For a long time I had a lazy interest in Thelema - my copy of the Holy Books there, I regret, for show more than anything else. But a few years ago, while studying Yeats, I came across the Golden Dawn, started reading around that subject and then took the plunge a few months ago to seriously study Crowley's writings and see where they took me. I've not got as far as I'd hoped! I'm in what I would describe as my pre-Student stage with the A.'.A.'., where I've not committed but I have started looking at the curriculum in a serious way. Three months doesn't seem to me to be that long to get familiar with so much material.
Anyway, that's me. I've yet to have the Liber III vel Jugorum experience, there's a lot for me to find out and I thought, what better way to do that than among people like you.
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Welcome to the lions pit!
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To carry on with the zoological theme: welcome to the menagerie here, hippo! (You are well come.)
You cannot hope to become familiar with it all in three months, and to cover the entire syllabus assiduously would take many years work; such is the wealth of information available in the present day (now compounded also by the easier access to resources via the web etc) you will be forced to discriminate and prioritise in your selectivity even more than it would have been necessary to in Crowley’s time. Hopefully you will manage to be guided by the invisible hand of the S.S., if you happen to invest belief in that sort of thing (= serendipitous synchronicity) being involved.
If you mean the thought/ word control using a razor blade one of the first things to find out maybe is that it is not essential to do it by this method and that there are plenty of other ways to skin a crocodile. Or even tan a hippopotamus!
In the meantime, I leave serenading you with that old refrain: “We accept you, we accept you, one of us, one of us” …
All the be(A)st -
Norma N Joy Conquest
Anyway, that's me. I've yet to have the Liber III vel Jugorum experience, there's a lot for me to find out and I thought, what better way to do that than among people like you.
Welcome.
93! Welcome! 😀