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SEND: Submissions, Inquiries & Suggestions to: vajra@u.washington.edu
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1:edit by coyote 131 2:COYOTE & CHAO-CHOU 3:a TOPI Koan by coyote 131
4:more hellish proverbs by Blake 5:ZOS KIA [third of three]
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1: Greetings...first E would like to thank c129 for putting on-line the
Spare...& thanks also to ernst for thee hellish proverbs...coyote 25 and E
attended a video presentation of a workshop directed by Antero Alli,
author of ALL RITES REVERSED...a brilliant man...he has been experimenting
in what he calls No-Form rituals [modern intuitive magick] for over 15
years...that is his word for voidness...sunyata in samskrita and mu in
japanese...the foundation of all experience which we always are
participating in if we would only wake up...thee video all ready was
shown in SF...D, J & E saw a flyer for it there...last month...but if it
plays near you SEE IT!...c25 & E plan on attending his workshop this
weekend...E Will let you know about it next month...
PURE THOUGHT,
PURE ACTION,
PURE L-0V-E...
coyote 131
Charles Manson's lawyer asks Linda Kasabian
about her acid experiences...
LAWYER: How many times have you taken acid?
Linda: about 50...
Lawyer: Do you remember what happened on trip #23?
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2:COYOTE & CHAO-CHOU
Coyote showed a student the following koan:
Chao-Chou was strolling in the garden with his attendant. A rabbit ran
across their path. The attendant asked, "Your Reverence has great
goodness and wisdom--why should the rabbit run away from you?"
Chao-Chou said, "Because I like to kill."
Coyote asked, "What was Chao-Chou's meaning?"
The student said, "The attendant foolishly attributed a quality of
awareness to the rabbit, so Chao-Chou showed him his mistake by speaking
of a quality he himself did not have."
Coyote pointed his finger at the student and said,
"BANG!"
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3: a TOPI Koan
a butterfly futters
in a spring breeze
desends upon a flower.
where is the caterpillar?
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4:In case you're innarested at all, here are some more Proverbs of Hell from
Blake's _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
A dead body revenges not injuries.
Prisons are built with the stones of Law, Brothels with bricks
of Religion.
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy
sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too
great for the eye of man.
The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty,
the hands & feet Proportion.
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Exuberance is Beauty.
Enough! or Too much.
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5:AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE AND THE ZOS KIA CULTUS (contd)
After the Oath which constitutes the fifth stage of evocation, the refrain
changes from "We evoke Thee!" to a demand to the hidden Watcher to 'Give us
the flesh!" The petition is for the material medium whereby the desire will
actually substantiate itself.
>From certain historical accounts of Witchcraft we learn that the roasted
flesh or children and animals was sometimes sacrificed to the infernal
powers as a sacrifice potent to achieve realization of the desires of the
celebrants at the Sabbath. The literal performance of this sacrifice was a
degeneration of the original magical act of transubstantiation effected by
the sorcerer when he "sacrificed" the child of his loins, i.e. when he
consumed or burnt up his sigillized wish in the fire of forgetfulness.
The next stage of the rite evokes the "quadriga sexualis" (the four
horseman or powers of sex) which adumbrates the various mystical attitudes
(forms of congress, postures) employed at the Sabbath. Although these are
numerous, there are four main kinds. Firstly, the gesture of constant
congress; secondly, the gesture of abstract creating (a masturbatory
gesture) involving the Hand, the Eye, and the Atmosphere; thirdly, the
gesture of simulation or astral reflection, symbolized by the Formula of
the Divine Ape; and fourthly, the gesture typical of the Witch Cult which
involves the sodomitical use of the female organism.
Comparisons with Crowley's Cult of Sexual Magick will spring to mind, but
Spare elaborates these four great gestures as follows:
In the first instance he interprets "constant congress" as the perpetual
interplay of the Will (symbolized by the Hand) and the Imagination
(symbolized by the Eye), for it is Will and Imagination that cause things
to appear. The Tibetan Yab-yum is the Oriental mode of representing this
constant interplay of the active and passive potencies. The gesture of
constant congress, therefore, resumes the prime function of the Sabbatic
Rite, which is "ex-creation", or evolving from our "innerness" through
living contact with "all otherness"- typified by the world without.
The second gesture- that of abstract creating- is performed by a special
kind of mantric vibration, and the Mouth is the symbol of the magical
implement which performs it. Reverberant evocation, prayer, adoration
through song, incantation or mantra, conveys the energy of desire by tonal
nuance to the necessary stratum of the subconsciousness. The technique of
making the utterance effective, of resounding the depths of cosmic memory
and making the "sacred alignments" is a major arcanum of the Zos Kia
Cultus. "What sounds the depths and conjoins Will and Belief? Some
inarticulate hieroglyph, or sigil, wrought from nascent Desire and rhythmed
by unbounded Ego."*(9)
*(9) From The Grimoire of Zos.
The second gesture therefore resumes the formulation of the Great Wish on
the astral plane, prior to its "excreation", projection, and subsequent
embodiment.
The third gesture of the "quadriga sexualis", the concept of simulation,
reveals the means of reifying the Great Wish. The archetype of all such
simulatory techniques is the state of total vacuity which Spare named the
Death Posture. By feint, the means of reification is concentrated through a
simulation of death or annihilation. This posture is explained in the next
chapter.
The fourth and final gesture, that of re-organization, re-arrangement, or
"abortive congress", implies a magical formula deriving from the ancient
Draconian Cults of Egypt. Either Moon Magic is implied, or the Formula of
Gomorrah, both of which appear in the Crowley Cult as aspects of the IX!
and XI!, O.T.O., respectively. The re-organization of magical power within
the human organism involves consolidation of the reified wish until it
exhausts itself through "non-necessity". Hence the gesture of the "quadriga
sexualis" impregnates the glamour already projected on the astral plane,
endowing it with the energy of the sorcerer himself so that it becomes a
living entity, capable of reverberant copulations through "increative"
congress.
Spare explains the Sabbath as "an inverse-reversion for self-seduction; an
undoing for a divertive conation. Sex is used as the technique and medium
of a magical act. It is not only erotic satisfaction; the sensualist is
made detached, controlled, until final sublimation. His whole training is
designed to render him submissive and obedient [to the Witch] until he can
control, transmute, and direct his magical energy wherever desired, by cold
and amoral passion."*(10)
*(10) From an unpublished manuscript entitled The Zoetic Grimoire of Zos.
Following upon the appeal to the "quadriga sexualis" are the words "Give us
unvarying desire!" Desire, without variation of any kind, undifferentiated
and undifferentiating, leads to the consummation of an unvarying bliss
which is free from all concept, and therefore habitually infinite. "Ecstasy
is our outspan, touching reality: a potent generative instant; its surplus
may be used abstractly [i.e. by mantric vibration; see the Second Gesture]
to incarnate another wish," and so on, endlessly. This is what is meant by
"reverberant evocation".
The seventh stage of the rite concerns "the conquest of fatigue" which is
essential to effective Sabbatic functioning; it is (or should be) sustained
somatic, cerebral and psycho-magical energy insuring intense ecstasy when
the Great Exhaustion makes possible the voidness necessary to the
projection of the sigil; the voidness that is the chalice containing the
Great Wish. This recalls Crowley's innumerable sex-magical operations for
"Sex-Force and Attraction".*(11)
*(11) See The Magical Record of the Beast 666, edited by John Symonds and
Kenneth Grant.
The penultimate petition, "Give us eternal resurgence", is a plea for the
constant return of the primaevally remembered rapture, until a continuum of
bliss is established wherein the Kia is seen, felt, and known to be the
backround of all possibility, the source of creation and the aim of all
pleasure. It is the doctrine of atavistic resurgence.
The Sabbatic prayer concludes with an invocation of "the most sacred
Word-graph of Heaven". The Word-graph of Heaven is a glyph of the Goddess,
and it conceals the true purpose of the Sabbath. It is a secret glyph of
Zos Kia Cultus; it invokes the Goddess, whereas the preceding stages of the
rite evoked Her. Invocation is a call to the Spirit to appear subjectively;
evocation is a calling forth of the Spirit to objective appearance. The
hidden Rehctaw is evoked to visible manifestation "by the power of meanings
arising from these forms I make".
According to Spare, the witch presiding at the Sabbatic rite is "usually
old, grotesque, worldly, and libidinously learned; and is as sexually
attractive as a corpse. Yet she becomes the supreme vehicle of
consummation. This is necessary for the tranmutation of the sorcerer's
personal aesthetic culture, which is thereby destroyed. Perversion is used
to overcome moral prejudice or conformity. By persistence, the mind and
desire become amoral, focused, and entirely acceptive, and the life-force
of the Id (the Great Desire) is free of inhibitions prior to final
control.
"Thus, ultimately, the Sabbath becomes a deliberate sex orgy for the
purpose of exteriorization, thus giving reality to the autistic thought by
transference. Sex is for full use, and he who injures none, himself does
not injure."
Spare believed that the personal aesthetic culture (that is, the
individual's idea of what constitutes beauty and ugliness) when exalted as
the criterion of value in itself, has destroyed more affective affinity
that any other "belief". "But he who transmutes the traditionally ugly into
another aesthetic value has new pleasures beyond fear."
In Liber Aleph, Crowley enunciated a similar thesis. The magical ecstasy
liberated by union with grotesque or hideous images usually associated with
aversion, repulsion, or horror, is super-abundant compared with that
released by the union of (usually accepted) opposites. One is reminded of
Salvador Dali's observation that the wished-for treasure islands may lie
precisely in those images of horror and dread that are naturally repellent
to the conscious mind. Such a transformation of values, a rebours, improves
health and leads to self-control, tolerance, understanding and compassion.
Not only an adjunct to the rite, it accelerates the fulfilment of the Great
Desire.
"Nothing is attained merely by 'wanting'; epistemology, even eschatology
will not help, not Gods; but- spake Zos- the 'as if' simulations have been
prolific as objective realities. Sublimation of all 'reason' to the 'blind'
life-force is the whole of wisdom."*(12)
*(12) From The Grimoire of Zos
Spare's drawings were always inspired by the New Aesthetic, the New
Sexuality. They amount almost to masturbation in line; the line coils and
curls upon itself and mounts the steep incline of ecstasy as the amazing
sigils are woven into a complex web of dream. To follow closely the line of
some of his Sabbatic drawings is to leave earth and dive obliquely between
those spaces that Lovecraft celebrated in his nightmare tales. Such
drawings are themselves the gateway to the Sabbath; one is drawn into a
vortex and whirled down the funnel of consciousness which explodes into
unknown worlds. Spare would not reveal the magical graphs that unsealed the
cells of these eldritch dimensions.
Of the Sabbath itself he said that it was always secret, communal and
periodic; a concentrated consummation for unlimited wish-fulfilment:
"The hyper-eroticism induced by this grand scale hysteria or saturnalia has
no essentially sado-masochistic basis; simulation can and often does
replace it. Before the ceremony, each participant plays his or her allotted
part which usually develops into chaotic promiscuity. The initiates are
trained in their parts individually; they play a passive role, while the
witches take the active part; thus the symbolic levitation by besom
handle."
"There is a secret meeting-place and an elaborate ceremony which is an
extensive hypnotic to overwhelm all psychological resistances; thus, the
sense of smell, hearing and sight are seduced by incense, mantric
incantation and ritual, while taste and touch are made more sensitive by
the stimuli of wine and oral sexual acts. After total sexual satiation by
every conceivable means, an affectivity becomes, an exteriorized
hallucination of the predetermined wish which is magical in its reality. No
one can say whether certain things happen or not; each individual may have
very different and equally vivid experiences; but some form of levitation
seems common to all. My own experience of many Sabbaths is that there is
consummate exteriorization [of latent potencies] and that subsequent
memories are of reality."
"All excessively sadistic acts are mainly symbolized by the witches, and
what simulation there is follows closely the patterns of all erotic love
rites. The whole ceremony is based mainly on an inversion of orthodox
religious services."
In another writing (also unpublished), Spare declared that "Sorcery is a
deliberate act of causing metamorphoses by the employment of elementals. It
forges a link with the powers of middle nature,*(13) or the ether, the
astrals of great trees and of animals of every kind. Will is our medium,
Belief is the vehicle, and Desire is the force combining with the
elemental. Cryptograms are our talismans and protectors."
*(13) i.e. The astral plane, between the spiritual and physical realms.
The will, or nervous energy, must be suppressed in order to create tension,
and released only at the psychological moment. "At that time, gaze into and
beyond the immediate vista, into the Aeon- the spaciousness beyond your
meannesses, beyond your borrowed precepts, dogmas and beliefs- until you
vibrate in spacious unity. Indraw your breath until the body quivers and
then give a mighty suspiration, releasing all your nervous energy into the
focal point of your wish; and as your urgent desire merges into the ever
present procreative sea, you will feel a tremendous insurge, a
self-transformation. And the Devil himself shall not prevent your will
materializing."
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