the Book of Knowing the Way by Margaret Wendall

In this episode, we descend from the heights of Magical Words and their cosmic pronouncements into the treacherous territory of linguistic traps and metaphysical masquerades. We explore how Margaret Wendall IV°—the Priestess of Per-Bastet, the meticulous scholar of hieroglyphs, the initiate who dared to question the Word itself—seized a fragmentary utterance and dragged it into the light, declaring that the path to Setamorphosis is not found in the blind recitation of sacred formulae but in the careful discernment of masks, the rejection of false gods, and the arduous labor of self-definition.From the rejection of Xem as a self-sufficient utterance and the embrace of Xem-Set as the microcosmic Majesty of Set to the concept of the Black Flame as the Pentagram in the heart, from the classification of the Neters of Emptiness and the rejection of Enochian magic to the controversial doctrine of the interdependence of Set and HarWer, from the political animal of the Order and the ideal constitution of the sub-Orders to the denial of collective identity without the Magick of the All—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Wendall's work and ask: In a world that still mistakes masks for faces, still confuses the void for the Form, and still debates the relationship between the individual Elect and the collective Order, do we have the courage to know our own Names, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of the Word as it was given?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: The Book of Knowing the Way Author: Margaret Wendall IV° (Anxembastet) Date: November, XIV(1) Classification: V4 - A17.22 - 5 Subject: Xem📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night; Analysis and Commentary -Michael A. Aquino, The Stélé of Xeper -Ronald K. Barrett, The Book of Opening the Way -Ronald K. Barrett, Letter to the Council of Nine (Dec. 4, 1978) -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead -E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Language -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians (two volumes) -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Mummy -Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice -Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth V.L. Davis, Pathways to the Gods: Ancient Egypt -J.G. Frazer, The Golden Bough -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible -J. Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy -E. Rossiter, The Book of the Dead -Alan Watts, Beyond Theology Diogenes -Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers🏷️ HASHTAGS#MargaretWendall #Anxembastet #BookOfKnowingTheWay #Xem #XemSet #Xeper #Set #HarWer #Anubis #Magus #Ipsissimus #TempleOfSet #OrderOfSet #LeftHandPath #BlackFlame #Pentagram #FormAndEmptiness #Neter #Khem #Osiris #Horus #Enochian #EnochianKeys #MagicalWord #StéléOfXem #StéléOfXeper #Setamorphosis #PerfectWisdom #Ma'at #Utchat #EgyptianHieroglyphs #AncientEgypt #Khem #Leviathan #RedMagus #RubyTablet #TheRubyTabletPodcast #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultTradition #EsotericWisdom #Initiation #SelfDefinition #Sovereignty #IsolateIntelligence #Darkness #BlackMagick #Setian #SetianPhilosophy #Xepera #Xeperu #MichaelAquino #RonaldBarrett #AntonLaVey #AleisterCrowley #Budge #Egyptology #BookOfTheDead #ComingForthByNight #OpeningTheWay #Thelema #Satanism #ChurchOfSatan #Harpocrates #Isis #Ra #AmenRa #Diabolicon #Thelemic #Magick