Liber Luscus vel 8Liber Luscus vel 8Work related to and inspired by the Aurum Solis and the Ogdoadic Tradition.
Frater F.P.
"Many dubious and troublesome things are still in store for me. What I used to love, I love no longer. But I lie: I love it still, but less passionately. Again have I lied: I love it, but more timidly, more sadly. Now at last I have told the truth; for thus it is: I love, but what I should love not to love, what I should wish to hate. Nevertheless I love it, but against my will, under compulsion and in sorrow and mourning. To my own misfortune I experience in myself now the meaning of that most famous line: "Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing." The third year has not yet elapsed since that perverted and malicious will, which had totally seized me and reigned in the court of my heart without an opponent, began to encounter a rebel offering resistance. A stubborn and still undecided battle has long been raging on the field of my thoughts for the supremacy of one of the two men within me."(1)
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"Magick is the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will." (2)
"Believe yourself a Whole, indivisible, indefeasible,
Reawakening ever under these, under those, conditions,
Expanding thus far, expanding less far, expanding farther;
Expanding this side, expanding that side, expanding all sides;
Ever diverse yet the same, the same yet diverse - inexhaustibly continuous with the rest;
And made for love - to embrace all, to be united ultimately with all." (3)
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"There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm and the Macrocosm".(4)
"But if anyone wants to know the names of the divine souls, he should be aware that the theology of Orpheus divides the souls of the spheres in such a way that each has a twin power, one concerned with knowing, the other in the sphere's body with giving life and ruling. So Orpheus calls the one power in the element of earth Pluto, the other Prerpina; in water, Oceanus and Thetis, in air, Jupiter Lord of the Lightning Bolt and Juno; in fire, Phanes and Aurora; in the soul of the sphere of the Moon, Bacchus Licnites and the Muse Thalia. Again, in the soul of the sphere of Mercury, the one power is Bacchus Silenus, the other Euterpe; in that of venus, [Bacchus] Lysius and Erato; in that of the Sun, [Bacchus] Trietericus [and] Melpomene; in that of Mars, [Bacchus] Bassareus and Clio; in that of Jupiter, [Bacchus] Sabasius and Terpsichore; in that of Saturn, [Bacchus] Amphietus and Polymnia; and in that of the eighth sphere, [Bacchus] Percionius and Urania." (5)
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There is an Ogdoadic Discussion List on Yahoo Groups, with an associated Ogdoadic Site at http://www.ogdoadicmagick.net.
Norm Kraft's site has useful links and he is the author of the most recent work on this tradition, "Ogdoadic Magick".
Al Billings site is at the Temenos which has links to philosophical texts. His home site is at http://www.memoria.com/
Desmontes Gnostic site has useful materials on Magick and Symbolism.
The Companions of the Glyph Site is based in the Ogdoadic tradition and also includes the excellent Michael Freedman Memorial Archive.
The Aurum Solis site has the latest news on that Order.
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(1) Petrarca: Ascent of Mount Ventoux, letter to Francesco Dionigi de'Roberti of Borgo San Sepolcro, April 26, 1336. [pp.42-43, Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. Cassirer, Kristeller & Randall, The University of Chicago Press. 1948. ISBN 0-226-09604-1]
(2) Crowley, A. Introduction to Book Four: Magick in Theory and Practice. [pg. 131. Magick. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1973. ISBN 0 7100 74239]
(3) Carpenter, E. Believe Yourself a Whole. [Towards Democracy (1881-2). George Allen & Co. Ltd. 1913]
(4) Crowley, A. The Principles of Ritual. [pg. 151. Ibid]
(5) Ficino, M. Platonic Theology. [Pgs. 293-295.Trans. Allen, Ed. Hankins. Harvard Press. 2001. ISBN 0-674-00345-4]