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Originally posted by Frater210
AV: You seem, Frater, someone who started on the path of Kabbalistic Magick then became disgusted or frightened by it. Am I wrong?
Frater210: I was hoping someone would ask me about the Kabbalah. Geez, took long enough.
How does anyone start off on the path to 'Magick' without being bombarded with Kabbalah? So yes, I went home and studied the stupid Kabbalah for several years; memorizing all of my correspondences like a good little initiate. The whole time part of me was wondering what the hell I was doing it for.
Anyhow, I was not frightened by it and not really disgusted by it in itself.
It is just that it is bullsh!$. Really, really useless for anything. There a better ways to build a card catalog of correspondences in you head. Can anyone please tell me why the Kabbalah is useful. Why you are content to work with a broken map of creation as the basis for your Theurgy? To me it is the equivalent of emptying out a bag of trash and playing in it.
Also, are you Jewish? I'm not and I have no affinity whatsoever for the Hebrew Kabbalah.
That is why I really focus on Alchemy and because of the influence of my most recent teacher; Simple Nature. Which modern Biology makes not so simple.
Anyway, it is busy work meant to keep you pre-occupied with nothing. I suppose it is just my opinion but I hope it may be a refreshing one.
What really clinches it for me? Is that not in the Oprah thread? If it isn't I will try to sum it up for you. May take me a while to get back to you though.
Have a good day folks.
Originally posted by Jinglelord
I don't look at Karma like most people do and also don't look at predestination. To me it is a moot point which I would liken to a person debating the merits of breathing. Free will may or may not be an illusion. It can't matter. I'm not saying it doesn't matter, I'm saying it can't just like how it can't matter as to if breathing is good or not.
By living, by even existing, we are a part of a construct some call God, some call the Universe, some call it the Goddess, and some call it Steve the Monkey. It's only different names for the same thing. Clever names and faces for what is essentially everything. Where is this going?
To hop on over to the point (hopefully without missing too much) If we are a part of everything (which without doubt we are: All after this can be expanded on but will not as I am not going to write a book nobody will read) then we need to take the leap to see that everything is in some way inter connected. If we take the leap and see all is interconnected we just need to make two more jumps: If it is interconnected every piece in one way effects every other. Here is the biggest jump, if you take you have no choice but to agree: Time is a construct used to perceive our experience in a linear manner. This means that all things happened and time is the window in which it is being experienced. Just like a book that was written.
So it isn't that your destiny can't be changed or transcended as much as it is that you have already changed or transcended as much as you ever would you just don't know it yet. (Please be reminded I could and have go on about this for hours upon hours and am trying to not take too much time.)
Finally on the Holy Guardian angel...
I just want to say that if it is God / Universe in a form man can approach it is no different from anything else because as have established to my mind this concept is everything. And being Everything all things in all dimensions in all places are simply parts that can be approached by whatever is viewing / experiencing it.
Maybe the Guardian is more like a neural node connected directly to what would be similar to the Universe's nervous system where a more direct communication can take place? I'd buy that one.
Originally posted by mistermonculous
You, sir, have at your disposal and as your birth-right a mind-bogglingly massive amount of "power". Two catches, and those significantly less unpleasant than the usual clauses: you can't keep the power, and you can't command it. Asking is key.
...I view all predator-prey relationships as short-sighted cannibalism. It's strip-mining for coal in your backyard when you have photo-voltaic panels ready to be utilized.
AV: This is strange as a wedding gift but they may be a strange couple. This is a disturbing image of a blindfolded armless, legless "human torso" freak forced to eke out a living as an "Oracle." Is that stick in her mouth used to point to the "Wheel of Fortune?" Where did you find this image?
Mistermonculous: I, er, I painted it. And yeah, they're pretty odd. And, yup, your interpretation of the implied narrative is spot-on. I would add that it speaks to my view of predestination. A blind slave devoid of volition, using her baton to spin a wheel with all the signifiers long since effaced. It's meant to disturb. Also, the figure was painted with phosphorescent paint, and she glows in the dark.
Timewalker: I am a loner. I like being with people too very much, but I gotta have me time.
Mistermonculous: My take on Frater's sensible injunction to avoid isolation, is that being physically alone is a non-issue. It's only when you fail to perceive your connections to others (maybe everyone) that you run the risk of a shark attack.
AV: This is interesting, Frater. So you believe we are literally living in a Prison Planet?
Frater210: Yes. And on 'lockdown'.
Mistermonculous: You don't have to work on Maggie's Farm, guys. As above, so below is only an intractable injunction if you fail to realize that any system can be altered from the center outward.
Which is where we lucky goldfish are positioned.
as I originally posted this to Jinglelord on Page 25 of this thread:
My understanding is that the Holy Guardian Angel is none other than God. God in a form man can approach.
"the Single Supreme Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raising of the complete man in a vertical straight line." Aleister Crowley, "Magick in Theory and Practice"
"The Holy Guardian Angel is the divine object of devotion of the Bhakti Yogi; Krishna to the Hindu, and Christ to the Christian." Lon Milo Duquette, "The Magick of Thelema"
Dr. Christopher Hyatt called it the "Divine Self."
This is echoed by Israel Regardie (Golden Dawn) and Denning & Phillips, "The Foundations of High Magick"
The Holy Guardian Angel is the same thing as the Atman, the spark of the Divine in man, directly plugged into God.
I was taught that attaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is the same thing as becoming God-realized -- a self-realized being.
How do you define the Holy Guardian Angel?
I know you (Frater210) are not a Chaos Magician. That question was directed to TheOneEyedProphet.
Originally posted by mistermonculous
reply to post by timewalker
I'm thrumming because, is it just me, or is it odd that you posted this:
www.neurofeedbackdefined.com...
and I posted this here:
one hour ago?
Because:
"GLobal Brain Paintings" are created from GCP/EGG data using adapted neurofeedback algorithms developed to show the complex beauty of brain activity.
so
Some pictures from the constellation of the universe and the sun with its eruptions and polarlights .
The two patterns seem very similar to me. One is a model of the cosmic order, the other that of our brains.
Humph.edit on 25-5-2011 by mistermonculous because: linky, ar.
Originally posted by Jinglelord
reply to post by timewalker
I can't remember who was asking about Chaos Magicians earlier...
Anyway we probably have one here.
I don't even really understand what that is but it does sound like fun!
Originally posted by mistermonculous
reply to post by Jinglelord
Ideal trans-humanism:
Frank Herbert and David Lynch are stone freaks:
Originally posted by TheOneEyedProphet
It does not matter, only the will of the adept and the intent of its actions.
Its clear then to me then by all accounts, that its energy, ours and theirs in a struggle for power, in the battle of a lifetime to understand and learn to react to the strange forces that are beyond measure and comprehension, that death is the Ultimate measure to which compare our actions, and in the process, learn that nothing in this world is free, and that it takes all we have got to rise above our perceived limits, as everything is possible, with responsibility and power to accept the reaches of our actions, whatever these may be.
Chaos? my friend AV, I have sometimes heard the Spirit be called that, as it contains all names and meanings, as is the Only force I recognize, the one that gave and will take even the memory of my passing from this mysterious world.
The Eight Pointed Star contains in essence the direction of all paths, states, realities, and still all directions have only one source.
The middle path is the one that is most recommended while meddling without the human form the dealings of the inhumane.
cheers!
Originally posted by Jinglelord
reply to post by AuranVector
I vaguely recall reading Neville years ago and this might be where I got the idea originally. Once I integrate an idea though,,, it is mine and I often forget where it came from. By integrate I mean Grok (Heinlein anyone?)
I don't see what I do as picking and choosing as some here **Cough Frater210 Cough** think. I see that I am piecing together a very very very complicated puzzle and and many people have it partially correct. In order to get closer to the truth one must find what each person or group has gotten right. I do this by using what I have that passes for reason. I believe you can test it scientifically as well in the sense that if you are correct you should be able to expect certain outcomes when certain things occur. Still trying to figure that out.
Back to the point... I really feel like time and space and how they relate to our higher or spiritual selves / existence is very often overlooked or glossed over; however, is one of the single most important keys to finding a deeper understanding.
Does an energy vampire matter to our greater understanding? Not so much, but it is practical, does how time effects predestination contribute to our greater understanding? I would say of course as it is linked with our purpose, our meaning, and so many other things I can't even really begin.
We need to decide what time is, once we know that all the answers to how / if free will, karma, predestination, and the universal clockwork that is existence plays out will simply fall into place.
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AV: My understanding is that the Holy Guardian Angel is none other than God. God in a form man can approach.
"the Single Supreme Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raising of the complete man in a vertical straight line." Aleister Crowley, "Magick in Theory and Practice"
Frater210: Yeah, OK, if your gonna twist my arm and cite the whole 'Supreme Ritual' thing I suppose that once you finish that you, uh, well; I'll let you be the Centre of Pestilence (hope you get the joke there) on this one I can't really define the results of completing what you are referring to here. But I imagine it would be analogous to completing the Abramelin Operation and since I don't know anything beyond that which I have read I can say that rumour has it, it produces some type of 'god-man'. Ick.
No, I am talking about something more along the lines of Jung's 'Daimon' Philemon. He also called it the 'Genius'.
AV: "The Holy Guardian Angel is the divine object of devotion of the Bhakti Yogi; Krishna to the Hindu, and Christ to the Christian." Lon Milo Duquette, "The Magick of Thelema"
Frater210: Bhakti is cool and all that but it can take a Western (Occidental) person a little bit of time to build up enough steam ( I crack myself up ) to really engage with this concept. I have never found that extremes of devotional Love have been required for me to be in touch with my HGA. Lon is also a very wise man and what he is referring to is very serious business for Thelemites.
Dr. Christopher Hyatt called it the "Divine Self."
Yeah. Because that is all he can get out between sips of ................
AV: This is echoed by Israel Regardie (Golden Dawn) and Denning & Phillips, "The Foundations of High Magick"
Frater210: Yep. The usual suspects. Have you ever checked out the Supreme Ritual of the HGA? I bet you have.
Do you think that any of these dorks including Crowley actually did any of this stuff to completion?
If you think they did you had better U2U me or I am going to have to start a thread on this. Which I have considered.
When I was half my age I sought all of these people out that I could. Freed by an early divorce, I threw caution to the wind and set out. One of the things I love most about the Occult is the personalities and the history. Especially the very anecdotal history. Anyhow, just be assured; all of these guys set their own standards for their accomplishments and if you knew the particulars you would see that the reality of it falls short of their writings about it.
This is absolutely not true of Lon Duquette.
AV: The Holy Guardian Angel is the same thing as the Atman, the spark of the Divine in man, directly plugged into God.
Frater210: This is hard for most folks to get their head around. It is and it isn't. Anyhow, I think you are beginning to see that I don't think you have to pull yourself through your own rectum with all of these bionic rituals to contact your HGA.
I respect you if you wish to go on with that sort of thing. You seem very level headed and if you do it I hope that you write about it so that I can read it. Do it while you are young and unattached though because you are going to need to seclude yourself and all of that.
Otherwise the thing is there waiting to help you anyway. How do you suppose you know the things you damn well know that you aren't supposed to know?
You know what I mean.
AV: I was taught that attaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is the same thing as becoming God-realized -- a self-realized being.
Frater210: Me too. By a bunch of guys who are spending their lives doing exactly what I do not want to spend my life doing. Too many people need just basic help out there. So I am trying to put my self in the best position possible to do that. I am working towards just that
There is another guy who could be Frater210 but is not who once was (a Chaos magician). He was lost in action in the canyons near the Pacific Ocean. R.I.P.
If you knew what I 'am' now your hair would stand on end. Muahahahahaha.
Originally posted by Jinglelord
reply to post by AuranVector
I've heard of the New Age Satanists... Not the COS with our friend LaVey but some other group that supposedly was an extension of what Crowley was trying to do. I would assume it was probably the same. I'll look into it.
Not that I'm going to do it. Sorcery of any type isn't my gig.
It's basic to Western Magick and Hermetics.
The Oration also served as an introduction to Pico's 900 theses, which he believed to provide a complete and sufficient basis for the discovery of all knowledge, and hence a model for mankind's ascent of the chain of being. The 900 Theses are a good example of humanist syncretism, because Pico combined Platonism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, Hermeticism and Kabbalah. They also included 72 theses describing what Pico believed to be a complete system of physics.
How open are you to new schools of thought? I must admit to being extraordinarily skeptical about most unprovable ideas. Sure many concepts are intangible but quite real - love, lust, hope, and the like. But what about psychics? Attracting good things by emitting positive vibes?
I wrote the following story for CreditCards.com, and during my research I spoke with the most wonderful people. Besides being genuinely committed to the merit of their practices, they were also kind and warm. I was hypnotized, had my energy balanced, and sailed my magic boat into the night (after assembling my crew - who were to return with answers to my troubles, but instead sent me back a little brown duck. Still trying to figure that one out.)