katrice
@katrice
Black Soror, Selfie-stick poseur
Joined: Jul 10, 2021
Last seen: Jun 3, 2023
Topics: 4 / Replies: 1033
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

What has been learned so far. I'm just giving the facts, without judgement. The Book of Desolation claims to represent the first stirring of t...

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RE: A Bryon Gysin Dream Machine Simulator on Youtube?

I tired the one you shared- I got some results but not as intense as the other simulators- maybe because the flickering is more full screen with those...

3 weeks ago
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

With a little help, we got a response. Asked what he'd be comfortable with being shared here. I'll share what I can when he responds.

3 weeks ago
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RE: A Bryon Gysin Dream Machine Simulator on Youtube?

I use several, all on youtube, changing when I get too used to them. I usually use alpha or theta frequencies. Any search will turn up plenty of exam...

3 weeks ago
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RE: A Bryon Gysin Dream Machine Simulator on Youtube?

@david-lemieux Sitting with eyes closed. I usually do it for about 20 minutes. I sometimes also listen to some binaural beats with it to help dee...

4 weeks ago
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RE: A Bryon Gysin Dream Machine Simulator on Youtube?

I actually made a physical one a few years ago but don't have it any more. There are actually a couple of simulators online that I know of, which I'v...

4 weeks ago
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Amado displayed a basic grasp of the techniques of Western Ceremonial magick, and of some old school "cunning craft" style witchcraft. But he also cl...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

And on the note I'm not giving you any more outrage for you to jerk it to. You've probably used up an entire bottle of lotion just on this thread alre...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Am I supposed to respond to this? only if you feel like it it makes no difference to me. Really? I quite enjoy it. That'...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Does not do the Work, has no interest in doing the Work. Contrast with: Resident Black Soror/Selfie Stick Poseur does do the Work. Is it possible ...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

I am well aware of that, I was just pointing out two of the most obvious elements. That seems rather clear yes.

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Baguazhang is nice for those with an interest in the I Ching. @katrice Here is a shocking revelation: Hitler himself had no interest in the occ...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Yeah, really, any accounts of Hitler as some kind of dark magus are pure fantasy. I admit I have read a translation of Wiligut's writings, but th...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

It's only mentioned in the post that revived this thread: maybe that's because most books on that nazi occultism take a lot of "creative...

4 weeks ago
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Have you or anyone else ever gotten in contact with Jason Brett Serle, the only other person said to have seen the Book of Desolation?

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I prefer accuracy. I'm funny that way.

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Any mystery that can be communicated through language is not a true mystery. However, more down to earth, with free admission, we find the co...

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Depending on the orthography, it's also been spelled Asuras. Contrast with Daeva/Deva and the reversal of roles they play between Hinduism and Zoroas...

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Indeed. I was just referring to the classic image's origin. The real conspiracy against us is within, and the conspiracies manifested on the...

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

From the Orphic Mysteries " invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein," "Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled spl...

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

The Thesis about your proposed soulological condition will be interesting. The Dragons are the reptile brain, and it all stems from fear, ie a thr...

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Perhaps but I usually try to stay as polite as I can, unless someone really pushes me, which has only really happened once here so far. But I...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I'm supposing I'm the younger dimwit. He's yet to respond to anything I've posted, even when I've tried to ask him sincere questions politely. I gue...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I thought that part was so obvious it wasn't worth mentioning 😉 The possibilities were definitely not mutually exclusive. I had thought ...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Which makes RTC's statement seem odd unless he was trolling or being sarcastic. It seems like a pretty big mistake to make if it was made seriously.

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Thank you for this. I was going to respond to that part of RTC's statement myself. It's clear that Crowley had some idea of sex magick before Reuss'...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I fully admit it was sex magick, and Crowley's "Wickedest Man In The World" reputation, that first drew me in, and from there I was led from dabbling ...

2 months ago
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RE: [Gematria] On ciphers, probabilities, and the search for "meaningful matches"

Really, magickal correspondences in general can be seen as a form of applied apophenia. There's nothing necessarily wrong with this as long as it has ...

2 months ago
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RE: The Numbers Solution

That was John Dee, not Crowley.

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I happens, we all get off track sometimes, and it can be hard to get back on once you've fallen off. It can take a while. But when I have be...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Grimoire/grammar. 😉 But I'd expand it to "communication" as initiation eventually reaches a point where words as we know them can't follow.

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

The earliest I can think of is Ambrose Bierce's Moxon's Master, written in 1899, but there are probably earlier examples. But it still has bett...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

@toadstoolwe Anyone can make claims, but making them and promising proof that will back them up, and then never providing the proof, and making...

2 months ago
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RE: Where is Montu in Liber Legis?

I am fully aware of that, but too often Set gets interpreted as the Egyptian Satan, when he wasn't always a villain. Set as a force of pure evil is a...

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RE: Rites of the Mummy - K'rla Cell and the Secret Key to Liber AL

Flow is action, by definition. Just action while in a specific state. The perfect tool disappears in to its function. Some won't l...

2 months ago
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RE: Rites of the Mummy - K'rla Cell and the Secret Key to Liber AL

The rational is not the be all and end all of existence, it can only go so far. As one progresses, the transrational takes more and more precedence. ...

2 months ago
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RE: Where is Montu in Liber Legis?

Aleister's mind informed by what was the accepted interpretation of Egyptian mythology. That said, Thelema is not Egyptian magick. But I'm someone wh...

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RE: Rites of the Mummy - K'rla Cell and the Secret Key to Liber AL

As simple as they come "And so shalt thou come to the End." Adjusted according to the individual's needs, naturally, but progress will be made ...

2 months ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

I admit that one surprised me as well. I can't remember having seen mention of that before. I'm very curious to know what it was too.

2 months ago
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RE: A Virtual Abbey of Thelema

Nuit is the starry sky. And the representation of the Darkness, the unmanifest, the potential from which all manifestation emerges.

2 months ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

Interesting! Thank you! They mention The Family which is definitely a later example of the "alpha" idea we've discussed in recent posts on this thre...

3 months ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

In the case of Hirsig's sister, I just found it ironic that she was horrified at Leah's affiliation with Crowley, but still hooked up with Bernard. ...

3 months ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

It may be off topic re: saving the Abbey, but it touches on the flaws of the Abbey. Certainly Maria did nothing to discourage her followers' dependen...

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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

On a note semi-related to your comment on Gross, Maria clearly worked with Indulgence, though it seems like the Confrerie de la Flèche d'Or didn't sur...

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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

@toadstoolwe Introduction to magic is actually three volumes, all of which are well worth reading. They're some of my favorite books on magickal pr...

3 months ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

Mussolini. Evidently, he was actually intimidated by Evola and respected him as a true magician. Evola still felt the need for extra protection durin...

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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

You're welcome. It's one of the perils of working with the principle of Indulgence even in a non-magickal sense. Always keep it under Will. ...

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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

The Otto Gross was doing similar things in a non religious context a little before Cefalu

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