MNDO wrote:Invoking Spiral Dance: Is this spiralling clockwise while also circling clockwise or are there a couple of different ways it should be done?
Read
John St. John - it's Crowley's diary while he was writing
Pyramidos. A lot of these details are described therein. IIRC there is also comment on this specific point in the dance section of
Energized Enthusiasm.The secret word of the Neophyte: I have seen it written as M....M and I have seen it written in its entirety. Is it what I think it is?
Well... it's secret. (Really.) You should receive it from your Zelator. You can check your reconstruction of it by confirming that it toals to 93, but please then keep it to yourself.
If you don't have a Zelator - that is, if you're not really in the A.'.A.'. but are merely doing the ritual while working solitary - you might consider creating your own Word for that point. It should embody your understanding of the whole course of your Great Work at this juncture.
Cutting the cross on the chest and drawing blood: How necessary is this?
Anointing the wounds: Would this be, the forehead, chest and buttocks?
IMVHO the main impact of the cutting etc. is that it has to be deep enough that the Abramelin oil will sting like a mother-{******}. Same with the chain to forehead and whip to your ass. Oil hitting broken skin in this locations spreads through the nerves in a pattern that triggers some sensation-spreads that can have some
really interesting effect sof energy distribution. - So, personally, I don't think the drawing of blood is a big deal, but the breaking of the skin enough to amp the effect of the oil is key.
A little observed fact: These actions are in the ritual exactly where the Golden Dawn had purifications and consecrations (water and fire) of the candidate. They are intended to stand in for those. The sourge - dagger - chain are the "purification by water" - the application of the oil is the "consecration by fire."
Magical Motto: When giving this as in 'Speak fair words for ... May he flourish' would it be ones 0=0 motto or ones chosen 1=10 motto?[/qote]
Excellent question. Answer: 1=10.
Rubric: What does this mean exactly? Is it to repeat a certain section, if so, which one?
What manuscript are you using? (I'm not sure I can answer that without pulling archive copies out of old files. All of our "in use" copies have been edited to spell that out more. But if you can remind me how it's written, I can probably answer the question.) (PS You should be asking your Zelator that one.)
I would also like to know how it is to be performed. Is it just the one time or should it be performed at the beginning of a week and then doing some dedicated practice for a week and then ending with Liber P or should it be performed every day for at least a week?
If this is intended to effect your formal transition to Neophyte, then that's absolutely something you should ask your Zelator about (since they are varying from the standard system and not putting you through the temple version of 671). If you are working solitary, then you have a lot of latitude - again, see
John St. John, where Crowley performed it nightly for several weeks IIRC.
If you are asking the "for a week" question based on
Liber 185, then I'll just say that, no, that's not what the seven days are used for. (And I
really can't say what the first six days are used for without screwing it up forever for anyone coming through the system in the future. If you're working solitary, it doesn't matter - just figure something out and make a decision about it.)
In practical terms, you have to do it enough times to know it and get good at it before you say, "OK, this is the one that counts for my transition." And you can do it as many times as you like thereafter. (Many people, having been admitted to Neophyte by the actual temple initiation version of 671, then learn and perform
Pyramidos as part of the work of their 1=10 and perform it frequently.)
I have have searched high and low for detailed information on Liber P but have found very little so any advice that can be provided to me will be very much appreciated.
Mostly because this is intended to be passed directly from Zelator to Neophyte within the Order, and nobody's business outside the Order. But all of my answers have been consistent with you actually being able to self-perform the ritual.