Three Pillars
Daath
The Four Worlds
CONTENTS
ChAoS wrote: <ORDER
OF HERMES: I get the "magic exists in the rituals of everyday existance"
part, but what does astrology, numerology, and true names have to do with
it?>
Hmm... well, I'm not exactly sure what
you mean by "magic exists in the rituals of everyday existance."
But I can tell you what astrology, numerology, and true names have to do
with the OoH... basic Hermetic Theory (IRL derived from the Emerald Tablets
of Hermes Trismegistus, between 500 and 5000 years old) is as follows:
"As Above, So Below." This follows: As Within, So Without. And so
on. This essentially means that the same pattern, the same laws and
symbols and procedures, move through everything the same way -- the pattern
that exists in the stars also exists in our smallest cells and mitochondria,
the ways of the natural world reflect the ways of the inner mind.
Another fundamental part of Hermeticism
/ Western Mystery is Kabbalah, which is mainly founded on the idea that
the mathematical concepts of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are fundamental
building-blocks of all existance. Zero is nothingness, One is the
point that springs from nothingness due to a discriminating perception,
etc. etc. Numerology has its roots in this, though there are many
silly and fraudulent forms. The idea of true names has its roots in the
most ancient shamanic thought, as well as the basics of Egyptian rite magick;
there is a language that was used to create the world and the cosmos, and
the "word" spoken in creating a thing is the "true name" of that thing.
This theory holds that knowing a thing's true name gives one power over
the thing, and that beings Awaken through understanding and knowing their
true name, or perhaps that of their Avatar.
CEREMONIALIST OUTSIDE LINKS
THE ORDER:
STUTTGART, GERMANY -- House
Guernicus
DUREN, WESTPHALIA -- House
Bonisagus
TOLEDO, SPAIN -- House Janissary
OXFORD, ENGLAND -- House
Fortunae
VAL-NEGRA, near Quimper
in the Pyrenees (S. France) -- House Flambeau
DOISSETEP, near Quimper
in the Pyrenees (S. France) -- House Flambeau (Doissetep is now destroyed)
OoH NUMBERS -- There are
roughly 275 Awakened magi in the Order of Hermes, making it by far the
largest mystick society in the world. It is estimated that roughly
20 new apprentices are Awakened and inducted into the Order every year,
despite its selectiveness... but it is also estimated that between 15 and
30 Hermetic magi (also mostly Flambeau) die every year on the front lines
of the war with the Technocracy.
The ORDER
-- The acolytes and apprentices of the OoH are primarily drawn from secretive
groups and those inclined toward mathematics and/or linguistics.
The majority of Hermetic acolytes are either: New Age occultists (HOGD
etc.) and neo-pagans, training to be Thig or Ex Miscellanea apprentices
-- security experts, performing surveillance or protection duties for Houses
Janissary or Flambeau -- or scholars, serving as researchers or librarians
for Houses Fortunae, Guernicus, or Shaea. Houses Bonisagus, Fortunae,
and Shaea sometimes draw acolytes from the Arcanum. Houses Janissary
and Tytalus are fond of recruiting acolytes from the CIA, and sometimes
from military intelligence like House Flambeau does.
Most of the Order's consors are military, paramilitary, and security personnel
who serve the magi of House Flambeau and Janissary. Those who are
not generally fall into one of two categories -- hackers and spies for
House Thig, or bureaucratic Personnel Division (clerks and such) under
the purview of the magi Ex Miscellanea. Consors are sworn to secrecy,
closely watched, well-paid, and often (especially in the case of House
Janissary's more influential servants) placed under geases or bound to
magickal oaths that cause illness, comas, or even death in those who betray
them.
The ARCANUM
CIA
HERMETIC ORDER of the GOLDEN DAWN
UNIVERSITY
STAFF & ALUMNI
BASIC HERMETIC: Language (all), Circle (Spirit), Seal (Forces/Prime), Showstone (Mind/Time)
Hand Gestures
The
TREE of LIFE (Sephiroth)
Serpent
/ Lightning Bolt
Three Pillars
Daath
The Four Worlds
The HEKELOTH (Eight Palaces of the Earths)
According to the Kaballists,
God set eight layers between earth and the Horizon, each layer corresponding
to a virtue and a planet. These lesser paradises and purgatories
are administered by lesser angels, and it is said that souls not good enough
for the Heavens but not bad enough for the Hells come here. Some
say that Paradox can carry magi to Realms located here. The first
Hekeloth follows the moon, and shelters souls who require Fortitude; the
second joins Mercury and represents a thirst for Justice; the third is
with Venus, and is for true Lovers; the fourth realm is Prudence, and mirrors
the Sun; the sixth is for the Just, the seventh is for Contemplatives,
the eighth swims among the stars and is set aside for the faithful, and
the ninth is the Horizon itself -- that "First Moving Thing". The
layers, also known as Worlds or Palaces, are separated by spaces filled
with winds.
The
ELEMENTAL COURTS
Angelic Quarters, portals
Elemental Palaces
The
WESTERN COURTS (Egyptian, Greco-Roman)
The EASTERN COURTS (Chinese Celestial)
Web
Light
Illusions (Forces 3, Prime 2)
Burning Hands (Forces 3, Prime 2)
Color Spray (Forces 3, Prime 2, Entropy 2)
Dancing Lights (Forces 3, Prime 2, Corr.1)
Enlarge (Life 4 or Matter 4)
Feather Fall (Forces 3)
Magic Missiles
Mirror Image
Blur
Floating Disc
Spider Climb
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