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Subject: EMAIL WITHOUT TEARS Volume 2 Issue 7 9307.01 e.v. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Assalam alaikum, my kin. --------------- Moderator's Note: Three (3) pieces are included this month: An issue of 'The Broken Link', a reprint of an article by Hymenaeus Beta X' called 'Free Will and the Right to Initiation' (the trick is determining which is a satire and which is authentic), and _Liber Rash_, by Frater Nigris. _______________________________________________________________ BEGIN ONE From: Haramullah (Original authors unknown, with some editing for style) The Broken Link (Serving the expelled, the disenfranchised, the suspended, the lapsed, the excommunicated, the members on bad report and the vaguely dissatisfied.) Volume 1 Number 1, 5 e.h.b., 1991 e.v. Do what you're told shall be the whole of the law. __________________________________________________ A MESSAGE FROM MASTER BETA It is a privilege and an honor for me to be able to address the ranks of the expelled, the out-of-favor and the disenfranchised. Thanks to all of you, I have been able to more thoroughly catalogue the wide range of activities for which you can be expelled. As you know, Crowley left a rather sketchy accounting of the offenses warranting expulsion or other punitive action. He seemed to be some kind of anarcho-libertarian with a disdain for rules and order! Luckily, he's not around to be in charge of the Order today! Anyway, although the complete revised set of rules which every Thelemite should abide by consists of 120 meg worth of data which only I can access (as soon as I remember the password), here is a partial list of naughty things for which people have been expelled, suspended, bad reported, or brought up on charges: not paying dues; threatening members; being rumored to have threatened members; molesting little boys; being Frater Achad; being Kenneth Grant; ripping off Crowley stuff and giving it to Charlie Manson; buying Boleskine and not sharing; bookstealing; rentstealing; being rumored to steal; psychic rape; annoying my business partners; publishing secret stuff; claiming psychic attack victory when anything bad happens to your enemies; writing mean letters; repeating sanctuary gossip; possessing documents; being impertinent; being the relative, lover or spouse of anyone who has done any of the above or just generally being an icky person. Those of you reading this who haven't actually been thrown out yet may have committed some of these offenses yourself, or you may know someone who has. In this case, it is your duty to fink. Remember, I bestow political rewards on those with the good taste to fink on their brethren, especially if I can benefit personally. And those of you who are wise enough to fink on yourselves will have the clear conscience of knowing you told the truth, even if it is to your own detriment. I am more enlightened than you, and I am especially qualified to judge your actions, so fink even if the particular offense isn't on this partial list. It might be on the secret list, which you aren't allowed to see. So don't let your ego get in the way of the establishment of the law of Thelema! Drop that dime! Rat on a brother or sister today! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM THE CROWLEY ARCHIVES This cryptic note was found enscribed on a piece of paper found stuck to the original manuscript of Liber Al. The Master Beta found it while he was orgiastically fondling the document, which is kept in a secret place in New York where no one can see it. It reads as follows: eggs kippers leavings of red wine 3 tins each heroin and cocaine white stain remover What could this secret message mean? There is a reference to eggs, which, as we all know, are a part of the Secret of the Sanctuary! Leavings of red wine are mentioned in Liber Al! If you translate this message into Hebrew and add up all the letters, it comes to 3812, which is 93 times 41.8, almost! According to _The Unexpurgated Sephir Sephiroth_ (9 volumes, Dweeb Press, 1990), this number stands for Vague Apathy, Hemorrhoidal Bleeding, the angel Gnarliel and Get A Life, You Kabbalah Nerd! If you find another secret meaning to this message, please send it to Frater Tweekmore, care of the Grand Lodge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW O.T.O. PRODUCTS Soror Sodomy is producing a new line of greeting cards especially for people who have been suspended, expelled, or otherwise disciplined. Buy some to keep in stock, just in case! Frater Brownnose is manufacturing a special line of sex magick condoms which come in a variety of colors, flavors and sigils. Additionally, they come in a variety of sizes, from the petite 'Los Angeles' model to the medium-sized 'New Yorker' style. The cleverly designed 'Expelled Member' model has hundreds of raised pleasure bumps, ridges and hexagrams. It also freezes well, in case you want to preserve your precious bodily fluids for future enjoyment or perhaps mail them to secret English sex magick societies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXCITING CONTEST! Can you name all of the past Grand Secretaries General? If you can, you may be eligible for a drawing to win the 'Grand Secretary General For A Day' contest. Simply list all of the people that you think have been Grand Secretary General and send your list to the Office of the Supreme Grand High Illuminated Pontiff in New York. All correctly spellchecked entries will be eligible. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CROWLEYCOMP NEWS Will fuckyou person who modemed fuckyou program 'Leisure Suit Larry in Modes and Emblems' to fuckyou CrowleyComp bulletin board please identify yourself? Fuckyou program contained a worm in fuckyou form of a program which replaced all repetitions of a common English word in our computer files with an Anglo-Saxon expletive. We believe we have successfully debugged fuckyou computer system, although some of us believe that the program was only modified, so that fuckyou screen appears normal but fuckyou printed text is altered. The person who did this should be ashamed to be a Fuckyoulemite. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIND THE FRATERNITY CONTEST Are they in Fairfax? New York? JAF? Buffalo? Riverside? A wonderful prize may be waiting for you if you can find the fraternity! If you know where to mail your entry, you are probably a winner! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LODGE AND CAMP REPORTS Unfortunately, all of the bodies who remembered to send in their reports have been suspended or expelled. Why do you need to read local gossip anyway? The news from New York should be enough for you. How much do you really know about New York, anyway? Everything is fine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ELECTORAL COLLEGE REPORT The former president has fled in terror, to be replaced by Frater Leroy. Ask Frater Leroy about the original Missing Link some time. We at the Broken Link all approve heartily of this latest change in the hierarchy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORMER MEMBERS' REPORT The former members are all doing fine. Those who never joined in the first place are doing fine. We have good jobs, fantastic sex lives and are invited to the best parties. We are very happy not to be donating our energy wholesale to a bunch of neurotic psychic vampires. This leaves us more energy for our own pursuits! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LAWSUIT ROUNDUP This week the focus is on libel suits. So far the score has been in our favor. Here is a handy libel suit chart: Book: Motta's _Equinox_ What it said about the Order: Various bad things about Grady, Phyllis, Heidrick, etc. Resolution of suit: The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of everyone but Heidrick. Book: _Ghost Story_ What it said about the Order: It is a secret club of vampires. Resolution of suit: Money, Order name changed to 'X.X.X.' in future editions. Book: _The Ultimate Evil_ What it said about the Order: It is a Satanic cult who essentially told Charlie Manson to do it. Resolution of suit: Apology, money. Book: _The Family_ What it said about the Order: Jean Brayton was once a member and she told Charlie Manson to do it. Resolution of suit: Chapter excised from future editions. Book: _Painted Black_ What it said about the Order: It is a Satanic cult whose newletters contain self-serving drivel. Resolution of suit: Settled very recently, probably for nuisance value, as official announcement was rather understated. Publishers promised to print nicer editions in the future. Book: _High Weirdness by Mail_ What it said about the Order: It is composed of antisocial rejects and resentful nerds. Resolution of suit: No suit filed for some reason. _____________________________________________________________________________ Love is the law, love under duress. ______________________________________________________________ END ONE _____________________________________________________________ BEGIN TWO From: Haramullah [Originally printed in 'The Magical Link', Vol. V, #3, 8603 e.v.; bracketed comments mine - Haramullah] 'Free Will and the Right to Initiation' By Caliph Hymenaeus Beta X' ------------------------ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. BAPHOMET XI' redesigned the O.T.O. in order to make it a more suitable vehicle for the promulgation and establishment of the Law of Thelema. As is usually the case with prophets, he was ahead of his time and had perforce to trust his successors to carry on the Work. It's therefore up to us to continue to implement his system as best we can. To do so requires two things - a clear understanding of our principles and unswerving determination to give them timely implementation and a fair shake before developing our own alternatives. The O.T.O. under the Caliphate has operated under several emergency guidelines for the last eight years that are at variance with Baphomet's stated policy. We have, in the last years of Hymenaeus Alpha's term and in the early months of my own, begun turning the Order around with careful consideration as to the timing of the changes. With some changes, however, the sooner made the better - they will become increasingly difficult to bring about the longer we wait, since they will affect more and more people as we continue our growth. Timeliness cuts both ways - in some areas, to wait *too* long to implement a change one knows is necessary is irresponsible. For example, we recently made a waiting period between 0' and I' optional, at the discretion of the candidate. There is plenty of precedent and evidence for this practice and little contradicting it. Agape Lodge generally performed 0'-I' at the same time for those who were ready for it in fact, Hymenaeus Alpha and our two senior Agape Lodge members joined in this fashion. A surviving manuscript ritual in Crowley's hand clearly states that this may be done. We also returned to the use of the old Mysteria Mystical Maxima preliminary pledge-form prior to 0'. Our modern pledge-form (with some modifications) is now used prior to the I' since the candidate vows acceptance of _The Book of the Law_. Finally, we are taking the 'sponsorship' more seriously - two members of initiating body must vouch for the I' candidate. Taking these changes together, it is now possible for somoene to enter a Camp of the Order and take the Minerval Degree without prior knowledge or acceptance of _The Book of the Law_. Sounds pretty daring, doesn't it? But it's not - Baphomet clearly intended this. Considering the substance of the ritual, what better 'set and setting' for getting one's first copy? Candidates may then, of their own free will, take it or leave it - they need not sign a pledge-form vowing its acceptance in advance of their ritual receipt of a copy. If they accept it, and choose to enter the Order proper, *and if they have two sponsors*, they may sign the I' pledge-form and proceed to the I', but only after being forewarned by the initiator of the gravity of this step. Since we don't argue, convert or talk overmuch, we can genuinely demonstrate our respect for the free will of the people we encounter by leaving what could be one of the most important decisions in their lives entirely in their hands. To decide to wait for I', whether two weeks or two years, should not bear any stigma - indeed, some among us will argue that it signifies a positive virtue. Where issues involving free will are concerned, controversy is sure to follow. Since most people want what's best for others, arguments are often adduced to protect people from themselves. In the Order, however, free will means exactly that, and we stand in violation of our own founding principles if we knowingly adopt policies that restrict those we encounter from the free exercise of their Will to join us. There are guidelines in our founding books and Order literature that point up and settle this dilemma. I'll review some of them here since they'll make matters much clearer than my best rhetoric possibly could. "He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. "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." AL II:57-59 First of all, it is a given that a person has a right to be a Thelemite, with all that entails: "The word of the Law is [Thelema]. "Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover,and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "The word of Sin is Restriction." AL I:39-41 "There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system, let not one know well the other!" AL I: 50 Baphomet applied this to the O.T.O. as follows: "Our Holy Order has but Three True Grades; as it is writen in _The Book of the Law_: The Hermit, the Lover, and the Man of Earth." (from _Book 194_). He goes on to say that the Man of Earth Grade "consists of the degrees from Minerval to P.I. The Minerval degree is a Prologue to the First; the degrees subsequent to the Third but pendants to it. In this, the Man of Earth series, there are then but Three Degrees; and these Three are One." (Ibid.). In both _Books 194_ and 52_ (from which letter I quote) Baphomet makes abundantly clear that any Thelemite is entitled to all of the Man of Earth degrees, with certain qualifications: "Every man and woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an indefeasible right to the III'. Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body concerned." (Note that "III'" in this context means all Man of Earth sub-degrees from 0'-P.I. as explained in the excerpt from _Book 194_ above.) The Man of Earth Grade's sub-degrees (0'-P.I.) comprise a complete cycle, as this passage from _Magick Without Tears_ shows: "0'- The Ego is attracted to the Solar System; I' - The Child experiences Birth; II' - The Man experiences Life; III' - He experiences Death. P.I. - This entire cycle of Point-Events is withdrawn into Annihilation." This life-cycle should be largely self-regulating, an impossibility when the same yardstick is applied to every member. Only the candidate is likely to know when to take the next step in this cycle. Acceptance of _Liber Legis_ constitutes "attraction to the Solar System," or if you prefer, "induction into the 93 Current." An arbitrary time period between acceptance of the Law of Thelema and entering the Order is unnecessarily restrictive. To sum up, if a Thelemite is by definition a Man of Earth, Lover or Hermit and the Man of Earth is a single Grade with six sub-degrees (the completion of which are a prerequisite to advancement to Lover or Hermit), then Baphomet's policy of extending to all Thelemites an "indefeasible right" to these degrees makes good sense. In his epistle to Parzival X'[well-known as Frater Achad, Crowley's one-time 'spiritual son'] in _Book 300_, Baphomet has some words of encouragement, and advises against "judging" candidates for initiation: "Note, pray thee, the confidence with which we may proceed. 'They shall gather my children into their fold; they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.' They 'shall'; there is no doubt. Therefore doubt not, but strike with all thy strength. Note also, pray thee, this word: 'The Law is for all.' Do not, therefore 'select suitable persons' in thy worldly wisdom; preach openly the Law to all men. In Our experience We have found that the most unlikely means have produced the best results; and indeed it is almost the definition of a true Magical Formula that the means should be unsuited, rationally speaking, to the end proposed." I don't think that it's overstating the case to say that the process of "bringing up" the full O.T.O. system is of supreme importance in Baphomet's plan for the establishment of [the] Aeon of Horus. We are, after all, his heirs. As always, success will provide whatever proof we require of the wisdom of his design, given a chance. In implementing the changes that lie ahead there is the customary danger of the new and untried, and there will certainly be those who will predict disaster. I feel however that we are much more likely to fail in the Work by abandoning the original design for the passing expedients of the present: "If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me; then expect the direful judgements of Ra Hoor Khuit!" AL I:52 "Many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; but their words have been perverted by their successors, and again and again the Veil has fallen upoln the Holy of Holies." _Book 10_ V. 18 [Hymenaeus Beta X' signature] ________________________________________________________ END TWO ______________________________________________________ BEGIN THREE LIBER RASH vel HILARIOS o. These are the adorations to be performed by Adepts of the A.'. A.'. 1. Let her greet the Night at dusk, lying face down, giving the sign of her caste. And let her say in a sultry voice: Hail fatal Three who spend eternity circumcizing, even those Three who set the limits to length, who laugh at the whining of their dogs at the end of daylight. Tahiti sways gently as She pushes the pram, and Ma-Whore bedeth the realm. Hail fatal Three with a woman's Delight! 2. Also the Moon, let her greet, lying face up, giving the sign of her caste. And let her say in a powerful voice: Hail fecund Three who enjoy a day's noisy humping, even those Three who perform their sacred duty, who laugh at the yipping of their coyotes at the Moon. Tahiti sways gently as She pushes the pram, and Ma-Whore bedeth the realm. Hail fecund Three in desire Burning! 3. Also, in Darkness, let her greet the Starry Heavens, curled in a ball, giving the sign of her caste. And let her say in a soft whisper: Hail sparkling Three who art done with begetting, even those Three who look seductive and coy, who laugh at the barking of their wolves in shadow. Tahiti sways gently as She pushes the pram, and Ma-Whore bedeth the realm. Hail sparkling Three who art willing and Gay! 4. Lastly, at Midnight, let her greet the Void, as she will, giving the sign of her caste. And let her say in a lilting voice: Hail mighty Three who love learning and guiding, even those Three who tell all in their silence, who laugh at the lustful howling of their mates. Tahiti sways gently as She pushes the pram, and Ma-Whore bedeth the realm. Hail mighty Three from the Depths of Chaos! 5. After each of these invocations thou shalt give the sign of violence, and afterward thou shalt perform the adulation of thy Inferior. Then do thou abandon Thyself to holy copulation. 6. Also, it is better if in these adorations thou assume the Goddess-form of Whom thou fearest, as if thou didst encompass Her in the adoration of That which is beyond Her. 7. Thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the Lazy Way which thou hast seen fit to follow, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to allow it in the face of the Stone of Dogma, the Desica Plethora, Foolish Ignorance and Complete Inanity. ------------------------------ Invoke me under my stars. Love is the law, love under will. Completed this Beltaine Day, 1992, 7:00 am. I am I! Frater (I) Nigris (DCLXVI) CCCXXXIII __________________________________________________________________ END THREE Moderator's Note: The deadline for submissions for Vol. 2, #8, August 1st edition, is JULY 17TH, 1993. Send to the email address below. This publication is archived on netcom.com /pub/alamut/ewt, seismo.soar.cs.cmu.edu /occult/magick, and echoed to 93Net by Alamut Camp (contact alamut@netcom.com or the Moderator). Alaikum assalam, my kin Love is the law, love under will. 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