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The Great Work — | | | | — The Great Work The Great Work (lat: *Magnum Opus*), within , is the process of attaining Knowledge and Conversation of the and learning and accomplishing one’s . The concept originates as far back as Medieval , and came to Thelema through informed by the . Table…

Book of the Dead *There is also a , the Bardo Thödol.* — *The Book of the Dead* is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text *The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day*. The name was invented by the German Egyptologist Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of the texts in…

Veils of Negative Existence *Part of the series* Within the mystical system of the , the three Veils of Negative Existence are called: *Ain* (“Light”) *Ain Soph* (“Without Limit”), and *Ain Soph Aur* (“Limitless Light”) Within, or beyond, these Veils is everything that is not. In a sense, they represent pre-existence, the state of all…

Days of the week — Weekly Sunday – – Monday – – Tuesday – – Wednesday – – Thursday – – Friday – – Saturday – – Hours: On Monday 1am – Moon 2am – Mercury 3am – Venus 4am – Sun 5am – Mars 6am – Jupiter 7am – Saturn It loops through the…

Mentu In , Menthu was a hawk-god of war. Bakha the bull-god was his . Menthu’s name is technically transcribed from Egyptian hieroglyphs as *mntw*. Because of the difficulty in transcribing Egyptian, it is often realized as *Mentju*, *Montju*, *Menthu*, *Ment*, *Month*, *Montu* or *Mont*. Montu’s name means “Nomad.” A powerful royal god, he made…

Notariqon — Notariqon from the Latin *notarius*, meaning “short-hand writer,” is a technique used in literal whereby a single word may be deconstructed into its separate letters with each letter serving as an initial for a separate word. Additionally, it is also a technique whereby a phrase may be reduced into a single word by…

Pan OLYMPIANS OTHERS Pan TITANS Astraeus Atlas Clymene Coeus Crius Dione Epimetheus Iapetus Leto Mnemosyne Oceanus Phoebe Prometheus Tethys Theia *One of the listed in Liber XV, * Pan (Greek Παν, genitive Πανος) is the Greek god who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in…

Alef-Beit Quick Reference Letter Number Form **Name (Correspondences)** Heb Pronounced Ord Abs Final Red ATBSh ATBCh א Aleph (Alef) 1 1 1000 1 22 9  י above and below, separated and united by ו oxen, thousand, teaching, master ב Beth (Beit) 2 2 — 2 21 8 three וs connected in a square with an…

Guna — philosophy describes three gunas (loosely translated, “tendencies” or “mental states”):   balance, order, purity   overactivity, turmoil   lethargy, entropy These states are also used in Ayurveda, a system of holistic medicine, to assess conditions and diets. These terms are also used in Indian . Their equivalents in western alchemy are: Sattva: Rajas:…

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