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- DE MATRIMONIUM ET RECONCILIATIO INTER INGENIUM ET MOTUS
- ET FRUCTUS CONIUNCTIO SUUM
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- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
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- Balance has lately become the object worthy of much controversy
- within the Oasis recently. Hod and Netzach, Intellect and
- Emotion: in particular. And much good advice was given as to
- how to co-exist with people of one or the other preference. It
- is an important issue for many good reasons. One of which that
- Hod could be seen as Law and Netzach as Love.
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- I have been distressed by statements like: "practical Magick is,
- by nature, a Hod activity". I disagree in this wholeheartedly.
- Crowley's interpretation of Magick is as follows: "The Science
- and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will".
- Science being attributed to Hod and Art to Netzach. Meditation
- on the Art Tarot card will reveal this and many other mysteries.
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- While Magick has alot to offer to those who are adept in
- Mathematics, Geometry, Qabalah, Astrology, etc., it has just as
- much to offer to those who move instinctively and are sensitive
- to the energies and images around them, those adept at Tarot,
- Iching, and other methods of divination. They rely not so much on
- the Hod activity we call "Intellectual Knowledge", but trust on
- the inner voice of the Beloved to guide them through life.
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- While things like Musick sound great when played properly it must
- be remembered that Musick is a Netzach function, those who allow
- the musick to move them through their emotions are much better
- musicians than those who have attempted to turn it into a
- mathematical procedure. Sometimes a "mistake" sounds better than
- the way in which the piece was written. The best known musicians
- are those who dared to defy the laws of musick and create
- something totally new. If nobody dared to deviate from the norm
- from fear of breaking tradition I am afraid that music would be
- rather boring.
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- Balance is the basis of the Work. Those of us who are
- intellectual by nature, should aspire to use this Hod function to
- stimulate the emotional aspects of Netzach. Failing to do so
- would make us cold, calculated and calloused, incapable of
- feeling the subtle energies stimulated by our Magick. Nothing
- more than a thinking machine, unable to hear The Voice within
- because we feel it is beyond logic. We would be lost in Its
- simplicity.
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- On the other hand, those of us who are of an emotional nature
- should use this Netzach purpose and employ it to stir the
- discriminating genius within us all. Should we fail to
- accomplish this task we would become nothing more than foolish
- idiots, gullible to the point of abuse and superstitious to the
- level schizophrenia. We would not recognize The Voice of The
- Beloved or the intricacy of His language, thereby falling prey to
- the Demons of deceit.
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- Per chance what is needed is for those who are
- Intellectually inclined to lend a helping hand and help those
- who are having a difficult time expressing the Hod aspects
- of Magick. Maybe making the time to help a fellow Brother or
- Sister would be a positive step in opening the heart?
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- And perhaps those who are Emotionally responsive should take the
- time to touch those who are having difficulty displaying their
- emotions. Just reach out and hold them an extra few seconds the
- next time you give them the famous Thelemic bear-hug we greet
- each other with. Acknowledge that it is more than a habit we
- have gotten into.
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- It is far more important to have Hod/Netzach balanced people in a
- group, than to have a group balance by people who are either Hod
- or Netzach. Thelema is primarily concerned with the growth of
- the individual. Any group that is genuinely connected to the
- Universal Order is a vessel capable of distributing Knowledge and
- Wisdom to its members; if the emphasis is removed form the
- individual and focused on the group, forgetting that it exists
- solely for the service of the aspirant, it will soon become an
- empty vessel.
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- Love is the law, love under will.
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- Gerald del Campo
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