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• Abyss
• Active Reception
• Akashic Records
• Angel
• Archetype
• Astral
• Astral Body
• Astral Plane
• Astral Pregnancy
• Astral Projection
• Astral Temple
• Astral Travel
• Aura

• Abyss — [uh-bis] “The Abyss” is a term in Thelema for the area of the Qabalistic Tree of Life between the supernal triangle and the lower sephiroth, where the non-sphere of Da’ath is found. Wikipedia says, “Within the mystical system of Thelema, the Abyss is the great gulf or void between the phenomenal world of manifestation and its noumenal source,” and quotes Aleister Crowley:
  

  “This doctrine is extremely difficult to explain; but it corresponds more or less to the gap in thought between the Real, which is ideal, and the Unreal, which is actual. In the Abyss all things exist, indeed, at least in posse, but are without any possible meaning; for they lack the substratum of spiritual Reality. They are appearances without Law. They are thus Insane Delusions.

  “Now the Abyss being thus the great storehouse of Phenomena, it is the source of all impressions.” (Little Essays Toward Truth)

  While crossing the Abyss, one meets the “demon” Choronzon (or Coronzon). According to Meridjet, one is stripped, layer by layer or point by point, of anything that serves as an individual frame of reference. In this state, one forgets everything of one’s past, including one’s identity, until one is reduced to a single point of consciousness without even a glimmer of self-awareness. From this state of no-thingness, one must evolve, create, or otherwise gain the tools to find one’s way back.

  The process of being stripped down and then rediscovering the Self resolves personal baggage and personality-based issues, bringing one to a state of transcendence that we as human beings cannot comprehend or imagine. At minimum, this process can be likened to a sort of afterlife processing, giving one objectivity with regard to one’s life attachments, and providing the ability to make choices from a place of balanced emotion and full awareness. It provides a higher or farther-reaching perspective, and marks the start of the acquisition of tools necessary for the spirit to guide its charges effectively.

• Active Reception — coined by Sheta Kaey [ak-tiv rih-sep-shun] The means by which to practice hearing the spirit companion or spirit guide. Passive listening is ineffective and will most often result in getting nothing (it’s also lazy, and if were going to work it would have worked stupendously a long time ago), while reaching for him/her is often too much and results in actually pushing the message away. This is very frustrating and can make you feel like you are sabotaging yourself. The key, then, is to listen with focused attention, but refrain from reaching for it. If you feel it’s not quite making it, then gently offering a mental tendril (you can think of it just that way, if it helps to visualize) to the SC will allow you to feel you are helping without there being a push behind it. Similarly, as the connection cycles over days, weeks, months, etc., you will inevitably find that some days are better than others. On weaker connection days, it’s difficult to resist trying extra hard to get that contact. And the truth is that some days reaching is the right thing to do, and other times it’s the wrong thing, and the only way to know is to try. If you have had several days of good contact followed by a sudden blank nothingness on the other end of the line (so to speak), odds are very high that your subtle senses have reached a state of psychic exhaustion and they will not work again until they are rested. After a few days of rest, you may find (if you have an SC like Meridjet, who is very patient) that you have to try reaching again in order to activate the link on your end – it may be that your SC is not the type to come to you first thing, but will wait for you to take the initiative.
• Akashic Records — [ah-kah-shik rek-erds] The “Akashic Records’ is one of those concepts that everyone seems to define differently from everyone else, based mostly on what they’ve heard, read, or been taught by well-meaning friends. Definitions range from a literal library to the collective unconscious, but the gist of it is that the Akashic Records are the totality of experience, knowledge, and awareness of the human species. If one wished to up the ante by including the multiverse and the various Otherkin species, then even that definition would fall short. For his part, Meridjet stipulates that akashic records are a living source of knowledge, much as an egregore is a living source of energy for a collective.
• Angel — [eyn-juhl] In Christianity, a messenger or attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels)*. In metaphysics, angels are often considered simply, “those who came before,” or beings that have evolved to positions of greater knowledge and understanding of the universe, thereby allowing them to guide and protect humans and to mediate between human beings and the celestial divine.
• Archetype — [ahr-ki-tipe] In “Jungian psychology, a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches*, e.g. “archetypal mother figure.” Can also refer to the first example of a well-known concept (e.g. Dracula for vampire) or the quintessential example (e.g. Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the height of his action movie popularity, as the quintessential muscle man).
• Astral — [ass-truhl] Coming soon!
• Astral Body — [ass-truhl bah-dee] Coming soon!
• Astral Plane — [ass-truhl playn] Coming soon!
• Astral Pregnancy — [ass-truhl preg-nun-see] Coming soon!
• Astral Projection — [ass-truhl pruh-jek-shun] Coming soon! Book link.
• Astral Temple — [ass-truhl tem-puhl] Coming soon! Book Link.
• Astral Travel — [ass-truhl trav-uhl] Coming soon!
• Aura — [awr-uh] Coming soon! Book Link.

*Dictionary.com

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