From: Tagi@cup.portal.com (Tagi Mordred Nagashiva)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Unicursal Hexagrams
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 08:29:51 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

9208.27 e.v.


Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The word of Sin is Restriction.


E. Averett writes:

I agree with Tagi.  We need to add Something to the FAQ list on this, please.


Response:

Ok, if it is agreed, then how does this come about?


Ed:

The Unicursal Hexagram card comes in at least some of the larger sized  Thoth
decks.  Not a manufacturer's logo, or the OTO, or a jay-random card. 


Response:

Yes, when I got mine in the early 80's (Caliph Alpha put them out to get
some money, I think), it came with both an OTO card and a U.H.  It did NOT
have the extra versions of the Magus, however.


Ed:

It'a a meditation tool, and can be associated with a number of things Crowley
refers to in lots of places.  In short, it's a Yantra (visual component of 
meditation similar to a (surprise) mantra). The five-petaled thingy in the 
center is basically a pentagram.  You can find lots of things to see in it, 
including a lot of the X = Y equation associations Crowley uses in kabalah
and stuff.  


Response:

Does ANYONE know where Crowley or ANY older writer has addressed this figure?
I'd be interested in some perspective on it beyond my own and those who
are willing to move beyond the 'veil of secrecy'.

Crowley includes a drawing of the U.H. in his _Book of Thoth_, yet does not
say much about it there.  Some modern writers have begun using it in their
systems, but I still haven't run across anything put out before 1988.


Ed:

Like the Law of 5's, a lot depends on how you think about it.   -) 


Response:

Or how you DON'T think of it.


Ed:

A simple exercise:  In a mostly dark room, with a light behind your left 
shoulder, hold the card in your right hand extended from you comfortably, OR
place it 18" to 24" in front of you, slightly below your chin on a surface
where it won't slip.  Remove distracting objects near it from your view. 
Focus your attention on the design. Narrow your consciousness till all that 
exists for you is the design.  Allow your focus to move between the various
parts of the design, as it desires.  Look at the relationships between them.
When the card assumes 3-d capability and "flows" then you have reached one
of the basic steps.  Play with this.  Read the "naples arrangement" if you 
have a copy of the Book of Thoth, then go back and study it. 


Response:

Good suggestions.  I used the card as 'querent' to represent myself in 
many readings.  Quite effective.  Other ideas:  hang it on the wall in
front of toilet; put it on your ceiling above the bed; use it like
gambling houses use their white cards to cut the deck without touching
the cards; rip it up and burn it.


Ed:

Examine the numbers 6, 5, and 11 in all the references of Crowley you can 
remember. Go back and study the card, as above.   Etc.   Have fun.  Don't 
talk about it.  Think and meditate.  Do not reveal the great secrets 
which will be revealed to you to the uninitiated. 


Response:

_Liber Al vel Legis_ has some nice things to say about 6 and 50.  Many
tomes on Crowley and Magick discuss these numbers in relation to Babalon,
Nuit(h), and Agape.  Phooey on not revealing the 'great secrets'!  That
comment comes from the miscreant writers who want to squelch your profits!
Secrecy is FORCED, not chosen.  Those who choose it are doomed to ignorance.
Beware!


Invoke me under my stars.   Love is the law, love under will.


I am I!


Frater (I) Nigris (666)

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