The
Motta System of Thelema
by
Frater Zephyros
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
What is Motta's contribution to the
development of the science and art of Thelema? Let's first consider that there
have been different types of contributors to the art of Scientific Illuminism.
Crowley was it's initial Avatar, Prophet and Mage. His first successor is his
at one time, proclaimed Magickal Son; Charles Stansfeld Jones (a.k.a. Frater
Achad). Achad would discover the 'Key' to Liber AL vel Legis and so function as
a channel for the fulfillment of prophecy. And further, Achad developed some
highly evolved theories of his own that may contradict the prophet's
interpretation of the Book of the Law, but developed into a system that has
proven to be of practical use for a growing contingent of Scientific
Illuminists.
Dion Fortune has for the careful investigator, proven herself to be the Avatar of Babalon as was Crowley the Avatar of the Beast. But that involves material outside the scope of the present work. And Kenneth Grant would also be seen as a developer the magico-sexual component of Thelema; he would derive many of his ideas along these lines from Dion Fortune's work along with Crowley's, but more to his in-depth study of Hindu Tantra.. Kenneth Grant is also given the additional distinction of having mapped and charted regions of the unconsciousness and the roots of Thelema. He's found ties into Typhonian and Ophidian currents that revive the Gnosis of the ancient 'Fertile Crescent' and with a visionary bend that leans into the future development of the craft of Thelema.
Then along comes Marcelo Motta; disciple of Karl Johannes Germer whom was recognized by Crowley as a Master of the Temple. It seems to me that Germer must have been a man of stern discipline and Motta, a man of tremendous devotion. In mixing these two, and with Motta's already terse personality, we get the taught current of a lineage that Motta would develop with a strict set of guidelines and rules of conduct. And one's devotion to the letter of the Oaths signed in Motta's A\A\ was expected to be extremist and absolute as Motta himself was really a 'Black or White' man with no shades of 'Grey' in his worldview. One was either an Aspirant to the White Lodge or a 'dupe' of the Black Lodge.
Motta was about enemies. His foremost work, Letter to a Brazilian Mason, introduces the idea to his lineage that there is an egregore of the old aeon, coined as 'Christism' from which the Black Lodge attempts to prevent the inevitable cycle of change that comes to all life and especially to those that seek racial evolution. This is also pointed out in his Black Lodge lectures; shown to members of the two known outer organizations that have evolved along as his lineal successors. From this and combined with some of the writings of Dion Fortune, Motta delineates the nature and methods of psychic attack and protection from psychic attack. Spiritual Defense was necessary in the paradigm of the Manichean Polemic he set up as a mythos for his successors. And strict adherence to the commands of one's Superior along the lines of an Eastern 'Chela' to his Master, were an important component to his teaching methodology.
The Office of the Beast is probably the cornerstone in Motta's designs for his lineage, and this I don't believe came in any way from Germer's instructions; but were more interpretations of Germer's instructions by the increasing militant nature of Motta's thinking processes as his Thelemic career evolved. Motta was seeking a spiritual perfection to be proved only by passionate devotion immediately at the onset of someone's Aspiration and having first come in contact with Motta or any of his lineal representatives. This would be answered also by terse alienations and expulsions at even the hint of failure from any one of his students as a seeming megalomania would grow within his psyche and lead to the infamous O.T.O. trials of Maine and California.
Commentaries
In stifling the publication of these spiritual works (Yi Jing, Dao De Jing), the Caliphate shows
spiritual impotence and that they are indeed of the Shut-Ups described in Chapter 89 of Crowley's
Book of Lies (at the bottom of this page).
Note well the statement of the A.M.H.R.:
Realize that true power is that which you give to others...
not what you can destroy and take away from others
as the Black Lodge teaches its dupes.
Also note well the statement of Mark Stavish (an Alchemist):
Publishing and personalities dominate over traditions and lineages. And where
lineages exist, they seem rooted in inflexible rules and dogma. This has given rise
to the need to claim ownership of teachings and symbols. Copyrights have
become the rule of the day; and the need to keep perpetual students the norm as
traditions fail to generate teachers, and genuine spiritual masters, who can stand
the heat of public pressure to demonstrate the power of the teachings.
Biographical
Testament of Marcelo Ramos Motta
On Sexuality and Relationships
Liber DCL vel De Fonte Alquae Vitae
On the Woman and Black Brothers
On the Science of Thelema
Liber CCXXXI: A Personal Research
Motta on the Initiatic Process
The S.O.T.O. Initiations (Coming Soon)
General Notes on the Practices
Because H.O.O.R. in their pomposity, has decided that the first three chapters
of this important work are outdated and not worth translating, we're glad to be able to
to offer a complete translation. Note that rather than provide valuable insight to the
community, H.O.O.R. has decided to attempt to profit off the work. We feel there's
something more important than becoming another book publishing organization.
Evidence for more of their impotence can be found by clicking on the Black Lodge Papers
below...
Visionary Outlook & Development of a Mythos
In stifling the publication of these informative papers, the H.O.O.R. Legal Department shows
that H.O.O.R. fits in well with the Shut-Ups described in Chapter 89 of Crowley's Book of Lies.
In actuality, Motta wrote this and H.O.O.R. has no legal copyright to them. But since Ray Eales
is incapable of producing any work of his own, being spiritually impotent and a mere second-hander
and not a creator or generator of 'new gnosis' (the only proof of any attainment), he needs to pretend
to own something. We simply see no value in engaging this "shut up" (cf. the bottom of this page) in
a fight to release this on this website.
Note well the statement of the A.M.H.R.:
Realize that true power is that which you give to others...
not what you can destroy and take away from others
as the Black Lodge teaches its dupes.
Also note well the statement of Mark Stavish (an Alchemist):
Publishing and personalities dominate over traditions and lineages. And where
lineages exist, they seem rooted in inflexible rules and dogma. This has given rise
to the need to claim ownership of teachings and symbols. Copyrights have
become the rule of the day; and the need to keep perpetual students the norm as
traditions fail to generate teachers, and genuine spiritual masters, who can stand
the heat of public pressure to demonstrate the power of the teachings.
Calling the Children of the Sun
The Development of a Secret Society in America in the years 1957-2000
Transcriptions
This document has now been translated into Portuguese and can be found at:
http://www.astrumargentum.org.br/arquivos/ht/ensaios/adjuvo_7.htm
We have written the lineage at astrumargentum.org several times about
this; even letting them know that though they did this without permission,
we were happy to see it done. They have never responded.
Their unfraternal behavior says much about their lack of spiritual force.
After eleven years of attempts at contacting this lineage, the following response has finally arrived. In an email dated, 8-9-2010ev Frater Keron-e writes:
Care
Frater,
93!
I`ve read your comment about the translation of Neshville lecture by Ever.
http://www.astronargon.us/The%20Motta%20System%20of%20Thelema.html
I want to apologize about this. Frater Thor (Euclydes
Lacerda de Almeida) gave me this translation, made by Monica Rocha in 1999 (Febuary).
I have the original paper and your motto name
appears there (Zephyros le Midget) and we had troubles with our emails
accounts.
The
file is no longer in my website.
Thank you
93,93/93
Keron-e
www.astrumargentum.org
Embedded into this is the usual slander; consistent with the practices of the cult known as H.O.O.R. -- Monica Rocha translates my transcription and credits me as: "Zephyros the Midget." But then most cults develop even greater immaturity in their followers; a certain credit to the cult of Eales.
Of course, with all due courtesy we replied to Frater Keron-e:
To add to our Joy, Frater Keron-e again has responded...and quite positively! It is great to see that the errors of the past can not only be corrected, but great possibilities can open up as a result of both the error and the correction. We welcome our association in the spirit of cordiality and friendship. Here is our brother's response:
Care
Frater
93
Thank you for sharing your file with us and I am sending a copy to you
now. You can see it back here :
http://www.astrumargentum.org/arquivos/ht/ensaios/adjuvo_7.htm
Frater Thor published Monica's translation on his periodical called
Portal das Estrelas eleven years ago and, before his recent death, he
gave me some documents and papers and I found the original one between
them. I don't know Monica so I can't talk to much about her.
I appreciate you website and I am glad to see Frater Ever's work
alive in other countries.
And fell free to use the contents of my website, ok?
93,93/93
Fraternally yours
Keron-e
www.astrumargentum.org
This provided an opportunity for our further
response:
Care
Frater,
93
I am delighted to have finally received this! Thank you 'ever' so much.
:-)
And I'm delighted to see this on your website. I'll look forward to
posting the link to your page.
Yes, I believe Motta made some very important contributions to Thelemic thought
and I'm proud to publish what I can of his work.
His work is so strong
that even after all the years the Caliphate tried to smear his
character, they were eventually forced to claim lineage from him...
though there's strong record to show he cut those individuals that make this claim of adeptship from the A.'.A.'.
More important today, I really believe it's time for all the political squabbling in A.'.A.'. lineages to begin to fade.
Let's argue over doctrine and ideology...and ideas. And let's be creative!
I would be very eager to maintain an informal association with you and yours as
I already do with other lineages and lodges.
Let's help one another in whatever small way, to grow this important
philosophical system
and turn the tide of the war against superstition to our
favor. These political groups will fall to their own foul doctrines in
time, and won't need our help for them to accomplish this.
In the meantime, serious Aspirants and Adepts are well aware of the need to stand as one;
no matter our petty differences against that stagnant and blind force that
makes so many a threat to our well-being.
Thanks,
93/93
pj
Political
Intelligence Services Are Not Intelligent
Letters
What lineage follows in the wake of Motta? This is developing into a ball of confusion. To make it a little easier, we first have to set aside all those who claim lineage to Seckler in the U.S. and to others associated either with Crowley or students of Crowley's. From there, we first get the triumvirate of Claudia Canuto de Menezes, Daniel Stone and William Barden as set forth in Motta's Last Will & Testament. With the failure of this due to suspicions these three quickly developed for each other, comes along David Bersson and Ray Eales who would soon align with Gregory von Seewald in order to form their inner lodge. Interestingly enough, they would betray the tradition of the A.'.A.'. forming two separate lineages with one in a Period of Silence as the other is in a Period of Speech; leaving the lineage in a perpetual Period of Speech.
And to add to this confusion, the Caliphate has recently come out and claimed a connection to the Motta line despite their long-held purporting of Motta as insane and unfit for his self-proclaimed mantle. Indeed these as others were either expelled or excommunicated from his lineage before his death. And indeed no matter which part of his lineage one connects with, there is obfuscation, half-truths, traitor lists, accusations and character assassinations, including a betrayal of membership confidentiality and the publication of private letters. And as the Caliphate has since its inception betrayed the A.'.A.'. by publishing all of its private texts, this becomes a wonder of wonders. Is their no end to their mockery of the A.'.A.'.?
But does this invalidate Motta's contribution to this art & science? Absolutely not! Motta generated ideas in his commentaries and intellectual works that prove a scholarship that was articulate and profound. One may not like a few of his ideas... but really, is any one single contributor to this philosophical system perfect in all that he or she has written and/or acted out? In the end, the serious Student should simply read all the contributors to this art of Scientific Illuminism and take from eash in accordance to his or her own personal Will. And perhaps the most important example that Motta sets before us is that though one may attain, one may also fall from grace so that even success must be vigilantly protected.
Love is the law, love under will.
89
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΠΘ
UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
I am annoyed about the number 89.
I shall avenge myself by writing nothing in this chapter.
That, too, is wise; for since I am annoyed, I could not write even a reasonably decent lie.
COMMENTARY (ΠΘ)
Frater P. had been annoyed by a scurvy doctor, the number of whose house was 89.
He shows that his mind was completely poisoned in respect of that number by his allowing himself to be annoyed.
(But note that a good Qabalist cannot err. —In Him all is right.“ 89 is Body—that which annoys—and the Angel of the Lord of Despair and Cruelty. Also —Silence“ and —Shut Up.“The four meanings completely describe the chapter.)
From Liber LXXXIX (a private document):
The fallen: the ‘Shutups;’ the spiritual criminal; those undead and non-living, the zombies and vampires, the ghoul, lichen and so on; these are connected to the qliphoth, and bring the qliphoth into the real world.
Crowley’s writings on the Black Lodge can be found in Liber CDXVIII, and also several of the chapters in Liber Aleph. A central focus on the "shut-ups" as found in Chapter 89 of Liber CCCXXXIII provides a core principle the formulation of the Black Brother. People that refuse to face reality or more typically, certain parts of it; recreating and reinterpreting the details they can see of reality in order to conceal the things they can’t or won’t see. The loop is also a tool to use for those who managed to get to this state by Magick, and that means creating actions and circumstances which will not give a result to grow on, but returning to the point of origin; inexperienced and therefore unchanged. In other words, the idea that we are simply children of God, having left heaven and seeking only to return to it is a false notion.
From Ben Hecht's
A Child of the Century
...a wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling, "Thief." If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.
To Bill Breeze and Ray Eales for their copyright complaints (not admitting that we stole anything at all):
Thank You!
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