Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God by Kenneth Grant

Author:Kenneth Grant [Grant, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781871438369
Goodreads: 440370
Published: 2007-12-25T09:47:34+00:00

16 See The Magical Revival, Chapter 3.

17 See 777 Revised, P. xxv.

18 This is a basic tenet of Advaita Vedanta.

19 In the present context this term signifies sexual congress in which the female assumes the dominant position.

20 A corpse.

the flower-strewn yoni of the Goddess which emanates the forms of creation.

Crowley maintains in his Magical Record that all magick is an act a’ rebours,21 i.e. against the natural state of consciousness which is thought-free, pure, bereft of mentation. The Buddhists call this thought-free state Mahasunya (Great Void); it is the sole reality wherein Maya22–the great goddess-plays her eternal and fantastic game of make-believe, fantastic because it is wholly deceptive, a glamour. According to the Niruttara Tantra “the Mantra of Kali does not become active without Kulacara”. This means that the formula of the Kaula Circle, as practised in the Vama Marg, alone energizes the Fire Snake in the woman chosen to represent the Goddess. On the other hand, the Phetkarinitantra declares that if the devotee is without a shakti (woman), the vibration of the mantra of Kali,” with mind free from all restlessness”,23 equally activates the Kundalini. This implies that the power is in the mind, not in its physical adjuncts (the senses), which are mere projections of the mind.24 This highlights the distinction between the mystical and the magical paths.

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