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Part 7: War Engine

  1. Truth
  2. Thelemic Vedas
  3. Visions
  4. Aleister Crowley
  5. James Beck
  6. Duteous One
  7. War-Engine
  8. In Sum

eye of ra Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.eye of horus

In Ra-Hoor-Khuit’s chapter of Liber AL vel Legis he mentions a “war-engine.”

Note Aleister Crowley’s original comments which here follow the text of the Book of the Law, chapter 3: verses three to nine:

220,3:3. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 3

Now let it first be understood that I am
a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall
deal hardly with them.

This whole book seems intended to be interpreted literally. It was so taken by the scribe at the time.

Yet a mystical meaning is easy to find. Exempli gratia; vv. 4-9. [for example; verses 4 to 9]

220,3:4. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 4

Choose ye an island!

An Island = one of the Cakkrams or nerve-centres in the spine.

220,3:5. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 5

Fortify it!

Fortify it = Concentrate the mind upon it.

220,3:6. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 6

Dung it about with enginery of war!

= Prevent any impressions reaching it.

220,3:7. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 7

I will give you a war engine.

= I will describe a new method of meditation by which

220,3:8. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 8

With it ye shall smite the peoples and
none shall stand before you.

Ye shall easily suppress invading thoughts.

220,3:9. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 9

Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this
is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus
shall my worship be about my secret house.

May mystically describe this method (e.g., Liber HHH, Section 3). But the course of history will determine the sense of the passage.

“Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them!” describes the three parts of a certain magical gesture indicative of a formula which has proven very powerful in practical work.

(The events beginning in An XVII, Sol in Libra [September-October 1921], when I write these words, and ending I do not yet know when, will form a luminous comment on the passage. There is an alternative, taking the beginning as An X Sol in Libra [September-October 1914], and implying larger periods).

The “none” that shall stand before you is the sky-goddess Nuit.

The Sun-god Ra-Hoor-Khuit, in his chapter of the Book of Codes, says:

718,1:15. Book of Codes,
chapter 1: verse 15

Know also that my island is my temple: most especially a particular House. Het. This is most needful, that my war-engine is of the magical kind, that the Blood of the Moon is its fuel and the priest’s Osiris is its motor.

The war-engine turns out to be a ritual of magick (sex-magic) in which menstrual blood is its fuel and the priest’s ejaculate — well formed by love under will — is its motor.

The name of the fertility god Osiris is also understood to mean “corpse.” The erection dies after giving up its blood. By this interpretation, the priest’s corpse is the war-engine’s motor.

Sexual secretions resulting from magick are collected on ginger-cinnamon cookies (cakes of light) and eaten, acting as a potent hormonal drug to alter consciousness.

Thelemic worship is an actual change of perspective, not thoughts and prayers. The Sun-god Ra-Hoor-Khuit, whose war-engine is a ritual of sex-magic (magick), is the “visible object of worship.” The others, Nuit and Hadit, are secret (secrete). The X of “Ordeal x” is צTzedeq (90), Tzedeq: the Word of the Elixir.

Ra-Hoor-Khuit says, in 220,3:49, “I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men.” In 718,1:11, He says, “My scribe has described “Tzedeq” as this word.

The Sun-god Ra-Hoor-Khuit, who represents your Holy Guardian Angel, is in the sexual secretions resulting from love under will.

Aleister Crowley was explicitly cued to the use of sex to cause change in consciousness by the Book of the Law when he was 28 years old, having achieved the necessary skills needed to contact his Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwass.

These skills include development of the senses of his body of light, Pratyahara, and Dharana. Even then it was another five years before he took Liber AL seriously. As a result, he associated the eating of sexual secretions with adeptship in the Order of the Rosy Cross, to which he had gained entry at the time.

In my experience the shaping of sexual secretions by visualisation, causing neuroplastic change, begins at the very beginning of the ladder of Thelemic initiation with the Ordeal X, which is faced by the Neophyte.

In fact, the first effort to love Nuit with focussed sexual expression begins the Ordeal X by subtly shifting the practitioners perspective at a fundamental level. It is not necessary at this point to eat your sexual secretions, but it is worthwhile to value the impetus that programmes them. The ordeal satisfies the need to cope with, or accommodate, the shift in perspective.

All sexual acts programme consciousness. The key to spiritual liberation is to take personal responsibility for your own programming, that is, to choose the gods you worship.

All sexual behaviour creates gods, which are symbols in the form of persons. Usually, the gods are as diffuse as the random images of unfocused orgasms, so they have only a small effect on consciousness.

Sometimes people establish neuronal pathways of hate (e.g., blackpilled incels), sadism, masochism, or other fetishes. Crowley was a masochist. Whatever turns you on can be channelled into a symbol of the sky-goddess Nuit as orgasm approaches. You can track your progress by tasting your semen and, with practice of ARMS, changing it from bitter or metalic to sweet.

220,1:41. Book of the Law,
chapter 1: verse 41

… There is
no bond that can unite the divided but
love: all else is a curse.

Thelemic magick takes advantage of the power of orgasm to drive the focus of attention deeply into the present, programming the brain by focusing on an intentionally chosen symbol of Nuit. ΘελημαTelhma
Thelema
means that which is willed.

The sky-goddess Nuit says, in chapter one of the Book of the Law,

220,1:51. Book of the Law,
chapter 1: verse 51

… Also, take your fill and will of
love as ye will, when, where and with
whom ye will! But always unto me.

220,1:52. Book of the Law,
chapter 1: verse 52

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 judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!

We cannot worship Nuit directly, but we can create our own symbol — the Neophyte’s pentacle — to represent Nuit and imagine that symbol at orgasm. The pentacle you create should be simple enough to easily visualise.

… Ha! You are a fool with your none, none, none! Canst thou not see my mother is invisible? She cannot be imagined, and in no wise drawn, save in symbol. How come thou insistest on thinking of the None? By necessity we may not speak of the Lady, yet it is Sin to dwell upon her in thought.

Note that it was Aleister Crowley’s duty to learn and teach all methods of magick. Crowley changed the symbols he burned up in the fire of his orgasms according to the object of the ritual.

I have a much more utilitarian task — promulgation of Liber 440 — so I choose only one symbol: my Neophyte’s pentacle. I use that pentacle to smite unwanted thoughts so Nuit will stand before me.

Crowley wrote, in The Confessions, page 72,

‘The libido of the unconscious’ is really ‘the true will of the inmost self.’

It is important to understand that the desire of the unconscious mind (temple of the HGA) is the true will of the inmost self, the Holy Guardian Angel, the “thou” in Do what thou wilt.

Nuit says,

220,1:21. Book of the Law,
chapter 1: verse 21

With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they
do not see me. They are as upon the earth;
I am Heaven, and there is no other God
than me, and my lord Hadit.

If the God and the Adorer are one and the same, Nuit is everything.

When the message transmitted from waking awareness to the Khu symbolises Nuit, the response from your Eternal Self echoes in return. The message does not get through to the Angel in its house, nor the echo returned, when thoughts diffuse focus. Silence the noise to perceive the signal.

77,3:7. Book of Oz,
chapter 3: verse 7

Deeper sinks the thoughtless mind. The point is like a little star on the tip of a penpoint. Yet that star is the Mother of galaxies.

Ra-Hoor-Khuit’s “secret house” is Het, the Moon, the Holy Guardian Angel’s temple, the Anahata chakra, the House 418, the Khu, Atu VII The Chariot, the sign Cancer in the zodiac.

Almost all writers who address the subject, abjure the use of menstrual blood in magick and attribute the behaviour to a transgressive or “left-hand” path. Note that the Latin word for left is “sinister,” attributed to the distaff side. This is yet another example of the irresponsible ethos of male dominance over women. The Scarlet Woman must be recruited, not enslaved. It should be about joy, not fear. In Thelema everyone chooses for themself and is responsible for their choices.

The Bible says, in 1 Timothy, 2:11-2:14,

{2:11} Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. {2:12} But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. {2:13} For Adam was first formed, then Eve. {2:14} And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

The Book of the Law says:

220,3:44. 220,3:44
But let her raise herself in pride! Let
her follow me in my way! Let her
work the work of wickedness! Let her kill
her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous!
Let her be covered with jewels, and rich
garments, and let her be shameless before
all men!

In the Scarlet Woman is all power given.

In a letter dated April 30, 1943, which appears in Aleister Crowley’s Introduction to Magick Without Tears, he states: “But I have published openly all the secrets.” At the end of the letter he goes on to say,

Secrets. There is one exception to what I have said about publishing everything: that is, the ultimate secret of the O.T.O. This is really too dangerous to disclose; but the safeguard is that you could not use it if you knew it, unless you were an advanced Adept; and you would not be allowed to go so far unless we were satisfied that you were sincerely devoted to the Great Work. See (One Star In Sight.) True, the Black Brothers could use it; but they would only destroy themselves.
– Magick Without Tears, Introduction, page 9.

Note: the term of art, “Black Brother,” has nothing to do with skin colour, ethnicity, or race. It is a case of separate self domineering Eternal Self.

Enlightenment reveals that the self is just a container for ultimate sparks of the intimate fire.

An advanced Adept, skilled enough to use the awesome power of manifestation provided by the Scarlet Woman, without calamity, is of the grade Hermit (Adeptus Major) and above. The Scarlet Woman is a rôle not a particular person.

Homosexual and non-binary magick are also valid means to cause chosen neuroplastic change.

718,2:24. 718,2:24
The Hermit be the Grade of Adeptus Major, for in this Art are woman and man conjoined in blasphemous bliss; and, lastly, below the Abyss be the Grade of the Lover, and this be the secret of secrets, that man with man, and woman with woman, is a most powerful magick wrought in the fulness of unity. Now, many of the uninitiate shall hear of our methods. Some will mock and some will ponder. Some shall practice without the aid of formal training, but curse them not for this: Not all of my servants shall be found in mine abbeys.

I can attest that the magickal technique of the Hermit is a powerful means of deep brain programming which echoes in the daily life of celebrants. It is powerful for it recruits the innermost unconscious mind to the task not merely of survival but of thriving in the world.

Liber 440 asserts, over and over again, that there must be joy in every magickal act. If the participants are joyful, they contribute a greater balance of supportive hormones to the elixir, which then reinforces desired neural programming.

If you pursue chastity — direct your lust to a symbol of Nuit — you can use magick to advance your Journey Inwards on the path of initiation. But Nuit and Hadit are secret: known only to adepts. The Zelator, who has won through the Ordeal X and knows Nuit by experience, is an adept. The Neophyte, who faces the Ordeal X, is not an adept.

Chastity may thus be defined as the strict observance of the Magical Oath; that is, in the Light of the Law of Thelelma, absolute and perfect devotion to The Holy Guardian Angel and exclusive pursuit of the Way of the True Will.
– Little Essays Toward Truth, Chastity, 1938.

That level of focus takes a great deal of practice. The practice of ARMS (Asana, Ritual, Magick, and Science) is indispensable for training the mind and body to be sufficiently chaste (sincere) to participate in the Ritual of the War-Engine.

718,1:23. Book of Codes,
chapter 1: verse 23

Yet the knowledge of the Elixir is reserved for my servants. Let not the insincere contribute their blood; the God shall not dwell therein.

The secret fourfold word is Tzedeq, the Word of the Elixir. The Sun-god Ra-Hoor-Khuit dwells in the Elixir. The Sun is exalted in Aries, Atu IV The Emperor of Tarot which is attributed to the Hebrew letter צ, Tzedeq.

Knowledge of the Elixir cannot be read off a page or learned by instruction. Only personal experience can engender sufficient sincerity (innocence) for healthful practice of the Ritual of the War-Engine.

Het (418) Hor (359)
The secret name of Horus is שטןShin (300)
Tet (9)
Nun (50)
Shin-Tet-Nun (359)
,
Satan, 359. The Sun. (See 220,1:49)
The Angel’s temple is חיתHet (8)
Yod (10)
Tav (400)
Het-Yod-Tav (418)
,
Het, 418. The Moon. (See Atu VII The Chariot, attributed to the Hebrew letter ח, Het.)
The Sun in his temple is 777, both the sun of midnight, Khephra, and the noonday Sun, Ahathoor (Het-Hor).
Every actual Thelemite is 777, conjoining the Sun (359) and the Moon (418).

eye of ra Love is the law, love under will.eye of horus

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