Sunday, November 4, 2012

connecting the dots in regards to the aspects of the 3-faced Angel


"When the Fire of the Ancient One enters into the Bodies of Man and
Woman, they shall beget a child that is not born solely of the Clay,
but of the Fire Eternal. The Child that is born of Fire may gather unto
himself the substance of his own creation, for thus may he fashion
himself according to a Will Unique and Free. Those who are not born
of the Flame must to the Flame be cast.
The understanding of this is a most subtle matter and one which
must necessarily be veiled in terms of myth.
The Daemon, as Shaitan, is literally 'the Adversary' - the Reverse
One. He is the Image of the First God, manifest in double-form, as
both the Black Man standing at the Crossroads of all Existence and
as Melek Ta'us - the Peacock Angel, Sovereign of the World's Djinn.
As the 'Black Man' he is the anthropomorphic 'Body' of
Darkness, the Lord of the Sabbat, the Overseer of the Primal Rite
of Magick. In this form he embodies Death as the Gateway to the
Other. In assuming the god-form of Al-Aswad - the Man-in-Black
- the Adept places himself upon the interstitial 'Point' of the crossroads
and thus within 'Death': the singular inbetweenness 'twixt
every Stasis of Being. He thus becomes the embodiment of the
Gate at the centre of the cross-roads, the Portal where-by Power
has ingress to the World of Manifestation and through which the
Seeker must pass in order to transcend the 'Form' of the Manifest.
The Daemon figured as the Peacock-Angel is 'Death' as
metamorphic process: the Force of change acting upon the Matrix
of the Existent. This process is veiled in the language of alchemy
as the transmutation of the base substance, the Leaden Matter or
"clay", to the Aureate Elixir of the Quintessence; a metamorphosis
which is facilitated through the action of the Divine Fire upon the
Vessel containing the Matter desirous of change. This symbolism is
concurrent throughout the Poem; the base substance of Man -
"the seven handfuls of the earth" - passes through the seven stages
or "steps" of change which are symbolised by the "peacockfeathers"
and "rainbow hues" of Melek Ta'us. The apotheosis of
Matter and the reciprocal reification of the Divine Flame is
attained to through this process, and is referred to symbolically as
the "Gold" of the "One Image". The Peacock-Angel is the glyph
of 'process' and embodies the mediatory function of the Daemon
in facilitating the link between the polarities of the Path. In myth,
the Peacock-Angel is said to be the Master of Djinn, the Lord of
all Spirits; this in turn symbolises the mastery of the Adept over the
myriad faculties of his own nature: the submission of All to the
Path of Will. Shaitan is therefore both the Establisher of the Path
and the Mediator between its twain extremities: the Aspirant and
the Aspired. It is thus, in certain circles of initiates, that He who
assumes the mask of 'Devil' is both the Guide towards, and the
Living Symbol of, the Gate through which the Aspirant is led.
The Daemon figured in the feminine is Lilith, the Earthly Bride
of the Man-in-Black, and it is in this guise that the Daemon
assumes the prototypical and tripartite forms of the Creatrix. She
is Lilith, the carnal reposoir of the Ancient One's Fire; she is Ruha,
the Spiritual Blood-mother of Initiates; she is Az, the Primal
Concupiscence from whence emanates the force informing the
Icon of the Great Whore. In her is the Well of Life Itself, where-in
is spent the very wealth of pleasure. In her the Forge of Stars,
where-from the 'Blackened One' must obtain through the
'smelting of all metals' the Aureate Jewel: the golden token which
the Seeker must render to the Keeper of the Gate.
As Lilith, the Daemon is the triple-faced Queen of the Sabbat.
She is the Aged Voluptuary, robed in the last light of the waning
moon, by whose scarlet blood - the rubeate tincture shed in the
night of her power - she may transform herself into a multitude of
forms and phantasms. She is then the Enchantress who begets in
darkness the words of light. She pronounces the spell of
temptation over the passion-roused heart of Man, casting the
glamour of illusion to ensnare the unsuspecting and to test the
ever-watchful. For those whom she loves, she inspires. To these,
her adorants, she is "Wisdom" the Virgin-bride of the Soul.
It is She, the Muse, who with the innocence of the dove offers
the envenom'd cup to the parched lips of her earthly lover. Within
that cup is his own life-blood; to her his life is sacrificed. Hers is
the Cup of Life Immortal, the Graal, where-in beats the Heart of
the Mystery with the life-blood of all her true-born kin. To drink
from her cup is to sup from the Well of Everlasting Youth, to sate
the thirst of the grave with the ichor of the gods..."

Qutab
Andrew Chumbley
Pgs 43-45

Daughter of Fortitude-different version


The Enochian system’s discoverers, John Dee and Edward Kelly, came across the
following vision while working with the Seventh Aire or Aethyr (DEO):

“I am the daughter of Fortitude, and ravished every hour from my youth.
For behold I am Understanding and science dwelleth in me; and the heavens
oppress me. They cover and desire me with infinite appetite; for none that
are earthly have embraced me, for I am shadowed with the Circle of the Stars
and covered with the morning clouds. My feet are swifter than the winds,
and my hands are sweeter than the morning dew. My garments are from the
beginning, and my dwelling place is in myself. The Lion knoweth not where I
walk, neither do the beast of the fields understand me. I am deflowered, yet a
virgin; I sanctify and am not sanctified. Happy is he that embraceth me: forin the night season I am sweet, and in the day full of pleasure. My company
is a harmony of many symbols and my lips sweeter than health itself. I am a
harlot for such as ravish me, and a virgin with such as know me not. For lo, I
am loved of many, and I am a lover to many; and as many as come unto me
as they should do, have entertainment. 

“Purge your streets, O ye sons of men, and wash your houses clean; make
yourselves holy, and put on righteousness. Cast out your old strumpets, and
burn their clothes; abstain from the company of other women that are
defiled, that are sluttish, and not so handsome and beautiful as I, and then
will I come and dwell amongst you: and behold, I will bring forth children
unto you, and they shall be the Sons of Comfort. I will open my garments,
and stand naked before you, that your love may be more enflamed toward
me. As yet, I walk in the clouds; as yet, I am carried with the winds, and
cannot descend unto you for the multitude of your abominations, and the
filthy loathsomeness of your dwelling places.” 

This message was received by Kelley from an entity whom appeared clothed in: “…
attire (…) like beaten gold; she hath on her forehead a cross crystal, her neck and breast are bare unto under her dugs: she hath a girdle of beaten gold slackly buckled unto her with a pendant of gold down to the
ground...”

The 'Circle of the Stars' as shown to Edward Kelly

"...As for Kelly, he was scrying in the seventh Aethyr...when a message came to him that terrified him completely. In fact, he is said to have sworn to scry no more from that fateful day...The message that so frightened Kelly and brought an end to (the workings of) Enochian Magic (with Dee) was the following:

"I am the daughter of Fortitude and ravished every hour from my youth. For behold, I am Understanding, and science dwelleth in me: and the heavens oppress me. They cover and desire me with infinite appetite; for none the are earthly have embraced me, for I am shadowed with the Circle of the Stars, and covered with the morning clouds. My feet are swifter than the winds, and my hands are sweeter than the morning dew. My garments are from the beginning, and my dwelling place is in myself. The Lion knoweth no where I walk, neither do the beasts of the field understand me. I am deflowered, yet a virgin; I sanctify and am not sanctified. Happy is he that embraceth me: for in the night season I am sweet, and in the day full of pleasure. My company is a harmony of many symbols, and my lips sweeter than health itself. I am a harlot for such as ravish me, and a virgin with such as know me not. Purge your streets, O ye sons of men, and wash your house clean; make yourselves holy, and put on righteousness. Cast out your old strumpets, and burn your clothes and then I will bring forth children unto you and they shall be the Sons of Comfort in the Age that is to come."

Enochian Magic:A Practical Manual
Gerald J. Schueler
pgs 3-4

Enochian workings with Azrael

ok...was re-reading Leo Vinci's Enochian Dictionary: Gmicalzoma-after coming across a passage in Madeline Montalban's Prediction book of the Tarot...

which states:

(In discussing the Lover Tarot Card)
"There is also a deeper, arcane meaning behind this card. It is symbolized by the three human figures which, in this context, signify what are known as the Children of the Voice. The voice is that of the universal creator and the children represent echoes of that voice. In this sense, the trinity depicted on this trump refers not to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost of Christianity but to a far older trinity of the ancient mysteries-Madriax, Peripsol, and Gmicalzoma..."
pg 84

Now, this started me on a search, who/what is the 'Children of the Voice'-what is the significance of these three Enochian entities-if in fact that is what is being alluded to here...which seems to be the case, by comparing these three to the "Father, Son and the Holy Ghost"...

could this be a link to the 3-faced Angel?

so...in my further research-I came across in Vincis fascinating and extremely well articulated introduction-the fact that before Kelly working as medium and skryer, that Dr. John Dee utilized a gentleman by the name of Barnabus Saul...while working with Saul, Dee reports in his diary of the activity surrounding their work...

",,,in 1581, August 3rd, -All the night, very strange knocking and rapping in my chamger, August 4th,-and this night likewise,' Them on the 9th of October 1581, 'Barnabus Saul lying in the...hall, was strangely trubled by a spitiual creature about mydnight.' 

'On the 2nd of December (1581) Dee writes, 'I willed the skryer named Saukm to looke into my great crystalline globe, if God has sent his holy angel Azrael or no!' To add information, Azrael is the Angel of Death who at 'the death of a man, erases his name from a large book in which he is forever writing and erasing.' It was this angel who supplied the 'seven handfuls of earth for God at the creation of Adam' the other three angels involved by God were the Archangel Michael, the Archangel Gabriel, and the Angel Israfel-the 'burning one' and the Angel of Resurrection, all three having failed in the task. 

God sent these four angels to the four corners of the earth to seek the required 'seven handfuls' of dust and because Azrael was successful with the task, God appointed this angel the task of separating the body (=earth) from the soul (=spirit) at the time of death."
pgs 42-43

Now to me-this was fascinating, and made the hairs on my arm stand up-and it was during my own Enochian workings that Azrael was the first angel to appear to me-in regards to the workings of the Star Circle...or the Astrum Orbis workings.