An instruction in the Qabalistic Cross

[raum215]

There is a lot less to this than most people think. Try to hard and you WILL fail. Do not put anything in it that is not there.
Touch the Ajna Chakra - indicated by placing your finger at the point where your bridge of your nose meets your brow and say Aht-taw. This is Aleph-Tau. Aleph-Tau-Heh is Ah-teh. a variant of the same word. The Aleph-Tau is the First and Last letters. You are essentially saying "Alpha-Omega" in Hebrew. It is the quintessential second person pronoun of the Hebrew language, singular masculine Declination. This is yourself objectified unto yourself, as God as unto his Creation.
Touch the Svadissthana Chakra - indicated by placing your finger where the pelvis meets the spine and say Mal-kooth (Mem Lamed Kaph Vau Tau). (The trick here is the "th" is NOT the same as in the english word "tooth" - that is made by placing the tongue between this teeth - it is somewhere between "ssss" and "th." The correct way to say malkuth is something you have to learn to do carefully. First, say "sssss" feel where you tongue is on the top of your mouth. Now add less breath on the teeth but keep your tongue in the same place. Feel that sound that is not quite a "sss" or a "th" - that is the terminal sound of a word ending in Tau. Vau is pronounced like a sound similar to the Omega of greek a somewhat flat "U" that sound like it has some elements of "O" The Root of this Word is Melek (Mem-Lamed-Kaph) These are the letters in the bend of the ATBish cipher. The “vau tau” at the end is a pluarizing feminine definite article. Thus you have the head and tail of the hebrew letters at your AJNA, and the bend of the letters at the coil of the spine. This has opened the Sushumna – without opening the Crown or the Base – you are now running an interior circulating current – this is the fuel for the “flames” so to speak.

A T
B Sh
G R
D Q
H Tz
V P
Z O
Ch S
Th N
Y M
K L

Touch your left shoulder and say "ve-Geh-booraow" - this is a reference to the pillar of Severity. It is an allusion to Pingala. (This word is Veh “And” – Gehbooraow means “power, might, strength”) It is feminine singular.

Touch your right shoulder and say “Veh-Ge-Doolaow” – this is a reference to the pillar of Mercy. It is an allusion to the Ida. (This word is Veh “And” – Gedulaow means “dignity, greatness, glory”) it is feminine singular.

Clasp your hands interlocking your fingers and say “Leh-Oh-lawm” This unifies the Sushumna, Ida and Pingala – the Triple Goddes, called Nu, Isis, Hecate, Hathor and many other names – but in all things Elohim. This feature of the hands clasped is the ten spheres of the tree of life. Leh-ohlam is rooted to OLM, which means “youth”, “conceal”, “age”, “world” – This is Mosheh in the Womb of the Nile – or Hoor-Par-Kraat if you will. This is the babe in the womb of the triune mother.

THEN unclasp the hands, hold them erect, palm to to palm and say AMEN. This is a masculine singular indicating “It is accomplished” or “so mote it be”, if you prefer.

That is it. Do it and feel, see, touch, taste, hear, and smell what you can. If you are not enflamed with prayer, give it a second- you may have kleshas or klippoth blocking the inner alchemy. But no amount of “visualization” or forcing it, or vocal volume will make it work more than any other. Do this with joy in your heart – in the delight of the Lord of the Universe, and his brides and progeny - The Universe.

[raum215]

do not try to "reason" what you feel or why yet. Just note you feel it. The greatest goal of the Neophyte is simply to "Experience what occurs."

[ShadowFox]

When I've done this for the first time, I could literally feel the energy flowing through me. It was quite interesting experience.

[raum215]

The voice of the fire comes before the vision... and the voice comes before the scent...

Now to be less poetic and cryptic.

tikown tephillati qetoreth lepaneka maseth kappai minchat oreb

"Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice."

Remember, It is always dark before the day.

To understand the nature of to "enflame with prayer", read the story of the story of Elijah and the Priests of Ba'al. "Enflame with prayer is "Ba'ar ha-Chalah." This more to the point means "burn away the travail." The pain being seperation through exile. It is offering your suffering to the Lord. Your "Chalah" is transmuted to "Tephillah" because your doubt and shame is glorified.

This is a making sanctified of oneself by burning away the impurities that cloud your ability to see your inherent divine nature. You are not "calling up energy" when you are enflamed - you are burning away the dross. That flame is the natural state of the Ratzon ha-El - the Will of God, or "Divine Providence." This is a cleansing of all of the baggage and the burning away of the rubbish that enables you to be forged of the Stars.. It is absolutely not some making "energy" ground into you, or some hokey visualization. It is nothing less than experiencing your divine origins and birthright that is the thread holding every atom of your being together.

[raum215]

He is wrong. it is VERY clear that the crow chakra is activated on the corpus christi in the golden dawn system. You do not activate the saharara or the muladhara so you contain the energy. It is a building of energy that prepares you for more advanced work. NO Neophyte would be expected to attain Kether yet - because they are not even Initiated until they are Zelators. If you were attuned to Kether before you were even "on the tree" you would never manifest, and your magic would never ground into the Olam Ha-Assiah.

[raum215]

I do not read to learn magic. I experience magick and look to the writings of others to help qualify my experiences in context of others. I recommend you do the ritual, observe the effects, and then find out what it happening. There is no real way to read what you need, because you cannot get experience from reading.

If you want to read works to influence and inform you of Qabala, i recommend books on Qabala, Sepher Yetzirah is a great one FULL of ways to make real progress reading and writing and looking in the book. I found it VERYU helpful to make a sort of "flowchart" when I was reading the sepher yetzirah. - and just of the tree of knowledge of good and evil after the fruit was picked - which is the tree most people know as the tree of life.

[raum215]

I prefer the following prayer before the Qabalistic Cross. I do so in Aramaic, and include my own devotional translation of what is known as the Lord's prayer to those I teach:

The phonetic "Lord's prayer," Matthew Chapter 6, verses 9-13:

Avvon d-bish-maiya, nith-qaddash shim-mukh.
Tih-teh mal-chootukh. Nih-weh çiw-yanukh:
ei-chana d'bish-maiya: ap b'ar-ah.
Haw lan lakh-ma d'soonqa-nan yoo-mana.
O'shwooq lan kho-bein:
ei-chana d'ap kh'nan shwiq-qan l'khaya-ween.
Oo'la te-ellan l'niss-yoona:
il-la paç-çan min beesha.
Mid-til de-di-lukh hai mal-choota
oo khai-la oo tush-bookh-ta
l'alam al-mein. Aa-meen.

In English (translated by paleo-lingustics, and set into rhyme by me)

Father of the Heavens, upon thy name all holiness is built.
The Day and Time of thy Kingdom is come. Do what thou wilt,
As in heaven it is, so also among the living on earth.
Give us the bread for our daily need nourished unto birth.
Grant us mercy; destroy our shame, as we seek to see no shame in humanity.
And do not make severe our trials, except that it separate us from our vanity.
For yours is the Day and Time of thy Reign, and all Power and Glory therein
To the end of the universe, of all Space and Time. Thy ineffable name" Amen!

Then I do a standard Q Cross. That tends to get the fires blazing nicely.

[Nagual-Hoor-Lam]

The version I read about and have been doing included the heart chakra, and the vibration of "Eheieh," "I am" after "Atoh" and before "Malkuth." What's up with that? Is this incorrect?

[raum215]

Crowley added "aiwaz" - presumeably because he was advised to do so by Alan Bennett when he was instructed. I have seen all kinds of people do some form of vibration there upon his instruction - i do not do so, and find no reason to. I have practiced it and - I find it is unecessary - for the essense of the middle channel is completed in the final gesture - and even then includes the totality of the cross itself in the center. I in general do not call attention to the nature of the heart chakra - which is unstruck in the core of the aspirant.

[raum215]

The proper pronunciation is useful for getting the full effect of the vibration of the words upon the enteric nervous system. Of course, anything is better than nothing, just work slowly and at modest volume on parts of it until each part feels natural.

The main way to learn to REALLY pronounce the roots of things is to identify the accented consonants and keep breathing as your mouth morphs from one consonant to the next. This is why Qabala can only be received mouth to ear.

The point where you stop saying "Elohim" and start thinking "With a unrestricted breath off the back of the teeth flowing out of me, I curl my tongue, then round my lips, then widen my mouth and then let my tongue fall flat and then close my lips, sealing the breath." - that is when Elohim becomes a name of power instead of just a thought of what you may think power is. This what I mean by experience.

And there is an old saying, "if you are uncertain of what you are saying, speak softly; lest the greatness of your voisce weaken your actions." Words spoken have powers - learning to control those is why we hold dear to silence.