Chakra:
Literally wheel in Sanskrit. The
subtle center, etheric or astral (qv), acting as coordinative
field for alignment/intensification of density-states and
correlated planes through the Common Axis or transdimensional
pleroma (qv) of the Conscious Median. Each such center is
composed of “petaled” layers representing coinvolved levels of
function, reflecting each other coordinative center above or
below, and all integrating collectively into while enfolded as
the Coordinate Point or causal locus of the “heart”. (See
breath-soul)
At the same time, their extended functions are all
mirrored and collectively represented in the superior or supracausal center (often not counted as a “chakra” owing to its
summating status) known as Sahasrara, the state of which at any
given time accurately represents and recapitulates their
relative openings, alignments, variable ratios of interaction
etc.
Channeler:
In general, someone who can’t get legitimate
employment elsewhere;
without discernible talent, native wit or incipient
inventiveness who nonetheless craves all the kinds
of attention he/she imagines must accrue to the possession of
such exotic qualities, and who therefore
makes him/herself indiscriminately available to any entity,
spirit, wraith, banshee, wandering
cosmic lout or intergalactic brigand who might wish to
commandeer the adenoids for the nonce in
order to test just how far the flattery of similar, analytic
personality-types can be taken. Despite
themselves, channeled sources may on occasion be recipients of
worthwhile material (the percentages
for this happening, tally pretty closely with any crapshoot).
The result is hardly worth the effort,
however, since it inevitably comes embedded in material which,
even granting the most benign
possible motive on the part of both “anode” and “cathode” is
tinted or tainted by “angle of entry”
(i.e. the particular plane, stage of development,
social/memory/complex etc. from which the Source
broadcasts); by static or active interference from intervening
“cosmic debris” and types of
consciousness opportunistically distorting every promising “bit”
wherever allowance from lapse
or lacunae arises (a possibility all-the-more inevitable owing
to the functional gap between degree
of coherence characterizing density-level of the Source, and
optimum degree of mind/body
integration-alignment characteristic of the 3rd stage channeler);
by the limitations in conceptual/vocabulary
matrix of the borrowed memory-banks, or by tacit restriction of
the channeler’s operative
worldview placing practical ceiling on the kinds of information
allowed (an arbitrary enculturated
blinder honored by “positive” sources so that—as they themselves
often confess—they’re effectively
shackled in the latitude of real intelligence representable to
terrene recipients, while exploited
through ego-inflationary methods of “negative sources”
capitalizing on and aggravating the
outstanding imbalance in the channeler’s moral and ethical
armoring).
Thus for example, early (50s)
communications from our channeled space-brethren were ostensibly
tailored to the prevailing
tolerance-standards of the time, so that their origin was
represented as within the solar system, most
often “Venus” (a sweetly soothing submission); now that our
technological potential has accelerated and “cosmicized” our ceiling of sophistication, they’re
able to disclose through current channel sources how they really
originate from...the Pleiades.
We feel so much better. Almost
alone amongst channelers, Jane Roberts (of
the Seth material)
who virtually originated and pioneered the modern version of the
genre, transcends its occupational embarrassments and
constitutional shortcomings; this shouldn’t be so surprising
seeing that, coming chronologically first and having no
prepared territory of cultivated acceptance to receive her but
on the contrary having to lay the softer mat on which future channelers might lounge,
Roberts had to stem from more
considerable stock and needed necessarily to possess all those
characteristics and qualities so glaringly absent from
subsequent channelers (see
J.Z. Knight, Ramtha, as a case in
point) if for no other reason than to demonstrate how her own
standards and balance of assessment weren’t less substantial and
skeptically refined than those of her critics.
Such defensive
orientation served admirably under the circumstance to sustain a necessary monitoring intensity, committing both her and husband
Robert Butts to a continuous check and cross check for
continuity, internal textual consistency and plausible
congruence with advanced scientific concepts etc. The manifest
insouciance or outright vacuity of awareness toward the
requirement for any such traits all too clearly characterizes
the subsequent streams of transdimensional codependents
draining in such drivel as Prism of Lyra, thus irremediably
clogging all channels with the preemptive cacophony of
Choronzon
(qv).
Only
the Rα material (Elkins,
McCarty and Rueckert [qv])
is of comparable quality—but note the enormous textual
disparities, the gaping universes of antithetical information
pouring from each respective source (the topic of the existence
of “negative beings” alone sets contentious architectural
foundation for vast, cantilevered extension of soaring
argumentative wings and flying Buttresses disappearing,
unresolved, into the galactic clouds. Only independent inquiry,
development and refinement of spiritual intelligence can effectively declare upon the respective merits, degree and value of
the given density level received in the teachings of each; and
these are just the qualities such sources are taken all too
often as substitute for).
For example, between the respective paradigms of
Seth and Ra:
if, along with Seth, we accept that all “negativity” is our own
negativity, we mustn’t fail to brake before the jaywalking
conclusion that therefore no negativity exists except by virtue
of our own projections and interpretations. If all negativity
is our own negativity, then others, being none other than
ontologically equivalent with ourselves, possess the potential
of such negativity just as well. Thus “my” potential for
negativity may be reflected from sources and forms of being
actively engaged in such negativity in their own right—unless
we’re willing to posit an absolutely solipsistic Universe.
Even
conceding with the most glazed eye mystic that All is One and
there is no “other”, there are certainly functional “others”;
that Oneness has to arise by incorporating, resolving and
transcending the functional complementarities of “self" and
“others”, not by denying, ignoring or negating one term in favor
of the other (since “self is every bit as much a functional
hypothesis as “other”). Thus to say any negativity is “my own”
negativity doesn’t resolve or explain a thing. Every new ager
jumping to this implicitly masochistic mea culpa hasn’t
understood the real terms involved in the least, but rather has
accepted the “channeled” voice as sacrosanct just because it
seems extraordinary: so 31 demerits to the new age, and a
remedial course in Buddhism 101.
Choronzon: That “Mighty Devil” in the
Enochian system of magick
(which latter was
“channeled” by Edward Kelly at the Elizabethan Court through
supervision of Elizabeth’s astrologer/spy/mathematician the renowned
Dr. John Dee). Guardian
spirit and scourge of
the “Abyss”, that apparently unbridgeable
separation between states of the created worlds and real Gnosis
of the spiritual worlds. Choronzon personifies the total
breakdown of “translation” between one mode of being and the
Other. He is most direct/fearsome embodiment of the real chasm
in quality, orientation, understanding and existence confronting
any aspirant to spiritual attainment of that threshold degree,
or intensity, where true transformation is required, where
development must peremptorily produce a real Revolution of the
being or else erosion and oblivious backslide inevitably ensue.
In all of spiritual/metaphysical/or magickal literature there
are no (authentic) accounts of any direct commerce with that
“Devil” Choronzon, all “crossings” being made in the framework
of traditions ,not demanding every element (physical, psychic
and spiritual) be submitted to such Change of the intensity
demanded in the spirit of Choronzon—except one. Aleister Crowley
(qv) records in his Magickal Diary his hallmark episode of
crossing the abyss while literally crossing the desert of Bou
Saada with his magickal student assistant Victor Neuburg.
Putting aside the arguable question as to whether the Master Therion ever completely succeeded in so monumental a milestone
to Magickal accomplishment, it must be noted that only within
the framework of the Magickal tradition (with its perennial
emphasis on bridging the corporeal and spiritual, of bringing
spirit down into practical embodiment through the physical
dimension of things) had such an endeavor ever actually been
made.
This is significant for the one reason that such ultimate
integration and whole being resolution between the two seemingly
disparate Magnitudes is inevitably mandated for the corporeal dimension as a whole, and all the class of chronically 3rd
density consciousness associated with it. Such epochal
“crossing” as Crowley assayed to accomplish presages the
Don
Juan material of Carlos Castaneda, similarly acting as
instructive forerunner for a humanity which—even in its
ostensible vanguard—seems reluctant to concede out of its
conventional yogic “withdrawals” and functional “separation of
the planes” that such a whole being physicalized translation can
be made to metaphysical Peaks.
Yet this is precisely the confrontation of Crossing presently
faced by the planet as a whole, as chronic 3rd density (host of
physically focused consciousness) transmutes through implacable
processes of Cosmic Timing to the unmasked meta physical fourth.
Such Crossing, being imposed upon the plane and all its corporealized inhabitants does not, then, depend upon the
personal desideration of “approach” but visits all its
disrupting implications directly upon and through the
consciousness of everyone no matter how dismally unprepared.
This accounts for all the political, social, economic, national,
technological, energetic and spiritual disruption characterizing
the calendar of “current events” on the planet In particular it
manifests as a direct communication from the heart of the Abyss,
that channeled confabulation of cacophonous “counsel” issuing
from the dead zone or no-man's-land of self proclaimed/invisible
Brothers and higher dimensional beings from beyond.
The
opportunity of every plane, dimension, planetary or dark star
entity, social/memory/complex and galactic guild to pour its
influence, advice and allure into the widening breach of the
crumbling 3rd density “screen” can only manifest, collectively,
as a chaos; it can only sift out in the end as a gibberish, an
ultimately unintelligible babble of oranges demanding to be
compared and collated with apples, and an all too gullible Earth
intelligence soaking in the psycho active downpour (wreaking
witless though nonetheless extensive damage on the mind/body
complex) while trying so earnestly to comply with the Alice in
Wonder land instructions.
Thus the Spirit of Choronzon is alive-and-well, presently known
to one and all but by another name. With so many, competing and
obviously contradictory “Christs” and “Jesuses” coming by active
interdiction on channeled airwaves owing to guaranteed kneejerk
adulation and uncritical obsequy toward the bare whisper of the
name, the longstanding archetypal image holding sway over the
planet by a priestly and off-planet confidence-game is now
manifestly decaying, expiring like an isotope as it sheds its
last radiative venom over the planet. The identity of “that
Devil Choronzon” is given away in the insane susurration and
slow crumble of the greasepaint countenance given its last ugly
embodiment through insipid “Sanandas” and specious sons-of-god
sponsored courtesy of “Ashtar Command”, P.O. Box 333 Betelgeuse
in the Constellation Orion.
(Note: UFO has the value 666 by Qabala, since vav is equivalent to “U”, “F” and “O” in English.)
It has been noted by many who know of such magick things, that
“Choronzon” is almost identical in spelling and pronunciation,
save for an extra vocalized “n”, to the Spanish corazon, meaning
“spirit, love and heart”. Assuming no such thing as coincidence,
may we imply a deliberate “formula” thereby? Can it be that,
were Choronzon simply to learn to “spell his name” correctly, he
might undergo a real change of heart? (Amazing what horrors a
lack of primary-school education can breed.)
Consciousness-unit: Differentiated holonomic locus of
Infinite
Whole-Being Consciousness. Only Infinite Whole-being
Consciousness can “break off an exemplary “part” of itself
without reducing, diminishing, dividing, fragmenting or
“partializing” Itself through any “portion”. This is owing to
the fact that Its wholeness occurs, uniquely, through and by
virtue of Infinitude. The Consciousness-unit isn’t really a
“part” or “fragment” of the whole, except in the sense that we
can say a “drop” is a part or fragment of the ocean—indeed,
though a drop is manifestly not the whole ocean, neither is it a
“fragment” (the way it can be said a chip is a fragment off a
larger stone). There’s nowhere in the ocean the drop need “fit”.
The contour of the ocean isn’t compromised by subtraction of the
drop. The drop is a holocosm of the ocean, not a specialized
element out of its greater constitution.
The distinguishing signature of the consciousness unit is that,
as a locus of the Totality it may seem to “define” itself in
terms of point-limitation, thus functionally “fragmenting”
itself or resistively separating itself from the Infinity of its
Source. It may function as a virtual or effective discontinuity,
with respect to the Whole of which it is holonomic
exemplification. To the degree that its discontinuity (or
differentiable “contrariness”) is assumed, it may appear at the
far extreme as raw material of a nature-unit—i.e. as
nature-matter—in the state of un-, pre- or subconsciousness. At
the opposite extreme it may function in the form of
consciousness-matter, where it is radiantly self-conscious in
different degrees of its own Being as Ideative engagement (or
Logoic projection) of the creative field.
As such it “hugs” to
the opaque state of nature-matter comprising its “previous”
pre-conscious condition, not in identity with it per se but in
reflective self-interpretation of the qualities, values and
meanings such delimiting point-potential represents in any given
case. In this state, the c-unit as consciousness-matter is
equivalent to the Identity of Consciousness through and as Mind.
This is the Nous, Novo (intelligible Idea, Logos or Logoic
pattern) and Epinoia, Epinoia of the Gnostics, in particular as
taught by Simon Magus (qv). It is consciousness ideally
interpreting the (abstractly-present) potential of the
point-limit of Being by drawing on the pre-existent plenum of
states at Infinity, and projecting the “type” of that akashic
limit as coherent/ideoform unity resolvingly integrated through
the Logoic pattern.
This is the “mysterious” mediation of idea and matter referred
to by theosophists as Fohat. Thus all the degrees of self-aware
consciousness from 3rd-density ego being to the levels
equivalent to angels, archangels, gods, archons, chohans etc.
are in some way functionally equivalent to this Fohat. Fohat is
not, as theosophists suppose, directly equivalent to kundalini—kundalini-sakti
is the nature-pattern woven out of reflections and spiralic
nests of crystallized light encoding the regnant ideotype,
projected by Logos of Epinoia; thus it has intelligence
inscribed throughout its patterning processes giving rise to the
impression that it, itself, is conscious to the self-reflexive
degree.
However, kundalini-sakti is constituted by pranized
nature-units in the degree of sub- and pre-consciousness, woven
into geometric coherencies to a brilliant nuclear latency of
intelligent-potential by reflective light of Fohat (hypostatic,
angelic and ego-intelligences); it is not itself that light, but
coiled energy potentials of the geometrically ordered
nature-units regulated and aligned through directorial agency
(or Logoic emanation) of that Light. The confusion between the
two has habitually resulted in the displacement upon, or loaning
to, the excited states of the nature-current the creative
intelligence and interpretive ideation belonging properly to the
percipient, erroneously engendering a kind of slavish worship of
the Serpent-power in itself and allegiance to the myriad
ego-amplifying agreements reflected through its intensified
current, as if the “yogi’s” initial presuppositions were now
proclaimed and supported by “God”.
Crowley, Aleister:
Premiere Magician of the 20th century—which
may not seem so notable considering the low premium
altogether-placed on the category “Mage”—until of course we
consider the esoteric significance of the subject, leaving
popular comprehension abruptly in the null zone. Despite the
minimal call for wizards, mages, sorcerers and shamans during
the greater part and across the largest portion of this
planetary century, Crowley is nonetheless not an utterly unknown
figure. His “reputation”, if not his accomplishments, succeeds
in keeping his presence quite alive despite his earthly demise
in 1947. It’s for this reason, having anticipated the obscurity
in which he along with his beloved Occupation were otherwise
bound to lapse, that Crowley took principal initiative in
circulating all the rumors and maintaining all the gossip about
himself.
Given the public’s predictably Pavlovian response to
“scandal”, and considering that Ernest Hemingway was really no
more than a journalist with the most inflated literary
reputation in modern history, it was nothing for Crowley to have
elicited the Nobel-laureate’s real Enquirer instincts in prompt
reaction by public proclamation of the Mage as “the wickedest
man in the world”. Seizing on the remarkable good luck of having
drawn the fire of this expatriate Parisian bumpkin, Crowley
parlayed this and all other gratis publicity into the
monument-to-monstrosity as which he towers today.
Examined more carefully of course, by the utterly unique method
of consulting his own
writings rather than the rampant misrepresentations of the
righteous, and keeping in mind his
“reputation” was earned during the early part of the century and
in a portion of the world
more-than-a-tad hung over with Victorianism, we will wonder
whatever might have sent so many
reeling in so complete a paroxysm of terror and disgust.
Reconsidered in a true 20th century light
and by modern standards, there’s nothing in
the whole corpus of
Crowley’s exploits and accomplishments
to suggest grounds for offense greater than anything done
by... Madonna (this cinches
Crowley’s apostasy for some, we’re sure—but the rest get the
idea).
Much as we hate to disappoint,
even the occasional tale of Crowley’s having ritually
“sacrificed a virgin youth” named McAleister
is only based on the Mage’s own ribald rendition of an onanistic
rite wherein he baptized a coaxed exudate en nomini mio and consumed it as consecrated sacrament
to some sacred-esoteric aim. (Then
again, some may consider this more diabolical than the
derivative version. There’s no accounting for taste, so to
speak.)
In any case, Crowley’s ingenious device of mythicizing his image
and making sure his literary executor (John Symmons) was a
passing acquaintance who loathed him precisely by reputation and
would be quick to capitalize on his legend for a buck, has
served to sustain his spirit in the public eye and by inference
the whole background of his considerable Attainments. It’s for
this reason his books continue to be published long after much
less difficult and demanding works, of far more “popular” aim,
have plunged into obscurity; he has, like the proverbial
Phoenix, given “birth” to his own Revival on innumerable
occasions, as a newfound hero for the ‘60s conscious ness
expansion wending his finely tonsured way to the Sgt. Pepper
album cover, most recently as the vilified subject of yellow
journalism again—having been singled out by Geraldo Rivera (who
else?) on his lurid “Devil worshipper” special as the “man who
brought Satanism into the 20th century”.
Any lingering reservation regarding Crowley’ s real greatness
and the deserved recasting his image is about to receive in its
definitive revival, should be dispelled for any intelligent Soul
through simple recourse to his own words, through consulting his
own considerable writings. One of the greatest essayists and
finest poets of all time, his neglect in favor of lesser
contemporaries can only be continued into the present by the
kind of willful disregard or trepidatious “disdain” that
characterized his initial detractors, and
which—unfortunately—persists in branding the operative
psychological profiles of all too many modernists who would
never confess themselves to be in the category of Witch hunter
General, and who in fact are often confused by their own tv. era
public as “daring avant gardists”.
It’s always amusing to see
which “light”, which respected luminary and liberal darling
turns most quickly into the Iscariot or Torquemada he is in fact
whenever the rare Real Article walks into the room. (Amazing the
swiftness with which they actually volunteer their identity, as
leaders of the lynch ’n’ burn party.)
Up till now, much of Crowley’s “thought” has been “preserved”,
albeit in aspic, by admirers, followers, imitators and even—as
we’ve seen—vehement detractors such as his own erstwhile
biographer and “literary executor”. Crowley’s one time secretary
Israel Regardie, for example, has garnered the lion’s share of
attention and the greater part of praise for his Qabalistic
exegeses and writings on Rosicrucianism etc., without anyone
ever mentioning, or his publishers pointing up, the all too
evident fact of his having built that reputation largely on what
he pilfered from Crowley! most often including large chunks of
Crowley’s own words (as did the insipid Symmons) without the
decency of a single quotation mark so that the “best” of much
magical writing by renowned modern authors of the genre, has
in—hidden—fact been Crowley’s.
(This of course is a “trick of
the trade”, most particularly the entertainment trade as plied
“out here in Hollywood”; the more “obscure” work of the
Greater—James Joyce characterized the type in Finnegans Wake as
Shem the Penman—is taken advantage of by his “evil twin”, the
popularizing, distortively simplistic panderer Shaun the Postman
who always scavenges for material not likely to be in currency
with the general public so as to pirate and present it just this
side of plagiarism, as his screenwriter’s own, to the mogul
who’ll mount it for a 6 figure deal).
Crowley was a
functionary—herald, prophet, representative—of the Mahachohan (qv).
It may be inferred, then, that one of the chief activities of
the Mahachohan is disclosed through one
of the chief preoccupations of Crowley’s Magickal career, namely
the redemptive integration of
and resolution between
Above and Below, the Spiritual and
Material, through the representative
median and Embodiment of that Process personified as the
Awakened Initiate, the Sonship of Horus (qv). This preoccupation
and this indicator of the Office of Intelligent Activity (the
Mother) is given prophetic expression and an ongoing Showcase in
the Received spiritual text Liber Al vel Legis,
The Book of the
Law (qv), dictated to Crowley in 1904 by an invisible
“disembodied Intelligence” and emissary of the Secret Chiefs
identifying Himself as Aiwass (qv).
Cosmic Awareness: What’s
that the little yapping dog has shown behind the curtain?
Why, it’s the Shade of Rudolf Steiner, and a whole Reading Room
of quasi christian scientists...
Density: From “Channeling,
UFOs, And The Positive/Negative Realms Beyond This World”—First
of all it’s important to explain just what is meant by
“density”, since its use in this material is extremely helpful
to our understanding once we clearly distinguish it from the
common usage that allies it with terms of inertia and opacity
synonymous with strictly physical existence.
Although nowhere in
the (Rα) material itself is the term “density” sufficiently
explained so as to make that distinction, initiated intelligence
would have you understand “density” in the sense of richness;
the density of a manifesting plane or space is not a calculation
of its inertia in this context, but to the contrary of its
subtlety. It is easier to understand density as the degree of
coherent activity, the characteristic “accommodation” of a given
volume with respect to the perceiving system. The mathematical
discipline of sphere packing is helpful as a concept in grasping
this definition. (How many oranges can be packed in a crate?)
Sphere packing employs the “greedy algorithm” in calculating a
pure economy of space and is therefore a very practical help in
communications, though it may theoretically work with an
infinite number of dimensions.
“Density” is analogous then to a
multidimensional sphere packing; the greater the density the
more information a given volume codes, the greater the energy
value and richer the potential as which the space is configured.
Like the discipline of sphere packing, the idea of density
implies a “geometry of information”. For example we well know
the “law” of 3rd density, our present collective plane of focus:
“no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time”. It
should be obvious that this is a function of perception, for the
operative coordinates of perception determine the outline of
what’s to stand as an object.
According to 3rd density focal
alignments, the descriptive units of “objecthood” are mutually
exclusive and define one another by contrastive polarization.
Perception of the essential coinherence of all mutually
defining, polarized terms as an inextricable unity of
complementary values, is a function of higher density cognition
(or depends on the use of faculties belonging to the presently
recessed planes and energy systems of the higher densities).
Thus when, in the course of spiritual discipline or occult
practice performed through this plane we presently perceive a
luminous wholeness and basic simultaneity that shines through
all apparently separate objects (even though in the field of
tangible perception such objects may persist in the perspectival
“relief that makes them appear distinct) we are actually
experiencing a mind body alignment or momentary, harmonious
coordination with energies and instruments belonging to other
densities drawn into our frame of reference.
Hypostasis:
The essence or sub stance (that which supportively
“stands under”)
anything—used in the Southern Crown context rather in the way
Christianity employs the term to
characterize the distinct Trinitarian subsistences in the
indivisible/unitive substance of Divinity. The
“Christian” take on the matter isn’t far off in this instance
(deriving as it does by long trade route
from ancient zones of real gnosis); yet the character of the
Hypostases needs to be understood from viewpoint of the
traditional science once again, rather than by way of
hierophantic hearsay and superstitious replacement values.
The
Hypostases also have to be distinguished from the three Divine
Qualities (see Mother Terasu essays) as they’re not identities
but correlates of one another. The Hypostases are Identity (Noesis),
Mind and Psyche (see “The Great Instauration Finis”). The
Qualities are Self, Love and Void. “Self correlates, by
distributive correspondence of the multidimensional mind/body
map or Logoic pattern, with Identity and Mind (or the Fa ther/Mother
principles married within unity of the Divine Self, i.e. IChIDA
or Crown). “Love” correlates with the Psychic Hypostasis,
insofar as the latter is Mode of the Mirror whereby the
experiential field reflects, in its polarities and complements,
the primary Affectional Relationship between Consciousness
absolute and its own Creative Principle.
“Void” has no
corresponding Hypostasis. In one sense, it’s a Quality belonging
equally to all the Hypostases; and in another, it’s the value Unking and uniting the Hypostatic or conscious principles to the
Creative field of un and subconscious properties. Thus to the
manifest or created patterns as a whole is ascribed the common
denominator Void value, functioning primarily through and
corresponding with the abdominal locus in the mind/body form.
Liber Al vel Legis,
(The Book of the Law):
Sacred text of the Mahachohan delivered to the poet Aleister Crowley by voice
transmission on three successive afternoons in Cairo in 1904.
The text itself is technically in English; its code is primarily
that of the Hebrew Qabala, specifically the letter number
Atu
system characteristic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
of which Crowley was an initiate, and from which his own
subsequent Orders established a progression of the chief
symbolisms/initiatory values for the oncoming Aeon of Horus
(popularly, the Age of Aquarius).
Secondary Qabalistic codes may
be discovered in Greek and Farsi. “This that thou writest is the
threefold book of Law” (verse 1:35). There are three Personae in
which the Book speaks (the formal communicant in the voice
transmission being identified as “Aiwass (qv), the Minister of
Hoorpakraat”): NUIT, Hadit and Ra Hoor Khuit. There are three
books to the Book of the Law, three Grades (Hermit, Lover, Man
of Earth) and three “ordeals” etc. There are also three prophets
to the Book of the Law, to maintain consistency with the rest,
though this present word comes as a great Surprise to those
familiar with the text since only two have thus far been
identified (Crowley himself, and his “magickal child” or student
initiate
Frater Achad).
Since both are now “dead” (to the
limited viewpoint) it appears all interpretation or
understanding of the Book ceases abruptly with these two; indeed
in order to insure against premature and thus misleading
interpretation specific instruction is given in the Book and
through Crowley’s writings that all appeal to interpretation be
left to Crowley’s designated works alone, with the exception of
Achad’s original notation on those keys to the Book which he
discovered (i.e. those few writings prior to the onset of his
clinical insanity, a circumstance Crowley strove to intercept
yet which, owing to the adept’s strict honoring of the free will
factor he could do nothing in the end to prevent since Achad
finally fell to the signature hazard associated with the grade
Magister Templi—i.e. he failed to take the counsel of
precautionary measures in his swift assumption of the Grade, for
sake of the requisite Aerial perspective from which alone the
obtaining of those initial Keys could helpfully be
accomplished).
Owing to a certain inbuilt “trickiness” to the Liber Al text
(subsequently explained
herein), authorization of such exclusively sanctified source
texts for overall interpretation was
greatly warranted, and in fact sealed with a kind of Curse
against just those who, stretching the interpretation of such
sanction itself have indeed subsequently sought to justify
additional exposition or “updating” of the Lines of Liber Al by
virtue of their self proclaimed and thus allegedly permit ting
“grades”.
The “acceptable” dodge here, is of course that such
commentators are only writing grade “ C “ material (this is not
a classroom mark—in most cases!—but a formal category since
Crowley himself proclaimed his own initiated exposition of the
lines’ meanings were of the B Class, only the actual text of Liber Al and one more writing conforming to the definition of
Class A — or that primary material received strictly through
Monaural Transmission of Aiwass Himself: that latter text indeed
being The Comment wherein the Curse against
unauthorized/unsanctioned interpretation is first given).
The Comment is as follows:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
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 centers of pestilence.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my
writings, each for himself.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt
Love is the law. love under
will
Lines two and three are a characteristic trick and indeed
identifying signature of the Mahachohan used throughout his
successive historical incarnations (see The Mother Book). They
are meant to have precisely the same effect as that ascribed to
the deliberately loud/echoing report of the handgun in the
Godfather employed to scare off “pain in the ass pedestrians”.
It should be only too obvious the Book is meant to be studied,
and intensely so —the elaborate commentary by Crowley himself
should seal the certainty of that.
Such admonition, like the
Godfather handgun, is meant to scare away all captious or trepidatious souls who “shouldn’t be there”, i.e. are of
insufficient development to begin with and are either overtly or
subtly/subconsciously poisoned with churchly pietisms
perennially falsifying everything truly spiritual so that any
such text as Al could only be perceived through thick distortion
leading to Inquisitional abhorrence on the one hand or, by
psychological reaction, to an unwarranted embrace of some
“Satanism” as if sanctioned by the Holy Book itself (rather than
by an infantile “parental detestation” etc.).
This latter
probability would only be underscored, in the case of such
spiritual infancy or adolescence, since Crowley himself and many
subsequent commentators such as Kenneth Grant have identified
“Aiwass” with an ancient Sumerian deity (immortalized in
The
Exorcist!) and with the Peacock Lord of the Yazidi,
Malak Tα ‘us
(qv)—the Yazidi have been accused of Devil Worship (but then, so
has the Pope).
Otherwise the Curse of The Commentary is meant to be taken in
the strictest literalism,
since even the most well intentioned thelemic “interpreters”
cannot write with the inspirational
“flame of Hadit” burning in their hearts which alone secured the
authority of Crowley’s Pen. How
then may we say there is a third and Final Prophet to the Book
of the Law? when the prohibition
against further Comment has been strictly given and the original
two prophets are “dead”?
Anyone
understanding Magick knows that only He Who placed the Curse
originally may rescind it, undo
or circumvent it in His Own Case, just as a Vault is kept locked
by the One holding the Key and is only unlocked (and its further
contents retrieved) when that One returns and unlocks it with
that induplicable Key. Therefore see The Mother Book for the
full Exposition of those remaining “unsolved” locks and inbuilt
puzzles of Liber Al, and know without further doubt Who has
returned on behalf of the Whole.
One more all important reason there
should be no farther appeal to any authority for Liber Al vel Legis other than to its Scribe
(A.C.) and Its Author (Malak Ta’u, the Divine Aiwass):
the “trickiness” of the Text itself involves consideration of
the Level from which it emanates. Thanks largely to
the Rα
material and the works of Southern Crown we may have a more
precise picture of both the Positive and the Negative spiritual
hierarchies. We know from those sources that a precious
few—ultimately One—of the Negative Hierarchy may attain so High
as to a level corresponding to early 6th density; nor would
this
One be known by any of the remaining membership of the Negative
Hierarchy since the characteristic of the Negative is to conceal
and dissimulate (while that of the Positive hierarchy is on the
contrary to Reveal and bare truth).
The Negative comes in
disguise, and no more so than Its Chief Hierophant, so that None
amongst the Negative might know Him no matter what Orion or
“Reptilian” might Peer to perceive. And, if we consult our
Rα
texts, we are dutifully informed that when the respective
Hierarchies reach as High as 6th density level the Learnings,
Understandings and Wisdoms between them tend very much to
converge, and to be nearly Identical in many respects (this
owing to the very value of Identity characterizing
Considerations of 6th Density).
Thus when, for example, such
august pontiffs as the Marciniak “Pleiadeans” caution 3rd stage
Earth consciousness as to the undetectable trickiness of higher
density sources with which terrestrials may be in
communication—such as Themselves—we may know the Degree in the
utter inability of 3rd stage aspirants to discriminate correctly
(relative to a 6th density Source text such as Liber Al) when we
realize the “Pleiadeans” are speaking largely about 4th density
off planet communicants! Since, therefore, the Knowing and
“pitch” of Consciousness between, respectively, Negative and
Positive hierarchies converge so dramatically toward Unity upon
approaching 6th density, how much more impossible is it for any
3rd stage consciousness to detect the real difference between
communications of the two?
Yet such discrimination is
absolutely essential since, despite their similarities or even
perfect Identities in Knowing, the respective Intents of
positive and negative sources remain distinctly different and of
critical importance. Again, the need for a reliable Guide here,
preferably of the Incarnate type sharing your own fleshly
estate, is manifestly essential. The deceptive and perfectly
dissimulating Nearness of sources from positive and negative
hierarchies at the 6th density level is precisely the factor
giving a text such as Liber Al its apparent sense of deep
ambiguity: for on the one hand It’s venerated by Magickal
practitioners around the world, for the right or for the wrong
reasons; and on the other It’s hated and feared both by magical
and metaphysical acolytes and by conventional seats of churchly
pietism as the veritable Gospel of the Antichrist, the Word of
the Prince of Darkness and the Mala Tamquam.
Like a Compact
Disc, depending how one holds it to the Light it seems to
reflect different portions of the color spectrum; thus
Frater
Achad, eager interpreter of the initial keys to Liber Al
nonetheless fell to the instability of fancy at play in a
Funhouse hall when his inadequate reinforcement of elementary
Grounding (at his Grade level) allowed him to tip the magickal
mirror at a cockeyed angle, at which “sinister” potentials were
reflected therefrom and magnified many times in his unbalanced
imagination so that he became the first crazed declaimer against
the Book to wear a Canadian straitjacket.
Indeed, being the premiere Text of the Mahachohan and thus a
legitimate expression of one of the theosophical Holy Offices
(that of the Mother or Ray of Intelligent Activity) the apparent
“ambiguity” of Liber Al necessarily serves the function of the
Mahachohan and the Mother, which is the chief reason why the
text quotes the very Biblical saying: “he that is righteous
shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy
still”—for, as explained in certain SC/T Bird essays of the Mahachohan, a chief function of the
Mother/Mahachohan is to
expedite and oversee polarization at the Harvest.
Since by
consensus of innumerable (disparate) sources this century’s end
is indeed the critical time of 3rd density Harvest, the chief
concern of the Mother and Mahachohan is that of polarization
amongst souls of 3rd density, and that whether positive or
negative; polarization either to Positive or Negative hierarchy
is valued by mankind’s Guardians over the catastrophe of
remaining unpolarized one way or another, for the latter
eventuality —unfortunately the Fate of the majority of this
planet, if projected estimates prevail— necessitates the given
soul’s agonizing repetition of at least one whole 3rd density
cycle of incarnations.
Thus, as it’s been said, though the
Mother and Mahachohan certainly teach and encourage only
positive polarization they do not interfere in the sacred free
choice of negative polarization, and in fact the keys they
furnish may be used against Intention by negatively disposed
Votives of Vinculi to (knowingly or unknowingly) intensify their
own tendency toward threshold negative polarization thus
expediting overall Harvest as well—in the same way that snake
venom has positive/salvatory and negative/destructive uses, or
just as knives handled intelligently and with proper caution may
perform lifesaving surgery or in the absence of love/wisdom may
make the quietus of some prince of peace. For full Initiated
Understanding of the Original Intent and Overarching
(Initiatory) purpose of Liber Al as well as authoritative
exposition of its remaining (“unsolved”) keys, see The Mother
Book.
Luria, Isaac:
Name of the Safed, Syria (Galilee) manifestation
of the Mahachohan (qv), author/chief architect of the
Renaissance of Hebrew Qabalism; b. 1534 Jerusalem, Palestine,
Ottoman Empire, d. Aug. 5,1572 Safed (presently Zefat, Israel).
Mahachohan:
Master and male representative of the Ray of
Intelligent Activity, third of
the Seven Logoic Rays assigned the aspect of Trinity, attributed
to the Mother, Brahma (Third
Logos). The first two Logoic emanations of the Primordial Ray
are in descending order Will/Spirit
assigned the aspect of Unity, attributed to the Father, Mahadeva
(First Logos); and Love/Wisdom
assigned the aspect of Duality, attributed to the Son, Vishnu
(Second Logos).
The Ray of Intelligent
Activity is “a ray of very demonstrable glory, and of a higher
point of development than the other
two, being the product of an earlier mahakalpa, or a previous
solar system”. Page 39, Treatise on
Cosmic Fire, Alice Bailey. In relation to development of the
petals of the Egoic Lotus (causal body, qv) the Department of the Mother/Mahachohan appropriately
supervises the longest, most delicate
yet arduous stage of unfolding for ego consciousness involved
with the three “outer” or “knowledge petals”, just as (in a sense) the most important stage of
education is that of the elementary
grades where the psyche is first formed and most susceptible to
influence; it’s at this stage that,
unlike the present worldly educational system, the most
sophisticated, wisest and compassionate of
Teachers should be installed for they constitute Principal
Guardians at the very Gate of Spiritual
development. It’s for this reason it’s said that the Ray of
Intelligent Activity is of a “higher point of development than
the other two”.
This is easily misunderstood; the key word is development. This
word applies in the Logoic sense, i.e. “development” refers to
the chief Logoic aim of integrating and resolving the Spiritual
with the material fields. Since it’s the “progress” of the
material fields which is in question (in the Formula) relative
to the unfolding, potentiation and revealing of their qualities,
it would be expected the Rays and corresponding Offices most
intimately involved in the Manifestation would be most developed
and charged with appropriate Knowledge in that sense. The Rays
and corresponding Offices of Will and Love/Wisdom (Manu and
Bodhisattva), pertaining more exclusively to the Spiritual and
inner/unmanifest phase of things, appear by virtue of that fact
more convention ally “Holy” in the accepted manner and even
“higher” in the misunderstood “purity” or exclusivity of that
orientation.
As indicated elsewhere in SC writings, the
Mahachohan is seldom identified by contemporaries as a holy or
sacred manifestation in the way Manu and Bodhisattva are honored
(albeit in practice largely after the fact). The Mother herself
is more often despised and even persecuted, for the historical
and Logoic separations of the respective Offices have
traditionally left a gap in understanding and appreciation even
amongst representative embodiments of the Offices themselves—how
much more so, then, amongst the major part of humanity
constitutionally looking to those representatives for all their
Spiritual cues!
When it is said that the Mahachohan (and inferentially the
Mother, only now for the first historical time in this Aeonic
round fully embodied and Awake) learns from the Bodhisattva, and
the Bodhisattva learns from the Manu, this may seem to conflict
in the students’ mind with the theosophical teaching that the
Ray of Active Intelligence is at a more developed level than the
other two. Yet resorting to our admonition to heed specific
contextual meanings of the word “developed”, we may understand
how the Mother/Mahachohan learn from the Bodhisattva in the
sense that, being by Office closer and more deeply involved in
the refractory physical plane of manifestation they necessarily
need to refresh their link with those office holders less
constitutionally committed to uncompromised manifestation (and
who thus may dwell, at this intermediate Time of relative
disjunction between the three vertical tiers of Being, in a
state more proximal to Spirit even when technically incarnate so
as to be less subject to lapse and spiritual forgetfulness).
Thus the Mother/Mahachohan “learn” from the Heart being of
Love/Wisdom, the Bodhisattva, because the Bodhisattva typically
does not “come down” and embody so deeply into the field of
manifestation thus retaining more perfectly intact his link with
the purely spiritual fields. “Learning” from the Bodhisattva,
Mother and Mahachohan may be awakened and refreshed to the
changeless spiritual principles corresponding to those Higher
states where otherwise, being by commitment more deeply embodied
and thus “embedded” in manifestation they might tend to
flounder, without being caught up on the Fish’s Line. However,
being “taught” by the Bodhisattva (who in turn, remember, is
linked by learning under the Manu Who’s even Higher by
exclusivist orientation in the Spiritual fields) the Mother and Mahachohan may uniquely apply their refreshed Remembrance of the
Key Spiritual Principles to their own specialized and advanced
understanding of the features particular to planes of
materializing emanation.
(The Ray of Intelligent Activity is,
recall, more developed, i.e. it is more congruent with essential
Knowledge distilled from Logoic rounds of practical
manifestation; development is a term applying to the Creation,
not to the Eternalized Spiritual fields).
A
Treatise on Cosmic Fire page 1037:
“...it will become apparent
that the revolutionizing scientific discoveries which can be
traced down the centuries, such as the formulation of the Law of
Gravitation, the circulation of the blood, the ascertainment of
the nature of steam, the discovery by man of that form of
electric phenomena which he has harnessed, and the more recent
discovery of radium, are in their own department (that of the Mahachohan), analogous to the effort made during the last
quarter of each century to stimulate the evolution of men
through a further revelation of some part of the Secret
Doctrine.
Newton, Copernicus,
Galileo, Harvey, and the Curies
are, on their own line of force, lightbringers of equal rank
with H.P.B. All revolutionized the thought of their time; all
gave a great impulse to the ability of man to interpret the laws
of nature, and to understand the cosmic process, and only those
of circumscribed vision will fail to recognize the unity of the
many force impulses emanating from the one Lodge.”
Under the Ray
of Intelligent Activity there are four subaltern Rays, likewise
superintended by the Mother/Mahachohan. They are_
-
Ray IV, Ray of
Harmony, Beauty and Art
-
Ray V, Ray of Concrete Knowledge or
Science
-
Ray VI, Ray of Devotion or of Abstract Idealism
-
Ray VII, the Ray of Ceremonial Magick or Order
The Qabalist will see the immediate correspondence to the
Sephiroh and Worlds of the Tree of Life.
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire page 871:
“Speaking generally,
therefore, it might be stated that egoic groups in whom the
knowledge petals are being organized and unfolded come under the
primary influence of the Mahachohan; those in whom the love
aspect, or the second circle of petals, is opening come under
the primary influence of the Bodhisattva, with the knowledge
unfoldment paralleling the work; whilst those in whom the third
tier is being opened come under the energy direction of the
Manu, with the two other types of force coordinated. It will be
apparent to the careful reader that in this fact lies hid the
secret of why the Mahachohan holds office longer than either of
His two Brothers, holding it as He does for an entire world
period. The key to these cycles lies hid in the following
thoughts: the Bodhisattva and the Manu change more frequently
and pass on to other work owing to the fact that They each
embody one type of triple force, whereas the Mahachohan is the
focal point for five types of energy, each in its turn triple in
nature.”
A
Treatise on Cosmic Fire, page 484:
“Within the
department of the Mahachohan, a secondary division along these
lines might be outlined:
“The seventh and fifth Rays are occupied with the return of the
Son to the Father and are largely centred in pouring forth
energizing power when it becomes necessary to transfer the life
of the Son from an old form into a new, from one kingdom of
nature to another on the Path of Return.”
The Mother is the transmutative Womb and Body through whom this
“transference of Form” takes place, as in the transition from
3rd to 4th densities occurring now; thus her Awakened Presence
is called for, and duly received, peculiarly at this
developmental juncture in order that the Process be expedited
most directly.
The Offices of the Three Rays are referred to directly in
Liber
Al vel Legis (qv), 1:40, as the three Grades “the
Hermit, and
the Lover, and the man of Earth”. See Akhnaton, Zoroaster, Simon
Magus, Malak Tα ‘us, Isaac Luria, Francis Bacon, Aiwass, MT.
Malak Ta’us:
Literally, “Peacock Angel”, principal divine Being
of the Yazidi worshipped in the form of a Peacock. First
non-incarnate manifestation of the Mahachohan (qv) for the
present world period, the second being that of the Divine Aiwass
(qv). By Qabalah, Malak Ta’us or Ta’u is MLK TV, 496 (a Perfect
Number and the product of the multiplication of 31 X 16 [see
essay “Motto-in-the-Lotto”]).
It is also MALA’AK TA’U, 500,
number value of Kaph final and thus associated with Jupiter
ascribed to Kaph and The Wheel Tarot Trump (again, see
“Motto-in-the-Lotto”). The 500 value of Kaph final is used to
denote exaggeration, ostentation or “show”. The glyph of Jupiter
is that of a Peacock. Owing to collision of the Peacock Angel’s
Yazidi sect with the dominant religion of the time and place,
this non-incarnate Expression of the Mahachohan was nonetheless
quite explosive, a veritable Malaktav Cock-tail so to speak.
Marciniak, Barbara:
Channeler of the Pleiadeans, a catch-all
term for an actual heterogeneity of new age sources (i.e.
the
Billy Meier material, the beamship Tupperware of Bell, the
egregious and literally legion “Ashtar” sources etc.—see
Pleiadeans). Unlike the Meier Pleiadeans who, despite their
apparent obtuseness re “Earthly ways” allow a few photos of
their beamships to slip out so they can be promptly called
“fake”,
the Marciniak Pleiadeans are content to dispatch their
presence indirectly via a kind of cancer-box ventriloquism
through wanton glottis of the aforesaid channeler; though they
never show themselves directly (that we might assess whether
their packaging is primarily flesh, feathers or scales, hmmm?)
we may surmise that, if the premise for a channeler’s appearance
progressively reflecting the Entity-channeled is anywhere near
correct, then judging from the jacket photo of Marciniak’s
Bringers Of The Dawn this particular version of the “Pleiadeans”
is a general type having big blank Little-Orphan-Annie eyes and
a dangerously low forehead...
Montauk (Phoenix) Project:
see
Philadelphia Experiment (Rainbow
Project)
Mother:
see
AAA.
Mother-current: Total Mind/body pattern and its resolving Key
along with all Logoic
elements pertaining to the states, planes and worlds through
which it functions, manifesting in
physical terms as the ordinary mind/body form with all its
properties autonomic and volitional. In
particular, the totality of the cosmic Life-current in universal
and individual expression as most comprehensively
conceived from the “Motherly” Viewpoint, which doesn’t seek to
eliminate any legitimate “children” no matter how apparently
refractory the faculty or function, but rather feels the Way for
their rightful incorporation and exaltation in adjustive harmony
with the Whole. Relates specifically to the theories and
practices promulgated through current Office of the Mahachohan (qv).
MT:
(1) The collective name given a modern
Jupiter Myth—known
variously as Morris Tarantella, Monte Tyson, Ming Trey,
Michael
Topper, Mother Terasu etc.—as with many ancient tracts,
redactions and apocryphal works, the generic call letters
applied by anonymous authors to spiritual and sacred treatises
which then become ascribed to the mythic Personage, much like
the “Rosicrucian” writings attributed to “Christian Rosencreutz”,
the Masonic codicils associated with “Hiram Abiff” or the
Qabalist/magical manuscripts all dutifully assigned to
“Solomon”.
The output, quality and subject range ascribed to the singular
“Topper” or “MT” is evidently the work of many parties laboring
in very different areas at different times. It is even said by
some that “MT” is the pseudonymous concoction of a Los
Angeles-based group belonging to the prestigious Media Court,
often cited as: journalist/Fair-weather Nhuddist Buff Art Kunkin;
L.A. Weekly Al-Capp-wannabe Charles Burn; and Emperor’s Clothes
motion picture/television auteur David Lynch—their singular
insipidness and wholesale lack of talent separately, serving
all-the more-ingeniously to disguise their joint authorship
(authorized over a joint) of the “MT” corpus.
In modern times,
to believe that a single person should have been responsible for
so prodigious and far-ranging a feat of criticism, scholarship,
philosophy, psychic/metaphysical and spiritual attainment, to
have produced at once such variety and depth of striking
literary architectures and to have adorned their diverse walls
with such innovative graphic, in murals of astonishing
expression, to have solved (in person, practice and multi-media
output) all outstanding problems of spirituality and science,
every metaphysical and supracosmic conundrum, to have exhibited
all the mastery of Magick ascribed to him in public displays
defying the denials of the loudest detractors and forcing either
their sullen silence or mumbled admission while still being
unable to get a good seat at Chasen’s, has become equated with a
quaint gullibility belonging to less educated epochs. Indeed,
certain scholars are now inclined to believe, from evidence
found in ruins of the Great L.A. Earthquake, that the “person”
of “MT” may have had an historical basis in fact, but that
claims as to his single authorship of all wonders attributed to
him are naively precipitous, and unsupported by weight of the
evidence embedded in surviving remnants of old Twin Peaks
videos.
(2) Initials ascribed to the final incarnation of the Mahachohan (qv) for the present Cycle and the 5th root-race.
“MT” in Hebrew means “Man”, and also “corpse”. Thus the
suggestion of embodiment given, by agent of the Office, to
everything implied in the Logoic formula: also, the functional
focus of that representation with special reference to the
“body” or embodied/vebicularized being itself, in anticipation
of the transformation and “resurrection” even of the “lowest”
element in the Alchemical equation (for corpse in spiritual
science and alchemy indicates the fleshly “tomb” for temporary
occupancy of spirit; but also the potentially regenerable vessel
for “translating” the locus of spirit-concentration from one
whole venue-of-expression to another without gap in the
continuity of consciousness).
Thus the “formula” of the MT
always conceals either a hidden Yod (“I” or “J”) indicating
volition and the spiritized generative force, or Heh (“H” or
“E”), the revivifying “spirit” or breath-of-life itself.
“Corpse” in and of itself is always reference to matter, the
materia of the Mother, and is thus indicative, along with the
secret vowel that animates it as a regenerative Name on the
phylactery of the Magician-Qabalist, of the Ray of Intelligent
Activity ascribed to ihsAkash of manifest being and the Office
of the Mahachohan (“Mother” in the spiritual Triad).
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