"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...

My point is that AC's definition of magick as "... causing Change to occur in conformity with Will"., can be done without any magical rituals, costume...

With "No Egyptian portals, post-Crowley imprimaturs, or unclassified comments to distract the reader." Don't know about you, but aren'tcha just so...

Video Someone needed to have changed the light bulb in the room where this was being filmed as it constantly kept flickering throughout in an a...

Posted by: @jamiejbarter Can you possibly... be referring here to the fact that ... Crowley fortunately managed to intercede to prevent? Posted by...

Posted by: @shiva I'm sure I have the Word that is not kn[o]wn, but I'm afraid to utter it and bring about The End of the World. Can you possibl...

Posted by: @shiva @dom: "Why would someone direct someone to be girt with something if they're already girt?" ---"Let" also may be considered in t...

Posted by: @ignant666 Posted by: @dom ‘Let the woman be girt with a sword before me.’ 3:2 Was hoping you'd forget that one, but it is one of...

is it not written "All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither..."? And is it not there also written "There is division hither homeward....

However I thought I was discussing (the sub-topic of the quirks of your electronic personality)! When in doubt though, a straightforward "I don't kno...

I'm fascinated, please indulge me: what determines your decision on whether you want to come across as Mr. Potty-Mouth or not? For instance, in the o...

It would have come along sooner or later, eventually. The Rosetta stone wasn't a sine qua non, without it it would have just delayed things (the conc...

Unfortunately, you have quoted quotes out of context, so we'll give the prizes to charity and hang the judges. However, fortunately, there's been ...

Spot The Difference Odd One Out (a parlour game): Example A: The chakras are tricky. Perhaps the trickiest of the correlations. They are not lai...

I don't go a bundle on "secrets of initiation"; I don't think there are any. That must be because you don't know as much as master dom! N Joy

My sympathies! The "Magus state" came on him from 1915 onwards, which I suppose in your reckoning is indeed between one and five years after TBOL....

I'm not familiar with this - under what circumstances was it in Mexico and when exactly during 1904? (I thought he was in Mexico during 1900...) Also...

Not sure what you mean by this (that is,if you're referring to (be)little me <i.e., me>, here). Please clarify. No, I remember it (them) we...

It's not so much if I have a point (or case to clamber upon) as that in future you (=Shiva) will come across as a bit of a hip critic hypocrite if/whe...

I did practice an obscure martial art called Sulkido under the equally obscure Master Kim at one time, however this thread seems to have got derailed ...

While "up" at university a friend of mine partook of jimson weed (as Stuart himself referred to datura) a few times. The main effects were that it ma...

I've never actually come across this designation before either - can anyone tell me if it's a well-known classification, who labelled it that first an...

Alternatively, why shouldn't they be? Why should we assume what conclusions others might reach about the Will-doing and nirvanas of Steve O, Johnny ...

But why on earth do you think kidneyhawk (or anyone) would suppose Why should they be? Intriguedly yours, Norma N Joy Conquest

No. "More than" three times was the statement. No - "More than perhaps" three times was the actual statement. [My emphasis.] Hair-spllittingly y...

Or/And The Master Therion? But it wasn't. "Had it" is a theoretical, alternative timeline or universe. "What ifs" are speculative. But nonethe...

Yes I agree, but it was right at the beginning of the "Thelemite AC" - before he "got going". The answer to the question I raised before I think is ...

You're probably quite right there! Tut, where were my manners? N Joy

Interestingly though, that it was written several years before AC's wholehearted dedication to, and endorsement & promulgation of Thelema and The ...

What, being the flagging specimen on the receiving end of the avocado & lobster or the one dishing it out? When as a teenager at a party I once ...

Well yeah! If we travel from one sephira to another then Paths are used, and in terms of correlated Correspondences Atus are all attributed to these ...

And the difference between them here is? [...] Also Geburah is the next rung on the ladder after (or before) Tiphareth, numerically and sphericall...

Yes, you're quite correct there ignant. I noticed just afterwards that I had omitted to put "AL" in front of III:3, but when I went to correct it I w...

Unfortunate that Elron Hubbard beat him to the punch in founding this new ("science-fiction") religion with worldwide i.e. international appeal. Nor...

The Jewish Kabbalah [...] The Hermetic Qabalah [...] I was thinking more of the actual structure of the Tree of Life with its ten sephiroth and ...

In that case, a sleazy but nevertheless a "reasonable" man... N Joy

So if I understand you right, in effect you're saying war is (all) opposition or distractions to progress on the individual's path? That's a pretty b...

Although this implies the Tree is itself (closely) true - or at least, not so much false - whereas if this were indeed so (=true) it would sooner or l...

This sounds like it might have come out of Nineteen Eighty Four ! (Or, "Love is a Battlefield" [Pat Benatar]?) Could you possibly explain a bit mo...

No they don't - has anyone suggested they did do, dom? The only thing which could possibly come to mind is the injunction "Be not animal; refine thy ...

Take your pot pick... N Joy

Yeah you do there dere dom, as a human you can choose. Whether to obey & comply with somebody higher up the pecking order in the pack, for exampl...

"Don’t care was made to care, Don’t care was hung: Don’t care was put in a pot And boiled till he was done." (Anon; Trad.) N Joy

And what about dagonsfish (men) - who were there at the beginning of evolution (so why not also at the end)? "Boop boop, dittum dattum wattum achoo"...

Dear old dom - I can think of no one else here that would point out and correct a perfectly obvious typo (apart from @wellbredwellread) - and then pro...

Going by the expression on AC's face, I think this would make a good subject for a "Spot the Caption" contest. Allow me to start the ball rolling with...

Yes you're quite correct there, Shiva. In choosing the word I was thinking of the creator of the final material product of the writing involved wield...

Whatever It (Magick) is, they appear to need to have It "spelled out" several times, as, not content with providing Crowley's key definition (see abov...

Although actually, Faustian had stated there were (My emphasis - hence, "multiple".) "Aiwass, thy (true) name is Legion..." ? (for there are m...

Or - if one is of the apparent majority of those Lashtalians who subscribe to the theory that Liber AL is the product of a "higher" part of Crowley's ...