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[sanguine105]

so I read Jules' latest blog post on MySpace. She quotes this:

"Tis' mixed with his life's blood and eaten. 'Tis the use of the lower life to feed the higher life."

I googled the quote and came up with this website.

http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Mass_of_the_Phoenix



Explication

From The Book of Lies:"

[44] is the special number of Horus; it is the Hebrew blood, and the multiplication of the 4 by the 11, the number of Magick, explains 4 in its finest sense. But see in particular the accounts in Equinox I, vii of the circumstances of the Equinox of the Gods.

The word "Phoenix" may be taken as including the idea of "Pelican", the bird, which is fabled to feeds its young from the blood of its own breast. Yet the two ideas, though cognate, are not identical, and "Phoenix" is the more accurate symbol.

This chapter is explained in Chapter 62.

Chapter 62 from The Book of Lies:

TWIG?

The Phoenix hath a Bell for Sound; Fire for Sight; a
Knife for Touch; two cakes, one for taste, the other
for smell.
He standeth before the Altar of the Universe at
Sunset, when Earth-life fades.
He summons the Universe, and crowns it with
MAGICK Light to replace the sun of natural light.
He prays unto, and give homage to, Ra-Hoor-Khuit;
to Him he then sacrifices.
The first cake, burnt, illustrates the profit drawn
from the scheme of incarnation.
The second, mixt with his life's blood and eaten,
illustrates the use of the lower life to feed the
higher life.
He then takes the Oath and becomes free—un
conditioned—the Absolute.
Burning up the Flame of his Prayer, and born
again—the Phoenix!

Crowley's comment:

Twig? = dost thou understand? Also the Phoenix takes twigs to kindle the fire in which it burns itself.

In Magick, Book 4,, Crowley comments that The Mass of the Phoenix "should be performed daily at sunset by every magician."



It may be of some use to you.

[longlostposter]

Crowley was insane (Sorry if I hurt any one's feelings, just my opinion).

Please, no Jules. Jules is too young.
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[sanguine105]

that site mentions something about a ritual. I really think it's worth reading into.

I can't make much sense of it, but maybe some of it would be familiar to Bree.

[consideration]

Too bad Bree is never going to read this.
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