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Baphomet Meditation

Try this, if you want.

Sit or lie down comfortably. For purposes of this meditation, sitting might be easiest, since we are going to be working with “above” and “below” and this can get confusing when you are lying down. Cross-legged on the floor is ideal, if that works for your body.

Close your eyes. Begin to breathe slowly and deeply through your nose. Inhale to a slow count of four. Hold your breath to a slow count of four. Exhale to a slow count of four. Repeat. Let yourself fall into this rhythm.

The in-breath comes from above. The out-breath comes from below. Focus on this idea as you continue to breathe in this pattern.

As you inhale, imagine a beam of cooling light penetrating the top of your head and flowing down into you, filling up your entire body. Focus on this with every inhalation until you can really feel this energy.

Once you can feel this gentle, soothing, cooling energy coming from above you and outside of you, begin focusing on the outbreath. As you exhale, imagine a dark hot column of flame leaping up in your belly and extending towards the top of your head.

This dark, hot, passionate fire of your individuality mixes with the calm, neutral light of the universe as you continue to breathe in pattern—inhale 2 3 4, hold 2 3 4, exhale 2 3 4.

Feel those energies mixing in your body and coming into balance. Feminine and masculine. Universal and individual. Above and below. Outward and inward. Cool and hot. Rational and passionate. Right and left. Light and dark. Solve and coagula.

Let them move within you, feel them mix and intertwine. Bring them into a balance that feels right for you. I like to end this meditation when I reach a gradient I describe as “cool head, warm heart and fire in the belly,” letting the cool light predominate in my upper body, the hot fire in my lower body, and the two mingle in my heart. But how you calibrate these forces is up to you.

When you feel content with your energy level and inner balance, place your hands over your navel to center yourself, return to normal breathing, and open your eyes.

Gender Apocalypse Now!

Final paper for my special reading course on Aleister Crowley. Enjoy!

GENDER APOCALYPSE NOW! TRANSCENDENTALISM, TRANSHUMANISM, & TRANSGENDERISM IN THE AEON OF HORUS

In 1964, artist/occultist Marjorie Cameron and filmmaker/occultist Kenneth Anger were cohabitating in Los Angeles, California. Marjorie Cameron was a bisexual female; Kenneth Anger was a gay male. The pair decided to embark on a new magical and artistic project: becoming each other. Cameron started taking testosterone, Kenneth got on estrogen, and despite their seemingly incompatible genders and sexualities, they began a sexual relationship. The experiment was short-lived and soon abandoned. Kenneth left for New York, leaving Cameron to mourn by wearing his leather pants, as if still trying to meld with him.[1]

Decades later, another pair of strange soulmates, musician/magician Genesis P. Orridge and dominatrix Lady Jaye, would attempt and complete the same project, using hormones and surgeries to become as nearly identical as possible. This endeavor was inspired by both their transcendent love for one another—their desire to become one being—and by their shared vision of new kinds of gender. “Some people feel they’re a woman trapped in a man’s body,” Genesis said. “We just feel trapped in a body. What we’re talking about is an idealized future where male and female become irrelevant.”[2]

What these two couples had in common was a post-Crowleyan approach to gender, sexuality, art, and occultism that has at its heart the veneration of the divine androgyne as the harbinger and archetype of a radical new era.

This paper will explore the signs of Crowley’s androgynous and cataclysmic Aeon of Horus. I write this more as an organic intellectual than as a traditional scholar, although the mask of the academic is one that I often wear well. This paper needs to be more personal and authentic. Here is a meditation on gender, transcendence, love, and apocalypse as manifest in occultism, science fiction, rock n’ roll, and society.

It is also a litany to my magickal ancestors and the gender outlaws whose lives and adventures inform mine. In Thelemic terms, one might call these saints, who poured out their life’s blood into the cup of Babalon, from which I drink to become myself.

This is the chronicle of the transhumanist and gender-transcending magickal current that Aleister Crowley unleashed on the earth. What started as a whisper, heard by only a few, has multiplied by its echoes to turn into a deafening roar.

Continue reading →

nightmarist:

On this day I Hail the Sabbatic Goat, 

Great Baphomet, She and He, All and Both, 

They of Eternity, They of Balance

Of Beast and Man, Above and Below

Emblem of All that connects to the Self

Of Witchcraft and Magic, of Body and Soul

The Torch of Knowledge high above Thy horns

May Thee grant me Guidance and Knowledge in the days to come

Hail the Sabbatic Goat, The Great Baphomet