Well happy early March 2024 yesterday was uh what we call in the United States super Tuesday which uh where there are many uh election primaries primary elections 15 states or something like that and uh so everybody is uh is either trying to ignore political gymnastics or they’re they’re
Involved in them anyway uh it was very un uh the the results were pretty much as as expected uh uh but anyway because because uh uh it’s March and March is uh in the thalmic ecclesiastical calendar if you want to call it that uh the dates leading up to
Uh uh officially from like March uh 20th or 21st uh through uh uh April 11th is sort of like the high holy days of FMA because of the the events of 194 which took place in Cairo uh Egypt that that uh eventually led to the reception of
Uh the primary holy book of thma the the book of the law and so uh it was very uh uh like all legendary beginnings of of religion there’s there’s sort of the the fairy talish version uh of uh what transpired and then that there was a more kind of
Objective reality of what was going on but we’re about ready to enter that that pH that phase and uh uh much of it is outlined kind of in detail in Crowley’s Equinox of the Gods uh and uh as the days go by here I’ll probably uh link us up in our
Morning uh talks about uh what was going on and the possible significance of it of it uh to us here today but I thought it was kind of interesting because it it was uh exactly 120 years ago 120 years ago and uh 120 years sort of rings a bell with
Or should ring a bell with those of us who are interested in the the rosac cruin kind of uh uh modern hermetic uh hermetic thought because uh of the legend of Christian Rosen croz and I’m sure I’m pronouncing that incorrectly but I don’t care
Uh who uh who di died and was buried and his his followers uh rediscovered his a tomb uh after 120 years 120 starts to have a big cabalistic significance and uh so I thought it’s kind of interesting that uh the entire book of the law uh incarnation of thic thought began
Exactly 120 years ago and uh uh I couldn’t help but think about the uh the fact that well has it has it slumbered in an embryonic State stage for 120 years and what’s going to happen uh when when we ReDiscover the the the tomb of it but anyway that’s a
Speculation that I may uh uh develop further in the days that that go uh that follow these high holy days of the Lima right now I just want to ask the simple question about the objectivity or the subjectivity of uh of uh spirits and angels and demons and things like that
In the book that I’ve been uh sharing with you the magic without tears uh book of Crowley’s letters to to uh disciples some of which he wrote very late in his life where he was putting things together and some of the letters were uh were from early his earlier
Years and there’s one chapter that’s just titled do angels cut themselves shaving and uh he sort of tries to answer that question maybe someday I’ll I’ll read his answer to that but uh uh this morning I just want to share a very short one that I’m I feel
Moved to uh to share with you and it’s the chapter 43 if you’re uh if you have a copy uh the holy Guardian Angel an objective individual now this is a fundamental argument or at least a subject of of uh uh disagreement among magicians of all ilks and uh you know
I a firm believer in that’s all in your head you just have no idea how big your head is uh and people think that well Law’s saying it’s all subjective no I’m saying there is no outside of your head there is no outside of your head so it is objective anything
That’s objective is subjective and I have very many reasons uh to look at it that way uh mostly because uh everything you perceive in life all the objective things you see you process inside yourself and so they are inside yourself okay um I just like to share it’s very it’s
Very short and I I’ll let us all get back to our lives uh today but uh here it is K Sor do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law on going over some recent letters I see that you meant not only to inquire into the order of being to which
Angels belong but as to whether they are liable to accident Misfortune and the like do they cut themselves shaving okay the answer is it depends on the angel for the purpose of this letter I propose to use the word quote Angel unquote to include all sorts of disembodied beings
From demons to gods in all cases they are objective a subjective Angel is different from a dream only in only in non-essentials okay so let me say that again I propose to use the word Angel to include all sorts of disembodied beings from demons to gods in all cases they are
Objective a subjective Angel is different from a dream only in nonessentials now some angels are actually emanations of elements planets or signs in which they are tributed they are partial beings in very much the same way as are animals well you’d have some disagreement there they are not microcosms as are men and
Women they are almost entirely composed of the planet or whatever it is to which they are attributed the other components of the being I take to be almost identical for example the angel ratel is the Lord of a company of angels called ofanim a h a n i m
Ofm and one must not imagine that all these angels are identical with one another or there should not seem to be much sense in it they have some sort of composition some sort of individuality and the character and appearance of the angel can be determined by its name here comes the
Cabala I do not think I have anywhere mentioned how this is done to take an example let’s have KL the the Hebrew letters KL so that’d be K do me Olive lad KL and the NuMe uh the numeration is 175 which is that of the sum of the first 49
Letters excuse me 49 numbers so 1+ 2+ 3+ for all the way to 49 is uh 175 and 49 is 7 squar s is Venus we may then expect the head or headdress of the spirit to have some characteristic of the sign Pisces that’s for the Q There see cof the general form
Of the body will be indicated by the dollar D the letter of Venus and the lower part or perhaps the quality will be determined by the watery M and the termination of olive lamad a God is usually taken to indicate appropriate symbols okay the appropriate symbols for that would
Be uh Olive might have a golden aura and lamad which is Justice or Libra a pair of balances some further detail might be indicated by taking the letters doth and me DM which means uh excuse me for Dam which is a Hebrew word for blood from such considerations one can
Build up a pictorial representation in one’s mind which may serve as a standard to which any appearance of him should more or less conform in other words you can build your own idea of what an angel looks like by uh taking the letters of its uh of its
Name the question then takes the form of inquiry how far such beings are Immortal or Eternal in the above case evidently his existence depends on that of the planet Venus and one might suppose that if the planet were stricken from the solar system there would be no more
Ketl but this is to judge too rashly for Venus itself is only an emanation of the number seven and is therefore indestructible it is some idea as the above which is at the back of the conventional idea that Elementals are Immortal that they uh uh incur mortality when their ambition and devotion causes
Them to Incarnate as human beings now can an angel of this sort ever go wrong by which one must mean can he ever be untrue to his own nature I do not see how one can imagine this to happen for they are so completely creatures of the elements of
Which they are composed that they must be regarded as completely devoid of will in any intelligible sense of the word their actions in fact are merely reactions there are of course entirely lacking of the superal Triad uh how can I do this I’m drawing a Tree of Life Here okay and then down here I’m drawing a uh okay there would be the down here would be the the planetary and the elemental worlds down here and this is a superal Triad of the Tree of Life up here all of the all of this is taking place below the superal Triad or
Where there’s at least a uh a shot at manifesting something but I digress let’s see where am I uh let’s see the are entirely lacking the spinal Triad there is therefore no question of anything in them which would persist through change perhaps it’d be better to say
That the change does not really affect them another way to put it would be that they are adjectives and not nouns they are merely sensible manifestations of the elements to which they are attributed and to the letters of their name now on the other hand there is an
Entirely different type of Angel and here we must be especially careful to remember that we include gods and Devils for there are such beings who are not by any means dependent on one particular element for their existence they are microcosms in exactly the same way as men and women are they
Are individ uals who have picked up the elements of their composition as possibly as a possibility in convenience dictates exactly as we do ourselves I want you to understand that a goddess like aarte astero uh kto Aphrodite haor Venus are not merely aspects of the planet they are separate individuals who have been
Identified with each other and attributed to Venus merely because of the Salient feature of their character approximates this ideal now then it’s simple to answer the question of their development they’re growing old and dying for being of the same order of nature as we are ourselves almost
Anything is true of us is also true of them I have tended rather to elaborate this theme because the one personally important question which arises in more recent letters for I believe that the holy Guardian Angel is a being of this order now I might point out earlier or
Perhaps even later in Crowley’s life he leads us to believe otherwise the angel he is something more than a man possibly being who has possibly a being who has already passed through the stage of humanity and his peculiarly intimate relationship with his client you is that of friendship of community of Brotherhood or
Fatherhood he is not let me say with emphasis a mere abstraction of yourself and that is why I have insisted rather heavily on the that the term higher self implies a damnable heresy and a dangerous delusion if it were not so there’ be no point in the sacred magic of abelon the mage
Apart from any theoretical speculation my samasati or right mindfulness uh an analytical work has never led to so much as a hint of the existence of a of the guardian angel he’s not to be found by any exploration of oneself it’s true that the process of analysis leads finally to the
Realization of oneself as no more than a point of view indistinguishable in itself from any other point of view but the holy Guardian Angel is in precisely the same position however close may be the identities in millions of ways no complete identification is ever obtainable but do remember this above all else they
Are objective not subjective or should I not waste good magic on them let me say in particular in regard to gods that the god Jupiter whom you invoke is not necessarily the same as he whom I invoke it is clear in any case that the revelation of himself to you is modified
In many ways by your own particular sensitiveness just as in ordinary life your idea of a friend may be very different from my own conception of the same individual suppose for example he happens to be a musician there’ll be an entire sight of his character which I’m particularly insensitive
You could talk to him for hours and I would understand little or nothing of what was said similarly if he were a mountaineer it would be your turn to be the odd man out love is the law love under will here is fraternity 666 well I hope that clarify that clarifies that thing
Uh if you have magic without tears I always I’m plugging it I’m not getting a nickel from from the sales of this book or the Kindle uh it is it is a Priceless cruly work it will give you endless hours of something to think about something to laugh at uh something to
Inspire you anyway until tomorrow do what thou Wilt shall be the hold of the law loves the law love under her will
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