in disrepair, but has known days of lust and sin.
i know the feeling…
Yes but the link also talks about organizing free lectures about Crowley in 2015 in order to eventually get funding to turn the abbey into a museum...
One really needs to read this entire thread to understand the (probably) futile gesture. Anyone donating to "Save the Abbey and make it into a museum" should read Ch 88 (Gold Bricks) in The Book of Lies.
Post #1 (the OP) in this thread said: "He asked some specialists to estimate the value of the house and they said it’s 1.500.000 € at least. He mentioned more than once that he knows it’s falling apart ..."
In summary: The owner of the Villa Disrepair is asking a mil+ (million+) or so. Serious attempts at negotiation have failed. Something is not right in Denmark, er, Sicily. Good luck to the Museum project; please watch your wallets and purses.
Yes but the link also talks about organizing free lectures about Crowley in 2015 in order to eventually get funding to turn the abbey into a museum...
It doesn't actually say they are going to turn the Abbey into a Museum; it says they are going to create a museum. Not necessarily the same thing. If they do mean the Abbey, best of luck!
I miss Anna very much (anna apoustilidou) and all I can say is that she was a great seeker on the path and after Thelema she went into Entelechy. That was her own thing.
I hope that she is still alive, I lost contact quite some time ago.
So;
Paul can back me up, she was doing the whole Restore the Abbey project. It was going well.
Then I think she got into some legal troubles because Governments don't want you to profit off old land.
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It was going well.
Then I think she got into some legal troubles because Governments don't want you to profit off old land.
I do not remember it "going well" at any point ... except maybe when the idea first came up and people got excited.
Once engaged in the task, the progress reports cited slow progress ... finally leading to the [supposed] owner who wanted $100,000 for a place worth about $60,000.
So, yeah, there was certainly a BIG profit factor involved.
Governmental Governance of Greedy Gluts is probably a good thing, but it slows down the restoration of the past. Soon there will be nothing left to restore. All of everyone's eggs will be in one Boleskine.
In the long run, wouldn't be more cost-effective and less expensive to have some computer wiz create a 3-D virtual tour of the Abbey of Thelema? I have read that 3-D virtual tours may be available in Egypt to help preserve the integrity of the wall paintings. The Lascaux Cave paintings are now restricted from tourist, but a virtual tour exists.
In the long run, wouldn't be more cost-effective and less expensive to have some computer wiz create a 3-D virtual tour of the Abbey of Thelema
In the short run, it already exists. Interior decorating is still proceeding slowly, or has been side-tracked. @ptoner is an architect. See him for further unpdates or undates. This was, and still is, a great idea. However ...
A virtual tour is not a hard-bound house on the physical plane. Cost-effectiveness on either side of the fence is of no concern, as the gov put a lock on the hi-priced sale and the pictures painted on the walls are not available in detail so that's where it stopped.
3-D virtual tours may be available in Egypt
How cool. Does this mean you will recreate the Abbey in digits ... or are you just dreaming up work for somebody else to do?
A virtual tour is not a hard-bound house on the physical plane. Cost-effectiveness on either side of the fence is of no concern, as the gov put a lock on the hi-priced sale and the pictures painted on the walls are not available in detail so that's where it stopped.
Yeah, you're right. It would not have the psychic womp of actually being there. You can read about the Battle at Gettysburg, but you don't get the real significance unless you visit the site.
As far as I know, the virtual tours in Egypt are just in discussion. I can understand not wanting all of that body sweat of thousands of tourists visiting tombs. All that salt takes a toll on ancient wall painting. But it would be sad not to able to experience the physical power of actually being in a tomb or the temple at Karnak.
Just dreaming of work for someone else to do.
I miss Anna very much (anna apoustilidou) and all I can say is that she was a great seeker on the path and after Thelema she went into Entelechy. That was her own thing.
Yes, I don't know what happened to Anna, she also used to be quite active on FB, but hasn't been on there in years. I guess she deleted.
The problem with the Abbey is that the legal situation is so complex. I used to see it being advertised at silly asking prices ie north of 1m Euros. But that's all gone quiet.
Meanwhile the place continues to fall down.