Thelemic Upanishads - pt.2: Various books

The Hindu Upanishads represent the true esoteric knowledge of the Self being one with Brahman, the un-differentiated boundless substance of Being, Consciousness, and Bliss (sat-chit-ananda). Their wisdom is timeless although the names and forms which they refer to are continually uprooted, interchanged, and transformed. They have been re-translated (based on Easwaran) to be pertinent to the New Aeon of the Crowned & Conquering Child, Horus.
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The Tejobindu Upanishad
The Book of the Drop of Divine Splendour

"How the dew of the Universe whitens the lips!" - Liber VII I:47


Let us meditate on the shining True Self: changeless, underlying the world of change, and realized in the heart in Knowledge & Conversation.

This supreme goal is hard to reach, hard to describe, and hard to abide in. They alone attain Knowledge & Conversation who have mastered their senses, and are free from emotional fluctuations, free from likes and dislikes, without selfish bonds to people, things, and ego.

"Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!"
- Liber AL I:22-23

They alone attain Knowledge & Conversation who are prepared to face challenge after challenge in the three stages of meditation*. With persistence & concentration they become united with Heru, the Lord of Love. Called Ra-Hoor-Khuit, who is present everywhere, the three dimensions of space emanate from Him, although He is infinite and invisible. Though all the galaxies emerge from Him, He is without form and unconditioned.

To be united with Horus, the Lord of Love, is to be freed from all conditioning. This is the state of Self-realization, far beyond the reach of words and thoughts. To be united with Horus, one's Angel and Inmost Self - imperishable, changeless, beyond cause and effect - is to find infinite joy. Ra-Hoor-Khuit is beyond all duality, beyond the reach of 'thinker' and of 'thought.'

"The word of Sin is Restriction."
- Liber AL I:41

Let us meditate on our True Shining Self, the ultimate reality, who is realized by the Hermits of Hadit in Knowledge & Conversation.

One's True Self cannot be realized by those who are subject to greed, fear, regret, pity and anger. The Lord of Silence cannot be realized by those who are subject to pride of name and fame or to the vanity of scholarship. It cannot be realized by those who are enmeshed in life's duality.

But to all those who pierce this duality, whose hearts are given to the Lord of Force & Fire, He gives Himself through His infinite wrath; He gives Himself through His infinite grace.

ABRAHADABRA


* The three stages of meditation are the three degrees of concentration that one maintains on the object of concentration. In the first stage one loses identification with the body, in the second stage one loses identification with the mind, and the third stage is Knowledge & Conversation/samadhi. "...the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body." - Liber AL I:26


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The Atma Upanishad
The Book of the Supreme Self

"In the name of the Lord of Initiation, Amen." - Liber Tzaddi, line 0


Ra-Hoor-Khuit manifests in three ways: the outer [body], the inner [mind], and the Supreme Self.

Skin, flesh, vertebral column, hair, fingers, toes, nails, ankles, stomach, navel, hips, thighs, cheeks, eyebrows, forehead, head, eyes, ears, arms, sides, blood vessels, nerves: these make up the outer self, the body, subject to birth and death.

The inner self perceives the outside world, made up of the various elements. The inner self is the victim of likes and dislikes, pleasure and pain, delusion, sorrow, regret and doubt. It knows all the subtleties of language, enjoys dance, music, and al the fine arts; delights in the senses, recalls the past, reads the scriptures, and is able to act. This is the mind, the inner person.

"Hear me, ye people of sighing! / The sorrows of pain and regret / Are left to the dead and the dying, / The folk that not know me as yet... These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk."
- Liber AL II:17-18

The Supreme Self, adored in various Holy Texts, can be realized through the path of Union in Magick and Yoga. Subtler than the smallest seed, subtler than the smallest grain, even subtler than the hundred-thousandth part of a hair, this Supreme Self cannot be mentally grasped, cannot be physically seen.

The Supreme Self is neither born nor dies. He cannot be burned, moved, pierced, cut nor dried. Beyond all attributes, the supreme Self is the eternal witness, ever pure, indivisible, and uncompounded, far beyond the senses and the ego. In him conflicts and expectations cease. he is omnipresnet, beyond all thought, without action in the external world, without action in the internal world. Detached from the outer and the inner, this Supreme Self purifies the impure.

ABRAHADABRA

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The Isha Upanishad
The Book of the Inner Ruler


All this is full. All that is full.
From fullness, fullness comes.
When fullness is taken from fullness,
Fullness still remains.


"The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!"
- Liber AL I:45


The Lord of Silence & Strength is enshrined in the hearts of all and pervades the whole universe. Heru-Ra-Ha is the supreme reality. Rejoice in Him by renouncing separateness. Bind nothing! All belongs to the Lord of Infinite Space. Thus working with a pure will, you will live in an eternity; thus Alone, one with your true Child-Self, you will work in real freedom.

The Supreme Self is one. Ever still, this true Self is swifter than thought, swifter than the senses. Though motionless, He outruns all pursuit. Without this Self, no life could exist. This Crowned & Conquering Self seems to move, but is ever still; It seems far away, but is ever near. He is within all, and He transcends all.

Those who see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures know no fear or pity. Those who see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures know no sorrow or grief. How can the multiplicity of life delude the one who sees its unity?

"Come thou, O beloved One, O Lord God of the Universe, O Vast One, O Minute One! I am Thy beloved. All day I sing of Thy delight; all night I delight in Thy song. There is no other day or night than this. Thou art beyond the day and the night; I am Thyself, O my Maker, my Master, my Mate!"
- Liber LXV III:33-36

Horus, the Supreme Self, is everywhere. Bright is this Self: indivisible, untouched by 'sin,' wise, both immanent and transcendent. It is He who holds the Cosmos together.

The face of truth is hidden by your orb of gold, O Sun! May you remove your orb so that I, who adore the true, may see the glory of truth. O Nourishing Sun - solitary traveler, controller, source of life for all creatures - spread your light and subdue your dazzling splendor so that I may see your blessed Self. Even that very Self am I!

May my life merge in the Immortal when my body is reduced to ashes. O mind, meditate on the eternal Hawk-Headed Lord. O God of Fire & Strife, lead us by the path of our True Wills to eternal joy. Deliver us from good & from evil, we who Bind Nothing and drain our blood into the Cup of Babalon.

"Take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me. If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit! ...But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me!"
- Liber AL I:51-53


ABRAHADABRA