Last seen: Nov 9, 2023
Interesting point. AI is a good survey tool. It is showing us the average view. Kind of like those word-clouds that were ubiquitous a few years ago, w...
@the_real_simon_iff Exactly. Where did "spiders" and "webs" and "networks" come from? It's random contemporary esoteric-commercial lingo in coherent, ...
No, I can't agree. I think that's an absurd way to read a manuscript (I can hardly imagine what people might do with words taken my handwriting!). If ...
Here is a Crowley manuscript "Shit," from his diary for 4 October 1923. The text was printed in Stephen Skinner, The Magical Diaries of Aleister C...
It's a typical Crowley "sp," of which there are 38 instances in the manuscript of the Book of the Law that you can compare it with, including another ...
It's a modern comic series called "Fool," according to its creator Ronin635 (=DCXXXV), upthread about halfway, date of 19/04/2007 - On a more p...
"Mad - bad - and dangerous to know" was how Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828) described Lord Byron (1788-1824) in her diary of 25 March 1812, after seein...
That's very nice artwork, thanks for sharing it. I went looking for the vignettes for Chapter 64 of the Book of the Dead to see if they show twin h...
Liber Israfel, sub figûra LXIV, is numbered 64, according to Crowley, because it is "a number of Mercury." 8 squared, and also Din and Doni, "twin mer...
This is a parody of (very mediocre) poet Edgar Guest's "It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home" When I was a teenager, I tried to im...
For a brief, recent account of Crowley's and Farr's use of Chapter 64, there is Foy Scalf, editor, Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt (Or...
The source is Chapter 64 of the Book of the Dead, selections of which were published by Florence Farr, Egyptian Magic, 1896, p. 13. Ye Two Divine ...
I think you have a good insight here for why most people find Crowley's poetry so "bad." They aren't self-contained, but require a key, or many keys. ...
Regarding AL III:71 "Hail! Ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world," there is a parallel in Crowley's poetry, which is apparently derived from...
Of course you may do as you please, but then I'll be as inclined to take your criticism of Crowley as seriously as I take his of W. B. Yeats or A. E. ...
Dom David's conversation starters aren't always well-referenced, so it's helpful to put his offhand remarks in context. More importantly, it helps to ...
Typo in my transcription of the original quote. It should be - "... it seemed to me to lack virility."
What about Crowley's "extended criticism" of Yeats in "The Equinox (vol. I, no. II, page 307)"? It's not there. I checked the 1929 edition of Co...
Wilson, maddeningly, does not give a reference for the apparent quotation. It took me awhile to find it. Confessions, page 165: I remember one...
The "two-pillar identification" was my conribution, not PerduraboST's. I believe so, at least. I've checked in the chapter where he brings up the Russ...
Ditto here. I think Hymn to Pan stands out. I'd say it transcends mere poetry, into actual incantation. Then there are the verses he got via magic...
Thank you very much for supplying that entry, Lutz! From that, I'd say that "I" refers to Victor Neuburg himself. It doesn't help us identifying the m...
The only next step I can think of is to see the diary manuscript, if that is possible. It may or may not give some insight. But AC wasn't going by ...
The syntax, or the form of the quote, doesn't help. If "I" refers to Neuburg himself, what would he have had to do with the manuscript of Liber L to b...
threefold31 Speaking of latitude, a note of interest about the Straits of Gibraltar is "one of the principal parallels of latitude, by which Erato...
Oh yes, it was always on his mind, and I suppose he kept the typescript close. This must be the one he had on him in 1905-6, when he visited Elaine Si...
Fun fact: Crowley never crossed the equator (speaking of longitude and latitude). He was never in the southern hemisphere. The closest he ever came...
The Pillars of Hercules are also close to the Prime Meridian (0° on the longitude scale, the basis of Universal Time, and Greenwich Mean Time) and Fr...
I take AC's version of events as accurate, even to the hearing of the voice over his left shoulder, while at the same time echoing "in his heart." It ...
Thanks for pointing out the symbolic significance of that, which I hadn't thought of. I knew France was given Morocco by the Entente Cordiale, but I d...
The prophylactic measures are taking a toll. We're all worn down, more or less listless, I guess. Even Googlhulthlu has its limits. Maybe video gaming...
Two out of three of your prognostications were fulfilled sooner and more accurately than I could have imagined. Not only did we (in France, includi...
I guess it's forensic if one presents the evidence in the form of an argument. I am doing that about the Isis versus Osiris, in order to weigh the pos...
Yes, it only matters which forgetfulness you choose to believe. For me, the earlier - Temple of Solomon the King - "7th of April" carries more weight ...
There are still some possible avenues where the Almighty Google might help, but getting to the bottom of anything typically means writing to private i...
Colin Macleod's generosity, relayed by Lutz, has saved me or us some pennies in this regard. I guess we unleashed that. We already knew what Isis was ...
I'm titillated by the "hard-core" moniker. I could be even harder, but I'd need exponentially more resources, of the kind known as "currency," both li...
Wow, thanks! And thank Colin for sharing all the Lloyd's etc. for references to Osiris. I suppose those other two Osiri are not P&O ships. Not ...
Yes, I'm leaning more to the plausibility of Oceana-Isis transfer than the wild Osiris journey. Perdurabo ST's scenario does not take into account the...
Note that Macleod does not "definitively" show that Oceana arrived in Port Said on 18 April. This appears to be an assumption. Comparing the sources...
No, Besant arrived in Port Said on the 19th, and departed on the 20th, on the Osiris. She got off of the Oceana because that was going on to Marseille...
That IS the simplest explanation - a misreading or typo in Perdurabo ST's un-proofed pages. But even if it is, it is still remarkably fast to go from ...