Michael Staley
@michael-staley
The Funambulatory Way - it's All in the Egg
Joined: Apr 21, 2004
Last seen: Sep 28, 2023
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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

I remember the post very well, and seriously, your interprations are nonsense. Please report your complaints to the owner and administrator of the sit...

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RE: Leah Hirsig

Yes, I read that too, but that's not to say it's true. I knew Kenneth Grant from the mid 1970s until his death, and from the early 1980s was his right...

2 days ago
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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

@keith418 I meant, of course, "individualism", not "individuality". My bad, as you kids say.

2 days ago
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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

Since you quote this assertion of Crowley's with such apparent approval, perhaps you'd like to explain why Thelema is "the only possible answer to com...

2 days ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

What a strange bunker mentality this remark betokens. In the first place, the OP to this thread doesn't "argue a different date for the reception", an...

6 days ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

This stems from a curious change in The Equinox of the Gods, in the account of the reception of The Book of the Law. The account is similar to the acc...

1 week ago
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RE: Date of Writing The Book of the Law

My, what a wealth of interpretation you draw from just a few words in Mudd's diary. In the first place, there's no evidence nor even suggestion in the...

1 week ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

This thread on Leah Hirsig / Alostrael has been very interesting to me. Many years ago someone smuggled out from the Warburg one of her diaries, copie...

2 weeks ago
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RE: The Book of Lies first edition and The Star In The West 1907 second edition

A few months ago I finally obtained a first edition of The Anatomy of the Body of God for which I'd been keeping open the proverbial peeled eye for ma...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

What is the point of this post? Firstly, Crowley didn't die then. Secondly, if he had, who knows what might have happened? "... may have decided to ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

No it doesn't. What makes you think that Leah Hirsig was talking specifically about Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit? Because all I see in the paragraph...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

I think that the grade was assigned by Crowley. Off-hand I can't remember the remark that led me to believe that. Crowley was ambiguous about the "l...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Leah Hirsig

I doubt that Crowley had any real interest in ancient Egypt, and I suspect that he had none at all in staying abreast of academic research. "Incompe...

4 weeks ago
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RE: The Golden Cipher

Well, who on earth would have the temerity to make "unfalsifiable claims", such that we are living in the Aeon of Horus, or that there is such a thing...

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RE: The Selected Letters of Kenneth Grant

@aleisterion Many thanks for your post, Aleisterion. There's no need to apologise. We may have clashed from time to time in earlier years, but I th...

2 months ago
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RE: The Golden Cipher

You could have searched Google easily enough, which would have sated your curiousity: "Another system of English Qabalah known as Trigrammaton Qabal...

2 months ago
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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

There is a person on this website who baits and trolls, but it’s not “the detective”. I’m sorry that you express sympathy with him. To get back to the...

2 months ago
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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

You're now moving into the territory of equating Thelema with Crowley's pronouncements, which in my opinion is mistaken. I don't have a high opinion o...

2 months ago
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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

Personally I don't have a lot of truck with the supposed "sanctity of the individual". I've always been taken with the idea that existence is akin to ...

2 months ago
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RE: Is there a place for Marxism in Thelema?

I've always found this thread a strange one. There's probably some Thelemites who are Marxists or Socialists, and why not. I remember a few years ago ...

2 months ago
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RE: The Selected Letters of Kenneth Grant

Yes, six years is a hiatus of somewhat disconcerting proportions, but I had to fight my way out of the dustbin of history. Having dusted myself down...

2 months ago
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RE: RIP Kenneth Anger

I never cared much for Anger, and heard so many strange stories about him over the years, such as his death-threats and cursing. However, I've met peo...

2 months ago
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RE: RIP Kenneth Anger

No, I don't think he was. He was a strange person in some ways, but I've yet to come across anybody who isn't. He and Kenneth Grant had an interesti...

3 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

Thanks for the reply, Damien. I've been interested in the occult all my life, and have become more immersed in it as the decades have slipped by. I do...

3 months ago
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RE: Origins of "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent?"

Could you provide a few examples of what you judge to be "ill-effect"? I'm not particularly interested in the Golden Dawn, but I'm interested to hear ...

3 months ago
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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...

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

Little intelligence on display there, artificial or otherwise.

4 months 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...

5 months ago
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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 ...

5 months ago
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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...

5 months ago
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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...

5 months ago
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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...

5 months ago
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RE: Thank you, LAShTAL!

The proverbial five minutes . . .

5 months ago
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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...

5 months ago
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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 ...

5 months 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...

5 months 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.

5 months 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 ...

5 months 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.

5 months 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...

6 months ago
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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...

6 months 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.

6 months 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 ...

6 months 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...

6 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?

6 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.

6 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...

6 months ago
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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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