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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

@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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Do not feed the troll.

Little intelligence on display there, artificial or otherwise.

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The proverbial five minutes . . .

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...