Laughing Lion Lesson II: Eight Principles

BY ORDER OF THE

SECRET CHIEFS

OF THE A.'.A.'.

The Principles are Utterances of DIONYSUS 9=2 and are in Class A;
the short explanations following are the Interpretation of Fr. E.I.V. & thus are in Class B


[NOTE: Fr. E.I.V. says "I mean" but Fr. E.I.V. and DIONYSUS 9=2 are not the same identity - one is a funny fellow on the planet Earth and the other is the Light of the World itself... although they utilize the same mind & body to manifest! -E.I.V.]

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Lesson II,

known also as "8 Principles"
of the Laughing Lion,
Dionysus 9=2

The Word of TO MEGA THERION 9=2 is THELEMA, or Will. This Word is not abrogated nor superseded but re-affirmed with renewed vigor. The essential principles of this Law have been collected below:

"Every man and every woman is a star." -AL I:3
"The word of the Law is THELEMA." -AL I:39

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." -AL I:40
"The word of Sin is Restriction." -AL I:41
"So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will." -AL I:42
"Love is the law, love under will." -AL I:57

"There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt." -AL III:60

The Word of DIONYSUS 9=2, known also as the Thundering Roar, is GROWTH.

8 Principles emanate from the Song of this Word:

i) Man is a Kosmos; Kosmos is a Reality

I mean: Every Man and every Woman is a Universe (a phenomenological field of experience, to use a scientific term) and perceives Itself from the center in terms of place (three-dimensional space) and time.

ii) Kosmos can be perceived as both None & Two, Continuous and Dis-continuous

I mean: Man can understand Himself as both a finite being immersed in a world & as an infinite being containing & coterminous with the world. These are both valid: Man is both Finite & Infinite. The world as Two is when Kosmos becomes split between Man AND World; The World as None is when Kosmos becomes united where Man IS World.

Further, it is a limitation and a Restriction to conceive one's Kosmos as only One or only Many. This is specifically warned against in Our Most Holy Book: "If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!" One must realize it is both One and Many, None and Two in the language of Thelema.

iii) Man perceived as Two is a curse for the un-initiate; Man perceived as Two is a sacrament and a perpetual blessing for the initiate.

I mean: For the normal person - identified mainly with their personal accomplishments, relationships, and possessions - the idea of Unity is, at the best, an intellectually appreciable and emotionally uplifting idea... but it is a not an experiential reality for them. For those who have shut themselves up in themselves, intentionally or unintentionally, Unity may even seem hostile... which it is, to everything they consider important. To the initiate, the world of Two appears as the projection or emanation of the None in order for possibility of Experience. Experience requires Time, Place, Causality and the like which, in a Continuous state of No-Difference, is not a possibility. Therefore, to the initiate, the World perceived as Two represents Possibility of Experience itself, and the world becomes a contemplation of divine wonder.

iii) Life is a series of Events, which are each a Union of Man with a particular Possibility; each Event can be assimilated & incorporated through Love under Will or the Event can be denied.

I mean: From a certain perspective, Kosmos is Perfect so every Event is necessary. The acceptance of each Event-Experience is an act of union & assimilation - that is, Love under Will - and the denial of each & any Fact of Experience is a denial of part of the Kosmos and therefore a denial of part of Oneself. The lack of acceptance & assimilation of each Event - often because it is seen as a threat - will cause suffering and engage the natural defense mechanisms in every man & woman, including denial, repression, and distortion. That is, if one does not perform Love under Will in each Event of Life, one does not accept Life as it is - instead one will feel the need to deny, repress, or distort the Event, causing a split in oneself.

iv) The mode of Will is Love, which Union of a Man with a Possibility. The Nature & Intent of this Love under Will is GROWTH.

I mean: While the only Law is DO WHAT THOU WILT, this Law is accomplished through acts of Love. These acts of union contain pure joy, of course, but to understand which Possibility to fulfill out of the Infinite available we must summon the word of Dionysus 9=2, GROWTH. What it means to Grow, the extent & direction of Growth, what is considered Healthy Growth, and who exactly is Growing changes through the different Initiations.

v) GROWTH means achieving higher, stronger & more expansive balance in all things & all ways, degrees, and directions.

I mean: GROWTH means different things to different people at different stages in their life. Physically, GROWTH refers to the natural, biological developmental process but also to the ability for us to train, become strong, quick, and athletic. Emotionally, GROWTH refers to understanding & control of one's emotions; in this New Aeon, we do not look down upon the emotions or even up to them but see them as powerful engines which could propel us into the sky... or over a cliff. Mentally, GROWTH refers to the accumulation of knowledge & understanding about the world and oneself; it also refers to the steadying & control of thought. Spiritually, GROWTH refers to the constant striving to deeper abysses of wisdom and higher mountain-peaks of insight into our true Selves. All of Life is subservient and permeated by this Will-to-Growth.

vi) Good and Evil must arise out of one's own Law of GROWTH.

I mean: What is Good is what helps oneself Grow; What is Evil is all that prevents, restricts, thwarts, or stifles Growth. The values with which each person understands & works in the world must arise out of their own circumstances, needs, and abilities. Evil itself is merely a reminder to do one's own Good, for the natural result of Evil - going against one's own Law - is suffering.

vii) Death is not cataclysmic but one Event that contributes to one's GROWTH.

I mean: Death of both the body and the ego are no longer seen as cataclysms. In fact, we should "Die daily" in that we are born anew each day... no, each moment! The body's birth allows for the possibility of Events and its death is a seal on its Attainments. The ego's birth allows for normal functioning in the world and its death heralds the shift of identity from ego-self to the true & Supreme Self. The death of the ego, especially, is not seen as a tragedy but a necessary step of Growth of a Flower, just as Winter comes to make ready the New Harvest.

viii) Take Joy in all things & all circumstance, knowing each Event is a crystallization of all past GROWTH as well as the beginning of all future GROWTH.

I mean: Every Event is the result of virtually infinite circumstances in the past and stands before infinitely more Events in the future. GROWTH extends back into history and desires itself to make new histories. Joy is the natural by-product of following one's own Law of GROWTH, being the natural expression of the free fulfillment of one's powers from the mundane to the subtle; as it has been said, "Existence is pure joy."

And these Eight are One,
which is None.

IO IO IO IAO SABAO | KURIE ABRASAX KURIE MEITHRAS KURIE PHALLE.| IO PAN, IO PAN PAN IO ISXURON, IO ATHANATON IO ABROTON IO IAO. XAIRE PHALLE KAIRE PANPHAGE KAIRE PANGENETOR. | HAGIOS, HAGIOS, HAGIOS IAO.

The History of the Rise of Dionysus 9=2, part 1

These episodes or parts are not chronologically arranged but - instead - detail the most important events leading to the birth of DIONYSUS 9=2. The chapter titles are also called "Mountain Tops" because they name the peaks of great moments.

Part I:
Death & Dissolution of the Adept
- or -
The 8=3 Initiation

It was the beginning of Winter in year 100 of the New Aeon (2004 era vulgari), and I had since become - in the eyes of myself, my fellow students, and my various mentors - a particularly strong Adept. I was reading over & over what I, Brother E.I.V. (my 1st Order motto, "Ex Igne Victoria," meaning "Out of Fire, Victory") perceived as my 7=4 thesis, which I had finished 3 years before. I called it ARARITA: The Many Ways to Unity, showing the fundamental nature of the Universe to be a unity. It was done logically in a few ways (showing the absurdity of reason), comparatively (showing the union, pun intended, of theory behind many Traditions), and even physically (matter & energy, for example, being two expressions of one thing unnameable). It was a work of Pantheism, showing the world to be One, God being All of the World, and Man being Part of that World. All of this did not prepare me, the "Great Adept from the South," for an experience that would, in all senses of the world, kill me.

That is, everything I thought I was & had (material object and knowledge) would be destroyed. These words sounds like a horrible utterance, some kind of sickly premonition of dissolution... But that is the View from below the Abyss. Only in my Forging into the Grade of Magus, 9=2, did I come to truly have the Right Wisdom to assess this Initiation into the Grade of Master of the Temple.

I had rented a small cabin in a rural part of New Mexico as a retreat from my normal work in engineering. It is really a desolate place, with flatness on all sides and a few mountains in the distance, standing resolutely as jagged rebuttals to the blankness. This blankness is the ideal setting for completing the task at hand one-pointededly: Five days was the allotted time I had given myself, where I would "seek to meditate and deepen my spiritual Understanding" (from my Diaries at the time). There was no conscious intention to work towards becoming a Master of the Temple, 8=3, when I made these plans.

Upon arriving in my battered, red truck, I tossed my belongings on the floor of the cabin. I had brought food and clothing along with three books and a pad of paper. The books were The Book of the Law, the Bhagavad Gita, and a certain mystical sacred text written by a female Buddhist tantric. In short, I was well-supplied. All one really needs is spiritual nourishment - the immensely volcanic verses in each of these Holy Books served me well for that purpose - and a bit of physical nourishment to tide the body's needs over.

After sitting on the bed for a moment and staring out of the front door, my mind turned to Divine Fantasy. A thought-vision came over me where I envisioned the frame of the cabin I was sitting idly in to be infused with with a dynamic gold current, like the building was a body with fire flashing through its veins. The roof was a Portal to the Infinite Night Sky and the ground became the tiled floor of a Masonic Hall, almost eager for solemn ritual steps to be performed. This reverie announced to me the desire of my God Adonai to establish Relations with myself, the Adept, Fr. E.I.V. 7=4. I stood immediately to perform the Qabalistic Cross...

Upon announcing my God to be the Kingdom & Power & Glory to the Ages (Amen!), I felt a strange urge to shut my eyes... it was less of an urge and more of a completely involuntary action that I could not prevent. Upon closing my eyes, a symbol flashed in bright white light with yellow flecks in no uncertain shape. Now, I had incessantly practiced on and, to an extent, conquered the astral plane in my work in the Order of the G.D. (1=10 through 4=7) but achieving visions in the astral plane always took at least 10 minutes of meditation to "get in the mood." It takes a bit to put on one's "astral goggles," as I like to call it. That is, there is a definite state of mind or way-of-seeing that is activated to "see in the astral" but this shape that appeared before my eyes was bright and clear (and almost as overwhelming as the Sun) and arose nearly immediately upon my eyes closing. I had never seen the image before - it looked somewhat like a sigil and somewhat like something one would see as an alien language in a movie - but simply seeing it made my stomach tighten and my eyes start to tear. It seemed to instantly evoke feelings of awe & beauty tinged with fear (as do all symbols, to different extents, that are not dead husks from lack of connection to & knowledge of it... symbols are not passive objects but fire-infused activity, constrained to visual form!)

The image consisted of five circles arranged horizontally. The middle circle was perfectly round and made of blinding light; it was also the largest of the circles. On either side of this central circle were two smaller circles where half of the circle was illuminated, like the Moon at First or Third Quarter. On either side of these circles were other, smaller circles that were also half-illuminated but opposite to the ones next to them.

The Image [Figure 1.1]

I was granted not a second of reverie before a Great Voice, obviously that of my Lord Adonai, spoke to me & through me: "Follow this Path; at the End is the Beginning of the Pathless." The words rang clear in my head and echoed for a few moments before the image faded out of view. I was then met with the normal darkness of the back of my own eyelids. The message left me utterly bewildered. I had come into contact with my Angel in my 5=6 Initiation as Adeptus Minor, where I established Knowledge & Conversation with my Genius whose tokens of success where Being, Consciousness, and Bliss of a higher order than any material equivalent. Even in those Relations, no message was as clear as this, put so clearly into the words of my language, had been spoken by My God. What was I to do?

The vision and the voice had left me in a strange paradoxical state which mixed excitement with desolate confusion. I fancied myself a Great Adept who knew the backwards-and-forwards of metaphysics & magick but I didn't know how to act in the face of this... Revelation. It was certainly of a different character than the 5=6 Initiation which was, a revaluation of my possibilities in terms of Power, Knowledge, and Bliss... but this was a vision and a voice like a normal astral vision. No - it was even more coherent & concrete than most visions... "Follow this Path" I was counseled, but which path? Being the overly-literal fellow I fancied myself, I took this as a practical encouragement to go for a walk, so I did.

Upon pacing around the flat surroundings of my cabin, I furiously contemplated the message I was given. What could the symbol mean? Was it a simple spiritual counsel, like those found in the Tao Teh Ching...? Or was it definite, practical advice to bring me to my next Initiation? After what seemed like only half an hour to an hour, I gathered myself and looked around. The cabin was so far-off it could not be seen and I had actually come to the foot of one of the small mountain ranges. Knowing that nothing can be accomplished without courage & a sense of adventure, I took to climbing these rocks and crags. Throughout this, there seemed to be very little "choice" in all of my actions... I did not perform my actions through my assent but the actions were simpy performed and I had to assent.

After only about one or two hundred feet of climbing, I came upon a sort of plateau that opened up on the left and right to steep cliffs. In the middle I found three caves and two rocks, amazingly in the formation of the Symbol which I had seen earlier. In the center was a large cave which I could see was quite deep. Opposite to the symbol, where the central circle was composed of blinding white light, the cave was pitch black. On either side of this cave were two small caves where I could see the back on a particular side, creating the appearance of the Half Moon-like circle in the Vision. To the right of each of the half-caves were bolders with shapes approximating half-circles from the Symbol.

I simply could not believe this "synchronicity:" I certainly had no conscious knowledge of these caves, let alone any previous knowledge of the symbol which had been flashed clearly before my eyes only an hour or so before. Could my Angel have access to physical information I had never heard or guessed? My Reason was utterly bewildered before this occurrence, seraching for some "natural" explanation. Again, I was pulled forward into the cave as if I had gained momentum and could not be stopped. I walked into the central cave until my body was encompassed by darkness. I heard absolutely nothing, the blankest nothing one can conceive. The Silence was so thick I could almost feel it bouncing off of the cave walls and making the air heavy.

Immersed in this Silence, I began my meditation practice in accordance with the instructions of My Angel from my 6=5 initiation: "Invoke often!" In particular, this practice is a form of Mantra Yoga, although it is combined with Bhakti. I repeated the Divine Invocation from Liber XV over & over to both hone my concentration and stir the fires of inspiration...

"IO IO IO IAO SABAO! KURIE ABRASAX KURIE MEITHRAS KURIE PHALLE!
IO PAN, IO PAN PAN IO ISXURON, IO ATHANATON IO ABROTON IO IAO!
XAIRE PHALLE KAIRE PANPHAGE KAIRE PANGENETOR!
HAGIOS, HAGIOS, HAGIOS IAO!"

I sat down on a relatively flat surface of the cave and folded my legs into full-lotus position. At first, the repetition of this Divine Invocation seemed a bit forced and cold, but slowly a warmth not from physical heat arose within me, which is always the first signs of a successful Invocation. Again and again, I cried "IO IO IO!" and "HAGIOS HAGIOS HAGIOS!"... enumerating the qualities of My God and singing of his Beauty & Terror.

Slowly, a curious thing happened... The Mantra of the Divine Invocation slowly broke apart. The spaces between words became longer, the syllables seemed disconnected from the ones before and after, and the meanings of the words became obscured and forgotten. At some point, the Mantra stopped completely. Normally, this would be considered a "break" in the practice but this time it was different. If it was a break, it was the break of success. Suddenly, a rapid series of thoughts & images passed over me. I saw myself in business attire, obviously a symbol of my academic & work-related accomplishments (I worked as an engineering consultant to a security company at the time). This image passed over me and I felt no identification with it, it was almost as if my identity was being pulled out of myself. After this, images of my closest three friends and my brother passed across my vision - they seemed like casualties in a war... In a sense I could recognize them, and in another sense they looked like generic people: the strong feeling within myself was that these were arbitrary persons surrounding me out of millions of other people who could potentially have been my friends & family. I felt only the emotion of stillness as these images of what would normally be extreme emotional intensity passed in front of me and then out of my consideration. Next, an image of myself clad in my 5=6 robe flashed before me: Strangely, I did not identify with this image too, even though I had spent years upon years identifying myself with this Adept & his Attainment. This image was specially painful to bear and see dissolve into formlessness - all of my studies in Eastern & Western mystical texts seemed futile. All of these images of my identity did not appear as distinct visions but more of a normal mind's-eye view: I simply knew what these images were and the corresponding emotions seemed to arise without effort... and I could somehow understand that this was a process of revealing and dissolving attachment to all forms of identity.

All of my thoughts seemed to point in circles to each other - language became a self-referential system of arbitrary symbols, used to convey incomplete and inaccurate meanings. My mind strove to put into thought the most simple ideas - I was trying to think simple things like "My breath goes out," "Fire is hot," and "I am now thinking." All my energy was focused on retaining this sense of coherency and stability, yet the energy built up by my Invocations seemed to be the very energy ripping apart attempts of my will to assert itself. It is difficult-bordering-on-impossible to convey the amount of effort and willpower required to formulate these thoughts coherently: my whole consciousness was now infused with a sort of formless energy. It felt like the dynamism & heat of fire, and it felt like the tree-branching energy of electricity. At this point, I had no idea where the parts of my body where, I had no idea where I was at all, I had no idea what time it was, and I had no idea of "I." There was only what could be called, in the language of the Ruach (Reason), "an awareness of an overwhelming force which was identified with the ground of all things." There was no one there in the normal sense, I had become no man... or rather, "I" had died and Nemo had arose.

My normal willpower - my intentionality, my volition, my conscious will - was utterly powerless before this greater energy, yet this energy was more Myself than my own "will" was. This Motion, This Will was more real than "I" was... "I" was just a poor mind's-label for the processes occurring. There arose a strong feeling that it was "wrong" to put a subject before any kind of predicate because there is only One Subject, who has No Name. I perceived the truth of the first line of the Tao Teh King, announcing the Tao spoken of is not the Tao, for the Self spoken of is not the Self. All names constrain! We could call it Self or God or Tao or It but all of these are signs & symbols... does not the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent counsel us to debate not of the particular Image, but instead say "Beyond! Beyond!"

[to be updated]

Laughing Lion Lesson I: Echoes of Fire

BY ORDER OF THE

SECRET CHIEFS

OF THE A.'.A.'.

This text is in Class B, as it is inspired
writing but not Utterances of the
Supernal Triangle, except for the 13-word
phrase which precedes the three sections

[NOTE: References are collected by Fr. E.I.V. at a later date]

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Lesson I,
known also as "Echoes of Fire,"
of the Laughing Lion,
Dionysus 9=2

The Laughing Lion emerges from his cave to travel Downward; all Lions must travel Downward at some times, their blood needs re-boiling. A Lion is one who goes Downward into their own Depths, knowing their mind is no inert vessel to simply be filled but a dynamic, flashing flame to be ignited.

Yes, Lions visit Hell from time to time, but only for a small bit of Refreshment. Hell is the Core of the Earth, but that is where the Hidden Stone always abides. The Laughing Lion licks up lava-lakes of inspiration, heat-waves of Godhead pulsing uncontrollably; his Mane melts into the Sun, becoming One, both fans of Flame.

The Laughing Lion chews a black stone, the splinters of which contain the Averse words of Hell. On one of these Splinters is this First Lesson of the Laughing Lion...

What is Averse in the old Aeon is often Upright in the New


This lesson meets the Lion, combines with & is considered by Him, generating these Examples, called Echoes of Fire, having 3 parts:

i) Demon est Deus Inversus

Once people saw through a glass darkly, and through a mirror backwards. Some spit and a hammer, then! [1]

Outside of beginning & end, the Silence exists; and the Silence was with Myself; and the Silence is Myself. She was beyond beginnings & endings with Me. All things came into Becoming because of Me, and there is no Sound apart from the Silence. In Me is death, and death is the Light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness... doesn't care to comprehend! [2]

The Devil is the only one strong & proud enough to reach up to Heaven. Indeed (but truly in-heart), one must descend to the lowest nadir and scramble over the Devil's back... don't you know a way to the Highest is a piggy-back ride on the Lowest? [3]

I am a way, a truth, and a life; my way is the High Way, whose only entrance can be found by climbing up through underground tunnels. And those tunnels can only be dug with one's own blistered & hardened hands! [4]

A little bit of light blinds us from the Night of star-gods... infinite light blinds us from crossed-eyes and all 'things,' having thereby become a light-giving Star ourselves. Those with pure eyes are those who have eliminated "purity" and "impurity;" those with virtue are those who have eliminated "virtuousness" and "vice." Besides: A bit of impurity gives a stone its color, and vices are a convenient way to hold ourselves in place! [5]

Those who shall believe in me shall deny themselves - but whosoever wants a house to stand should not divide it against itself... therefore be skeptical of me and believe in oneself! [6]

ii) Saturn Stories

I heard once of Lords & Lambs... I heard once much talk about 'redemption' and 'retribution' and 'revenge' and places where moths and dust do not corrupt... Yet I am not a great fan of fiction (this world is far too interesting!). Give me Lions & Laughter and the victory-cry over fresh-spilled blood... of a Lamb!... Give me Corruption & Conflict. They call themselves 'moderate' but they are simply misspeaking the word 'mediocre:' what does one expect when one's mouth is filled with the un-chewed cud of 'sin' and 'salvation.' Didn't they ever learn to never speak with their mouths full?

Whoever spends time sweeping for lost coins is a miser... and misses the chance to put their purse to any use! I once had one hundred sheep following me until one went astray and got lost in the mountains. Verily, I followed it as "a good shepard," not in search of my one lost sheep, but in the hopes he had lured a Lion out of its den! The Lamb will certainly lay down with the Lion... as its dinner! Those with mouths to eat, let them eat! (Perhaps I am a wolf-lurer in sheep-tamer's clothing?) [7]

I once heard a creature proclaiming "Rejoice greatly & shout! behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." ..."He must have weak legs of his own, then!" I replied. Then I turned to look, yet only saw a bunch of asses. True Royalty doesn't desire reverence but bestows Kingship... desires new Self-Revered Ones.

I heard once heard a powerful voice say "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child" and I bellowed in delight... then he continued "but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Ah! and there was your error... As if "maturity" consisted in the oak cuttings off its own acorns! [8]

I once came upon people bent on their knees [9]; I looked down to meet their eyes and asked "What? Have you lost something?" Who exactly could stars themselves look up to? They seek only to Go & Bestow... and they don't even seek these, they simply exude them!

Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the songs of the air came and lifted it up to the Heavens. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, for its strength found roots even in hard places: And when the sun was up, it was chilled by the breeze; and because it found roots even in hard places, it grew tall. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and threatened it and through overcoming such threats, yielded voluminous fruit. And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred. But this fruit was soft and bruised, having known only a life of luxury. And he said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear [10]

iii) Winter Words

Foolish wisdom: Children believe the world is destroyed when their hands cover their eyes and recreated anew when they pull their hands away.

The lesser always ask for equality for the same reason a losing political party desires "bi-partisanship"... because thereby are the Haves brought down to the level of the Have-nots!

First Psalm of the Jester-Initiator: I walk in the counsel of the righteous, and turn them to paths of wickedness. I stand in the way of saints, and whisper secrets of sin. I sit in the seat of the friendly and mock their shallow "virtuousness." [11]

The darkness encompassed the light, but the light called it "Villain!" in incomprehension.

Only an idiotic (even insane?) potter would punish his pots for being deformed. [12]

If God is the Word I am the Guffaw.

Buddha's attaining of the pinnacles of Spiritual Insight did not spare him a death accompanied by severe diarrhea.

References
for satisfaction of the Ruach

[1] 1 Corinthians 13:12
[2] John 1:1-5
[3] Dante's Trilogy where the protagonist must go down to the lowest circle of Hell and crawl over the Devil's back before he makes the trip up through Purgatory to Heaven
[4] John 14:6
[5] Titus 1:15
[6] Matthew 16:4
[7] Parable of the Lost Coin & Parable of the Lost Sheep
[8] 1 Corinthians 13:11; the "powerful voice" was Paul who is one of the large reasons "Christianity" as such exists
[9] The general attitude of prayer as a petitioning of & supplication to a higher authority . It makes no sense to pray when there is no Spiritual Power above Oneself.
[10] Mark 4:1-20
[11] Psalms 1:1
[12] So some "creatures" believe of their "creator"!


IO IO IO IAO SABAO | KURIE ABRASAX KURIE MEITHRAS KURIE PHALLE.| IO PAN, IO PAN PAN IO ISXURON, IO ATHANATON IO ABROTON IO IAO. XAIRE PHALLE KAIRE PANPHAGE KAIRE PANGENETOR. | HAGIOS, HAGIOS, HAGIOS IAO.

Growth in Life & Man

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

I, Dionysus, proclaim the Word of my Grade as GROWTH.

Here follows a short explanation of this Law in application to two Levels:

The Word GROWTH is a Law of both Man and Life itself.

i) Life

• Life tends towards more than survival, it tends towards becoming more... it tends toward GROWTH
• Life always reaches out to sustain & grow itself - Life feeds on Life to perpetuate Life
• Life perpetuates through Adapting to circumstance - GROWTH is Adaptation
• Growth means Equilibrium must be dynamic, found in the constant push to higher & better forms: Things Grow through testing the exception, the unique, the untried, the eccentric

ii) Mankind

• Man is an expression of Life and therefore subject to the same urge to Grow as all Life
• All people move & grow in accordance with their own unique Law of Life, physically codified & exemplified as each individual's unique DNA structure
• Man seeks to not only be content with mediocrity but excel - GROWTH is pushing limits & becoming what one is capable of.
• Every man and every woman is a star - there are similarities of quality across stars but each star maintains its own unique Law of GROWTH
  

Grow then, beautiful flowers! Rise up & awake! Turn your petals toward the Sunlight! Find the Law of your own Way and go forth to Love under will!

IO IO IO IAO SABAO | KURIE ABRASAX KURIE MEITHRAS KURIE PHALLE.| IO PAN, IO PAN PAN IO ISXURON, IO ATHANATON IO ABROTON IO IAO. XAIRE PHALLE KAIRE PANPHAGE KAIRE PANGENETOR. | HAGIOS, HAGIOS, HAGIOS IAO.

Love is the law, love under will.

The Roar of a Lion in the Wilderness

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

"The Magus is a word." - Aleister Crowley

To Master Therion 9=2 was the Magus of the Aeon of Horus, the Crowned & Conquering Child, Two-in-One. His Word was θέλημα.

This Aeon is not yet come to fruition; it is certainly not completed.

The word Thelema is therefore not yet abrogate or superseded, but all Words uttered by Magi during this Aeon must be in Harmony with the current Word as uttered by the current Logos, To Mega Therion 9=2. The words of other Magi are therefore Commentaries upon & New Understandings of the Word of the Aeon, Thelema.

The Word of Dionysus 9=2 is - GROWTH.

The Will is therefore:

• omniform creativity (physically, sexually, mentally, musically, etc.);
  
• the unexhausted, procreative life-will;
• excited actualization of all perceived potential
  

As a Magus is a word, this Epistle is the first Seedling.

Love is the law, love under will.