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The '''Cake of Light''' is the {{Wl|eucharistic host}} found within [[Thelema]], the religion founded by British author and occultist [[Aleister Crowley]] in 1904 and some {{Wl|neo-Gnostic}} religions. A common "cake of light" contains kamut flour, honey, a few drops of {{Wl|Abramelin oil}}, olive oil, beeswing, ash, and sometimes particular bodily fluids such as semen, menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, or a mix therein (blood is frowned upon by most Gnostics), and is usually cooked in the shape of a small, flat wafer. It appears by name in two important Thelemic rituals: the {{wl|Gnostic Mass}} and the {{wl|Mass of the Phoenix}}.'
The '''Cake of Light''' is the {{Wl|eucharistic host}} found within [[Thelema]], the religion founded by British author and occultist [[Aleister Crowley]] in 1904 and some {{Wl|neo-Gnostic}} religions. A common "cake of light" contains kamut flour, honey, a few drops of {{Wl|Abramelin oil}}, olive oil, beeswing, ash, and sometimes particular bodily fluids such as semen, menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, or a mix therein (blood is frowned upon by most Gnostics), and is usually cooked in the shape of a small, flat wafer. It appears by name in two important Thelemic rituals: the {{wl|Gnostic Mass}} and the {{wl|Mass of the Phoenix}}.'
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Thelema
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Core topics
The Book of the Law • Aleister Crowley • True Will
93 (Thelema) • Magick
Mysticism
Thelemic mysticism • Great Work • Holy Guardian Angel
The Gnostic Mass
Thelemic texts
Works of Crowley • Holy Books of Thelema • Thelemite texts
Organizations
A∴A∴ • Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC)
Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)
Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (OSOGD)
Typhonian Order (TO) • Order of Chosen Priests
Deities
Nuit • Hadit • Horus • Babalon • Chaos (mythology)
Baphomet • Choronzon • Ankh-f-n-khonsu • Aiwass • Ma'at}}
Related topics
Stele of Revealing • Abrahadabra • Unicursal hexagram
Abramelin oil • Thoth tarot deck • Aeon
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Cryptognosticism
"Three Parts of the Wisdom of the Whole Universe"
Alchemy • Astrology • Theurgy
Movements
Ariosophy • Freemasonry
Rosicrucianism • Theosophy • Thelema • Wicca
Orders
Knights Templar • Ordo Templi Orientis
Scottish Rite Freemasonry
Topics
Christian Kabbalah • Hermetic Qabalah
People
Aleister Crowley • François Rabelais
Francis Dashwood and the Hellfire Club

The Cake of Light is the eucharistic host ↗ found within Thelema, the religion founded by British author and occultist Aleister Crowley in 1904 and some neo-Gnostic ↗ religions. A common "cake of light" contains kamut flour, honey, a few drops of Abramelin oil ↗, olive oil, beeswing, ash, and sometimes particular bodily fluids such as semen, menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, or a mix therein (blood is frowned upon by most Gnostics), and is usually cooked in the shape of a small, flat wafer. It appears by name in two important Thelemic rituals: the Gnostic Mass ↗ and the Mass of the Phoenix ↗.'

Symbolism

The overall significance of the cakes is that it is considered to be a eucharist, a symbolic union between the microcosm ↗, Man, and the macrocosm ↗, the Divine; and the consumption of which completes a sacred circle, affirming an intimate connection between the two, which strengthens with each sacrament.

The Cakes of Light, traditionally composed of meal, honey, leavings of red wine lees, oil of Abramelin, olive oil and fresh blood as per the instructions in The Book of the Law is a perfume or incense but also a cake when baked.[Source 1]

Olive oil ↗ is considered a sacred oil by many cultures and religions of the world. It is also an ingredient in the making of Oil of Abramelin, and the olive noted by Aleister Crowley himself as "traditionally, the gift of Minerva, the Wisdom of God, the Logos".

Abramelin Oil was considered by Crowley to be representative of the "whole Tree of Life ↗. The ten Sephiroth ↗ are blended into the perfect gold". Abramelin Oil is thus also a symbol of the Philosopher's Stone ↗ of the Alchemists.

More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Cake_of_Light ]

Sources

  1. ↑ Crowley (1976) ch. III, vv. 23-25


Thelema personalities and topics
Core topics
The Book of the Law • Aleister Crowley • True Will • 93 (Thelema) • Magick
Personalities
List of Thelemites (Article @ WP} • Ankh-af-na-khonsu • Aleister Crowley • Kenneth Anger • Allan Bennett • William Breeze (Hymenaeus Beta) • Émile Brugsch • Mary Butts • Marjorie Cameron • Lon Milo DuQuette • Jeanne Robert Foster • J. F. C. Fuller • Karl Germer • Kenneth Grant • Allen H. Greenfield • Lady Frieda Harris • Leah Hirsig • Christopher Hyatt • Augustus Sol Invictus • Charles Stansfeld Jones • George Cecil Jones • Richard Kaczynski • Carl Kellner • Rose Edith Kelly • James Lees • Grady Louis McMurtry • Mogg Morgan • Marcelo Ramos Motta • Nema Andahadna • Victor Benjamin Neuburg • Sara Northrup • Jack Parsons • Israel Regardie • Theodor Reuss • C.F. Russell • Phyllis Seckler • Helen Parsons Smith • Wilfred Talbot Smith • Leila Waddel (Laylah) • James Wasserman • Sam Webster • Jane Wolfe • Gerald Yorke
Organizations
A∴A∴ • Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica • Fraternitas Saturni • O∴A∴A∴ • Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn • Ordo Templi Orientis • Typhonian Order
Concepts and ideas
Abyss • Aeon • Astrotheology • English Qaballa • Great Work • Hermetic Qabalah • Holy Guardian Angel • Magical formula • Night of Pan
Magick
Abrahadabra • Ceremonial magic • Enochian magic • Eroto-comatose lucidity • Goetia • Obeah and wanga • Sex magic
Ceremony and ritual
Banishing • Bornless Ritual • Cake of Light • Gnostic Mass • Mass of the Phoenix • Rites of Eleusis
Godforms and Dieties
Aiwass • Babalon • (Whore of Babylon) • Baphomet • ("The Beast") • Chaos • Choronzon • Hadit • Harpocrates • Heru-ra-ha • Ma'at • Nuit • Therion
Symbolism
Ankh • Number of the beast • Pentagram • Rose Cross • Stele of Revealing • Tree of Life • Unicursal hexagram
Related topics
Abbey of Thelema • Abramelin oil • Babalon Working • Boleskine House • Egyptian mythology • Freemasonry • Gnosticism • Hermeticism • Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn • Magical organization • Rosicrucianism • Stele of Revealing • Thelemapedia • Western esotericism
Thelemite texts
The Book of the Law • Liber AL vel Legis • The Equinox • 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley • Magick (Book 4) • The Confessions of Aleister Crowley • The Book of Lies (by Crowley) • Liber OZ (Liber 77) • The Equinox of the Gods • The Law is for All • Konx Om Pax • The Book of Thoth (by Crowley} • The Vision and the Voice • Little Essays Toward Truth • Eight Lectures on Yoga • Magick Without Tears • The Blue Equinox • Liber Aleph • Moonchild (novel) • Diary of a Drug Fiend • White Stains • Clouds without Water • Collected Works of Aleister Crowley 1905-1907 • The Stratagem and other Stories • The Holy Books of Thelema • Libri of Aleister Crowley • Thoth tarot deck • Works of Aleister Crowley • Category:Thelemite texts
Thelema texts - an index from the Internet Sacred Text Archives
Ordo Templi Orientis
Eclesiastical arm
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica • Thelema • O.T.O. / Dianetics nexus
Outer Heads and Caliphs
• Carl Kellner (1895–1905) • Theodor Reuss (1905–1923) • interregnum (1923–1925) • Aleister Crowley (1925–1947) • Karl Germer (1947–1962) • interregnum (1962–1969) • Grady Louis McMurtry (1969–1985) • William Breeze (1985–present)
Derivative
Society Ordo Templi Orientis (SOTO) • Typhonian Order (TOTO) • O.T.O. / Dianetics nexus
Outline of spirituality ● List of occult terms ● List of occultists ● Outline of spirituality
  • Outline_of_alchemy ↗ - A philosophical tradition recognized as protoscience, that includes the application of Hermetic principles, and practices related to mythology, religion, and spirituality.
  • List of occult terms ↗ - Terms used supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms of any otherworldly agency. It can also refer to other non-religious supernatural ideas like extra-sensory perception and parapsychology.
  • List of occultists ↗
  • Outline of spirituality ↗ - refers to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality, an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their own being, or the "deepest values and meanings by which people live."
Agape Lodge ● Abbey of Thelema ↗ ● List of Thelemites ↗ ● Members of Ordo Templi Orientis ↗
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