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Post by Gregory Peters on May 5, 2016 17:51:02 GMT
I can't recall any mentions off hand, but this just reminds me of the need for a comprehensive correspondence/index for all of the Trilogies. Considering the prominence of Moses in such source material as the PGM, it is an interesting crumb to follow up on
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Post by stephen on Oct 23, 2017 14:39:22 GMT
It would appear, HruMaCHIS, that Moses plays a significant role in your personal magical universe. However, he has no particular significance in the Typhonian Current. Kenneth Grant does mention him in Outer Gateways (p.228 Skoob edn.) in relation to the Rabbinical teaching regarding the Fifty Gates of Understanding and this is referred to again in Beyond the Mauve Zone (p.24, 1st edn.) Footnote 26 on p.147 0f BTMZ mentions the attributes of Moses as a mythical personage.
It is questionable whether Moses was anything more than a mythical personage. The Book of Exodus is very much an allegorical text and makes little sense as an actual historical account. The notion that Moses was versed in the magical arts of Egypt seems to have become popular in the period when the Graeco-Egyptian magical texts were composed, hence his appearance in the Greek text of the Bornless Ritual. It should be noted that in Liber Samekh, Crowley replaces his name with that of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu and that of Israel with Khem. The Mosaic Law of the Torah is replete with ritual taboos and social restrictions: 'Thou shalt nots' rather than 'Do what thou wilts' and has minimal positive worth to the Thelemic and Typhonian Currents, therefore.
I think I have some idea of what you mean by this 'Inner Torah' and 'Outer Torah' business, although you do have a penchant for hinting at Mysteries too sacred to be revealed, but which you find resonant within the Trilogies. Interesting that you do, but the mystical edifice that you are expounding is not what most students of the Typhonian Trilogies would recognise as being what Kenneth Grant is about.
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Post by stephen on Oct 26, 2017 14:39:18 GMT
Thanks for the clarification, HruMaChIS. Sepher Sephiroth might have something to answer for here. The usual Hebrew spelling of Moses is MShH, with the literal meaning of 'drawn out' (like, from the bulrushes as the story has it), then extended to mean 'Deliverer' with a value of 345 of course. The name may well be spelt elsewhere as MVShH, I don't know off-hand. There are errors in Sepher Sephiroth and a fair amount of rather obscure material from the Hebrew Bible and the Kabbala Denudata, not to mention the helpful fact that much of the translation is in Latin.
There is a lot of discussion on the 'written Torah' and the 'oral Torah', or the 'unfolded Torah' and the 'primordial Torah' in Gershom Scholem's On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism (Ch.2, section III), a book with which Kenneth Grant had some familiarity as he refers to it and includes it in his bibliography to Nightside of Eden.
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