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 Posted: Jun 10, 2008 - 10:03 PM
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So the lection to be used in Israfel isn't specifically Bennett's variant at all, as you stated, but rather just the opening of any extant version of Pyramidos? Sorry if I seem to be nitpicking here, but the way you've brought this intriguing point up here and in the past simply doesn't make much sense to me. It's false inference due to the dates of the papers in question. If Bennett was instructed by Crowley to copy the Pyramidos building/sealing sections specifically for use in Israfel, it is still secondary to the lection having already existed as those Pyramidos sections, both of which existed in several forms for more than a decade prior to Bennett jotting them down again.
There are also subtle differences between the Kowal MS/TS, the Illuminated MS and Bennett's variant too, which is why I brought up the point of which text was more applicable/favoured. The fact that you specifically said Bennett's version was/should be used led me to believe that you were implying that either your lineage or Crowley himself favoured the variant.
I suppose I'd understand a lot more if I knew exactly why you'd use the opening at that section of that specific ritual. Ahhhh well, sure I'll survive. 
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Posted: Jun 10, 2008 - 11:21 PM
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I don't think the dates matter at all. It is like when an oral teaching of the GD is written down 20 years later, it doesn't mean it was something "new". I also never implied that the Bennett version was meant for Israfel, but that the opening of Pyramidos was used for the lection. For me where the Bennett version came in was helping me to understand the breakdown of the ritual into it's 4 parts and how they interact. Other interactions helped me to come to the opening being used as the Lection of Liber Israfel. What you are doing is missing the forest for the trees and complicating the issue when it is incredibly simple. The variations in the different typescripts of PYramidos are inconsequential to the issue as well. How does that affect whether or not the opening of Pyramidos is the lection of Liber Israfel?
As to why you'd use it, read Israfel and then the opening of Pyramidos, lets do this:
0. The Temple being in darkness, and the Speaker ascended into his place let him begin by a ritual of the Enterer, as followeth.
1. HB:Vau Priocul, O procul este profani.
2. Bahlasti! Ompehda!
3. In the name of the Mighty and Terrible One, I proclaim that I have banished the Shells unto their habitations.
4. I invoke Tahuti, the Lord of Wisdom and of Utterance, the God that cometh forth from the Veil.
5. O Thou! Majesty of Godhead! Wisdom-crowned Tahuti! Lord of the Gates of the Universe! Thee, Thee, I invoke.
O Thou of the Ibis Head! Thee, Thee I invoke.
Thou who wieldest the Wand of Double Power! Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou who bearest in Thy left hand the Rose and Cross of Light and Life: Thee, Thee, I invoke.
Thou, whose head is as an emerald, and Thy nemmes as the night-sky blue! Thee, Thee I invoke.
Thou, whose skin is of flaming orange as though it burned in a furnace! Thee, Thee I invoke.
6. Behold! I am Yesterday, To-Day, and the Brother of To-Morrow!
I am born again and and again.
Mine is the Unseen Force, whereof the Gods are sprung! Which is as Life unto the Dwellers in the Watch-Towers of the Universe.
I am the Charioteer of the East, Lord of the Past and of the Future.
I see by mine own inward light: Lord of Resurrection; Who cometh forth from the Dusk, and my birth is from the House of Death.
7. O ye two Divine Hawks upon your Pinnacles!
Who keep watch over the Universe!
Ye who company the Bier to the House of Rest!
Who pilot the Ship of Ra advancing onwards to the heights of heaven!
Lord of the Shrine which standeth in the Centre of the Earth!
8. Behold, He is in me, and I in Him!
Mine is the Radiance, wherein Ptah floatheth over the firmament!
I travel upon high!
I tread upon the firmament of Nu!
I raise a flashing flame, with the lightning of Mine Eye!
Ever rushing on, in the splendour of the daily glorified Ra: giving my life to the Dwellers of Earth.
9. If I say "Come up upon the mountains!" the Celestial Waters shall flow at my Word.
For I am Ra incarnate!
Kephra created in the Flesh!
I am the Eidolon of my father Tmu, Lord of the City of the Sun!
10. The God who commands is in my mouth!
The God of Wisdom is in my Heart!
My tongue is the Sanctuary of Truth!
And a God sitteth upon my lips.
11. My Word is accomplished every day!
And the desire of my heart realises itself, as that of Ptah when He createth!
I am Eternal; therefore all things are as my designs; therefore do all things obey my Word.
12. Therefore do Thou come forth unto me from Thine abode in the Silence: Unutterable Wisdom! All-Light! All-Power!
Thoth! Hermes! Mercury! Odin!
By whatever name I call Thee, Thou art still nameless to Eternity:. Come Thou forth, I say, and aid and guard me in this work of Art.
13. Thou, Star of the East, that didst conduct the Magi!
Thou art The Same all-present in Heaven and in Hell!
Thou that vibratest between the Light and the Darkness!
Rising, descending! Changing ever, yet ever The Same!
The Sun is Thy Father!
Thy Mother is the Moon!
The Wind hath borne Thee in its bosom: and Earth hath ever nourished the changeless Godhead of Thy Youth!
14. Come Thou forth, I say, come Thou forth!
And make all Spirits subject unto Me:
So that every Spirit of the Firmament
And of the Ether.
And of the Earth.
And under the Earth.
On dry land
And in the Water.
Of whirling Air
And of rushing Fire.
And every Spell and Scourge of God the Vast One, may be obedient unto Me!
15. I invoke the priestess of the Silver Star, Asi the Curved One, by the ritual of Silence.
16. I make open the gate of Bliss; I descend from the Palace of the Stars; I greet you, I embrace you, O children of Earth, that are gathered together in the Hall of Darkness.
17. (A pause.)
18. The Speech in the Silence.
The Words against the Son of Night.
The Voice of Tahuti in the Universe in the Presence of the Eternal.
The Formulas of Knowledge.
The Wisdom of Breath.
The Root of Vibration.
The Shaking of the Invisible.
The Rolling Asunder of the Darkness.
The Becoming Visible of Matter.
The Piercing of the Scales of the Crocodile.
The Breaking Forth of the Light!
19. (Follows the Lection.)
(In S.W.) (The "East" is the Direction of Boleskine)
Hail, Asi! (sound bell) (establishing Demeter in S.W.)
(in N.W.) Hail, Hoor-Apep! (sound bell) est. Hades in N.W.)
Let
The Silence speech beget! (Banishing spiral dance)
From the Throne of East. (establishing Hermes in E.)
The Words against the Son of Night!
Tahuti speaketh in the Light.
Knowledge and Power, twin warriors shake
The Invisible, they roll asunder
The Darkness, Matter shines, a snake.
Sebek is smitten by the thunfder!
The Light breaks forth from under!
From West. (invoking Hermes)
Oh thou! the apex of the Flame
With Ibis head and Phoenix wand
And wings of Night, whose serpents strain
Their bodies, bending the Beyond.
Thou in the light and in the Night.
Art one, above their moving might!
At altar with Scourge, Dagger, Chain and Oil
The Lustral Water. Let its flood
Cleanse me, lymph, marrow, and blood!
The Fire informing. Let the Oil
Balance assain, assoil!
Optional The Scourge, the Dagger, and the Chain
Purge body, breast, and brain
With invoking spiral dance.
Now let me pace the path, bind on
The girdle of the Starry One!
In West M M
Homage to the, Lord of the Word! (Sign of enterer)
Lord of the Silence, homage to Thee (Sign of Silence)
Lord we adore Thee, still and stirred
Beyond Eternity! (Both signs)
Far from the silence of the wand
Unto the speaking of the Sword,
And back again to the Beyond,
This is the toil and the reward.
This is the path of Hua - Ho! (? T.)
This is the path of IAO.
Hail, Asi, hail! (bell) thou wanded wheel:
Alpha and Delta kissed, and came
For Five that feed the flame.
Hail, Hoor-Apep! (bell) ythou sword of steel!
Alpha and Delta and Epsilon
Met in the Shadow of the Pylon:
And in Iota did proclaim
That tenfold core and crown of flame.
Hail, Hoor-Apep! Unspoken name!
20. There is an end of the speech; let the Silence of darkness be broken; let it return into the silence of light.
21. The speaker silently departs; the listeners disperse unto their homes; yea, they disperse unto their homes. |
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Posted: Jun 10, 2008 - 11:33 PM
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| Just a quickie here, I am perfectly willing to admit I am wrong, but it just seems so much like common sense to me on this one. |
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In case you can't figure it out, my comments are based on my experiences or learned from various teachers either right or wrong. I am not to be taken as an authority, if you assume such, that is you, not me.
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