Task for the week: Meditate on the good communion, be wary of the bad communion.
Reading for the week: John 13-17
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The Open and Closed Universes
Sacred Magic
Letter III on the Empress is about Sacred magic, which is putting mystical revelation into practice. This requires preparation:
- Mysticism, or real contact with the Divine
- Gnosis, or taking this contact into consciousness
- Magic, or executing what mystical revelation has made known
Unlike sacred magic, personal magic, i.e., in which the magician decides himself when and how to put esoteric teachings into practice, has certain dangers, including physical problems as well as emotional. I knew a woman, quite closely in fact, who got involved with Enochian magic. Despite her esoteric training she was anxious, emotional, inconstant and paranoid. I don’t know which came first, but at the very least the magical practice did not help her. Sacred magic offers healing, not harm.
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Week 7: Thy Will be done 2
Task: Work on the seven messages to the seven churches.
Revelation of Jesus to St. John:
And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: “Fear not.”
I am the First and the Last, and alive, and was dead, and behold I am living for ever and ever, and have the keys of death and of hell. Write therefore the things which thou hast seen, and which are, and which must be done hereafter. The mystery of the seven stars, which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches. And the seven candlesticks are the seven churches. (Rev 1:17-20)
The seven churches can also be imagined as representing different historical epochs. Each of the churches has a positive and a negative element. These still live in every human being, regardless of the epoch. Our task is to develop the positive elements and overcome the negative elements. These cultural periods are:
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Week 6: Thy Will be done
Meditation on God’s blessings and judgment.
| Blessing | Judgment |
|---|---|
| The seeds in the Garden | The seeds of the Earth |
| Man shall not be alone | Cain must wander alone |
| The four rivers of the Garden | The Flood |
| Adam names the animals | The Tower of Babel: God confuses human languages |
Day 1: 1st blessing of God
The blessing of eating the seeds in the Garden, i.e., spiritual nourishment, changes into the curse of feeding on plant matter
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Week 5: Thy Kingdom Come
The awakened will of the human being calls upon Christ for penance. The stages of the Passion are compensation for human guilt.
The Transgressions of man as prefiguration of Christ’s sufferings in the passion:
| Transgressions of Man | Stages of the passion |
|---|---|
| The Fall of man into sin | Washing of the feet |
| The curse against Eve | Scourging |
| The curse against Adam | Crowning with thorns |
| The fratricide between Cain and Abel | Carrying of the cross |
| Cain becomes homeless | Crucifixion |
| Redemption of sins through the Flood | Laying in the tomb |
| The experience of the end of the Flood | Resurrection |
Day 1: First stage of the passion: Washing of the feet
The washing of the Feet is the humiliation through which the human being must pass because he submitted to the temptation “to be as gods”.
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