Quote:75.32 Questioner: The three aspects of the magical personality are stated to be power, love, and wisdom. Is this correct and are these the only primary aspects of the magical personality?

Ra: I am Ra. The three aspects of the magical personality, power, love, and wisdom, are so called in order that attention be paid to each aspect in developing the basic tool of the adept; that is, its self. It is by no means a personality of three aspects. It is a being of unity, being of sixth density and equivalent to what you call your higher self and, at the same time, is a personality enormously rich in variety of experience and subtlety of emotion.

The three aspects are given that the neophyte not abuse the tools of its trade but rather approach those tools balanced in the center of love and wisdom and thus seeking power in order to serve.

(08-21-2019, 02:21 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: I see 3rd eye chakra as power.
heart chakra as love
and throat chakra as wisdom.

It could also be indigo ray is power, green ray is love, and blue ray is wisdom.

Quote:1 had long been familiar with the method of going forth by night in the Horvendile body, but was unable to practise it successfully until 1 was given my 'magical name! The magical name, whether given by the teacher or discovered by oneself, seems to be an important point in the process of the formulation of the Horvendile body; it appears to play the same part as the grain of sand plays in the formation of the pearl. The psychology of the uses of the magical name needs more study than I can give it at the moment without digression. It must suffice to say that its uses are traditional and I have proved its efficacy in practice Like most people of vivid imagination I am no stranger to the indulgence in flights of fancy wherein I am the centre of romantic adventures in my Own person; like most fiction writers I have put something of myself into my characters; but the creation of a magical personality is a different matter; for if it is to be of any value, it must be in every way greater than oneself, and how can the pan be more than the whole that gives rise to it?

Quote:It must be remembered that Archetypes, though possessing a certain defined aspect of force, work in phases. Thus the three great Logoidal Aspects (Love, Wisdom, Power) work each in three phases.

(08-23-2019, 09:19 AM)Nau7ik Wrote: I’m not sure which source exactly they got that from, but I do know they were reading Dion Fortune and other books related to the Golden Dawn Mystery Tradition.

Love, Wisdom, and Power, I believe, correspond to the spheres of Chesed, Geburah, and Tiphareth. Tiphareth would be the balance of love and wisdom which results in power. Jesus Christ is such a one who belongs to Tiphareth, he was a being of power, balance in love and wisdom. (The magical images are a wartime king going forth in his chariot, and a beneficent majestic merciful king sitting on his throne. Both of these qualities balance each other from going to extremes, therefore denoting Power.)

(08-23-2019, 11:03 AM)Infinite Wrote: My brothers and sisters, I believe I found the source which Don consulted. It's a book called "Applied Magic" by Dion Fortune.

Quote:The magical tradition afrrms that the universe is one, and that no part of that universe is in esse separate from any other part. As the poet writes, "All are but parts of one stupendous Whole." All that exists in the univlrse, therefore, is the expression of an underlying unity which subsists through all things. This may be condemned as mere "pantheism" but it is not so in reality, for behind the subsisting unity which express itself in the existing universe there is That of which the Universal Soul, the Collective Host of Life and Form is but an expression.

Quote:In order to build up a balanced magical personality, construct it around the three basic aspects of life: Power, Love and Wisdom.

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It is most important that the building up of the form-aspect of the magical personality should not be commenced before these three aspects of Life have been thoroughly meditated upon, and some realisation of their nature gained.

Quote:It will have been noticed that this training is based entirely upon the personality of the would-be magician and this carries with it many important implications. In the early stages of our magical training, our motives are usually mixed, but from the beginning one motive must be present in our minds if we wish safely to tread the magical path. This motive we have already referred to. It is the desire to know in order to serve, and it must be the primary motive of our interest in magic.

(08-24-2020, 11:14 AM)Aion Wrote: Well, I've tried numerous times to post a large and detailed post here but apparently Bring4th refuses so I guess that's a no go.

Yet for some reason it posted this one, lol.

(08-24-2020, 11:14 AM)Aion Wrote: Well, I've tried numerous times to post a large and detailed post here but apparently Bring4th refuses so I guess that's a no go.

Yet for some reason it posted this one, lol.

(08-23-2020, 01:51 AM)Aion Wrote: There is much more to these traditions than the "attaining of states", in my humble opinion, but everyone finds their own way to the One and no path is wrong.

As for how these recipes were tested, they were not built from nothing. The founders of the Golden Dawn were Master Masons and high ranking SRIA Rosicrucians who had practiced and studied esoterics for many years. Dr. Wescott in particular was quite oriented towards the sciences and they were tested through repeated experimentation as far as I understand, building from hypothesis. The LBRP is but one ritual of the Golden Dawn which was built from a variety of influences, of which there is indeed a verifiable history scattered across various books.

However, the easiest way to understand Golden Dawn is as "fringe masonry", it has a lot of similarities to masonry in its ritual structure and design but is pointedly more pagan and 'occult' than masonry which is more influenced by Hiram and Judaism.

Ultimately, everyone connects with different things and different paths. I'm of the opinion that many paths exists because people are very different but everyone will find their own way.

(08-24-2020, 03:25 PM)ostatni dan Wrote:

(08-23-2020, 01:51 AM)Aion Wrote: There is much more to these traditions than the "attaining of states", in my humble opinion, but everyone finds their own way to the One and no path is wrong.

As for how these recipes were tested, they were not built from nothing. The founders of the Golden Dawn were Master Masons and high ranking SRIA Rosicrucians who had practiced and studied esoterics for many years. Dr. Wescott in particular was quite oriented towards the sciences and they were tested through repeated experimentation as far as I understand, building from hypothesis. The LBRP is but one ritual of the Golden Dawn which was built from a variety of influences, of which there is indeed a verifiable history scattered across various books.

However, the easiest way to understand Golden Dawn is as "fringe masonry", it has a lot of similarities to masonry in its ritual structure and design but is pointedly more pagan and 'occult' than masonry which is more influenced by Hiram and Judaism.

Ultimately, everyone connects with different things and different paths. I'm of the opinion that many paths exists because people are very different but everyone will find their own way.

As far as i know, magickal rituals in similar form were practiced in ancient sumeria, so one can say that they are as old as our recorded history goes - who knows where they got it from. Tbh if i had to bet i would say that magick in different forms was somehow channeled to us, or brought to this density by incarnated figures from higher densities, like Hermes Trismegistos (if he was a real individual) or Jesus.

Actually a lot of stuff in magick is parallel with what i've read in the Law of One. For example, as you develop yourself, you move through sefirots on the tree of life, and get to tiphereth - you attain something called knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel. I think it is synonymous with establishing a contact with your higher self. Couple of steps later, you get from chesed to binah - this process is called crossing the abyss, and it is synonymous with starting to perceive the world from perspective of unity. Getting to the top, keter, would be connecting to intelligent infinity - which means progressing to the next octave of experience while still being in 3rd density.

If i had to describe magick rituals (like lbrp) performed with intention to make a change in consciousness - they are a set of symbols visualised and performed in a ceremonial setting to make an imprint on your unconscious (which speaks through symbols), in order to make parts of it conscious. All zodiac signs, planets, and elements (air, fire, water, earth) work as archetypes, that exist in our minds, so that we can make certain forces in us stronger or weaker in order to achieve equilibrium, or any other state we want. Thats why magick is explainaible for people that both believe in supernatural or not. Explaining manifesting things is harder though haha, but i never felt drawn to that part so i wont even start.

(08-24-2020, 12:18 PM)Patrick Wrote:

(08-24-2020, 11:14 AM)Aion Wrote: Well, I've tried numerous times to post a large and detailed post here but apparently Bring4th refuses so I guess that's a no go.

Yet for some reason it posted this one, lol.

Can you try PMing it to me to see if it's a platform restriction per se ?