From Google Search’s AI Mode:
“The A∴A∴ is entirely decentralized and operates on a strict one-on-one lineage system. An initiate knows only their immediate instructor (the person who admitted them) and any student they personally introduce to the order. There are no group rituals, physical lodges, or public membership rosters. This cellular structure ensures that if one lineage suffers a dispute or fails, the remaining lineages continue to survive independently.”
And just as I’ve never received a Vajrayana empowerment except arguably, and late, from the Dalai Lama giving a group empowerment in a YouTube video I watched, I’ve never had any kind of express instructor to the A∴A∴, but arguably only Aleister Crowley, through his writings (unless the person who introduced Jakob and me had (had) an instructor himself and his introduction counted as an admission). And yet I’ve lain claim to this:
“Any neophyte of the Order (or, as some say, any person soever) possesses the right to claim the Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy person who does so incurs the most terrific penalties by his presumption.” (Crowley, One Star in Sight.)
And even to this:
Not to this, though:
“The Ipsissimus is wholly free from all limitations soever, existing in the nature of all things without discriminations of quantity or quality between them. He has identified Being and not-Being and Becoming, action and non-action and tendency to action, with all other such triplicities, not distinguishing between them in respect of any conditions, or between any one thing and any other thing as to whether it is with or without conditions.
He is sworn to accept this Grade in the presence of a witness, and to express its nature in word and deed, but to withdraw Himself at once within the veils of his natural manifestation as a man, and to keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order.
The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of all modes of existence; that is, his being is entirely free from internal or external necessity. His work is to destroy all tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstantiality (Anatta).” (ibid.)
- self-lightening
- ΑΘΕΛΗΜΑ
- self-relief
