Michael Staley
@michael-staley
The Funambulatory Way - it's All in the Egg
Joined: Apr 21, 2004
Last seen: May 29, 2023
Topics: 100 / Replies: 4278
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RE: Chat GPT and the Book of the Law, Part Deux

Happy to agree to disagree. There's a certain analogy in my view with the idea that was fashionable a few decades ago, that the brain was like a compu...

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RE: Chat GPT and the Book of the Law, Part Deux

Little intelligence on display there, artificial or otherwise.

2 weeks ago
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

My favoutite on-line dictionary defines mogalomania as "A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omni...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Whilst not having a problem with "megalomaniac", I'm not so sure about "usual". Seeing oneself as the Messiah of the New Aeon, for whom Crowley was a ...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

I met him a couple of times, exchanged several letters, and studied much of his earlier output (e.g. Liber Lucis). I thought him an interesting man in...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

As a member of LAShTAL, as well as a long-term donor, it is my business. I dislike the degeneration into Facebook mode that you and others like you br...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

I know it's a difficult concept, and self-disciplne can be challenging, but how about remaining on topic? If you've not interested in the topic, or th...

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RE: Thank you, LAShTAL!

The proverbial five minutes . . .

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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

I remember reading in one of tthe recensions of The Great Beast that eventually she went back her home country (Switzerland, I think it was), became a...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Cole's thesis doesn't "rattle my cage". The provenance of The Book of the Law doesn't interest me so much as the contents. If someone were to produce ...

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

No, it's not a matter of opinion. The present AI applications merely sample widely, irrespective of the quality which they are unable to assess - perh...

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

It doesn't matter who posted it. It's still GIGO, and to imagine that it can exonerate Cole – or anyone else for that matter – is to be deluded.

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

To what "AI interpretation" are you alluding? It seems to be that in the present stage of "AI interpretation", if you ask a question then AI simply ...

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

(not 'cairo motel') I'd not seen the website before. Interesting page on the deduced location of the hotel.

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

Me too. However, people are drawn to The Book of the Law for its contents, not its provenance. I've been a Thelemite since the late 1960s. In that tim...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

If you persistently target someone with your pathetic jeering and schoolboy name-calling, is it any wonder that occasionally they make a rude response...

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

There's many of us here trying to be reasonable, Lutz.

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

Astonishing, isn't it, what can be implied to a remark with sufficient twisting. Would you be kind enough please to state precisely what it is in the ...

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

I don't think there's a rule. But if a would-be publisher has made repeated attempts to gain permission to publish, and gets no response, then I belie...

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

Well, you'd know a lot about unfulfilled promises, wouldn't you, Carrot_Childe?

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

Oh, it and the sequels will get a great deal more tedious. Enjoy.

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

The point really is that the book is already out there and available to anybody who wants to find it. I bought a copy of the publication by Marcus Kat...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

The Invocation of Hoor is part of the Gerald Yorke Collection at the Warburg Institute, London, and as such has doubtless been seen by many people ove...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I doubt that anyone here is "freaked out". A bit sad if you regard such "freak out" as one of the greatest honours of your life. Then you "guess"...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

If you searched LAShTAL and thought that Cole's publications have been viewed in a positive light then I'd query the effectiveness of your search. Whe...

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

Thelema Revisited was a lovely memoir, I thought at the time it appeared, and still do. I used to have a friendly email correspondence with him, and h...

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RE: The Fall of Because: The Boleskine Paradox

No, it's not primarily a tool for self-delusion and self-aggrandizement, though it can be used in that manner. Its prime use for me is to suggest link...

3 months ago
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RE: OTO & Politics

This thread is entitled "OTO & Politics. How in the world are the last few posts even remotely related? It's like being on Facebook.

4 months ago
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RE: The Book of the Lauds

In threefold31's sense, yes, I'm aware of that. However, surely not in the "Crowleyan sense", since Crowley – certainly in his later years – expected ...

4 months ago
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RE: The Book of the Lauds

What do you mean here by "three Aeons in the Crowleyan sense"?

4 months ago
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RE: chthonic auranian oto

I think his aversion went deeper than that. The passage in Magick without Tears includes the statement that "I hate this doctrine so rabidly that I ca...

5 months ago
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RE: chthonic auranian oto

It's not a "weird nut of a thread". It's just a thread. If you have such a low opinion of it, why bother to comment? I never met Alobar Greywalker, ...

5 months ago
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RE: The Book of the Lauds

I agree to some extent. In the first place, though, I think Crowley was very impulsive, and not as rational as some like to think. Bearing in mind the...

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

I think we all practise Thelema in our own way. I would though be interested to hear more from you on what you see as the Christianity of the O.T.O....

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RE: The Book of the Lauds

@katrice Many thanks for those pointers. I had forgotten that remark in One Star in Sight.

5 months ago
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RE: The Book of the Lauds

Apologies for my imprecision. I was referring to the remark that a Magus can utter a Word without being Magus of an Aeon. It's been many years since I...

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RE: The Book of the Lauds

I like the idea of this, but I wonder what leads you to think that this is the case?

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

Thanks for the clarification. Yes, I had read what you said with too little attention.

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

Do you mean the grade of Magus? If so, I'd be interested to know the nature of the verification.

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RE: The Book of the Lauds

So it's on the O.T.O. website. So what? I what way does that mean that it is "officially accepted"? Do you think that the O.T.O. have the final say on...

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RE: The Book of the Lauds

Officially accepted by whom?

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RE: The Book of the Lauds

In my experience it's more common as a verb – to laud someone is to praise them, often quite lavishly. As a noun it's archaic, and I've not come its u...

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RE: Witch's dream to move into tiny Yorkshire hillside hamlet stopped by Cliff Richard

Bit difficult to understand why this has been published now, when the events took place decades ago and the woman died a good few years ago now. Thin ...

6 months ago
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RE: Atlantis, lost civilizations, precession, Hancock and Thelema.

It's something that afflicts revived threads, I notice. New threads seem fine. So the present software seems incompatible with threads that flourished...

6 months ago
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RE: Atlantis, lost civilizations, precession, Hancock and Thelema.

Why would it be interesting, as opposed to indifferent or boring?

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RE: SittingNow Podcast - Aleister Crowley’s Strange Angel with George Pendle

Indeedy. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s I went through a rich few years of thinking that Jack Parsons was the best thing since sliced bread,...

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