thamiel
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RE: Homophobic?

I guess I'm not explaining myself clearly enough. If XIth degree is just a term that means "anal sex operations," then on what grounds does Grant clai...

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RE: Homophobic?

I have always viewed sexual differentiation as distinct from gender. Sex is merely a genital description, while gender is a social/cultural construct...

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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

Hi Satan'sAdvocaat,I am a disgustingly rationalist, cynical and sceptical magickian. I think the concept of preserving the Abbey as a site of pilgrima...

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RE: Thelemic Music

David Tibet is a bit of an enigma to me. He spent the 90's distancing himself from Thelema, is a self-proclaimed gnostic/docetic Christian, but also ...

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RE: References to A.C. in music

French Black Metal band Nehemah's 2002 album Requiem Tenebrae states on the liner notes..."Dedicated to the memory of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) &am...

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RE: Crowley new one man play Edinburgh fringe

Hi,I would suggest applying:If you got accepted, you could probably apply for funding to an arts board in your country to help with travel expenses, e...

13 years ago
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RE: Crowley new one man play Edinburgh fringe

This sounds great...best of luck with it!Let me know if you are ever doing the Fringe circuit in Canada,I would love to see it.

13 years ago
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RE: For Sale – Abbey of Thelema (former owner Aleister Crowley).

I have to shake my head at the people who have pilgrimaged there, only to chip away walls and take items. A thelemic reliquary is inert, dead and osi...

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RE: Grant's impact on Thelema

He took it from fringe masonry to the lunatic fringe ;)In many ways I think that as Crowley was to the GD material, Grant is the the Crowley material.

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RE: Mixing Alpine Substances

I know galangal is in the recipe for Abramelin Oil, but does anyone have a reference for his use of turmeric? Perhaps in the diaries?

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RE: Greetings to all.

Greetings! I really enjoyed the verse!

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RE: What one event from Crowley's life...

Crowley and Neuberg in North Africa...

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RE: A.'.A.'. Membership

from the OTO first instruction:"As a matter of course, those persons who are already sufficiently spiritually developed to enter into conscious commun...

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RE: So, whose rituals are black?

Not trying to be inflammatory here, just curious.......if 'black' is Old Aeon, what about the OTO? Didn't Crowley say that the OTO was merely the fir...

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RE: Politics and Thelema

Most of the posts up to this point sum it up quite succinctly; political Thelema ranges from spiritual anarchism through to spiritual fascism...and ev...

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RE: Politics and Thelema

The first few posts sum it up quite succinctly; from spiritual anarchism through to spiritual fascism...and everything in-between.

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RE: Cairo 1904: Looking For Information

In my opinion, this thread is one of the best ever written here. . . I concur. I have found much magick and inspiring mystery in this thread...Just ...

14 years ago
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RE: Cairo 1904: Looking For Information

Wow. A thelemic Focault's Pendulum.

14 years ago
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RE: Science, other dimensions, entities & hallucinogens

Including the confirmation that other dimensions do exsist and so are the entities that inhabit them. I am personally aware of 4 dimensions. I visit ...

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RE: How do you summon your guardian angel?

Keep a rigorous daily magickal diary, and start generating the necessary momentum. Only you will find the way that works for you.from One Star In Sig...

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RE: The Holy Guardian Angel

See? It doesn't require a "course in logic", merely the ability to read.I think you need to read some foundational texts in formal logic."Oh no! Someo...

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RE: The Holy Guardian Angel

And I would direct you right back to it, because that's not even remotely what he's saying. He's telling people to take what he says and then test it,...

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RE: Women in Thelema and Magick - in Theory and Practice

generally accord with the "habit of mind" that is conservatismSo, conservatism in the vernacular sense as a social/ethical stance, or conservatism as ...

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RE: The Holy Guardian Angel

Don't confuse the art with the architecture.Wet plaster fresco differs radically from oil on canvas, which differs radically from sand painting, which...

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RE: The Holy Guardian Angel

I respect your position Erwin, though I have to respectfully disagree:Anybody with even a passing familiarity with Crowley would understand that the i...

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RE: Women in Thelema and Magick - in Theory and Practice

unless that individual Thelemite is also a Socialist (how is this possible?!).Ha Ha. In my utopian reveries I'm an anarcho-communist, but practically...

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RE: Back to basics in gematria for Kenneth Grant?

I'd be curious to see any records from the Nu-Isis Lodge...irregardless of whether they touched on Grant's account. Do any records, except Grant's, ex...

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RE: A Task

haha. The last link on the left under wicca says, "Human Scarficies". Don't even bother responding to such people.

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RE: Back to basics in gematria for Kenneth Grant?

I'd be curious to see any records from the Nu-Isis Lodge...irregardless of whether they touched on Grant's account. Do any records, except Grant's, e...

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RE: Back to basics in gematria for Kenneth Grant?

I have been inspired by Grant's magick, and have alot of respect for him, but have always considered his descriptions of lodge-work and ritual quite d...

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RE: Correspondences between Thelema and the Typhonian concepts

This account of things, however, seems to serve as the foundation for a mythic extension of the same, more suited to embrace the "cosmic" scope of Gra...

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RE: Correspondences between Thelema and the Typhonian concepts

My opinion only: I think Grant is a Thelemite who took the instruction from Appendix III of Magick In Theory and Practise, and began to map his own ma...

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RE: Liber Os Abysmi vs. Liber Librae

Liber Librae...an elementary course in morality suitable for the average manLiber Os Abysmi...a complex course in philosophy suitable for the extraord...

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RE: Three aspects of Da'ath

While there can be little doubt about the veracity of gross physical laws (the sun rises and sets, fire burns me, gravity lends weight to objects with...

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RE: Some poetry to share, again.

I find Crowley's poetry rather tedious. I like the automatic and surreal quality of TBOTL, but that isn't really like Crowley's usual poetry - which I...

14 years ago
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RE: Works by Crowley at the Palais de Tokyo

Thanks for the video! If you can get your hands on the October Gallery catalogue, I would highly recommend it.As forward thinking and socially libera...

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