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To:From: Subject: Abyssal Oaths Infernal Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:35:30 +0100 Anno IV viii, 2000e.v.-1996e.n. May 3rd Taurus Event, Dies Mercurii "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" There is no need to sell your freedom to a Masonic Order in exchange for the discipline that it purports to offer. The whole of the Degree System of OTO is available through Naylor/Koenig, so why not Self-Initiate? The secret is, there has never been any other kind of Initiation, and in this Aeon the same is true in the Work of the Transcendent Axis of Magick, as typified by AA. Take the Oaths and Obligations for yourselves, after invoking Hoor, the Lord Initiating. Let the Current do the rest. What about the fraternity of the Order? Build your own. What about the instruction offered within the Order? You will find more of it freely available on the Web than you ever would in the Order. What about building a Thelemic Society? That begins with, and ends with, YOU, in Society and your dealings with it. You are the unit upon which Society is built. What about Community, and the public rituals that inspire us? If you really believe that you need a Masonic Order to allow you to perform the Gnostic Mass, or whatever, then you have missed the script. Organise your own group and get on with it, whatever it may be. Leave the Officials to their politics and their misery. However, a world populated by self-styled Thelemites of such partisan extremes that they are unable to relate to each other, does have a certain darkly splendid humour to it, perhaps that is your intention after all? What about the Secret of the Ninth Degree? How will you have what it takes to succeed in doing your True Will if you are without the Great Secret? First of all get hold of all the Papers that refer to this matter, then set to at least attempting to put it into practise. Keep a good Record. Then compare your Results with what you would expect of any other species of Magickal Act and consider in what way you are falling short. Change ONE item, and continue the experiments. As matters improve repeat this process, with focus on one item at a time. For example, if you have ever charged a Talisman using any other technique, and have achieved a reasonable level of power, then the presence of the Charge should have been quite palpable. Handling the physical material of it will have "burned" with a cool fire, a penetrating rush that leaves the skin tingling for minutes afterwards. (If you have not experienced this then keep at it before moving onto proto-Ninth Degree practices… ) It may be that you are not succeeding in building anything like this degree of manifest charge in your Ninth Degree work… this would be a good place to focus, until you do. There is no point letting the Serpents enter the Menstruum before both parties are aware of the Charge, and it is the CHARGED Menstruum that takes the imprint of the Logos. When you are ready to put your skill in the Service of the Aeon, then you may ramp up the power by accessing Binah. AC said that when a Ninth Degree was performing on behalf of the Order, and that Ninth Degree had already taken the PI Degree, (and that Degree had "worked") then there was no difference in Power between the Ninth Degree and a Master of the Temple in AA … (the Tenth Degree should manifest as a Magus, within the Order.) The trick to self-initiating into this kind of power is to swear a modified version of the Great Oath, limited to the performing of Ninth Degree Work on behalf of the Current. The limited Understanding that then becomes possible within the context of the practice itself will push the process of perfecting of the technique to a level of Understanding OF the Secret Itself. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and if you get Results that show that you are succeeding with the technique, then in keeping with "the Method of Science, the Aim of Religion", you HAVE the Secret. It is in fact likely that you will have it in a far more solid form than most of those who are grasping at it in the upper echelons of OTO, whichever OTO that might be. If you have the Knowledge and Conversation of your HGA then ASK! Just bear in mind that it is in no way consistent with Thelema as Therion intended it, to view the HGA as anything other than a fully separate individual, one who was once a manifest agent upon the Earth, just like you. To think otherwise is to disempower yourself with strange notions about how you are only asking a higher part of you to answer your query. Unless you happen to be an Ipsissimus it simply is not going to work. Then again, if you have the Knowledge, then you have already successfully performed at least ONE Ninth Degree operation, since that is what the Knowledge entails! It is just a matter of repeating it until you remember enough detail to put it into practise on the physical plane… or perhaps you have been fortunate enough to meet your Angel in the flesh, as happens to some of us. Here is the amended Oath: In so far as I am acting as an Officer of the Lord of the Aeon and carrying out the Will of the Aeon in fulfilling my Duty in performance of Ninth Degree Work, then do I take upon myself the Great Obligation as follows: I. I, NAME, a member of the Body of God, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole Universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: II. That I will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the Order: III. That I will understand all things: IV. That I will love all things: V. That I will perform all things and endure all things: VI. That I will continue in the Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy Guardian Angel: OR That I will strive ever unto the Attainment of the Knowledge of my Holy Guardian Abgel: VII. That I will work without attachment: VIII. That I will work in truth: IX. That I will rely only upon myself: X. That I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul. And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the Eye be closed upon me! Should I come finally to face the Ordeal of the Abyss, then will I swear this Oath in its fullness, even as I now swear it as an empowerment of Office in the Work of the Aeon! End of Statement. Enjoy! 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