Light of the Gnosis

· What Is QBLH? ·

Republished from
"Thelema", Autumn issue, 1981
with edits by Soror Ishtaria, Lodge Babalon

"The voice of my beloved", the Holy One, blessed
be He, saying, Open to me an opening no bigger than
the eye of a needle, and I will open to thee the
Supernal Gates.
-Zohar.

When any individual decides or Wills to move along the Path of Higher Consciousness, then the Holy One or Interior Self takes more steps toward him/her than there are sands in the Worlds of Time. These steps of our Higher Self are called the Welcoming of God, or the Qabalah. (As the Bridegroom greets his Bride, Shakti, in nuptial embrace, so should the man welcome his Source for integration.)

Aleister Crowley's magickal Son, Frater Achad, has written: "The Root of the word Qabalah is QBL meaning "To receive." The numeration of QBL [each Hebrew letter has a numerical equivalent; Q=100, B = 2, L =30] is 132, which suggests the Supernal Triad. The word Qabalah is in Hebrew QBLH. The Final He' suggests the Daughter, Malkuth. Kether, Chokmah, Binah, are the Roots of the Elements Air, Fire, and Water. Malkuth alone is attributed to Earth which is a compound of the other three. Therefore QBLH implies that Malkuth is "To Receive" the "Roots" of the Primordial Elements directly from the Supernals, and is composed thereof."

The stars and their revolutions were the original Time Keepers of early Man. The original is founded upon these astronomical observations of periodicity or cycles. Gerald Massey, scholar and mage extraordinaire, has emphatically stated,

“...the Kabala is the doctrine of the starry revolutions and repetitions."

Further, he has stated that –

“The secret wisdom of the Jewish Kabala relates primarily to the mythological astronomy and the doctrines of the hidden wisdom concerning cycles of time. In its latter forms, abstractions and other mystification's took the place of, obscured, and obfuscated the primordial facts."

Liber XIII, issued from Q.B.L.H., is intent on pointing the Way to those early “primordial facts", and to assist the individual concerned with Spiritual Regeneration. As the bulk of regular consciousness is ingrained in the material, so we begin our Journey from Malkuth or the Physical Plane. And this is the rationale for the Restored Paths of the Tree...from Aleph to Tau.

QBLH is a Hermetic Order of individuals who are cultivating and nurturing a “Weltanschauung" or world view, through the application of the liberty of living as Thelemites (see Liber AL vel Legis-The Book of the Law). This overall perspective extends to a “yoga" and synthesis of East and West. We treasure and cultivate the few fragments of the Western Esoteric Tradition, while incorporating the useful Eastern lore. This translates, essentially, into an appreciation and debt to the Tantrik Way.

QBLH, in its current phase, was initiated more than 35 years ago by three Fraters (Brothers). The Initiated Wisdom or Keys were communicated directly by a living Teacher, who in turn received the Gnosis from another Adept, and with contact of the Real Teacher-the Inner Self. In keeping with the Hermetic axiom – “To KNOW, To WILL, To DARE, To KEEP SILENT." We Know the course of our upward spiraling evolution, Will to be one-pointed to the Higher, Dare to be a Self-reliant ruler of our destiny, and remain Silent in the Tao of Timeless Presence.

· Those who have felt the pull of destiny to become more than they are, are invited to study, learn, and apply the “Gnosis of Regeneration."
· No dues are exacted!
· Members are encouraged (but are not required) to develop their own individual Magickal System along established Alchemical principals. (Magickal systems, like mathematics, aid one in working with and describing the Universe. But the system is NOT the Universe).
· No Initiations are performed nor Grades conferred for attainment (In reality initiations can not be conferred by anyone other than the personal Higher Self).
· One QBLH purpose is to help an individual far enough along the way so that they don't need an Order, and can Work on their own.
· A group or Order is like a cell; it must divide. Nothing endures very long on this Plane of manifestation. In the end only the Inner remains.