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RE: Amalantrah: Will Yorick be any use

Elsie Gray Parker As well as the Yorick in Shakespeare’s Hamlet a character of the same name appears in Laurence Sterne’s Life and opinions of Tristr...

6 years ago
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RE: How does Leary's 8 brain-model of evolution define Crowley's idea of TW?

"david" wrote: Well the editor thought it was the physical planet, Venus. Blame him for the disinfo. No, the editor is correct. Crowley ...

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RE: A Lecture on the Philosophy of Magick By Aleister Crowley

"WilliamThirteen" wrote: were those four short paragraphs the extent of it? This lecture is reproduced in The Revival of Magick, New Falc...

8 years ago
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RE: Thelema and radical honesty.

"david" wrote: I said, bluntly and enthusiastically, "Depressed! It was great. So on for the rest of the day. Surely, as soon as you ...

8 years ago
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RE: Androcles and the Lion

W13,Sorry I can't help there because I don't know. I only have an electronic copy of the first part of the catalogue dealing with the Crowley stuff. I...

8 years ago
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RE: Androcles and the Lion

I don't think so.The books auctioned by Christies in April 1974 were just referred to as the property of 'Lady Kelly'. She would have inherited the bo...

8 years ago
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RE: Evidence presented in 'Liber L vel Bogus' by R T Cole

Wellreadwellbred,I got the impression that this book was not published yet. Amazon reviews are notoriously self serving. Why not wait until the book i...

8 years ago
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RE: Crowley's translation of "Les Litanies de Satan"

Crowley's title for Baudelaire's Les Litanies de Satan is The Litany of Satan which he published in Oracles (1905). It is reprinted in his Collected W...

8 years ago
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RE: And One Guinea is exactly ...?

The reason for the widely different results in different countries is that inflation differs between places. The Euro calculations must be very diffic...

8 years ago
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RE: And One Guinea is exactly ...?

I remember guineas used to express prices for books and clothing."So a guinea is just about a pound." Not really. A guinea was always greater than a ...

8 years ago
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RE: Liber Agape

"Shiva" wrote: Not that I know of - at least, I've not seen one. sample:

8 years ago
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RE: Film review: "The Fly" (1958) at the Alamo Drafthouse

A couple of snippets here from Nos. 1-5I got no results searching for 'Aleister'.There is also a copy of No. 2 on French Amazon; it doesn't look to be...

8 years ago
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RE: ISIS Cashing in on Looted Antiquities to Fuel Iraq Insurgency

Anyway, if you canvas openly for this project you will be noticed by the authorities. If you actually get so far as setting out to hand over money you...

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RE: Clarification re Liber AL I:3 and “The Law Is For All”

Hebrews. 13:8 Jesus Christ! The same yesterday, today and forever.

8 years ago
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RE: AC and the Stele of Revealing

The photo referenced above is, I believe, taken from the 1929 edition of Confessions. The version from Book 4 part 2 is better, and slightly different...

8 years ago
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RE: Clarification re Liber AL I:3 and “The Law Is For All”

That was a publisher's pre publication prospectus. The actual book did not contain: The surviving portion of Liber 73, the Urn (Diary, of Magus), or T...

8 years ago
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RE: Crowley's Art: A Film by Kenneth Anger

The opening drawing is by Augustus John, 'May Morn' (the one with pixies and a hanged woman) is an imitation or forgery of a similar Crowley painting,...

8 years ago
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RE: Manna for fans: the history of the hidden track in music

They can only mean ThIShARB in Equinox Vol.1.No7.OK

8 years ago
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RE: the Author of the Book is possessed of knowledge beyond any yet acquired by man.

"herupakraath" wrote: The argument about present and future tense is also worthless given that any interpretation of Forties & Eighties...

8 years ago
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RE: Is there a difference between magical initiation and psychotherapy?

Is it really the case that Crowley made any such prophesy? (I genuinely don't know), The usual observation is simply that AC dedicated a poem to Mudd ...

8 years ago
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RE: Huxley Portrait

93 Lutz,AC moved to the Park Lane Hotel on 5th Jan 1933.I have no other info except that there is nothing in the 'Old Master' catalogue.OK

8 years ago
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RE: Tattooed Woman Painting

93 Lutz,Also I do not think it shows tattoos - it looks to me like a garment. I don't think garments like this existed in 1934 although they probably ...

8 years ago
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RE: Tattooed Woman Painting

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: 93!I never saw it before. Yes you did! It's item 25 in the 'Old Master' exhibition catalogue and described a...

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RE: Satanic Rejoicings in Venezuela?

This work is by a Caribbean cultural commentator Arnim Mitto Sampson (name sometimes given as A.Mitto Sampson or last name sometimes wrongly given as ...

8 years ago
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RE: 'What kind of man buys Aleister Crowley's mansion?'

"david" wrote: Bowie is a way better representative of the Crowleyan magickal current imo. Laughing Gnome?OK

8 years ago
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RE: Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Repub.

"Magickal" wrote: Does anybody know if T.C. published those letters from Crowley to Vierick asking Hitler to accept the Liber Al as the new...

8 years ago
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RE: Crowley and the bicycle?

"ignant666" wrote: Other than a mention of an abortive cycling trip in his youth with a detested tutor, You mean this bit? :"It was in th...

9 years ago
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RE: Thelema is not Magick? Thelema is not occultism?

"david" wrote: Well, is any given Jehova's Witness ever doing their TW? Hank MarvinOK

9 years ago
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RE: Crowley in Verrières, November 7, 1903

On reflection I think you're probably right.

9 years ago
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RE: Crowley in Verrières, November 7, 1903

"Horemakhet" wrote: What style of dress is the baggy trousers with knee-high socks in a sloping one-color suit which he is wearing? I was t...

9 years ago
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RE: I am The Beast 666

"david" wrote: As an uneducated child .............. Maleducated maybe but certainly not uneducated.OK

9 years ago
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RE: Crowley's portrait of Lam

"jamie barter" wrote: Was this unusual event publically announced with any advance notice at all? This was front page news on October 4t...

9 years ago
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RE: Otto Dix

I would also say not. With the possible exception of this one from the Gurlitt stash(right):which puts me in mind of AC's oval portrait of Leah - the ...

9 years ago
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RE: AC defining the whole subject of Magick as an example of mythopoeia

"Tao" wrote: Citation? I found it here:It's not actually 'on physics' it's part of the anti pseudo-science agenda.OK

9 years ago
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RE: Crowley confesses that he was once a metaphysical idiot

While I don't particularly disagree with the points you are misusing Crowley to support this bit is plain wrong: "david" wrote: “At this ti...

9 years ago
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RE: Cicada 3301

A bit more from the BBC:

9 years ago
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RE: "The Last Days of Sig Hile"

Bosch = electrical goods manufacturerBoche = German soldiersbr>Bosh = What I think of the articlebr>OK

9 years ago
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RE: Nosferatu’s Long Shadow - Classic of German Horror on Blu-ray

I enjoyed the documentary. I thought to watch a few minutes of it but watched it to the end. The missing Koenig link isbr>OK

10 years ago
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RE: The C.O.T.O. ("Caliphornian" Ordo Templi Orientis)

"jamie barter" wrote: ..........Bylaws prescribe what is to bed one for succession......... That's the way to do it! (Mr.Punch)OK

10 years ago
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RE: Aleister Crowley and the Argument from Design

I have no disagreement about the 'designer argument' itself. As you point out AC used this argument on at least one occasion to one person (and, if an...

10 years ago
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RE: Aleister Crowley and the Argument from Design

But the designer position is only absurd when combined with monotheism because the single creator/designer has to do absolutely everything. Paganism c...

10 years ago
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RE: Aleister Crowley and the Argument from Design

Los you seem to have answered most of your own questions but you are contrasting Crowley's early position - fresh from feasting on T.H.Huxley and atta...

10 years ago
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RE: Crowley and Lord Dunsany?

Crowley wrote two reviews of The Sword of Welleran and three pages of galley proofs of them are at the Harry Ransome Center in Texas. They are not dat...

10 years ago
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RE: Thelemic Practice

I got as far as Z or was it ZZZZ.

10 years ago
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RE: The Poet

Early 1900s. It's in Konx Om Pax.

10 years ago
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RE: Who owns the A.’.A.’. writings? - Rumour mill

Good old Dr.K - always cogent rarely wrong.Bizarre list from Jamie Barter though. A mixture of available anywhere (e.g. stuff from the Equinox), prett...

10 years ago
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