KCh
04-07-2007, 05:14 PM
Recently I had been studiously comparing the Mathers Translation of 'Abramelin' and the recently released(in english at least) 'Book of Abramelin' by Dehn and Guth.(Ibis Publications 2006)
In it, the editor Georg Dehn gives his account of searching out the location of Abramelin's hut. Its location, he pinpoints, is at a place called 'Araki' in Egypt. Araki also, it appears, to lie just due west of Nag Hammadi. Not only this, but monasteries, hermits, and Egyptian tombs are all within walking distance of this place. Even more intriguing to me was that a place called the 'Monastery of the Angel' "Deir al-Malak", and is 8 kil from Araki. This monastery is curious in that it is not devoted to a singular angel, but to the all encompassing ideal of 'Angel' or 'Malak'.
Now, of course you should be putting all this together by now. The Yezidi come to mind, and 'Malak Taus'. Crowley made a curious remark in an un-published letter about Thelema being rooted in ideas that are much older than the more modern religions of today, and that specifically the Yezidi and 'Malak Taus' are connected.
Abramelin living in such an area of condensed ideas, is it no wonder his system sought the 'Holy Guardian Angel'?
Now to take this over to the weird side.
Steven Guth, the other person responsible for this new translation, wrote a curious essay on some experiences and ideas he attained while in Egypt.
Two quotes from this really startled me:
"It quickly came to me that the pyramids were built to draw in and keep in a convenient location some of the ghosts that were attached to tombs throughout Egypt."
"Then came the realization that the Egyptians had a system going to turn the dead into their servants. They buried their dead in such a way that they remain within the frequency range of the living and so accessible to us-in our physical bodies-to perceive and use."
Apply this to the Supreme Invocation that Crowley did, and his Subsequent 'Angel' appearing.
Now, is this a reasonable suggestion? That the Gnostic techniques hinged on the fact of their invocating the spirits of the dead that were all around them. Namely the valley of the Kings and Queens. The various tombs of dead priests, etc...
In it, the editor Georg Dehn gives his account of searching out the location of Abramelin's hut. Its location, he pinpoints, is at a place called 'Araki' in Egypt. Araki also, it appears, to lie just due west of Nag Hammadi. Not only this, but monasteries, hermits, and Egyptian tombs are all within walking distance of this place. Even more intriguing to me was that a place called the 'Monastery of the Angel' "Deir al-Malak", and is 8 kil from Araki. This monastery is curious in that it is not devoted to a singular angel, but to the all encompassing ideal of 'Angel' or 'Malak'.
Now, of course you should be putting all this together by now. The Yezidi come to mind, and 'Malak Taus'. Crowley made a curious remark in an un-published letter about Thelema being rooted in ideas that are much older than the more modern religions of today, and that specifically the Yezidi and 'Malak Taus' are connected.
Abramelin living in such an area of condensed ideas, is it no wonder his system sought the 'Holy Guardian Angel'?
Now to take this over to the weird side.
Steven Guth, the other person responsible for this new translation, wrote a curious essay on some experiences and ideas he attained while in Egypt.
Two quotes from this really startled me:
"It quickly came to me that the pyramids were built to draw in and keep in a convenient location some of the ghosts that were attached to tombs throughout Egypt."
"Then came the realization that the Egyptians had a system going to turn the dead into their servants. They buried their dead in such a way that they remain within the frequency range of the living and so accessible to us-in our physical bodies-to perceive and use."
Apply this to the Supreme Invocation that Crowley did, and his Subsequent 'Angel' appearing.
Now, is this a reasonable suggestion? That the Gnostic techniques hinged on the fact of their invocating the spirits of the dead that were all around them. Namely the valley of the Kings and Queens. The various tombs of dead priests, etc...