1. Determine your latitude and longitude. Use an atlas, or one of the following: Google Earth Astrodienst Atlas 2. Compute the Kiblah. Go to the following page: Great Circle Calculator Enter your latitude and longitude in the boxes for “Origin,” selecting the appropriate radio buttons for North or South latitude and East or West longitude.
Comments Off on Computing The KiblahReading List Commentary on Liber XV: Crowley, Aleister; Book 15: Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae, in Magick: Book IV, Parts I-IV, Second, Revised Edition; edited, annotated and introduced by Hymenaeus Beta, Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine 1997 Crowley, Aleister; “Liber XV; O.T.O. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae, the Gnostic Mass; Edited from the Ancient Documents
Comments Off on Book List for E.G.C. Priests and PriestessesBy Tau Apiryon The Wine is the Philosophic Mercury. It is composed of three sub-elements: water, alcohol, and a complex of oils and tartrates which give it its unique flavor, color and bouquet. These three sub-elements are our Three Principles. The water is our Salt (Tamas); the alcohol is our Mercury (Sattva); and the factors
Comments Off on A Curious Investigation Concerning the Nature of the Massby Frater Y.V. The Man of Earth takes no share in the Government of the Order; for he is not yet called upon to give his life to it in service; and with us Government is Service, and nothing else. The Man of Earth is therefore in much the position of the Plebian in Rome
Comments Off on Menenius AgrippaThere are at least three ways to attribute the elements to the four directions in the Star Ruby: Use the directions for vocalizing the God Names: Direction Vocalization Cherub Zodiac Element East Roar Lion Leo Fire North Scream Eagle Scorpio Water West Say Man Aquarius Air South Bellow Bull Taurus Earth This corresponds to the
Comments Off on Attributing the Elements to the Four Directions in Liber XXV, the Star Rubyfrom The Temple of the Holy Ghostby Aleister Crowley1 The fragrant gateways of the dawn 2 Teem with the scent of flowers. The mother, Midnight, has withdrawn Her slumbrous kissing hours: Day springs, with footsteps as a fawn, Into her rosy bowers. The pale and holy maiden horn 3 In highest heaven is set. My
Comments Off on The Palace of The Worldby Aleister Crowley You are supposed to be standing at the intersection of the paths of Samekh and Peh. You are facing Tiphareth (the Sun), thus on your right hand is Netzach (Venus) on your left hand Hod (Mercury), and behind you Yesod (the Moon). You take one step with the right heel in the
Comments Off on Notes on the Ritual of the PentagramBy Sabazius “How dreadful!” —Magick Without Tears, Chapter 72 Aleister Crowley wrote Liber OZ in 1941, based on a degree lecture he had written around 1916. He would refer to it as “The Book of the Goat,” and considered it as a sort of manifesto for O.T.O. In a letter to G.J. Yorke on Aug.
Comments Off on Observations on Liber OZThis manifesto was drafted by Dr. W(illiam) B(ernard) Crow (1895 – 1976) in August 1944, and edited and approved by Aleister Crowley as Baphomet X° in August and October 1944 for circulation. Crowley corresponded with Crow from May 1944 through September 1947. Crow, by profession a biology teacher, was also an avid occultist and Theosophist,
Comments Off on Commentary on the Manifesto of the Gnostic Catholic Churchby W.B. Crow and Aleister Crowley (1944) GNOSTIC CATHOLIC CHURCH Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The world has entered (March, 1904) the New Æon, the Age of the Crowned and Conquering Child. The predominance of the Mother (Æon of Isis) and of the Father (Æon of Osiris) are of
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