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.
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.
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.
Tree of Death: The averse Tree of Life with its tunnels of Set1 to which Daäth is the Gateway.
Daäth is the gateway to the ‘other’ world – Universe ‘B’ – sentinelled by the Beast 666 […] hence its association with death as the formula of transition form the phenomenal world of appearance to its source in noumenon; the absence of the apparent and the presence of the real.
Grant, K. (1977). Nightside of Eden (1994 ed.). London: Skoob.
THETA GROUP AGREEMENT, I differentiate between “bank group think” which occurs in the absence of leadership, and theta group agreement which is possible and a source of power when leadership exists. (FO 1844)
Hubbard, L R. (1982). Modern Management Technology Defined: Hubbard Dictionary of Administration and Management. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications.
ESTABLISHMENT OFFICER, 1. the purpose of Establishment Officers is to establish and maintain the establishment of the org and each division therein. The term Esto is used for abbreviation. (HCO PL 7 Mar 72) 2. the Establishment Officer is the person who keeps it established and makes sure that it produces and that the programs come out straight and that those targets and quotas are met. (ESTO 10, 7203CO5 SO II) 3. an Esto is supposed to hat somebody and get him producing what he should be producing on that post. First there’s an instant hat and get him producing on the post. Then we mini hat him and get him producing on the post. Then we full hat him and get him producing on the post. (ESTO 10, 7203CO5 SO 11) 4. their duties consist of org boarding, training, hatting, apprenticing, pouring in personnel, lines, spaces and materiel and equipment of the Division -Bureau. (OODs 4 Mar 72) 5. this person operates in a division, not under its secretary but under a senior Establishment Officer. He performs the duties of the Departments of HCO for that division. In a small org it requires a trained Establishment Officer for Divisions 7, 1 and 2 and another for Divisions 3, 4, 5 and 6. In a larger org there is one in charge of all Establishment Officers and an Establishment Officer in each division. As the org grows, the larger divisions get Assistant Establishment Officers to the divisional one. They do not establish and run away. They establish and maintain the division staff, personnel hats, posts, lines, materiel and supplies. Their first job is to get staff working at their posts producing something and their next task is to drive dev-t out of existence in that org. (HCO PL 29 Feb 72, Correct Comm) 6. the first Establishment Officer Course was developed on Flag in October 1971. This was the Tech Establishment Officer Course (TEO). There are now Establishment Courses for each division of the org. An Establishment Officer is a specialist in the operation of a particular division, who also needs to be trained in the skills of establishing, which includes: getting production of valuable final products, recruiting staff , posting the org board of the division, getting personnel to study, hatting, training divisional staff , getting volume, quality and viability of production increased, establishing the lines of the division. (HCO PL 5 Feb 72 III) 7. one who establishes a division. Junior to the Establishment Officer I/C but in the division under its secretary, the Establishment Officer puts in the divisional personnel, lines, materiel and trains, hats and maintains and expands the established division to the benefit of the org and its staff. (LRH ED 168R INT) 8. now I’ve used Establishing and Establishment Officer interchangeably. It’s a descriptive term. The actual term is Establishment Officer. His duties are establishing. (ESTO 2, 7203COl SO 11) 9. a leading Establishment Officer’s Department is a Departmental Establishment Officer who has Section Estos under him due to the numerousness of the section. An Establishment Officer’s Section is an Establishment Officer of a section where there is a Departmental and Divisional Esto. (HCO PL 7 Mar 72) 10. an Esto is a third dynamic auditor who deaberrates a group by cleanly organizing it so it can produce. (FSO 529) Abbr. Esto, ESTO.
Hubbard, L. R. (1976). Modern Management Technology Defined. Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California Publications Organization United States.
