Thelema Lodge
Ordo Templi Orientis
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March 1989 e.v. at Thelema Lodge
Announcements from
Lodge Members and Officers
And Now... April '89 e.v.
Saturday, April 1st: Ist and II Degree Initiations. Call for time
Sunday, April 2nd: 2:00 am Daylight Saving begins
| When I had played my role as fool, | |
| I stood beside an inky pool | |
| Of jet, which on its surface bore | |
| A phantom fleet, each knew one oar | |
| To guide its course. And as I stood | |
| I saw the curtains of each hood | |
| Were black and wet, and this seemed strange. | |
| For though I looked, within the range | |
| Of sight there was no storm, no foam | |
| To slash and drench; the darkened dome | |
| Was still. A gentle wind breathed through | |
| The lofty sail, yet of the crew | |
| I saw not one to man the sweeps, | |
| And yet we moved across the deeps | |
| To where a darkened funnle led | |
| Beneath the curving overhead. | |
| The current moves more swiftly here, | |
| It feeds the treadmills of a weir | |
| Of jagged rocks beneath the lashed | |
| Foam of the water, bubble splashed | |
| The cavern wall stands to the tides | |
| That sluice its worn, eroded sides | |
| And candles gutter in their wicks | |
| As ever faster rolls the Styx. | |
| It beats the shadowed air to whirl | |
| Above the frightened dead, its purl | |
| Becomes a raging, snarling stream | |
| Through which the boats are shot, the scream | |
| Of those who hoped for peace in Hell | |
| Is drowned beneath the rushing swell | |
| Of sound that thunders through this cave | |
| Beyond the portals of the grave. | |
| In clusters drift the sodden boats | |
| Upon the bay, wet sluggish motes | |
| They bob and dance among the waves, | |
| To wind and tide they are as slaves | |
| That know no motive of their own | |
| But lie within the fluid zone | |
| Of force that moves them as it wills | |
| To where the rushing water stills | |
| And spreads into a placid sea. | |
| The pilgrims sag on bended knee | |
| In thankfulness unto that form Who | |
| held them through the mortal storm; | |
| For there, beyond the torrent's roar, | |
| In swinging tiers above the shore | |
| Where Lethe's rolling combers break | |
| Lies, coil on coil, our Mother Snake. | |








OF LETTERS

("Dipthongs" vary in some sources)
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Passing the River (vision over Jordan?)

Malachim (Angelic)

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| After supper1, returning to our business; I first doubted of the heads of the
Letters in the border, to be written, which way they ought to be turned, to the
Centerward of the Table2, or from the Centerward. | |
| i | IL3: The heads of the letters must be next or toward the center of the Square
Table or Figure. - I divided it.IL5: Grace, mercy and peace be unto the Lively branches of his flourishing kingdom. And strong art thou in thy glory, which dost unknit the secret parts of thy Lively Workmanship; and that, before the weak understanding of man. |
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12 - The Spiritual Creature seemed to eat fire, like balls of fire; having his
face towards me, and his back towards Edward Kelly.13 | |
iii | IL:14 Leave out the Bees15 of the 7 names of the Seven Kings, and 7 Princes: and place them in a table divided by 12 and 7 : the 7 Spaces being Uppermost: and therein Write, in the Upper Line, the Letters of the King, with the Letters of his Prince following next after his name: and so of the six other, and their Princes: And read them on the right hand from the Upper Part to the Lowest, and thou shalt find; then, the Composition of this Table.16 |
iv | Which are not to be put in17 here:18 By reason that the Kings and Princes do spring from God; and not God from the Kings and Princes. Which excellency is comprehended, and is also manifest, in that Third and Fourth member.19 |
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The Marginalia of Doctor John Dee:
| i. | Note of the square within. |
| ii. | 'of the Trinity and the Quadripartite.' transl. |
| iii. | (12 & 7) |
| iv. | Note of these Kings and Princes.24 |
| v. | The dignity of the Table of Practice. |
| vi. | He alludeth to our Talk had of Transposition of Letters.25 |
| vii. | Note danger of violating precepts of Doctrine. |
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1. Sunday April 28th 1583. 'CES I.i.,' Thelema Lodge (Berkeley CA: Feb. 1989)
2. Ibidem, Aug.88. Feb.89. This article is the second in a series extracted from
3. Dee's notation to IL as given in the Mystical Heptarchy (vide notat. 5. infra):
4. This statement can only be clearly comprehended by understanding the relationship
5. Here begins a passage extracted by Dee for inclusion in his De Heptarchia Mystica:
The interested student is strongly recommended to read this document, as it concerns
Vide: G. James, The Enochian Evocation Of Dr John Dee (Heptangle, Gillete NJ:1984)
6. SL.MS.3188 gives L.abbr.: " ' o "
7. This passage poses difficult ambiguities of Latin and has been variously translated:
Turner (transl. "...the number three and four, from which is beginning and all the
James "...the third and fourth number; from the first and fundamental is of all your
8. Almost but not quite. The editors.
9. 'super celestial' L.cognate svpercoelestial, lit.: above, or beyond the heavens, or skies.
10. SL.3188 'arme' arch. Eng. for army (vide OED); here probab. as in 'the armies of
11. This ends the first passage herein cited in the Heptarchia Mystica.
12. This paragraph of description is lacking in Dee's Heptarchia.
13. 'E.K.' SL.3188.
14. Here begins the second passage cited in The Heptarchia.
15. Preferred rendering given in the OED for the pl. of the letter B.
16. Vide Plate II. where these names are set out in comparison directionally, and in
17. 'put in' herein underlined in archaic hyphenation style, for which see prepositional
18. I.e. the 'Bees'
19. Dee corrects 'member' to 'number' in his Heptarchia Mystica.
20. Op.cit. Thelema Lodge Feb.89.
21. For an interesting literary exposition of this rather occult conception see
22. Vide Pater Noster Matt. VI:9-13 = Gk. 
23. Probably in reference to 'Lundrumguffa' (op.cit. Thelema Lodge Aug. & Sept. 89.)
24. Reading from right to left and top to bottom cf. Plates I. & II.
25. It is interesting to note here that by the use of the stone attributed to King Baligon

| 3/1/89 | "The Three Realms" with Ebony 8 PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
| 3/2/89 | Tammy's Mass Seminar by invitation | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/3/89 | Thelema Lodge G.B.G. Midnight | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/5/89 | Gnostic Mass at 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/6/89 | New Moon Ritual 9:30 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/8/89 | "The Three Realms" with Ebony 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/9/89 | Unfolding Hermetics 8PM, Horus Temp. | |||
| 3/10/89 | "Angelic Non-Class" call for time Anniversary of Dee & Kelly's Scrying | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/12/89 | Gnostic Mass at 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/14/89 | Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/15/89 | "The Three Realms" with Ebony 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/16/89 | Rose Croix meeting 7PM (private) | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/16/89 | Princes of Jerusalem meeting 8:30 PM (These two meetings limited to degree) | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/17/89 | Bring Back the Snakes Celebration | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/19/89 | Equinox celebration by the sea (call for information) | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/19/89 | Gnostic Mass 9:30 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/21/89 | Discussion of slander of Mrq. DeSade 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/22/89 | "The Three Realms" with Ebony 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/22/89 | Full Moon Ritual 9:30 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/23/89 | Unfolding Hermetics 8PM, Horus Temp. | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/26/89 | Aries Birthday Party 4:18 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/26/89 | Gnostic Mass 9:30 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/27/89 | Eleusian rites cast meeting 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/28/89 | Enochiana "Furniture of the Temple" with Dave, 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/29/89 | "The Three Realms" with Ebony 8 PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
| 3/31/89 | Minerval initiation scheduled at midnight and Ist & IInds 4/1/89 | Thelema Ldg. |
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