The Holy Guardian Angel is representative of one’s truest divine nature. The term is equivalent with the Genius of the Golden Dawn, the Augoeides of Iamblichus, the Atman of Hinduism, and the Daemon of the gnostics.
In the system of Magick, the single most important goal is to consciously connect with one’s HGA, a process termed “Knowledge and Conversation.” By doing so, the magician becomes fully aware of his own True Will. For Aleister Crowley, this event was the single most important goal of any adept:
- It should never be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magician is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once he has achieved this he must of course be left entirely in the hands of that Angel, who can be invariably and inevitably relied upon to lead him to the further great step—crossing of the Abyss and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple. (Magick Without Tears, Ch.83)
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Glossary
Indie (Independent) Scientologist
We are a group of Scientologists, Clears and OTs, who are simply working to achieve the aims of Scientology as per LRH.
Independent Scientologists are Scientologists who recognize that the current Church of Scientology management is out-ethics, out-tech and off policy and is thus losing the technology of Dianetics and Scientology.
Indie Scientologists have declared Independence from the Church of Scientology and wish to freely practice our faith without harassment.
We are not here to smear L. Ron Hubbard. LRH put together the workable technology that is Scientology. Other groups, sites and blogs are free to voice their opinions on such. I don’t want to be a part of that kind of group. Here, I like to help others. Stating facts are fine. Questions are fine and welcome.
In this, understand that this is an Indie SCIENTOLOGY group. The definition of the group is in the name. The source of Scientology is LRH and Scientology is the technology that we like to use in our daily lives.1
Notes
- Retrieved from Facebook>About Indie Scientologist Group ↩
The Pyramid of Initiation
THE PYRAMID OF INITIATION1
What rejected stone shall crown it?
But beyond these benevolent considerations, there is a further need that this thesis be written now, a need deeply rooted in the Adept’s natural development in the path of initiation. The 7°=4□ has attained to the highest sephirah attributed to the Ruach (the distinctly human part of the psyche, including the reasoning mind). This is that “certain exalted grade whereby a man becomes master of knowledge and intelligence, and no more their slave” (Liber 61, v. 18). The Exempt Adept is preparing to cross a threshold into the Third Order — the Ordeal of the Abyss — to which only the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is of comparable significance. Crossing this Abyss requires full ripening of all that has gone before, a drawing to a head of everything constituting the Adept, of all that makes her what she distinctly is. Here, once more, is the symbol of the Pyramid of Initiation that the aspirant has been carefully building, now reaching completion, converging on the final point at its apex. Only thus may the Adeptus Exemptus be prepared for the great step ahead — of which more anon.2
Notes
- Eshelman, J. (2000) The Mystical & Magical System of the A.’.A.’. The Spiritual System of Aleister Crowley & George Cecil Jones Step-by-Step , Los Angeles, The College of Thelema ↩
- Cf. Hubbard’s claimed purpose for Dianetics in Dianetics the Original Thesis ↩
Tree of Life
Lon Milo DuQuette is the author of Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millenium and well-known student of the A. ·. A. ·., a school for magicians co-founded by Aleister Crowley. His explanation of the Tree of Life is given here in the public interest to show how the Qabalastic Tree of Life is taught and understood in that discipline.
DuQuette, L. M. (1997). Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millenium. York Beach: Samuel Weiser, Inc.
Tunnels of Set
Full magical initiation is not possible without an understanding of the so-called qliphotic paths which are, in practice, as real as the shadow of any object illumined by the sun. In other words, the well-lit highways of Horus, the paths that man has projected to connect the cosmic power-zones (Sephiroth) with his own consciousness, have their counter-parts in the Tunnels of Set, a dark web or nocturnal network of paths, the very existence of which is denied or ignored by those who are unable to realize the total truth of the Tree and its validity for those who would climb even its lower branches.
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I am fully aware that the averse regions of the power-zones are dangerous territory, and at the outset I would remind those who feel that such an exploration had better not be made that one cannot begin this initiation, or journey inward, as one begins one’s ascent from Malkuth, for only by projecting consciousness through Daäth, the Gate of the Abyss, can one enter the Kingdom of infernal spaces that is under the dominion of the Choronzon. One has therefore to be familiar with these paths before one can enter the Deep Place where they continue, not as well-lit Ways of Horus plainly signposted in the light of day, but as the Tunnels of Set that turn and twist like a serpent, or like the entrails of that nameless God of the Gulf whose darkness makes possible, by contrast, their light counterparts. If this is borne in mind it will not be necessary to charge me with irresponsibility towards those who may be lured, even against their will, to commence a journey for which they are improperly equipped and which may therefore prove fatal.
Grant, K. (1977). Nightside of Eden (1994 ed.). London: Skoob.
Tree of Life
The ten cosmic power-zones and the twenty-two paths constitute the Tree of Life. (See diagram.)
Grant, K. (1977). Nightside of Eden (1994 ed.). London: Skoob.