#amalantrah

[bizarreauhavre]

Aleister Crowley, The Way, 1918. Drawing by the magician depicting Lam, an entity he channeling in 1918 during the Amalantrah Workings.

[hokeypokeymaya]

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“What are you talking about, Englishman? Is your mind so addled with drugs that you wish to supplant the Secret Chiefs? To remake society in your own image? There is no society without the Secret Chiefs, without their gifts of Order and Light! We must appease them by succumbing to their Ultimate Will!”

It was too much. The personification of the First Trump took Rasputin’s sudden bolt of force and turned it back at him. Rasputin felt the hole blown in his mind, his ideas leaking out into the numen of astral space, and Crowley leaking in.

“You aren’t one to talk about addled minds, Russian. Look at what you are doing. I knew you could never convert a death-yantra to food production. You are turning your own people’s minds into machines!” Crowley whispers aloud. Rasputin reels. He gathers his sense of self into a protective barrier.

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[hokeypokeymaya]

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“Aleister, he doesn’t know what he is doing! We must court the favors of our masters and win them back to our side! Their sacrificial translation from the Noetic Symbol-Lands into our physical reality is the ultimate gift. They have raised us up above all creatures and created us in their image! We are nothing without them.”

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Rasputin pours the full force of his will into dominating the English Prime minister. If he can erode Crowley’s mind enough, he can plant the suggestion that Crowley stop his disciple’s ritual. The threat to Rasputin’s plans would be eliminated, and Rasputin would have a back door into his erstwhile ally’s mind.

Again, there is resistance. Crowley has a personal relationship with this Trump. It wraps tendrils of inspiration around the Prime Minister. One of the major qualities of the First Trump is manipulation, so it knew exactly how to thwart Rasputin’s attempts.

“Jack understands the ritual. I agree, this will anger the Secret Chiefs, but look how much has already damaged that alliance! Look at the death-yantra that consumed the Nazi Wizards. Look at how it reaches out to still consume the world.”

Thwarting is not the end of the Trump’s plans. It is doing its own manipulating. Rasputin can feel it pull at his mind, at his secrets. It is opening a window into his dark soul. Rasputin panics, redoubles his efforts.

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[hokeypokeymaya]

Amalantrah gestures. Suddenly the memory of this child-like creature slides into mind. Two gigantic black eyes swallow its misshapen child face. The youthful visage is dwarfed by an expansive forehead. The being is twisted by its endless eyes.  It is the Lord LAM. This creature was born of Sirius, the Seven-Pointed Silver Star, the same gateway/divinity symbol that the Secret Chiefs used to enter our reality and become Civilization. LAM’s cold eyes glint with the will sapping machine-reality that clings to Rasputin. LAM is the most inhuman outcome of that civilization. His goal is to reduce individual humans to cells in the thought-bodies of the Secret Chiefs.  All of Crowley’s emotion (fear, love of Country and the Thelemic way of life) is sucked into these eyes. They see Aleister Crowley. He is consumed in the darkness of LAM’s perception. The future is in his eyes.

[hokeypokeymaya]

In a shell that spins closer than the rest, Crowley can see a moment of his own past. The smoke of opium and hashish blur the face of Roddie Minor, as she describes to a younger Crowley the boy, the king, and the Wizard Amalantrah. Amalantrah is a personification of the symbol Crowley is currently inhabiting, the First Trump. The Amalantrah-symbol catches Crowley’s gaze through Roddie’s word-tumble of explanation. The description shifts its eyes toward the eggshell containing Dee and Kelly. Kelly screams and howls, while Dee scribbles furiously. The eyes shift again, taking in the shell with Parsons and Hubbard. Jack Parsons had designed this ritual based on Crowley’s own work detailed in The Vision and the Voice. The ground around Parsons is littered with shards of a statue. The ritual has begun with Parsons smashing an idol of Pan. Parsons loved this object, and the gravity of that love draws Crowley’s perception deeper into Jack’s moment. Jack has started uttering an invocation, and echoes bounce off the buttes of Never-Never Land as they shift under the adept’s will. The echo speaks to Crowley: Talam-malat, talam-malat…

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Aleister Crowley, "LAM, or The Way." Pencil on paper, 1919.  Source. "Crowley included the portrait of Lam in his Dead Souls exhibition held in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1919. In that same year it was published as a frontispiece labeled 'The Way' to Crowley’s commentary to Blavatsky’s The Voice of the Silence."  Source. "Crowley's portrait of Lam passed into the hands of Kenneth Grant circa 1945 following an astral working in which he and Crowley were jointly involved. Grant, who was authorized in the early '50s to work the first three grades of the OTO, is now widely perceived as Crowley's natural heir and successor (what a can of worms that statement opens.--ed). His interest in CETI (Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence)-type phenomena is of long-standing duration. In 1955 for instance, he announced the discovery of a trans-plutonian planet called Isis, and simultaneously established an order called the New Isis Lodge OTO for the purpose (among others) of contacting higher intelligences. A similar situation arose some 30 years later in the late 1980s, when Grant allegedly received 'strong intimations' to the effect that Crowley's portrait of Lam "is the present focus of an extraterrestrial -- and perhaps trans-plutonic-- energy which the OTO is required to communicate at this critical period..." I have no idea as to the nature of these 'intimations', besides which, writing about magic is a dubious enterprise at best, fraught with semantic difficulties. Perhaps the best option in an article as necessarily as brief as this, is to quote directly from The Lam Statement, a text circulated among OTO initiates with a view to "regularizing the mode of rapport and constructing a magical formula for establishing communication with Lam." We are told first of all that:

"It has been considered advisable by the Sovereign Sanctuary to regularize and to examine results achieved by individual members of the OTO who have established contact with the magical entity known as Lam. We are therefore founding an Inner Cult of this dikpala for the purpose of amassing precise accounts of such contacts...

The portrait of (Lam) which is reproduced in The Magical Revival may be used as the visual focus, and can serve as the Yantra of the Cult; the name Lam is the Mantra; and the Tantra is the union with the dikpala by entering the Egg of Spirit represented by the Head. Entry may be affected by projecting consciousness through the eyes...""  Source.