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I think the gist of the ire is that, if there are no rules, anything can be made to equal whatever number you want. And then it's all meaningless. Whi...
You mean other than in the ability to prove the efficacy of it objectively? 😉
Almost everything Dr. Sledge does on Esoterica is worth time and close attention.
As the person who started this thread and the only person (it seems) to have read the entire book, I certainly did not mean to insinuate that NO secre...
The understatement of the new year!
Does anyone have a citation for AC's use of AL as code for Peyote or Mescaline, and 31 for AL, prior to TBOTL?
YOU grant it. But if the back-stop to every discussion is that if Crowley said it it must be true, then there's dumb.
There's been a good deal of scholarly work that supports the idea of Nero as 666. Here's one such link: You have to grant the premise that AC ...
It seems the Christian bent is becoming a dominant theme. A theme that was always there and deliberately hidden. When I was a very young person the...
I offered it, last week. Because the book is a collection of thoughts, often bordering on stream of consciousness, lacking the sort of structure...
Oh I don't know. I'm OK making the distinction. I don't personally feel every aspect of life is "magick." I don't consider the next shit I take to be ...
Didn't this book just come out?
One of the simple secrets of life is learning how to give into temptation without letting it own you, or ruining you, magick aside (depending upon you...
Oh, a fellow initiate of the mysteries I see.
Knowing how to resist the urge not to give in is the true test of the highest grade. 😉
Why does this not apply to you and your own work?
Hopefully such things need no celebrity endorsement to remain valued and useful.
Heyo! Very well done.
That's a great question.
True! You put it all very well.
And many others. It wouldn't be as silly and aggravating as it is were it not always predicated by grandiose statements about the "abolition of all ob...
It doesn't seem unclear to me but I get what you're saying. Very well. But this is just a book review, not a personal/achievement review. But yo...
Let's not let RTC's brief appearance derail the topic, please.
Meaning that they don't add up as the drug is never mentioned in the popular telling of the reception mythos, or the fact that the drug was (could hav...
Butt...That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. This goes double when the "evidence" can be interpreted to me...
Non-stop sexual debauchery sounds distinctively NOT like sex magick, especially by Crowley's definition. This point aside, the ritual was specifically...
Yes! Thank you. I could not, for the life of me, remember the title or if it was an official Liber or not. The point being that, in the diary excer...
No, it's a very small book that gives some parts of the diary, notes on the invocation, and other details (including the sex part).
Here's a quick lecture from Everitt that hits the bullet points of his thesis:
What do you mean by this?
I'd love to see evidence of it out of purely historical curiosity. If only Crowley's own account could count.
He claimed a lot of things that aren't true. Arthur Heffter (German) isolated it in the late 19th c and Ernst Spath (Austrian) synthesized it in 1919....
I could not agree more but, if ever the world were in need of a new religion, it's one that worships sex and getting stoned.
Baphomet was likely a misheard pronunciation of Muhammed but, whatever it was, it's first recorded use was in the 11th Century.
Yeah. But I have to be on the lookout for my own shortcomings in such judgement.
Did your account get hacked?
Not to make it all about me, but my original reasons for stepping away and then disappearing had far more to do with the people who were at the top of...
I know for a fact they have a couple copies on hand. I don't want to appear too noble: I had already distanced myself from everything by that time....
I've ordered it. Review to come (to pun intended).
These are both anecdotal as I have not spoken to either individual in at least a decade, but in both circumstances they were expelled over association...
@kidneyhawk There is no alternative conclusion. I have had several friends who have been expelled from cOTO for association with non-duplex orgs. E...
To take it even farther: Can a reasonable person believe that whatever the "Aeon" is is the end all be all of anything? To say yes is to perpetuate th...
He certainly is.
I wasn't butting heads and I agree about RTC. As I have said before, his was the only book I have ever returned. My measure is subjective. Member...
Very well put. But there are many people who don't (and won't) know of another resource, will get near, get hit on the head, and move away forever.