From: jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Pascucci)
Subject: Re: Commentary on _Liber I_ (Mysticism)
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:51:26 GMT

In article <71974@cup.portal.com>, Tagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva) writes:
|> _Liber I: Liber B vel Magi_, by The Master Therion
|> 
|> "00 [1] One [Unity] is the Magus: [Maker, Creator, Source]
|>     [2] twain [Duality] His forces: [players: Yin/Yang; Silence/Speech]
|>     [3] four [Quaternity, God, Earth] His weapons.
|>                                        [power: Cup, Wand, Disk, Blade]
|>     [4] These are the seven [universal, maternal] vultures [purifiers]
|>           of evil. [darkness]
|>     [5] Thus is the art and craft [creation] of the Magus [Creator]
|>           but glamour [charm, magick, play]
|>     [6] How shall He destroy [negate, oppose] Himself?"
|> 
|> 
|> Expansions:
|> 
|> 1. The Self is All. There is no resistance in the Magus. (Center)

Self is truely Centered. To step on a daffodil is to cause Cirrus
to explode. (Read _Cities in Flight_, Blish.)

|> 2. The Poles of Duality provide guidance and propulsion. (Circle)

Destruction and Creation. 

|> 3. The Key to divinity is Nature. (Cross)

All elements of the universe are within his easy grasp.

|> 4. Liberation may be found here and now.

I don't get this from that line, something else which I can't
quite pinpoint. The Magus has no need of Liberation, this
has happened previously. 

|> 5. Magick is the play of consciousness.

Or the consciousness of play.

|> 6. Who am I but Pan?

This is the Magus' Opus, not already achieved. 

|> "0 [1] Yet the Magus [Source] hath power upon [precedes]
|>          the Mother [Manifestation] both directly [dividing]
|>          and through Love. [Reunifying, Redeeming]
|>    [2] And the Magus [Source] is Love, [Reunion]
|>          and bindeth together [yoke, link]
|>          This and That [Other/Self, Yin/Yang]
|>          in His Conjuration." [Oath, Speech, Work, Creation]
|> 
|> Expansions:
|> 
|> 1. The Tao is the Mother of the 10,000 things. (Lao Tzu)
|> 2. The Spell of Agape is Unity through binding and release.

Where's #2 from? I understand what it's trying to say, but it's
too limiting. Perhaps 'Binding by release' is closer....

|> 
|> "1 [1] In the beginning [with Will] doth the Magus [Orator, God]
|>          speak Truth, [manifest divinity] and send forth [cast]
|>          Illusion and Falsehood [the Shadow]
|>          to enslave the soul. [creating dukkha]
|>    [2] Yet therein [in Maya] is the Mystery [Secret]
|>          of Redemption. [Liberation]
|> 
|> Expansions:
|> 
|> 1. Karma brins dissatisfaction. (Fall)
|> 2. The everyday mind is the mind of the Buddha. (Christ)

'Truth is Eternal' only below the Abyss. 

|> "2 [1] By His Wisdom [extended will] made He the Worlds; [Multiplicity]
|>    [2] the word that is God [OM, Perfect Liberator]
|>          is none other than He." [the Self]
|> 
|> Expansions:
|> 
|> 1. Divine expression manifests diversity. (Many)

And all is in (within) the Divine expression. 

|> 2. Divinity and self are not two. (One)

'Hua is God, quoth Asmodee, there is no other God than He.'

|> "3 [1] How shall He end [complete] His speech [manifestation]
|>          with Silence? [Void]
|>    [2] For He is Speech." [Logos]
|> 
|> 
|> Expansions:
|> 
|> 1. The Lotus emerges and retires to the Mud.
|> 2. Speech which remains Silence is Truth.

All Speech is Silence to the I:. 

|> "4 [1] He is the First [Source, Parent] and the Last. [Manifest, Child]
|>    [2] How shall He cease to number Himself?" [resolve Multiplicity]
|> 
|> Expansions:
|> 
|> 1. All, One and None are but masks of Maya.
|> 2. The play of consciousness resolves itself.

Resolve Multiplicity is a little too cryptic, even though
correct. To number (that is, to name) yourself implies
a differentiation which doesn't exist in the mind's I:.


|> To be continued......

Not bad thus far...

|> Frater (I) Nigris (666)

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Jason R. Pascucci
jasonp@primerd.prime.com