Jamie J Barter
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Joined: Oct 30, 2015
Last seen: Sep 26, 2023
Topics: 7 / Replies: 1867
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Nothing to see here, move along! I don't know whether this is just simply a manifestation of the "rebel response", but whenever I receive this sort ...

6 hours ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

No, not at all wasting time, as it's a fairly safe bet that some of those reading won't have caught on or gknow what that arrangement is, and would ap...

7 hours ago
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RE: The Golden Cipher

But this wouldn't apply in the case of 'chinese whispers'. That would certainly apply if you were dropped as a newborn baby! Except no transmiss...

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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

Clearly a wise man with a rare grasp upon the status quo! Do you (anyone) happen to know who came up with the following definition of a Prophet as "n...

1 day ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

What was this "Hierophantic Movement" again, Aleisterion? OK - they seem more or less the same and interchangeable except in a very close Egyptia...

2 days ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

Pardon but I seem to have omitted a few points I was going to make further earlier: This is a new one on me. Please tell us all about it! Ex...

2 days ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

In other words, the axiom of "Do what I say - not as I do - shall be the whole of the Law" - "There is no law beyond Do as I say-so".... All bein...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

Thoth is the same divinity, the point being that Crowley actually refers to Leah in Confessions as the 'Ape of Thoth', meant to be not a form of the d...

3 days ago
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RE: Horror Movies

I think V.P. hammed it up a bit (nothing unusual there), and that the film itself was a touch cheesy and a trifle corny in parts. So overall then, ...

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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

I just want to point out in case anyone wasn't aware, that going back to the roots of the subject in the 19th century Economics was originally known a...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

I didn't/ don't know this incident and have forgotten all the gory details. You only produce one sentence from the relevant incident to refresh my re...

3 days ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

I was thinking of where else in TKOTSR, as you mentioned seeing the 'only' source as being there - so can you provide the missing info, which would be...

5 days ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

It was also Mudd's challenging, and questioning, and generally being a probing pain in the backside that led to Crowley's writing of The [Tunis] Comme...

5 days ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

You mean Anne Lea/ Poupee then presumably; did the other one ever have a name, and how long was it that the infant lived for? Didn't Hansi want to be...

6 days ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

It's possible I might have missed it and presumably this was here on Lashtal, but are you absolutely sure that was what stated in it? I don't suppose ...

6 days ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Interestingly, I have no recollection of ever coming across an admission that Richard (T. Cole of this parish) had actual possession of the missing Ro...

1 week ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

I thought it pert[inent] though, Lutz! (And if they decide to respond sensibly, I've got a few more questions they could answer too...) Secondedly...

1 week ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Nicely phrased! Call me a fusskins though, but wouldn't word and art fit better? Text is literary (verbal) as well as wordy, but art is well, art and ...

1 week ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

I hope you have succeeded in finding at least one physician you can trust and rely on, and who knows his/her onions. Ultimately the best thing is to ...

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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

I recall there was at least one whole thread in Lashtal several years back now devoted to the fact that Kenneth Grant in one of his books held out som...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

It may be something in the stars but the time now seems intuitively appropriate for me to address my question to Aleisterion, which I have been promis...

1 week ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Agreed. (Not necessarily someone you'd want to bump into unexpectedly on a cold dark night) So it would appear (I take your word for it, not hav...

1 week ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

I don't want to dismiss "everything" you wrote, as there's quite a lot I certainly agree with. I was simply querying those bits I didn't agree with - ...

1 week ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

I am focused on it because originally it was phrased as if he was a terrible writer with its implication of poor language skills, then it switched to ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

But you also seemed to be saying that Baphomet=Aiwaz: Aren't these terms getting mixed up? Roll up, roll up, it's "Make Your Own Punchline U...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

And I should bloody well hope so, too (retorted Jamie - jokingly!) I can find no right retort to this comment at the moment. Maybe someone else ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

It's apparently Greek (although I am no Grecian scholar myself), and cabbalistically comes to a total of 667 making her a next-door-neighbour to The B...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

How so? Which bit are you saying is confusion/-ing? (Unless you're joking) Ne'er mock the curse! I just wondered if he (tried to) function a...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

But Had is the manifestation of Nu and Nu the hiding of Hadit !! and the 'Unity' is more of a matter of Nowt (=2) - and it doesn't actually explain wh...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Originally the separating of the second N from the 'Norman Conquest' to produce Norma was nothing to do with either transgenderism, transexualism or a...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

OK, one can only go on limited information here, like you with me and clownish thoughts! It's good you seem so "up" at the moment compared with ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

No problem, it was rather what I thought you meant but I just wanted to be clear about it I wasn't thinking it was "clownish" at all - the though...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

(cry from audience: ) "There's a madman around!" (another voice, similarly alarmed): "Call for Security/ Shiva! And have him evicted!... Seriously...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

At one time, I originally thought this was some sort of an old-fashioned/Aeon chivalric gesture to hide their blushes and sustain a false morality! ...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

Unless Leah, who I think went along with A.C. to the Conference in Germany to choose a successor following Reuss' death, was one also by then? Perhap...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

Yes, but you omit there the female IX* which McMurtry created once he was Caliph (I forget their names - they're forgettable enough anyway - but are m...

2 weeks ago
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RE: The ‘alpha male’ myth, debunked | Frans de Waal

But the "Law is for all" regardless of their having been smited smitten, don't you mean Dom, David? Either before or after they remember to destroy th...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

Yes, this is all an interesting area of discussion which could profitably benefit from wider discussion perhaps in another more appropriate thread (if...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Similarly although the OTO documents state ‘There is no god but man’ and ‘the highest shrines are empty’ this isn't quite the same thing as saying tha...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Hi Chris - no not dead yet, and only moderately high in the sky this evening. I wish you Good shitty reading ahead! Only Restriction of the True...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

Actually it now occurs to me that there may have been at least 2 or 3 others: Karl Germer. I believe Crowley referred to him as 8=3 despite not eve...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Further to my comment about the second copy generally being an inferior version of the original, as if to prove this I seem to have omitted to add the...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

This is a curious situation, as usually confirmation has to be made at least once (often twice) that one is sure an item is not intended to be saved, ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Unfortunately, earlier on I had typed a lot more up to this point, being replies to bits of Shiva and Mick Staley's posts, but I must have brushed up ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Despite a sorry state doesn't this rather resemble that old maxim "Don't do as I do, do as I say", which [nearly] all rascally gurus regimentate (if t...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Apologies in advance for the lack of any references to La Lady Leah hyah: I'm not so sure it completely "went" yet, as new & variable varieti...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

I appreciate the sentiment and thank you but can only add, or echo, again: LSSM. And to philosophically repeat "So It Goes". But hopefully not t...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Thank you for all the above various kind greetings and good wishes, and also to the many dozens more which were to be coming I expect from those who w...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

Someone once said, 'never apologize; never explain'. And while I never particularly go along with anyone absolutising along with never, there may be ...

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RE: Looking for connections in the NYC, USA area

"This is one point I raise when considering Diary of a Drug Fiend, which I enjoyed immensely. But he winds it up with everybody finding their Will, an...

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