Jamie J Barter
@jamiejbarter
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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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RE: Crowley and his usages of maths and formulas in Thelema

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...

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RE: Where does one find this edition of the Holy Books outside of Finland, Sweden and Norway?

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

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RE: Legendary Occultist ALEISTER CROWLEY Gets Remixed By Dark Electronic & Witch House Artists For A New Release

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...

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RE: Crowley and his discrepancies

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

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RE: Crowley and his discrepancies

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...

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RE: Men only.

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...

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RE: Men only.

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...

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RE: Crowley and his discrepancies

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....

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RE: HADIT; Just say yes.

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...

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RE: HADIT; Just say yes.

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...

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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...

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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 ...

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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...

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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

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RE: Crowley and his discrepancies

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....

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RE: Crowley and his discrepancies

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...

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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...

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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...

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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 ...

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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...

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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...

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RE: Andrew WK-BABALON

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 ...

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RE: Andrew WK-BABALON

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

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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 ...

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RE: Typhonian Texts

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

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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

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RE: Typhonian Texts

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 ...

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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 ...

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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...

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RE: 3:39 AL. Did he?

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

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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

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RE: Christianity and Thelema

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

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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...

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RE: The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts

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...

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RE: The value of The Book of Lies.

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...

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RE: Christianity and Thelema

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 ...

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RE: Crowley's Legacy in 2021 and Beyond

Take your pot pick... N Joy

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RE: Christianity and Thelema

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...

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RE: Crowley's Legacy in 2021 and Beyond

"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

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RE: Crowley's Legacy in 2021 and Beyond

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"...

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RE: Mummy with a gold tongue found in Egypt

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...

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RE: YMC Serve Up Magick With Striking Spring/Summer '21 Collection

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...

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RE: Crowley's Legacy in 2021 and Beyond

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...

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RE: The Power of Magick: Why Materialists, Atheists, and Marxists Need It

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...

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RE: Crowley's Legacy in 2021 and Beyond

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

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RE: Crowley's Legacy in 2021 and Beyond

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 ...

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