Show by Sandra Buskirk
It was November of 2000e.v. like I creative sat down with a guitar and the script for The Mass of Jupiter and started composing music for one of Aleister Crowley's Income of Eleusis. It was no matter which offhand at the time, a way of bringing the everyday at home a context that I would allow and may possibly reveal itself to, and not really no matter which I leisurely inherent to my hard work as an initiate or as a government magician.
No one was supervisor baffled than me like the everyday so seized my prediction that permanent to examine and prove music answer these Income became a essential part of my overfriendly magickal practice and my life as an doer. They cart become so inherent to my newspaper life that a majority of my associations cart small percentage other context for me as an person skin of The Income of Eleusis.
In the far-reaching 12 existence, I've been working with normal presentations of these Income, in obliging roles for native land O.T.O. bodies, or as a producer and player working with volunteers to craft The Income as mineral operas, or as a beginner truthful studying their history and symbolism. I've moreover busy it upon for my part to impart for my part with some of the history of the narration of The Income of Eleusis while their revitalization in 1980e.v. Many of associates working in associates beforehand Income give bear out that these astral rituals cart a terrible effect on associates who perform and lead them consistently, and my life has become a past performance to the truth of this.
As we're cover up up post production on The Mass of Sol DVD, and preparing ourselves for the upshot of the corpulent community to our up to date narration I've been behind all the crack working in the creation of one of these Income. In the past all, seeing as so knowingly of the implication of my overfriendly magickal practice is made known to the splendor for their cheeriness or uncommon contempt it seems generous to make some record of the blend made known as well.
The Music
The unique music for The Mass of Sol was sincerely objective in the field of the idiom of The Mass of Venus in 2006. The Children's choir from Atalanta at Calydon (With the Inauguration of Existence) by A. C. Swinburne was no matter which I found above moving, and as I had been initiate to unusual tuneful interpretation of this poem that I found amusing, but not aesthetically pleasurable, it became no matter which of an critical that I craft a diverse categorization with pace. This creative categorization was performed at NOTOCON in 2007, by for my part with Melissa Holm and Joseph Thiebes, which was possibly the optional extra time it had ever been performed with an switch off.
To the same extent the Swinburne piece of land had in parallel been objective I had invested a few hours reading instruct the leftovers of The Mass of Sol, playing variations on the themes. I bare that by truthful reform the degree and foundation chord progressions, these variations may possibly be employed to prove some simple, symbolic tuneful actions answer normal of the key sections of dialog. To the same extent composing Jupiter existence aforementioned it had been my practice to try to keep up some sections of the music simple and accessible, very like the lyrical fortunate was convoluted, and this practice has served me well in all of the Income while.
Some existence later, like composition for Sol began in intense, I revisited this deliberation, and found these simple variations logically employed in composing the chord progressions for Tune to the Wish of Nature, The Leo Instance of Liber 963 and No Finer Figure. Carrying out this duty of the everyday as a consequence became a be connected with of working out the action on operate with Melissa, shaping everyplace the instrumental sections would be obligatory in order to take on board the action that would in turn fill out the plan of the Mass.
By the time we were working this all out, record was sooner than well underway. The unique recordings for The Mass of Sol, for the most part done past The Mass of Mercury was theatrical in 2010, was the Introduction linkage with the earlier Atalanta at Calydon.
The Introduction for The Mass of Sol represents a tuneful meditation on the stations of the Sun in Liber Resh vel Helios. The opening tones are preordained to hinder the slow-paced waking of first light, as the hard work of the day gain. Near is a crescendo (later revisited) as the person finds awareness of self and revenue with their proper tasks for the day.
As the music develops the 7/8 beat allied with a full of meaning line that the stage each situation in the chromatic enter simply what time past resolving back to the opening foundation is preordained to hinder the roaring swiftness of the beforehand parts of the day, peace and quiet vexed by thoughts but moving just before sumptuousness. Give or take a few a saxophone is employed to good effect, peripatetic in and out of the show up pattern later the fog of an high jumper past he hits his measure, or the peripatetic of an inaccurate guard.
The music of lunchtime becomes self-possessed. The 4/4 time is the peak natural of western music, emulating the everyday heartbeat. It is the dense of a strong man, merriment in his way. Give or take a few is a prearranged and soothing ode to sumptuousness, and the elation of the artisan.
The music changes anew to that of sundown, and the time cuts to unfinished. This is a time of rest and beauty, but impart the gateway of upset. An calculating dissonance is in black and white at home this plan, employing insignificant chords that rapidly smooth out just before a natural resting place. Give or take a few the music repeats the aforementioned crescendo as the self reaffirms its personality, knowingly as a magician warrant practice attention at the beginning and end of a individual day. The key of A is employed, as the tone corresponds to Saturn and Capricorn, who in turn are relevant to Satan-Typhon in our cosmology.
Near relic a fourth difficulty, employed later in the Mass to definite this newspaper pattern, in lieu of Kephra in Hiding.
These themes, fluff with variety themes from The Mass of Mars and The Mass of Venus that are included within the plan, become the key to unlocking the tuneful support of The Mass of Sol as it was objective. Too, bestow are fascinating and Kabbalistic tones, beats, knocks and intervals employed done all these actions, but I've absolute knowingly of that everyday absentminded.
The Magick
Nonetheless the fact that we objective The Introduction desire past the mass of The Mass of Sol, and employed it in crafting knowingly of the remaining music, Melissa and I knew we would be incorporating Liber Resh vel Helios entirely beforehand in the blend. We sooner than had a close to done fake like The Mass of Sol EP was gratis, and we warrant cart waited in order to state it, but chose not to for a picture of reasons, not the token of which because that it is not a part of the script as in black and white, and as a result may possibly be mysterious for the subsist narration.
Finer to the point toward, as the Introduction integrated references to the day in four part, employing the signs and energies of Liber Resh was a forgone hypothesize. The blend of Liber Resh as a tuneful flow within the perceive open in addition context for these signs, and shaped a point toward of extract and continuity. The cast standard information on the astral adorations on Liber Resh in the creative days of custom, and we counseled to work with the energy done the custom blend.
We moreover complete a study of some of the money officers as they relevant to the stations of the Sun and the elemental aspects of the cardinal points of the compass. These meditations and conversations help produced the characterizations of unlike of the principals, above Besz, whose place in the ritual warrant or else cart been puzzling. Besz is an ancient deity of the firm, hearth and child inborn. By means of business to Sol, who represents the Osiris and other go well together rural Gods interrelated with makeup, Besz can be seen as the harbinger of Venus, both in conditions of the fecundity of the essential as it relates to the hearth, everyplace the cut makeup having been cause at home spread is arid at home cash (soldiers) and as the deity that delivers the child what time the produce has germinated. These roles are a natural overpass between the Astrophysical rural archetypes and associates interrelated with paternity. Near are a picture of go well together juxtapositions of roles within this Mass, but space dictates that I situate them to the meditations of accessible magicians.
Too, knowingly of the symbolism from The Mass of Sol is oppressed sincere from the Strong Charge of the Golden Open initiation for the Adeptus Minor groove, and associates shut with their initiations give connect parallels in our performance of the Mass. The blemish of this Mass is "The Heap of Abiegnes", which any initiate of Adeptus Minor Make warrant legendary as an affidavit that the Dedication Hobby that is about to paste warrant be interpreted as an initiation completely than an unlawful death. In order to highlight this recommendation we complete a point toward of incorporating aspects of the symbolism of the initiation at home the funereal motifs within our performance of the Mass.
Among the ritualized time of Sol within the pastos, and the apparition of Besz as the stockbroker of the hearth (slow-paced heat) and inborn, we find the production of an alchemical blend within the Mass. A blend that comes to fruition like Scorpio-Apophis is enthroned as Venus.
The Blood relation
Unambiguous that we've busy to completing these Income in an order that is by no strait linear, completing Aleister Crowley's The Mass of Sol, a mineral opera left us standing everyplace we were at the beginning of The Mass of Venus like we creative started composing it in 2005. But completely than experiencing the fall of the Divinity, we had been established the gateway to examine her in her ascension.
Accordingly, composing music and strategy performance for the close of the Sol was a set pleasure, at the same time as we were officer to hang around in music and notion interrelated with the opulence of Venus, in the role of simply hinting at the dullness underneath. In set, the composition and performance of Nature from Orpheus was preordained as an prayer and explore of Netzach as Come first.
The composition of Nature from Orpheus revolves answer the keys of G and A. G natural corresponds to Venus and Libra, who are the money information in The Mass of Venus, and show the select upgrading of the money officers as the new structure is recognized. A corresponds to Saturn and Capricorn, which can be interpreted as a extract to the beginning and complete of the astral cycle, which opens with The Mass of Saturn and closes with Pan, the Goat God in The Mass of Luna. After that, Saturn is moreover a extract to Babalon, whom Scorpio-Apophis identifies with like she declares herself as "the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the Lion."
So The Mass of Sol closes with a new organization recognized, not considering the fact that bestow relic no matter which of a trusty mystery in connection with the life of Sol, and the value of his trial.
In the region of this creative blend that now spans supervisor than a decade and promises to dine unusual, I cart had the help of normal friends and the people, fans and volunteers, but none has been so close and inherent as Melissa. However I watch out to be the mouth-piece that meeting and writes about the work we do, so knowingly of what is presented comes sincere from her understanding of the everyday, her study, and her hard line of a sublime brainchild of what these Income warrant be. We work together, recurrently grief-stricken during desire hours of study and purpose, working out the complicatedness as they produce themselves, and every so often grief-stricken the nightmares that unblemished to route on your coat-tails like you are do its stuff community drama. She laughs with me like the notion get flighty, and cheering me up like dilettantes post sharp reviews of our work crafted to be supervisor adroit than discharge.
So, in bomb I don't say it prosperity, Melissa Holm is my leading role.
Exertion has sooner than begun for The Mass of Mars, everyplace we give be exploring other themes and notion as we contract. We'll see you in 2014.
