Gebofal, Day 3

Sunrise: Same procedure as Day 2, except calling on King Babalel. Also, filing under “What Should Have Been Completely Obvious,” I place my right hand on the back of Leaf 47 (47b, which is at my right). I have my left foot on Babalel’s seal for balance.

I make the call to BAG. The vision starts with a hallway, which has a CGI feel. There’s set of double doors which I open, which shows another length of hallway with a set of doors at the end. This pattern repeats, and I zip through many hundreds of doors in this manner: these are the doors of the main sequence of letters from this side of the leaf. There are also sets of double doors to my left and right which represent those letters that I used my intuition to write in. I get to the last set of double-doors, which has the letter Van on it (the angels remind me that the first two letters are X & I, i.e., the transliteration of the Greek letter xi).

I open this last set of doors, and I seem to have opened a set of doors into the sky or heaven. I walk around through the sky, and they call it a hidden or alternative or mathematical Merkava. This is in the vein of the Merkava as Dee would have understood them, they tell me. I’m in a “chariot,” which is metaphorical: the chariot can be thought of as a force which allows me to traverse the heavenly realm. It’s bright and daylight; I can see the blue sky and there are clouds just below me.

I repeat the governors’ names: Labnixp, Focisni, Oxlopar. I see a set of 2D spirals, reddish (note that the moon is in Scorpio, thus the luminaries are both ruled by Mars today, which is Tuesday, the day of Mars). They create a square, and they ask me to step into the center of the square. I do so; they note the dimensionality but then say they won’t dwell on it in this vision. Reddish protrusions or perhaps the spirals themselves extend and come at me.

Now I’m at the center of a cube (so now we’re back to dimensionality); they remind me that from the center of the square, six square pyramids can be made, which can be made into three octahedra. This, they tell me, is the Glory of the Trinity. These are the signs of the zodiac in “duality”–the heavenly part and the earthly part, of each sign. “As above, so below,” they remind me. My mind alights on the idea of the fixed stars: “Not this vision,” they tell me.

I look at the three octahedra. They get tall and each forms a loop which come at me. Then I see the octahedra in normal form and they turn around me (counterclockwise from above), and two are shown as under my feet, supporting me, and one I’m holding as a rein. This clearly feels like I’m in a chariot. “This is how an individual can perceive a given moment of astrological influence. One can bring to mind a given planet, which is one of these modalities [cardinal, fixed, or mutable.]” The cube is sort of this earthly existence, the limits of being in one of these three states. One can feel like one is in a Black Iron Prison on account of either the earthly state of affairs itself being in one of these modalities, or feeling as if the strings are being pulled from heaven. Feeling like this would indicate a need for spherical consciousness.

I am curious as to where the chariot is going. I’m taken into a Roman-style stadium. It’s like the final leg of a triumph in the Roman sense. There’s cheering and the amphitheater itself is reflective of this spherical consciousness with the members of the audience being like unto the fixed stars (which we weren’t going to talk about? heh heh). So of course being cheered feels good, but note the emotional pull of all the possibilities which these fixed stars represent. I see a particular light flashing at me from the crowd. I float towards this spot and there’s a king who is flashing this light from a mirror.

The angels tell me to not look so much at what the king was getting me to do, but rather to look back at the center, the chariot. I can see my light body there, and it’s doing a better job of reflecting all of the fixed stars of possibility. I wonder what would happen if I expanded this out to all the places that the stars have been. They emotionally indicate that this is good, so my heart extends out.

Then I think about all of the possibilities that the stars could have been (to quote the Hole song: “My name is Might-Have-Been, my name is Never Was”), and that’s when I can see my heart extend into an amazing light show. This, is more of the rainbow body. I reflect during the vision that this is deep: when we think of possibilities, this is sort of a limiting idea or category. But if we think of all of those things that each possibility could have been, that’s sort of where Nuit and Hadit meet, to use Thelemic concepts. What if, for example, Jupiter had become a star instead of Sol? Honoring all of this in one’s heart and at all the levels of existence and awareness: this is key.

The vision ends.

Noon: Same procedure. Call to the Aethyr of BAG.

I now see the same spiral as show fourfold this morning, but it seems to come from in one form, and as a single point in the darkness. The spiral comes around me and I now appear energetically as I do in the Circulation of Light portion of the Middle Pillar Ritual. They back me up to see this energy field about me from afar and in the context of fixed stars. They mention that doing the Middle Pillar Ritual magnetizes the self, as it were, so that one can become a compass for the True Will, i.e., the particular set of fixed stars. This can, of course, become skewed by an imbalance of the elements, so the importance of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram is obvious.

Regardless, the angels have me dwell on the fixed stars, and mention that one can use the MPR to find one’s personal fixed stars, i.e., the “lode stars.” Still, I contemplate this: were someone to orient themselves to their fixed stars, it is a proper thing to do so in order to follow one’s True Will, but this is also somewhat insufficient in two senses. First, what I call “the shifting of the orbit,” i.e., the discovery of additional fixed stars or elements within oneself which causes an adjustment to the True Will. Second, there’s the importance of honoring all of the fixed stars, appearing not only as Hadit and Nuit (which is really just one thing, and not merely the principles of Chokmah and Binah, respectively, leading to each individual’s Tiphareth/sun), nor as their single unified unfolding and enfolding in spacetime as the unified process of Kether. Instead, considering the need to honor the possibilities of possibilities and the world of Adam Qadmon, the idea of the True Will becomes secondary. The True Will continues to speak to the heart and its configuration, but honoring the depths of all fixed stars not only as individual lode stars but possibilities which could have been very different–this is where one honors the world of Adam Qadmon and the unfolding force of Ain.

I ask how I am to honor this, then. The angels point ahead and say that something will come around Leaf 15–which is the fire tablet, the last of the Watchtower tablets, if one starts with the most dense of them (earth).

I speak in an offhanded way about being a good guest to the angels who are hosting me, and they begin speaking about hospitality (note that the single word “host,” which can refer to either a multitude of an army or to one who receives guests, both derive from the word for “stranger, guest, enemy”). They mention that each of the leaves gives me a full day and night as a guest in the heavenly homes which God has created, and that Day 49 is the central home, the home of homes, in the throne room, which I will “never leave” (in status) and tending to the kingdom. The traveling which I do will be as a monarch or viceroy traveling to different realms to tend to whichever realm requires it.

Sunset: Same procedure. Call to BAG.

The angel governors ask me to focus on the feeling of the leaf, and then to focus on the spiral, which was common to both visions. Then the angels tell me to put the feeling of the energy of that spiral into the vision of heaven from this morning. I put my vision there and include my energetic body there.

I notice that I need to put more energy into concentration than I normally would for an Aethyr this low. I interpret this as being similar to dealing with the Aethyr of ZAX–in other words, the sevenfold nature of doing the Aethyr call during gebofal is putting the abyssal feeling much lower. They tell me to focus on the spiral and note the increasing size of the length of a diagonal as you go from one corner of the page to the book and the similar increase and decrease in size of a spiral’s arcs extending out from the middle:

Each of these leaves is thus similar to a fractal. This fractal is not only across leaves (such as going from only 105 letters on Leaf 49 (which is reduced from a small number of words) to 4802 letters on Leaf 2, to Leaf 1b which has letters at the end but which complexifies into words at the top, and finally Leaf 1a which is all words) but also within a single leaf. This self-similarity relates to the “as above, so below” principle of Hermeticism.

I try to relate this to the vision of the Roman-style triumph and to the idea of honoring all of possibilities and how each possibility itself could have been different. This pattern of self-similarity, I realize, is the universe/Divine trying to honor itself and the decisions it has made. Therein is the unity and multiplicity of coming into existence in the manner it has, and the arising and falling of patterns from moment to moment.

My mind alights on the concept of vibration as I handle the leaf in my hand. The phenomenon of vibration honors the idea of development. A vibration is an anticipation of the future, which we then take stock of after the fact. The most important vibrations are those which are meaningful: that makes the difference as to whether development proceeds in a given trend as anticipated. The concept of personal resonance relates to this.

I’m trying to combine the ideas now with the idea of being centered amidst polarities and forces. Fractals shift levels and do so in apparently nonlinear fashion; the idea of accepting things as they are is important, and I see development as a matter of homeostasis, but at the same time, biology speaks of punctuated equilibria. We find these in traversing the heart by attempting to be accepting, so accepting that we pay attention and at times we find, either by natural change or by noticing that which comes to be noticed with our development–we come to notice that which changes how we perceive everything. In such times, it seems like everything changes, and if we’re okay with that, we accept and flow with the change.

These moments are when our hearts feel that they would leap out of our chests into the unknown, because we see our past, our present, our future, our selves, our loved ones, and our world: these we see clearly and anew.

Gebofal, Day 1

Sunrise: So course I was a little sloppier than I would’ve liked, so I was a teensy bit late in starting. No particular dress, but there’s nothing against doing that.

I said the prayer of Enoch as related by the Angel Ave, and then activated the furniture, placed my foot upon the seal of the Heptarchical king CARMARA, then scried TEX. I had the book opened to the front of Leaf 49, but of course I realized it should’ve been the back of the leaf, and I was guided to do so during the vision.

Vision of TEX (30th and lowest Aethyr): so this was interesting; the usual vision of TEX —and I’m spoilering things you may want to be unbiased about when scrying the Aethyrs yourself—relating to the desert landscape was overlaid with smoke arising from Leaf 49, as if the vision was missing this extra layer. The smoke arose and related to the pillars of cloud and fire in Exodus. It’s also like the smoke of what you see at the beginning of the alchemical process, & the pillar of fire is like unto the light of Ain Soph Aur at the end of the alchemical process. They’re saying that gebofal is a process of subtly tweaking what I’ve learned already. Then they ask me to look at the back page, which is two 3×7 tables arranged so that it appears that a middle row is missing. They suggest trying to focus on what sort of flexible symbol might go there to anchor myself to go across the multiple levels of being; they note that the symbol for Kether & the Taijitu symbol both have within them more flexibility in order to relate to the whole. My symbol will ultimately be there (I’m pretty sure I was thinking about a personal symbol last night). They suggest using the Enochian-language heart mantra to aid in this.

The vision ends w/ a preview of the landscape changing, now not merely a desert but one with mountains in the distance & it now being noon (the time of my next ritual today); having taken the 1st step, the landscape shifts. They tell me that using the seal of Carmara is fine for this morning, but to switch to the Sunday angelic king Bobogel for the remaining two rituals today.

Solar noon: At the angels’ direction, I called upon Bobogel; I was careful to also use Stenwick’s method in his Mastering the Mystical Heptarchy book (foot on the seal, which is on the ground).

Then I made the call to TEX again. The angels noted that having the five angels creates a 5-simplex, which begins a process of unfolding into the higher dimensions. The remaining Aethyrs take the initiate into aspects of this dimensionality until, as with Aethyr 14, another dimension arises. So we’re given additional dimensionality & a parallel to the quintessence. This is maximally available when the Heptarchical kings are used, and—here the angels were quite explicit—the Heptarchy should be understood as to always be used with the Aethyrs. Doing a 49-day ritual makes this more obvious, as each king would be called on 21 times, and Carmara/Marmara the final time (my using Carmara is forgiven & Bobogel as mostly having come through).

Next, the angels talked about the Pillar of Light, and they referred back to book, Leaf 49a (front), & showed it as though lightning were hitting it. They suggested I see the pillar as a continuous electric discharge, the massive amount of energy available off at any moment in space as virtual energy, the limitless/Ain Soph of energy manifesting visually as limitless light, Ain Soph Aur. This shows the immense power of any individual person within a space. Any space a person inhabits occupies space, and all of this space is indeed subject to this force of Ain, in the sense of 1 (individual) = 0 (Ain & its power) + 1 (individual) (shout out to Rachel Fell and Filoprax for their elaboration on this). They’re also noting that each day of gebofal can be thought of as introducing a dimension by stages by producing a view, then its shadow, and finally both can be seen from a 3rd side.

Sunset: The angels instruct me to flip back and forth to the front and back of Leaf 49. There’s something of a shimmer or vibrational impression that comes to me from doing this. The angels have me recall the smoke as representing the beginning of the alchemical process and the light as the end. They have me recall that Moses led the children of Israel with the pillars of fire and cloud, and that the pillars that I see are somewhat more toward the extreme of this spectrum in terms of materiality and in terms of shadow and light. There’s the idea of the material basis for energy such as fuel (here they note that nuclear fusion isn’t that far off). What remains after consumption is matter which cannot be broken down into an energetic reaction. Combining that with the flowing of energy implied by the pillar of light, you get the basic idea of what an organism, including a human being, is. The materiality of the energetic system allows for the system to continue and perpetuate itself and to move throughout its existence, and of course we take in material that is consumable and excrete the opposite at the opposite end of our alimentary tube. Human beings move in a relatively intelligent way, much as the Divine moves according to the divine’s ways, with a constant flow of energy in selected parts of the universe.

The angels highlight that with a close inspection and relatively aspiritual reflection on the nature of things, we still get this beautiful idea of divine-like movement throughout the cosmos and nature. We associate the divine with a process, a plan, and an intelligent and elegant (often taking the form of a mathematical) unfolding in ways that defy a mere human’s ability to plan. What matters as far as humanity is concerned is to be more intelligent with its use of natural resources, caring for individual people, and to understand our relatively matter-bound nature. This extends to aliens and understanding that life on other planets has to deal–or has already dealt–with similar issues.

After this “download” or what we used to call a message, I’m taken to the vision proper. It is nightfall in the vision; I’m taken to the center of the valley which I saw in the previous vision. Now I can see clearly a crystalline-like square pyramid, or perhaps it’s fairer to say an invisible pyramid with outlines of light. The angels tell me to consider Binah and how only through the experience of darkness was Babalon to be seen clearly. Now through the clarity of having gone through the process of making Amzes Naghezes Hardeh, of having seen the deluge of possibilities of how these leaves could be arranged meaningfully in someone’s life (mathematically: 49 factorial), let alone the specific meanings of why the leaves would be arranged in this way, there’s a sort of blinding level of possibility for the mind to reckon with. This is only to be expanded by considering the elemental circumference of the heart for the individual to measure out by the Watchtower tablets, relative influence and strength of subdivisions and angelic influence here.

Nonetheless, there emerges the structure of a square pyramid, which can be thought of as an octahedron with chthonic spirits below, one can see different stairs, classes, or levels of possibility which narrow as the heart balances itself elementally (e.g., with holy guardian angel work) and attunes oneself to the arrangement of the leaves as given in this transmission. Eventually the emergence of the point of spirit and each individual’s orientations towards a unique set of fixed stars towards which the pyramid points in the sky. First one must reckon with the equal universal nature of possibility–the “sphere” of the fixed stars as they appear to us on Earth. In other words, an emergent structure appears and the elements leads up to it, and there is a singular direction–such as the True Will–to which an individual becomes oriented.

Here my mind alights on the septenary nature of Enochian. The angels note that the Zodiac is a circular/360-degree slice out of this sphere, but generally say they will talk about a missing piece relative to all of the previous posts on this on my blog. The pyramid, they come back to, is somewhat symbolic of humanity’s progress on the planet and also the union of earth with heaven. There’s some clarity which happens when one aligns with the directionality of a pyramid–here my mind alights upon how the square pyramid unites with a previous scrying session in which I saw an infinite cylinder which pointed in the direction of the aforementioned set of fixed stars. Again, the angels put me off on this question: “You’re approaching Atziluth with this question,” they ask (TEX is far below but of course has it within it). But it relates to being aware of the perimeter of the planet at the sphere in which one moves.

Regarding the personal symbol of the center of such a sphere or circle, the angels offer suggestions, but I won’t present mine until it’s complete.

Talismanic elections, 2nd half of 2020 through end of 2021: Talisman 2, Albireo

Chriiiistmas, Chriiiistmas, tiiiime of year! Time for Talismans, and cheer!

Yes, the next talisman is for Christmas Eve of 2020. Saturn and Jupiter will still be in their conjunction in Aquarius, and the first fixed star they interact with in this sign is Albireo! My attention was brought to this particular fixed star by Kelly Surtees in either the Astrology Podcast or her presentation at the Astrology University. If I have the reference to her reference wrong, be a good referee and feel free to refer me to the correct reference to her reference.

Regardless, Albireo looks like a fairly good fixed star to have Saturn and Jupiter work with (when you see Obama, George Clooney, Picasso, Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Carrey, and Jeff Bridges spanning both of these planets, you think, “There’s probably some sweet major modification energy here!). This makes it an uneasy neighbor to Altair, its next-door neighbor: because of this, the caution that I advise on this talisman is to not only use this election (i.e., not a later one), but also to make sure to include the symbolism of the swan’s beak in your talisman’s design.

This talismanic election, as you can see, has the part of fortune conjunct my own north node. Always check the astrology against your own chart–and against the eclipses!–to ensure you’re creating something that not only works to lock in a desirable “constellation” (heh, heh) of energy, but also one that works well with your own chart.

I have put Saturn in the 10th house; the chart ruler, Venus, is in Sagittarius, which looks to Jupiter; Jupiter, the greater benefic, is no longer in its fall in Capricorn, but still is modified in its expression by the greater malefic of Saturn. In fact, Saturn is the final dispositor of everything, with the exception of (the lesser malefic of) Mars which is still strong its domicile, but, as mentioned in my previous post, you can banish any planet, including Mars, via the Greater Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram. I haven’t decided yet whether to do so for this ritual, because it’s in my 9th house, where my natal Mars resides, but it’s far closer to my natal MC. Note, too, the squaring energy of Uranus and the moon! Nonetheless, the former is in a 5+ degree orb, and the moon is separating, and both are trine the sun, which is the sect light, and Mercury. Nonetheless, you may consider doing a general banishing via the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram, then invoking Saturn and Jupiter for the purposes of this talisman (leaving those two planets’ energies as predominant).

For your humble “talismaker,” this conjunction lands in my 7th house. It’s an angular house, so although not quite as strong as the 1st or 10th, it’s by no means the weakest! I’m hoping to bring out the best in my interactions with others and vice versa with the energy of this fixed star.

As with any talisman, you can add the Agrippa symbols for Saturn and Jupiter:

You can also add angel names via the methods suggested by Agrippa or similarly derived versions by Aaron Leitch in his great book, The Angelical Language, Vol. I (Vol II is also excellent), or by the more recent The Angels of Fortune, by Rose Manning, who has worked through the appropriate angels by both research and experimentation (always important to include this as part of your magickal practice!). You can also use the associated deity names for the correspondences for Saturn, Jupiter, and Aquarius. For this in particular for Western astrologer/Western magicians, I recommend referencing Eshelman’s 776_1/2 and not 777, which did not have the references for Aquarius and Aries fully worked out. Though 776_1/2 still seems to have some problems with other panthea (I really believe Ganesh remains mis-assigned, for example), it’s a vast improvement and expansion on the already groundbreaking work done by Crowley–and likely his Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn colleagues–in 777.

Good luck!