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Sun Planetary Ritual – February 16th

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

SUPREME OR GREATER RITUAL OF THE HEXAGRAM & PLANETARY INVOCATION OF THE SUN & CREATION OF TALISMANS

We began with a refresher on Planetary Days/Hours and Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram as discussed at the previous meeting for the benefit of those who missed it.

Prior to the main ritual we performed:

LBRP – Lesser Ritual of Pentagram (Banishing Microcosm)L

LBRH – Lesser Ritual of Hexagram (Banishing Macrocosm – Elemental)

Whereas the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram is Elemental ritual the Supreme or Greater Ritual of the Hexagram is Planetary or Astrological.

We used this as a basis for invoking the Sun as part of a Healing ritual which included the creation of wooden talismans painted gold, inscribed and threaded with golden yellow ribbons so they can be worn.  These talismans were then consecrated.

We performed a Middle Pillar Ritual before breaking for WILL and some homemade cake.

Discussions included expectations and requirements for 1st degree, learning the Gnostic Mass/Crede, making equipment and plans for the Reception of the Book of the Law, Reunion of the Brethren, and upcoming workshops etc.

Back into the temple for RESH and the license to depart. A productive meeting!

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Helios Rite – January 19th 2025

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

Our first meeting of 2025 featured a Helios Rite with proper Greek pronunciations, a spell from the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) that invokes Helios, the Greek sun god, as the ruler of the cosmos. The spell asks for blessings from Helios.

HEKAS! HEKAS! ESTE BEBELOI!

AFAR, AFAR, BE ALL YE PROFANE. PROFANE BEINGS THAT INTEND OBSTRUCTION AND HARM PROFANE DISTRACTIONS OF MIND THAT CLOUD MY CLARITY PROFANE CONCEPTS THAT PERPETUATE ILLUSION BY THE FIRES OF HELIOS MAGISTOS

YOU ARE REDUCED TO DUST BY THE FOUR RIVERS AND FOUR WINDS YOU ARE DISSIPATED

ENOIGESAN AI PYLAI TOU OURANOU! OPEN THE PYLONS OF THE HEAVENS! ENOIGESAN AI PYLAI TES CHTHONOS! OPEN THE PYLONS OF THE EARTH! HAIL TO YOU WHO IS BORN ON THE HEAT OF WANDERING WINDS HAIL TO HELIOS…..

Offerings were made and blessings received. A great start to the New Year!

Our meeting today also included:

  • An explanation of Planetary Hours / Moon Phases in relation to magical ritual
  • LBRP, RESH, Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram etc.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Winter Solstice 2024

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

The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol (“sun”) and sistere (“to stand still”), because at the solstices, the Sun’s declination appears to “stand still”; that is, the seasonal movement of the Sun’s daily path (as seen from Earth) pauses at a northern or southern limit before reversing direction. When it is the summer solstice at one Pole, it is the winter solstice on the other. For locations not too close to the equator or the poles, the dates with the longest and shortest periods of daylight are the summer and winter solstices, respectively.

A solstice is the time, or in a broader sense as the day, when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around 20–22 June and 20–22 December.

“A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death!” – Chapter II:41, Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)

Located as we are in the United Kingdom, close to the border between Scotland and England, today we mark the Winter Solstice. The photograph was taken today by me at Rickerby Park in Carlisle.

The following ritual comes from “Mjölnir: The Thelemic Journal of Yggdrasil Camp, Ordo Templi Orientis – December 2000 E.V. An IVviii Sol in Sagittarius Vol. II, No. 3”.

Fr Akhet Khepri, Bodymaster, Regulus Oasis

SOLAR WINTER SOLSTICE RITE BY FRATER T.C.

Officers: Priest or Priestess, and the People.

Setting: On a table in the centre of the room (or circle if rite is outdoors), are six yellow candles on the points of a unicursal hexagram (a rendering of a hexagram should be used if available). A black candle is in the centre.

Priest faces West.

Priest lights black candle only.

Priest: At this time in the cycle of the year, the Sun is fading away as the last vestige of its old self, and preparing to be reborn into even greater vigor. We gather to commemorate this perpetual event, and to reflect the renewal of strength, purpose, and Will embodied within ourselves.

Priest chants once: Hail unto thee who art Khephra in thy hiding, even unto thee who art Khephra in thy silence.

People chant repeatedly: Hail unto thee who art Khephra in thy hiding, even unto thee who art Khephra in thy silence.

Priest waits for People to chant one cycle and then begins:

Our Lord the Sun is dying, preparing for rebirth as a god: a tale told throughout time, symbolic of the cycle of nature and life.

Hail unto Helios, whose daily travels across the sky guide from dawn to sunset. With Eos, the dawn, he rises; with Hemera, the day, none can escape his gaze; and with Hespera, the dusk, he enters his seemingly endless rest. Behold his daily rebirth after braving the dark night.

Hail unto Mithras, embodiment of the Sol Invictus, who perishes as a bull at the solstice only to be reborn into even greater glory. He burst forth from his cave at the center of the cosmos, expanding the universe of what it is possible to become. Hail unto Horus, falcon-headed child of Isis and Osiris, who, as the rising Sun, became great lord of the daytime sky. He begins life as Harpocrates, and spreads his light as Hrumachis of the horizon.

Hail unto Ra, who as Ra-Hoor-Khuit ruled the day. He travels over the heavens in his bark, Madjet, at the uprising of the sun; he sails toward the setting of the sun in his bark, Semektet. His strength renewed, he slays Apep each morning to earn his inevitable rebirth.

Hail unto Balder, the purity and radiance of innocence and light. His death by Hodur, his brother of Darkness, was the victory of the deep night of winter over the brilliant light of summer. He comes again after Ragnarok, the longest night of the year, to show his radiance once again.

Hail unto Apollo, full of light, whose soul knew nearly no darkness. His golden chariot brings light to all the sky, burns out, and is continually renewed.

Our Lord the Sun has gathered his strength. His end was temporary, and he waits but to be roused from his slumber.

Priest pauses until current iteration of chant is finished.

Priest joins chant for one time, then all stop.

Priest gives signs of N.O.X., then the Sign of Silence (Harpocrates).

Priest pauses for appropriate amount of silence.

Priest faces East.

Priest lights six candles with middle candle, deosil, starting at the top.

Priest: The Sun endures his daily death and rebirth; now he is reborn as part of his even greater cycle. Likewise, let us cast off that which would impede our True Wills, as part of the dying Sun, and thereby remanifest ourselves into our Greater Selves with the energy of a new Sun. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!

People: Love is the law, love under will.

Priest gives signs of L.V.X., and remains in the Sign of Osiris Risen (also known as the Sign of the Blazing Star).

Priest chants once: Hail unto thee who art Ra in thy rising, even unto thee who art Ra in thy strength.

People and Priest together chant five more times.

Priest: So it is done.

COMMENTARY:

This rite is based around the number six, which signifies the Sun and its associations. (See Crowley’s Liber 777). Observe the different sixes in the ceremony: six candles (arranged on a unicursal hexagram); stories of six gods of the Sun; the adoration for the risen Sun (…Ra in thy rising…), chanted a total of six times.

The two chants are taken from Crowley’s Liber CC (200) (a.k.a. Liber Resh vel Helios, or Head of the Sun). This Thelemic solar adoration is meant to be performed four times daily and commemorates the daily journey of the Sun, with the practitioner assuming the god-forms symbolic of each stage. It is adapted here into a solar adoration based on the Sun’s yearly cycle, showing how smaller cycles are reflected in even greater cycles.

The candles reflect appropriate color symbolism for this point in the year of the Sun. The rite first commemorates the last rays of the old Sun with the single black candle and the beginning chant. After the tales of the births of various Sun gods, the yellow candles are lit to signify the newly reborn Sun.

Symbolically, the dying Sun represents the removal or overcoming of those qualities in ourselves which we find undesirable, or things which otherwise are obstacles to the knowledge or exercise of our True Wills. The rebirth following death is important as it signifies the remanifestation of ourselves minus that which was cast off. It is not enough simply to cast off some aspects of ourselves. We must also renew the strength of that which is left now that it is no longer hindered, and manifest the personal growth that is now possible. The purpose of the period of silence during the rite is to allow each celebrant to reflect on this transformation.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Aleister Crowley’s Greater Feast

93! Today’s meeting included marking the Greater Feast of Aleister Crowley and his Last Rite.

This was followed by a fascinating exploration of Death in the writings of Thelema.

The temple was opened and a series of rituals were performed including LBRP, RESH, Star Ruby with some new insights into pronunciations.

We had a Minerval Quiz with buzzers! A workshop on energy and visualisation including breathing, controlling energy, the solar plexus, visualisations of energy, Pentagrams and angels. Bringing it all together in a guided LBRP.

Coffee, Will, biscuits and homework…..

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Somebody wants to say hello

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

Not everything in Thelema has to be deadly serious, there is room for humour, even a Baphomet plushy!

“The common defect of all mystical systems previous to that of the Aeon whose Law is Thelema is that there has been no place for Laughter.” — Aleister Crowley

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Minerval Initiations & Fraternity

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

Congratulations to our two new Minervals. Their initiation was an excellent day of fraternity, with brethren joining us to welcome them.

We are delighted to have such quality members in our body. Regulus Oasis goes from strength to strength.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Samhain 2024 – MOMENTO MORI

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

Momento Mori

Memento mori, a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’ is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” Death rather than making life pointless makes it purposeful. We are reminded to live our lives doing our Will.

Which leads us nicely to Liber CVI: Concerning Death written by Aleister Crowley.

 

Liber CVI: Concerning Death

This Epistle first appeared in The International Vol XI Iss 13 (Dec 1917).

AN EPISTLE OF BAPHOMET to the Illustrious Dame Anna Wright, Companion of the Holy Graal, shining like the moon, concerning Death, that she and her sisters may bring comfort to all them that are nigh death, and unto such as love them.

Beloved Daughter and Sister,

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

Let it be thy will and the will of all them that tend upon the sick, to comfort and to fortify them with these words following.

I

IT IS WRITTEN in The Book of the Law: Every man and every woman is a Star. It is Our Lady of the Stars that speaketh to thee, O thou that art a star, a member of the Body of Nuith! Listen, for thine ears become dulled to the mean noises of the earth; the infinite silence of the Stars woos thee with subtile musick. Behold her bending down above thee, a flame of blue, all-touching, all-penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, and her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers, and think that all thy grossness shall presently fall from thee as thou leapest to her embrace, caught up into her love as a dewdrop into the kisses of the sunrise. Is not the ecstasy of Nuit the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of her body? All that hath hurt thee was that thou knewest it not, and as that fadeth from thee thou shalt know as never yet how all is one. Again She saith: I give unimaginable joys upon earth, certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death. This thou hast known. Time that eateth his children hath not power on them that would not be children of Time. To them that think themselves immortal, that dwell alway in eternity, conscious of Nuit, throned upon the chariot of the sun, there is no death that men call death. In all the universe darkness is only to be found in the shadow of a gross and opaque planet, as it were for a moment; the universe itself is a flood of light eternal. So also death is but through accident; thou hast hidden thyself in the shadow of thy gross body, and taking it for reality, thou hast trembled. But the orb revolveth anon; the shadow passeth away from thee. There is the dissolution, and the eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu! For inasmuch as thou hast made the Law of Freedom thine, as thou hast lived in Light and Liberty and Love, thou hast become a Free-man of the City of the Stars.

II

LISTEN AGAIN to thine own voice within thee. Is not Hadit the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star? Is not He Life, and the giver of Life? And is not therefore the knowledge of Him the knowledge of Death? For it hath been shown unto thee in many other places how Death and Love be twins. Now art thou the hunter, and Death rideth beside thee with his horse and spear as thou chasest thy Will through the forests of Eternity, whose trees are the hair of Nuit thy mistress! Thrill with the joy of life and death! Know, hunter mighty and swift, the quarry turns to bay! Thou hast but to make one sharp thrust, and thou hast won. The Virgin of Eternity lies supine at thy mercy, and thou art Pan! Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Hast thou not striven to the inmost in thee? Death is the crown of all. Harden! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die!

III

OR ART THOU STILL ENTANGLED with the thorny plaits of wild briar rose that thou hast woven in thy magick dance on earth? Art not thine eyes strong enough to bear the starlight? Must thou linger yet awhile in the valley? Must thou dally with the shadows in the dusk? Then if it be Thy Will, thou hast no right but to do Thy Will! Love still these phantoms of the earth; thou hast made thyself a King; if it please thee to play with toys of matter, were they not made to serve thy pleasure? Then follow in thy mind the wondrous word of the Steele of Revealing itself. Return if thou wilt from the abode of the Stars; dwell with mortality, and feast thereon. For thou art this day Lord of Heaven and of Earth.

“The dead man Ankh-f-na-Khonsu
Saith with his voice of truth and calm:
O thou that hast a single arm!
O thou that glitterest in the moon!
I weave thee in the spinning charm
I lure thee with the billowy tune.

The dead man Ankh-f-na-Khonsu
Hath parted from the darkling crowds
Hath joined the dwellers of the light
Opening Duant, the star-abodes,
Their keys receiving.
The dead man Ankh-f-na-Khonsu
Hath made his passage into night
His pleasure on the earth to do
Among the living.”

Love is the law, love under will.

The Benediction of the All-Begetter, All-Devourer be upon thee.

Baphomet X° O.T.O.

Given under Our hand and seal this day of An XII the Sun our Father being in Leo, and the Moon in Pisces, from the throne of Ireland, Iona and all the Britains that is in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis.

Wishing you all a wonderful Samhain, communing with the spirits or contemplative, whatever your Will be.

Love is the law, love under will

Fr Akhet Khepri, Bodymaster, Regulus Oasis

REGULUS OASIS LAMEN

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

When I assumed the mantle of body master of Regulus Oasis earlier this year, I wanted us
to have a lamen that reflected our spirit, that of a pride of lions, embodying courage, strength, valour and true fraternity.

I am delighted to share with you all our wonderful new lamen, the great work of Sister Nina, which she celebrates in her poem below.

Fr Akhet Khepri, Bodymaster, Regulus Oasis

“Lion heart” by Sister Nina

Our hearts beat like the lions
Proud strong and bold
We are the children of regulus
With courageous hearts to behold

We face our worlds with courage
And offer a cup of fraternity
To join our pride and unity
To celebrate in our community

We are the bright star In Leo
The winged lion hearts that fly and claw
Bringing thelema and the book of the law down under our paw.

Come all come far
Come to the Regulus’ door
We are the star that guides your
Subconscious to our shore.

We are a pride of lions and linioness
Lost gods and high priestesses
Gathered under this lamen
This sacred holy group of shamans
Like those of our order long before.

Love is our lore,
love under will
With pride and courage
We put the golden apple to the still
The sacred alchemy
The magic brew
The quest that is taken
Into me and you.

Let our fire warm your body
Our chalice that brings you samadhi may you remember
This orders embers
The members and contenders
That builds the lion’s heart.

Love is the law, love under will