This edition of LIBER ANDANA is published on the occasion of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Proclamation of the Aeon of Maat by Frater Achad on April 2, 1948. This copy numbered 25 of a limited edition of 100 copies.

Ordo Adeptorum Invisiblum, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 1983
 
 

Preface

Background

Preparation

Liber ANDANA, Part 1 & 2

Liber ANDANA, Part 3

Results

Toward a Maatian Kabbalah

Appendix 1: Text of Liber Andana, Part 1
Appendix 2: Text of Liber Andana, Part 2
Appendix 3: Text of Liber Andana, Part 3
Appendix 4: A selection of Reports and Reflections upon Liber ANDANA by the Participants
Appendix 5: A Maatian Fever Ritual 

Liber Andana is the name given to a magickal working undertaken by the Chicago Ordo Adeptorum Invisiblum during the first week of November, 1982, e.v. The workings, viewed with the perspective only hindsight can give, proved not only of value to those who participated in them, but seemed to offer information of importance to the larger magickal and occult community; hence this publication.

The Ordo Adeptorum Invisiblum (1) is a Maatian thelemic/thelemicist magickal order. It is Maatian in that it finds its symbolic focus in the concept of Maat, the ancient Egyptian goddess of order, justice and truth. Maat is not a deity to be worshipped; rather, she is the personification of the ideals, both personal and social, which the Order proclaims. The OAI also works out of the reality of thelema (the Greek word for will) and sees its activity as both an expression of and a tool to discover our True Will, our particular universal destiny. We do magick. Magick is the art of causing change in line with the True Will by the use of the cosmic and universal forces available to each of us. Finally, we are an ordered, though non-graded, group, in that we do magick by the traditional means of ritual and other occult disciplines (meditation, divination, etc.).

LIBER ANDANA consisted of a magickal process focused in two rituals held November 2 and November 6, 1982. The workings provided a significant step forward in the full development of the Maatian magick with which the group had been working for over a year. In assembling the records of Liber ANDANA, we discovered at least six items of importance to the larger occult community.

Item: The workings proceeded as much by intuition as by design, and the attention given to the intuitive insights contributed substantially to both the final shape and structure of the rituals performed and the resulting success.

Item: Each participant in the workings made a contribution to its conception, development, writing, performance and reporting, as well as the process of critique through which it passed. The very process which accompanied these workings provided substantial 'pragmatic verification (i.e., it works!) of a key Maatian building block--the Communion of the Hive (see Glossary).

Item: The rituals self-consciously brought together for the first time a number of specifically Maatian magickal insights and practices which the OAI had perceived one by one during the past two years. As such, Liber ANDANA created and defined a new gestalt of magick to which the word "Maatian" is most appropriately given.

Item: As a result of Liber ANDANA, the ancient wisdom of the Kabbalah has been re-cast, and its perennial truth is now open to infusion by Maatian principles. With this new insight to the Kabbalah, its essence can be utilized most effectively for the goals of the Maatian Aeon.

Item: As a further result of Liber ANDANA, the specific and distinctive nature of Maatian magickal energy, hinted at in the prior work of both the OAI and other Maatian practitioners, was clearly perceived, experienced and defined. Once defined, it clarified the events of past ritual efforts.

Item: Finally, Liber ANDANA marks no less than the beginning of a totally new cycle in the Aeon of Maat first announced April 2, 1948. Liber ANDANA proclaims "The Dawn of Maat has Returned," and that the period of that dawning began July 17, 1982 and continued until November 29, 1982, during which time the planets Pluto and Saturn were conjunct in the sign of Libra. 

Background

The Ordo Adeptorum Invisiblum brought together a variety of magickal strains and temperaments in the personas of its original members, and during the first years of its existence a variety of magickal influences became of prime importance in affecting the direction of the Order. Among these influences were:

Liber AL vel Legis, the thelemic oracle received by Aleister Crowley while in Cairo, Egypt in 1904 e.v.

Liber Pennae Praenumbra, the Maatian oracle received by Nema, a magickian from Cincinnati, Ohio in 1976.

The writings of Kenneth Grant, a British thelemic leader. (His work, though carelessly written and replete with errors, became the instrument through which knowledge of Nema's work was first received.) 

Persona RA Oh, the OAI's Outer Head (OHO), had been designated the "Prophet of the Vision," and, assuming this role, had begun to articulate the task of transition. RA Oh catalyzed the motion of the OAI from its dependence upon pre-Maatian magick to a pure Maatian way. In August 1981, RA Oh made a trip to Chicago from her native England. During this visit, RA Oh brought together a group of aspirants and grounded the Chicago OAI on September 29, 1981, just one year after the grounding of the OAI in Glastonbury, England. Some of the original Chicago OAI were thelemically trained and/or oriented, while others were not.

1918-1982 became the year of transition for the Chicago OAI. Persona RA Oh made two more trips to Chicago during 1982, at which times most of the 0rder's major work was undertaken. Beginning with a body of traditional magickal practice, ritual, and lore, the group worked through the magickal past by way of a series of abrogations which led to its jettisoning many common magickal practices. It also searched for forms of magick which could carry the Maatian current initiated by its OHO. Finally, it opened up a new set of power zones which it could use as its work proceeded. The main new zone was termed the "Comity of Stars, a realm first approached by Persona Ceridwyn, but made fully accessible by workings in Chicago in 1982. The group also created an astral temple (2) which it could use periodically as needed.

During the year from September 1981 to September 1982, the Chicago OAI proceeded with a variety of rituals which aimed at establishing its sphere of activity, building the members into a working group, exploring various power zones, and in general aligning itself with the Maatian current. Among these workings, a "moonchild" working in February 1982 looked toward the future birth of a magickal child.

On September 29, 1982, the end of the first year of the Chicago OAI was celebrated. This Equinox of the Gods ritual acknowledged both the original formal establishment of the OAI in England and the beginnings in Chicago in 1981. It completed the first cycle of transitional activity begun in 1981 and marked the beginning of a new direction. Even as this ritual ended, the personas asked themselves and each other: "Where shall we go from here?"

The immediate answer was to be Liber ANDANA.

Preparation

Even as the September 29 ritual was being planned, the personas had perceived that the Chicago OAI was ready to carry out fully Maatian workings. A preliminary meeting to discuss the new stance was called for October 10, 1982. At that meeting the personas discussed and reached concensus concerning the following matters: 

Item: September 29, 1982 marked the end of an old cycle and the beginning of a new one. The elements of the new cycle were all present, though they were yet to be assembled in one place.

Item: Having completed the transition, the OAI should design its next workings to include all that it had learned and into which it had moved, i.e. Maatian magick.

Item: The next workings should relate directly to the workings done prior to September 29, 1982, in particular the moonchild workings, yet they should also stand upon their own.

Item: The next rituals should make use of those power zones which had proved most effective in prior workings, i.e., the Comity of Stars.

Item: The next rituals would encompass a communal ritual process involving each and every participant in preparing, writing, executings and evaluating the rituals.

Item: While no clear perception of the rituals for the next workings were present on October 10, some disjointed ideas were intuited as elements to be included in the rituals that would emerge. First, the symbol of egg-cracking had culminated many previous rituals. Liber ANDANA, as the rituals came to be called, should begin with the cracking of an egg, and the use of the egglike sigils from Liber Samakh He, the ritual through which all OAI member pass before joining the Order. Secondly, since sex magick had been integral to the OAI's most successful rituals, it should be used in the upcoming ones. Thirdly, all had been affected by the idea of giving a gift (cf. Liber AL 3:39) that had been part of themselves in the September 29 rituals. 

The group agreed to reassemble on October 24. Persona Salaam was asked to prepare a proposal on the next workings in consultation with Personas Zalman and Barsac.

On October 24, a proposal was presented. It called for two rituals to be held on November 2 and 6. The November 2 working would be individual but time co-ordinated. It would include sex magick. The November 6 ritual would be November 6 and not include sex magick. On November 2, an egg-shaped sigil would be burned, and on November 6 an actual egg cracked. The Communion of the Hive, an element previously developed in prior rituals, would be given added emphasis. The Communion of the Hive assumes the presence of others (i.e., others as personas, not merely as magickal objects) in the workings. The sexual aspect of the rituals would raise power that would be released into the "astral" (3) for the "birthing'' (4) process.

Personas Clure and Salaam were assigned the task of writing and constructing the November 2 ritual. Also, for the first time, outsiders were to be formally invited to participate. These would include an inactive member, some aspirants, one person who had been present at past workings as an observer, and some non-members. The latter included some independent Maatian magickians from Ohio.

The intentions of these two rituals were articulated in only an abstract and vague fashion. First, they looked to the birthing of a new Maatian reality, but the group left ill-defined exactly what that new entity was to be. Some members had an idea that the new entity related to the coming together and experincing Maatian magick, no one ventured to commit themselves to a full description. However, all agreed that its birth was inevitable, and in doing the rituals, the group was merely co-operating with the inevitable. Secondly, the group decided that the creation of the new ritual format marked a real change in the group itself, and the new group that would emerge in the rituals was part of the new reality being born.

Liber ANDANA. Parts 1 and 2

The result of the October 24 meeting was Liber ANDANA, Part l, a copy of which is to be found in Appendix 1. Because of the time element, the final text was distributed without prior circulation or feedback. The ritual included a new, undiscussed and unacknowledged (at least in the explanatory text) concept: spirals. The spirals appeared in two places. First, on the cover a piece of artwork proclaimed "The Dawn of Maat Has Returned." This artwork, selected and used, was meant to convey a spiral view of history in, which the Dawn of the Maatian Aeon periodically repeated itself as new thrusts were initiated. Thus Nema's oracle, Liber Pennae Praenumbra marked a return of the Dawning while at the sametime adding to it. The artwork had been seized upon as an act of intuitive judgment, without any awareness of its consequences or true significance.

Secondly, the ritual itself was built upon a Spiral model. Each section of the ritual was meant to raise a new and more powerful charge of energy, each of which would build upon the previous charge. All would then be released in the final magickal climax.

Copies of Liber ANDANA Part 1 were distributed to all those invited to take part on October 28th. !ts reception led to some unplanned and immediate reaction and rather intense discussion. Six major points were raised: 

Item: The sigil as drawn closely resembled a form used by Aleister Crowley, and more recently the Ordo Templi Orientis. Did the OAI want that particular sigil (with its accompanying associations)?

Item: The egg invokations suggested to some participants as an opening into the realm of Cthulhu, that area defined and described in the works of H. P. Lovecraft essentially the realm of the "Old Ones." (5). The mention of the Great Dragon suggested to some That these rituals were in fact going to invoke the residents of the backside of the Tree of Life, ala Kenneth Grant, et al. (6) As one persona put it, the ritual called for the "Birth of the Great Dragon."

Item: Closely related to the objections to the invokations was a misperception of the cover art and the intended meaning of the phrase, "The Dawn of Maat Has Returned." Most read it as a return of the group to a point in the past, rather than the past repeating or returning to the present. To quote one persona, "The Dawn of Maat has Returned! A statement (the latter) can only mean we are working backwards. THE DAWN HAS ALREADY COME! Where The hell is the return to, but to hell indeed, the backside of yesod . . . I don't really like this at all."

Item: The Horus invokation was in error, as Horus is considered a being of the night, not the day.

Item: The explanation of the hypnogogic state was incomplete.

Item: The release of energies into the astral, as a vague and inexact instruction as the term "astral" means something different to almost everyone. 

On Sunday morning, October 31, Persona Zalman called Persona Salaam's home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and discussed each of these questions and comments at some length. Since most seem to have some merit, the decision was reached that Liber ANDANA, Part I must be completely revised by producing a totally new sigil, deleting and replacing the two opening invokations concerning the egg, and asking Persona Clure to rewrite the invokation to Horus.

After the initial conversation, Persona Salaam, using the method of meditation described in the "From Communion to Motion" section of Liber ANDANA, Part l, received a new invokation for use in the cracking of the egg. Another phone conversation with Persona Zalman reviewed the new invokation. Persona
Salaam also worked out a method for completing the revisions of the ritual and getting them to everyone within the following 48 hours. During the day a second invokation was also composed.

Note: Liber ANDANA, Part I was never used or worked by the group. It was reDlaced with Liber ANDANA, Part 2.

With the agreed upon changes, Liber ANDANA, Part 2 was produced and distributed to everyone involved. After the revised ritual was distributed a final decision on the disposition of the energy to be raised was made. It was to be stored in the OAI astral temple, an astral temple or realm constructed soon after the Chicago OAI was formed.

Received before the November 2 workings were begun, but too late to communicate to everyone involved, some astrological considerations emerged in a conversation between Persona Salaam and a magickian-astrologer acquaintance. When asked for some astrological reflections on the first week of November, the astrologer called attention to the Pluto-Saturn conjunction under which the workings would occur. This conjunction took place before in 1947 around the time Aleister Crowley died (December 1, 1947). As a matter of fact, this week was only the second time since Pluto's discovery that it and Saturn had been conjunct. It was, in a sense Saturn's return to its position in line with Pluto.

Upon returning home, Persona Salaam checked these reflections only to discover a slight error. At the time of Crowley's death, Pluto and Saturn were just barely conjunct in Leo, a full eight degrees apart. However, they were closely conjunct (only three degrees apart) a few months later on April 2, 1948, when Frater Achad announced the Aeon of Maat. Saturn had returned to Pluto. The doorway under which Achad proclaimed the Aeon of Maat was again before the world. "The Dawn of Maat had returned!" The first correlation-proof of Liber ANDANA had occurred.

Liber ANDANA, Part 3

The final work that produced Liber ANDANA, Part 3 (see Appendix 3 for complete text) occurred in two conversations between Personas Zalman and Salaam with numerous brief conversations between them and other participants. The main task was to clarify and put into words the intuitions about the nature of Liber ANDANA as a whole. What did the OAI intend? Agreement had been reached that cracking the egg in the group context was essential as was the broadening of the Communion of the Hive beyond the OAI membership. Also agreement had been reached that Liber ANDANA had become an independent working, quite apart from any relation it might also have to the OAI February 1982 workings. That fact must determine how we think about November 6. Finally, it was agreed that the new thing being created or born through these workings included the group performing the ritual though it also transcended the group at the same time.

With these clarifications, the intention of the ritual became clear. We would be raising power, retrieving and using the power raised November 2, and giving it to Maat for the creation of the Gynander. The Gynander, predicted in Liber Pennae Praenumbra, is the magickal product of the Maatian Aeon, the magickian of Maat who in his self transubstantiates nectar into honey. (See the section on "Results" below for a more complete explication) The act of giving, the Great Work for the Maatian magickian, would be done in silence, without words.

It was decided that Personas Zalman and Salaam would act as priest and priestess for the ritual.

Once the intention became clear, the final production of the ritual moved quickly to completion. New invokations to Horus and Maat were written to embody the Communion of the Hive emphasis. A copy of the ritual was distributed to all as they gathered for the pre-ritual discussion. All were briefed upon the ritual, both its actions and the assumptions underlying it. At this point the group made a final revision by the addition of a new invokation suggested by Personas Angelina and Nassera (see Appendix 4 for text).

The ritual (Appendix 3) proceeded as written. All participated in the scrying. Persona Angelina read the new invokation immediately after the scrying. Persona Salaam, acting as priest, read the Horus invokation, and Persona Zalman, acting as priestess, read the one to Maat. After sharing the cup, gifts were presented. Gifts ranged from individualgifts to each member or the Order to gifts to the Order as a whole.

After the gift giving, the priestess initiated the climax of the ritual with music and the intoning of an Enochlan invokation to Yesod. The priestess then closed the ritual and the fast was broken. (The experiences of the power that was raised are contained in Appendix 4.)

For the record: the ritual began shortly after 9 P.M. The two altars were covered in black. The candles were placed between them. The cup was on the altar in the East with the incense in the West. The sword rested beside the priestess. The incense, prepared by Persona Clure, contained white sandalwood, olibanum, frankencense, cedarwood oil and crushed juniper berries. The cup contained wine and honey. Persona Ajmal scribed.

The participants were seated as diagramed below. 

Results

As Liber ANDANA developed, it became totally focused upon the creation of the Gynander. During the process, members of the OAI realized, however slowly and painfully, that Liber ANDANA was initiating what Liber Pennae Praenumbra had termed "the Work-to-come." In LPP one notices that the main body of the oracle was addressed to the Lovers of the Hawk, i.e. the followers of Horus, the Ordo Templi Orientis and thelemites everywhere. Then in the midst of the message, Maat in the form of the Yonilignam offers a vision. The vision pictures the inverse reality to the image of Baphomet. The new reality is symbolized in the Bee. Maat speaks: 

This is the symbol of the Work-to-come. The Great Gynander in its earthly form. The Magickian shall grow like unto the BEE as the Aeon unfolds, a leader and sign unto the Race of Man.

What then of the nature doth the Bee show forth?

Behold, it is not male nor female in the singular. It labors forth by day in constant flight, an egoless doer, whose will and the Hive Will are but one.

It gathers up the flower-nectar, flies to the Hive and there, in pure Comm-Union, doth in its very body Transubstantiate.

The nectar is now Honey. Bee to bee, it is transferred, speaking all Hive Mysteries from and to each mouth. By the same mouth that first ingathered, is the Honey spent, the secret Alchemy within the Centres turning Silver--Gold.

The Hive now lives, immortal. With queen and workers, drones and builder-bees, soldiers, foster mothers--all are one. In constant life renewal, the Hive breathes as One Being--for so indeed it is. In the Will of the Hive is the Will of the Bee Fulfilled. Each in its appointed place, the Bees work out their will in Ordered harmony. (7) 

Liber Pennae Praenumbra began a phase of work announcing Maat to the Lovers of the Hawk. Nema, also known as Andahadna, announced that the publication of the Cincinnati Journal of Ceremonial Magick #5, largely dedicated to her writings, ended the first phase of her work.

Liber ANDANA begins the Work-to-cgmg. The great Gynander has appeared in the form of the group gathered to commune and work togetker on November 6. She-Who-Moves is not bound to any group or order or network, however, and She will now become humanifest in other "appointed places."

The production of the Gynander could not have been possible without the transitional work of abrogation and the development of a Maatianvehicle ritually. As a new fork of magick, Maatian magick, grew from those abrogations of traditional magick. During the past year selected ritual forms were discarded. The secrecy surrounding the name of one's Holy Guardian Angel w-as breached with the Communion of the Hive. The circle of a single focal point gave way to the egg-like oval with two foci. The setting of quarters and the casting of the circle were dropped. In the end, even words gave way to the silence. Out of the destructive process of abrogation, Maatian magick emerged. While a more adequate presentation, of its nature will be forthcoming, a basic outline can now be seen.

Maatian magick is androgynous. It works without gender assignment, and stands in contrast to Croweyan worship of the phallus. Roles are assigned in OAI rituals without notice of the gender of the person. The Communion of the Hive disregards gender in fostering the coming together of people.

Maatian magick involves communal activity. Magick is the product of people working in community as much as it is the work of the single individual. Thus it balences the individualism of much traditional magick with the communal reality. Group work is brought to fruition by the group participation in conceiving, writing, revising and executing ritual. The communal aspect of Maatian magick takes seriously the admonition, "Every man and every woman is a star." Thus Maatian ritual includes a recognition that magick is in essence the two becoming one. In individual workings, the two are the magickian and his/her H.G.A. In group workings, the individuals involved come together to work magick as one. Within the ritual, all are recognized as personas and are never reduced to ritual objects, the most common example having been the use of the female by the male magickian in the process of working sex magick.

The communal nature of the ritual workings emphasizes the insight that the process of producing ritual is equally important to the doing of ritual itself. The involvement cf the group in the production and revisions of the ritual must be included if participants are to fully share in the magickal intention with body, understanding and will. it is by means of the process of creating the ritual that the individuals' Will becomes merged with the Hive Will thus allowing the magickal energy of each to flow together and create a current greater than the combin~individual energies of the participants.

Maatian magick leads into the silence. Words are inadequate and reliance upon them a barrier. Maat is the nothing that is everything.

Maatian magick leads to an atunement to Maat as Justice, Truth and Order. Thus Maat points the magicklan beyond the "me" of individualism to the wider social context of the group and the social order in general. Maat comes into hu-manifestation in social movements for justice and truth, and the magickian is soon led beyond the self to the other.

Liber ANDANA tried to self consciously embody all of the elements of Maatian magick. The ritual itself was the first result. It was produced by a truly Maatian process that involved harsh critique of proposed ritual formats and the resolution of disagreements. It included imput and work by all who participated. Each contributed something that would have significantly altered the results if they had not been present and their contribution withheld.

The process became the source for the first product of the ritual. Persona VSO, sick during much of the early part of the week, produced a ritual which was eventually presented as a gift to the OAI (Cf. Appendix 5). It is offered as another product of Liber ANDANA. In like manner the invokations for cracking the egg in Liber ANDANA, Part 3 are true products of the process and would have not been produced without it.

As the process of Liber ANDANA moved, the correlations began to emerge. One set of correlations converged around the concept of the "spiral" nature of Maatian magickal energy. The spirals had been previously experienced by Persona Zalman and were related to Nema's writings on the DNA genetic spiral.
The spiral was quite foreign to others. It emerged, however, in the spiral concept of Maatian forces moving through history andthe periodic return of the dawn of Maat. Some underpinning of this concept had been given in the astrological correlation of the Liber ANDANA workings and the announcement of the Maatian Aeon by Frater Achad in 1948. After the completion of Liber ANDANA, the suggestion was made that the conjunction of Pluto and Saturn prior to 1948 be checked. Surprisingly, it was found to have occurred during the summer of 1916. In June 1916 Frater Achad jumped the abyss, and became the magickal child of Aleister Crowley. He thus, during the prior conjunction of Pluto and Saturn, began the work that led to the unlocking of the AL and LA key to The Book of the Law, and the discovery of the hidden twin of Hoor-pa-kraat. "The Dawn of Maat has Returned." (8)

Also in rereading LPP after the completion of the November 6 ritual, it was noted that the Bee, i.e., the Great Gynander, came forth from the yonilingam. In the production of Liber ANDANA, Part 2, the dragon's egg had been replaced with the Cosmic Egg that traditionally rests on Mount Meru, according to the lore of Tibet. The Cosmic Egg is commonly represented as a yonilignam.

1. In October 1982 the Chicago OAI consisted of a number of associated adepts all but one of whom lived in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. These adepts had worked together throughout the year. One, Persona Salaam, who resides in Milwaukee, had coordinated personal rituals with the group rituals in Chicago, but Liber ANDANA became the first opportunity to work directly with the group. Having been unable to attend the September 29 ritual, Persona Salaam assumed a prime responsibility for compiling and writing Liber ANDANA.

2. On astral temples see Michael Kearton, The Magical Temple (The Aquarian Press, 1980) 19-27.

3. On the magickal concept of the astral see Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic (Weiser, 1970).

4. The concept of "magickal child" and "birthing" used by the OAI was always understood metaphorically. At no time was there any attempt to produce a physical child through the impregnation of a female during a magickal ritual. Rather the OAI worked symbolic rituals which would produce a "result" nine months later.

5. See "The Return of the Elder Gods," Cincinnati Journal of Ceremonial Magick I, 3 (1978) 16-25.

6. Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden (Muller, 1977) and Outside the Circles of Time (Muller, 1980).

7. First published in the Cincinnati Journal of Ceremonial Magick I, 1 (1976) 26-37.

8. Crowley had great difficulty understanding The Book of the Law. Though he never reached a satisfactory conprehension of much of it, he was aided by Achad opening up its Kabbalistic significance. For the whole story see Achad's Liber 31 (Level Press, 1974 and The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (Hill and Wang, 1969).

During the working of Liber ANDANA, Part 3, Persona VS0 had a vision while scrying in the cracked egg. It began with a simple equilateral triangle and developed into a complex set of bi-pyramids. A front view of the bi-pyramids is shown in figure 1. In commenting upon this vision later, Persona VS0 reflected, "This is an androgyny symbol, it receives, it penetrates, it is the 2 in 1."

VS0 also suggested that this set of interpenetrating, figures represented a tree of life (or humanifestation), and submitted it to the 0AI as a whole for their reflection. Prior working had suggested that a reordering of the Kabbalah was needed and in process. The characteristics of a new Kabbalah would be the immediate access it would offer to each of the sephiroth without the seeming need to progress from Malkuth to Kether, and the orientation to time, as opposed to space, of the new configuration.

Upon reflection, the possibilities of a new Kabbalah based upon the bi-pyramids seem endless. Of prime value, however, the new Kabbalah he described gives suggestive insights into the method for incorporating new perspectives from modern culture while retaining the old and timeless essence of the Kabbalah.

The traditional Kabbalh tied the earth (and the rather stable social context that produced it) to the heavens as if by a ladder. The paths and spheres could be climbed upward into higher and higher spiritual realms. The new Kabbalah floats in a spiral vortex of energy, free, moving, changing. It offers points of relative stability within the constantly shiftinE situations of life. In place of the ten sephiroth are ten points of relatedness, one of which is totally inner and three of which have both an inner and outer aspect. The ten points connect along lines of influence (paths),and the points and lines form still a third reality -- triangular fields of reality, an aspect of the Kabbalah not yet explored.

From the original vision, produced the "Myth of the Penetrating Pyramids," presented here for the first time with a brief commentary.

Existing from eternity to eternity was the swirling.whirlwind. (1) In the midst of this vortex appeared the Primordial point. It was called "AL" because it is the Everything that was Always, Ever is, and Willed all that came to be. (2) AL existed, but without dimension or locations (see figure 2).

AL divided and brought forth its opposite, LA, (3) the Nothing that would be Everything. Thus came into being that which is Me and that which is Me-but-not Me.

AL is pure existence, the primordial persona, and absolute spirit, the invisible essence of each persona. It draws power from the Whirlwind and extends itself with three fingers of luminous energy. In so doing AL generated three additional points like unto itself. The lines of light and influence tied all four points together and secured the new realities to their point of origin. By the extension of the spiritual essence the feminine (Binah) the masculine (Chokmah) and the soul (Tiphareth) came into existence. The primordial pyramid brings the maleand female into union and projects their union from invisible to visible. In Tiphareth, Binah, Chokmah and AL are united and the persona generated as an individual willed by AL. (See figure 3)

LA is Nothing striving for manifestation. It too takes from the whirlwind and extends itself into visibility. By its motion, it brings forth the organizing masculine potency and the creative feminine potency (Hod and Netzach) and fixes the establishing principle upon which they can unite. The joining of LA, Hod, Netzach through Yesod forms the manifest pyramid.

The visible and invisible do not, cannot, exist apart from each other. The primodial pyramid and the manifest pyramid immediately come together as AL will, moved and penetrated the pyramid of LA. The penetration resulted in the manifestation of ALLA who simultaneously both is and is not. Also in the coming together, a magickal union, the magickal union, each pyramid reproduced its own double and brought forth the humanifestation of the penetrating bi-pyramids (see figures 4 & 5). Completing the primordial Pyramid is Chesed, the inner drive of the invisible to union with that which is beyond itself. Geburah, justice, is the social embodiment of Chesed in both the cosmos at large and society in general. Geburah completes the manifest pyramid.

In the penetration, AL hid within. To protect themselves from the profane, Chokmah, Binah and Tiphareth also hid a part of their essence within the primordial pyramid. Now their true nature must be sought. Though always present, the hidden essences lie covered and must be approached in and through Tiphareth.

Now the penetrating bi-pyramids represent the self, and the whirlwind is the energy of She-Who-Moves. In the discovery of the True Will, AL, is the Great Work accomplished.

1. The grounding of our existence isto be found neither in a static being-itself nor in chaos. It is in the ecstatic energy which whirls about and through us.

2. The Christians who chose to place the "Will of God" as the prime reality were close to the truth. The word of the Law is Thelema.

3. Will produces its opposite, that which Will acts upon. The unmanifest produces the manifest, the invisible the visible and the spirit the cosmos. There is no sharp dividing line between the manifest and the unmanifest; the latter partakes of that out of which it comes.

4. The three-sided pyramid is the most simple solid form which lines and points can generate. The primordial constitues the invisible side of life--will, wisdom, intellect and the inner ordering of life that unites and produces the beauty that shines through from the invisible to the visible world.
 

Introduction

On February 2 and February 6, 1982, the OAI initiated two magickal working which, among other effects, initiated an intense period of change that produced dramatic results within the OAI itself. Most noticibly, during the past nine months, member of the OAI began to realize that the Order was making a transition toward giving birth to a whole new gestalt of magick, one that was thoroughly Maatian and hence a more suitable vehicle for accomplishing the aims of the Order during the 1980s.

Now, nine months after the original workings, the Liber ANDANA workings, to occur in two parts on November 2 and 6, recognize the completion of a gestation period begun nine months previously and can be seen as a response to the success of these workings.

ANDANA=107=the egg. The essence of the ANDANA workings is to complete the birthing process symbolized in the cracking of the fertile egg. Among the first magick done by the OAI was the reception of Liber 800 in April of 1981 in Fez, Morocco. Included within Liber 800 was a key, the first of several OAI rituals which looked toward cracking the egg and living outside the shell. Liber ANDANA begins with the ANDANA Key. Cf. Liber Samakh He for the complete presentation of the origin of ANDANA.

The working for November 2 shall enlarge upon the pattern first used February 6. Participants shall perform the November 2 workings individually or in pairs as individuals choose. The workings are sexual in nature, but their departure from the common patterns of sex magick workings should be noted in the period of preparation. Performance of the November 2 workings are required for attendance at the November 6 group ritual.

The working itself utilizes both Maatian material written by Frater Achad and the OHO of the 0AI and original invokations created especially for these workings. The ritual is designed to facilitate an increasing buildup and experience of Maatian magickal energies which are celebrated and given over to the astral during the last past of the ritual. The ritual moves toward its climax, however, after the sexual climax, in the altered state of consciousness produced by the raising and releasing of the magickal power.

Preparation

The ritual should be done on November 2 at an hour chosen by the individual magickian. A six-hour fast of food and threehour of liquid is prescribed. If the ritual is done in the evening, one should not eat after the lunch-hour meal.

The following items will be needed for the ritual itself: 

A Chalice
Wine and honey
Cauldron or dish (for burning the sigil)
Thoth tarot deck 

Candle(s) (If one is used it should be green; if two are used, one should be blue and one red) 
Incense (cinnamon, frankencense, or rose) 

By a method self-chosen, each individual should consecrate the space to be used during these workings. The Thelemic Cross and OAI Pentegram ritual may be used.

Cracking the Egg

Intone- 

AN-DA-NA!

Adorned with Gold is my Altar,
O Mother who is also Daughter,
Thou art like the egg
Thus shall I breathe flame and fire On this My Egg, and break forth!

The mouth of the Triple-veiled One does move Though No-One sees her golden smile
Till one has climbed the Mountian of Siahara,
Enter into her crimson gate under the blackness of her perfumed night, And She who is, shall return as an Egg,
Her shell pierced by the Arrow of the Great Dragon.
The lightening Thunderbolt illuminating Her Black Hole,
These whirling motions emanating from the Highest.
Let them bring forth the Twins,
For this is the Birth of the Firstborn 
The hidden Magickal Force of the Daughter 
The concealed mystery of the Aeon
The hidden light of the Star of Truth
It is Maat who is the World.

The Communion of the Hive

(The consecration of the chalice shall be done with the invokation to Horus and Maat.)

To Horus intone: 

Power of the sudden sky-fire
Son of Night-RaHoor
Swift, sure
Stand before us in the splendor of your power
Stir up our passion to act
Make me to P~now as I am known

Emerald-robed goddess
Com-passionate Daughter of the Scales of Fate
Come to us before the Gates of Desire
Let the worlds part and stand before us
The hour for magick is at hand
Make me to know another as I am known

(After the invokations and the consecration of the chalice, the contents of wine and honey should be consumed completely. If this ritual is being done by an individual alone, the persona should now pause for a moment of communion with their Holy Guardian Angel. If done by two or more, each should embrace the other and repeat the name of their Holy Guardian Angel aloud.)

From Comunion to Motion

(After the Communion of the Hive is completed, the participants shall begin a period of meditation upon the Universe card in the tarot. The meditation is initiated with the reading of the seventeenth hymn in the XXXI Hymns to the Sky Goddess by Frater Achad (copy enclosed). Then follows a period of silence in which each meditates, by a method self-chosen, upon the tarot card, all the while imagining the Maatian magickal energy being drawn into the self and being concentrated and stored in the Manipura chakra (the solar plexus).

Following the meditation period, each participant should proceed quickly and abandon themselves to the joy of the sexual communion. During this period of mo-tion, one should build additional energies. All of the energies raised and absorbed during the ritual should be discharged at the end of the mo-tion.

The release of the energy into the astral, energy for the birthing of the magickal child about to appear, completes only part of the ritual. After the release of the energy, the personas should relax and move into that altered state of consciousness termed hypnogogic. The hypnogogic state is one reached between full wakefulness and the sleep-dream cycle. Rather than falling asleep, the hypnogogic state should be held for a period of time, the length of which can be judged by the personas. After this period, each should move quickly to record what was experienced during thie time without speaking of it to anyone until the impressions are written. The completion of the record of this period, which should be brought to the November 6 ritual, completes the ritual.

Soon after the completion of the ritual, a reflection upon the entire ritual should be written down.

On November 3, preparation for the November 6 working should begin. Consideration of a gift to the OAI should be given so that a suitable gift may be presented. The November 6 ritual shall begin with a nine hour fast of food and six of liquid, i.e., no food after breakfast and no liquids after the noon hour. Full details of the ritual will be given in the next section of Liber ANDANA (cf. Part 3).
 

The Sigil for Liber ANDANA Part 2

The sigil for Liber ANDANA Part 1  (This sigil was never used in a magickal working.)

 
 

Revisions of Liber ANDANA, Part 1 for November 2, 1982

Delete the section of Liber ANDANA, Part 1 entitled, "Cracking the Egg." Replace it with the following:

Cracking the Egg

(Intone the words written in caps.) 

ANDANA

Egg of the world and self 
Guarded, protected, encased about Time is accomplished
Arise, to be carried forth by the feather into the whirlwind.

Burst forth! THE-LE-MA
Enlightened! NI-KON
Move! A-GA-PE

(Take the sigil enclosed in Part 2 in your hand. While holding it, imagine yourself enclosed in an eggshell. Burn the sigil as you picture the. shell around you cracking. When the shell is open, move to the following invokation.)

Out of the dark waters the Egg appeared. 
None called it forth. 
Nothing caused it to appear.
It rested in the void, alone, 
Buffeted by the windblown sand, 
Ignored by marching feet
Until it came to rest on the mountian called Meru. 
Dense from the weight of its condensation
It gathered unto itself each particle of time. 
Slowly now it moves; still confined by its shell 
Now its time has come.
Now its birthing draws near.
Now it splits asunder!
Now the golden heart of life and will float skyward
Carried by the bronzed feather
Born on the heat of the dark flame
Now free, never to be entrapped again!

(Replace the invokation "To Horus" in Part 1 with the following.)

To Horus

Power of the rising sun
Flashing brillance--Ra Hoor
Swift, sure
Stand before us in the splendor of your power
Stir up our passion to act
Make me to know as I am known

Further explanation of the Hypnogogic States

The hyponogogic state is a meditative receptive state of slightly altered state of consciousness. It is closely analogous to a waking dream state and frequently characterized by both auditory and visual effects as in a dream. You should remain awake during the hypnogogic state, and in the working of this ritual come back to full consciousness to record anything you saw or heard rather than falling asleep. After the recording of what you experienced, you may sleep for a time or eat some solid food as you feel the need.
 

Introduction

The Liber ANDANA workings are being carried out under the astrological conjunction of Pluto and Saturn. This conjunction occurs every thirty-five years, and this week marks only its second occurrence since the discovery of Pluto by astronomers. Specifically, its first recorded occurrence was in 1948, in the spring of 1948. April 2, 1948 was in the middle of the period of conjunction and on April 2, 1948 Frater Achad proclaimed the Aeon of Maat. "The Dawn of Maat has Returned."

The conjunction of Pluto and Saturn is a Maatian and magickal occurrence. For those with Saturn prominent in their chart, it can be a highly personal time, but its influence is primarily on the social level. The restraining influence of Saturn and the explosive and renovating effect of Pluto initiate change and transformation. The first appearance of this conjunction signaled the most intense period of worldwide social change ever experienced by humankind. The last thirty-five years have witnessed the downfall of Colonialism (India achieved her independence and China underwent her revolution under this conjunction), the rise in consciousness of the Third World, oppressed peoples and women.

Pluto, the god of the underworld, indicates the hidden, i.e. the occult, nature of the planet Pluto's effect. It signals beginnings and endings, especially those on a mass level.

The conjunction of 1983 occurs in Libra. Libra is the Maatian sign whose glyph is the balanced scales of justice.

Thus the ANDANA workings inaugurates a new cycle of the Maatian Aeon. For the Maatian, the next thirty-five years will be a time of searching for means to co-operate with the forces being unleashed currently. The workings of Liber ANDANA magickallyrelease the forces of the new cycle.
 

Preparation

The space selected for the working shall be prepared with a black altar cloth and appropriate instruments.

Participants shall assemble at the appointed hour. They shall have with them a gift to be presented as part of the ritual.

The officiating priestess shall prepare an egg.

(The participants shall, having prepared themselves by a day of fasting, assemble and spend a period of contemplation during which time they shall focus upon an image of Naat in their consciousness.)

The Cracking of the Egg

(Repeat in unison. Intone the words in caps.)

ANDANA

Egg of the world and self 
Guarded, protected, encased about Time is accomplished
Arise, to be carried forth by the feather into the whirlwind.

Burst forth! THE-LE-MA
Enlightened! NI-KON
Move! A-GA-PE

(At this point the priestess shall crack the egg. While the invokation is read, she shall skry with the yoke.)

Out of the dark waters the Eggappeared. 
None called it forth. 
Nothing caused it to appear.
It rested in the void, alone, 
Buffeted by the windblown sand, 
Ignored by marching feet
Until it came to rest on the mountian called Meru. 
Dense from the weight of its condensation
It gathered unto itself each particle of time. 
Slowly now it moves, still confined by its shell. 
Now its time has come!
Now its birthing draws nigh!
Now it splits asunder!
Now the golden heart of Life and Will float skyward
Carried by the bronzed feather,
Born on the heat of the dark flame,
Now free, never to be entraped again!

(The priestess shall, at her discretion, invite others to participate in the scrying. Any significant results should be reported to the scribe.)

The Communion of the Hive

(The priest shall invoke Horus)

Winged Lord of the sky,
Passionate mover of the life current, 
Hawk-headed warrior,
Give heed to this moment in time.
As you united the upper and lower kingdoms 
So unite us to our higher Selves.
Make us to know even as we are known!

(The priestess shall invoke Maat)

Arise again from the primordial abyss of Nu 
With feathered plume, move through our midst. 
With your sceptre, bring order;
With your ankh enliven.
Give heed to your moment in time.
Balancing passion with compassion
Produce in us the Bee yet to be
Whose Will and the Hive Will are but One. 
Make us to know another as we are known!

(After the invokations the priestess shall take the sword and consecrate the cup of wine and honey, The priest shall pass the cup to all. After all have partaken, the gifts shall be given. Beginning with the priest andending with the priestess, each shall present a gift to the OAI as a symbol of a gift to Maat. Each shall describe their gift and share it with the phrase, "I present this gift in the name of my H.G.A. which is ______________________ ." )

The Dawn of Maat Returns

(After the giving of the gifts is completed, the priestess shall invite a period of meditation to begin with the Invokation to the Primal Goddess [in Enochian]. During this period of time, the priest shall travel to the OAI astral temple to retrieve the energy stored there from the November 2 workings. The priestess shall tap the current of the Comity of Stars. When she is ready, she shall focus the energy and give it to Maat for the wider work of this cycle.

The ritual shall be closed by the priestess reading from the XXXI Hymns to the Star Goddess, No. XXX, "Justice."
 
 

1. Report on November 2 by Persona Zalman

I prepared the space with a green candle and virgin oriental incense. The white altar cloth was charged during the ritual. Pictures of all OAI members and affiliates were on the altar. After creating the sacred space, I repeated the two invokations, intoned ANDANA and burnt the egg sigil. I then recited aloud "The Infinite Within" (from Hymns to the Star Goddess).

After the consecration of the chalice and its contents being consumed, I communed with my Holy Guardian Angel.

I meditated upon the Universe card, which resulted in "piercing the masks of self through the spiraling motion of the daughter through the universe . . . through the webs of time; the raising of the fire snake to the ajna chakra and projecting it beyond to perceive the vast universe of potential.'' The solar plexus was charged.

VIII ' while linking solar Plexus, base of spine and raising energy to ajna, initially caused a rush like an orgasm but missing full expression in the muladhara chakra. I repeated the action achieving both muladhara effect and unity of solar plexus, muladhara and raising to ajna. As was suspected, this caused an unusual orgasm More total body effect and something beyond the self was perceived. The energy was then transmitted to the OAI astral temple for storage.

I entered into a receptive meditation since the connection had activated the middle brain "antenna." I received the following:

COME TO ME
COMETH
THAT AS A TALE
LONG AGO I WAS
BUT NOW I AM
COME FORTH FROM SWIRLING 

B
 L
  A
   C
    K MIST

THE SPIRAL OF DESCENT
REVERSED.
THE TWINE OF THE NIGHT SKY THE INFINITE IS MY CIRCLE 
DANCE.
LET MY SOFT WAVES ENRAPTURE
YOU
FOR MY TREE GROWS STRONG
IN THE GARDEN AND BEARS FRUIT
AND RAPTURE ENTWINED AS LONG AS YOU LOVE IS MINE
BE NOT OF FEAR OF THESE TINES. THEY ARE NOT THUS
THEY ARE NAUGHT
YOU LOOK INT0 THE CRYSTAL 
RAINBOW OF COLOR. AND BEGIN TO 
SEE THE DIFFERENCE . . . THE COLOURS 
SPEAK AND TELLS A TALE OF ITS OWN

I BEGIN TO HEAR THEIR WHISPERS
EACH IS A STAR WITH ITS OWN ALBIDO
BUT ALL LIGHT NO MATTER HOW IT'S PERCEIVED IS 
STILL BUT ONE THAT IS ALL AND NONE
BE WILLING TO GIVE. 

2. Report on November 2 by Persona Barsac

I found the November 2 ritual produced little positive results for me. The format seemed very dry. The changes in the ritual at the last minute and my interchange with Persona Zalman concerning the ritual symbolism aroused a great deal of concern.

Perhaps because we started later than we had planned, I failed to get anything out of the meditation. I find that coming into a ritual very tired, after working all day and fasting, lowers my response rather than heightening it.

3. Report on November 2 by Persona Nassera

impressions from trance.., undulating patterns of light; trains, cars, movement; a jeweled plant shoots from the earth to a great height, it stoops to touch the earth with its tendrils; teeth in a laughing mouth; a black rose; the vision is crushed between the paws of a leopard.

4. Report on November 2 by Persona Angelina

I am starving to death. Abstention of food for magickal purposes is like giving up gumdrops for Lent. I never force myself to "suffer" for the sake of "attainment" on my own.

In spite of this exercise in bad body beliefs, I managed a few decent visualizations, although not as strong as I usually get. Persona Nassera and I perceived an egg between our sex organs.

In a trance state following the ritual, I entered an Egyptian tomb of. some kind, with a large painting of a male figure, seated, bearded, looking upward. A female figure appeared before the man in the painting. Both gazed up. I assumed the form of a leopard and luxuriously rolled on the ground. It was a satisfying and sensual experience. My skin turned to sparks of fire, which spun into abstract patterns, and then there was the Void.

5. Report on November 2 by Persona Salaam

During the final meditation of the November 2 working, I closed my eyes and was immediately confronted with a large golden spider hovering above me (I was prone). It had long legs which discharged sparks of lightning in all directions. The lightning formed itself into a crystal palace which I perceived to be the OAI temple. At that point I remembered my task and quickly pictured each persona involved in the working and, imagining myself a magnet, drew them to me. I imagined them releasing power to me which I left in the crystal palace as a glowing sphere of light from which thin golden threads emanated back to the individuals. I returned to my bed and fell asleep.

6. Reflections on November 2 by Persona Angelina

I found it unusual that Persona Nassera and I both perceived leopards, not an image we have worked with before. We had noticibly improved psychic contact in the following days. I sat to write commentary and wrote a poem:

You don't have to be so precise in ritual
You don't have to be so smart
Lies can be precisely planned and timed
Truth pours out of the heart
You don't have to be mechanically sane
Physically hungered, sexually aroused or devout.
To be Universe-L, you need te be Persona-L
And learn to turn inside out.
Candles on the altar of green red or blue
To some symbolize envy sorrow or war
You don't need a Goddess, Horus, or Maat
To dream what you are as you are.
Delphine the Oracle and Luthor the Dreamer
did rewrite the rituaIs with freedoms we've found
When there was no within, without, or wherewithall 
We experienced the world turning round.
Vision to vision, alone and all one
Love not made from sex, as a Capitalist
would know it, nor equally shared
As a Communist, nor offered as a gift.
In I to I, recognition equals creation:
Love, the intangible Third of the Three
joined the lips of two anarchists,
Our fingers the spheres of the tree. 

7~ Reflections on November 2 by Persona Nassera
I usually do not call the gods in thirst or hunger. The poetry of Achad, the art of Harris (who drew the Crowley tarot deck), and the form of the rite provided a dry, parched land for the spark of wonder to alight.

But come it did and come it ever will when the play of all is touched by none. Leave but the slightest opening and there is success. The lightest touch, the most airy scent floatint on the subtle aethers flings wide the doors to rapture. Be not so heavy. Caress the inbetween spaces and the vessels will widely swing singing the great names of be/coming. Drift as a feather born by solar winds into the heart of the void. The egg falls, the egg falls by weight. Crack it will and crack it must when kissed by a feather. (Written November 5)

8. Report and Reflections on period leading up to November 2 by Persona Zalman

At the time Liber ANDANA was to be completed, I was tremendously tied up with mundane work, as well as my own magickal workings,~ which were particularly demanding at the time. Due to these distractions I was abrogating a lot of the attention I felt should be given to the upcoming workings. I feel in retrospect that this was a good thing to have happened.

The main ritual organization was handled by Persona Salaam, with inserts by myself and others. What I did have time to do was work with the magickal symbolism I had been getting over the weeks prior to the performance of the Liber.

My review of the Liber seriously occurred right before it was to be completed and due to a call I received from Persona VSO who had already reviewed the work. It was his call that really got me to work on the review of the material. This review brought up many questionson other workings we had built on as well.

Upon my review of the work, I thought It had been built logically on many of the symbols that we had indeed been working on since the start of the Chicago OAI, but that the particular arrangement of those symbols (as Persona VSO had pointed out) were arranged in such a manner as to be ambiguous as to the result. The Dragon symbolism was unclear and it transmitted to me a CThulu type image. This implication seemed to drip through all the writings contributed. I contacted Persona Salaam and requested we rewrite Liber ANDANA, Part 1 to correct or at least to clarify our intentions.

(The Cthulu symbolism was most disturbing to me at the time due to the close proximity in time between the November 2 workings and October 31, when the Cthulu forces are invoked by many groups.)

'9. Report on November 6 by Persona Barsac

I experienced a high energy level.for the entire ritual with three very high points: 1)when I was passing out the papers, (it is the Law to give) and I tried to give myself as well as I handed out the papers; 2) when Persona Zalman consecrated the wine; and 3) when Persona Zalman presented (i.e. gave as her gift to the O.A.I.) the crystal. This act was a high point in my whole magickal life, as I have a great affinity for that tool.

As Persona Zalman headed for the Comity, I felt drawn up with her, but stayed down and was aware of Salaam's coming down from the astral temple. I felt a spiral counter-clockwise energy emanating from Salaam and a spiral clockwise energy from Zalman (once she returned from the Comity).

10. Report on November 6 by Persona Salaam

After the giving of the gifts, I immediately moved into meditation. During the scrying I had looked into the egg and saw the golden spider there. It appeared before me as the meditation began. It was looking directly into my eyes. I found myself before a crystal pyramid.

As the Enochian invokation began, I was thrust quickly and abruptly into the pyramid where I now faced a spiral vortex of energy--the same I had left behind in the astral temple on November 2. I looked on to it by Will and slowly brought it back into the midst of the group. Upon freeing it, i.e., returning it to the group, it began to swirl around the room in a rather haphazad fashion as if it had no fixed center.

I perceived that Persona Zalman was in the Comity at the time I returned. Upon her return, the energy level was raised noticibly, and the swirl settled down so that the center of the vortex became stable at a point between the candlesticks. The power began slowly to build as we took each others hand. It was released by the priestess and quickly disappeared.

11. Report and reflections on November 6 by Persona Nassera

Preliminary: I am presently in a state of considering the forces with which I work as being external to myself. The purpose of this experiment is to ascertain if by so structuring I can cause a more complete manifestation of these energies in Malkuth.

On November 6: While scrying in the cup, I experienced physical shock at seeing an entity looking up at me. I was observing and being observed. During the Comity, I felt a sexual energy, a lightness and a little more. After the Comity I received the direct and forceful impression that my body formed a scale. A horizontal line between my shoulders being the line of balance. My two hands hung as cups (plates).

November 7: While driving home on the expressway through Chicago, I received my most profound experience. Something was pricking me in the area directly over my heart. I reached into my clothing (undershirt, sweater, coat) and found a white feather. The mind constructs numerous ways in which the feather could have gotten there. Was the feather in the pocket of my undershirt for months only to present itself at that moment? I can rationalize but the image that remains is of the perfection of a white feather as the counterweight of a black egg. The feather is enclosed (and now resides in the archives of the O.A.I. ed. note).
 
 

"Thee.may knowest not what yet is to be but what was is now thee."

"Thee may not align the differences, but through thee all may be aligned."

"Thee may have preference in choice, yet without choice there would not be thee."

"Thee may act any~role, yet below the role lies the essence of thee." (2)

"Thee may switch thy role, for all roles are thee."

Thee may attack thine own role even, yet thou is that which thou attacks."

"Thee may even come to loathe thine own body, but in that body is thee." (3)

"Thee may wish to transcend this body, yet always return to it with thy glory."

"Accept this body, and be accepted as thine image in it."

"Let those who touch this body be touched by the light of choice in thee."

"Let those who seek to know thee, know too that there is a balance needed in thee seeking. Let thy hands accept or not as is thy will."

"Let those who touch thy limbs become aware of thine energies." (4)

"Let those who seek to know thee, know too that there is a Balance needed in the seeking. Let thy hands accept or not as is thy will." (5)

"Let those who have been accepted now6understand the formation of the vision as ye will it." (6)

"As the vision is shared, it remains still a mystery to those that seek thee. Therefore- let the seeker confront the mystery, thy mystery of thee." (7)

"I inhale thy vision of mystery.'' (8)

"I attune myself to thy vision of this mystery.'' (9)

"I taste the vision of thy mystery." (10)

"Though I know not, I am the vision of the mystery."

"So that I might see, I now share thy mystery with thee." (11)

"As I am now but a reflection again of thee." (12) 

1. As way of prologue, I woke up at 6:00 today with a high fever and very sick. My sleep-state around 7 to 8:30 centered around the paper in hand. I was forming/working rituals like a computer until this one came along. The catalyst -- I was involved With a hetero IX ', a suddenly the magickal partner lost her ability to go on . . . collapsed upon me. I laid her down, face up, arms Straight out, legs apart and placed myself between her legs in a kneeling position. Eye to eye \ I began a ritual of transcendence through worship of Maat with the (Symbol of Venus) as the focal point occultly. This is our position through the first seven oracles--eye to eye.

2. Between 4 and 5 I inserted the following: "This is not being manufactured here. I worked this thing this morning and outside of a possible word change that I cannot remember, I know this is the ritual." I was amazed at the recall, not to mention the subject. Actually this whole thing is quite amazing, but that's my opinion.

3. (For this work I will refer to myself as Mars, and the magickal female as Venus.) Ny note after that oracle says, "Mars now bends down, face down on chest of Venus, with (my) hands up clasping sides of Venus' face-head. Mars continues to conduct all of this. Remember: this is what Maat is if you must ask, and thus it must be an 'adoration of Maat' ritual type."

4. After oracle: "Note: Here Mars runs his hands down from sides of head along down entire arms to wrist and stops. Understand: first, Venus is being charged up throughout this. It's not a stageplay! The specific touching has absolute implications, especially in Venus-Mars since I do know of such things. Yet this ritual is not actually anything ever done by me (except in my fever this morn!), nor is it to be included as a 'sexual ritual,' for the actual 'act' has conjoining as an option. Secondly, I see why (or how) it could be used by any combination or gender, but I will leave that to those who may try it."

"Mars hands on Venus wrists. O.K., Mars will be aware of energies."
 

5. After oracle: Mars now slips his hands into the hands of Venus. This is the moment of acceptance or denial, as Venus will know what to do. Once accepted, Venus-Mars hands will stay bonded, and breaking rite after next step will cause suffering, even physically mis-direction of energies."

6. Note': "Mars after saying above (last verse) moves his head from chest cavity to stomach, with forehead touching just below rib-cage. Chakra arousal will be noticed by both through heat. Breathing now will be close in sync with each others."

7. After oracle: "Mars now moves until confronted with the mystery as symbolized in the vagina. During this movement an important thing occurs as the star now becomes the arrow plume symbol with arms straight and lowered, joined in/with the straight arms of Mars we now have the double pyramid symbol.

It's in XIII° which is geometrically more accurate, but the vision in creation (which is the key to all this) is symbolized as she giving birth. It is done inside the double pyramid both physically, i.e., the vagina can correlate to a double pyramid. And the second symbol is a new double pyramid within the base of the larger, and the head of Mars is in that double pyramid. Without that mumbo-jumbo understood prior to this working, the ritual will be just so much. Understood as I did this morning (as it happened) almost gave me a choking or stifling sensation. 
O.K.

8. "Does so."

9. "Mars places forehead directly on vagina. That should prove the work thus far through the energy transference. It cannot be missed or someone is not working. Fact: You will know."

10. "Artistic license here. A simple Mars mouth placed firmly over vagina is all that is necessary. If prolonged contact is of interest, two points arise: 1) do not lose the mental/spiritual visionary quest in sexual abandonment. To do so will break all, 2) do not let thy tongue out of thy mouth."

il. "Crucial moment/movements (here) now. The obvious build-up of energy and its usual tingles, etc., is now well developed. These last words will be louder perhaps due to the rite itself. Go with it, but do not leave your mind open'to anything outside this work. If you are still identifying your magickal partner by their surname or usual mode, you are but a puppet on this ritual string. Most know what I am trying to say here. If you do not understand transference, ask for advice or read more books, etc.

The Mars mouth open--full vaginal contact again, Mars tongue penetrates the veil. Time allotment is variable. Remember, it is the symbolic act that counts, not how long or well you do the act.

Tongue extracted, Mars goes into a very important power-body move.Mars pushes legs up forcing body to come face to face with Venus. The importance is in the new body symbol which is a receptive symbol. Both sets of arms will be as shown. This whole movement of change ought not to take more than two to three seconds, but it must be done correctly.

Mars (I will repeat the last phrase repeated, "So that I might see, I now share thy mystery with thee."

(Remember) movements end up face to face. Mars kisses Venus full on mouth, both mouths open. Mars penetrates Venus mouth with Mars tongue. Hold still. Feel the transference again. Got it? Mars releases mouth (and tongue, obviously) but faces stay inches apart. They must lock in the vision-quest through eye contact. When doing it, look between the eyes. It is much easier and you won't be moving left to right, etc. Lock in as one! Now Mars says: the next phrase.

12. Eye contact stops after some time now. Mars moves into a fetal-like position with face on Venus' chest, but the hands and arms are still in their receptive symbol. The big key: Mars is in a new triangle, symbolically ready to become a new triad with vision. The energies travel like a helix. 8 Yes? Yes! 8. 

13. The material which I received ended at this point and the ritual can end here. However, the stuff of life is still to come.

Conclusions

I add the following comments as a further reflection upon the Maatian Fever ritual:

Anyone who would stop at the end of the ritual as written could receive much from the work. Who is to say? But the visioncan be shared and shared through a now activated Venus. Mars has done its work and awaits in the pyramid trine: either reflection, direction or introspection.

The vision can be spoken aloud by Venus as in 1 + 1 = 0 or OO

The vision can be be concealed by Venus. This is up to the queen but it does not infer a negative connotation. It does, however, equate to 1 + 0 = 1
 

Further options:

Mars can, after receiving the vision, penetrate Venus with willful love as an imprint of the vision in creation. Obvious variables are possible, but remember: the cost of creation is the loss of that vision. (I am sorry, there had to be at least one paradox. )

The implications of ritualizing this vision-quest sexually, and I am talking about Mars and Venus as male/female, in good health, ovulating (or not, actually), with seed, etc. is the culminating work, if so it bel that of humanifestation of Maat in the flesh.

Penetration with tantra-vision through the eyes (the I + I = OO) makes any climax secondary to the enlightenment of the vision implied and assimilated.

The word is the key
The vision is the quest
The reception is the proof
Human beings are the goal
This is but one of the means
Towards the humanifestation of Maat

Until we know who what where when
We cannot get beyond Maat;
We can only stand behind.

Who are you, I ask each of you? 
"Everything depends upon the vision." 
Who am I but the one who asks. 

But also I am - VSO 136
 

Original completed October 29, 1982, 1:30 P.M. Chicago.

Feedback always appreciated.
 
 

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