My Magickal Motto

I understand the magickal motto to be part of the process of carving out a sacred space in my life. Of course, the ultimate goal is to make my whole life nothing but sacred space, but it is a process. The process begins with a dichotomy, and hopefully culminates with its reconciliation. I know the sacred by knowing the profane, or mundane. It is from this reference the process begins, so Frater Prima Materia is the magickal identity I've chosen to signify this new state of becoming, or my first stage of initiation.

I arrived at Prima Materia both conceptually and by using English gematria, which is eloquently explained by David Cherubim on the TGD website. Prima Materia is the first material, or matter, it is an alchemical term that often refers to Kether, but the first matter can also refer to the blind and unformed state of the aspirant coming into initiation. So, Prima Materia is both my ultimate aspiration, and my beginning magical state.

Using the English gematria we see Prima Materia has a numeric value of: 744. 7 + 4 + 4= 15, the path of the Emperor, and of Aries (my sign). 1 + 5= 6, the number of God, the Sun, the beast, and the holy number of Thelema. If we look at the other words/terms which share the value of 744, we see: Hoor-Pa-Kraat, Harpocrates, Splendour, Subtlety, Autonomy, Angra Mainyu, Goat of Mendes, Son of Satan, Star Ruby, Aureae Crucis, Fire and Water, Conjunctio, Compassion, etc. Even a cursory inquiry into the path of the neophyte, or the nature of the Great Work can show what a fitting melange of meanings these can be to an aspirant.

And now the most important and decisive reason of all: It sang to me... the outline I give here of how I arrived at my magickal Motto are the choices I made to start my search. There are no right or wrong criteria, except that the choice resonates with the aspirant and that they arrive at it on their own. I share my experience for the sake of sharing it, that's why I've started this blog. Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, love is the Law, love under will.

"This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be his child & that strangely. Let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it." AL III, 47