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| Sadashiva avatar |
March 21, 2018
Just adesh - the Will
March 20, 2018
The Holiest of All Mantras
The third glyph on the second line of the front of the Stele of Revealing shows a standing human figure with arm(s) outstretched towards a feather.
Reading from right to left, this glyph is the first of the series that continues through the first glyph of the third line (a horizontal, squibbly line over three flags) and gives us in transliteration, the mantra found in the Gnostic Mass (see text above).
The melody for the chanting of this is proscribed by Crowley in Magick in Theory & Practice.
March 19, 2018
No restriction
March 18, 2018
The way out
How to get rid of them, to pass beyond or to transcend them, is the problem, and this is as strictly practical and scientific as that of eliminating impurities from a gas, or of adroitly using mechanical laws. Here is the inevitable logical flaw in the sorites of the Adept, that he is bound by the very principles which it is his object to overcome: and on him who seeks to discard them arbitrarily they haste to take a terrible revenge!
It is in practice, not in theory, that this difficulty suddenly
disappears. For when we take rational steps to suspend the operation of the rational mind, the inhibition does not result in chaos, but in the apprehension of the Universe by means of a faculty to which the laws of the Reason do not apply; and when, returning to the normal state, we seek to analyse our experience, we find that the description abounds in rational absurdities."
- Little Essays, Trance by A. Crowley
This is very well put indeed, and what is currently alive here is that the most common pitfall on the path to Freedom, denial, and aversion to personal and impermanent emotional/physical parts of human existence, has been, in my case (for the most part) averted by following the Tantric wisdom.
The Hevajra Tantra teaches the Union of Skillful Means and Profound Cognition (Wisdom or Emptiness); and states that such union helps achieve the powers known as siddhis.
The text belongs to the higher or Inner Tantras and includes the truly famous quote (the one below) that explains a basic tenet of Tantra in only a few words:
"One must rise by that by which one falls.
By whatever thing the world is bound, by that, the bond is unfastened.
Beings are bound by passion and are released by utilizing passion."
The Tantric reverence towards, and dependence on, women in general (and the yoni in particular), is born out in the following three quotes from the text, as is the intimate nature of most higher and secret rituals:
- At all times, whether washing one’s feet or eating, rinsing the mouth, rubbing the hands, girding the hips with a loincloth, going out, making conversation, walking, standing, in wrath, in laughter; the wise man should always worship and honor the lady.
- Concentrate on the triangle of origination in the midst of space.
- I dwell in the yoni of the female in the form of semen.
There are many paths... and in general, we can say there are:
- a path of renunciation (denial of everything that is not "pure light") - an old and boring path in my view,
- a path of transformation (embracing everything and not denying anything, not even sensual pleasures) - the path of ancient Tantra and the path of the new Aeon: Thelema,
- a path of (instant) liberation (focusing on natural Reality without any drama) - Mahamudra and/or Dzogchen.
So, there are a great many ways out, and the experiences we have are in line with previous aspirations and dispositions...
... and conditioned by current intentions. And when intention is to deny, to push away or 'renounce' (to use a fancy spiritual term), "thereby there cometh hurt." (Liber AL I-22)
From beyond the Abyss (lll.)
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May ALL adepts attain the City of Pyramids |
Thus I have heard:
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There is no me; there is no you; there are no forms, skandhas(1) are empty. And yet, nothing else exists apart from me and you; skandhas are imputed upon the ever-(non)-existing Thusness(2), and they appear (not) like clouds from the empty sky.
Trillions of forms are imputed from within upon the Thusness and are non-dual with It. (3)
And one who has attained the Mind-of-no-effort(4), has completed the non-journey, and is joyfully abiding in the Union of No-more-learning(4).
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He is utterly indifferent(5) to positive, negative, and neutral states within and without, for he has seen the ultimate truth.
The infinite power seemingly drives him on, and on, and yet, he does nothing, for events are non-arising, non-abiding, ever non-existent, and self-liberated.
He is fully aware of the twelve deceptions(6) that bind those without the Right view.
Having seen through the sphere of neither-perception nor-non-perception (7), nothing binds him, for he is not. And since he is not, object and subject are (not), and everything is as it always has been, is, and forever will be (not), he is free.
He doesn't care at all about anything. And yet, the Love and Compassion is the Word at one with the Light.
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Just by being, he is constantly creating the manifested Universe. (8)
What is seen is he in myriad forms, and through these forms, he can be known. (8)
When he looks within, the Universe collapses; when he looks without, he is (in) Love.
And through being (in) Love, he is omnipresent, directing herself and her children.
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She can be known only through her powerful presence, for she is darkness in its uttermost transparent sense.
In this no man's land, only the seen can be seen, only the heard can be heard, and there is no one there to say, 'We are one, we are none'. (9)
And yet, her nature is all-embracing, receiving and giving.
She has united with innumerable adepts in the most intimate of ways, for she is the Mother of all the wise ones, the Sacred whore, the Everlasting yoni, the Queen of demons and men and women alike.
There is none else besides Her.
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1. Skandhas: aggregates that generate everything in the field of the mind in the broadest sense.
2. Thusness: words lose their meaning here, but he seems to refer to the so-called dharmadhatu, the primordial nothing that is everything. In Liber B vel magi, this is referred to as "...the grade of Ipsissimus the Mystery of Selflessness, also called the Mystery of Pan." (Liber B, 15.)
3. It Seems he is talking about the Heart sutra (forms are empty, emptiness is form, etc.).
4. These two phrases denote final spiritual attainment, the level of Ipsissimus.
5. Nothing touches the madman.
6. He is sharing the doctrine of "dependent origination", twelve links that "produce" duality and suffering/enjoyment on all levels.
7. He has attained the trance nirodha samapatti.
8. "By His Wisdom made He the Worlds; the Word that is God is none other than He." - Liber B, 2
9. No mental identification of being something or someone remains.
March 16, 2018
From beyond the Abyss (ll.)
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| May ALL adepts attain the City of pyramids |
How shall we live in harmony?
"The Aspirant must well understand that it is no paradox to say that the Annihilation of the Ego in the Abyss is the condition of emancipating the true Self, and exalting it to unimaginable heights. So long as one remains "one's self", one is overwhelmed by the Universe; destroy the sense of self, and every event is equally an expression of one's Will, since it's occurrence is the resultant of the concourse of the forces which one recognizes as one's own." - The Law is for All
Kali and Babalon
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| Om Krim Kali |
"On Kali and Babalon
Babalon and Kali both represent the Forces of Nature that render the dead, through the principles of dissolution and decay into the fertile material for new life, or new potentiality. They are both Goddesses who manifest within time and space - with the time aspect as Kala being particularly important. In this way they both appear at the End of an Age, for the Reclamation of the degeneracy which has taken hold of people and the world.
Kali unmakes the world of mankind at the end of Her age in the East, the Kali Yuga, while Babalon provides a similar role for the Aeon of Pisces in the West, as related by Her portrayal in Revelations. And then there is the fact that both goddesses are blue - it is Babalon's Daughters and the Scarlet Women and the Women of Spirit who are red."
Quote from: Who or what is Babalon?
http://www.templeofbabalon.com/babalon.asp
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