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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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,...