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What's the not nice version of your sentiment?
Which books? Understatement of the post!
Wait, so we ARE celebrating the man Crowley? 😉
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.
@ignant666 Mea culpa. I should have been more clear.
@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...
Too close an interest in the occult, or of things in general?
Certainly to ill-effect, too, although where that line is drawn is often too subjective to be useful as a line.
@katrice At the very least it's worth understanding how many things have been invented, bent and obscured under said mania.
I've been eagerly waiting for you to chime in. Is there a sad trombone emoji? Like almost everything else? 😉
Are you confident in Levi being the earliest source? Which is to ask: Levi made them up?
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 ...
@ignant666 Thank you. I had forgotten this but I feel as if there is an earlier source, still.
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....