Ethical Gnosis
The
Tide of Our Times
by
Frater Zephyros
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The main problem with philosophical thought in the spiritual community is that it's thoroughly manipulated by a psychic tide that is affecting most people unconsciously. And it's hiding in buzzwords like 'Political Correctness'. This is one of the several main symptoms of what I refer to as 'Christism', whether or not you're a Jew, Christian, Buddhist, Mormon, Muslim, Hindu or even Shintoist. This collective egregore creates a false god that the Gnostics refer to as the 'demiurge' (lower case 'd'). And the psychic tide overpowers us and creates repression and poverty; alienation and illness...but worst of all, the death of the soul...that so many people die having lived meaningless and sleepy lives.
Basically, to support the idea of 'what another believes is right for them' props up and strengthens this old aeonic egregore that would hang a scarecrow on a piece of wood. It's the way of the demiurge to trick the spiritual community into thinking that they've broken free of that...when they've only changed the names of their gods, angels and archangels...that's all.
And as per Liber AL vel Legis:
"Ye are against the people, O my chosen!" AL II.25
What most people cannot or choose not to understand is that as per Liber Librae: "In True Religion there is no sect."…or in other words, there is only one truth that all religions must recognize no matter how that is expressed in various cultures…that's why it's said in mystical circles...'for those who have ears'...and of course, according to the Book of the Law...
"Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known." AL I.10
There is a way to begin to seriously fight the egregore. We must learn to refuse as much as possible, people and ideas that are caught up by the egregore. This rationale comes from the following personal account of a renowned psychologist. Carl Jung noted that during pre-WWII and WWII, when he was outside Germany, he was as liberal as the rest of Europe...and saw the ugliness of the Nazi regime. But when he was in Germany, he was a Nazi...fully buying into it...the 'zeitgeist' (his word for egregore as he coined it) was stronger than his individual personality.
The study of any effective Magick is to first clear the mind and not have some oppressive demiurge enslave you by controlling (without your knowledge or permission) your thought processes on a very subtle level. There is objective knowledge as well as subjective knowledge. To say "any spiritual view is right for a person if that's what a person believes" can be objectively and rationally argued against and proven unreasonable. And remember as per the ancient Greeks, 'Reason' makes the soul...that is the objective truth...without absolute reason, there is no soul congealed.
Confronting death is indeed a noble work. As the ancient Rosicrucians teach: "Die Daily". But congealing a soul that can survive death is just not as simple as that. That's what the ancient mysteries teach...but not necessarily the modern spiritual community. It is the real secret of Alchemy. All is not mind...to reduce all to mind is a purely solipsistic notion that if followed through to its logical completion must yield the idea that no one exists but me...and when I cease to exist, all else dies with me. The general problem with the spiritual community today is that it is taking in a lot of ideas without the proper education in philosophy from which all the sciences develop. After all, Alchemy seeks the 'Philosopher's Stone'.
The study of the Liberal Arts has been effectively removed from our culture. Its emasculation is the first thing that the opponents of light seek to achieve. Because in the Liberal Arts is the profound study of human nature and the records of those who knew the one truth throughout history. Do you see how the demiurge alienates and represses? It can even be physically dangerous! And it pollutes our minds with drugs and mindless sexuality...has us working our asses off for silly toys in jobs that demean us. No, I can never accept the idea that 'whatever anyone believes is right for them'...this kind of moral decadence is not 'right for them' under any circumstances...and it's that very psychic tide that destroys them before they've even had a chance to begin to live any type of 'real' existence...and it grossly affects all of us that can see beyond it.
Yet you don't have any truth to give them...nor do I. The truth is within each individual and is incommunicable AND the truth is in the Stars! Both at once! "As above, so below". And if those two do not correlate, then there is disease of the spirit. So if "what's true for them" does not correlate with the stars...it is wrong and untrue. The Rubric of the Emerald Tablet is to unite the earth with the stars...microcosm (humanity) with macrocosm (universe). However, Spagyricists worked at the perfection of matter (making lead into gold) and Alchemical spagyricists found the correlation between the development of soul (incorporated by the mind of reason) and the perfection of the matter in the laboratory. The Spagyricists were products of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment. This was a time that eschewed any spiritual connection as complete superstition and stuck to a mundane science from which modern Chemistry would evolve.
Lucifer/Venus; the falling star is the light descended to humanity as per the Promethean myth. Prometheus is another name for Lucifer whose sons are the Nephilim. But the memory of the 'Light-Bringer' and of his sons has been distorted and inverted by a political class of clerics bound up by the demiurge. The treachery of the demiurge is to get us to think that it is god and to worship it as blind sheep; hiding us from the true potentially divine nature contained within us.
There are those who read the Comment to Liber AL in Class A as an injunction against commenting on not only Liber AL, but even all works by the Master Therion. And the most major exponent of violating this unholy chastity Marcello Motta, is said to have proven his moral degeneracy in producing such works. This couldn't be a more ridiculous sophistry. There is a big difference between a Class A and a Class C commentary. Class A implies an 'ex-Cathedra' or official pronouncement from the Secret Chiefs; who are the sacred guardians presiding over the initiation of the Human Race. Class C merely implies the work of scholarship. And if Thelema is to have no scholarship and no growth and development, then as a Theurgical system it has already died as so many other religious systems…with its own canonization.
As such, for an official explanation of any of the Holy Books of Thelema, it is prudent for the student to refer solely to the works of the Master Therion as the channel of wisdom emanating from those Secret Chiefs of the Great White Brotherhood; also known as the Fraternity of Christian Rosencreutz in another manifestation. And it is hoped that there will yet arise other Ipsissimus' to channel yet more Class A information for the benefit of Mankind. In the meantime, there is so much that already exists and yet needs further comprehensive insight. For this there is work for another type of Thelemic expurgation. This would be the work of those scholars whom can add to the collective experience by sharing their research with the ever burgeoning Thelemic Community.
Let there be Class C commentary from the various perspectives of those who are so moved by this type of work. This essay is the result of a particular set of dialogues that resulted from the Twin Towers Massacre in New York City on September 11, 2001ev. It is not a canonical statement of spiritual law, nor is it presented as any official commentary of any Magickal Fraternity, Lodge, Order or Church. It is presented as a germ or a grain of sand in the oyster that others may by adding to it, produce the greater pearl of Thelemic Culture and Community. In this way hopefully, is the road paved for a vitalizing exchange of ideas that will bring an essential understanding of the 'Law of the Aeon' to all of Humanity.
It is important that the reader understand that the Law is the Nature of the energies that enshroud the planet at this time. It is a physical and spiritual law that operates in the same way as the law of gravity and other such Scientific laws. As more and more of us come to the comprehension of 'the way things are', this planet will further its initiation into the Aeon of Horus. In this way will the Dharma of this aeon eventually manifest itself on as wide a scope as the previous aeon; one that now is in its death throes and is yet powerful enough to hold us between these two 'realities' ... Horus (the present unfolding aeon) and Osiris (the present collapsing aeon). And so we of this generation are the Children of this transitionary upheaval, which reminds me of an old curse: 'May you live in interesting times.'
We are also those who are amongst the first generations of that which is to be. And we are the ones birthing the new aeon. Let us stand up and produce those works that will bring us nourishment and wisdom. And let us each strive to contribute something to the collective body, that we may make a valuable contribution to posterity and our own immortality. In this way will we take our pleasure amongst the living and carry ourselves forward to the Yew Groves of Yama.
From Chapter 1 (Nuit)
2. "The unveiling of the company of heaven."
Nuit is revealing Liber AL vel Legis as the next revelation of the Starry Gnosis. All true prophecy has evolved from the understanding of this Starry Gnosis and without it, one may have nothing more than the sophistry that generally comes from fortune-tellers and other Archons.
3. "Every man and every woman is a star."
We are indeed the stuff that stars are made of and this easily explains why the stars can speak to us. We are in a symbiotic relationship with the Pleroma and the agents of the Pleroma's self-awareness.
11. "These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools."
These are the old aeonic gods; Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed, Allah, Jehovah, et al. Their dupes whom continue to stride against the psychic current of Horus, which now envelopes our planet's lower astral sphere, are as dangerously idiotic as the decadent distortion of the original teachings of these great avatars by even their immediate successors.
12. "Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!"
The message of the stars is 'Love under will' and in our communion with them, we revel in our own starry nature. More importantly, we are all children of the stars and our destiny is directly connected to them. How else could it be that true prophecy is so reliant on their Gnosis?
22. "...I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof..."
We are as stars, a part of the body of the Pleroma and the dynamic components of its self-awareness as much as the stars in the sky are also dynamic. The only way that the infinite can come to know itself is through the evolving consciousness of each one of it's own infinite parts. That's why Liber AL proclaims that every number is infinite.
28. "None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two."
From the three-fold veil of the negative, come the stars and their tale and the two principal stars of the Sun and Moon. The ancients recognized this with great clarity; even understanding the esoteric principles of the light emitted from them. Our modern physicists are only beginning to suspect this. And it is but our own arrogance that allows us to believe that our present society has progressed further than those of antiquity.
31. "For these fools of men and their woes care
not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye
are my chosen ones."
36. "My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not
in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon
by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor- Khuit."
49. "Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit
hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be
with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant,
Isa the Sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating."
First note Hoor is the "Lord initiating"...do some homework on this, he's not a nice guy! Then note that all the old aeonic rituals are of this demiurgic worship. More importantly, Christism is an unconscious paradigm; conditioned into us. It has to be brought out into the light of day before it can be corrected or 'purged' as per Liber AL. Simply 'accepting' the Book of the Law is not enough.
50. "There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other!"
This task is in obtaining the knowledge of the stars and of our own starry nature so that the Pleroma (not one) might become conscious (know well) through each of us individually (the other). But we are not born conscious and this is not our automatic birth-right. It is an evolutionary step that we must affirmatively take on both an individual and racial plane; as per the Gnostic Mass: let the babe grab life with both hands!
52. "If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!"
See...Hoor's full of direful judgments. It is not one or the other, but both in one complete organism that is the Universal Mind (Ra Hoor Khuit). It's astral effluvium must be taken on by our Khu by virtue of our proactive and regular invocation of this great solar agent. Note, our Khu (the Khu of Ra Hoor Khu) is the astral (stellar) body that clothes each our individual Khabs.
53. "This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me!"
Regeneration is transformation, which is the war and vengeance of Ra Hoor Khuit and the ecstasy of the universal law: Change equals Stability. Should we be calling for war? Yes! We are in an aeon that is set up to define and establish a new world order; one that recognizes the essential divinity of humanity. And the vampiric shells of the old order remain among the undead…refusing to take their place in the stars. This must be vigorously dealt with or there will be no aeon of Truth and Justice.
57. "Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law,
love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love.
There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet,
hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House
of God.
All these old letters of my Book are aright; but * is not the Star. This also
is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise."
Love the stars and call to them, yearn to them that they might reveal the mystery of the Zodiac (House of God). As Heh (translated as window) is the Star, we find our true window to the soul. It is before us and in us at all times; it is behind us, above us and below us. The circle squared is the four cardinal points in a curved universe. We are the ones that bring comprehension to the mystery of existence.
60. "My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me."
And of course, those on the side of the demiurge will see all of this as evil. The ancient images of the Light-Bringer have been shown forth as representative of the author of evil that we might be confounded. And the consoler god has pacified our fears aroused by our ignorance of the mystery of existence so that people in their hearts prefer that consoler god and they are beguiled.
From Chapter 2 (Hadit)
7. "I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go."
The exorcist casts out the evil...it is a virulent and violent action. There is this illusion in the spiritual community that all one has to do is say the magick words and poof!…their fiat echoes across the gulf of the Abyss. Without the hard earned connection of the inner (Hadit) starry nature with the outer (Nuit) starry nature, one has not the strength to take on the robe of Ra Hoor Khu.
14. "Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness!"
And those whose heart is on the wrong side of the line...they will be blinded by the light of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. As in Plato's cave theory; when one first leaves the dark cave and arrives at its mouth into the bright light of the real world, one's eyes not being accustomed to the brightness, must adjust. But with the treachery of the demiurge, one will see the light brought by the Light-Bringer as accursed because of this vampire attached to the individual Khu. This must be utterly vanquished with the light as an acid on its skin.
17. "Hear me, ye people of sighing!
The sorrows of pain and regret
Are left to the dead and the dying,
The folk that not know me as yet."
In other words...those crying for peace right now...concerned for the innocent...they are themselves dying. Remember, we don't stand still in this life...we either evolve or die. This automatic unconsiousness that has been conditioned into our generation by the fascistic cult of political correctness is but a carefully hidden trap designed to deceive us where we think we are being the most liberal and open-minded.
18. "These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk."
So even though there's nice Christians, Muslims and Jews...they are truly dead, poor and sad...they truly have no feeling of the true L.V.X. They function as 'pawns' of the demiurge in the great 'chess match' between the forces of the Black Lodge and the Great White Brotherhood; the latter containing the White, Yellow, Black, Brown and Red Schools of the Stellar Mysteries.
21. "We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake."
Remember, it was the snake in the garden that introduced Eve to the Tree of Knowledge...and was want also (I believe) to introduce her to the Tree of Life. But Adam & Eve cowered when Jehovah came before them; they failed the ordeal of their initiation and hadn't the courage to smite the demiurge. Moses capitulated to the fearsome Jehovah (Enlil) in his pitiable weakness; turning his back on the wise Baal (Enki).
25. "Ye are against the people, 0 my chosen!"
Obviously if most people are of the demiurge as is the
case today...well...anyone that is not is definitely averse to the others. Are
not all the truly living people despised?!...great
artists recognized only after they're dead...et al. In the body of the demiurge,
all light is seen as a cancer and is viciously attacked as demonic.
27. "There is great danger in me; for who doth
not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into
the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason."
28. "Now a curse upon Because and his kin!"
29. "May Because be accursed for ever!"
Is it not 'Because' that perverted the original pre-Chaldean and later Gnostic doctrines?...the excuse was an efficient way to manage the people. The politicians can not stand this dangerous idea of human freedom. Rather they seek to control through the manipulative art of consolation. And so the recorded history of the Starry Gnosis is distorted so that they might pretend to prove that they are divinely ordained to hold providence over our essential dignity. And they seek to emasculate our race 'for our own good'. This condescension is but a lust for temporal power, which is itself one means of access to our lower astral nature and ultimately to the stellar energy that is the power of our very soul.
32. "Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise."
And don't these idiots use every form of logical fallacy to screw up any advance in knowledge. That's how propaganda works. Reason does build the soul (Khu), but the soul must be informed by Hadit; who is unknown and in the light of Nuit who is the infinite factor. Relying on the mechanistic paradigm of that science that has existed since the Age of Reason is a skewed ideal.
48. "Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler."
And yet everyone's becoming worried about the 'innocent' Muslims and all the other 'innocent' bystanders in the ideological war before us. The very notion that they are innocent is a part of that skewed reason. They are not innocent, but the children of the fallen Adam & Eve who cowered to the demiurge and thus fell from the paradise of their own immortality. They are the ignorant and blind pawns of the Black Lodge and a real and present danger to the Children of the Light.
49. "I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.)"
The individual must conquer death and it is a deadly battle. Note Crowley's motto as a Magister Templi: "While living, I have conquered death". Hadit is the Khabs in the 'egg' of the Khu, which is itself the vigor of Ra Hoor Khu. Liber AL clearly states here that those who have not won or even engaged in the battle for their own immortality are slaves; mindless automatons that will suffer the dispersion upon death and truly perish.
52. "There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well, & I will reward you here and hereafter."
All three of the cursed religions treat women like second class humans; creating the 'veil of sorrow' in their infliction of the yoke of slavery upon our entire race. For centuries we have succumb to this paradigm and all its false virtues. The spoils of victory over this black veil are intimately connected with the light of the Khabs both on this earth (here) and in the starry sky (hereafter).
56. "Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you."
The knee-jerk and unconscious conditioning of the demiurge with century upon century of its steadfast hold over human society has made the Children of Light look like the author of evil, which is but itself an illusion. There is no evil and no good; but there is the true relation of the soul and its false egregore that stands between the Khabs and the Khu. There are those who say: Just worry about your Holy Guardian Angel and don't concern yourself with the events of the world. Well, if the world is intimately connected with the Stars; the Hadits, well…they are mocking our Lord Hadit.
57. "He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still."
There is no conversion as Liber AL bids us to argue not at all. The automatic consciousness either works in relation to the Starry Gnosis or it stands against it. There is no odds but the true nature of the 'kings' of the earth who reign in an invisible hierarchy in the invisible 'wake-world' that is truly black to the blind. Those mortal slaves will never recognize it.
58. "Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty."
And they can't conceal their idiocy. I can act like a jerk...and have at times...but I can also act with great articulation and sophistication. They can only drift; caught up in the undertow of the psychic tide of their collective ignorance. And it is not for us to make judgment of who is who or what is what. We have only to take up each our own sword and strike at the darkness.
62. "I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body."
This is a wonderful description of the Khu reacting with the astral menstruum that is the underlying fabric of matter. It serves beautifully as a description of the nature of our connection with the stars. That connecting factor between Nuit and Hadit is Ra Hoor Khut in our heart. For others, there is no heart; but weak joys and death for these dogs that are pawns of the demiurge on the battle field of human evolution.
76. "4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word."
The love of the stars is the glory of the stars as Nuit says that her joy is to see our joy. The 'glad word' comes from the mouth of the Prophet. And this riddle clearly informs us that there is yet to come another prophet whom will have attained to the Starry Gnosis and will open up the mystery of this riddle in that light.
From Chapter 3 (Ra-Hoor-Khuit)
3. "Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them."
Are you looking for some kind of inner secret meaning...then you'll miss the obvious. Enlil and Enki have been at this for a long time. And in the ebb and flow of time, it has been Enlil's victory until now. And Enki has yet to fully triumph; though he has taken the Throne of Ra and secured victory on the highest plane, that has yet to filter down to Assiah. When it does, the forces of the demiurge will rise up to protect the secure place it has enjoyed for more than a millennia; but for aeon upon aeon. In all of human history, we see the flowering of Gnosis rise up but briefly and then immediately get crushed by the sweep of the demiurge in its orgiastic lust. But that is about to change. This aeon is a time of blood and vengeance of a nature so powerful that in one aeon, it will defeat the amassed forces of many millennia.
4. "Choose ye an island!"
5. "Fortify it!"
6. "Dung it about with enginery of war!"
7. "I will give you a war-engine."
Yes there is an inner meaning to this all also. We have each our own part to play as Knights in this very real Crusade. And we must prepare for the valor that will be required of us. Otherwise, we will be vanquished as all those who will remain weak and feeble. There's no virtue in finding offense with this seemingly Darwinian concept. The battle is very real and we will have no choice but to get caught up in it as it will be all-encompassing. The fit shall survive and only the fit.
8. "With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you."
The word 'peoples' has a lower-case initial digit. These are the little ones of Liber LXV whom are but the grape that will be crushed to make the wine of immortality; the Wine of Iacchus. As they are crushed we look to the skies; that starry 'no-thing' that stands before us, which is the Abyss between us and our immortality. We must yield our finite nature to the infinite that our mortality will become the key to our immortality. Did not a great prophet say that he who would save his life will lose it?
9. "Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house."
He's not telling us to send flowers to our enemies and turn the other cheek. And he's not telling us to stand out in the open battlefield with red coats on either. This is a guerilla war as its not about nations but about ideology at a very 'grass-roots' level. President Eisenhauer said when he was leaving office and warning us about the military-industrial complex, that some day, people will want peace so bad that government will have to roll over and give it to them. Well that yearning won't come until they've truly tasted and understood the ravages of war.
11. "This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat!"
Ill-ordered house in the Victorious City sounds ominous in the wake of WTC. And there are stars that seem to be showing a reliable prophecy of what has now clearly come to be. But note that in this guerilla war, men and women are called to battle. And those pawns that are struck down and slain, their astral Khu will be absorbed by those who vanquish them. And by virtue of this Alchemy will the few rule the many and the known; at the secret and hidden astral level that is black to the blind. I've often speculated on the idea that as English is the sacred language of AL...it's actually American English that counts here on a zietgeist level. As I intend to point out in the sequel to this essay (The Starry Gnosis), the United States of America has a vital role to play in the destiny of the human race. Thus our English and our culture is so very martial.
17. "Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms."
He's giving an image of action...not meditation and navel gazing. It's important to do our inner spiritual work. But if we defy our responsibility to the world (Nuit) to do this...we are selfish fools. The battle is within and without; 'As above, so below'. Liber AL tells us that there is no law beyond 'do what thou wilt'. It is a secret four-fold formula that effects the aggregate of spirits that comprises our being on an individual and collective level. There is individual destiny and racial destiny.
18. "Mercy let be off; damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!"
Again...the obvious...what do you think this is saying about those who follow the three cursed religions? The sentimentality of protecting the 'innocent' is an old sweetness that tempts so many. If we as humans are the 'Shekinah' to the divine, then we are the woman who is girt with a sword and Ra Hoor Khuit is the divinity whom we stand before.
21. "Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this."
The East where the sun rises signifies Sol and is referred to as Ra by the ancient Egyptians. The image of Sol is Ra Hoor Khuit. In the business culture of America, (and remember that AL teaches us to do things in business way; to understand things in business way) when we accept an idea, we often say that we 'buy' into it. Ra Hoor Khuit is revealing himself and providing for us an image that we can 'buy' into. If our war engine is finely tuned and our sword sharp, it becomes suddenly easy or ecstatically spontaneous to do.
22. "The other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. I am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride are they: and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know."
It is the stars in clusters as constellations that are about the ecliptical orbit of Sol or Ra that make the exaltation. Each of these constellations by virtue of their 'worship', tells a story from which the prophets of ancient times had learned to read. And so did the Prophet of the Lovely Star. When the WTC was hit, there was a psychic wave that swept over the planet. There are those whom immediately recognized the nature of Ra Hoor Khuit and those who shunned this nature. The line was clearly drawn and those who are 'of us' recognized it immediately and without hesitation; but in a spontaneously ecstatic reflex. This shows us that we can only prepare for what is to come by making way for the 'coming of the Lord'. When he arrives, our individual and collective destinies will play themselves out by virtue of the pre-set calibration of our orbits.
28. "Also ye shall be strong in war."
This seems like an apparent confirmation of the role the United States is to play as the greatest military the world has ever known. If this is making any sense to the reader, he or she is well advised to read the starry prophesy that comes from the placement of the Watcher stars over the 'Founding Fathers' (whom were Rosicrucians and Freemasons) in Philadelphia in 1776ev.
"32. From gold forge steel!"
Ra Hoor Khuit is attributed to the heart; the gold of the Alchemists. And he is a martial god of war and vengeance, which relies on the steel of the sword. Again, this is a war of ideology that is beset upon us; a war for the heart of humanity. We must prepare for the coming of the Lord by making ready our hearts.
33. "Be ready to fly or to smite!"
Do you think he's talking about astral travel for hippies? No! he's repeating a battle strategy given earlier. Be ready to withdraw in order to regroup when necessary and then come back to smite again. He is in a sense a sniper god as this is a war of the people and not of flags and institutions. Allies and enemies exist in every country on the planet. We won't clearly see the enemy or know our friends and we are advised to lurk carefully that we might clearly make that determination before we enter each battle in this war.
34. "But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical Lord!"
The Starry Gnosis is not fixed but is unfolding through human history. This third testament is not the final one. There is another coming in the next aeon and perhaps another yet with the solution to the remaining riddles of AL. And clearly, the blood is intimately connected to the stars; indeed it is the fire of the stars. So that even in the coming Aeon of Maat, there will be bloodshed; but in righteous justice and not in the ignominious lust for a temporal power.
42. "The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! Drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them!"
This is a war of spontaneous combustion and not one of reasoned care. And it will require decisive action that will only fail if one becomes hesitant; for then is power weakness according to Liber AL. We are required to 'trust the force' and yield to Ra Hoor Khuit whom will be the vigor of our arms. 'Because' is our enemy and will generate a deep psychic fear in an attempt to dissuade us; a deadly caution!
46. "I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me, & are abased. I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in battle & ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any!"
Was it not in the 'forties' that President Roosevelt decided to incorporate the Zionist agenda into the foreign policy of the United States? This though it has a history dating back to the British 'Balfour Agreement' in 1917ev, sets up the inevitable destiny before us. And did not the towers of the WTC cower and buckle in abasement? The Tower Atu is attribute to the Hebrew letter Peh, which has a gematric value of 80! Read the Prophet's description of this Atu and learn how he tells us that we must learn a kind of love that we have not known before; the tough love that this war will require of us. Humanity first and let the cursed religions be damned!
49. "I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy
against all gods of men."
50. "Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!"
51. "With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon
the cross."
52. "I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him."
53. "With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist,
Mongol and Din."
54. "Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds."
Every culture has been infected by the cursed demiurge. All religions have been perverted. Christianity and Islam as descendants of Judaism are particularly singled out. But even the 'din' (the Hebrews become Jews) are included as well as the eastern religions of Buddhist and Mongol. The only 'True Religion' is found in the essential dignity of humanity and it has no sect. The sectarians are separatists and are the cur of humanity. That one consciously accepts Liber AL or not; even if one thinks he or she is a Christian, Muslim, Jew or any other religious sect, the spontaneous combustion of this war will be acted out upon the Khu long before one can claim any intellectual fidelity with the damned. Only upon those who manage to resist the spontaneity of arms will befall the fate of 'Because'.
57. "Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise!"
And those who yield to the yoke of 'Because', they will know fear. They will pretend to act in the battle as they hide behind and pretend to advise the Generals. They are mercenaries whom act as consulting advisors and really take no part in the war at all. They are slaves whom serve as useful tools for the Generals. As such, they will also be slayed when they have outlived their usefulness; after having died the cowards death of a thousand deaths; a millennia of anguish.
58. "But the keen and the proud, the royal and
the lofty; ye are brothers!"
59. "As brothers fight ye!"
I've been asking...what side of the line are you on? Those of us of the L.V.X. have to band together. Otherwise we perish alone in the chaos of the years before us. But the demiurge has infected the Thelemic world. The Caliphate has taken on the Zionist agenda and every lodge and temple of Thelema is at odds with every other church and college. Isn't it obvious that the demiurge's policy of 'divide and conquer' is at work here? So even those armchair, intellectual Thelemites are not well armed by their mere acceptance of Liber AL vel Legis as they haven't taken Ra Hoor Khuit into their hearts; but only 'Because' into their intellection.
72. "I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia--but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains."
Ra-hoor-khuit is claiming that he's already taken care of the demiurge in the upper astral...it's yet to filter down here...and we've been feeling the effects since WWI. Indeed, each magickal invocation of the words of Aiwass has wrought war upon this earth. And this humble talisman that I have inscribed for the reader is yet my own contribution to the battle; my own kiss.
Love is the law, love under will.
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