He definitely died. Unfortunately, his choice to locate to 14 Avenue de Bellevue in Meudon back in 1859 could not have been more catastrophic. The hou...

@kidneyhawk The Good Abbe was not murdered - rather he died from much more banal causes - lead poisoning.

I always found it odd that Crowley makes no mention of Abbe Boullan anywhere in his writings. Their lives intersected, Crowley was born in 1875 while ...

@jamiejbarter There are some Native American myths about how the Thunderbirds defeated the Reptilians

@shiva If I were to gander what these creatures are, my guess is a bird of some kind...

@shiva I am going to go out on a limb here, but I do not think that these entities/creatures are part of some collective unconscious that Crowley tapp...

@kidneyhawk my sense is that Liber Al has more than one author - probably at least three. The book is a testament to their culture - not necessarily o...

Crowley's sexual appetites were well known - he was after all a philanderer, bisexual, and a heavy recreational drug user. As far a Thelema is concern...

If anything, none of it has been widely adopted. The world around us is more monitored, measured, and conformist than at anytime during the 20th centu...

@shiva Krishnamurti is the case of a man with way too many expectations placed upon him, with no possible way to live up to them. In short, he was the...

@tiger To quote Al Pacino in the Devil's Advocate - so many names... For the last two thousand years, Jesus and the Church had a pretty good run. W...

@hadgigegenraum I have done the trip down the Nile, starting in Luxor and ending up in Aswan. I will say this, if you book this trip, make sure that y...

@kidneyhawk I wonder what Blavatsky would have made of our post-truth world. First, Crowley did not introduce the concept of Thelema or Do What Thou...

@kidneyhawk of course the irony is that Crowley was raised in an Evangelical Christian environment. To be honest there have been so many flavors of...

I have been to the Great Pyramids many times. What always bothered me about their construction is the near perfection of them. When contrasted to the ...

@barbaragreen You are probably right, there are more men on this forum than women, Coming back to the difference in theology between Christianity and ...

@christibrany What I meant to say is that under Thelema a privilege based relationship between humans is not hierarchical. In other words, it is not b...

Of course the bottom line issue between Thelema and traditional patriarchal religions, but Christianity in particular, is the issue of subordination. ...

@hadgigegenraum according to the Coptic Church, Jesus' Cairo address was where the Abu Serga church now is in Old Cairo - about 20 blocks south of Tah...

It may be a coincidence, or not, but the scribes for both Christianity and Thelema operated within the same 10 block radius. And of course, Jesus grew...

You forgot Crowley on Christ - also known as the rant on George Bernard Shaw.

I don't know a lot about Wicca, except for the fact that it was founded by Gerald Gardner. Who I understand spent a lot of time in East Borneo with th...

@christibrany Health benefits of purple wheat/p>

Try purple wheat - makes the best bread.

@christibrany très bien dit

@christibrany It was actually the first British Horror move made after WWII. From 1939 to 1945 - the war years - Britain produced zero horror movies, ...

Best British Horror movie ever made - The Dead of Night (1946) The NY Times review

@shiva I met the author of this article - Richard Levine and his wife at a dinner party in Paris about thirty years ago. Unfortunately, I may have bee...

I suspect that the 2000 year cycle has more to do with the lifespan of a prater-human than any correlating astrological phenomena. There is only so mu...

@apuleius Crowley was critical of both the declining Victorian culture in which he grew up, as well as the emerging totalitarian cultures (fascist Ita...

The whole proposition of this thread is ridiculous. No one here would be shocked by AC sexual misadventures. In any event, AC spent far more money on ...

@duck Djinns can also have a very positive type quality to them.

@duck your numerological computations of @mzezz name would suggest that our newcomer has a Djinn like quality to him. I am still mystified on how thes...

@shiva Thank you for bringing some law and order to this place.

My memories of the Atlantis bookshop in the late 70s was that it was managed by a guy with white hair and a long white beard. He had a sidekick who wa...

I have fond memories of London, I used to spend a lot of time in the Notting Hill gate area, and remember a pub called the Sun In Splendour. That was ...

@shiva The Campbells do a good job feeding the world as well, especially one that is locked up under quarantine. My favorite is their tomato soup.

My understanding of the genealogy of the Grant family is that it is not Scottish of origin, but is in fact Normand French. The Grants came in with the...

@shiva you remind me of Israel Regardie with your use of Cabalistic terms.

Zizek on They Live

@christibrany Either that, or the machines/AIs they left behind are trying to carry out some civilizing mission on their behalf - much like Hari Seldo...

@christibrany one definitely gets the sense that the homo-sapien centric narrative in all our monotheistic religions and even newer forms of ideology ...

@christibrany My own theory is that Homo sapiens may not be the first intelligent/symbolic species that Earth produced. We may be a second or third in...

@wellreadwellbred I have not read Paul Sussman's book but I have grown to think that there is a connection between the Zerzura mystery and II:76.

I would suggest that the answer lies in the Western desert to the Nile - specifically in the world's largest crater field - which is in itself an anom...

@shiva The imperial British foot is also slightly different than the American foot. The definition of a parasa is subject to to some margin of error, ...

@threefold31 As far as number clues are concerned, I:46 is very important Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & ei...

Rather that expound on deep numerological correspondences as AC did all his life to no avail, perhaps the clues are in other simple sentences througho...

Interesting point of view

@christibrany that was an absolutely fascinating story about Trump. Talk about synchronicity. There has always been a theatrical dimension to the man,...