Mysticism Glossary - K

STRENGTH

Tarot Trump number 8 (in Crowley's system, 11). This is probably the least understood of all the Atus. Our average mind, unable to appreciate the mystery of ordinary movement, conceives of M/magic(k) as the ability to move solid objects through the air without physical assistance. And yet we betray our own unconscious perception by the fact that we are invariably far less impressed at seeing a feather suspended in the air, than a piano. Is physical strength the equivalent of strength of will?

Strength, however, whether muscular or mental, is the foundation of true M/magic(k), for it is the magic of everyday life. When philosophy fails, when cleverness fails, when riches fail, when everything fails and one is stripped of all one's powers -- there yet remains the "coiled serpent" of being (Teth), source of all energy. The miracle of daily movement, work and pleasure is based upon our physical health and confidence. It is this connection to the "magic of everyday life," that drew Crowley to the decision to renumber "Strength" as 11, the well-known number of sorcery. Moreover, since he believed that the source of all strength lay in the sex drive, he renamed it Lust!

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MAGICK

Stands for theurgy of "god" work, i.e. the hexagram. "M/magic(k)," which is my own spelling, is intended to cover all contingencies with a standard designation. (Similarly, Qabalah = the traditional work, whereas Cabala refers to any derivative, Gentile system). M/magic(k) should not be confused with "sorcery", which is the practice of using formulas and rituals by the ordinary mind to affect reality in self-seeking ways. "Magic", on the other hand, is active participation of the higher consciousness in creative experiences and mystical understanding.

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Reincarnation Reimbodiment; specifically reinfleshment, the repeated imbodiment of the reincarnating ego in vehicles of human flesh on this earth. The unexhausted desire for earth-life draws the ego back to this globe, where it gathers to itself the material for a reincarnation and thus is finally born from a human womb. The process is repeated almost numberless times until the evolution of the inspiriting monad has reached a stage when reincarnation is no longer required. The interval between successive incarnations may be roughly estimated at 100 times the length of the preceding earth-life -- a rule obviously subject to many exceptions.

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Alhim 'elim (Hebrew) (plural of 'el god)

One method of transliterating 'elim, although the insertion of the h is incorrect. The number-values of the letters of 'Elohim, transliterated as alhim are 13514: when used anagrammatically they may be read as 31415, the value of pi.

See also ELOHIM

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Kobayashi Technique (Applied Kobayashi Techniques, Kobayashi Techniques): rejuvenescent system promoted by Master Healer Ken Kobayashi. It encompasses acupuncture, Do-In, shiatsu massage, special diets, and the use of herbal tea preparations and the Shintsu-Riki (Healing Ki energy).

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INITIATE

One who has been "initiated" into the mysteries, an official Epopt, a magus. For such a one, initiation is an ongoing process which is never completed. It has been said, "An initiate is not one who knows everything, but one who knows that he has everything to know."

Initiates know the meaning of the terms "Black," "White" and "Yellow" M/magic(k) but realize that, in fact, all M/magic(k) is one. No magus ever ceases to be an Initiate, no matter how far into the wildernesses of technocratic society life may lure him.

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Cosmic Egg. See EGG; HIRANYAGARBHA

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Airyana-Vaego, Airyamen Vaego, Airyana-Varsedya. See AIRYANMEN VAEJA

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ABBREVIATIONS

Occult literature, particularly contemporary magic literature, teems with abbreviations and initials, which the general reader may or may not always readily identify. Examples:

             AAA        1) Anti-Authoritarian Anonymous

                        2) A A A, as in Djahuty A A A or "Thoth Great, Great,

                           Great", equivalent of Hermes Trismegistus.

             AAB        Albigensian Anti-Procreation

             AB         Alice Bailey

             AC         Aleister Crowley

             ADE        After-Death Experience

             AP         Astral Plane

             BCE        Before Common Era

             BEM        Bug-Eyed Monster

             BHM        Big Hairy Monster

             BVM        Blessed Virgin Mary

             DOR        Deadly Oranur Radiation

             EA         Era Apocalyptica

             EBE        Extra-Terrestrial Biological Entity

             ELF        Extremely Low Frequency

             EOW        End of the World

             FTL        Faster than Light

             FTT        Faster than Thought

             GOO        Great Old Ones

             HGA        Holy Guardian Angel

             HPB        Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

             HPL        Howard Philips Lovecraft

             IFO        Identified Flying Object

             JJ         Jumping Jesus

             KG         Kenneth Grant

             LLLL       Life, Liberty, Light, Love

             LOT        Lamp of Thoth

             LRH        L. Ron Hubbard

             MAM        Malicious Animal Magnetism

             MIB        Men in Black

             NARBO      National Association for the Reduction of Boring

                        Occultists

             NPG        Negative Population Growth

             OT         Operating Thetan

             PK         Psychokinesis

             PKD        Philip K. Dick

             RAW        Robert Anton Wilson

             RPN        Ring-Pass-Not

             SLB        Superluminal Being

             UEI        Universal Eschatonic Implosion (End of the World)

             TP         Teleportation

             XID        Christian Intelligence Detection

             ZAG        Zero Automobile Growth

             ZPG        Zero Population Growth

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Quaternary Era or Period.

See GEOLOGICAL ERAS

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Abif, Hiram. See HIRAM ABIF

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Mysticism:

Religious or spiritual doctrines which argue that the human mind or soul can directly experience the divine. See also mystical experience, transpersonal psychology.

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Horsusi. See HARPOCRATES; HORUS

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Future. See TIME; PREVISION

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MIRROR

As one of the tools for "knowing" the self, mirrors are highly important. Although for a person possessed of youth and beauty the deliberate breaking of a mirror can serve as a symbolic sacrifice to Venus, to break a mirror accidentally is a sign that one has ceased to look "within" for one of the long, seven-year "Ages of Man". Hathor's mirror is defensive (like Perseus's shield) and used to reflect evil back upon itself. It is believed by the uninitiated that witches and warlocks fear mirrors, will not have them in their houses and, in any case, witches have no reflection! Like most superstitions, there is something behind it, though the truth is far from ordinary people imagine. One of the sine qua nons of M/magic(k) is that the initiate keep to his own boundaries of selfdom until his unorthodox procedures and formulae have been completely worked out. External "consensus" reality is a distraction from "the wisdom of the self" during this creative period. Strictly as devices for knowing the self, mirrors are no longer of much use to the advanced magician (except for very rare rituals), who dwells more and more in his center.

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Instructors, Divine. See DYNASTIES

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OZ

A full statement of Thelemic law. See Crowley's Liber 77 (77 being the number of Oz). It is a Semitic root for "strength." Liber Oz was printed originally in 1942 and deals with Thelemic politics. During the creation, monsters from Unive rse B were irresponsibly unleashed, referred to in the Bible as Nefilim, "Giants" (literally, "fallen ones"). Says K. Grant, "The generic name for them is Oza, [of numerical value] 78, [the value] of Aiwass and of the influence from Kether (Mezla). The Oz is the entity that casts its monstrous and ape-like shadow over The Magician in Crowley's design of the Tarot Pack (Atu II, ascribed to Mercury and hence the Ape of Thoth)." All manifestation is illusion, including the words of creation, and the Dog-Headed Ape mocks even the languages of the Gods. Personal revelations indicate that Oz is the "home of the Beast-Doom" (Typhon as shown on the Tenth Enigma of the Book of T), i.e., the lowest circle of Hell, Hades.

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Ampsiu-Ouraan or -Auraan (Gnostic) The sempiternal depth and silence; a pair of aeons in the Valentinian system as given by Epiphanius, the first emanation of the eternal bythos (depth), from which the other 14 pairs of aeons eminate, equivalent to the Second Logos (SD 2:569n).

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Heart, Sacred. See SACRED HEART

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