Thelema Lodge
Ordo Templi Orientis
P.O.Box 2303
Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
March 1991 e.v. at Thelema Lodge
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[from the cycle "The Angel and the Abyss"--this poem corresponds to the Atu of
Adjustment--previously published in "McMurtry: Poems" (London & Bergen:
O.T.O., 1986 e.v.) and in "The Grady Project" #4 (December 1988 e.v.)]
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For I was born in the sign of the Sphinx In the incandescent air With my serpent rod and my shining links And my halo haunted hair And I glide upon the Red Lion And ride him to his lair Four kerubs guard the silent Sphinx Four pillars of the sky A God, a Beast, a Star, a Priest Four Angels, Adonai! But me they hid in the pyramid To die, but not to die "To become a Sphinx one must be born a Sphinx" The Transformers did not lie And the pile of dust was burned to ash As the Angel wind passed by A Star was born in the Abyss From the Eye that is not "I" The Orator's Ration:
Presenting a song lyric without the music, that is,
A picture grows upon the wall telling tales of giants while seasons march right through it all inconquerably quiet There bellies burst with berries from the first most festive feast of Spring There Summer burns with vital force and War and Love make fitting kings while Autumn's judgement sits in courts whose sentences the harvest brings and Winter prisons freeze and crack like sharp reports of armed attack and all the dreams of painters die each time one flower blooms again It's fine enough for gods to cry when you and I need watering to tell our tales of giants to tell our tales of giants to tell our tales of giants to tell our tales of giants From the Outbasket
Mezla
or
, meaning "planet", "star", "luck" or,
metaphorically, "influence". The plural of that is Mezlot:
, meaning
"Zodiac" or "Constellations" in common Hebrew. There is another variant of
, meaning "running motion", but the plural of that is
. "Mezla" in traditional Qabalah is used for the "influence descended from beyond Keter", a
term generally applied to the ultimate source of all emanation as diffuse and
omnipresent. Crowley tended to use it for "the emanation down from Keter", a
sense rare to traditional Qabalah but sometimes used where Keter was not
distinguished from Ain. Grant has used Mezla to signify the paths connecting
the Sephirot, and this in turn has implied a plural construction. In
traditional Qabalah, Mezla, as the ultimate source of immanent emanation,
cannot be thought of as plural. A curiosity of traditional Qabalah has to do
with the spelling of Masloth, "Zodiac" as
instead of the more common
. In modern Hebrew,
means "railroad"! This
, as used in
Liber 777 and other sources, is the plural of
, meaning "path" or "road".
Probably, the traditional Qabalah used the form with Samekh to avoid confusion
of the ultimate Mezla, influence, with the paths on the tree, which can be
each thought of as a road or Meslah. Grant plainly got the two confused, if
he ever knew there was a distinction. Crowley may not have thought of it
either, but his writings on Hindu mysticism suggest otherwise.
Events Calendar for March 1991 e.v.
3/3/91 Gnostic Mass 8 PM Thelema Ldg 3/10/91 Gnostic Mass workshop 4:18 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/10/91 Gnostic Mass 8 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/11/91 Ladies' "T" 5:30 to 7:30 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/13/91 Tarot #4 with Bill 8 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/14/91 Magick in Theory & Practice
Study Circle 8 PMThelema Ldg. 3/17/91 Lodge Clean-up 1:11 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/17/91 Gnostic Mass 8 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/20/91 Vernal Equinox Ritual at 4:18 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/21/91 Lodge of Perfection LOP 3/23/91 Initiations (Call ahead) Thelema Ldg. 3/24/91 Ist Degree Workshop 4:18 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/24/91 Gnostic Mass 8 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/25/91 Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/26/91 2 dramatic readings from Crowley:
The Suffragette & The Bonds
of Marriage 7:30 PMMagick Thea. 3/28/91 Magick in Theory & Practice
Study Circle 8 PMThelema Ldg. 3/31/91 Aries Birthday party 4:18 PM Thelema Ldg. 3/31/91 Beast-er Mass 8 PM Thelema Ldg.
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