I just finished my part of the working and just a quick note I feel it went well.
I could feel my energy adding to the others who were done before and also some were still working about an hour ago as I did it.
I think this will have interesting results.
I can type up details later if anyone is interested.
Look forward to hearing your impressions Hecate and if you noticed anyone 🙂
The light house is quite a beacon!

Unfortunately I caught a terrible cold and couldn't keep one clear thought on Sunday, so I decided not to participate. It is a pity, but I was very clearly not in shape.

Would be interested in the outcome, nevertheless!

Eilthireach

An account for the Lighthouse Working.

Forward:
The aim of this Working was
a) To keep the place charged and help it to become a lighthouse of Will and Love in the world.
b) To help the participants and everyone else who will connect with the Abbey of Thelema in the future, to expand their consciousness and attain the knowledge and conversation with their Holy Guardian Angel.

The Diary Entries:

Saturday 9.18.2010
12:15 pm – I tossed around the gift for the earth. (Greek herbs, fruits, soil and pebbles), sprinkled the water and read a few ancient Greek hymns. It took me a few minutes to get accustomed to the new environment.

12:35 pm - LBRP and the Rosy-Cross Ritual
I felt that the energy started accumulating.

12:50 pm – Invoking H.R. of Saturn
The energy was somewhat harsh at first but then I felt it becoming profound and solid.

13:05 pm – Invoking H.R. of Luna
This one made the energy sweet and gave me the feeling of being at “Home”. I was guided to sprinkle around water from the chalice after each hexagram ritual.

13:35 pm – Meditation and cleansing work.
I felt around aspects of Self in light blue and white.
I was guided to work with the Tree of Life in order to remove certain obstacles in the flow of the energy.
I visualized the Tree of Life on the altar. I used the dagger to cut all along the path from Kether to Malkuth, I opened it about 30 cm with my hands (moving them as in the sign of opening the veil, like opening a slot) and then I said “Let the energy be released”, waving the heads as if trying to take some smoke out of there.
I repeated the same cutting from Binah to Hod and from Chokmah to Netzah.
Using my hands again, I connected Malkuth to Netzah and integrated this sphere of energy into Tiphereth. I repeated the same with Malkuth, Hod & Tiphereth.
I continued connecting Gebura to Hesed and then both of them to Tiphereth.
I connected Binah to Chokmah. I lifted the sphere of Daath to kether.
I connected the whole energy sphere of Tiphereth to Binah and Chokmah and then to Kether.
Finally I connected the whole sphere of Kether to Ain Soph Aur.
This created an umbrella which covered the whole place. In the end I moved the whole sphere down to Malkuth again.

I also used the Dai Ko Mio symbol (of Reiki) to bring down energy and I saw it covering the whole place.

13:50 pm – more ancient hymns.
14:10 pm – Invoking G.H.R. of Mercury

14:20 pm – Meditation on Nuit and “I am the Mother” mantram.
I made several attempts to meditate but none succeeded really.
The first time Elijah said:
“Let Persephone’s and Hekate’s fingertips shake off the evil and let them built a temple to Zeus on the crest of Olympus, because those who descend deep into the earth can also raise high”.

The second time I thought to focus better on Nuit. I visualized her as a dark blue starry night and dived into it. The next thing I saw was AC in his costume walking in the Abbey. I didn’t see the details around though.

The third time I couldn’t even start. I was urged to leave and go back to the city and put my feet in the water. I resisted at first because I wanted to follow my schedule, but then I thought that I should listen to my guidance and left. I had in mind to go to the seashore later in the evening and meditate having my feet in the water. However, while I and my friends were walking up and down the streets of Cefalu, we saw a group of tourists coming out of a place called “Lavatoio”. Curious to see what it was, we went in. A stream of not drinkable spring water was rushing through stone basins where women used to do the laundry in the old times. In a playful mood I put my feet in one of these basins for a few moments. After a while I felt that I had got ridden of a huge burden.

I tried to meditate on Nuit a few times in the night, but the energy didn’t take me there. Finally I gave up.

Sunday 9.19.2010
I started the working around 9:00 am and had some long intervals of doing or thinking nothing at all.

I Performed Star Ruby, Star Saphire, LBRP & the invoking greater ritual of the pentagram. The energy level got high and I felt it wavering/shivering around me for a while. I liked the energy.
I declared my intention to connect everyone who wishes so with the Abbey and channel to them its energy.

Then followed the invoking G.H.R. of Mercury.
I realized that I forgot to take with me the hymns for the planetary work.
I got overwhelmed by a profound feeling of sacredness and a sense of duty. The feeling of sacredness always indicates to me the presence of a higher intelligence/vibration.
I heard the following words in a row: Priestess, Love, Dream, Fireway, Eternally Virgin, Pure Virgin, Lady- Bride of God.
I thought of Mary but I couldn’t remember if she corresponds to a certain Sphere of the Tree.

Liber Samekh and the invoking G.H.R. of Uranus.
Suddenly I had the image of the Abbey restored. The mural room is open for the Thelemites to perform rituals. The murals are restored and protected behind some special construction of glass. There is a WC for the public in the yard and a small canteen.
“What is going to be done with the rest of it?” I wondered. “Should it be a sort of a counseling office? An esoteric bookshop selling also aromatic sticks & fragrances and perhaps biological products?” I didn’t get any answer.

I was told to take a piece of a broken floor tile and a pebble for the shrine of Delphinius Apollo in Athens.

The invoking G.H.R. of Sol combined with the Dai-Ko-Mio symbol.
There was plenty of light all over the place. I was guided to imprint Elijah’s symbol on the heart (the circle with the dot in the middle) and then go on.

Rosy-Cross ritual and Lesser Hexagram Ritual.
Someone said : The Virgin, Isis, Mighty Mother is here. Visualize whatever you like and let it happen. Let the reins on Elijah’s hands while you’re doing the visualization.

I saw another room of the house turned to a projection room. A certain program is repeated 3 or 4 times during the day. There are AC’s photos and paintings on the walls.
I wonder if the rest house will be someone’s residence… or perhaps a shop?
Someone on the other side says “Music ensemble” and continues “The Great Mother is here. She will have to be honored along with Aleister Crowley”.
I asked “Babalon?”
“Yes, I heard, the One Feminine Principal”.

I was guided to do some balancing work. I was shown that, the reason for the failure to keep the Abbey alive until now was some sort of imbalance between Horus and Typhon.

I focused on the 2nd side of the sigil and declared my intention to have Typhon and Apophis co-operating with Horus to build the Abbey of Thelema and make it a lighthouse of Love, Life, Hope and Joy for the whole world.

A bit later I was told to wear white when I enter in the Abbey, and a few other personal details.

Regards
Hecate

Hecate, thank you for sharing with us. I'm gonna have to re-read your last post and see if I can absorb more of your experience.

I'm also very much impressed by the rituals you did in the Abbey, Hecate and I think AC is right you does seem the only person who cares for this place, and do not worry to much about AC's behaviour, I think he's just a 'grumpy old man'. . .

I raelly enjoyed reading your post Hecate.
I am not very experienced in 'formal' or 'ceremonial' magick, as I am more of a free form person and thus mystic by nature but I feel I want to learn magick very much, and each time I do a ritual, even if it is clumsy or I have to read from the book occasionaly like this time, I still feel the energy and generally successful.
With that preface here is what I had written in my magical diary for sunday 19 september:
12-1:11pm Mountain StandardTime = 9-10:11pm cefalu time (I think?). But in the no time the energy and me still arrived 'on time' 🙂
First I did a Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, after erading through Liber reguli to get a feel for it and to make sure I generally knew what to do.
Then I Performed Liber reguli from around 1230 to 1 or so.
While looking at book occasionaly.
The energy felt good though, if slightly weak due to being the 1st time.
Still got feeling of accomplishment i.e. the ritual 'worked.'
Then I meditated on the Lighthouse working sigils to try and connect.
I felt joy and a sense of movement, like in my astral body.
Then I meditated on the Lighthouse itself and travelled there.
I found myself in a round stone stairway and walked up the stone steps.
The lighthouse stairway was lit by bulbs every few feet.
I was going up counter clockwise.
At the top I saw Anna but she didnt seem fully there. Like a 'part' of her.
Also saw some vague figures in the background in robes I couldn't make out.
(anna do you have curly or permy hair?) 🙂
The lighthouse had a lovely view of rocks, sea and coast, bathed in sunlight (in the astral at least)
Fairly bright.
I asked aloud if Raphael was there. He appeared and gave me a word sounding like (CENSORED :D)
I ask if I wrote it correctly but he says no so I ask him to audibly say it and its (CENSORED)
He says for meaning, to get the # (gematria) value.
I chant it and 'LA' and feel more vibration and joy in ajnah and solar plexus.
Then I dive off the tower and flew happily.
I went back up and looked at the lamp (of the lighthouse)
I focussed on it spreading light. It seemed like a medium sized crystal kind of thing.
The light spread and also felt healing as it hit me.
Then I visualised the Light House going into the Delphic stone.
After I did the LBRP again and felt the energy rise and then dissipate.
The whole thing seemed to take about an hour and ten minutes.

Thats about it!
I felt it was well worth it and definitely had some affect on me , others, in the astral and physical.
Hecate if you felt anything specific from others or me I for one love juicy details.
I also deeply appreciate your commitment.
I understand AC's reticence to have a shrine to Mammon in a holy temple.

Greetings

A strange thing happened yesterday and I decided to add it to the account.

As I said, I experienced certain physical problems after the working (especially fatigue, headaches and a sense of being lightheaded). At first I thought that, since it happened because of the intensity of the energy, I should try to tune out of the experience and the place a bit, but when I tried that the headache got worse. The problem continued yesterday. I was going to have a group in the evening and I started thinking that I should take a painkiller again, although it didn’t help the day before.

In the noon AC told me that, from now on, I should visualize myself sitting in the middle of the mural room when I channel. As soon as I imagined myself there, all the symptoms were gone. After about half an hour or so I got distracted again, my mind wondered to other energies, and the headache came back. So I returned to the Abbey and I was fine again. The same thing happened today too.
I wonder if this means that there is more energy waiting to be grounded yet.

I used to have permy hair, long or short, several years ago, not now though.

Sorry Chris, unfortunately I don’t have any juicy details for you. 🙂
While it is relatively easy for me to feel presences etc when I’m home, things were totally different when I was in the Abbey. I had the feeling that I am in a cocoon with AC and Elijah and there was nothing and nobody else there. Perhaps it was better this way because it would be rather difficult to have my energy pulled hither and thither…

I did try to see who were connected with this working and I asked if I should know anything about you, but the energy just didn’t take me there. A few times I thought of you and the ones who said they would connect, and declared my intention to have the energy moved as we said. I didn’t feel much the energy of some of them. I remember that I had the certainty that you would connect, but… that’s all.

Regards
Hecate

I sleep of silomed to Celafu, forget what time it was or day. Did a Rosy NOX ritual invoking Jupiter (Jupiter is like Disneyland or catnip to HGAs) The Jupiter energy/gravity was incredibly dense and so pleasurable it kept me awake for most of the night riding the current so to speak.

For the Record, my participation in the Pharos Working consisted of the following (certain details are omitted, none essential or operative). I chose to participate in only some parts of the given rite, but these synchronously with the elected time.

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" Pharos Working.

Time:
Luna 21° Aquarius, Sol 27° Virgo
Sunday, September 19th, Anno IVxviii

Location:
A certain secret underground temple embedded within the rocky fabric of the eastern coast of Australia.

0900 CET (1900 AEST): Casting of circle. Subtle aroma of Abramelin oil from phial located upon South Altar of Temple.
0915 (1915): Star Ruby, then meditation in attitude of Harpocrates.
0930 (1930) – 0950 (1950) Formulation of Intent. Had elected (in advance) to omit the subsequent Planetary components in the given rubric, quitting the Circle and Temple until the next synchronous Act.

1325 (2325) Re-entry to Temple and re-casting of Circle
1330 (2330) Star Ruby
1340 (2340) Star Sapphire. Slightly rusty in performance, I found; nonetheless, unexpected good 'centering' (!) / reflection /window into Tiphareth, or Angel-Tangent, or the like.

1400 (0000AEST - Luna 22° Aquarius / Monday, September 20) Liber V vel Reguli. (Had earlier considered perhaps preceeding this with Midnight Resh at the given moment but in the event, elected to keep to the synchronised schedule of Reguli at the appointed time; loosely, momentarily and only subliminally aware of a – perhaps appropriately – tacit sense of the chronule of Khephra in merely solar-terrestrially relative terms as a passive, inarticulate, and merely local geographic context, Liber V being the concordantly intended Act.)

1430 (0030) Thelema-Pharos.
Facing Boleskine, ie. North North West, and down a bit (through the Earth), in relaxed sitting/kneeling asana. Visualisation (dharana) of Thelema-Pharos as illustrated here above, as if on location at la rocca, probably 10-15 minutes 'dry'. Then Muladhara (for which, for me, Liber Reguli is a sublime balanced tonic, if tempered via pranayama) responded and through focus of vision empowered thereby in intangible and inexplicit sublimation, communicated the following, vast, image: Through from the base deep within the core of the Earth, whirling up the shaft of the Pharos in seemingly epic scale and cascading in multitudes out of the top flew a very, very, great and intense multitude of animated sparks, which upon the approach of the foremost among them to my witnessing presence as they erupted up, out, and down, and into the world around, I saw were in fact Phoenixes flying upon wings of flame, as multitudinous, miniscule and bright and subtle as molten atoms, gushing up through the Pharos image, each a miracle of ludicity, transcendent sentience and bliss, and seemingly each with a natural, and somewhat urgent, but ecstatic, transcendental mission to accomplish. There was a sense of cosmic symphony. Trance-immersion of this for approximately 15-25 minutes.

Grounding via renewal of pranayama, redirection of attention to physical plane, and breaking of asana. Circle then quit and closed with thanks to attendant spirits.

Around 1530 (0130) Temple ex-habited.

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I now look forward to perusing some of the other accounts!

Thank you again Hecate for furnishing the occasion.

regards - 93

N.

thank you for your details noctifer 🙂 always a pleasure.

WOW!! Hecate that is awesome!! You know so much!!! Now go have a beer for your hardwork, seriously that was probably alot! of work!! No but really dude I think that is so concise!

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Anna Apostolidou aka Hecate, when AC during the Lighthouse Working repeatedly stated that you are the only one who cares about this place, does it afterwards make sense to you now, that out of the pair of you two communicating, you are "the only one who cares about this place"?

This is significant, because AC received the most holy writings of Thelema through channeling them, and in October through December 1907, received The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent (Liber 65). Verse 61 in this channeled book's fourth chapter, reads like this:

"61. I too am the Soul of the desert; thou shalt seek me yet again in the wilderness of sand." Source: http://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib65.html

That verse has been interpreted as AC's Holy Guardian Angel and/or Aiwass telling him to return back to Egypt, for some major and important workings, described in the verses following the verse quoted above. It has been debated on this forum why AC did not return back to Egypt after receiving the The Book of The Law in 1904, as he was supposedly told to do by his Holy Guardian Angel and/or Aiwass, and there are rumours about this site's moderator, editor and owner, working on a book covering Egypt.

Anna, thanks for letting me bring this to your attention, Hecate.

Paul

Hecate, I know, it is not good form to chain-thread post, but on this forum having received some feedback from you about me defining myself as thick skinned, I am amused by how strong a stream of stimulating and suggestive ideas and thoughts The Lighthouse Working has inspired in me. All the following text in this posting, is written just to give you and all other readers a more detailed impression of these, and I will restrain myself from pestering you folks with them after this posting:

AC communicated during the The Lighthouse Working, that it was his will to leave for some unknown reason, that he did not want to have a shop in the Abbey, that you should "put a box somewhere to receive donations", and that you are the only one who cares about this place.

This communicated will to leave, could be a signal of a willingness to communicate, but at another place, not necessarily related to the Abbey of Thelema.

When I saw the image of The Lighthouse presented in your posting on the bottom of the first page of this thread, erected to help the participants of the "Lighthouse Working" "achieve the knowledge and the conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel", that reminded me of the first image I saw as a child, of one of the useful wonders among all the seven ancient wonders of the world (for the sailors to return to the Great Harbor), namely Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt.

I thus, in my only posting at the second page of this thread, provided some information and some suggestions relating to Thelema and Egypt, where Thelema originated during the Cairo Working in 1904, according to Aleister Crowley.

And later on this reminded me of the debate among members of this site, about if Aleister Crowley ignored a request from his Holy Guardian Angel to return to Egypt, a request channeled to him at the end of 1907 in Liber LXV: The Book of the Heart Girt by a Serpent.

Hope the above can be food for thought for some of you, and of more or less interest, dependant or independant of how things evolve with the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu.

And by the way Anna, I hope you got to taste some of the world famous Marsala wine from Sicily, as you much earlier on this forum assured me you would.:D

Paul

Greetings, Paul

You ask if I have realized until now that what I received meant that AC doesn’t care to have the Abbey restored, but it is only my wish –please correct me if I misunderstood your question.

Well, no. I haven’t seen anything like that until now. On the contrary, my perception is that he urges me to go on, that he often guides me in the way, and that I’ve been watching the pieces of the puzzle falling in place one after the other.

However, I’d like to clarify something here: as I see things, it’s not the received info or suggestions that really matter. What is really critical is the way the receiver (channeler) reacts to them. There are many ordeals on one’s path (and it is our own self who puts them in the way, as I see it) so one has to stay centered and well grounded to be able to use those pieces of info. For this reason I’ve decided quite some time ago that, whenever I’ll hear anything that suggests a separative way of thinking that has the potential to raise the ego, I’ll just let it go as if I had never heard it. So when I mentioned the above piece of information I only did it because it was part of the process, and not because I believed it to be so (at least not literally).
As a matter of fact, I think that many people would love to see the Abbey restored, but perhaps they lack the confidence to make the first step, or they are not as well-grounded they’d have to be to focus their energy on the needed work, or, most likely, they have other priorities in their lives.

Now, the literal interpretation of the inner suggestions is another issue. According to my experience, one can start interpreting the incoming info on many levels and dimensions. In my case, I work with most of these suggestions on the symbolic and I have found that they can really alter one’s consciousness. I have to admit though that, in the case at hand (i.e. the guidance about the Abbey), they have been proved to be quite literal. I suspect it happens due to the connected magical working which resulted in good grounding of the energy.

At any rate, I can’t stress enough that I don’t wish to claim that it is AC who wants to get the Abbey restored, because a) I don’t think it would be the right way to handle this energy and b) I did feel this wish coming from my heart and I take the full responsibility for it.

To put it in other words, I would expect people to help in this cause not because it might be (or not) a suggestion from the inner fields to do so, but because they find it in their own heart to save the Abbey. This, as I see it, is the basis of co-creating with Spirit.

I haven’t read this liber before. Was it AC himself who gave this interpretation, or others? For me, the “desert” could be indicating some kind of journey to an inner dimension (at least this is what I experienced a few years ago), or even a difficult period of life, ‘dry’ from resources of any kind (and especially emotional).

Now, if one decides to take these words literally as a prophecy about another trip to Egypt, perhaps it would be good to keep in mind that prophesies can change:

As I understand it, the information received by a channeler is actually energy translated by the receiver’s apparatus. So what the channelers say is mostly what they can transcribe from the incoming energy, using their own cognitive background. They can get rid of several mirroring if they decide to let go of their old points of reference, but this is quite difficult and one should dedicate much time in cleansing and releasing.

At any rate though, this is all about energy and energy flows and changes. Either one believes in the existence of the angels and other entities in the inner fields or not, it remains a fact that humans can move mountains with their belief as they begin to learn how to become the “conscious factor” of creation on Earth.

Being able to co-create, they can actually change the flow of any current of energy according to their (true) will. And if it is possible for a single person to do that, how much easier it should be for a group or a society or even humanity as a whole! So, I believe it is relatively easy for one to change a prophecy either by applying one’s will consciously, or by allowing the energy of life to lead one whenever is best for one’s higher good every moment.

Perhaps then, while AC kept evolving, many of his previous energies changed and he had to pass from plan A to plan B, C, etc. So the fact that AC never returned to Egypt doesn’t necessarily mean that he misunderstood Aiwass’s words, or that lied about Aiwass or that Aiwass was only a fantasy. Instead, it seems to me that he simply changed scenarios and followed a different path to develop a different potential.

Another reason could be that he felt he wouldn’t be able to stand the intensity of Aiwass’s energy once again. Sometimes it’s really difficult to stand a certain energy, and this is a very subtle subconscious reaction. I have caught myself repeatedly denying opening, or being in a hurry to close the communication, due to some inexplicable subconscious fear, and when I talked with other channelers, they said that they experience the same difficulty at times, as well.

Regards
Hecate

Hecate,

61. I too am the Soul of the desert; thou shalt seek me yet again in the wilderness of sand.

KG's gematria is useful here. 61, Void, AIN, Desert. The Soul(s) is/are in the Void, Daath, Mauve Zone etc. The HGA/AIWAZ is one of the many. A pluralism of souls/praeter-human intelligences/entities that seep out of 'that' or 'other' spaceless or dimensionless wilderness/Void.

Greetings

On the contrary Paul, my take is that the energy is getting more and more focused on the Abbey of Thelema.
Besides, I think that the restoration of the Abbey of Thelema and its further function in harmony with the local community will be a great opportunity to help people comprehend Aleister Crowley’s philosophy even deeper.

I read your message but, to say the truth, I felt its energy quite distracting at the moment, so I just let it go.
I haven’t been in Egypt, although I’ve always wanted to visit the Pyramids etc. I guess the energy will take me there when it’s the right time for me.

Yes Paul, I did. As a matter of fact, I got a bottle of Marsala with me in Greece and enjoyed it with friends. However I think it would be be only fair to suggest you to taste a glass of wine from Lemnos or Samos islands. I find its flavor much richer and fruitier. 😉

That seems to make sense. Thank you Fo-Hi.

Regards
Hecate

Hello Anna.

Your statement quoted above, reminds me of AC's advise to either fully reject, or fully accept "the received info or suggestions" in The Book of The Law, after the first reading. This indicates that it was "really critical" for Aleister Crowley, how each possible reader "reacts to" the received Book of The Law.

I don't know, maybe someone else know?

"Is fear in thine heart?'' He says again: "Where I am, these are not.'' There is much more of the same kind; enough has been quoted already to make all clear." [...] "Lift yourselves up, my brothers and sisters of the earth! Put beneath your feet all fears, all qualms, all hesitancies! Lift yourselves up! Come forth, free and joyous, by night and day, to do your will; for "There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.'' Lift yourselves up! Walk forth with us in Light and Life and Love and Liberty, taking our pleasure as Kings and Queens in Heaven and on Earth." Source: http://www.the-equinox.org/vol3/eqv3n1/eq0301048.htm - The Law of Liberty

As stated before on this forum, to you from me, I regard channeling as a quality of your thinking, or a way of your thinking.

Thanks for your suggestion, Hecate.:wink:

Well, ok. one of Crowley's main intentions for establishing the Abbey was to de-victorianize himself and others. A big component of English victorianism was a sense of place. The new Abbey of Thelema can be anywhere and nowhere. As a plan B of course. Mistakes are charming.

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What a fantastic thread this was and I am very sorry to have missed the whole thing. What the hell was I doing from September to October last year!?
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