amber_lux's Journal: Liber LXVL I: 64

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I have been doing the daily readings outlined in Thelemic Tephilah since the end of The Three Holy Days of Thelema. Basically, it is a verse or two a day, for most of the year. It only covers Liber Cordis, Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, and Liber Al vel Legis. During the Holy Season of Thelema roughly half the Class A texts are read.

This is the first time I have go through the Holy Books a verse at a time, one per day. And read it with no reference to surrounding verse. Each text stands on its own. It makes a big difference in what the verse seems to say.

Today, for example, the text is:

Intoxicate the inmost, O my lover, not the outermost!

Read in context of the other verses, it appears to refer to Pan, who partied the previous day, but did not get drunk. But in isolation, I get a complete different take on the verse.

The lover is one's Holy Guardian Angel. The inmost is one's spiritual development, whilst the outermost refers to one's mundane life. The idea is that one should be constantly at prayer like the Anonymous Pilgrim at prayer .

But a Thelemic one, not a Christian one.

Or maybe a Thelemic Hymn

Along with Liber Resh and LBR four times a day and the Gnostic Creed

Is doing them a verse at a time a bug, or a feature? The results are very mixed for me. Sometimes the specific verse seems to be applicable to me that very day, other times it is just a confusing welter of images. In the past, I've done a chapter at a time, and gotten a completely different feel for the text. Not as personally applicable, as a verse at a time, but also not as seemingly way off course, as a verse at a time can do.

And this makes me A Centre of Pestilence

Wind under Thy Wings

Amber