Friday, June 21, 2024

Paul Foster Case's Dilemma

[Paul Foster] Case reported a meeting on the streets of Chicago, in 1909 or 1910, that was to change the course of his life. "Dr. Fludd", a Chicago physician, approached the young Case and greeting him by name, saying he had a message from a "master of wisdom who is my teacher as well as yours."

[In one of the plushest hotel rooms of the Waldorf Astoria, an odd meeting was arranged between Case and the aforementioned teacher.] Case was being offered a choice. He could continue with his successful musical career and live comfortably, or he could dedicate himself to "serve humanity" and thereby play a role in the coming age.

Paul you are at a crossroad. Two paths are open to you. You can continue to pursue a career in classical music. You will be successful and will live a life of relative comfort. Or, you can dedicate yourself to unreservedly serve humanity and play a vital role in the coming Aquarian Age. If you choose this path, you will be given the task to reinterpret the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and put them into a form more accessible to modem seekers. This journey of service may be difficult, with many tests and trials, but in the end I can assure you that you will not starve."

From that time on, Case began to study and formulate the lessons that served as the core curricula [of the school] (...) that Case founded and that continues today.”

Thursday, June 20, 2024

(Quote) Liber Cheth

 "12. And behold! if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine, then shalt thou be cast out into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the Day of Be-with-Us.

13. Yea! verily this is the Truth, this is the Truth, this is the Truth. Unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou.

14. Then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile thee; thou shalt revel with the wanton in the market-place, and the virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. Also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. {26}

15. Yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust.

16. Nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by Hermes the Invisible.

(Video) Damien Echols - The Oroborus, Karma and Transcending Reincarnation

 


Tuesday, June 18, 2024

(Quote) Paul Foster Case, The Book of Tokens

 "Apart from me,

There is neither Wisdom,

Nor knowledge, nor understanding.

Into every state of knowledge do I enter.

Into false knowledge as well as Into true. 

So that I am not less the ignorance of the deluded

Than the wisdom of the sage.

For what thou callest ignorance and folly

Is my pure knowing.

Imperfectly expressed

Through an incomplete image

Of my divine perfection. 

(Video) Tarot Meditations from The Book of Tokens by Paul Foster Case


 

(Quote) Aleister Crowley

"You know how deeply we have always been impressed with the ideas of Sun-rise and Sun-set, and how our ancient brethren, seeing the Sun disappear at night and rise again in the morning, based their religious ideas in this one conception of a Dying and Re-arisen God. This is the central idea of the religion of the Old Æon, but we have left it behind us because although it seemed to be based on Nature (and Nature's symbols are always true), yet we have outgrown this idea which is only apparently true in Nature. Since this great Ritual of Sacrifice and Death was conceived and perpetuated, we, through the observation of our men of science, have come to know that it is not the Sun which rises and sets, but the earth on which we live which revolves so that its shadow cuts us off from the sunlight during what we call night. The Sun does not die, as the ancients thought; it is always shining, always radiating Life and Life. Stop for a moment and get a clear conception of this Sun, how He is shining in the early morning, shining at mid-day, shining in the evening, and shining at night. Have you got this idea clearly in your minds? You have stepped out of the Old Æon and into the New."

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(Quote) Aleister Crowley

 I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered – now I have only one doubt left – which of the twain was God?

Saturday, June 15, 2024

(Quote) From: The Snake That Made Gods of Our Race, by Erica M. Cornelius

 "...the Magus, who applies the Slain God principle in such a way as to spawn an entire Universe through his Word (...) does not sacrifice himself (as the Old Aeon would have had it), but rather transforms himself in an ultimate act of Love. And this self-transformation transforms the world."

(Quote) Aleister Crowley

 "There is thus in this school no attempt to deny that Nature is, as Zoroaster said, "a fatal and evil force"; but Nature is, so to speak, "the First Matter of the Work," which is to be transmuted into gold. The joy is a function of our own part in this alchemy. For this reason we find the boldest and most skillful adepts deliberately seeking out the most repugnant elements of Nature that their triumph may be the greater."

(Quote) From: The Snake That Made Gods of Our Race , by Erica M. Cornelius

 "We enter an age in which flawed human beings may unify the darkness and the light through our incarnations.  Thereby we may house the Holy Spirit and bring Spirit all the way down into the flesh: Thelema!"

(Quote) ABRAHADABRAH


 "To understand what occurs once these archetypes have descended into Tiphareth one needs to appreciate the magickal formula of ABRAHADABRA of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost which Crowley says works out of the lower Ruach. In this formula the Father represents the nature of the archetypal or syncronistic seed (Abra) descending through Tiphareth from Above while the Son represents the cause and effect of Phallic energy (Abra) through the sphere of Hod on the Below. The Holy Ghost (Had) is seen as a female divinity known in Gnosticism as Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom. She represents the goddess Nuit in her lower manifestation which resides within the sphere of Netzach. The Gnostics believed that Christ and Sophia are the left and right hands of God, both husband and wife above the Abyss, and Son and daughter Below. ... The Gnostics understood that Christ can only manifest his Logos or Word into the world through Sophia.... Finally, the Goddess Sophia or HAD, which lies between ABRA (one hand) and ABRA (another hand), is also known as the Greek goddess of Wisdom or Metis. She is central to the Mysteries of Baphomet." -- J. Edward Cornelius