The Priestess of the Silver Star.

There is a godess which I came in contact without ever having called her, She arrived after serious moonworkings in enochia, and its her which Crowley entitles The priestess of the silver star in his Vision and the Voice. My relation to her is family like from first minute. We are bound together of powers we wouldnt be fools to challenge or even question. She is the master of feeling and sensitivity, ranging from the worst to the very best. She is the one who gives value to the phenomena of meaning. To get in touch with her, try the aethers where Crowley met her, or call her by Godform assumption (see Liber O) using the attributes of the Atu of The High Priestess = G.

Page index:

1) PYR GX: A little comment from Her on the II-76 solutions.
2) An essay on The Priestess of the Silver Star, the Path Gimel and the Office of the High Priestess.
3) The Gimel Pentagram ritual. The finishing of Crowleys schetched Greater ritual of the Pentagram.
4 ) The Word of the High Priestess. She occurs to give a device for connecting to her.

PYR GX
23 Dec. 1994 ev.

My life is completely overrun by the The Priestess of the Silver Star, and she is in the mode for giving the sacrament of Pain. I have achieved Migraine as nearly constant, and live in a frozen feverish yellow-greenish light that is ... (gathering of negative laden adjectives omitted).
Despite my migraine, I one day get into the Temple to find out what does she want. (As if I didnt know.)

I call her by Godform assumption like that of the ATU Highpriestess. But with the name of the sumerian Moongodess Sin, as that is the name I hear when I focus upon the form. She eventually appears in bloody red, holding the moon crescent raised by one hand and the pentagram raised in the other.
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PYR GX

The scribe: ”High Priestess : Give us thy vision, thy will.”

The Godess:

1) “Will? My Will?

2) Radiance that does, that goes, that fares furious as in any other mode, anyway.

3) The mercy that hates and in ways do melt with grins in the softness of the prolongeth enduration of the putrefactionary wounds – That is not me – though I know every little inch of it.

4) This mercy is not of me, I cannot say of whom, for she aint to me – I know her not.
Though she spies always upon me and my work.

5) Plumes. The old ones.

6) I hate to see her cry, as the wound she is, unnessesary, but of twain will.

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7) Hear me rather now. Belittle not the small ones, but take them silently as they are and heed:
In wakefulness I play, cold or hot, I commune with the LOT.

8) This is it.

9) Where I go astray in fury, damned and despised, failure and banishment, --- and then I do see.
Clearly.
I encircle, I do never lose it out of sight,
I do talk things I never listen to myself as I approach –
The silent and deaf stone,
I feel it, I am it,
Ï go berserk in the middle of it,
I do catch allFire,
I do go furious, but in the middle AND

IT SIMPLY DIES.

10) From the cold ash is there no radiance, only silence.
That silence is good, most benefactory.

11) The old circumference of the lot, can be spendt in Grace.

12) The Sirens do call now as ever and they do warn as well.

13) Kings rule, Kings go, Kings maintain their lot.
The lot is Kingdom.

Heed me better from now on.

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Comments March 2003ev.:

1) She politely pretends to be surprised, instead of saying, “thats not what you wanted to hear, you wanted to hear why your impurities are making you suffer.” I was still pretty new to magick and I was at the time working with the 6=5 process ( According to the A:.A:.) Its heavy and difficult.

2) She answers my vocalized question, and goes on to answer my real question in paragraphs 3,4 & 6.
Its pretty plain. The word of Mercy is death. Any misunderstood mercy, which tends to produce crippleds instead of clean cuts is simply evil. Its of fake will or thwarted will.

5) Possibly a reference to her prefered dressing as of Egypt.

7-13
Yes – this part is whats interesting. The lot is a masonic symbol, but it also by folk tradition refer to ones fate and destiny. Those things that weighs you down, and in the end make you fall. This deaf stone she talks about is the shadow of consciousness, the blind eye, who neither listens nor sees. This blindness must be doneaway with, for any adept who wants to attain the highest.
This blind and deaf stone is the disobediant part of ones consciousness, it is the source of schizoidism and allsorts of problems, it doesnt want to be present and if one gives it consciousness, it will try to go right back to darkness and oblivion, but take you with itself.
And she promised death to the blind stone – could we possibly hope for anything better? No. She is a true cure to the blindfold of the shutups, though its painful.
But her place and reference in the Twin Mass gives her the essence to work on, not small kleshas, and thats the way it should be.

4 & 6
19th Dec 2005. The Wound.
The wound is mentioned here, and that even in a putrefied form. The wound means much and will still continue to move. It is not something belonging to the Priestess of the Silver Star, but her sister; unnamed, so it could have been a mystery, but i dont think so, - its a clear reference to the averse side of things. The cult of the dying god. The Priestess according to the Vision and the voice is giving the sacrament of pain, not any sacrament of the wound, and that is a great difference.
The wound is a direct continuation of the stigmata, and thus the link to christianity is clear, but bhuddisms intimacy with the vision of universal sorrow is also responsible for numerous other ways for people to hook up with the archetypal wound. This as bhuddism is gaining further popularity in the western culture.
The gift of the wound is clear; pain to use as the power to move. As christianity leaves us a culture forced to listen empathically, the ways of emotional blackmail is open. Give me what I want, or I will confer my pain to you. This way of fighting is something which gain even further popularity in the world to come, as we have eradicated the use of regular violence in educated circles. The talking psychopath is one of the modern worlds new warriors. But there are rogues and there are knights.

There is an archetypal wound in our system. If we have got a cut at a time, it is possible to milk pain and sorrow from this in unproportionate scales, just by recalling the wound. For those who accept the forces of the wound, they quickly gather and set up their hierarchy based upon who have suffered most. The worst of threats is of course the suicide. "Give me this or I will have to commit suicide." Implicit is the understanding that this threat can hardly be used, as it immediately lowers the threats value, the same way as inflation.

Cynicism can seem to be a good way of defense against the blackmail, but the shutdown of emotions will reduce awareness and we might end up losing other things because our perceptions are lowered. Also it would harden and alieniate us and also make us not heal those who simply needs a cure.
The ideal is to keep on having awareness, but together with an integrity which remains unmoved and unimpressed by others manipulative use of the wound. This integrity is best kept by the heart, just as much as the best faculty to confer the emotional blackmail is the broken heart. The healthy heart is very light, and moves naturally fast onwards. Its integrity is the solution we need, and this comes by working with the heart chakra in traditions which are not ruined by skewed ideals like forced altruism.
As altruism or unconditional love is a quality placed very high by all traditions who keep models of development and the psychic universe, it is not easy to understand how this quality can become enforced and not voluntary. But it happens easy in the groups which have flat structure, like unorganised new-age environments, and it is here natural to take up higher ideals just to distinguish from the beginner. In this way ideals like altruism becomes enforced without reason, without being natural or even felt. Its false love, and the initial usage of the broken heart.

There is a war between the broken heart and the healthy heart. Where there is a glowing broken heart, others will find that it is very difficult to keep an open heart. This because the threat is already working, the pain is present and the fear of pain is doing what it can to close down the healthy heart for avoiding the pain to come. This is one of the reasons why The Priestess is giving the sacrament of pain. The ability to face and withstand pain is still one of the qualities which marks the strong. Those who cannot withstand the Ordeal of pain of the Priestess will find a "cure" by her sister who deafens the perceptions in accordance with her agenda, in the same way that The Original Priestess has got integrity and immunity against pain, for so goes the play between light and shadow.

Pieta from the Abbot of Mont-Michel - France.
Sometimes the wound is incurable.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

There are ways of walking the path which today still remains fully unexplored, and not so very surprising it is the more feminine ways. I have in communities observed many females and how they tend to grip the mysteries and how they relate them to own person. I have by this been able to trace the contours of some standards, some repeated attitudes and modes of conduct that seems to be intimately connected to the ATU of the High Priestess. Thanks goes to Hilde who is the woman who first developed the lines which I am to describe. Also thanks to Paul Rovelli whose interest and eager correspondence have been vital in producing this essay. Some of his comments are also found here.

This document is meant to be seen as inspirational only, if anyone gets inspired and sees the chance of using methods as indicated herein, they will also have to rely on their own solutions as this doesnt tell everything.
If there are to be made more authoritative documents out of this, I guess that these be the Ordination Papers for a gnostic church. And as the path of Gimel is a lofty one, the Ordination shouldnt be for ordinary Priestesses, but for female Bishops, that is High Priestesses.

The High Priestess and the Scarlet Woman.

The ATU of the Priestess planetary attribution is the Moon. And the Godesses behind this figure have seen to be Nuit and Isis. The main text of inspiration for this role I have seen been the first Chapter of the Book of the Law.
Her sister The Scarlet woman does also much of the same work as The Priestess, but there are some clear differences. The Scarlet Woman draws her powers from Babalon and of greater importance to her, is the 3rd chapter of the Book of the Law. As their paths are respectively Gimel and Teth and because of this they will come up with different solutions on same kind of work. The Scarlet woman does therefore have a natural affinity to the path of Cheth. However they are free to go where they will.
And also, the path of Gimel can also be thread by men as well, this document can make sense for them too, but personal adaptation is obvious here too.
The Priestess Atu passes from Tiphareth to Kether. And traversing this path includes making ones way through Knowledge or Daath.

The path of the High Priestess = G

So, here are the points found yet that then describe the ethical virtues of value to the High Priestess of the Silver Star.

1. Detachment !

"Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt." AL I.22

"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!" AL I.52

The High Priestess develops detachment to everything by the virtue of her attachment to the couple of Nuit and Hadit that is None indeed. As a result, any paradigm is feasible for her to play with, because she leaves it where she found it; untouched, as she never become attached to it. And she becomes free to touch everything more firmly than any other as she gains confidence about her holy position. She uses her adaptability and way of assimiliation to take enter the position of all entities; Gods, Saints and then also devils, learning the facets of it all. She gives her commitments as she will and withdraws them as she will, guarding her path by not promising overmuch.

If her loyalty is elsewhere she should know this before even assuming her office. Her loyalty to Nuit and Hadit is her prime mover and safety rule nr 1 to her heavy labour and without them she is in vain. Therefore is her work made easier in a community which have got a clearly set up Official for her. Nuit and Hadit disappears at times, but simply appearing officially may be the little miracle that brings her back in duty and touch again.

Ever to me !

Detachment may seem to be attained by two methods, inhibition or expansion. The first method leads to the cold heart as restrictions to action may be put to own person as the response to disappointment, fear and failures. This is obviously no good solution, even if the cold, closed and armoured heart may seem to function very well at times, and things may be effectuated. Also note that disappointment is an emotion, but the decision which adjusts later actions like "never go to that place again" is a thought, that is in accordance with the small worldview of the little disappointed feeler. This link can be broken by reconsidering modes of conduct previously decided in low times. This may help restoring dignity lost.
However, if the Priestess doesnt voluntarily explore the principle of ice, restriction and the ways of the cold heart, these things will sneak into her from behind, and will start to pervade her presence. For restriction is a way of its own, being an obstacle of illwill guarding the access to a silent inertia, so if she misses parts of her loyalty to this, and is moved by the forces which she must overcome, she will slowly change into the Queen of Ice, and her community will start to fear her.
She explores the ways of restriction ritually and by careful philosophical examination, she sorts out how it crosses her path and by the help of retirements she is able to go these themes in depth. This instead of watching how these themes are brought out in play in her human environment. The short solution to these themes is that they must be brought to sleep and inertia. Vanity is brought to failure,without making it the sensation of the Year.

This full detachment which is considered herein, is not made possible before one has attained the mystic essence of Tiphareth, as its by that point one truly gains access to the macrocosmos, and its the point zero blank of any human. Any premature attempts on this detachment is likely to happen by avoidance, denial and restriction. As the Human DOES belong to the world, he and she shall also be attached there. Schizoidism and alienation are the virtues of coldness which is likely to sneak upon the premature. Just by having the mystic essence of Tiphareth and its lamp and the extraction of all consciousness into this point is this kind of detachment sane.
But however, to learn something, one may try something which one isnt really ready for.

The way of excess is to explore the world and self with passion and this leads us to the next point:

2. BODY. The Moon.

The Priestess explores with enthusiasm the range of perceptions that all her bodily mechanisms can provide. Her sensitivity is brough from peak to peak, and she lustrates herself by exploring the failures of pain, as much as the delicacy of extacy. Her confidence in the everpresence of the divine couple, makes her also let go from extacy over to labour without tears. The abstinence of extacy is removed by an anger flowing fast through the body and leaves it ready to face what comes next. (Check out the P=8 vials of wrath in I ged)
Her developed perceptions serves all her friends as herself in that she notices more than most people, her love of it all lets her into the coldest heart and there she may spread the light as well. She notices insincerity in the room next too her, and doesnt go into the traps set up by her jealous enemies.

She developes empathy to a level which christians even didnt dream of. But the Priestess knowing emotions as simply feelings isnt necessarily moved by the contents. If there be wounds around, she rather sorts out the practical manners of nursing, sticking to the Beasts teachings on the effective and practical application of will, rather than partaking in and developing a pitiful weep-out party. Still she doesnt forget or ignore the sublimity of the human touch and the intensity of tenderness, as they mean more to us than generally acknowledged.
She fights the tyrannic sides of emotional intimacy, and does not support and help it in winning, that will whose final argument is just that it feels bad and worse than everybody else.
She is empathically moved by those radiating Light, Love, Life and Liberty, while to the others she finds practical or spiritual solutions, or leave them to time for healing. She moves them to be empathic with her light. By this she is kept high by her community and she gathers strength.

The body have a way of storing memories that will at times seem very commanding. It stores failures, and memory of violence and the apparent cause of violence. This is fought by the virtue of the Moon. The Moon is childlike in its relation to time and it lives preferably in the here and now. This may to the Saturnian person make the moon seem reckless, unpredictable and of course lunatic, but here be gifts to be explored.
In MTP AC says:
Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his own limitation is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do.
The Moons focus on the here and now, may be the effective break with history that commands the human to take an unecessary inferior position . The focus and work at other times on the body may purge its memory and help it take the stance of here and now. And it leads to freedom from and to.
(The use of history may prove valuable to others, which identify differently to her path, and in particular those which will identify with the point of no extension; Hadit - there the history of magickal names may be very useful as Hadit also disappears at times.)
The full exploration of all sensatory faculties will lead to the understanding of their limits, and they will have no command over one as their range have been seen, and the hollowness of the tragedy have shown to be empty.

Crowleys instruction in the Gnostic Mass:
The Priestess. Should be actually Virgo Intacta, or specially dedicated to the service of the Great Order.
She remains unimpressed by the Men of Earth that screams for eternal Love and who believes that weddings and contracts can squeeze the timeless ecstasy of Love into a frame that will uphold it regardless of the rest of the situation. She is faithful to the continuous couple of Nowhere and everywhere; Nuit and Hadit. She is touched by No-thing, and the man of earth is just a chance for her to partake in this continuous and eternal flow of divinity. Thereby she stays virgo intacta; touched by No-thing. And she does not confuse Hadit with the flesh of a specific Priest or Man of Earth. And she chooses as she will. Making commitment to her Priest in order to be able to get the practical matter working, so that their Masses will spread the light.

Crowleys use of irony should be apparent in his calling for the Priestess to be Virgo Intacta in his version of the Gnostic Mass. With Liber AL vel Legis calling for Mary inviolate to be torn upon the wheels, its certain that chastity in every way holds no virtue in Thelemic doctrine. Rather the Priestess should be self-contained, a complete woman unto herself and though desirous of connecting with a lover, not needing this to prove her own worth. Rather, she seeks a sensual connection to life. And she focuses on her perceptions, trains her body to be her finest instrument which she trains as a channel for the forces of life.

One might make a study of the writings of Kirkegaard on this matter and even the writings of Anais Nin. But she is known for her style and grace, and through it so many virtues can be shown. Her seat on that altar equally shows the discipline in her pose and the style and grace that she brings to the Mass and to the community.

3. No Name

A name limits ultimately to a specific Logos. But the Priestess is free to worship and behold any and every Will. Light in extension, Khabs am Pekht is a certain key to her formulary. No name can possibly belong exclusively to the continuous (consider this even a pun on Nemo) over and above all others.

We see that this choice may seem to be outside the system of A:.A:. in that this system is designed to bring forth the human point in the form of a Logos; the Magician and Mage, and also avoid mystics and sneaks to partake in it.
But the Priestess choice must be regarded as an golden opportunity to embrace the All as she has no particular Logos, and no natural enemies either. She avoids the pitfall of the Logos-dominated Magickian as she doesnt create a specific path and zone that is hers, ultimately in the end having no specialty or bias to overcome. The logos is the archetypal point of view. The Priestess partakes in all points of view. She developes a meta-view.

Hilde who explored this path first and have been my main source of inspiration, did not expound this part, but she once burst out in anger and left no doubt behind about her choice :
"I dont want to be some fucking thing that can be conjured."
And as the years went by, the traffic on diverse e-mail list made me wish for some protection Order for Saints. The lack of reverence from those falsely identifying their gross point of view with something divine, speaks - for itself.
However; any name may be seen as a confounding of the spacemarks of heaven, and an obstacle to truly identify with the continuous.

In combining this option with A:.A:. we can consider the following: She may regard all names taken in the A:.A:. as mottos (modes of action) instead of names, which represent her solutions to progress that specific states that the A:.A:. degree happens to be about.
When considering this; we see that names are classified in two categories ; names and mottos. Names are understood to point directly at the person as Object and subject, while the motto describes the manner of action of this centre. We then see names relates to kether, while the motto as points to Chokhmah; that is existence (Kether) in its dynamic aspect.

And as the Priestess draws powers from the continuous all the time in her Office, her choice becomes natural.
It will thus be seen that this option is natural to the path of Gimel and not of the regular path of Tipareth- Geburah - Chesed- Binah- Chokmah - Kether.

4. Knowledge and Daath.

Knowledge is one of her tools. Carefully, not attaching any personal value to any philosophical branch, she uses them all. Her personal engagement is rather found in the coordination of currents in our collective consciousness. Bringing them forth as she or others could use them. She uses her knowledge deliberately and freely in building paradigms, that to her are as casting of a circle. She is girt with the Sword of Knowledge as one of the flaming swords that guard the gates of Paradise.

Her particular brand of Magick is close to mystisism, but isnt. She have noticed that when practising magick there follows larger waves of currents which we term initationcurrents. These pulls one through the domaine of solipsism as well as illumination. She have identified these as temporary currents belonging to the sephiroth and denies their appalling dominance. She insists on the supremacy of a higher reality and wants to be alert and prepared for any situation that is likely to happen in a magickal community. She therefore specialises in banishing to be able to withdraw to her balanced center if thats whats needed or wanted, equating the discipline of banishing as an adoration unto Nuit. Or she uses her philosophy to interprete the temporary reality as it occurs, finds the solution in formulaes and creates a rite, or bursts out in spontanious ritual that completes and fulfills the paradigm and uses the released energy to create a willed paradigm, or lets it pass further on natural.
This method is somehow the magickal version of Zen`s Here and Now method/nonmethod.
Her path isnt always so straight because she is loyal to the supreme reality of Kether and the Moon in her demands changes fairly often. Still; her uprightness and faith in the ultimate aim is her key to strength, vigour and success.

In overcoming daath she dedicates herself to the three weapons; Dagger, scourge and Chain and their study and use, and of course the Holy oil. She eventually builds the Trident in her body and raises it.

Treatise already created on Trident and Dagger - to be uploaded and linked.

5. Radiance

Her ultimate source of power is gained through the coupling of Nuit and Hadit as Binah and Chokmah and described symbolically in the Gnostic Mass. And their culmination to a polarity involving Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Tiphareth the Childe of her work also approached from the lower side of the Abyss through the formula of ON) and Kether, raising the Aspiration to Kether and nourishing the collective Thelemic community thereby. The process of the Chokmah-Binah polarity is automatic and therefore is the Trident her favorite weapon, as depicted by her pose in her Atu.

Fire is a key element in her work. She is a regular worshipper of Fire and knows all Fires, but in particular the black Fire of the Trinity. She learns Hell too and the caress of Hells own worm. Her knowledge of fire make her adept in surpassing obstacles found in own or other system. Matter and dirt burns to ashes. And the light goes even further on this time.

Khabs am Pekht - Light in Extension.

Love is the law, love under will.

Fr.
Zoel Dana Kaim/Chaim

Now face North and Seat yourself with your hand on your knees, like an Egyptian God enthroned- if you have no chair- stand in Sign of Silence.
Say Slowly, and very forcibly, in a low voice:
Ardent and awful on my right rage RATZIEL and TZADKIEL
Red Raphael on his burning throne guards me behind:
With magician might dread KHAMAEL and TZAPHKIEL War on my left: The Avengers own.
Before me flaming out alone, the majesty of METATRON!
For around me in six several ways the five fold sword-stars beat and blaze; whilst in the column shines & slays the Star that hath Eleven Rays: ABRAHADABRA! [Bell.

Rise and give three fold sign – remaining in the sign of Apophis-Typhon to invoke whatever force thou wishest to invoke.
[Bell.

III.

Repeat all of Part I but when again centering take the posture with outstretched arms say:
I am the Tau, the vehicle to endure the night of time, I go forth by will, I ascend, I descend, to me there is a lovely end.
then forcibly say: BY BES NA MAUT MY BREAST I BEAT; (beat the breast)
BY WISE TA-NECH I WEAVE MY SPELL.
SHOW THY STAR SPLENDOUR O NUIT! BID ME WITHIN THY HOUSE TO DWELL,
O WINGED SNAKE OF LIGHT, HADIT! ABIDE WITH ME RA-HOOR-KHUIT.
Bell 11 times
ABRAHADABRA !

Comments:
Of the changes the most noteworthy was the omittance of Ankh Af Na Khonsu. First because this rite is meant to be personal, and the function which AANK have is replaced by the sentence of the Tau, whose principle of endurance fits in with AANK. Secondly because it wouldnt be correct to place oneself in the peripheri when the practisers natural place in the circle is in the center, and the function of this rite is to gain control by summoning its center to oneself. Instead we chose Hoor paar Kraat to take place in the west as he is the God that is relevant for all parts of the path Gimel. In Tiphareth as the illumination, in daath as the wounded, and in Kether as the crowned and conquering child. IAO.

The classic correspondences of the archangels:
Metatron: Kether
Ratziel: Chokhmah
Tzaphkiel: Binah
Tzadkiel: Chesed
Khamael: Geburah
Raphael: Tiphareth

The Word of the Priestess of the Silver Star.

And here follows words I heard in a recent meeting which followed after a working on the Word STO.

27 Nov 2004 e. n.

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She:
" I am in fourfold word - to be used as a talisman, a call and then a word.

To the Threshold of the sane certain vigours occur; Sirens!
Wake up - Thou are here now.

OM BA TA NI
This is not the word, the word is always running ahead,
We yearn to follow thee, to get a glimpse of the immense beauty of the radiant success.
HE IA NO SO
Willfully thou write and so it must be.
The caretaker of the many demands its servants.
Will implies success though it may not happen.
SO SO NO RO
Bliss I heed, but more the premises.
Painfully thou awake to the new order of things to come and discover that something is missing
Find it.
RO TA IL BE

Now when these things are written you can ask me a question."

I am perplexed and cant ask for anything else than her word and name, whereupon she shrugs, letting me clearly understand - Its just written.

She makes ready to leave and answers the other questions she have found in me, of which I wasnt aware:

"One: Thou carest about me as I of you.
Two: Yes we will
Three: Of course

These things being said, know me to be faint, but of strength immeasurable. The agent is more than she seems to be, wherefore the agent is appreciated. A little picture on the words use:
Roses scattered in the hall, laughter upstairs and fear inside.
My name is not for the few, even the jew shall be able to find the clue.
Solutions prevale.
Vale!

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Following the Word.
March 2005 ev.

Our tradition have left lots of fragmented material about the logoi, the christians repeat at their given times their bible quotes including citations regarding the word. I never found these quotes very revealing or cleartalking. But if the ancients theology conscerning the Word was so foundational and important to us, its impact must somehow show itself to us in the more mundane, now as the secularization is a clear success, and the followers of the Word in accordance with the old tradition are a rarity.
Mainstream culture have in our massmedia age built up a phenomena which is interesting in this regard. The popular music have become a mass movement which revolves around trends which are articulated around a Word. The words of the last century have been things like Rock, Rock and Roll, Rhytm and Blues, Bebop, Beat, Punk, etc. The articulation of these trends is rather organic, and no selfannounced dictator can be found here who have named it all. What decides what word becomes used is mystic as it is the people and the trend itself who uses these. I wouldnt be the one who raise popular culture to a divine status, but I do find a few very interesting things here.

Following trends and fashion is at times a very despised activity, as the following and mimicking is regarded as a slavic action, and not something which pronounces individuality. Following the herd is the sign of the clone, the one without knowledge about own soul. But still; mimicking and study is the work of the student, and for learning things and getting to the core of things, the method of "fake it, fake it, till you make it" is something which have learned humanity more than avoidance in arrogance.
To pronunce individuality in a code which is understood among the many is however the action which usually makes sense and this is also one way of fulfilling the Aquarius/leo axis which the phenomena of individuality belongs to in terms of the zodiac.
But these trends along the word have more to do with the sephiroth, and thus chokhmah and Netzach. Their keywords of Wand, Phallus and Venus does all link well up to the Logos. It is the activity of the zeitgeist (spirit of the age) we are following. Why? Because the zeitgeist is a party in itself, its core is the fountain of the Holy Here and Now; the divine child itself. Also it represents archetypal genius.
As trends announces themselves as The novelty, the freshest news ever, the core of truth in this lies in the nature of chokhmah, that ever ongoing breaking of the static prinsciples of Kether into the newborn activity and frenzy of chokhmah; the prime mover Chaos whose action is unique as it is only echoed by Binah, the silent inertia who listens to the unthinkable. Here at the party of the zeitgeist are we aligned with the source of ourselves, in so far we are able to listen and follow up, by loving the core of the zeitgeist, interpreting the events, the codes, unfolding the spiritual content and partaking in our undulled reality. The spiritual nature behind these phenomena is infallible, extacy is abundant. The drug is particularly attractive for those who have lost their religion, and thereby way and path. It can be of help, or the opposite.

The Word of all Words.
May 2005 ev.

Once I was allowed to the presence of the unity of Brahma,Vishnu and Shiva. They; invisibly melted and reformed in the blacklight of silence. I thought; How could I forget that Word? I who have spendt so much time on writing so many tables containing hierarchies of names laughed out loud as I understood, and felt their presence. And I understood what they wanted me to understand, that the nature of the Word is misunderstood. The AUM is the sound that vibrates through all creation, AUM as we say it, is the symbol we use to achieve AUM; the phenomena. Therefore AUM is not AUM, as it is the word to achieve AUM, it could just as well be the word which labeled our lack of AUM.
AUM; the holy sound is a specific situation and a definite state within the domaine of mind(lessness). If its the word of words, then its the key word who initiates logic and intelligence or our position within the universal word. We could use many methods of assuming that position. The best word would be what strips off exactly that blindness we personally have got for the phenomena of the word. It therefore indicates that our word for reaching this can be very personal.