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About • LAShTAL Home • Forums     edit Welcome to Encyclopedia Thelemica The Encyclopedia Thelemica was born on 12 October 2008 and it's the home of the Aleister Crowley Timeline. This project of The Aleister Crowley Society is devoted, as is its parent site, LAShTAL.COM, to impartiality, and it will become the definitive online source of information about Thelema and the life and works of Aleister Crowley. The Encyclopedia Thelemica is a fork of http://www.thelemapedia.org/ published by Scarlet Woman Lodge, OTO. Now containing over 974 articles: * * * A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 All pages     edit Today's featured article Amoun was the Hellenicized name of a major Egyptian deity, in the native language Amun, "the hidden one" (alternative spelling "Amon"). He was one of the Ogdoad and was married to Ipet. He was also a Berber god, but there were differences between the Berber Ammon and the Egyptian Ammon. The Greeks honoured the Berber Ammon, and the Phoenicians mixed their god Baal with the Berber Ammon to create the god Baal-Ammon. The Egyptian Amoun He was, to begin with, the local deity of Thebes, when it was an unimportant town on the east bank of the river, about the region now occupied by the temple of Karnak. The Eleventh dynasty dynasty sprang from a family in the Hermonthite nome or perhaps at Thebes itself, and adorned the temple of Karnak with statues. Amenemhe, the name of the founder of the Twelfth dynasty, was compounded with that of Amun and was borne by three of his successors. Several Theban kings of the later part of the Middle Kingdom adopted the same name; and when the Theban family of the Seventeenth dynasty drove out the Hyksos, Ammon, as the god of the royal city, was again prominent. It was not, however, until the rulers of the Eighteenth dynasty carried their victorious arms beyond the Egyptian frontiers in every direction that Ammon began to assume the proportions of a universal god for the Egyptians, eclipsing all their other deities and asserting his power over the gods of all foreign lands. To Ammon the Pharaohs attributed all their successful enterprises, and on his temples they lavished their wealth and captured spoil. (more...) Archive   •   Nominate     edit Did you know... ... that Theodor Reuss, the first Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis, used "Merlin" as his magical name? ... that Nicholas Flamel was a French alchemist who lived in the fifteenth century, and is supposed to have been the most accomplished of the European alchemists? It is claimed that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy: he made the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into gold, and he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality. ... that "Egypt" is a Greek corruption of the phrase "Het-Ka-Ptah", or "House of the Spirit of Ptah"? ... that the term chaos magic first appeared in print in the widely influential "Liber Null" by Peter Carroll, first published in 1978? ... that Iamblichus (ca. AD 245 - ca. 325 / Greek: Ιάμβλιχος) a neoplatonist philosopher was the one who coined the term Augoeides (translated as Luminous Self), which is synonymous with the Holy Guardian Angel found in Thelema?     edit Featured picture "I dined at Cosegrave's house one night. He had asked Evangeline Adams to meet me as being a famous astrologer. The meeting led to a lengthy association. She wanted me to write a book on astrology for her. The plan failed through her persistent efforts to cheat me out of the profits, and her obstinate ignorance of the elementary facts of nature combined with an unconquerable antagonism to the principles of applying common sense to the science. I learned a good deal, nevertheless. The work kept me concentrated on the subject. At this time, it was my invariable practice to judge from the personal appearance of every stranger I met the sign rising at his birth. Having made up my mind, I would ask him to tell me either the hour or the day of his birth. I could then calculate the missing day as thus: Suppose I judge my man to have Libra in the ascendant and he tells me his birthday is October 1st. When the sun is in 5° or 6° Libra, I can tell him he was born at sunrise, within a limit of error of about two hours. Alternatively, should he say, "I was born at midnight", I can give his birthday to within a fortnight or so of Christmas. I tabulated my results over a considerable period and found that I was right in a little over two cases in three. Where I was wrong, I found that either the sign I had chosen for his ascendant was that occupied by his sun, which in some people determines the personal appearance more effectively than the ascendant, or else, in erecting his horoscope I found the rising sign occupied by planets whose nature modified the sign so that it could be mistaken for the one I had picked out." ("The Confessions of Aleister Crowley", Chapter 77) Archive   •   Nominate     edit Today in Aleister Crowley's life June 4: 1906 - "A.'. no good." Decides to ask Rose definitely if she will come on a Magical retirement with him. 1907 - Works all night with Jones.     edit Featured portals • Aleister Crowley • Aleister Crowley Timeline • Thelema • Thelemic Timeline •     edit Categories Aleister Crowley • Timeline • Biography • Beliefs & Practices • Works of Aleister Crowley • Controversy • Works about Aleister Crowley • Fraternal/Magical Organizations • Magick • Occultism • Thelema • Interests • Name change • People in his life • Lairs of The Beast • Books • Libri • Poems • Thoth Tarot deck •Other writings     edit Encyclopedia Thelemica Notes The Encyclopedia Thelemica was born on 12 October 2008 as a thread of Thelemapedia. Devoted, as is its parent site, LAShTAL.COM, to impartiality, this Encyclopedia is an online source of information about Thelema and the life and works of Aleister Crowley. With thanks to Thelemapedia (on which this Wiki is based), to Tau Aleph and to Ian Rons.