tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post250154098109774154..comments2024-03-25T14:09:59.347-05:00Comments on Augoeides: Hacking The Middle PillarScott Stenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-39724834984674579092023-06-16T23:35:07.028-05:002023-06-16T23:35:07.028-05:00I would recommend breathing like that but you are ...I would recommend breathing like that but you are already doing it.<br /><br />Maybe try practicing the world's easiest Qigong set. Tongue to the roof of your mouth, dantien breathing, and then feel energy rising up the back as you breathe in and raise your hands from about your navel to your forehead, then feel energy dropping down the front as you lower your hands back to about your navel.<br /><br />See if you can do this without headaches. If you still get them, try it without the arm movements and just stick with visualization. If it works without the arm movements, slowly add them back in.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-9325822930675440132023-06-16T14:35:35.440-05:002023-06-16T14:35:35.440-05:00I took a break from magick for about a year becaus...I took a break from magick for about a year because I was getting pressure headaches with the Middle Pillar and even the Qabalistic Cross. I started up again and the headaches started back immediately.<br /><br />Any ideas? I try to place the tip of my tongue behind my teeth and breathe at the Dantian but it doesn't seem to help. Thank you.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02971872318697393008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-82752338412257265912023-05-02T18:14:57.766-05:002023-05-02T18:14:57.766-05:001. You are invoking the four elements along with t...1. You are invoking the four elements along with the Sun, so Malkuth plus Tiphareth. I could see where the combination of those would give the results you are reporting.<br /><br />2. I would not do it as you describe. Liber Reguli is an adaptation of the Greater Ritual of the Pentagram for Malkuth, which is why you use all four elements. To adapt it into a Greater Ritual of the Pentagram for an element, you would do the ritual with that elemental pentagram and godname at all four quarters, but otherwise in the same sequence. I have not personally done this, but I expect that it would work.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-45374008907762614442023-05-02T05:33:03.190-05:002023-05-02T05:33:03.190-05:00Hello! I have practiced the full Liber V vel Regul...Hello! I have practiced the full Liber V vel Reguli ritual for a little over a year. I would like to share my feelings. If there is any reader who is reading my experience please do not continue reading, I do not want to influence. I start to narrate.<br />What I feel is that the chakras are open, energized and aligned. When I have had the sensation of having a cold or "broken" aura, Liber V vel Reguli has transformed the aura as if it were a candle flame. A red aura perhaps, energized and erect. Very curious that after doing the Liber V vel Reguli and I have had any mundane purpose has been achieved more easily as if my mind had a favorable influence on any project, from wanting to meet someone on the street to improving other rites. A wonderful ritual.<br /><br />I'd like to ask a second question here: 2) Haven't you thought about doing elemental rites with the Liber V vel Reguli aside? I mean doing the complete Liber V vel Reguli and then doing a rite of fire, but with the pentagram inverted. Obviously with the new configuration that Liber V vel Reguli offers, with taurus in the east and such. It should be quite powerful for charging talismans. Really and as I have understood, the configuration of space through Liber V vel Reguli allows the descent of the spirit in matter. So a rite of fire set to Liber V vel Reguli should be very good.<br /><br />I would like to know your point of view Scott. Thank you very much and sorry if I have extended.<br />All the best.Desmond G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12759842044027917921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-42575078237043489952023-01-26T11:08:18.804-06:002023-01-26T11:08:18.804-06:00Updated from the wayback machine. Should be workin...Updated from the wayback machine. Should be working now.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-39655649608808065642023-01-24T19:08:38.025-06:002023-01-24T19:08:38.025-06:00Your link to the official version of the MP ritual...Your link to the official version of the MP ritual is brokenZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840731562046325672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-82609490010772138742022-06-28T07:46:21.631-05:002022-06-28T07:46:21.631-05:00You know, it kinda makes sense to view the microco...You know, it kinda makes sense to view the microcosmic flow as horizontal and the macrocosmic as vertical. You've just time me some food for thought from a somewhat philosophical perspective, beyond the Pentagram and Hexagram Rituals. Thanks!Alex Scaraoschihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918705565881852467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-63540908953761663172022-06-27T17:45:33.901-05:002022-06-27T17:45:33.901-05:00The shifts in the Thelemic system are more obvious...The shifts in the Thelemic system are more obvious looking at Crowley's reworking of and commentary on the LRP. The magician faces east, and should visualize themselves at the intersection of Samekh and Peh facing Tiphareth - which would indeed imply that from that perspective Malkuth is west and Kether is east - when tracing the pentagrams and calling on the archangels.<br /><br />But for the macrocosmic portion of the LRP - the visualization of the six-rayed star in the columns - he switches the orientation to up/down from east/west. So one possible interpretation of this is that he is treating the macrocosmic flow as vertical and the microcosmic flow as horizontal. Notably, when you transition to the LRH you are working with the signs of the zodiac as they appear in the natural work rather than an orientation based on the perception of the world from your personal perspective.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-66548008759152861382022-06-27T03:13:57.722-05:002022-06-27T03:13:57.722-05:00Makes a lot of sense considering the technical and...Makes a lot of sense considering the technical and symbolic differences. It seems I can't find a diagram like the one I've mentioned in the previous comment, but the second one from this link clearly shows the 29th, 31st and 32nd paths being assigned to the East and in the same way I've described above:<br /><br />https://www.tarrdaniel.com/documents/Thelemagick/gd/publication/english/Ritual_Zelator.html<br /><br />Whether the diagrams are correct considering there's variations even between Golden Dawn stuff out there given various authors have published such material, I do not know. But many other diagrams I've come across depict such a pattern with respect to paths so I guess that's how they actually do it.<br /><br />But yea, "before me flames the pentagram and behind me the six-rayed star" (or whatever exact verbiage they're using) is one thing, "in the column shines the six-rayed star" is another.<br />Alex Scaraoschihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918705565881852467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-8272465477067050832022-06-27T01:46:22.139-05:002022-06-27T01:46:22.139-05:00Thanks for sharing that. It probably does have som...Thanks for sharing that. It probably does have something to do with something straightforward like the layout of GD temples. The Thelemic system shifts that to an up/down orientation with regard to energy on the Tree instead of east/west - "in the column shines the six-rayed star" and the same statement in Greek in the Star Ruby.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-69045077737812651012022-06-26T08:52:02.739-05:002022-06-26T08:52:02.739-05:00I may have an idea why the Golden Dawn method of p...I may have an idea why the Golden Dawn method of performing the MP implies one is to face West. If memory serves, I've seen ritual diagrams of the temple layout of several Golden Dawn workings. I'm pretty sure they were Outer Order workings, each specific to one of those grades.<br /><br />Anyway, the floor diagram included the arrangement of the altar, banners, etc. From the perspective of the altar, the magician stood West of it while facing it. Nothing new there, but the floor layout was always arranged in such a way any sephirot above Malkuth that were involved in the working in one way or another were located in the East (upper part of the diagram). So imagine an altar in the center representing Yesod, one in the top-left corner of the diagram (N-E) representing Hod and one in the top-right (S-E) corner representing Netzach. <br /><br />However, all three were in the East from the magician's perspective, meaning Malkuth was in the West. If you look it that way then if the magician were to face West when performing the MP, they'd have the Tree behind them with Mercy to their left and Severity to their right. When they're drawing down the light they're also using the temple's energy structure to channel that light, since the temple seems to have the energies of the Tree superimposed onto it with Kether in the East and Malkuth in the West.<br /><br />So yea, you're right when you say it might have to do with the energy flow within their temple. Alex Scaraoschihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918705565881852467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-65381819995196404522022-01-20T18:01:11.213-06:002022-01-20T18:01:11.213-06:00Keep in mind that when using the Elevenfold Seal o...Keep in mind that when using the Elevenfold Seal on its own, you are already taking it out of context if you are using it without doing the full Liber Reguli. So there is no circulation of light per se, but Reguli also incorporates a bunch of additional steps to move the energy around.<br /><br />If you want to add circulation of light to the Elevenfold Seal, you would do it at the end right before the closing ABRAHADABRA. I've been known to do Qigong sets at that point and they work fine, so simple circulation should be no issue at all there.<br /><br />The Elevenfold Seal is explicitly designed to activate all seven chackras, whereas in the Middle Pillar you are missing some of the points. So I'm not surprised that it might feel more "complete" to you.<br /><br />Yes, the Flaming Sword (where you vibrate the godnames for all ten sephiroth at their respecting points) is a totally viable way to bring in a horizontal component, along with activating more points. It's longer and more elaborate, but it can be a very good more complete practice than the Middle Pillar on its own.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-58279095529018108842022-01-20T07:11:54.952-06:002022-01-20T07:11:54.952-06:00hello! Thanks for the article.
In the Elevenfold S...hello! Thanks for the article.<br />In the Elevenfold Seal ritual, isn't there a circumambulation of light as in the middle pillar?<br />I have tried the Elevenfold Seal first gesture (thelemapedia) and it is curious that I have felt chakras 1 and 2 much more than with the middle pillar of Israel Regardie. In fact I think I had them closed.<br />I think that one of the most important points of the Elevenfold Seal is the horizontal component.<br />Can the horizontal component be somehow incorporated into the middle pillar? Would the incorporation of the flaming sword (zig zag) be a possible equivalent for the horizontal component?<br />Thanks a lot Scott ;)Desmond G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12759842044027917921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-80348216626836885002021-07-26T10:14:56.985-05:002021-07-26T10:14:56.985-05:00Yes, that is how I do it. I find that pronouncing ...Yes, that is how I do it. I find that pronouncing the name as a word is more effective than spelling out YHVH.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-51748748226799926712021-07-26T06:15:17.161-05:002021-07-26T06:15:17.161-05:00So do you pronounce the God names for Daath and Ti...So do you pronounce the God names for Daath and Tifereth as Yahwé Elohim and Yahwé Eloah vaDath ?TyroneLovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01498960081628282923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-11697293371161634952021-05-07T00:15:38.496-05:002021-05-07T00:15:38.496-05:00Both can work. The difference is that in 1. the MP...Both can work. The difference is that in 1. the MP is being used as a preliminary invocation - that is, to identify the practitioner with the divine. This adds a theurgic component to the purely thaumaturgic method in 2.<br /><br />There are plenty of other methods available besides the MP that will work for a preliminary invocation. The Bornless Ritual is great, though it's longer. I commonly will use also use the Elevenfold Seal from Liber Reguli in that position, especially when working with the Star Ruby and Star Sapphire instead of LRP/LRH.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-69556192146191765002021-05-06T18:48:26.269-05:002021-05-06T18:48:26.269-05:00Scott,
This might be a basic question, but what i...Scott,<br /><br />This might be a basic question, but what is the role of the MP in the context of your operant field model?<br /><br />E.g. what is the difference between the following two ritual sequences:<br /><br />1) LBRP/LIRH --> MP --> GRH (or GRP)<br /><br />2) LBRP/LIRH --> GRH (or GRP)Adrian Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02590544613221396575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-7918941512257964702021-03-27T12:13:34.994-05:002021-03-27T12:13:34.994-05:00I know Regardie is not consistent. That is one of ...I know Regardie is not consistent. That is one of the reasons that I started experimenting with variations, and that experimentation led to some of the points in this article.<br /><br />I'm not sure that there's enough to discuss about the macrocosmic aspect in particular for a whole article. I do mention it in a number of places, though.<br /><br />The MP is microcosmic if it follows the LRP, and macrocosmic if you add the LRH. From a microcosmic standpoint it activates the spiritual channel through the center of the body and engages the psychological aspects that correspond to the sephirothic godnames.<br /><br />The MP is macrocosmic if it follows the LIRH, because that ritual engages the macrocosm. In addition to doing everything the microcosmic version does, it aligns your consciousness or sphere of sensation or whatever you want to call it with the macrocosmic principles corresponding to the sephirothic godnames.<br /><br />Since the macrocosm includes the microcosm but not vice-versa, I always personally do the macrocosmic version.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-22174268086598851432021-03-26T20:30:24.081-05:002021-03-26T20:30:24.081-05:00Regardie is not consistent. He sometimes says to t...Regardie is not consistent. He sometimes says to touch the left shoulder first during the QC and the right other times.<br /><br />In his tape series, he spells out Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh for the LRP but pronounces it for the Middle Pillar.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJEQiEi-GHQ<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGAE24PW-Xc<br /><br />He presents the MP as purely Microcosmic. Have you written about it's Macrocosmic aspect? I'm google searching your blog for it but haven't found it yet.<br /><br />As for Qigong, wouldn't the MP be the activation of the penetrating meridian through the center of the body?Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02971872318697393008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-45696824296822535732020-12-07T03:05:30.106-06:002020-12-07T03:05:30.106-06:00That sounds like an interesting addition. By all m...That sounds like an interesting addition. By all means keep it up if it's working for you!Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-63781691478478451332020-12-06T19:09:58.592-06:002020-12-06T19:09:58.592-06:00in section 4 of an essay upon number in 777 crowle...in section 4 of an essay upon number in 777 crowley notes that 361 Adonai Ha Aretz “embraces all ten sephiroth” via 3 supernals 6 ruach and 1 malkuth. found this after having switched to Adonai Melekh for my malkuth vibration via your suggestion and added a final set (after middle pillar is established) of vibrations of Adonai Ha Aretz while visualizing the entire tree in my aura. creates kind of a pulse of energy in all the sephira while maintaining emphasis on the central pillar and has accelerated the establishing/opening (or at least sensory awareness) of the Paths within my aura. have been doing this for months now to notable benefit as the energies of the side pillars are brought into use without having to perform a full lightning flash or serpent if you’re shorter in time.Big Twighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06331887132140259116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-83812007752439953682020-10-27T11:40:01.625-05:002020-10-27T11:40:01.625-05:00Thank you for your answer.Thank you for your answer.Steven Desiletshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05107441079455984158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-39354824693596751392020-10-27T01:25:48.298-05:002020-10-27T01:25:48.298-05:00It just will not work as well. That pretty much is...It just will not work as well. That pretty much is all that can happen if you skip steps or whatnot in magical procedures. The sequences are set up the way they are because the ritual forms work best when you combine them in particular ways.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-28162799243411823902020-10-26T21:27:47.253-05:002020-10-26T21:27:47.253-05:00So i open with the KC -> LBRP -> MP ->KC ...So i open with the KC -> LBRP -> MP ->KC ?<br /><br />What can happen if i do the MP alone, without KC and LBRP?<br /><br />Thank!Steven Desiletshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05107441079455984158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-46512796455025003742018-10-02T21:47:01.660-05:002018-10-02T21:47:01.660-05:00Excellent! I really like how you have integrated q...Excellent! I really like how you have integrated qigong into your writing. ThanksAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528037416745685771noreply@blogger.com