On the solutions of Liber L II-76.
Once you have read it through- its hard to forget. My first and only
teacher in Magick; a devoted Black brother (yes of the worst kind) gave
me when I first met him in 1989 a handwritten paper with his solution,
while his minions in their neverending travesty of some charismatic fundamentalistic
christian show cried falsely Halleluja in the background.
The solution and my reaction towards it has been surrounded by so much
malice, that it has been impossible to show this in public before.
I think he managed to find the formula that is the essence of all the
noise in the thelemic current and is therefore important to
understand.
Basically his solution goes AB ALG MOR STO VAL
=> From cold death stand strong. (by the way of listening to the latin
roots)
From the remaining letters he got: Crux = Cross , and through swapping
between latin and greek letters KRY & PYR = cold & Fire,
But the main attraction he got through placing all the remaining letters
in one point and ended with X & P in one point, that is the
greek monogram of Rex Christeous - King Christ.
The numbers he treated in a special way and ended up with Thelema without
e; which I think is prone to be understood as false will. The way he treated
the numbers he later gave an explanation to. But not before I had challenged
him by making a treatise on the II-76 that showed him wrong. (I thought
first, but later I saw it merely gave his solution a perspective that
it needed to be understood and also so to be used or to get related to
in a simpler way.
This short version of his solution that I present
here, must not stand as the version to be scrutinized. The doc that he
originally gave me contains so many troublesome features as brackets for
two lines aso, that I have not typed it. I scanned his doc, made it a
jpg and put it here:
(uncompressed 566kb)
(compressed 89kb)
The objection towards the solution of Osman is found here
Fr. Osman never did interprete this in public as he meant that this piece was to be interpreted by "one and each to himself" in the "spirit of Liberty". He did though in privacy come up with several interpretations, that it served as a nexuspoint of all religions in that it summarized all the great ressurection myths; Osiris, Krishna, Odin or whatever he mentioned. In public he did say that he regarded its content as a linguistic piece. Of which I agree - its a linguistic trick.
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As I watched Osman unfold his powers from that day I received his solution,
my disgust grew to anger. Something had to be done to calm down the smell
of corruption which slowly spread over the whole city.
Some time went, I tried eagerly to solve the riddle but I was told to
wait, by my guides. In `93 when I was finished with the calls of I ged
and managed an acceptable translation of DOzmt, the time showed up to
be ripe. The circumstances around Fr. Osmans project was getting unbearable
repulsive. The need to prove him wrong and break his spell was becoming
urgent. The breakthrough came when I simply asked myself what would I
have said instead of his "cold death" phrase. "In hot death
total burnout" I thought and looked up for hot in the latin dictionary,
and there it was: Caleo= hot. The rest followed and when I had done the
letters I added up the numbers in a easy way and got the most convincing
result.
My plan was to recreate the scheme and structure of Osmans solution to
prove that people with their distinct personalities would see different
things in it and also that with a reasonable knowledge of language and
gematria; One can write what one likes into this riddle. Just as M. Aquino
did when he got his BOCFBN; he solved the riddle in II-76 to prove himself.
His act always seemed to me as a way of writing himself into the book
of the Law. And thats legal, but it sure is a heavy and powerful pact.
But as I looked at the result, I felt more trapped into a already determined
action than anything else; as there appeared meanings that I hadnt suspected
at all, plus that the lines of interpretations started to run, but they
didnt go wild.
In 94 we had an open meeting and most people that was into these groups
was there. I prepared my doc. that have got a very sharp introduction.
I saw this necessary as Osmans group and project was in every way begging
of such treatment. Today this doc contains more than it needs to, as I
then simply didnt know what it was about and didnt really understand what
was the important parts - I just had to examine all possibilities. Also
the explanation/interpretation I guess I do better today, and hopefully
this page will make the message. But there is a difference between my
94 version and this which comes now, also in intent as in 94 I was taking
only personal interest in the Hot death version, while today the greater
lines are much more interesting and also the possibilities of combination
in order to find a middle path way.
The main content is:
AB KAL MOR STO VAL = In hot Death; enduring farewell. Alternatively: In hot death, the endurances farewell.
The remaining letters: PYR GX (Fire 93/ The highpriestess
& the Emperor)
By modulations through greek letters: PURG Tz => Purgatory of the King.
All letters in a point : (see doc for how) R. (the letter of resh; the
Sun.
The numbers added up to 111 ( the Fool) and when swapping the letters that have "swapmarks" in the original manus; these became the letters BHDT = the letters of Behudet as used on the stele 666 for the name of Hadit. I regard it as the signature.
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An argument:
On evaluating any solution of Liber L II-76 should also be asked "What
would this have meant to Crowley, or how would it fit into his views?"
as non-thelemites could easily say nay to right solution and vica versa.
Perdurabo.
In the book "The Law is for all"; there is actually given a
chart for someones death - and that is Perdurabos. It must therefore be
him the speeches of death is directed to in L220. Therefore do I consider
him :Perdurabo to be the measure of any solutions of the Liber L.
And the motto of his was the wellknown "I will endure to the end,
for to the end endure naught.
He picked out the name to fit the motto this way: perdur= enduring ab=
in o= zero/naught.
The poem of AC titled Perdurabo contains the sentence "I am crucified
on a burning crag of steel". This tells about his inclination towards
the temperature of death. Also the Bible; Revelations of St John tells
that the Beast shall be cast into a lake of Fire. While all christians
have felt that was a proper end to the foul beast, we can now see there
is a higher sense to it.
So- I bet my treatise would have made sense to Fr. Perdurabo
Esp as when making a square of the name Perdurabo
PER
DUR
ABO
It translates : Very durable in naught.
The slogan "In Hot death; enduring farewell"
is fully parallel to his fratername.
Perdurabo succeeded in death as in life and is today a very active Saint.
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At the Meeting in 94 - Keysersgt 7.
My immediate objection against Osmans solution.
The slogan "From cold death stand strong" contains a contradiction.
It cannot be said that it takes death serious as the result stands strong.
The person has died but is not dead. It simply denies the word death to
function truly as death. It would then be the process of creating the
Undead.
Osman argumented that his solution was right and a very objective one
too, as what he did was only to "listen to the words and numbers"
and then pulled out the words. So he claimed a true solution on objective
terms. I took the opposite stand, claimed that all I did was being subjective
and reproduced the structure of his solution but filled it with another
content, in order to show that its easy to produce something out of it
it - if one only got the will.
I pointed out that there was no coherence between the solution of the
numbers and the words in his solution, or anything that mutually supported
eachother, but that he had seen the right solution on the numbers, but
had rejected it and found the "thlema" solution as it offered
some cover and confusion to the meaning of his solution. I asserted that
the solution of the numbers that was meant for him to take was: (46+38+24+3)
x (2x4) 89 = 888 & 89. These two numbers are the obvious parallells
to the message of the letters, the nr. of JESOUS and the nr. of sin.(see
Book of Lies chp 89.) If he had used this solution; it would be immediately
clear that he was just a black brother that had found his way to power
by writing his pact well within the Book of the Law, and the interest
and mystique around his solution would be lost fast.
Fr. Osman didnt ignore this completely, but managed to paste a blank paper
over the paper I had written and hung on the wall, and started speaking
about something else. He has never ever commented this. But I think this
later find does show beyond doubt that the solution of Osman is no random
coincidence, but must be regarded as something put in by the author Aiwaz,
as there were a easy solution to proclaim Black Brotherhood therein, but
Osman went for a far more complicated one, which gave him some shelter.
Of his critique of mine were such things as that I had swapped the K to C in creating cal/caleo= hot. I thought it quite ridiculous as he started the swapping of letters. I also thought that just following the II-75 as some instruction was not needed. A riddle; by tradition is supposed to have surprising methods and results.
Osman had for this occation also prepared a typed page with nearly the same content. This page I have not got here. I recall that the greatest variation was that he had added "I" to "stand strong (on some grammatical grounds). I dont think it matters. I dont recall much else from this meeting anymore, except that Osman kept some long speech on Why Crowley didnt see this solution, without ever getting to his point*, and that the discussion went offtopic ofcourse and that Alexander concluded that Osman was best on the letters while I was best on the numbers. This I agreed to already then, but today this stuff is only interesting because of the dynamics between the two treatises. And I regard its valuable only because of whats possible to extract of interpretation from it. And not because of the status possible to extract from having a solution upon the the riddle in TBOL.
*Yes, he did later, privately. I dont recall his logic, but somehow he said it pointed towards the existence of an ironic interpretation of the Book of the Law. I think this is a possibility which is obvious and really doesnt need argumentation or proof, as we know about everything can be parodied. But the words he used; ironic interpretation; didnt so fast convert to what he really meant; a shadowside of Liber L. And the idea that there exist a gathering formula for use of "the outlaws" isnt still much considered.
Interpretation.
Yes - its about death and resurrection. It is the outlining of the general
prinsciples of Initiation, of leveltransgression, and thats where the
ressurection theme becomes vital and useful for the magickian of today.
The views whether death is an end or a transformation.
Magick is about using language to recreate itself in the world, so if
its used magickally; its result were to force a lie upon the world; creating
an ironic reality where fake death is death enough, and the supreme result
of the slogans usage would be some initiation into the undead. But the
likely result of use of this solution is gaining access to the thlemic
qliphoth.
More of this...
Today many people are still abusing language as
they speak about life after death. I regard this as just being imprecise,
but used empowered in magick the quality of the error may get further
implications and power. As Language is the prime tool of the magickian
it must be consise and it must be protected against the abbreviations
of trivial culture.
There is sure no life after death, but there may be consciousness, as
we know there are discarnate entities, and that consciousness may take
the ontological status of zero and still be vital. Life I regard as something
that occurs in the process of birth; the appearance of material substance
joined with consciousness containing will. Death I define as the total
separation of the willprinsciple from its previous inhabited material.
(This definition is made to be able to be used on levels that goes higher
than assiah too)
The moral of this I regard as mainly an recommendation to evaluate ones
own use of language and find out whats purposeful for one, knowing that
one is also a magickian outside the temple, and the daily language is
what reflects and defines ones daily reality to oneself. Osman created
a very powerful collective current where his way of inspiring/contaminating
people was his use of language. It gets more powerful as one knows what
is substantial in reality and is thus refering to substantials, than talking
about expressions one really doesnt know. Magick is a method that gives
easy access to basic but difficult and lofty expressions like eternity,
time or life a.o. Use it and learn by heart, body and mind in depth; get
a concrete relation to the expressions that others uses to create fog.
This together with the fact that the content of his was of some pseudo christian nature that possibly could not interest more than the particularly interested, was the main objection to his assertion that this was THE solution of II-76.
The interpretation goes best when considering the date of writing 1904
and the author AC and his persons as shown by his fraternames.
But first something on temperatures.
On Temperature.
There are natural attitudes connected to these forms of death. Hot death
is very painful and no attractive form of death, but as repulsive as possible.
The physical equivalents of Cold death is probably not well known in
southern climate as it doesnt offer the conditions too often. Here in
the north we know that freezing to death is one of the most beautiful
ways of dying - told by people rescued on the threshold. Coldness is not
comfortable to meet, but when the coldness creeps in and take charge,
numbness sets in and an inversion happens - people starts to feel very
warm and there is reported that many people who have frozen to death have
undressed. From my own experiments in the north I discovered that on this
stage happiness enters and the mood becomes blissful and reckless about
any physical and mundane matter. I also learnt by experience the fact
I already knew, if any parts of the body gets 2nd degree frost damaged;
these parts gets especcially vulnerable to frost later on and will be
the the first place where one starts to freeze. First degree frost damage
is just the state of receiving the numbness and lack of feeling. This
is harmless, but when getting into the heat again; the numb parts are
very painful to warm again.
I have seen that these physical facts do bear close semblance with the
conditions appearing when using the cold death as a formula for "spiritual
development".
The typical signs of the cold death complex in the sole spiritual is sweet
melancholia, then fatigue and lust of surrender.
The short comment on temperature is that excess of temperature is caused
by infusing of energy and this leads to action, which can be seen by the
molecules. Freezing is a lack of energy, and the internal action of particles
in a freezing object goes towards zero. The prinsciples which is behind
hot and cold is therefore active and passive.
The vision of cold death took its interest far beyond very religious groups
and was advocated by persons like Walt Disney. The idea is simple, sustaining
the dead body by freezing it, hoping to revitalize it in a future that
discovers the secret of life. Laughable. http://www.cryonics.org/
In 1904 the works of Nietzche was still very fresh. His fight against
transcendalism is a part of the history of philosophy now. His philosophy
headlined with"God is dead" contained the simple opinions that
all struggles to reach beyond; to the transcendent is in vain, as its
here in life that values can be experienced.
In this light; Osmans slogan is a direct and blatant use of transcendalism
on the worst. Its like saying: "Come here and die and get your payment
afterwards". But as the slogan is selfcontradictory and in short
just a lie; - there is nothing afterwards, just the undead and the fallen.
And these minions will crumble to dust in the light of the true sun. So
- the single use of his formula I regard to be the troublesome way to
annihilation.
The hot death slogan cant inspire to any direct going for any ressurection,
as it simply tells of a painful end. It tells that death is forever and
as such Life is now and thus the moral i see in this becomes: Live Now!
The solution is followed by a what appears as a signature; by a fool;
BHDT, who is a God and have no physical body.
The magickal implication in accepting this solution is that when one accepts
the basic and trivial reality as it immediately occurs, it heals any levelconfusion
that one may have aquired earlier. One will not anymore accept the idea
of altruism/unconditional love etc, if one doesnt feel it. It therefore
makes ones interaction with the actual paradigm one is living so much
more powerful and secondly also so much more easy to transgress in a effective
way, as there are no other interfering paradigms that swallow up the energy
that one is accumulating. The Live now current/attitude is actually a
genuine magickal tool or path.
So; the obvious alternative when looking for some general advice in TBOLs
riddle is; to just pick out the good piece out of context and stand strong
now.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt, therefore the sayings of Gods
cant be regarded as commands anymore. If they make sense and appeal Man
can decide to go for it, but its always Mans choice, as much as its his
destiny. The destiny of the Gods be their own.
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Two ways of walking ; DN & ND. In todays modern magick, it can be difficult to see how the ressurection theme fits in now, but those who try hard on accessing the tree of life and succeeds to some extent, will soon be object to the processes of transgressing the sephiroth, and here does the word and all myths of ressurrection have its impact. There are then two main ways of accessing the spiritual realities of the tree. These two ways I have identified with the formula of DN or ND. |
DN
The DN formula is a very important and deepseated instinct
in us all. I could explain it as the hedonistic formula of sex and death,
but much would be lost as it implies more. The D refers to daleth and
the the ATU Empress with these keywords; desire, attraction and the N
refers to Nun whose ATU is death.
When explaining these as : D the hermeneutic approach, the desire of enlightenment,
engagement and integration with whatever is focused upon, and then N is
the completion of this desire; the fulfillment, we then see that this
formula is the way which combines the way of the hermetic magickian, the
warrior and the upright human. This instinct which we may call the way
of will - to do and execute our intent in such a manner that it will be
done, is what I have identified with the innermost spirit of Perdurabo
and the book of the Law. As it is Thelema in action.
It also can give a new level of understanding to the saying of Nuit -
"but always unto me" - as we take hold of our desire and formulate
our intention and say - to the end, to fulfillment, as we understand that
the Godess of Nothing must be end and death to everything - to all that
endures.
Liber L : 2-72 " Strive ever to more ! and if thou art truly mine
- and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous ! - death is the crown
of all."
So Nuit is also the embodyment of DN as she figures just as well as Venus
as Death. What imagery of her we choose to see will determine and change
a lot. As she is venus, she will arouse us to the forces of life, vigour
and will, while if we see her as an-nihil and death, she is likely to
turn us off. Therefore the saying in the mass is of utmost importance;
"Soul of infinite space, before whom Time is ashamed, the mind bewildered,
and the understanding dark, not unto thee may we attain, unless Thine
image be Love."
It is thus interesting to see the Typhonian OTO proclaim the Godess to
be Typhon and death. See: Typhonian
talk by S. Hinton and M. Staley. How they relate this to the thelemic
formulas of the Beast 666 could be said more about.
So the DN formula is a way of expressing the small actions we do in life - as we can recognize the theme of doing ones will without the lust of result herein, as the end is death or just the completion of the intended action.
But DN is also illustrative of the main method of climbing the tree of
life. The total focus on ones desire and intent will bring one in touch
with the desired sephiroth, and the continued focus upon the same, will
accumulate more of these powers, and the whole is attained by the one
who sorts out the not fitting elements (belonging to other levels) and
who reacts to obstacles with the energetized enthusiasm, knowing that
obstacles turned to own advantage is practically the victories we can
get. The sephiroth will at last shine with full power and we understand
a lot more than others. But as the sephiroth is completed, there is no
more to put into it, and our progression will lead us to the next sephiroth,
and we will die from the one which we leave.
There are variations on the sephiroth and from human to human on how this
death phase is experienced, but in general, if the progress goes fast
and obsession on the leaving sephira is still hard, it will feel like
one is dying. And this hard death phase is mostly occuring while turning
to the left on the tree of life. ( leaving yesod netzach tiphareth chesed
chokhmah)
And one dies from the ego which one had. But its resurrected in a higher
mode as soon one gets back in track on the middle or right pillar. One
achieves the ego back in a higher mode, as consciousness will always manifest
in a type of ego, as the primary consciousness is the I. God have the
greatest I.
I have just read Crowleys diaries on his attainment of the degree of
Magus. What is striking in that text is his crude rituals. If I hadnt
understood what I today do, I would have said that Crowley must have been
joking about his attainment of Chokhmah, because there are no good rituals
which he made use of to attain. He only did the hexagram invocation of
Mercury, and the reason why he did this is of course his way of associating;
Mercury = Hermes => logic & Logos => Chokhmah. Today we understand
that the higher aspects of Mercury is taken care of by Uranus, while the
understanding of Uranus on Crowleys time still was weak. So how could
Crowley possibly attain while just peckering on Mercury ? Because he did
it often, he did this trice a day, and also variations on the calls, till
he eventually after months got enough and went for Jupiter. The symbol
doesnt matter as much as the intent, though he called Mercury, he called
lots of energy, which became transformed into the delicate details of
which his attainments shows up to contain in his later writings.
D as the attitude and the method is enough, crude but effective, if one
allows it to go its way. DesireWill burns, wants and wills and goes all
over the place.
ND
Brief description of Osman and his project.
The project was clear as his solution of II-76 ; to set
up the nightside of Thelema, the cult of the dying God. And so he did,
by the help of putting up an OTO chapter. The easy means he needed for
getting it to work, was to be ironic and launching an ironic current.
He could then read whatever of Crowley and the OTO material to his group
and the understanding which he was responded with was "yes of course,
but not here". The use of inconsistency,subtlety and sense of balance
was also tools he used to cultivate an inner corruption about to explode.
But, careful as he was, he worked for that it should not happen in the
centrum of the group.
As he pointed out that there exists an ironic interpretation of the Book
of the Law, its also easy to see that his solution is the condensed slogan
of the nightside of Thelema. Understand this and save yourself the time
of studying Kenneth Grants collected works on the nightside, as Osman
pinned it precisely where KG wanted the delicacy of painting out its phantasms
in a appealing/repulsive way.
Thelema have in its start been confused with satanism. This is easy as
most people know more of satanism than Thelema as they are grown up in
a christian society. Satanism works as the antithesis of Christianity.
This means that satanism is used as the only alternative to christianity,
and as the premises and the whole ideology of satanism is defined by christianity,
these are articulated in such a way that any attempts to manifest this
alternative is bound to fail and once again prove to all others that chistianity
is best, and alternatives are dangerous and outright stupid. The reason
why Thelema is not satanism is that Thelema is defining its own theology.
That we have ideals as pride, strength, force and fire, may link us with
satanism and is also the clear reason why someone could mistake Thelema
for Satanism.
And then comes Osman around and tries set up the cult of the dying God.
I repeat that I dont know whether the secret chiefs would have him do
so, but done is done. There is no reason for ever trying to set out in
life the antithesis of any theology, unless one believe one can destroy
the original statement by adding so much intelligence, wisdom, life and
joy to the antithesis that it will gain its independence and thereby become
a co-competitor instead of serving as an antithesis. On the other hand
we may also say that the appearance of the antithesis is what conforms
the thesis, and that its appearance is bound to happen as sure as night
follows day.
However, the cult of the dying God will be easy to recognize as they have
the whole christian heritage to use as cultural material. And look out
for coldness and cynicism.
Some literal Highlights explaining
or exposing the extremity of the psychology bound up with the cult of
the dying God.
The first warning came from Dostojevsky in 1860ies : Notes from the basement.
F.Nietzsche: Antichrist.
Jean Genet : The diary of a thief.
Stephen King: Misery (became also a movie in 1990)
Anne Rice: various novels.
So; Osman was setting up his project without telling anyone,
but under false flag. I watched and partaked as I was sincerely interested
in Thelema and OTO. As it grew and got attention and more partakers, i
suddenly also saw that none of the newcomers were able to work with the
upright tree of life, all of those capable of having a magickally induced
vision were reporting things which only could make any sense if we refered
these visions as being of the nightside, the underground, the qliphoth,
the tree of death. I realized that he had succeeded in breeding a culture
by his many lectures of those days. These lectures were usually ending
in discussions which were accompanied by a mixture of "resonable
scepticism", awe (fear) and romanticism and powerhunger. I saw the
potent mix as being of fear towards the impenetrable and unapproacheable
mystery; this would prevent people from taking a clear move towards our
subjects, but instead release the mystic inside whose way is sinking and
assimiliation. But of course, consistency was hard to find, and inconsistency
such an appropriate environment of the filthy.
Current 23.
This current was ready available in those days or maybe in its height,
as it had been well bred in europe mostly under the label "chaos
magick", but I would rather like to name it current 23 as to specify
it further. 23 is described as the glyph of nascent life by Crowley, and
if I shall pin this further, sperm or ov power are this numbers virtue.
Sperm and eggs are symbols of that which isnt yet, but likely will come.
It is the number of the hypotetic and the potential. And to us it means
expectations, excitement and thrills. Hope and fear are the two reactions
which the potential triggers in us. The fear side was unfortunately the
only side exposed during the eighties, but as this current was more activated
by artists than magickians, a lot of great art music was the result.
*The groups; to name some; PTV, Current 93, NWW, Coil,
Organum, Lustmord, SPK & 23 Skidoo. Listen to "The culling is
coming" by 23 Skidoo, to get an impression on how the eighties could
be behind the official image of the eighties, consisting of braindead
automated pop.
From my meet with Hadit in 93, I was faced with the premium source of
current 23; Hadit in his role as Magickian, vielding the serpent power
to the creation of unspeakable exitement. To him there was no question
whether we should fear or hope - the full range of tension was his aim.
Looking at the concepts of hope and fear, I see fear reduces fast to expectation
of death, physical death, while hope reduces fast to expectation of attainment;
spiritual (subjective) attainment, and this latter is also some kind of
death; the death experienced as success. So both leads to death, which
is natural as thats what is close to nascent life. Further work on current
23 is likely to occur. Because potential is natural as a doublecurrent
too.
*The numerical relation of 23 to 93 is ie. 23 + 23 + 1 + 23 +23. This
could be used as basic for a formula of serpent worship.
The class of hope and fear relates to values and qualities. These are
insubstantial but to the subjective mind.
I also regard Jane Roberts (yes, she with "Seth speaks") as
the first adept in modern time which really brought out the the relation
between imagined paradigms and arising expectations and how they affected
events. But as Jane Roberts philosophy soon were simplified to a "smile
to the world and the world smile back" of the newagers in the 70ies,
the current 23 were a magickal induced uncertainty, which had to make
its users sort out their own thoughts on how to deal with it. For their
records; find their records. Peter Carroll must be mentioned as his word
were heard (I suppose it was Chaos, though he never said it was his word
as magus.) The slogan which was "Nothing is true, everything is permitted"
speaks loudly, and leads directly to the alternative shadowlands. Anyone
who have experienced some insulting person who ends his attack with the
phrase "dont take it personal", or "it didnt happen",
can get an idea of my contempt for this extraction of Bhuddisms most obvious
error. The methods of chaos magic were charming such as the use of dice
in deciding actions or paradigm. These methods could be said to be a followup
or variant of Crowleys use of rings to connect to particular archetypes,
but I would rather say that its the work of the chalice in Hod, as it
implies to workout the independence of the personal thinker, and the release
of personal viewpoint. This work sorts under not-being, whereas the work
of being will imply the manifestation of own will, and also HGA. As the
HGA is the mystery beyond both not-being and being, both of these modes
of consciousness types have to become known and transgressed. What i missed
dearly with the chaos paradigm was the understanding and elaboration of
the mode of not-being, because if applying this mode to the slogan, everything
gets aright.
Osman didnt care about Chaos magick or any music more modern than Strauss,
but used what the air was filled with. Of course he loved fear and decay.
Old wisdom says "Fear is the forerunner of failure" and the
scavengers associates fear with food. Fear is of course the natural entrance
to the tree of death; the qliphoth, while optimistic curiosity the entrance
to the normal one. And having people work the qliphoth while they believed
they did the right one as told of in GD and OTO literature was a trap
of megasize, designed by one who really believed in courage; to dare the
most impudent things. Very few managed to get anyplace, but the project
became very powerful initself as the people also succeeded in creating
an own culture, and customs on how dealing with these forces. His project
still lives on locally in various shapes, having got its independency.
Osman couldnt have succeeded in guiding/trapping so many people into this
kind of work, if he hadnt done it himself. And he explained me once in
detail how his basic attitude towards sephiroth working or dealing with
the personal initiatory current. From this explanation I also recognized
ND. He got ontrack by doing rituals, this creates surplus energy which
builds up and eventually leads one towards complexes within a sephirothic
area. His method was to not deal with things, but supress them, claim
detachment. This is of course not accepted by the forces, so they will
appear ofter and ofter almost clinging, but he continued the same policy.
Eventually the situation would tune up to crisis; the themes will follow
him night and day and reach about total proportions in their last attempts
on reaching him. He would respond by tightening his "integrity"
and starting to bomb the themes with whatever he did it with. They would
at last be successfully supressed by his "conquest". And "peace"
was gained by a "conqueror" which had strengthened his shell.
It would be even easier to see the ND formula in his favourite pursuit;
mistreating the spirit of Love. He had his daily practice which consisted
of doing the venus hexagram. By doing this he secured the connection to
the spirit of Love. The painting he had of Venus de Milo reminded me about
the repulsive one of the sister twins of Spare. He consistently found
his love in places where success was not possible, and where love reached
out for him, it wasnt good enough. To every day walk to ones beloveds
house just to see if one can catch a glimpse of her from the window, as
she has made it clear that she doesnt want to indulge with him in ANY
way, is a method well designed for studying the desperation of the personal
spirit of love. The method was clear, yearn for that which cant happen,
pour filth over that love which happen to appear. The spirit of love wont
endure that at length, it will die. And it did. But his first frater name
was Phoenix Daleth, and sure as he had a name, love did come back, it
was ressurected and came even colder back to .... Phoenix Daleth.
I saw him also a few times expose his serpent powers, and those which
he had obtained by his cold practice were of a kind that no new-age bok
ever tells about. The kundalini of fear is possible to project outwards
for those who have dealt enough with fear to not self become perplexed
by it. Combine it with offers "you will not refuse" and get
infamous. The power of hypnoticism lies herein too. As it deals with remote
will control, we can understand that the personal knowledge of killing
Will is one of the basics of getting to the position of becoming able
put aside external wills. Worse techniques were also noticed.
Crowley on the death of Love: See chp 82 in Book of Lies; Bortsch.
Killing Love is also a way of transforming ones personal spirit of Love
to follow and integrate within will. Its ordeal goes not by creating ugly
things and destroying whats lovely, but rather by refusing to listen to
the call of Love, to instead having will as ones prime light. Love will
eventually follow. Its not clear whether Bortch conforms to DN or ND,
but my advice is in accordance with Love under will. The Beast 666 were
able to hold balance in this issue in his whole lifes writing. It is actually
amazing how he manouvred himself around these issues without ever seeing
the picture we are writing out now.
The draconic path.
What really distinguished Osman and his work from known chaos magic was
that he had a innate understanding of the Draconian path and that he put
it out in life. The prinsciple is easy; the qliphoth is contradictionary,
the draconian demon has broken his love and bond to what he really is,
and denies in particular this. And its as simple and lofty as consciousness
in not-mode perceiving itself as being. But from here tragedy follows,
untill its quenched by a cold death. Continuation will follow in the same
way by countering natural will and being. The first gifts to receive is
as the name of the qliphoth; Shells. The feeling of separation from the
world will increase and harden, by the many confrontations and responses
which the practioner gets from his use of counterwill and counternature.
He will be at odds with the world and can postulate a heroic feature,
but he is simply wrong. The coldness makes the shells and cynicism, and
a cool confidence is created which can use a reptilian viewpoint. The
path continues, but I am not interested in educating people to this particular
version of draconic path, so I stop here. I believe Set will infuse new
wisdom on the old mystery which he was master of. Its noncynical version
is part of the starry gnosis and the primary rosycrucian aim. The quest
for the incorruptible body is still intriguing in asmuch as also the ressurection
of the flesh was a most debated idea in christianity.
Osman was a major interest for me several years as it intrigued me much, how anyone could make such atrocities to himself magickally, and then also to choose to live in reality of hate, fear and repulsion. My interest then finally faded as I understod the long term end of such an project would be the annihilation of the soul, and that there existed no supernatural elements in his magick, everything was logickal and the basics was as easy as filth; meaning matter in the wrong place. His way to create evil was to use the wrong formula on the right thing, and the right formula on the wrong thing. If he had said "foul shadows, by wetness fall flat", he would have doneaway with his crap soon, and come to play with beings of LLLL.
Restriction and expansion are the main modes of
the Black and White school of Magick.
The logic of two modes of conduct starts in the two paradigms which are
the headers of the black and white school of magick, respectively The
world is sorrow, existence is sorrow and The world is beautiful and existence
is joy. These two are based upon different types of consciousness; not-being
and being. Daily language shows us clearly that these types of consciousness
works very well. The test is simple: How do you feel today? Do you feel
like a nobody or do you feel like somebody? The consensus of language
tells us that nobody feels bad and the somebody feels glad. The magickian
who suddenly finds himself a bitter person in a world of sorrow is a person
living on the pillar of severity, and to him restriction is the prime
tool, as sorrow and related complexes are best suited for us and the world
minimized. The person having a consciousness of nobody is also experiencing
a contradiction. He is clearly somebody by virtue of having a body and
having ability to act, but still feeling like nobody. The sorrowful persons
way to coherence and truth will also at times result in the idea of suicide,
as that would make the experience of being a nobody complete and fullfilled.
But for us magickians which should know that the paradigm of sorrow is
connected to the pillar of severity, the completion of the works on this
pillar is gained by making the consciousness in itself perfect. Perfecting
the sense of notbeing will result in its complete disappearance, and the
body will experience the awakening of the consciousness of something particular
and will find itself restored on the white pillar. Here is will reigning
and action is naturally benefic.
Metastructures.
| I dont recall anymore if Osman himself
told me that ND was the essence of that fratername, but he was the
one that first made me aware of the opposition of our names back in
90. He just pointed out that laya meant in hindi dissolution, and
as my fratername was then Layad, the message was clear enough, dissolution
of D, while his were pointing at the ressurection of the same. What was truly baffling to me were in 96 when I first saw a reproduction of the frontispiece of Liber L. |
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Herein we see is gesture of Venus de Milo, with a funny D beside it. The D can of course be debated, but it it seems very reasonable to regard it as a D, since the gesture is clearly that of Venus, and venus is the planet corresponding to the ATU of the Empress. And there’s another drawing of a gesture with a N beside it. I was just told that is the most common Mudra of the Hindu gods. It means NO FEAR; and this pointing towards the riddle of Maat’s Uniculum: No fear is the gear of No Man ### But ###. So what I claim is that Aleister Crowley wrote this significant formula upon the frontispiece of his most important work. How conscious this was is also very debateable, as it certainly doesnt look deliberate. I conclude that his inner powers were stronger than Aleister, once again. |
Maat was mentioned and her role in this case seems at this time quite strange. As Maat is the godess of Justice, why didnt she dictate the Law? Or Tahuti? What did happen was that Achad announced the Aeon of Maat in the 50ies, and in 74 Sr Adnahanda received a transmission of Maat, entitled Liber Pennae Praenumbra. The main word of this transmission were IPSOS and to this day I dont think the recipient have cared to look up the word in any dictionary. I did and the result is found at : Word of Maat
The word means "Themselves" and I show in the
text how they refer to the two mentioned spirits; Ychronos and Chtonos.
These two spirits works as paralell cases of DN and ND, but in accordance
with Maat, as they are hers. Ychronos refers to Perdurabo as his description
is "Surmounting spirit, there is Ychronos,
whose nature is duration and the passing- away thereof." Surmounting
points towards a spirit of conquest. Ychronos is greek for not-time and
this all captures the essence of Perdurabo processing his Hot death. Chtonos
is a simple name and refers to the Chtonic; the underworld and the realm
of the dead. "Supporting Earth is Chthonos
- learn it well, and all bonds shall be loosened for the Will's working."
What i deduce from this is that Chtonos is the shadow side of Ychronos,
and therefore opposing will, but as his own charakter implies the themes
of ATU 12, that of surrender, he is also the one to make obstacles towards
will collapse and become inert. A kind of beneficent and usable version
of Osmans way, that is solidifying and strengthening the ghostly side.
That Sr Adnahanda only gave a simple oneliner in her book to describe
them tells me that she doesnt care much about them, but rather to keep
a certain flow and balance as her name contains both DN & ND.
Seing these parallells makes me also conclude there is a cooperation between
N`aton and Aiwaz. There have been reason to aknowledge a kind of schism
between Thelema as founded by To Mega Therion, and the group of Sr Andahadna,
based upon her utterance of a new aeonic word, of which some interpretations
says replaces Abrahadabra. I cannot see this schism as actual, but as
only appearing in the minds of those that cannot see how beautiful IPSOS
is concuring with Abrahadabra and Thelema. Ipsos is a highly balanced
word in that it articulates the common essence of these two opposing and
different spirits of Will. And their work implies the chiseling out of
TRUE will. Therefore is the word of Sr Adnahanda a great contribution
to Thelema. My appeal is the same as Maats; "learn it well ",
but I also recommend learning Ychronos to know, though learning the underworld
have been the great agenda of the serious magickians since the ways of
the upright was duly exposed by The Beast 666 himself.
The main treatise of the duality between life and the shadow is the Enochian work The Book of the EM or DOzmt. This is the premium reformulation of the gnostic heritage. This and the I Ged should beyond question be able to initiate anyone intelligent and daring enough to try. But of course there are other ways.
SO WHAT ?
Every man and a woman is Star, and their ways are uncountable and unique.
Here are two clean cut extreme attitudes which is very potent magickally.
Even the attempts of Osman and me to execute these attitudes havent been
as extreme as possible. It is likely that all attempts will lie between
these ideals and borrow much of their vitality to these, so why not confront
yourself with the sphinx and make up your
mind?
Revelations of St. John
22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy,
let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous
still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
3: 14 And unto the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and
true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
3: 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou
wert cold or hot.
3: 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will
spue thee out of my mouth.
These solutions of Liber L vel Legis II-76 does tell clearly that Thelema is the continuation of christianity, a continuation which breaks totally with the grip and charm that christian doctrine has got, but therefore its scriptures is usable from a thelemite point of view. Thelema is the correction of the christian formula, and therefore it is by understanding of the tenets of Thelema, that the past can be gained from. As much as the christians choose to ignore the egyptian heritage upon which they rested, we could choose to ignore our christian heritage, but having understood the basics of Thelema and how it applies, we can should rather take whats valuable with us. The correction of the formula of ressurection is also obvious in the story of Aleister Crowleys life. He lived life full scale, enjoyed the world as much as any spiritual sphere and then he died uncomplicated at a reasonable age. Thats heroic to me.
Why was Osmans solution needed?
First; his magickal project was to create the Thelemic qliphoth, the thelemic
averse, and this became trad christianity and the Osirian current recirculated
and defined by Thelema. I dont know if the Secret chiefs wanted this or
if it simply was his own thing. It happened by the use of a coto-camp
entitled Nidhug. (the dragon in norse mythology that lies gnawing on the
roots of the tree of life - its the lowest creep and genius indeed)
Second; the version of II-76 provided by me, contains no direct reference
to any ressurection formula/slogan. It is by looking at his that we may
se the obvious, that it is an comment to the ressurection theme. Therefore;
only when presenting this treatise together with his, the ressurection
theme becomes obvious and we are allowed to see some great dynamics in
this piece that we would think had a more limited range.
Third) TBOL or Crowley makes no attempt to found a doctrine on the theme
of reincarnation, and the views relating to these two solution is explanatory.
The belief in reincarnation may be very correct, but this belief may also
be something which takes the importance away from this life. What is important
to agree upon is the last paragraph of the creed of the gnostic mass:
" and I confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and
is, and is to come."
Why Osman?
Os Man => heb. os= creation, man= refuse => "The denier of
the world/ world renunciator." Osmanian = turk. Numeration of Osman=1111.
But that name can be seen as: sma within ON. (The name of ON)
Any OTO initiates will know that such a name shouldnt be passed off easily.
It is him that Crowley describes in the sudden description of someone
in the comments of TBOL II-78. He only misses his first name Simen (pronounced
Semen), by a couple of letters and he is thus entitled "simian"
by Crowley. So I regard him as The prophet ! But I guess the reference
to him in the Bible, the apocalypse of John is the false prophet. And
in this we get framed a peculiar personality. Osman claimed also that
he was named by Aiwaiss.
Fr Osman still this day claims that his solution is the right one, and
does absolutely no attempts in preaching his wisdom (apart from two disiples),
but has withdrawn from thelemic circles for instead practicing safe and
smallscale spiritual crimes for his own entertainment among the spiritual
interested but unaware. The motto that was aired within his cult, but
not said; was : As criminal as possible, without ever leaving any trace.
However when I look at the world and sees how little is understood of
sane religion, I also am glad there exists such persons as him, which
is able to excel in corruption and really show where us where the dragons
path of slime runs down to. And his work is needed; the legacy of Crowley
does also contain the span between the lowest and the highest. (see Liber
Tzaddi) The false prophet is of course suitable to watch for truly finding
the lowest deep. But without the solution of mine which defines his time
and place he is more of a pest than of any value. Still there are unsolved
questions here, and the engagement of fellowmagickians could shed more
light upon these.
Me.
So, what about me? Am I THE Prophet ? No, Osman was THE announced prophet
to come. He is the one who conforms to the standards set by Crowley and
also mentioned in the revelations of St. John which is the document which
were founding for Crowleys work. And it is a great point to make, we have
waited for the immensly huge prophet to come to teach us the most worthy
loftiest truths and instead we get this fucking joke, this insult. It
is as the secrets chiefs say, “we know you humanity – we know
you far too well, we actually know what you need and deserve, we send
you prophets to become humiliated, ridiculed or stoned – Now you
ignorami take this fart !!” And as I have been compelled living
through the cowering eighties, I know how many were called to partake
in digging out the pit of pits, but it was Osman who hit the all time
low. He was an extremity, and that is what makes him fit as an example.
Symptomatically we also noticed that his mumbling during OTO initiations
was actually "Low is the Law, Low under will". As he is the
false prophet, we may not expect to ever hear from him again, but he is
not dead yet. As I have been the only one able to understand his work,
the stick has been passed over to me, and as seen from Maats uniculum,
the lineage which the secret chiefs will initiate, will be passed on by
me and my work. I am A prophet among others, and to me applies
" All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only they understand
a little" TBOL I-56. And this have been my method for gaining wisdom,
catch that little understanding and leave the rest. And amusingly for
me, having to concentrate on Perdurabo, have been such a blessing to me,
as I then havent felt the urgent need of creating some face or mask to
show, as I have little need of showoff. I am a guy feeling just like a
normal straight human, myself, though there probably exist somebody who
claims I am quite peculiar.
The word STO
The solution of II-76 which i have brought forth isnt very original in
that it mainly catches the essential Perdurabo. But from the solution
I have picked out a word which summarizes my inclination and the remains
I want from the complexities of the riddle. Sto means stand and the interpretations
can be so many, but these variations helps me in seeing my whole ideology
at play in this word. What I see foremost in this is the act of bidding
all to rise up, to stand up for the rights one have, to bid the world
appear as itself. Its the appropriate word of an Avatar of Amsu; whose
name means rising. It is concordant with the word of The A:.A:. Magus
To Mega Therion; Thelema, in that it says Persist. It is a word that can
initialize the path of Perdurabo in a Karmayogic manner. As it is the
promotion of the personal and individual life with its trivial truths,
and this exclusively. This prevents from the classic mistake of level
confusion, and the word can also be use for restoring confused paths and
paradigms. And restored levels are then capable of holding accumulating
energy till they are filled and then transform naturally by completion.
The way the shadows are integrated in this word is that even if stand
is a verb, its an action which have or need no motion, and therefore we
can see it also leans over to the theme of restriction. But in this way
the word sets up a span from right to left pillar where the golden pillar
and way can be perceived. Its therefore a yellow school word which can
be used any place on the path - also in taoist manner. Anyone seing its
phallic implication are right on. The stoic ideals applies as well - Zeno,
Epicuros and M.Aurelius. It may be said to be static, of which I cant
deny, and which I will deny, as death is as present and absent in this
word as much as restriction. Shin Tau Ayin/zero.
The word is no ordinary word of power, and the ritualist may at times
be surprised to feel how little power it casts off, or how dead it can
be, but its power is a continuance which pervades both creation and realm
of the dead, and therefore this continuance is a superior power, being
what can hold power.
This the word of my Magushood. STO
Will is sweet, but the world of true will far sweeter. True will
demands no concrete action of the beholder. True Will is found in the
equality between the willsymbol and reality.
And what is the word of the Magus supposed to be and to contain ? As the Magus degree is connected to sephira chokhmah it logically must be the word which makes the magickian a harmonius exponent of the powers which the sephira contains. This sephira is the place where the creation is a concept, a word which contains the inherent divine being and which initiates action. It is of course a Luciferian word like "let there be light" or becoming. The formulation of the Logos is the key to all action and paradigms of the formulator; it is his whole system condensed into a single word. I regard the word Sto to be connected to early spheres of chokhmah as its cleary a catalyst word, reflecting initself the nature of Kether. It may come words of more regular power. Or at least I hope so; that more people are able to obtain a word for their alignment with chokhmah.
STO
Fr. Zoel Dana Kaim/Chaim.
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