Liber Circumvectio Hyades
(being: The Book of the Seven's Circumvention)
On the Planets:
The sun and Venus mystery is a central key of Liber AL, relating both to the sex magick system Crowley purported and to the yetziratic system already existing in 777.
To understand this fully, its important to keep in mind the relation of the pentagram to Venus in the heavens: in five synodic movements, Venus draws an almost symmetrically perfect pentagram over the earth every eight years. There are five regular and five retrograde conjunctions, which form both an averse and an upright pentagram. When the Sun and Venus conjunct, the point of the star is drawn. In sex magick and in eucharistic functions such as the ones prescribed by AL and Liber XV, both planets have gender; the order of which reverses when Venus moves from direct to retrograde. Arguably, 'consecrating the Eucharist' is only possible during the three days when the sun and Venus are in conjunction.
The sun and Venus mystery is a central key of Liber AL, relating both to the sex magick system Crowley purported and to the yetziratic system already existing in 777.
To understand this fully, its important to keep in mind the relation of the pentagram to Venus in the heavens: in five synodic movements, Venus draws an almost symmetrically perfect pentagram over the earth every eight years. There are five regular and five retrograde conjunctions, which form both an averse and an upright pentagram. When the Sun and Venus conjunct, the point of the star is drawn. In sex magick and in eucharistic functions such as the ones prescribed by AL and Liber XV, both planets have gender; the order of which reverses when Venus moves from direct to retrograde. Arguably, 'consecrating the Eucharist' is only possible during the three days when the sun and Venus are in conjunction.
These movements take shape in this manner because of the fact that Venus completes ten orbits in the time it takes the earth to complete eight. Thus giving the regular and retrograde track across the sky the appearance of the five pointed star. This track is not completely perfect because Venus will not return to its original point on the elliptic but will 'tick' to the next point, thus making the Holy Pentagram move like a giant clock in the heavens upon 72 divisions of the circle (5 X 72= 360*).
These movements take shape in this manner because of the fact that Venus completes ten orbits in the time it takes the earth to complete eight. Thus giving the regular and retrograde track across the sky the appearance of the five pointed star. This track is not completely perfect because Venus will not return to its original point on the elliptic but will 'tick' to the next point, thus making the Holy Pentagram move like a giant clock in the heavens upon 72 divisions of the circle (5 X 72= 360*). From their high vantage point in the Andes, the Mayans not only could observe Venus very clearly they were also close enough to see the visible phases of venus like the moon! The 'venus cycle', logically enough coincides with the eight year pentagram cycle. The Mayans in their calendar refer to these eight year periods as 'Baktuns' and rely upon the movements of Venus to accurately clock time passing. We are now in the last Baktun which will end on June 6, 2012 of course. What is also interesting is this particular cycle is flanked at its beginning and its end by transits of venus (where venus traverses visibly in front of the orb of the Sun.)
In like manner, Mercury reveals the secret to the Holy Hexagram or Star of David. Mercury has a very very short orbital period. Completing three orbits in just fifty weeks, this allows three regular and three direct conjuctions which form a perfect Star of David in the heavens. To the Martinists and the Manichaeans, this seems to be a vital stellar key, as the conjunctions seem to occur in the same order of dedications of the points of the Temple.
These movements take shape in this manner because of the fact that Venus completes ten orbits in the time it takes the earth to complete eight. Thus giving the regular and retrograde track across the sky the appearance of the five pointed star. This track is not completely perfect because Venus will not return to its original point on the elliptic but will 'tick' to the next point, thus making the Holy Pentagram move like a giant clock in the heavens upon 72 divisions of the circle (5 X 72= 360*). From their high vantage point in the Andes, the Mayans not only could observe Venus very clearly they were also close enough to see the visible phases of venus like the moon! The 'venus cycle', logically enough coincides with the eight year pentagram cycle. The Mayans in their calendar refer to these eight year periods as 'Baktuns' and rely upon the movements of Venus to accurately clock time passing. We are now in the last Baktun which will end on June 6, 2012 of course. What is also interesting is this particular cycle is flanked at its beginning and its end by transits of venus (where venus traverses visibly in front of the orb of the Sun.)
In like manner, Mercury reveals the secret to the Holy Hexagram or Star of David. Mercury has a very very short orbital period. Completing three orbits in just fifty weeks, this allows three regular and three direct conjuctions which form a perfect Star of David in the heavens. To the Martinists and the Manichaeans, this seems to be a vital stellar key, as the conjunctions seem to occur in the same order of dedications of the points of the Temple.
On John Dee and Edward Kelley:
Dr. John Dee was an Elizabethan court astrologer under Elizabeth I. Dee was an educated Qaballist and initiate of many secret societies of that time. His work and writings are unique and stand apart from the other scholars of his period, as his work departs from the traditional in many radical ways. This resulted from 'visitations' by what he referred to as angelic beings. From these incidents Dee received an entire distinct theurgic system which has little resemblance to the classical Qaballah. These beings (chief among them claiming to be the angel Michael) 'transmitted' this whole system, alphabet and language that has its own grammar and syntax, its own gematria and Qaballah which relates only slightly to any other classical hermetic system. Dee reckoned with this in his writings by creating vast sets tables using the native alphabet which he 'received' in crystal gazing experiments. These beings referred to this language as the 'Tongue of Angels' and referred to the first chapter of Genesis saying that this had been the language and Magick used by the grandson of Adam, Enoch ("Who was not for god took him"). In modern times this body of techniques and writings have been referred to as 'Enochian Magick'. In this material was a method known as 'scrying the aeythyrs' which is similar to the' 'astral plane travel' taught in the Classical Kabbalah. Chief of these are what he called the twelve fold and forty nine fold 'tables'. The twelve fold table is a zodiacal chart which employ the Celestial Houses in Enochian Magick, the 49 fold table also has an astrological lexicon and template which has rarely been fully explained. The forty-nine fold table has to do with the conjunctions of the Seven Sacred Planets and the operations of the table are governed by the cycle of conjunctions of these planets. These aspects are 42 in number (you cant have sun conjunct sun, etc.) which is similar to the '42 fold name of God'. Therefore this is not just a name, but a glyph concealing this formula which is in itself a protracted, perhaps lifelong, ritual operation. (Many of the outer conjunctions are very rare in the sequence, and might only occur two or three times in a human lifetime.
Because of the time constraint working the Bonarum is a difficult task requiring the total commitment of the practitioner. If one wishes to use the sex magick technology created by the Prophet with these planetary movements with a partner it can be doubly prohibitive as compatible partners who are suited and eager for this kind of work can be rare indeed. Charging talismans or 'creating the homonculus' timed with these conjunctions can be very powerful indeed and can allow the magician much greater control of the yetziratic attributes of the 'child' by virtue of the infusion of specific planetary energies.
Some spurious accounts assert that Crowley had worked up stellar charts to go with De Arte Magica (which were omitted from the original edition and have never been published) similar to 777, which map out proper angelic and god names for all of these operations. The umbrella term which has been emerging in modern times is 'Stellar Magick'.
Dee and Kelly's final demise is a a classic narrative. Terrfied of the imagery his work was evoking, never completing the thirty aethyr system which he is responsible for creating, being stopped in their tracks when Dee called to the Seventh Aeythyr, there facing Babalon for the first time in human history. Her message was at that time very terrible for a 16th English gentleman to confront:
I am the daughter of fortitude, & ravished every hour, from my youth, for behold, I am understanding, & science dwelleth in me : & the heavens oppress me, They covet and desire me with infinite appetite few or none that are earthly have embraced me for I am shadowed with the circle of the sun : and covered with the morning clouds: My feet are swifter than the winds, & my hands are sweeter than the morning dew. My garments are from the beginning: & my dwelling place is in my self. The lion knoweth not where I walk : neither do the beasts of the field understand me. I am deflowered & yet a virgin. I sanctify & am not sanctified happy is he that embraceth me. for in the night season I am sweet, in the day full of pleasure my company is a harmony of many cymbals And my lips sweeter than health itself. I am a harlot for such as ravish me : and a virgin with such as know me not : for lo I am loved of many : & I am a lover to many: and as many as come unto me as they should do, have their entertainment. Purge your streets o you sons of men, & wash your houses clean Make your selves holy, & put on righteousness Cast out your old strumpets, & burn their clothes Abstain from the company of other women that are defiled, that are sluttish, & not so handsome, & beautiful as I. And then will I come & dwell amongst you. And behold I will bring forth Children unto you: & they shall be the sons of comfort I will open my garments, & stand naked before you that your love may be more enflamed toward me.As yet, I walk in the clouds, As yet, I am carried with the winds : And can not descend unto you for the multitude of your abominations, & the filthy loathsomeness of your dwelling places. Behold these fowre, who is he, that shall say, they have sinned : or unto whom shall they make account? Not unto you, you sons of men, nor unto your children : for unto the lord belongeth the Judgment of his servants Now therefore, let the earth give forth her fruits unto you : And let the mountains forsake their barrenness where your footsteps shall remain. happy is he that saluteth you : & cursed is he that holdeth up his hands against you. & power shall be given unto you from hence forth to resist your enemies : & the lord shall always here you in the times of your troubles. And I am sent unto you to play the harlot with you : And am to enrich you with the spoils of other men : prepare for me, for I come shortly. Provide your Chambers for me that they may be sweet & cleanly : for I will make a dwelling place amongst you : and I will be common with the father & the son, yea and with all them that truly favoreth you for my youth, is in her flower and my strength is not to be extinguished with man. Strong am I above & below. Therefore, provide for me. for behold I now salute you. And let peace be amongst you : for I am the Daughter of Comfort. Disclose not my secrets unto women : nether let them understand how sweet I am. For all things belongeth not unto every one. I come unto you again.
Dee and Kelley did not seem to be able to complete or perhaps even begin the working of the 42 conjunctions, the Bonarum and the Sun/Venus mystery have remained obscure, guardedly secret, and largely unattacked from any pure research perspective. Frater Damon QBLH, (the late William W. Webb) was the first person ever to declare these secrets openly in any medium.
Aleister Crowley however was one of the only people who, from an extant perspective, 'opened the way' of the Thirty Aeythyrs by completing the plane travel that Dee and Kelley had begun, however Frater Damon taught us that the Prophet never knew the Pentagram solution to Sun/Venus. and in 'De Arte Magica' he dismisses 'timed rites' as unscientific and 'superstitous' one can only assume if he was ignorant of it, then the True Authors of Liber AL and the True Source of his gnosis transmitted these things through his work unknown to him to successive generations. We can only assume he was able to unknowingly work the Sun/Venus by virtue of his daily operations. Nonetheless the Angel admonishes the Prophet about the '42 assessors' in the third aeythyr vision of Liber 418
"It is the figure of the Magus of the Taro; and in his right arm the torch of the flames blazing upwards; in his left the cup of poison, a cataract into Hell. And upon his head the evil talisman, blasphemy and blasphemy and blasphemy, in the form of a circle. That is the greatest blasphemy of all. On his feet hath he the scythes and swords and sickles; daggers; knives; every sharp thing20, --- a millionfold, and all in one. And before him is the Table that is a Table of wickedness, and 42-fold Table. This Table is connected with the 42 Assessors of the Dead, for they are the Accursers, whom the soul must baffle; and with the 42-fold name of God, for this is the Mystery of Iniquity, that there was ever a beginning at all. And this Magus casteth forth, by the might of his four weapons, veil after veil; a thousand shining colours, ripping and tearing the Aethyr, so that it is like jagged saws, or like broken teeth in the face of a young girl, or like disruption, or madness. There is a horrible grinding sound, maddening. This is the mill in which the Universal Substance, which is ether, was ground down into matter."
The Bonarum remains largely unworked, and Stellar Magick of this type remains an open task to all of the Prophet's direct and indirect Heirs.
The Bonarum remains largely unworked, and Stellar Magick of this type remains an open task to all of the Prophet's direct and indirect Heirs.
Tom Explains Joel's Exegesis:
"By a Magus is this writing made known through the mind of a Magister."
Joel Love found a gematria solution in the late 1990's, which relates the Sun/Venus/Pentagram formula intimately to the symbolism revealed in Liber AL.
ABRAHADABRA is a word which, from a hebrew gematria perspective, unveils and conceals the sun and venus via several recursive formulae within the word itself:
HAD is thelemic for IAO in that Daleth and He' fulfill the role of Isis and Osiris as the Emperor and the Empress in the Tarot.
"By a Magus is this writing made known through the mind of a Magister."
Joel Love found a gematria solution in the late 1990's, which relates the Sun/Venus/Pentagram formula intimately to the symbolism revealed in Liber AL.
ABRAHADABRA is a word which, from a hebrew gematria perspective, unveils and conceals the sun and venus via several recursive formulae within the word itself:
HAD is thelemic for IAO in that Daleth and He' fulfill the role of Isis and Osiris as the Emperor and the Empress in the Tarot.
Chap. 54 of the Book of Lies reads:"Five and forty apprentice masons out of work! Fifteen fellow-craftsmen out of work! Three Master Masons out of work! All these sat on their haunches waiting The Report of the Sojourner; for THE WORD was lost. This is the Report of the Sojourners: THE WORD was LOVE;(23) and its number is An Hundred and Eleven. Then said each AMO;(24) for its number is An Hundred and Eleven. Each took the Trowel from his LAP,(25) whose number is AN Hundred and Eleven. Each called moreover on the Goddess NINA,(26) for Her number is An Hundred and Eleven. Yet with all this went The Work awry; for THE WORD OF THE LAW IS {Theta-Epsilon-Lambda-Eta-Mu-Alpha}."
204 = 93 (Will/Thelema/Venus) + 111 (Love/Agape/Sun)So Abrahadabra is not only a convenient glyph for the concept of Love under Will, but we see that it also reveals that the phrase itself is also a glyph for the sun and venus. It also smacks of the syncretization of English Qaballah with the older Greek and Hebrew systems.
So Liber AL is unveiling and concealing this whole system and this whole key, which in itself does not marry thelema to any one planetary formula. As much as thelema is solar phallic it is also a solar goddess cult, and a lunar/venusian god cult, and more.
Dont forget also that Nuit says: "
"To love me is better than all things!"
and Hadit says:
"Who has worshipped Heru-Paar-Kraat has worshipped me , ill, for I am the worshipper."
Thus Nuit is the central deity of Thelema.
Thus, God is a co-worshipper of Goddess with us.
Scriptual metaphors in AL to the pentagram and the sun and Venus:
"Invoke me under my stars!"(stars=Sun and Venus)"
"The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him."
(Direct reference to ABRAHADABRA)
"Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride:"
(Blue=Venus in the queen's scale and gold is the Sun.)
"My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. "
(obscured and lunar to the blind but seen of the seeing of sun and venus and the 'five-pointed star)
"The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Tum,"
(door: again a reference to daleth and venus and Ra and Tum both being names for the sun.)
So Liber AL is unveiling and concealing this whole system and this whole key, which in itself does not marry thelema to any one planetary formula. As much as thelema is solar phallic it is also a solar goddess cult, and a lunar/venusian god cult, and more.
Dont forget also that Nuit says: "
"To love me is better than all things!"
and Hadit says:
"Who has worshipped Heru-Paar-Kraat has worshipped me , ill, for I am the worshipper."
Thus Nuit is the central deity of Thelema.
Thus, God is a co-worshipper of Goddess with us.
Scriptual metaphors in AL to the pentagram and the sun and Venus:
"Invoke me under my stars!"(stars=Sun and Venus)"
"The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him."
(Direct reference to ABRAHADABRA)
"Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride:"
(Blue=Venus in the queen's scale and gold is the Sun.)
"My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. "
(obscured and lunar to the blind but seen of the seeing of sun and venus and the 'five-pointed star)
"The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Tum,"
(door: again a reference to daleth and venus and Ra and Tum both being names for the sun.)
De Arte Magica in Simple Language:
Basically, the method or technique of sex magick in Thelema is what the Prophet referred to as 'Erotocomatose-Lucidity' and it is an example of the more general technique of 'gnosis by exhaustion' which is 'excitatory' in nature, and of a sexual emphasis. In short, it requires the participation of three individuals, regardless of gender, two of which continuously arouse the other in an attempt to exhaust him/her. The whole idea is to exhaust the person into sleeping, and then, to refuse to allow said person into deep sleep, this is done by sexually exciting the individual over and over rousing them continually until a 'Dhyana' (concentration) yoga state is achieved in REM sleep during orgasm. This has been referred to as the 'Sleep of Shiloh'am' and is most graphically depicted on the Hanged Man trump in the Thoth tarot.
This being the basic template for our operations lets move onto some of the devotional/theurgic theories and application. ( A note: a monogamous couple could accomplish this state, however at least one of them would have to be in excellent physical condition to keep up the pace, the neccessity of the two worshippers is physical limitation, they must work in tandem, one taking over when the other is too winded to continue.) These two must through whatever means keep the subject aroused repeatedly, via any type of fetishistic vehicle that may be available to stimulate the celebrant (BDSM etc.). The two worshipers must be careful and ethical about the releasing of tantric energy from the celebrant, as a transfer of such energy will occur from the nearly comatose celebrant to the two worshipers, all the sperm and/or menstruum is this medium of transfer for this energy. And oral consumption is the method. It is important that these not be swallowed, but that they be exchanged and held in the mouth so that the 'elixir' may penetrate the mucous membrane and nerve ganglia in the oral cavity. Special care must be taken, many of the legends of vampirism have arisen, from the wrong application of this practice, without the 'rule of the stars' this becomes a base practice, a form of parasitism.
Basically, the method or technique of sex magick in Thelema is what the Prophet referred to as 'Erotocomatose-Lucidity' and it is an example of the more general technique of 'gnosis by exhaustion' which is 'excitatory' in nature, and of a sexual emphasis. In short, it requires the participation of three individuals, regardless of gender, two of which continuously arouse the other in an attempt to exhaust him/her. The whole idea is to exhaust the person into sleeping, and then, to refuse to allow said person into deep sleep, this is done by sexually exciting the individual over and over rousing them continually until a 'Dhyana' (concentration) yoga state is achieved in REM sleep during orgasm. This has been referred to as the 'Sleep of Shiloh'am' and is most graphically depicted on the Hanged Man trump in the Thoth tarot.
This being the basic template for our operations lets move onto some of the devotional/theurgic theories and application. ( A note: a monogamous couple could accomplish this state, however at least one of them would have to be in excellent physical condition to keep up the pace, the neccessity of the two worshippers is physical limitation, they must work in tandem, one taking over when the other is too winded to continue.) These two must through whatever means keep the subject aroused repeatedly, via any type of fetishistic vehicle that may be available to stimulate the celebrant (BDSM etc.). The two worshipers must be careful and ethical about the releasing of tantric energy from the celebrant, as a transfer of such energy will occur from the nearly comatose celebrant to the two worshipers, all the sperm and/or menstruum is this medium of transfer for this energy. And oral consumption is the method. It is important that these not be swallowed, but that they be exchanged and held in the mouth so that the 'elixir' may penetrate the mucous membrane and nerve ganglia in the oral cavity. Special care must be taken, many of the legends of vampirism have arisen, from the wrong application of this practice, without the 'rule of the stars' this becomes a base practice, a form of parasitism.
The Homonculus, Talismans and Magickal Children:
Although the Bonarum is the outer guide or the 'map of the territory' it is important to keep in mind the function of the talisman and the beings and entities which can be realeased or even created by this Magick. In a nutshell all acts of sex cause conception when they result in orgasm, this includes masturbation, conception still takes place even in this case, but the being conceived is of course purely astral. Most of us are never aware of the psychic influence of these beings around us, which have either been attracted by the sex act or generated by it. However a large part of sex magick is the direction and outright use of these beings hopefully in the most religious sense possible.
With these beings three things can be done:
1. The being can be loaded with desired attributes, then invoked into oneself in order to produce a desirable change in health or personality, or to gain some needed mental faculty or discipline.
2. The being can be cast into a constructed talisman or effigy (with the fluids again) similar to devotional (bhakti) yoga. Thus effecting change in the outer environment of the magician. (this is the most common method used.) This talisman can be goetic, enochian, abramelin or even A.O. Spare's method.
3. Lastly, and most dangerous, this being can be willfully cast into an unborn foetus, thus rendering the unborn child with deliberately crafted and native magickal powers, in the old aeon, the whole idea was to enthrall this spirit and make it a 'familiar'. However with the new aeon of Aquarius and Thelema, the child will more likely excercise its own will with the massive amount of energies the magician has given it. This can be done remotely and does not even have to be one's own conceived child but can be the child of another man and a preistess the magician has worked with, or not. It can be done without the couples' knowledge altogether, Crowley said himself that a Magus was often surrounded by children most of whom were not his own biological children, but were intently his 'magickal children.'
Although the Bonarum is the outer guide or the 'map of the territory' it is important to keep in mind the function of the talisman and the beings and entities which can be realeased or even created by this Magick. In a nutshell all acts of sex cause conception when they result in orgasm, this includes masturbation, conception still takes place even in this case, but the being conceived is of course purely astral. Most of us are never aware of the psychic influence of these beings around us, which have either been attracted by the sex act or generated by it. However a large part of sex magick is the direction and outright use of these beings hopefully in the most religious sense possible.
With these beings three things can be done:
1. The being can be loaded with desired attributes, then invoked into oneself in order to produce a desirable change in health or personality, or to gain some needed mental faculty or discipline.
2. The being can be cast into a constructed talisman or effigy (with the fluids again) similar to devotional (bhakti) yoga. Thus effecting change in the outer environment of the magician. (this is the most common method used.) This talisman can be goetic, enochian, abramelin or even A.O. Spare's method.
3. Lastly, and most dangerous, this being can be willfully cast into an unborn foetus, thus rendering the unborn child with deliberately crafted and native magickal powers, in the old aeon, the whole idea was to enthrall this spirit and make it a 'familiar'. However with the new aeon of Aquarius and Thelema, the child will more likely excercise its own will with the massive amount of energies the magician has given it. This can be done remotely and does not even have to be one's own conceived child but can be the child of another man and a preistess the magician has worked with, or not. It can be done without the couples' knowledge altogether, Crowley said himself that a Magus was often surrounded by children most of whom were not his own biological children, but were intently his 'magickal children.'
Emblems and Modes in Plain English:
The White Eagle is the clear fluids of the vagina and the priestess.
The Serpent is the Spermatozoa itself.
The Red Lion is menstrual blood itself.
The use of these symbols in alchemical art refer to the act of sex magick.
These symbols should be used in all Talismanic operations and the temple itself may be decorated with them.
All symbols, furnishings, jewelry, and dress should reflect the devotional process of the Work and the Goal itself of the operation.
Thelemites who are initiates of this method typically use the following images:
1. The Sun, Venus or other appropriate planetary sigil.
2. A phallic symbol. (This can be a pylon or a sacred lingam stone or any monolithic figure synonymous with the phallus.)
3. The Holy Seven Pointed Star of Our Lady Babalon.
4. The Stele of Revealing itself.
5. The seal of the Knights Templar.
6. Images of Baphomet himself and Our Lady Babalon.
7. The Eye of Horus.
8. The Image of Horus on a Crocodile or upon the Lotus.
9. Babalon depicted with a holy mantra such as 'Om mani padme hum.' or 'Aum Namaha Shivaya.'
10. The figure of Isis with the Child Horus at her Breast. (The Image of Mary with the infant Christ can be used in a concealed sense.)
11. The Lamen of One's Native Order. (Notice that in the Lamen of the NOT, I have discarded the Lion and the Eagle in favor the more cognate symbol of the 'double headed alchemical hawk' which is both red and white. Revision is possible and ultimately inevitable, the technique is fixed , but the symbols which describe it can be wide and varied.)
12. An image of the Rose Cross itself.
13. Or, the Crucifix itself, only if iis phallic nature be understood. (It is well if the Magician knows the Cross's original relation to the Babylonian God Tammuz.)
14. Any other cognate talismans.
15. A Flame from a candle or some other natural living source.
These images truly do frighten away any demonic influences which would 'impregnate' the operation causing all kinds of mayhem to occur.
The White Eagle is the clear fluids of the vagina and the priestess.
The Serpent is the Spermatozoa itself.
The Red Lion is menstrual blood itself.
The use of these symbols in alchemical art refer to the act of sex magick.
These symbols should be used in all Talismanic operations and the temple itself may be decorated with them.
All symbols, furnishings, jewelry, and dress should reflect the devotional process of the Work and the Goal itself of the operation.
Thelemites who are initiates of this method typically use the following images:
1. The Sun, Venus or other appropriate planetary sigil.
2. A phallic symbol. (This can be a pylon or a sacred lingam stone or any monolithic figure synonymous with the phallus.)
3. The Holy Seven Pointed Star of Our Lady Babalon.
4. The Stele of Revealing itself.
5. The seal of the Knights Templar.
6. Images of Baphomet himself and Our Lady Babalon.
7. The Eye of Horus.
8. The Image of Horus on a Crocodile or upon the Lotus.
9. Babalon depicted with a holy mantra such as 'Om mani padme hum.' or 'Aum Namaha Shivaya.'
10. The figure of Isis with the Child Horus at her Breast. (The Image of Mary with the infant Christ can be used in a concealed sense.)
11. The Lamen of One's Native Order. (Notice that in the Lamen of the NOT, I have discarded the Lion and the Eagle in favor the more cognate symbol of the 'double headed alchemical hawk' which is both red and white. Revision is possible and ultimately inevitable, the technique is fixed , but the symbols which describe it can be wide and varied.)
12. An image of the Rose Cross itself.
13. Or, the Crucifix itself, only if iis phallic nature be understood. (It is well if the Magician knows the Cross's original relation to the Babylonian God Tammuz.)
14. Any other cognate talismans.
15. A Flame from a candle or some other natural living source.
These images truly do frighten away any demonic influences which would 'impregnate' the operation causing all kinds of mayhem to occur.
Final Words:
Siblings, I would that you would use this material wisely, but moreover, I will that you should be able to practice these arts as you see fit, without the oversight of a cruel or distant master to whom you must swear blind obedience. I do not present these materials as dogma, or as an orthodoxy. I present them to you as 'intersting facts' on which you may be at this point well advised. Remember: "Be careful what you ask for, and you are what you eat."
-Taammuz