Damien
@damien
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Joined: Nov 11, 2021
Last seen: Nov 27, 2023
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RE: Location of the Babalon working

What's the not nice version of your sentiment?

3 days ago
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RE: Location of the Babalon working

Which books? Understatement of the post!

3 days ago
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RE: Crowleymas

Wait, so we ARE celebrating the man Crowley? 😉

2 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

Very different, indeed. But, as said, if Levi is the lone source it would make sense that this could be where he got the inspiration.

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

@ignant666 Mea culpa. I should have been more clear.

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

@shiva I was mostly referring to the obfuscation of sources. Obviously some of what you said is true as well. I wasn't getting at any more or less t...

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

Too close an interest in the occult, or of things in general?

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

Certainly to ill-effect, too, although where that line is drawn is often too subjective to be useful as a line.

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

@katrice At the very least it's worth understanding how many things have been invented, bent and obscured under said mania.

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

I've been eagerly waiting for you to chime in. Is there a sad trombone emoji? Like almost everything else? 😉

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

Are you confident in Levi being the earliest source? Which is to ask: Levi made them up?

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

Why is it possibly derived from that? Do you have any sources that suggest this? This one has always confuses me and I wish there were some more ...

5 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

@ignant666 Thank you. I had forgotten this but I feel as if there is an earlier source, still.

5 months ago
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RE: Shin for the win

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...

9 months ago
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RE: Headless Rite and the Golden Dawn?

You mean other than in the ability to prove the efficacy of it objectively? 😉

10 months ago
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RE: Headless Rite and the Golden Dawn?

Almost everything Dr. Sledge does on Esoterica is worth time and close attention.

10 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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...

11 months ago
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RE: Crowley. Mescaline, and Patrick Everitt's Thesis

Does anyone have a citation for AC's use of AL as code for Peyote or Mescaline, and 31 for AL, prior to TBOTL?

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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.

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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 ...

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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...

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

I offered it, last week. Because the book is a collection of thoughts, often bordering on stream of consciousness, lacking the sort of structure...

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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 ...

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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...

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

Knowing how to resist the urge not to give in is the true test of the highest grade. 😉

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

Hopefully such things need no celebrity endorsement to remain valued and useful.

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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...

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

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...

11 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

Let's not let RTC's brief appearance derail the topic, please.

11 months ago
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RE: Crowley. Mescaline, and Patrick Everitt's Thesis

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...

11 months ago
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RE: Crowley. Mescaline, and Patrick Everitt's Thesis

Butt...That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. This goes double when the "evidence" can be interpreted to me...

11 months ago
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RE: Crowley. Mescaline, and Patrick Everitt's Thesis

Non-stop sexual debauchery sounds distinctively NOT like sex magick, especially by Crowley's definition. This point aside, the ritual was specifically...

11 months ago
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RE: Crowley. Mescaline, and Patrick Everitt's Thesis

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...

11 months ago
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RE: Crowley. Mescaline, and Patrick Everitt's Thesis

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).

11 months ago
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RE: What does Balenciaga mean in Latin? Aleister Crowley satanic theory explored amid child campaign controversy

Here's a quick lecture from Everitt that hits the bullet points of his thesis:

11 months ago
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RE: What does Balenciaga mean in Latin? Aleister Crowley satanic theory explored amid child campaign controversy

I'd love to see evidence of it out of purely historical curiosity. If only Crowley's own account could count.

11 months ago
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RE: What does Balenciaga mean in Latin? Aleister Crowley satanic theory explored amid child campaign controversy

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....

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