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privatepizza ago

Interesting that you've decided to come here. I note with interest also that you highlight the fact that OTO Australia have previously sued for slander. I note also that the case did not involve someone quoting Crowley's written words.

I'm interested in the Cake of Light ritual from Crowley's 'The Book of The Law', which states that initiates should consume a sacrament of cakes baked with menstrual blood or the fresh blood of a child.

I'm interested in where OTO and Thelema followers obtain the 'fresh blood of a child' for this sacrament. Maybe you can enlighten us?

redstickbigdick ago

If you read the chapter that I linked about the blood sacrifice being a euphemism then your question will be answered.

privatepizza ago

I've read the chapter, thank you.

Given that the The Book of The Law was transmitted to Crowley by the entity known as Aiwass over the course of three days in April,1904 and are published as the 'Bible' of Thelema, if an unknown person then says that blood sacrifice is a euphemism, isn't that in direct opposition to the channeled words of Aiwass and in direct opposition to The Book of The Law?

We can see from the Thelema Temple website and others that Thelema followers do make cakes of light with blood. I would therefore ask you again, where do these Thelema followers obtain the blood for their Cakes of Light?


In this contemporary Thelemic 'Cake of Light' recipe the cakes are also made with 'ingredient x' : blood.

"Ingredient X can be harvested, mixed with some honey and then frozen until such a time as you are ready to make your cakes of light."

https://hermetic.com/egc/aisha-cakes & http://archive.is/bN2QP


At The Temple of Thelema website we also find a discussion on how best to make Cakes of Light -

Forum - http://www.heruraha.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6678 & http://archive.is/vEEoS


Wikipedia - Cake of Light - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_of_Light & http://archive.is/THoA1

redstickbigdick ago

The blood component that goes into the cakes of light can come from a variety of different places as listed in the book of the law. I've never heard anyone interpret blood of a child as something other than the male sexual fluids just as blood of the moon is the female sexual fluids.

You'll notice also that the next instruction is to burn the listed reagents and from this make cakes. So generally what people do is mix it all up make cakes burn the cake and then use that ground up Ash in the very same batter.

privatepizza ago

If you take a look online at 'Cake of Light', you'll see that many Thelemites and OTO followers do take it literally and use blood in their cakes.

Personally I find it strange that people would change 'blood of the moon' and 'the blood of a fresh young child' to sexual fluids.

Throughout the history of sex magic we see that the most potent substances are menstrual blood and semen. So here, I interpret 'blood of the moon' to be menstrual blood. 'Blood of a fresh young child' I interpret to be just that.

Regards eating or burning cakes, we see through research that initiates do both. I understand that instructions are interpreted differently by different people and chapters.