tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64766343123309520882024-03-04T21:21:07.383-08:00A Book of SapphireDamian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-68042389759464053572013-11-23T17:15:00.000-08:002013-11-23T17:16:40.083-08:00On Orientation<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the most essential keys by which we may find our
way in the unfathomable is that of orientation, which, as Henry Corbin points
out in his Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, is among the most basic components
of our moment by moment experience in the world. This is true not only in this
world, but in the visionary world as well. Our tendency to spacialize the world
around us is intrinsic to the very experience of presence. Orientation allows
us to engage with the experience of spaciality in a systematic fashion. It
allows us to move with knowledge and intent.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Arming oneself with a point of orientation on the
spiritual path is essential to real progress. Without a destination, the
traveler is bound to wander in circles, lost without a map in the vast Arcanum
of the Mysteries. The stars have long served as guiding lights in this regard.
Particular stars indicate, by their positions in the heavens, the places in
which the keys to the Mysteries may be found. These are not terrestrial
locations, but rather centers of initiatic truth hidden within the depths of
the collective unconscious. These centers can be experienced directly by the
practitioner as places of great transformative power. When they are used as
focal points for the exaltation of consciousness, their light can reveal to us
that which is unknowable by any other means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The stars have taken up permanent residence in the
cultural psyche of humanity as a means of navigation while at sea. The surface
of the waters would have been unnavigable to our ancestors without the
regularity of the constellations shining from above. Just so, the depths of the
unconscious would only drown us had we not a system of fixed relations by which
its contents may be mapped and charted. The sea may be the origin of life, but
it appears as a tumultuous and devouring mother to those who would attempt to
plumb its depths without a key. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We have at our disposal several tools by which we may symbolically
orient ourselves in the visionary world. If the periodic table of the elements
along with the works of Newton define the laws of the outer world, then the
corresponding laws of the inner world are defined by the Sepher Yetzirah, the I
Ching, the Tarot, the visions of Ezekiel and John, of Boehme and Blake. We are
not without an abundance of maps, we have but to learn to use them correctly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Let us set forth then into the visionary world, armed with maps of
mythical temples and otherworldly abodes. By tracing these routes through the invisible,
we may find our way back to our true source and origin, and from thence to our
true destination, neither wholly in heaven or on earth, but partaking equally of
both. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Some thoughts on the corresponding art of aimless wandering may be found <a href="http://golgonoozamancy.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-aimless-wandering.html">here</a>).</span></div>
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Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-71484621885018333162013-01-01T17:45:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:07:06.722-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Deneb Algedi<div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the vast and cosmic Order, setting
each thing in its place aright, making sure that each thing partakes of its
double nature. I touch every atom of space in every potentiality of time. My
name is ALL! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I descend into the lowermost depths of
the earth, and I ascend into the uppermost reaches of the stellar world. I
partake of, and rejoice in, both natures, minting the coin of perfection
thereof. I am the root of limitation and transcendence. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am to be found in all signs and
portents, I speak unto the mind and heart of humanity in every aspect of nature
and of life. I am to be found in the woods and in the cities, in the temples
and in the streets.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am inspiration! I am that vast and
mighty power that burns within the heart and makes itself known in the world by
works of genius. I am the spirit of invention, drive and ambition. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am with humanity at the pinnacle of
its development as maker of tools and as a God and a dwelling place for the
absolute. I lead all of humanity ever to conform to the image of the highest.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Exceed! Let your genius ascend the peaks
of heaven and earth – and when you have reached the summit? You will know it! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let your works exceed all bounds and
knowledge – thus only may you truly expand. Let not your Light be static – with
it set the world alight! Create! Sustain! Destroy! Let there be great change
wrought upon the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Build monuments to your inmost genius –
let the world bear it witness! This is your birthright and your obligation.
Neglect not the work of your hands. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Give freely and abundantly of your fruit
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Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-69841624168220811112012-12-21T16:21:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:07:38.355-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Vega<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Vega</b> is found in the constellation of Lyra, the Lyre of Orpheus.</span>
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magical image of Vega is a Traveller and a Vulture.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Justified One. My essence puts
all things aright and in right proportion. I hold all things in balance with
perfect precision – it is easy! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Light of pure Joy, of Virtue
and of Justice. Take your pleasure in all things.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I give abundance and fruitfulness, but
always in perfect measure. I take away all burden, and give what is needed. I
regulate all things according to their need.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reduce your needs to those of a
traveler, and take your joy in the traveling. I will simplify your needs in
every place. Travel lightly! But do travel. Be ever at rest in constant motion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Embrace that simplicity which you know
in the inmost heart – let go all else! It is not needed. With my wings spread
out in equal measure does the very air hold me aloft, and I ascend with little
effort. Release all effort! Let your heart ascend by its own nature unto the
heights of the heavens!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-37455389468540549322012-12-17T18:32:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:07:48.145-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Antares<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The royal star <b>Antares </b>is found in the heart of the Scorpion.</span>
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being. I am the seed of every heart, and the secret fire which causes that seed
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I show a face of wrath and destruction
to those who cling to the outer, but I preserve the essential core of every
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am corrosive, as decay and time, to
that which is created by humanity. The eternal only is preserved by me, while
the temporal is torn down and cast away. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the poisonous sting of the
Scorpion, as well as its protective shell. I am the fire of the seed, the
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the fire destructive and creative.
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By me does the inmost Seed regenerate in
the depths of the night. I am the force of Life in Death, the Sun at Midnight,
the Secret Power in the Heart of Darkness. I am called death, but am the very
source of life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the ecstasy of surrender unto the
Higher. The Hidden God which lies concealed, but which is revealed when the
self is dissolved. Dissolve yourself in the great sea, for in death may you
come to drink from the chalice of ecstasy. The self must drown in order to come
into that house, for my Light shines only in utter darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-30220277436425496222012-12-15T12:58:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:07:57.879-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Alphecca<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Alphecca </b>is the brightest jewel in the Northern Crown or Corona Borealis.</span>
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magical image of Alphecca is a Hen and a Crowned Man.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am silence and stillness, the perfection of the present moment, the
eternity of the now, the treasure and bounty of emptiness. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the silence
where all speech is falsehood. I am the stillness where all motion leads away
from the essential. I am the freedom to do nothing when every act leads to
bondage. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the pure
and lucid one, the center of all things in every place and time. I am the point
of perfection in the midst of chaos, wisdom in the midst of folly. I am the
transcendent illumination of the crown. I am the pure perfection of existence.
Nothing more is needed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am called the
sleep of reason, and madness or folly. Rational thought cannot bind me, no cup
can contain my essence. I am to be found in no place, and my hour is outside of
time. I am neither with the one, nor the other.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am pure delight,
ecstasy, rest beyond motion. I am the master of silence, by which all things
are expressed, and of stillness, by which all things are accomplished. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Know me in the
ecstasy of silence, for I abide in that perfection.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-27312238087178078112012-12-12T18:29:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:08:09.232-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Arcturus<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Arcturus</b> is located in the constellation of Bootes, the herdsman.</span>
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magical image of Arcturus is a Horse, a Wolf, and a Dancing Man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>The Voice of Arcturus</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the preserver of Wisdom and the
keeper of Gnosis. It is I who determine what is to be revealed, and what is to
be concealed and guarded.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The keys to the Mysteries are preserved
in structure, grammar, and number; by the parts of speech and writing; and
through tradition. In even the manners and customs of tradition is bright Wisdom
concealed. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Behind these forms is the true Gnosis
hidden. If it is lost, it will be found again by those who know to seek it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Keep sacred the Heavenly Wisdom, keep
pure the Mysteries. Do not let them be profaned. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Deliver the Wisdom entrusted unto you
responsibly. Do not reveal the central Mysteries to the mind, for the mind
cannot grasp them. Your words will only obscure their Light. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rather, preserve the true Gnosis by
presenting it in forms that conceal from the mind and yet reveal to the soul. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I keep the Light of the Gnosis from
dispersing, containing it perfectly so that it may be delivered unto true
seekers of the Light without diminution or dilution.</span></i> <i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the hidden tongue of Wisdom. Through me, may
the bright Gnosis be preserved forever.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-45503289455336330992012-12-10T20:06:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:08:17.528-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Spica<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Spica </b>is located in the sheaf of wheat held in the hand of the celestial Virgin.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The
magical image of Spica is a Bird bearing an ear of Wheat and a Man laden with much Merchandise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>The Voice of Spica</b></span>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the living force of growth which
brings all things to fruition. I am the ever present waters which cause the
seeds to sprout and grow. I am the water of perpetuity. I am the bringer forth
of life. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Generous is my nature, fruitful is my
touch. I am in every place and I cause the rains to pour forth. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the life of all things. Nothing is
barren. All things contain life in fruition. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am ever Virgin, and all is pure before
me. I bear the imprint of the seed of life down to the fertile earth, yet I am
not imprinted thereby for I am the very matrix of creation. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Free yourself from all
obstruction and then come before me. Thus shall your inmost genius be made
fruitful. Replenish yourself, drink often from the source. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-41263233748198832792012-12-08T19:14:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:08:30.090-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Gienah<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Gienah</b> is located in the constellation of Corvus, the crow. Gienah appears in the left wing of the crow, opposite Al-Gorab in the right wing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
magical image of Gienah is a Man robed in Black bearing a Raven on his wrist
and holding a Black Serpent in his other hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>The Voice of Gienah</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Light that shines in the
fallen, the Truth in the midst of falsehood and deception.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am Truth descending into the midst of
dark matter. I uplift, exalt and redeem the fallen. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I appear in the midst of thick darkness
as the radiant Light of Wisdom. There is in me a hidden nature, a light in the
darkness of night. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I appear as Wisdom in the telling of
tales and fables, the Truth to be found in the openly false. I run like a river
through the fallen places, the places of disrepute, places without honor and
spat upon, ignored and despised. Seek me in the song of the beggar and the
thief. There is Wisdom and Light in the lowermost depths and in the celebration
of the wretched. There is Wisdom in the body, Wisdom in the drunkenness of
folly, Wisdom in the liar and the teller of tales. Come to know me in all of
these things and you will be free from error. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The more you know me, the more shall you
see me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Call out to me in the night, and I will
guide you. I will uplift your point of view. Through me, you may see with the
eyes of the exalted spirit. You will see through all deceit, lies and cunning
played upon yourself by yourself. I will resolve the binds in your perception.</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-4990755423580238952012-12-03T19:55:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:08:39.481-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Alkaid<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Alkaid</b>, or Cauda Ursa, is located in the tail of the Great Bear.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
magical image of Alkaid is a Bull-Headed Man bearing a Golden Scepter with
Seven Stars overhead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>The Voice of Alkaid</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I stir the great waters and direct the
stars in their courses through the heavens. Surrender to the vastness of the
infinite, do not fear what it may bring you or what may befall you – it is your
destiny and the means of your perfection<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is I who cause the great oceans to
move and roll forth, affecting the tides of creation. It is I who stirs the
currents of the lowermost depths of the mighty waters, the reverberations of
the primal deep. No temporal power can remain unmoved by my strength, for my
echo resounds throughout the currents of the ages, and my voice resides with
the eternal. By my hand do great empires rise and fall, for mine is a universal
power.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Accept what is yours, eat of the fruit
of the just, look not to escape your fate, surrender to your inmost nature. I
am of the eternal and give knowledge of eternity. This I give to the justified,
and the time and measure of the justification of all beings is set by me. With
me is the Wisdom of the ages.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There is no depth that does not know my
influence, nothing so vast that it exceeds my reach. The measure of the rise
and fall of all things is determined by me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-14968974208195566652012-12-01T16:17:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:08:49.078-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Regulus<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The royal star <b>Regulus</b>, also called Cor Leonis, is located in the heart of the constellation of Leo.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
magical image of Regulus is that of a Crowned King, seated upon a Winged Lion
with a Star burning at its breast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>The Voice of Regulus</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Flame of the First Essence, the
Word that commands, the Voice of Holy Fire. My Voice commands vast armies. My
Word is single, creation and destruction arising as one. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I rule with honor and justice, and virtue is
my Word, potent and noble. I am the very archetype of Royalty from which all
Kings proceed. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I command the very Stars in their
courses, and by my word never a single Star does deviate from its perfection.
My chain of command lies unbroken throughout the aeons.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Primal potency, nobility, and Royalty
arise from your own Divinity. I will cause that voice to arise within you like
a flashing flame. That which is false shall be destroyed by the fires of truth
and justice. I will then arise with you in the Dawn after the bloody night.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus the King shall rule, and not the
servant. But your secret glory is to serve – thus shall you be fulfilled, made
radiant, justified, joyous. Ecstasy shall be yours, and Truth, Light,
Understanding – if you but serve.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-56662678184280260942012-11-29T18:51:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:08:57.107-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Procyon<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Procyon</b> is located in the constellation of Canis Minor.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The
magical image of Procyon is that of a Cockerel crowing at a Star and Three
Maidens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>The Voice of Procyon</b></span>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Light that does not sleep, the
Light perpetual, unbroken, and continuous. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Light
of Revelation, ever revealing the unseen. I am the quickening of that Light,
the primal voice of awakening. Mine is the place where sleep is not. Night does
not fall in this place.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I grant access to the inaccessible, and give
the strength to walk upstream through the waters without being overcome by
them. I will make for you a passage to the Light.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I give you strength of will and purity of purpose. I give
you power to transgress boundaries and limitations of all kinds. Always beyond,
ever into subtler and subtler regions will I take you. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You must become utterly lost in order to
find Wisdom, for True Wisdom destroys the known. There will I guide you. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I will take you into the place
unnamable, for to know me is to know Mystery, naked and unadorned. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br />Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-27117857992356736442012-11-27T18:57:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:09:04.721-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Sirius<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Sirius</b> is located in the constellation of Canis Major, and is called the Dog Star.</span></div>
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magical image for this star is that of a Virgin, crowned with a bright Star,
and a Hound beside her.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Rising of the Light, the
inundation of the rains, and the increase of the Waters of Life. I am the
perfected Light, and I am found in all things. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the healer and resurrector. I am
the reconciler between opposing forces. My influence heals all things
inharmonious. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the purified and cleansed one. Through
knowledge of me may you know your own naked essence.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is I who guides the Light of Heaven
down to the depths of the earth, ever keeping pure the Heavenly Gnosis. With me
are the Waters of Eternity, ever pure, ever unchanging, ever virgin.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the Light of Illumination, Truth,
and Wisdom. I reveal that which is common, yet essential, to all. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Keep your gaze fixed ever on your Star,
and let all else follow after. Open your heart to your Beloved and let all else
fall away. Let the mind not interfere, let it serve the higher. Ah, but there
are one thousand rewards in this service. For to serve is of the highest! </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-81222179559588607872012-11-25T14:15:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:09:25.757-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Capella<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Capella</b> is located in the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
magical image of Capella is that of a Faun making merry and playing on a Flute.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Truth and falsehood, boundary and
transgression, the known and the unknowable – each is inseparable from the
other. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I delight in contradiction and paradox,
for therein lies the key to understanding.
All rational thought lies at my feet. I am the unraveling of thought.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the secret fire of Wisdom. Truth is
made known and yet concealed by my word. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I will instruct you in the secret rites
by which you may find a doorway to the ineffable. Will you then know Mystery?
Never! Mystery is ever Mystery though you penetrate the veil and violate the
sacred chamber. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the fire which brings ecstasy and
delight; the Goat-Star who brings mirth and laughter, delicious evil and bright
wisdom – all of this is my play.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the driver of the vessel, yet my
route is inscrutable. I know the secret course to the center of all things, yet none can follow
me directly. Truth is known to me, but cannot thus be spoken. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let ever Wisdom prevail over knowledge, let
your Star be your guiding light, let your Truth be in your ecstasy. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By my knowledge of the order of things
do I appear to transgress, though in truth I work in perfect alignment with
cosmic law and justice.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-77620520780676526912012-11-23T18:27:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:09:34.382-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Aldebaran<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The royal star<b> Aldebaran </b>is located in the Hyades in the constellation of Taurus.</span><br />
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magical image of Aldebaran is that of a winged God in Flight, followed by many
Stars. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>The Voice of Aldebaran</b> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the voice of Wisdom and the first
Light of Understanding. I am the dawning of the Sun of Wisdom. I am known to
you. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I arise as the first flame in the
darkness of heavenly night. I am the voice arising in the silence. All sounds
thereafter are the echo of my voice. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I arise as the leader and follower, and
I provide my own light that I may penetrate the darkness. With my bright light
I illuminate the invisible, making known the secret regions. I am the chief of
the Mysteries and the King of the known. By my Light am I victorious.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the first noble virtue, the arbiter
of justice. There is no injustice or imbalance where I am. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am your own light and thirst for
knowledge. Let your circle of light expand that you may know the Beloved. You
must ever seek to know Her more completely, to witness Her mystery and to taste
of Her fruit. She calls to you with sweet darkness. Bring your light to Her as
an act of love.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The intellect I leave far behind, for it cannot sustain my Light. I am the star of prophets. By me may the
Ineffable be clothed in form.</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-27186697379856018572012-11-21T19:16:00.001-08:002013-01-05T14:09:43.930-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: The Pleiades<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The seven stars in </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">the Pleiades</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> are located above the constellation of Taurus</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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magical image of the Pleiades is that of a Flaming Lamp, surrounded by 7
Virgins. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>The Voice of The Pleiades</b><i> </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are as seven lights of burning flame,
pure and perfect. We are the radiance of unknowable Mystery and transcendent
Wisdom. Ours is a clear light. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are as Light beyond light,
ungraspable and not comprehended, a clear crystal perfectly formed. The Light shines
through us without refraction or distortion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our Light leaves no disturbance in the
aether, it is the Light of pure consciousness. We are the invisible ones. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We stand at the gate of Mystery and grant
entrance into the unknowable. We hold the keys to the gates of Gnosis. Reduce
yourself to naked essence and come before us. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We give subtle sight and visionary
perception. We light the way to Wisdom. Let the echo of our flame be known to
you in the secret place, and build your house accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You will do right to adore us. Speak to
us with the heart, and you may receive our Light. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-90408915798886863052012-11-17T13:52:00.000-08:002013-01-05T14:09:54.702-08:00The Fifteen Behenian Stars: Algol<b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Algol</b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, the first of the 15 Behenian stars,</span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">is located in the constellation of Persius.</span><br />
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magical image of Algol is the severed Head of Medusa, with fresh blood dripping
from the neck and a writhing hair of snakes.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am mystery unknowable, truth
unutterable. I appear as abomination and terror to the mind. I am the
destruction of thought. I am the Wisdom that is forbidden to knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I reside in the awful void, which is
terrible unto the mind of humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the absolute, impenetrable, and
ineffable. None may trespass where I am. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I make known to the soul the unspeakable
mysteries, though none may utter my secret name, to no-one may it be known. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am of impenetrable diamond. I am of
the unbreakable silence. I am the movement in the stillness that breaks the
perfection of the absolute.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am a bringer forth of initiation, the
First of the Great Transformers. My Light makes perfect the soul, and I bring
forth the gift of prophecy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The serpents in my hair are the essence
of Wisdom, but they are deadly and poisonous, corrosive to the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am the first and the foremost of the
great Lights.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In an astral vision, while skrying the 19</span><sup style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Enochian Aethyr, which is
called POP, I received the following instructions from the God with the head of
the goat:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">120 are the secrets of the art by which
you may perfect your love. Explore the bright stars in the heavens, learn from
them their secret names, their great Wisdom. Gain from them the secret keys by
which the 120 doors to the bridal chamber may be unlocked, learn from them the
means by which to perfect your Union with the Beloved. Let this knowledge be
given unto all! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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120 is the sum of every number from the first to the fifteenth, and 15 is the
number of the Path of Ayin, which is attributed to Baphomet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">15
is also the number of Behenian, or root, stars, being the fixed stars which are
the roots of the 7 wandering stars, according to the Sabians of Harran who
attribute this knowledge to Thice Great Hermes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last of the Behenian stars, the fifteenth, is called Deneb Algedi, which is
found in the constellation of Capricorn and which is attributed to Pan, who
also is associated (loosely) with the path of Ayin and with Baphomet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">120
is written upon the door of the Vault of Father C.R. (this door being attributed
to Venus, or love): “Post CXX Annos Patebo”, or “After 120 years, I will open”.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn uses the structure of the Vault in their
Adeptus Minor initiation, which is attributed to Tiphareth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is also the value of the letter Samekh, spelled out in full: “Samekh Mem Kaph”.
Samekh is attributed to the path which leads from Yesod to Tiphareth, or the moon
to the sun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Further,
120 is the sum of the multiplication of the numbers 15 and 8. The latter number
is attributed to the Sephira Hod, which is also attributed to Mercury, which is
called, in Hebrew, ‘Kokab’. Kokab also means, literally, ‘star’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is also the enumeration of Yod Heh, which is the Divine Name of the Sephira
Chokmah, which is itself attributed to Mazloth, the Zodiacal belt or realm of
the fixed stars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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correspondences occurred to me in the weeks following the vision. Immediately I
set out to explore the natures of the Behenian Stars, using all of the
techniques that I had learned in my 15 years of magical practice.</span></div>
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the Divine Beloved<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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15 Behenian stars may be used to help unlock the secrets whereby the
consummation of the marriage of Heaven and Earth may be made perfect. The
attributes of each are shown, in brief, below (with more to follow regarding the nature of each particular star). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Algol your beloved is Mystery of Mystery. Truth unutterable, unknowable,
unnamable, appearing as darkness and abomination to the reason. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Pleiades does your beloved reside in the Invisible Light, beyond the known and
the unknown. Your beloved is the Light which is unseen, from which the visible
Light arises. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Aldebaran is your beloved at last comprehended as a blinding Light, mighty and
noble, the first and the leader of Lights. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Capella is your beloved that Truth beyond truth, which includes all things so
ever, and nothing. Your beloved is beyond all concepts of truth and falsehood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Sirius does your beloved appear as perfect purity, ever Virgin. All substance
has its origin in your beloved, whose Virginity cannot be lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Procyon does your beloved appear as perpetual wakefulness, the eternal Light of
awareness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Regulus is found the commanding Voice of your beloved, establishing law absolute. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Alkaid does your beloved ordain your spiritual destiny, setting in motion the
course of your incarnations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Gienah does your beloved descend into the basest of hells, redeeming all
therein. In Gienah also does your beloved upraise your point of view, allowing
you to transcend the limitations of illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Spica does your beloved bathe your soul in the waters of Life that it may be made
fruitful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Arcturus does your beloved keep sacred the inmost Mysteries, ever protecting
the Holy Light from profanation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Alphecca does your beloved reside in perfect silence and stillness, the Light
of the Star Eternal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Antares is your beloved the Destroyer, the bringer of Death and the revealer of
the Core of your Being. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Vega does your beloved reside in perfect Bliss, free from attachment or need. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Deneb Algedi does your beloved inspire your soul with the fires of Genius. From
your beloved comes the cosmic order, the Word of Perfection made manifest, encompassing the highest to the lowest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Solar Wall of the Vault of the Adepti (one of seven)</div>
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Note the similarity to the <a href="http://bookofsapphire.blogspot.com/2012/06/vault-wall-mars.html">Mars wall</a>. The colors between the two are very similar - orange VS red for the backgrounds, and blue VS green for the symbols. Contrast these with the <a href="http://bookofsapphire.blogspot.com/2011/10/vault-wall-venus.html">Venus wall</a>. </div>
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The Mars Wall of the Vault of the Adepti (one of seven)</div>
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Next up: Sol</div>
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Mem is water, attributed to Water and The Hanged Man.</div>
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Daleth is the door, attributed to Venus and The Empress. </div>
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The path of Lamed is attributed to the equilibrium of all parts of the psyche, such that the sum total is zero. This zero pertains specifically to the Microcosm. The zero of any given Microcosm bears a particular relationship to the zero of the Macrocosm. In other words, the root essence of any individual psyche bears a unique relationship to the root essence of universal mind (or, every star moves along a particular course through the body of Nuit). This relationship is the essence of True Will. True Will is the most natural expression of a particular Microcosm, which arises effortlessly in the absence of the interference of any one part of the Microcosm by any other part. This state of internal harmony, and thus the free expression of True Will, is the goal of this path. </div>
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In the grade of Adeptus Minor, 5=6, the Microcosm (symbolized by the pentagram, hence 5) is made to be a complete reflection of the Macrocosm (symbolized by the hexagram, hence 6). This is done through the conscious integration of all of its elements. In the next grade, that of Adeptus Major, 6=5, the essential relation between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm, which relation characterizes True Will, must be made to be the sole impetus from which every action arises. This is achieved through 2 methods, the first corresponding to Mem and the second to Daleth. </div>
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The method corresponding to Mem is that of the regular dissolution of the Microcosm into the Macrocosm, or the dissolution of the individual point of view into that of all possible points of view, or the dissolution of the particular into the universal. This is the experience known as Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, as well as by such other terms as samadhi, union with God, transcendence, and several others. The regular dissolution of the ego into the waters of universal mind gradually purifies the ego of its dross, loosening the grip of attachment and identification, both of which hamper the natural expression of True Will. </div>
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The second method, corresponding to Daleth, is that of love. This is not sentimental love (which is based on ego and possessiveness), but rather a higher type of love which signifies the ultimate aim of all attraction, resulting in the loss of the self in the beloved, and a new conception of self that emerges as a result of the union. </div>
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The method is as follows: identify some idea that lies outside of the conception of "self", whether it be represented as a person, a piece of art or music, or something else. Even after all of the major aspects of the psyche are integrated at the 5=6 level, there are bound to be several elements left out of the conception of self - at the very least a pet peeve or two. Once the idea has been identified, love it totally, give yourself over to it unreservedly to the point of loss of self. The new conception of self that emerges from the union will include the essence of the idea which is the object of the operation. </div>
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These methods may be employed to eliminate all disturbances and imbalances in the psyche, allowing for the spontaneous expression of True Will in every moment as the particular circumstance of that moment demands it. Keep in mind that these methods are especially suited to the development of the adept at this particular point on the path, and will not necessarily work out for those who have not yet reached this point (it is impossible to make full use either method before Knowledge and Conversation has been fully realized). </div>
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The path of Lamed leads (in the A.:A.:) from Tiphareth in Briah to Geburah in Briah. The essence of the experience of Tiphareth in Briah is the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, while the essence of the experience of Geburah in Briah is the natural and unhampered expression of True Will. If Chesed is the un-carved block, then Geburah is the chisel in action, resulting ultimately in the creation, through limitation, of a particular form. By this means does the Adeptus Major work to refashion the world in their own image. </div>Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-33753867661440908502011-10-13T18:26:00.000-07:002013-01-05T14:11:04.231-08:00Vault Wall: Venus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-74517668876959307642011-06-14T22:39:00.000-07:002011-06-15T09:11:45.812-07:00The Voice of Tahuti, 9th Installment<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>The Ritual</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a hidden temple deep beneath the surface of the earth, there flames the light eternal, sending forth its currents to the houses on the surface of the earth. Within each house a secret temple also, vibrating in sympathy with the temple in the center of the earth, hidden in the silent darkness, waiting for the kiss of Stellar Light. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Light of the earth and the Light of the stars intermingle and marry, and thus a house is oriented toward the Pole Star in the North, and the true vocation of the master of the house is revealed. The vocation of the master partakes equally of heaven and earth, macrocosm and microcosm, destiny and accident – it is the product of the marriage between them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This sacred bond pre-exists the house and the master, for it is eternal. The house is temporal, dis-oriented, and must be reconciled in time with its true origin in eternity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thus is the Word a reconciliation between two things, and yet beyond all number and counting – eternal, ineffable, unpronounced. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a city outside of time, in the luminous darkness, wherein every building is oriented aright toward the center, which is aligned with the Stellar Pole directly above. When the marriage between heaven and earth is perfect, seamless, uninterrupted, and the Word is continuous and self-sufficient, there shall the master find a place. There the master has nothing save for a place in the city, proper orientation, the Word, and that in silence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[The City speaks to us in the silence, causing us to light fires upon the earth in order to find our way around it, appearing in art, science, religion].</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">There is a hidden temple deep beneath the surface of the earth...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The house refers to the Nephesch. The raw force of life, in both ourselves and in the world, lies waiting for redemption through a marriage with the celestial. This marriage in ourselves results in spiritual transformation, while the marriage in the world refers to the goal of the work of the adept. The idea is very similar to that of the Tikkun Olam in Lurianic Kabbalah.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">The Light of the earth and the Light of the stars intermingle and marry...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The Neschamah descends into the Nephesch, re-orienting it toward the Pole Star, a symbol of the center of the universe. The particular angle between our own location in the universe (symbolically, according to our nature within the whole) and the center defines our vocation or True Will, which necessarily partakes both of the temporal and the eternal, or of our particular position and the center. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">This sacred bond pre-exists the house and the master, for it is eternal. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">We tend to think that our true place in the world (defined by our True Will) is the result of the marriage between the individual and the universal within us, but in fact our True Will precedes us entirely - we arise from it, it doesn't arise from us. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">The house is temporal, dis-oriented, and must be reconciled in time with its true origin in eternity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Our temporal nature must be aligned with our eternal nature. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">There is a city outside of time, in the luminous darkness...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The city referred to here is a higher vibration of the one referred to in installment two.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">[The City speaks to us in the silence, causing us to light fires upon the earth in order to find our way around it, appearing in art, science, religion].</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This part came as a vision of sorts. The state of spiritual perfection of all of humanity, like the True Will of the individual, pre-exists humanity itself, and speaks to us and affects us unconsciously even before we've "achieved" it. It is the apotheosis of all consciousness everywhere and, being eternal, is not bound by time. It is ultimately responsible for all art, culture and science. Everything we've ever done refers more or less directly to it. Note that I'm not saying that we, as a species, are necessarily going to get to that point in the course of our evolution. The perfected state exists in the archetypal world whether or not we ever actually go there in the temporal world. Whether or not it "happens" at some point in the future, it is happening continually at every point in space and time. </span>Damian Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06568812659803896634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476634312330952088.post-57937649600619627682011-04-28T19:44:00.000-07:002011-04-28T19:44:24.474-07:00Rising on the Planes, Method III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8OLPmueAuiWerHh7NR17-tQjmEGYgwBMPlbrntziuHkFqoyw4Mw31VWiS5p4XnYd0QslhGD3CM0PcU1mrRB1oFJZr48AIoheZiLEXWdaNppFkGRu3ZH9D_5ZvcAVXSk9CabVVB0UM8I/s1600/tarot_Thoth_Star.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8OLPmueAuiWerHh7NR17-tQjmEGYgwBMPlbrntziuHkFqoyw4Mw31VWiS5p4XnYd0QslhGD3CM0PcU1mrRB1oFJZr48AIoheZiLEXWdaNppFkGRu3ZH9D_5ZvcAVXSk9CabVVB0UM8I/s1600/tarot_Thoth_Star.JPG" /></a></span></div><br />
<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This method is to be used with the twelve permutations of YHVH, along with the corresponding Zodiacal names, colors, etc.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This method requires an open astral temple (ie: no walls or ceiling) that has been created and sustained by use over a period of time. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Perform the Lesser Banishing Rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagram.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Formulate a golden archway in the east of the temple. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">On the other side of the archway is your astral temple or environment. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Using the methods outlined in the previous installments, formulate the body of light and transfer your consciousness to it. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Project through the archway using the sign of the enterer. Use the sign of silence to seal the archway behind you. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Once your body of light has been firmly established in your astral temple, invoke the Zodiacal force in question using the proper pentagram. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Let your astral body be filled with light of the color of the Zodiacal sign in question in the King scale. Visualize the letters of the permutation of YHVH in question in white light in the center of your astral body (typically in the cavity of the chest). </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Vibrate the letters of the permutation in question. As you do so, let the colored light that fills your astral body expand to fill the confines of space. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Vibrate also the name of the Archangel corresponding to the Zodiacal sign in question, and the Angel. Vibrate these names numerous times, but always come back to the Atziluthic name. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When the level of vibration has risen to a sufficient degree, and you have become firmly established in within the light and essence of the Zodiacal sign in question, let your body of light rise by effort of will. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As you continue to rise, the atmosphere will become more rarefied, subtle, refined. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">If, at any time, you feel resistance to further progress, you may send some astral substance from your body of light back down, proceeding onward with the subtler components of your body of light. This may be done numerous times if necessary, until your body of light consists of no more than a minute point of refined essence. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As with the first two methods, this exercise may be used to attain unto the heights of mystical consciousness.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When you can rise no further (be careful not to exhaust yourself in an effort to rise further), return down the way you came. The full form of your body of light will return to you as you descend. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Let your astral temple again formulate around you. Spend a few moments re-establishing your body of light in your astral temple. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Banish the Zodiacal force in question using the proper pentagram. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When you are ready, project back through the golden archway and merge your body of light back with your physical body. Physically give the sign of silence after you have come back to your body. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Close using the Banishing rituals of the Hexagram and Pentagram. </span></span></span></span></li>
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