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Since all men from their birth employ sense prior to intellect, and are necessarily first conversant with sensible things: Some, proceeding no farther, pass through life considering these as first and last; and apprehending what is painful to be evil, what is pleasant to be good, they deem it sufficient to shun the one and pursue the other. Some pretending to greater reason than the rest, esteem this wisdom; like earth-bound birds, though they have wings are unable to fly. The secret souls of others would recall them from pleasure to worthier pursuits; but they cannot soar: they choose the lower way and strive in vain. Thirdly, there are those divine men whose eyes pierce through clouds and darkness to supernal vision, where they abide as in their own lawful country
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| Scintillations in Mauve: A Lecture by Michael Staley |
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My thanks to Cerne for this item of News…
Scintillations in Mauve: An Introduction to the Work of Kenneth Grant
A lecture by Michael Staley
Thursday 1st April, 2010
The Britons Protection
50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester. M1 5LE
Kenneth Grant is a much-admired figure in the world of Thelema. Exponent of a distinct magical gnosis and writer of many books, he has produced a formidable and highly creative body of work, expressing approaches to magic and mysticism which have evolved throughout the years. At the heart of this work is the series of Typhonian Trilogies, commencing with The Magical Revival in 1972 and culminating in The Ninth Arch in 2002. In this talk Michael Staley will discuss the fundamental aspects of this work, as well as the ways in which Grant set out to develop Thelema and creative occultism in the light of the Typhonian or Draconian Current.
Grant’s work has grown out of an extraordinary life. He had a passion for magic, mysticism and comparative religion by the time he met Aleister Crowley in 1944 -- a contact which made a profound impact upon him. Later, he and his wife had a close association with the occult artist Austin Osman Spare. Spare’s work also had a huge influence upon Grant, but it was through his own magical and mystical experience that Grant was able to assimilate the work of these two and many others including Woodroffe, Massey, Blavatsky, and Lovecraft to form a vision that suffuses all his work but finds its most profound flowering in the Typhonian Trilogies. This lecture focuses on Grant’s work as expressed in the Typhonian Trilogies, and lays the foundation for a forthcoming series of talks which will focus more closely on specific elements of his work.
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| The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley |
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My thanks for the following to Weiser Antiquarian…
Now Available
Signed Copies of a new edition of
The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley
by
J Edward Cornelius
J Edward Cornelius, The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley. Berkeley, CA: Privately Published, 2010. First Edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. x + 246pp. Black cloth with gilt titling to spine. Full color dustjacket. B&w frontis, appendixes, index. Edition limited to 777 numbered copies. This copy signed by way of a bookplate affixed to the front endpaper.
The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley focuses on the central philosophies and practices of Magick, in particular the "attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel," and the secrets that lie at the heart of Crowley's Liber Aleph and The Book of Lies. The text has its origins in a series of instructions that Aleister Crowley gave to an American disciple, Grady Louis McMurtry, during the last years of the Second World War. McMurtry returned to the United States, and in his later years went on to head both the O.T.O. and his own lineage of the A.'. A.'. He became both friend and mentor to the author of this book, J. Edward Cornelius, to whom he confided the secrets and teachings that he had received from Crowley.
Following McMurtry's death, Cornelius explored these insights in a series of "Epistles" that were privately circulated amongst his own students. In 1999, he made a synthesis of these teachings, which he published in the Red Flame series of journals under the title The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley. It sold out rapidly, and soon became one of the most sought after modern explorations of Crowley's work. In the decade that has elapsed since the publication of the original Red Flame edition of the book, Cornelius has carefully reworked the text, removing sections that he no longer felt to be of relevance, clarifying passages that some of his students found difficult or perplexing, and extensively revising and augmenting the rest. In the process he has added fifteen new chapters, effectively reshaping the entire publication, and filling it with new insights for those interested in the Magick of "the Beast."
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| A Walk Across China |
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A Walk Across China
With Gary Dickinson at the Moot-with-No-Name
Wednesday 17th February 2010
In the final decade of the crumbling Manchu dynasty, accompanied by wife and child, Aleister Crowley made an epic three-month trek along part of the old Silk Road across China’s remote south-western Yunnan Province. There, he says, the magnificent scenery of China ‘penetrated his soul’. For Crowley that journey culminated in April 1906 with an invocation of Aiwass in the burgeoning treaty-port of Shanghai.
The ‘Walk Across China’ reflects another, inner journey Crowley made through an equally wildly romantic landscape; a ‘China’ of popular myth. That journey began in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1901 and continued through to the end of his sojourn in New York during the years of the First World War.
To celebrate the Chinese New Year, in ‘A Walk Across China’ Gary Dickinson retraces Crowley’s footsteps, looking at some of the places he visited using photographs taken around the time Crowley was there, and examining some of things he saw and the people he met.
Gary Dickinson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, an expert on Chinese art and was an historical consultant for Bertolucci’s Oscar-winning film ‘The Last Emperor’. He has lectured in major museums throughout the world and, after some 30 years of study of the ancient Chinese oracle, has recently started an I Ching consultancy service.
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| Pasadena Babalon at Theatre Caltech |
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From Friday 19 February 2010 at 8:00 PM
Ramo Auditorium
$18 (unreserved seating)
Presented By: Caltech Performing and Visual Arts
Pasadena Babalon is a new stage play dealing with the life of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet General Corporation.
Theater Arts at Caltech (TACIT) director Brian Brophy (Shawshank Redemption, Day Without a Mexican, Star Trek: The Next Generation) will direct the play penned by George Morgan, author of last year's well-received Rocket Girl.
Babalon takes the audience on a journey through mid-1930s Pasadena up until Jack's untimely death in 1952. Surrounded by a gallery of characters from Aleister Crowley, L.Ron Hubbard, Theordore Von Karman, and many others, the play examines the nature of genius with its unintended consequences, black magic, military contracts, and the formation of JPL.
TACIT casts feature Caltech undergraduates, graduate students, staff members, and JPL engineers.
The play will also be presented on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, and the following weekend on Friday and Saturday.
Discounted pricing for youth, students, seniors, and groups of 10 or more will likely be available, but prices have not yet been set.
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