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

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 ...

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

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...

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, ...

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Officially accepted by whom?

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...

. . . as William Shakespeare was often heard to remark.

@williamthirteen When is it ever, eh?

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 ...

Blasphemer! Verily, He liveth, and walketh amongst us.

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

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

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,...

I disagree. The essence of Thelema is summarised in the Greek word Thelema. The Egyptian mythology – Nuit, Hadit, Ra-hoor-khuit – are simply trappings...

So did it work this time?

I clicked on the link a couple of minutes ago. No need to log in. I downloaded the pdf easily enough.

This is a lovely book in so many ways – the rich paper, the generous margins, the lovely white buckram binding of the boards with the gold stamping.

Yes, it would be nice if runs could be larger. The publisher of Kamuret Press is a friend of mine, and was simply not in a position to produce a large...

This book had a print run of 350 copies, of which 31 were deluxes, thus leaving a standard edition of 319. It's a very scarce book therefore, and I th...

I somehow doubt that. But in any case, even if that were so, what is the point of pivoting from one extreme to the other, like a demented shuttlecock?

Well, I agreed with him. The stuff you came out with ireads like a Private Eye spoof on something the Daily Mail might trot out - something like 1982'...

Why do you did that intriguing?

You think I hadn't noticed the allusion to a passage in The Book of the Law? Seriously?

Generally speaking, when a person maintains something, and someone demurs, it is for them to make thir case. To be honest I assumed that your remark w...

Don't give up the day job, mate.

The initiations occurred in 1915, with its Chokmah Days etc. However, I don't think Crowley formally claimed the grade until after Achad was able to c...

Yes, agreed that they had an effect As someone who considers Advaita Vedanta to be the best thing since sliced bread, I'd have liked Anatta to have ma...

Well, with all due respect, it was you doing the bar-setting. You were suggesting that Xeper (a term of which I'd not heard prior to this thread) woul...

Hyperbole by Crowley, to say the least. In what way did Anatta overturn "all existing beliefs and codes"? Or Agape? Or Allah? Or Tao? Thery didn't. Th...

Possibly. This is not one of them.

How can one man behave like a mob, for God's sake? The mind boggles.

So you've revived a thread after eighteen months or so, simply to pursue a political argument with ignant?

I don't think that anybody knows what he meant, least of all Cole.

Does that count as "technological means", though?

"Platonism is the view that there exist such things as abstract objects — where an abstract object is an object that does not exist in space or time a...

Like Crowley, and indeed many others before and since, I make use of the Qabalah. Does that make me a Platonist/Neo-Platonist?

How about the possibility that he wasn't "taught to hate LaRouche", but has simply read some of his work and doesn't like what he has read? It does ha...

My pleasure. Across the years I have come across one or two possible forgeries where it's very difficult to be sure one way or the other; after all, S...

This is not Spare. It's not his line. If you compare the "signature" with the signatures on Spares from around 1908, there is no comparision. What's...

The one at the top is a copy of one of Spare's drawings in an issue of Form or The Golder Hind. The one of the bottom is a copy of a drawing in The Bo...

No. They're both forgeries. I've seen a few Spare forgeries in my time, and these rank amongst the worst.