals) not see The Pistis Sophia as an authentic Gnostic Gospel?
Originally posted by Cug
The Aeon of Horus started with the reception of the Book of the Law, and it's time for the child (man) to grow up and become independent. He no longer needs mom and dad looking after him for he is his own man (God).
The Gnosis of Easter
When the Bible relates the event of Golgotha, it affirms:
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. - Luke, chapter 23: 44-46
So, when the gospel affirms that there was darkness over all of the earth in the moment in which the Lord gave up the ghost, it is simply portraying a truthful and real spiritual fact that is repeated within any Initiate that reaches the High initiation. In the moment when the human being becomes united with his Innermost, he remains submerged within the profound darkness of the infinite, thus illuminating himself with his own spiritual fuel; the light that was illuminating him within all of the cosmic planes and within the entire infinite was a borrowed light, that light that nourished him was the light of the Gods; they were his spiritual parents who nourished him with such a light. Now, he has to nourish others with his own light. The Gods were nourishing him, were taking care of him, were illuminating him and feeding him in the same way that a mother does with the fruit of her womb, while her child grows and becomes capable to work and to be a cognizant citizen. So, once he is capable of becoming self-reliant, he no longer is in need of his parents.
Therefore, the one who becomes joined to his Innermost is already an older brother capable of illuminating himself with his own spiritual fuel, extracted from the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil; thus, from within him, the Gods remove their light, with which they were nourishing him during his state of spiritual gestation within the bosom of the Blessed Mother of the World.
Thus, when the human being is born to a spiritual life, he becomes a cognizant citizen of the cosmos; then, he has to illuminate himself with his own spiritual fuel.
During the first days after the High Initiation, the Master feels that nostalgia that the adolescent feels when is abandoned for the first time from his paternal care and he feels alone within the great cities in search for a job in order to get bread. Now, there are no considerations for him; now, only strange faces where “everyone is for their own,” where everyone has to rely on himself.
So, one experiences the Golgotha of High Initiation in the body of bones and flesh. Judas is never absent in this personal event, as well as Mary Magdalene or Peter; thus, in the complete Calvary the disciple feels abandoned by his own Innermost and the world no longer grants any attraction whatsoever onto him. This is when the Initiate, filled with pain, exclaims to his Father: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
So, the Initiate has to live his own Golgotha and to repeat the life of Christ within himself, thus when his soul becomes united with his Innermost he resurrects within the internal worlds...
Originally posted by Cug
Remember the O.T.O. is just a group who believes in Thelema, they do not control it, Just like the Knights of Columbus are a Catholic group, but the Catholic faith is not the Knights of Columbus.
"Thelema is our motto."
- Samael Aun Weor