kidneyhawk
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RE: "Mystic's Potion To Prolong Life Fails"

Which one? This is true. But all numbers will imply others. The Pentagram is a type of evolution, development or fulfillment of the Square or Cro...

1 month ago
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RE: "Mystic's Potion To Prolong Life Fails"

Hardly. You're sharing word of a labor of love, the content of which is clearly relevant to the site. One of the very first books I ever read on AC ...

2 months ago
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RE: The Secret Sexual Teachings of Aleister Crowley According to J. Edward Cornelius

I was certainly interested in Jerry's book when it was first announced. As I recall, it hinted at some secret crucial to success in sexual magic hithe...

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RE: chthonic auranian oto

Curious as to what made you feel this way. What turned you off? When I first dropped in to Alobar's livejournal many years back, I was a bit tak...

2 months ago
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RE: chthonic auranian oto

Alobar Greywalker (Bill Siebert) passed away some time ago. I had some communication with the group years and years ago when I aspired to members...

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RE: What does Balenciaga mean in Latin? Aleister Crowley satanic theory explored amid child campaign controversy

I would suggest that nothing "shapes Thelema." Thelema is Will and Will IS. Do you mean Crowley's experiences shaped how he molded his (psuedo) Reli...

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RE: The airtight arguments of Jerry Cornelius?: Review of "The Cult Of Aleister Crowley"

What were their stories? It sounds like a religious dogma meant to contain and constrain as opposed to a teaching leading to liberation. I'v...

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RE: What does Balenciaga mean in Latin? Aleister Crowley satanic theory explored amid child campaign controversy

I recently saw a Facebook which asked if Liber AL was UPG. Now, the first time I ever encountered the term "UPG" was here, with a post from Katrice. I...

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RE: New Indiana Jones movie being filmed in Cefalu

New trailer. And, perhaps, we can connect the bit about the importance of "how hard you believe" to "inflaming oneself in prayer." Either way, it's go...

4 months ago
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RE: AC's writings on BOTL supports 395 as II:76 cipher's total value:

I don't know that 2:75-76 is, of necessity, what we tend to assume it must be. Crowley points us in a direction we may already be prejudiced towards w...

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

I am immediately reminded of the scene from the wonderful film, Ip Man: Kam Shan-chu: My northern boxing has lost to your southern one. Ip Man: N...

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RE: AC's writings on BOTL supports 395 as II:76 cipher's total value:

We've previously read on these hallowed forums the opinion or perspective point that it doesn't matter whether the cipher has a solution or whether th...

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RE: AC's writings on BOTL supports 395 as II:76 cipher's total value:

Samson is wrong. Nine ends the cycle. Really, every number is infinite. There is no difference. Or so I've read. 8 could be a nice boo...

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RE: AC on BOTL verse numbers?

Curiously, it is only this particular thread that has the problems described above. All those below read (are viewed) as usual. Not sure if it is an i...

5 months ago
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RE: AC on BOTL verse numbers?

Nope. I am having a hard time reading this myself!

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RE: Abbe Boullan - 19th Century France - Christ - and Varma Marg

I was alluding to the magical battle with de Guaita, tongue in cheek.

6 months ago
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RE: Abbe Boullan - 19th Century France - Christ - and Varma Marg

In his "Woolly Pomposities" letter to Cara Soror, he mentions Brunton, Besant, Clymer, Max Heindel, Ouspensky as well as the UB, OHM and AMORC (who he...

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RE: Abbe Boullan - 19th Century France - Christ - and Varma Marg

Crowley DOES recommend Huysmans' La Bas in his A.A. reading list. Boullan appears in La Bas as the character Dr. Johannes. AC was a teen when Boul...

6 months ago
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RE: Melchizedek

What is the “Word” of the Aeon? It's not Thelema-that's the LAW. Crowley says the Word is ABRAHADABRA (even less likely to transform the w...

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RE: Melchizedek

Crowley's projected idea of a single Word is also limiting, esp. in a worldview where paradigm (Aeon) shifts indicate progression and development as o...

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RE: Moral Nihilism in Thelema

In my own experience, I studied with several Rosicrucian Organizations. One of these required no dues nor solicited funds. They made a point of emphas...

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RE: Moral Nihilism in Thelema

"Moral Nihilism" would seem to imply "Amorality." Which is, of course, different from "Immorality." But neither term seems to fit Thelema or its chief...

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RE: Moral Nihilism in Thelema

Of course. It was a joke. You chided Shiva for using his "WTFs" and I intentionally chose to read the acronym as something it is not with reference to...

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RE: Moral Nihilism in Thelema

And what standards would these be?

9 months ago
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RE: Moral Nihilism in Thelema

But don't animals simply do their will without the encumbrances of human neurosis? There isn't malice in the animal kingdom. Brutality, sure, but with...

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RE: Moral Nihilism in Thelema

But we must ask: Why The Fascism? What about the girlfriend's Will? What about a serial killer's victims and their sundry "Wills?" If the and ...

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RE: Crowley and the Imagist poets

Hitler, like Manson, offers some element of "surprise" when we were experience his work. These figures are so entwined with evil and death that we exp...

9 months ago
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RE: The Illuminati and the cycle of five inevitable stages of society

At the start (and AC kicks Liber Aleph off with the theme), QBL is a helpful tool for the Aspirant. At a higher stage of the game, we realize it has n...

9 months ago
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RE: Former O.T.O. affiliate outed from Google for exposure of A.I. as sentient?

Well, this is just the question, isn't it? Does CONSCIOUSNESS require what we regard as “Biological Form?” Crowley, at the very least, entertained the...

9 months ago
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RE: US Army soldier indicted for Order Of Nine Angles terror plot

That was her name. I read Shrek's interview in Zazen Sounds magazine which I thought was quite interesting. I knew very little about him beforeha...

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RE: Former O.T.O. affiliate outed from Google for exposure of A.I. as sentient?

Tis True. And with the Subgenius also in his resume, we already have a very interesting individual here. I shared this as it might provoke some dis...

9 months ago
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RE: Nu Hermetica

Or even the wheat from the chaff. Or burning down the mill altogether.

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RE: Nu Hermetica

It can be tamed, and trained to shut up, that is true. In fact, doing so is much of the Work. Crowley himself would seem to think so with some of ...

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RE: The Cairo Working

Do these texts consider the entire Old Testament God to be an evil ensnarer of human souls? 😆

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RE: Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Aleister Crowley and the Occult

It's sad and unfortunate that he took his life. His suicide has been romanticized by some but it wasn't romantic. Curtis was a passionate poet and Unk...

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RE: Why History?

Because we don't do what we are told, being the petulant Children of the New Aeon who resonate with Crowley's words in "Hymn to Lucifer" wherein he wr...

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RE: It's time put the fairy-tales down...

So, sometimes a sneeze is accompanied by a direction of higher vibrations. Sometimes a sneeze is used for the ignoble purposes of "Black Magic." A...

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RE: It's time put the fairy-tales down...

Well, as both Peter Carroll and RTC might observe: getting “startled AF” is the Opening of the Gate. What you shove through it is up to YOU. Lots of “...

10 months ago
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RE: Temple Ov Psychick Youth an abusive cult?

I agree, Katrice. I just wanted to write a couplet-and point out that leaving behind those superficial "likes" for the Authenticity of Will may involv...

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RE: Temple Ov Psychick Youth an abusive cult?

What if... Thy Will is thy Like; Thou likest what thou Wilt For this be thy Path; It is how Thou wast built ? After all, would this not descri...

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RE: Wine and strange drugs..which ones?

I would agree. I've certainly run into those who feel "Libertinism" is requisite for Paths dubbed "Thelemic" and otherwise. I've known folks in such c...

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RE: Regarding Magickal Instruments

This used to be a tried and true Masonic principle. As the Fraternity struggled with Membership, it became permissible (and encouraged) to follow the ...

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RE: It's time put the fairy-tales down...

I would guess because the desire originated with the "here" state of consciousness. Originated and returns to it. Crowley, for example, kept doing his...

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