A new branch of the Arcanum Arcanorum; two kinds of connection to the lineage: institutional and inner; how the conflict of institutional and inner played out in Crowley’s life; union with the Holy Guardian Angel (HGA) achieved by a vision and by inner means; the necessary uniqueness of the ritual to achieve connection with his HGA; the role of extraordinary loss in awakening; the expression of this connection to the divine through his magical order; the primacy of the inner work; parallels in our own experience; self-determined instructions to engage in the process; the role of institutions in the Great Work; grades as a substitute for realising one’s true nature; Crowley as the singular giant of western occultism and as a total failure; a critique of “post-Crowley Thelema”; the lack of magick in this perspective; reading Crowley to change ourselves rather than to change Crowley; the unconscious versus the subconscious; deviations from contact with the HGA; contact with the Secret Chiefs; the Tempe workings; the prophetic veracity of these workings; the sole function of the Great White Brotherhood is humanity’s salvation; the nature of prophecy; an expression of love; falling from prophecy by chasing it; prophecy as prediction of terrible events; its purpose is not to avoid this, but to forewarn about consequences; a recommendation to contact the Secret Chiefs; predictions as an opportunity for manifestation and participation; awakenings as already having happened; how the “test” of awakening was never really a test; the consequences of saying “yes” or “no” to experiences; creation in the hands of the created; absolute faith as accepting incapability of doing anything worthwhile; extraordinary intelligence is never absent; criticisms of the lineage; the unity of path and purpose; the tendency to try to make experience conform to expectations; failed attempts to create a western esoteric lineage; the influence of “the spirit of the times”; massive failure; the new order and its origins in a vision of the seventeenth aethyr; the current mood of the occult scene; the contents of the vision of the aethyr; teachers who are Masters of the Temple but also black brothers; the worst kind of teachers; how our encounter with Andrew Cohen shaped our understanding; the error of fixation upon awakening; self-realised people are idiots; the impossible nature; a controversy over Voudon; meeting with Vinay Gupta; defining the term “black brother”; two examples of black brothers; the left-hand path; crossing the abyss and the oath of the abyss; Vinay, his circle, and how he describes himself; receiving initiation from Vinay; the members of the lineage back to Crowley; Dadaji (Lawrence Miles) and AMOOKOS; the story of the meeting between Crowley and Miles; a thoroughly messed-up lineage; following the prophecy against personal preferences; a prophetic dream concerning Thelema; Magia tied to the Arcanum Arcanorum as a demonstration of its validity; the expression of the dubious nature of the lineage demonstrates the validity of the prophecy; using darkness to create light; the action of the divine in transforming the irredeemable; the denial of magick in occulture; the worst becomes the best. Links to the video of “The Scrying of Aethyr 17”: https://youtu.be/ASo740AiZeE (Part One); https://youtu.be/npC2FSugyPI (Part Two). Intro music by Alan Chapman. Outro music from loops by users mildperil, Tumbleweed, and VladEisch at looperman.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.