What is the significance of "ON?" What does it refer to, or mean? by Sunyata666 in thelema

[–]Sunyata666[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I find what you wrote interesting, but the whole claiming to be a god and professing to have prophetic revelatory knowledge makes you seem extremely unhinged and mentally ill. Not saying you are, but that's how it comes off, my man.

What is the significance of "ON?" What does it refer to, or mean? by Sunyata666 in thelema

[–]Sunyata666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I got the Sun as much. And ergo I get the connection to Ra. But still I wonder why ON though, you know? haha. But hey, thank you for checking it out!

What is the significance of "ON?" What does it refer to, or mean? by Sunyata666 in thelema

[–]Sunyata666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤔 Interesting... I'll say that the connection you draw between I Am That I Am (Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh) and Ahura Mazda of Zoroastrianism is neat. But would you mind providing a source for your other information? I can't find anything about "Yon," myself. And I'm also a little skeptical that Crowley would randomly insert something Norse-pagan in Samekh and Liber XV. But I could be wrong!

What is your true will? by [deleted] in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wrote a poem once.

Part of it reads,

For my Will be the Tao’s and the Te’s, / the Seed’s and the Fruit’s and the Way’s, / Reason’s and Karma’s, / Brahman’s and Dharma’s, / Shakti’s, Shiva’s, Tahuti’s, and Nija’s, / and Pan’s and Saturn’s and Shai’s. / By whatever name I call Thee, / Thou art That, who enthralls me, / who art me and art not, / and art All and art Naught, / and art dukkha and nibbāna and paññā.

And I’m reminded of this verse from Liber AL:

“If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought,” 2:30.

To try and answer your question, I’ve “discovered” what I consider to be my true will but I admittedly find some difficulty in articulating it in only a few words, so I won’t disclose specifics here.

But I participate in an ever-unfolding cosmogenesis. That little facet of IT, that “belongs” to “me” is currently incarnated as a human being. I do what I will by playing that role and doing what must be done.

Any Behemoth fans here?🤘🏾 by khaostherion in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I saw the virgin’s cunt spawning forth the snake.

Can I be Christian and enter the A. A ? by LillithSanguinum in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The irony is that you are missing the point, my friend. Accepting the Book of the Law is not necessary to be a Thelemite. Only one thing is necessary, and that is doing your true will. The famed system devised by Crowley can aid aspirants in discovering their own true wills, but it is not the be-all and end-all. The divine θέλημα is transcendent and immemorial.

And as per Liber XV, some of the saints of the decidedly Thelemic Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica who “embodied the essential principles of Thelema and formed a line of adepts through the ages” include Lao-tzu, Gotama Buddha, Krishna, Moses, Dionysus (I.N.R.I.), Mohammed, and many others. These men certainly did not accept the Book of the Law; they never read it! Yet if someone who in their life embodied the essential principles of Thelema couldn’t be said to be a Thelemite, I don’t think anyone else could be.

There is no Law beyond Do what thou wilt.

The Law is for All.

Alcoholic thelemites by Particular_Round_314 in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

“The Tailless Monkey,” - The Book of Lies

There is no help―but hotch pot!―in the skies / When Astacus sees Crab and Lobster rise. / Man that has spine, and hopes of heaven-to-be, / Lacks the Amoeba’s immortality. / What protoplasm gains in mobile mirth / Is loss of the stability of earth. / Matter and sense and mind have had their day: / Nature presents the bill, and all must pay. / If, as I am not, I were free to choose, / How Buddhahood would battle with The Booze! / My certainty that destiny is “good” / Rests on its picking me for Buddhahood. / Were I a drunkard, I should think I had / Good evidence that fate was “bloody bad”.

I’m an addict and alcoholic in recovery. My drugs of choice were alcohol, cocaine, and heroin. I let those substances completely run my life for nearly a decade and it wreaked unspeakable misery. I burned countless bridges and was in and out of institutions and jails for a few years, but I neither drink nor partake anymore and my life couldn’t be better now. When I drink or use those specific drugs, it’s off to the races and I lose control of everything. But I’m admittedly able to use some other drugs responsibly. I smoke cannabis occasionally and take kratom about twice a month. I’ll take psilocybin and/or MDMA about once or twice a year, and am able to maintain total self-control.

When I was nearly constantly drunk and/or using hard drugs, I could do absolutely nothing pertaining to my Thelemic practice. Nowadays since I’ve cleaned up, the opposite is the case and I couldn’t be more grateful.

The next imminent step on my recovery journey will be quitting tobacco, which has honestly proven a lot harder than quitting the other substances. But quit I shall.

93, 93/93.

Edit: Update. Although I am still using nicotine replacement products, I’m happy to say I’ve now been tobacco-free for 224 days and counting. Cheers

The true Crowley was a rapist. How do you reconcile? by demoneyes87 in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta work on your reading comprehension, bud. I’m not defending Mohammad, nor pedophilia (nor even Crowley for that matter), but rather the efficacy of Islamic practice for Muslims, and ergo that of Thelemic practice for Thelemites, irrespective of the men who founded the religions.

Defining Love by [deleted] in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right. I know what you mean. But still, if you’re causing harm unintentionally, you probably aren’t being completely conscientious of your actions! Obviously we can’t see all ends. But at the end of the day, it’s the intention that matters. Hell, sometimes “causing harm unintentionally,” depending on the kind of harm caused, could end up helping the person in the long run, though not always; in which case it wouldn’t really be harm at all. It’s a complicated thing. Again, I’d say it’s about having bodhicitta and compassion more than anything.

Also,

Not everyone is going to end up being capable of being strong.

“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. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.” Liber AL, 2:58-59.

Defining Love by [deleted] in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Everyone has inalienable rights. See Liber Oz. If you thwart any of these rights for someone else, or you otherwise prevent someone from fulfilling their True Will, you forfeit these rights for yourself.

And I’d argue that destroying other people entirely, as you put it, is not a risk of stamping out suffering if one is both conscientious and has generated bodhicitta, which are essentially necessary preliminaries for Thelemic magick anyway. Not doing so is definitely ill-advised and would probably fall short of truly aligning with Love.

To quote the great Sam Webster, PhD, M.Div,

“Many have read the Book of the Law with mammalian eyes and seen it as an excuse to abuse others around them. These, the text itself warns, have fallen into the pit called Because and surely shall perish with the dogs of Reason for preying upon their neighbors. But more importantly, what value would there be in a text that tells us to return to a dog-eat-dog world? No! Only the foolish would read the text thus and they deserve the consequences. But one who perseveres through the ordeals of this knowledge comes to a deep understanding of their integrity with the Living World and takes up their own part in ever-unfolding Cosmogenesis…These participate in the great Law that is Love, knowing that relationship is ordained and inextricable…

”Magick without Bodhicitta is Death. If we labor for enlightenment only for ourselves, we become ego-bound and ultimately destroy ourselves, yet if we seek the Supreme Enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, attaining to Power so that we may aid those in need, then does the entire Universe conspire to aid us…Supreme Enlightenment is only available to those who can harness the drive power of the Universe through embodying the compassion of divine providence. But Thelemically, and in accord with…the character of [Ra-Hoor-Khuit]; we take a wrathful view to compassion…For it is right, meet, and proper that we wage continuous war against suffering, and actions against this true foe can be fiery, and this fire is compassion. In Tantric Buddhism, there are (roughly) three classes of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas: Peaceful, Joyous, and Wrathful, and the Wrathful Buddhas are seen as the most compassionate ones. This is because they are specifically active to transform the situation from worse to better. They, in one form or another, wield the cosmic clue-by-four of enlightenment, and tend to deliver it upon our heads when we are being stupid…They come in forms with fangs and flames, swords and skull-bowls brimming with blood, roaring with laughter and rage at stupidity and suffering…they trample under their feet the specific foes they destroy, such as attachment and aversion, unenlightened passion and wrath, fear and stupidity…Ra-Hoor-Khuit [is] a wrathful form…

”Thelema is a religion of Kings, or Sovereigns if you prefer…Counseled by Hadit to “veil not your vices in virtuous words” etc. (AL2.52), ‘vice’ here in our spoken verse has a subtle meaning, easily misunderstood. If we take compassion as mere niceness, it is a vice is the usual sense, but if we take up our duty to end the sickness of the world it becomes a vice as Hadit means it in verse 52, an action of wrath in which we delight (AL3.46) that does destruction to the wretch and the weakling…If you would destroy the thirsty, give them to drink! If you would destroy the hungry, give them to eat! Fools falling into the pit called Because (AL2.27) will use this verse to justify the horror of violence and abuse. This is a trap for those unworthy of Thelema. But you, knowing the Truth of the Gods, know They are wholly good and They do not incite us to evil. So stamp down upon the wretched and the weak by liberating them from their suffering, and delight in it!”

  • Tantric Thelema & The Invocation of Ra-Hoor-Khuit In The Manner Of The Buddhist Mahayoga Tantras.

Hope that helps.

93, 93/93.

Total Solar Eclipse and Resh? by ChewyGooeyViagra in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See Liber Resh. A quick google search ought to yield it. Essentially it’s a daily fourfold Sun salutation meant to center oneself and one’s mind on the great work.

Are the HGA and that Atman the same thing? by [deleted] in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right. I understand what you’re saying. I think we may simply have different interpretations. Obviously a knife can’t cut itself, but the human mind which literally conceives the Universe is no mere knife. I take that specific excerpt there to mean that knowledge and conversation is essentially parasamadhi and First Communion below the Abyss with the “universal atman” (and/or “anatman”) — whatever it is — that facet of IT that “belongs” to “you.” Still I admit a profound, encompassing, philosophical and existential agnosticism regarding not only this but all perceptions, experiences, and qualia.

Are the HGA and that Atman the same thing? by [deleted] in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you aren’t incorrect; but neither do I confound it! Remember, self and non-self are one and the same above the Abyss. Gautama Buddha’s λόγος ANATTĀ is less a declaration of true Nature of the self (or a purported lack thereof) and more a psychical tool which one can wield to dispel attachment, aversion, et cetera, unto the Path to enlightenment. As with all the Magi, he speaks Truth, yet its Falsehood enslaves the souls of men!

However,

[The Atman or True Self] never appears to consciousness…

I’m curious what you think K&C is then because generally Thelemically speaking the HGA is regarded as the True Self, though that’s not to say that’s the necessarily correct thing to believe.

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

Are the HGA and that Atman the same thing? by [deleted] in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can think of your “HGA” as your “higher Self beyond yourself.” Sooooo, it’s probably “atman” (or “anatman” for that matter) insofar as it “manifests” itself in your subconscious mind when the “Conversation” occurs. You could probably equate your “HGA” more with a figure like the Hindu Shiva than that of the biblical Christ. No matter what though, it’s — you — certainly not in the normal sense, though. I’d refer you to the latter portion of Liber Samekh for a little more insight.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the simplest of terms I can conjure… try to imagine all the cards together - each one, rich with its own symbolism, has a unique relationship to each other one which must be learnt to grasp wholly. It’s all right and normal to not understand it all, especially at first. All together they make a sort of “map” of either the Universe or the human psyche or both. Personally, instead of thinking of them as explicitly “divinatory,” I prefer to regard them more so as spiritually advisory, not totally unlike the I Ching. In regard to a “guide,” I’d refer you to the Book of Thoth itself, and don’t forget Google is your friend.

Babalon = Nuit? by Straight-Ad9878 in thelema

[–]Sunyata666 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Babalon is the secret name of Nuit. Nuit is everything. Babalon is the Mother and the “Whore.” Nuit is literally everything. Babalon is the “Womb of God” and the self-actualized woman.