Haus der Luege : Noli Evocare Quod Reprimere Non Potes

I’ve been rereading Illuminatus! for the 3rd or fourth time. What I’m finding interesting about the experience is that there’s always more in the book than I previously realized. My focus this time is on the way that the characters develop through initiatory processes.

One observation is that the kinds of initiatory shocks the characters receive are fairly traditional in their intent, if not always in their particular forms. When I compare this to the kinds of experience that I’ve had both in formal group initiation and the times initiation has manifested in my life, it leaves me wondering if I started from the wrong point. The characters, and many of my friends have had very strong emotional reactions to initiation; it ‘is’ a transformative experience for them. My own experiences have always been taken in stride. The patterns have always been recognizable to me, and there is a sense of inevitability and frankly, a rather jaded, passionless engagement with the process- and indeed, when a cycle has played out, I’m left often left with a vague sense of disappointment that there wasn’t more to it. It’s almost like there’s some of Taoist at the controls who simply accepts the even, processes the experience, and then lets it go until the next one comes along. The IAO cycle plays through very quickly for me. There’s a sense of “Is that seriously all you had for me this time? Well, it’s a nice t-shirt, at any rate.” Is there such a thing as being too far over on the h. neophilus side?

Systematic operation to acquire a house is proceeding well to this point. There are a few final things to clear wioth et bank, etc, and then we are off and making hte mad-dash to the closing.

Exciting stuff.

The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right…The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Very rewarding week of reading… I’ve been getting back to my roots as it were, and reading philosophy again. My reading list is below the cut..

So, I’ve been performing the adoration of Liber Resh vel Helios for the last week. The object, at present is to learn the adorations by heart, and not have to use the Red Book, essentially a self-created handbook of ritual tasks geared for portability.

I have the later object of 30 days of performance, fully journaled, once the adoration is bone deep in memory. Form first, function second, as priorities of focus. Interestingly, even these “rehearsals” have not been without effect, insofar as they are leading to some intriguing observations….

Much thinking about this over the last couple of days, and in part in response to my own earlier post on Nothing. Being directed toward gnosis of the Nothing, it seems that the discovery of ones True Will is an experimental process of discovering what the True Will is NOT- that is, determining one’s limitations and weaknesses as a means of finding the path of one’s strengths. This constellation of strengths and weaknesses should indicate where the Magickian is to GO.

This is probably blatantly obvious. Me, I got HERE by thinking and rethinking.

The following is a response to an entry on ShepJoe’s LJ.

…displaced from the Nothing into the Something. It’s as irrevocable as thermodynamics: more, it’s the means by which Universe postpones total entropy. Existence is a loss of perfection; the re-attainment of that perfection is the concert and chorus of being.

We are HERE TO GO!

It was asked WTF I was on about. This explains it. sort of.

Disclaimer: What follows reflects my present understanding; All claims are subject to change, with or without Gnosis.