Being the Spirit Actions of the Magicians of Tolpan
6:00pm June 14th 2010 - Sydney, Australia.The Fire Tablet: The Banner Angels Oip and Teaa - PART 2
The Vision of Teaa
I see the Holy Table and the four of use sitting about it. Four poles shoot down through the roof like spears and into the floor at each corner of the Table. Each is a banner bearing a letter of Teaa's name. They shift in arrangment an dorder, almost like trying to show me in a number of different ways what the represent. I'm pretty sure I make out "T" on the the front left, "E" on the front right, and two "A"s on the two rear corners. I can't tell if it's simply an ordered corner to corner way of reading or a zig-zag pattern. I stand and walk into the middle of the four banners (through the Holy Table).
I am pulled down into the earth, through a whirling tunnel of fire. I emerge through the roof of a massive subterranean cavern, lit by orange flame from somewhere. I am falling, but controlling my descent. I direct myself towards the floor of the cavern where a large area is composed of smooth, dark, obsidian glass. When I am standing on solid ground, I see that beyond the edge of this glassy surface the rock of the cavern rises up in rocky steps towards the sheer surface around the edge. There is a small opening in these stairs in the side of the cavern. The King stands there, with an armoured angel to his right. I recognise this angel as Oip. The King looks at me warily. He advances towards me down the stairs, but not by walking. He merely comes closer. There is a vague threat in his approach, but having had the experience before with Oip, who explained that he was merely demonstrating his authority, I do not back down. Oip moves with him, and I get the sense that it is not merely the two of them present.
When the King stands upon the glass before me face full of power and fury, I trace the symbol he gave me in 2005 in the air. He steps back, threat dropping, and from behind him steps another angel, all but identical to Oip. I get a feeling of having passed a test of some sort. Hooray. I also feel that there is another figure I cannot see behind the King. The King and Oip moved back in the same way, without walking. The new angel remains. I ask if he is Teaa and he resonds that he is. I test him with a Fire invoking pentagram and he responds accurately. He says he is here "By the King's Grace." (a phrase Oip also used, which I think may have left out of the account of that Vision)
I ask for his symbol and he also raises his elbows, forearms dangling, straight down this time. Two lines extend diagonally inward over him. At first I think they meet, making a triangle above the vertical line, but they do not. This makes a symbol almost identical to that of Oip's only the lower parts of the outer arm are vertical instead of angled outwards.
I ask him his nature: He is fortitude, strength, stalwart, drive, power, foundation. He also absorbs all that is seen (or all that is?) and reflects only Truth.
I ask him his planetary nature and he says Sol - I ask if he can tell me the same of the Oip and Teaa - he says the Banners are all of the King and all of Sol, but Oip and Pdoce are of another nature also. I have a vague sense of Virgo as an association, but perhaps that is my own mind trying to fill boxes.
I ask him his scent and he says hot sand, brine (as of an ocean boiled away to dryness), frankincense, and possibly juniper??
I ask him how he operates in my mundane life: Strength, striving for strength, driving forward.
I ask if he can help me in my mundnae life and again, like Oip he gives me some rudimentary instructions for sigil construction.
I ask what colours are most his: Red, Yellow and Green. I comment that I see not Green here, and he responds that Green is inside him, unseen.
He says he is the beginning and end of the King. I comment that he and his fellow are much clearer than the Seniors were and he says of course they are, and he is, he has the King's Mouth. The King circles him. Hence he is clearer than his fellow Banner bearers. He says the Seniors follow the Banner bearers.
The vision feels nicely rounded off here and I feel no more need to linger or ask for more information. I see the King standing my the cave entrance as I look up from the floor of dark glass and launch into the air, through the roof and the tunnel of fire into the room, in the Holy Table, between the four Banners. I step out, the banners lift up out of the room, I sit back down, and return.
DEBRIEF
This vision was much more like a back and forth dialogue than any other. The whole feeling was different. Again the King was present. The others had similar experiences of the King's presence. Teaa said he is the beginning and the end of the King, which makes sense as the first and last letters of the name EdlprnaA are letters of Teaa's name, which also explains his saying that he has the Mouth of the King. When I last met the King in 2005 he did not speak - interesting. I wonder if he will this time when we skry him next, and if he will be alone.
The four banners which descended showing his name seemed to flit about in order, and also between Enochian letters and English letters - perhaps trying to get me to understand better. I wonder if the corner each letter landed on is significant in terms of the Holy Table. These banners also recalled the Vision of Oip with the battlefield littered with banners bearing singler Enochian letters.
The number four featured in this vision not only in Teaa's name, or the four banners, but in the themes of strudy foundations and stability. There was a distinctly earthy quality to Teaa despite his fiery nature - perhaps why I thought of Virgo as a link - not to mention the "absorbing all that is, reflecting only truth" thing.
I'm developing an idea about Sephiroth and the action of these Banner bearers, but it will have to wait until skrying Pdoce and the King to be sure, or see if it holds water.
