Kenneth Grant

KENNETH GRANTZONE MAUVE OTO et Ordre Typhonien Kenneth Grant (23 May 1924 – 15 January 2011) was an English ceremonial

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KENNETH GRANTZONE MAUVE OTO et Ordre Typhonien

Kenneth Grant (23 May 1924 – 15 January 2011) was an English ceremonial magician and prominent advocate of the Thelemite religion. A poet, novelist, and writer, he founded his own Thelemite organisation, the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis – later renamed the Typhonian Order – with his wife Steffi Grant. Founding the London-based New Isis Lodge in 1954, Grant added to many of Crowley's Thelemite teachings, bringing in extraterrestrial themes and influences from the work of H.P. Lovecraft. This was anathema to Germer, who expelled Grant from the O.T.O. in 1955, although the latter continued to operate his Lodge regardless until 1962. He was particularly interested in the Hindu tantra, incorporating ideas from it into the Thelemic practices of sex magic. Grant's writings and teachings have proved a significant influence over other currents of occultism, including chaos magic, the Temple of Set and the Dragon Rouge. Grant was born on 23 May 1924 in Ilford, Essex, the son of a Welsh clergyman By his early teenage years, Grant had read widely on the subject of Western esotericism and Asian religions,[2] including the work of prominent occultist Helena Blavatsky.[3] He had made use of a personal magical symbol ever since being inspired to do so in a visionary dream he experienced in 1939; he spelled its name variously as A'ashik, Oshik, or Aossic.[4] Aged 18, in the midst of the Second World War, Grant volunteered to join the British Army, later commenting that he hoped to be posted to British India, where he could find a spiritual guru to study under.[2] He was never posted abroad, and was ejected from the army aged 20 due to an unspecified medical condition. [5] He also requested that Michael Houghton, proprietor of Central London's esoteric bookstore Atlantis Bookshop, introduce him to Crowley. Houghton refused, privately remarking that Grant was "mentally unstable." [

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April 1955 when Grant issued a manifesto announcing his discovery of an extraterrestrial "Sirius/Set current" upon which the lodge was to be based. [32] In this manifesto, Grant claimed that a new energy was emanating down from Earth from another planet which he identified with Nuit, a goddess who appears in the first chapter of Crowley's Thelemic holy text, The Book of the Law.[31] Germer however deemed it "blasphemy" that Grant had identified a single planet with Nuit; on 20 July 1955, Germer issued a "Note of Expulsion" expelling Grant from the O.T.O.[33] Upon learning of Grant's expulsion, Smith feared that the O.T.O. would split up into warring factions much as the Theosophical Society had done following the death of Blavatsky. Grant believed that the O.T.O.'s sex magic teachings needed to be refashioned along tantric principles from Indian religion, In the early 1970s he established his own Thelemic organisation, the Typhonian O.T.O., which produced its first official announcement in 1973 Info trouvée sur Net : I came across a brief essay entitled "Liber Qliphoth" by one Nagasiva Yronwode, a sort of compilation of Golden Dawn information regarding the Qliphoth. As far as authors/books are concerned, I'd cite Frater Nemidial's "Liber Azerate" and Thomas Karlsson's "Qabalah, Qliphoth, and Goetic Magic"(though other authors, such as Kenneth Grant and Michael Ford, have also inspired me). Gershom Scholem's historical/scholarly works on Kabbalah have also been influential. Yeah, Kenneth Grant is a big inspiration for me as well, particularly "Nightside of Eden" and "Cults of the Shadow." If you are looking for info on the Qliphoth, I'd heartily recommend "Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic" by Thomas Karlsson. My second would be Michael Ford's Scales of the Black Serpent, which is an okay primer, though you could probably afford to skip it. My third would be Liber Azerate by the Temple of the Black Light Extrait de Nightside of Eden : « Il est intéressant de noter à quel point H.P. Lovecraft s’est approché de la frontière de ces dimensions étrangères à l’humain ; dans « L’Affaire Charles Dexter Ward », il fait allusion au « signe de Koth que certains voient en rêve audessus de l’entrée d’une tour noire dressée dans une lumière crépusculaire… ». Cette tour noire est le phallus de Set, la pierre dressée dans le crépuscule de l’Abîme, c’est-à-dire l’état crépusculaire entre le rêve et « les noirs abîmes du sommeil ». Le mot Koth ou Kotha est l’un des noms barbares d’évocation que les gnostiques utilisaient dans leurs Agapoi, dont certains ont été restaurés kabbalistiquement par Crowley dans son Liber Samekh, texte central du Nouvel Aeon qui contient le rituel connu comme « Congressus Cum Daemone ». Il est l’un des plus puissants rituels existants, selon Crowley. Il contient les formules permettant de dialoguer avec son Double ou Soi de L’Ombre. Dans la section

élémentale consacrée à la Terre, Kotha est le nom d’Hathor, la déesse voluptueuse du plaisir sexuel, « que Satan contemple et désire ! ». Koth est alors traduit par « Toi, l’Ombre » Koth, par conséquent, signifie « Celui de l’Ombre », le tunnel symbolisé par le vagin de la femme qui émet un vaporeux plasma en réponse à la moindre stimulation de la Volonté magique dirigée. » Le terme ChVth, une forme de Koth signifiant « la bête des roseaux » (NDA : une image de l’Égypte dans le Psaume Ixviii. Le terme dérive de Khebt, l’hippopotame, un symbole zoomorphique de l’Égypte du nord, c’est-à-dire la Basse Égypte, la région typhonienne), a pour nombre 414 qui est celui de la lumière infinie (Ain Soph Aur), l’un des trois voiles du Vide derrière Kether. C’est aussi le nombre d’AZVTh (Azoth), le fluide, c’est-à-dire la sécrétion suprême ou Kala qui dissout toute structure moléculaire par sa lumière infiniment corrosive. Lovecraft a exprimé cette notion du point de vue de son matérialisme scientifique, comme étant Azatoth, le Chaos idiot et aveugle au centre des Mondes Infinis. Le terme Koth en tant que Cheth (ChITh), 418, est d’une importance primordiale dans le Nouvel Aeon car il est le nombre du Grand Œuvre dans sa phase alchimique la plus haute, à savoir la dissolution de toute structure moléculaire telle qu’esquissée dans AL II. 44. » Although based in Thelema, Grant's Typhonian tradition has been described as "a bricolage of occultism, Neo-Vedanta, Hindu tantra, Western sexual magic, Surrealism, ufology and Lovecraftian gnosis" Influenced by Maharshi, Grant adopted the Advaitan world-view that only "the Self", or atman, really exists, with the wider universe being an illusory projection. [7 He believed that by mastering magick, one master's this illusory universe, gaining personal liberation and recognising that only the Self really exists. [78] Doing so, according to Grant, leads to the discovery of one's True Will, the central focus of Thelema.[74] Grant further claimed that the realm of the Self was known as "the Mauve Zone", and that it could be reached while in a state of deep sleep, where it has the symbolic appearance of a swamp. [79] He also believed that the reality of consciousness, which he deemed the only true reality, was formless and thus presented as a void, although he also taught that it was symbolised by the Hindu goddess Kali and the Thelemic goddess Nuit.[80] Grant taught that the true secret of sex magic were bodily secretions, the most important of which was a woman's menstrual blood. [73] He referred to female sexual secretions as kalas, a term adopted from Sanskrit. THE MAUVE ZONE

Tunnels typhoniens plus simples a traverser Eon d’Horus, LAM entité ET dont lettres symbolisent etat d’eveil jusqu’au sommeil profond est le chemin le plus direct vers d’autres dimensions.