The Soul of Man:

 

The Soul of Man:

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

“Hadit has never defiled His purity with the Illusion of Sorrow, etc. Even love and pity for the fallen is an identification with it (sympathy from sigma-upsilon-nu Pi-alpha-theta-epsilon-iota-nu), and therefore a contamination.”

Old Comment Liber AL II,48.

Hadit is not the soul and as such cannot fall. Inherently it is Pure Consciousness and should be likened to Atman, Hadit therefore is eternal and cannot fall. Every ignorance perceived by one who is experiencing reality outside of the full realization of being is a contamination of his true nature. The Thelemic praxis is a means to establish union with Hadit while still fostering our individual conceptions of reality. The soul therefore is the medium through which we become aware of our True Wills. This however is not foreign to the Western Mystery Tradition, but needs elucidation, I suppose.

Within our tradition is what’s called the Triune Man, and added to this we have the formulas of Tetragrammaton and Pentagrammaton, the Microcosm and the Macrocosm. These concepts have been admirably explained throughout the centuries as being inherent in every human and compared to the constitution of man and the magickal universe. This constitution is made up of Spirit-Soul and Body or intellect (ego). A superficial look at the Tree of Life and some occult work, would indeed bring a person to realizing the validity of this and how it is inseparable from our idea of the nature of the Soul and the nature of the Great Work.

My goodness; there truly are numerous sources, that one may consult to find exactly what I am talking about but considering the current climate and peoples need to figure things out without the proper metaphysical basis to find direction, I expect it to fall on def ears.

Crowley clearly believed that his movie star groupies were more educated than they were, as he took for granted, that they didn’t actually read. Now it pains folks like myself to educate people who clearly should have stuck to tennis. Where do I start? Perhaps citing Crowley’s Commentaries to Liber AL, in case folks decide that I am trying to change the fundamental structure of something they claim to have dedicated their lives to. This is basic and should serve as the foundation to further spiritual inquiry, in fact the concept of a soul was in a sense stolen from the Western Tradition and corrupted by the Christians. What is the point if we don’t understand the foundation of our philosophical system and more, what is the motivation to do the work for such an Ape of Thoth?

When we are born, we are accompanied by a conglomeration of ethereal particles that are sympathetic to each other, but not a Soul, as a Soul is individualized. At the point that we are born our ethereal bodies do not serve any purpose, especially not the type that is sought for in our Tradition, however for the sake of evolution the make up of this body must be in harmony. Once an individual develops an ego this ethereal body starts to develop in the direction that is willed by the individual. Obviously, we tend to develop our talents first as we grow and so the talents that a person is born with are an indication of the nature of the ethereal form which has incarnated with the body. This development is obviously guided by the intuition but is certainly affected by both the spiritual and the physical parts, we thus start individualizing the soul as soon as we realize our own individuality. Now individualizing is not necessarily the same as perfecting, each soul is unique and individual but most souls are worthless, and haven’t been sufficiently built up to become vehicles for the light that inspires. These are the fallen, the worthless souls who fall as their natures are an insult to their divine heritage.

 “ …This Khu is the first veil, far subtler than mind or body, and truer; for its symbolic shape depends on the nature of its Star. Why are we told that the Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs? Did we then suppose the converse? I think that we are warned against the idea of a Pleroma, a flame of which we are Sparks, and to which we return when we 'attain'. That would indeed be to make the whole curse of separate existence ridiculous, a senseless and inexcusable folly. It would throw us back on the dilemma of Manichaeism. The idea of incarnations "perfecting" a thing originally perfect by definition is imbecile. The only sane solution is as given previously, to suppose that the Perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) Imperfection.”

If we conclude from the above quote that the Khu is the soul of man and not the same as the divine spark, but the body through which Hadit experiences Imperfection as if by will. Then we may liken the Khu to the soul. Hadit is perfect as Aleister Crowley says in the above citation, but we are still practicing ceremonial magick. What on earth could be the reason for this? Perhaps careful reading should elucidate, I am, through these elaborate occult practices trying to gain a greater understanding of the mind of God, something that Hadit is in perfect harmony and the only way to truly bring fresh fever from the skies.

“… She is one extreme without limit, He is the other. He hath no nature of his own, for He is that to which all events occur. His house, that is, the sphere of his action, is called Khabs, a Star. This is the Light which he conceals about him through His deeds of Love for Her, so that there may appear in glory the Record of those Works which pertain to any Point in Space.”

I suppose the Great Work is then a testament of this divine inheritance of every man and woman, and a Proof to the world. Hadit has no individuality and relies on expression through the faculties of whoever he has incarnated. This is the idea, Khabs is what is to be worshiped and the congealing of our threefold constitutions is what may eventually guide us to uniting heaven and earth and realize our True Wills. Only a coward would rely on salvation after death, something that Thelema is dead set against.

“Love is the law, love under will.”