As the Book of Anubis, Liber 369 was the Journey of Itself, So is this the chapter called THE JOURNEY OF OUR-SELF
What, then is the nature of this belief we call "ourself" or "I"?
In our earliest simplicity are we not one with Itself?
And, as Itself became; taking form, believing, gathering experience, as expressions of self-procreating self-love, these beliefs are as living things, filled with self-desire. And they partake of partial nature of It-Self.
And as Belief loves and reacts upon belief do they not modify, synthesize and combine? As the center of each belief (the desire of It-Self) unites, fuses and crystallizes with each other.
Yea, the procession is from simplicity to complexity of belief. And these larger beliefs still retain the element of their past and less complex beliefs though they are usually forgotten, sleeping, unconscious, dead, lending their vitality to their new center while retaining their own in memory (the unconscious essence is memory).
Memory is stored experience, i.e., information contained in encoded energy, not immediately impinging on sensation.
And what of these new beliefs? After a time are not these new beliefs - ourselves? - And what has been gained in complexity? Information and degrees of freedom in believing and be-living, and of expression.
And lo, this freedom has grown so great in its capacity and the possibilities of belief to express desire and will, so great that identity falters, truly desiring a return to unity, which is found through center; bewildered by the freedom and complexity of belief, verily identity becomes associated with belief rather than with center.
Lo, this is the archetype of error, lament bitter tears for this great loss, this fall. For once self identifies with its projected environment of belief rather than its core, woe unto us for we are trapped and conditioned by belief. Yea, what once served to fulfill desire becomes a citadel for security, becomes a prison and we are subject to conditions and Law. No longer free to believe but subject to belief, here arises the suffering that violates self.
For before this -time-, though belief reacted on belief, only belief (form) suffered and self remained inviolate and smiled, seeing all As Self-Love. And here is the desert of desolation that is the isolation of self from Self.
For here is the essence of error, that center of belief is no longer the center of desire and the two suffer conflict. Yea, these false centers are fragile and seek security, and they have sealed themselves up in fortresses of belief they call reality to conceal their weakness.
In a time beyond NOW, this error is understood and our Self has returned to center, that love may flow on and on Unto Self, that It-Self may fulfill the Holy desire again. But for now, we must escape from our prison, as Prometheus We must reclaim (not steal) the FIRE from Heaven---for it is ours.
Chapter II: THE FREEING OF ENERGY FROM BELIEF
There are two main varieties of beliefs. These are Vital Beliefs and thought. Vital beliefs do not require thought to experience immediately. Vital Beliefs are the self-evident information obtained from encoded energy patterns stored in the Soul (memory) of itself. Vital beliefs may be either living or dead (sleeping). An example of a living vital belief is our body, or a tree, immediately experienced. An example of a dead or sleeping vital belief could be the great archetypes (Gods) of the unconscious, or our bodies when we sleep. A vital belief is awakened or resurrected by desire informing its belief (energy reaching information structure).
Yea, vital beliefs are what is called objective reality, and our reality is determined by the beliefs that are informed by our desire.
Vital beliefs can be felt sensationally and/or objectively. Thoughts are the reflections of inherent energy between components in the internal structure of a belief. Therefore are thoughts prisoner if we are not free to believe. Therefore is thought ever servile to belief and our conception of reality.
Caught up in infinite reflection, thought is incapable of apprehending Self. It is bound and gagged by the beliefs, which contain it.
Until we are free to believe we will not be free to think. Therefore it is said, "Inspiration is always at a void moment", at a time when a belief has been exhausted and the desire which informed it is free to create anew.
Thought is called subjective, rarely felt. A vital belief such as a tree will impinge upon the senses of all that are brought within its sphere of belief, but what is thought about the tree will depend on which aspects of information about the tree are reflected onto our belief. Also, a thought cannot directly impinge on a vital belief, though a belief may react with a belief.
We desire to regain the freedom of It-self and reclaim the fire from heaven. Verily we must free our energy from beliefs that serve not our desire; those that spell bondage and that are outgrown.
Yea, we must free our "I" from belief by emptying belief of desire, that Self may be free to believe what it desires.
As thoughts reflect the internal structure of a belief, when thoughts cease--the structure of a belief begins to lose energy. For through thoughts we maintain the structure of beliefs (including ourselves), For thoughts are energy reflecting through its components.
In a sense, then, thoughts are desires in imprisoned form. But no, this (the Death Posture) is not enough, only temporary, for habit will direct desire in old patterns, or emotion will replace thought as its desire. Even should you succeed, you will only succeed in making this belief objective, ready to haunt you.
Verily it is not by mere not- thinking that we can empty belief. We can only suspend its activity until we think again. Verily then let us not do battle with belief, for in resisting, we reinforce its Energy.
Yea...What is the way of It-Self? Is it not the Ever-Be-Coming One? Yes, let us create new beliefs in accordance with desire as a center, the Original purpose of self-love as pleasure and ecstasy. For new beliefs will absorb the old as living reality! The desire that had informed the old belief utilized afresh and unavailable for resurrection.
How, then, do we create new forms, belief, environment? Verily, not by mere thinking. For we shall only oppose our existing self, bringing madness, illness, and sorrow in magnified form. Beliefs may be exhausted by living them, but this is a slow formula to conceive in time. The results may come at our deaths or even later.
Merely to think in terms of new beliefs is also slow and difficult. We must wait until we have exhausted our desired new belief by continuously thinking in terms of its structure. We must simultaneously cease to think in terms of the old beliefs as far as possible.
This formula is only partially effective, requiring mental control beyond most measures and sometimes becomes obsessive and yielding only subjective results, until we die, at which time it may become vital. Still, for some it works.
Most times the effect of exhaustion of belief come through balance with its opposite (former) belief, with the new thought patterns symbolizing the new (wished for) belief. When this happens the desire in each belief is freed during the beliefs mutual annihilation and we arrive at the in-between spaces, becoming primal and atmospheric self.
Though this is enlightenment and the supreme attainment, we have not created our originally wished for new belief, but we have escaped from its necessity.
Yea, this is the Holy of Holys, the neither-neither, the supernal abode, non-conceptualism and non-necessitation.
Yea, at the center is desire and it will take form as expression, in duality, in self-love and create new beliefs, for it is the Ever-Becoming One.
Yes, the formula of the Ever-Becoming One is one of transcending of belief by beliefs in ecstasy, ever afresh.
Yes, it is the way of the magician, as the former was the way of the mystic, for its formula transcends and frees itself from bondage to belief by creating ever new, ever fresh beliefs to transcend and absorb the old, using desire as center. And yes, the two formulas are as two ends of a single word and are dual aspects of the single purpose of It-Self-Love.
Here then is the formula of the creation of new and vital belief. I call it -The formula of the Serpent and the Eagle-.
(The formula of the serpent and the eagle (which is the formula for the making and using of Magickal Sigils) is an (currently) unpublished chapter. It forms part of the Secret Arcanum of the Servants of the Secret Fire (S.S.F.) ----- -Live thusly!- -The Pathway of Now; and the Lightning Flash Thunderbird. These are Medicines of Light.-)