My laptop is acting funny. THe cursor skips up to things i wrote before and i
ahve to edit and sometimes the new text deletes the old. Appologies beforehand
if i cannot fully rectify this.
　
I have a situation which has become a high concern of mine. For the last 13
years i ahve been harased to varying degrees and in various ways by local cults
and the bulk of the inference has indicated thier angst towards me is rooted in
my past life affiliation with the order A.'.A.'. and the implied disdain of
western culture on behalf of crowley. Other aspects arose from simple
misunderstanding of things which is in turn rooted in thier westernized
mindsets. Though it is true that i eventually began to indulge "emotions" mixing
them with drugs and alcohol and certain psychological tricks to increase my own
pain, to feel it more because it was mine - and that this in turn as steadied my
decline into a mix of atrophy and apathy neither of which i trully enjoy but
were for a time worth the expense if i could only get in touch with the only
valid sensational response to my situation - it only came about after waiting
several years for A.'.A.'. assistance
  and fraternity. Various groups online implied knowledge of my situathis
situation online i would get in-person responses - always with slight of mouth
and ion before i mentioned it. After posting several things about plausible
deniability - and other things.
　
One person invaded my astral space after my occurance on alt.magick and tried to
innitiate me via dream magick. I was in a room with checkered black-white floor,
large stationary and ornate inscence holders and i was laying on the alter.
Others have incaded my dreams with less objectional content and won't be
referenced. Nearly every job I've had has had one of thier members present when
i enlisted or one eventually came. Indications direct me to the cult described
by robert wilson and shae's "illuminatus! trilogy" but also a golden dawn cult,
potentially an o.t.o. cult and chivalric society. I've also had negative and
unprovoked encounters with non-human entities, specifically one where i first
was cuaght with a "flight or fight" sensation only to gaze into the mirror and
see a "five dimensional" being whose full manifestation had to be taken in
parts, like a holographic image. He claimed to be from sirius to steal my
freedom (note, dogs are
  domesticated animals, castrated if you will, and not wholly free and it was
lack of free will for preferance of spiritual obeiscance they sought, or such
was the tacicity of the experience). This may have been a manufactured
experience, I'm not sure. A person online mentioned that certan visions i had
mentioned on alt.magick was false. THey never spoke to me directly when in that
mode of conversation or were very "flat out" and perhaps even almost one-sided
with thier communiques. The recruiters at two local colleges (at the time my
only options) were members. Detailed information can be given later. One person
attempted and eventually (when i indulged myself) in imposing a magickal
psychosis on me to impose and contrive the nessecity for meditation as per the
regiments/yamas of Crowley's Book Four part 1 section 1. I hate spiritual
masters and there's nothing thelemic about contriviction and similar extortions.
I had to hurt myself to avoid it and it's
  times like these that the FRATERNAL A.'.A.'. is meant to be just that. DO
similar malfunctions occur with falun dafa? THier adepts are also fraternally
bound to thier students and aspirants when such instances occur.
　
Several attempts at helping me were afforded. The "gabriel working" i performed
at age 15 warned me of a cult that would try to confuse and perhaps evene
control my mind and several more casual spiritual contacts revealed more. I used
the golden dawn sigil and a ritual i found in a book akin to shamanic rituals
i've found elsewhere wherein one imagines a "cloud realm" or similar meeting
space. An asiatic boy-king with a green glow and golden and black decorated
robes taught me an energy trick. Several asians gave me energy in person and via
the astral. Due to the extremity and immediacy of my situation i was blinded and
thought the extreme disorientation was an attack until years later while talking
to a mongolian spiritualist online. Turns out I might have much more in common
with those asians than i suspected when i percieved them in adversity. I met a
self-proclaimed member of motta's A.'.A.'. at a crack house. She was whoring
herself and eventually
  smelt like too many other peoples semen to even be allowed at the other crack
house. Yet during one conversation she validated something i experienced years
earlier, that joel birocco was in my area and perhaps lending to my suspicion
that he was "stalking me" (like in castenedas' books), due also to his timely
republishing of his babalon working in conjunction with one stint i had online
as i sometimes lose itor years. I expressed my opinion that chaos and thelema
were coeval, a word which piqued her intriguement and joels babalon working
aside i do have plans for this. I was a chaos magickian before i was consciously
aware of being thelemic but when i saw it there was no denying it. I held in the
back of my head that i was a reincarnated member but waned several forms of
third party varification (omens) before i could formally and consciously indulge
such potential flights to fancy. I picked up a book and set it down after the
papyrus ani footnote
  knowing i needed much more formal and esoteric education to make use of it at
that young age of 13. I thought i knew everything about the author, that maybe i
was him. I immediately put that aside, it would only cloud my mind. Besides, he
was a dead and my life is now. Earlier that school year a friend thought i knew
the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life" based on some
conversations and etc. I quickly and laughingly told him life has no meaning,
men find and give meaning to it (the -exact- phrasing will have to be recalled
later but pick either of the two additions to what solomon said on the meaning
of life in the old testament). I had a tendancy to refer to myself on paper as
"christ, high priest, and saint" but considered this a reaction to then being in
a catholic middle school. Later on others would take this mroe seriously. Two
times native americans came to my door when i was not home asking my birth
father where "the father"
  was. Never met them. THey were the least offensive of those who call me jesus
or christ or similar admonitions. Validity is not lost upon me, i can at times
bring earnest christians to tears with my ability to quote the bible (once
actually, and she was barely holding them back when i correlated egyptian
tradition and asiatic mysticism with judeochristianity but I'll leave room for
furture incidents should they ever occur as the potential still exists).
Besides, it was only weeks ago that a car came to a screeching halt so the
driver could stick out his head and yell to me "you look like jesus fucking
christ." I wanted to chose lucifer as my communion name but my teachers said he
was a saint not of our denomination. Lucifer played an underlying role in most
of my occultism, i like him for his alchemy. To me, lucifer = alchemy. While
working a side job a black man in african regalia with a bone necklass, the
colored half-robe and flattened hat with an
  indistinct accent asked me if i had some marijuana to smoke. I said i would if
i did and he went on to say that i look like lucifer and that the owner had five
dogs for each archangel, including lucifer. This was third party varification
and i do look like myself on a higher plane, as i phrased such things when i was
a teenager.
　
I have seen myself in blue orangish and white robes with a large sword. Wearing
hard leather armor. Having height stories higher than the humans below me as my
image was interpreted holographically, alternating between me in modern
"metal-styled" black leather and a somewhat "fly-ish" insectoid form. When i
tried to speak with a human it suddenly became aware of me and was filled with
fright. Ran off screaming and I have other lovecraftian paraphrenalia about me,
specifically concerning the cold, a green glow and primordial things. I have
also witnessed myself with reptilian skin and glowing orbs about myself,
specifically the two "mickey mouse ears" on the back of my head. Other times
with golden-orange robes. Soemtiems i am with people of one race, other times
with another. I awoke in a monastery and pointed to the next horizon and for a
period my face was clouded with a multi-colored glow. After losing this glow i
noted that i lost certain superficial
  aspects of self-Self. Some in one asian kingdom reminded me that even in the
ehavens they still play rough, but trully play at the same time. Not like what
one might sometimes find down here on the planet. Some are merely callous, like
venus aphrodite in homers' illiad. And they do call be a baby and a whiner while
i struggle and toil. I enjoyed homers illiad, he must have been innitiated. It
has many signs to this end. I have not been formally innitiated, i work with
transcarnated dharma, the dharma i get from the clouds spirits and air around
me. I reject all terrestrial innitiation, dirt and time are vices i cannot
endure. They work much cleaner and must faster as experience has shown. Some say
I'm full of myself, but how full are they to impose terrestrialism over my
supraterrestrialism? Gabriel and others guided me and helped me, as did my Holy
Guardian Angel. Lucifer came to me in clouds one day to end my suffering. My
body became stiff and prone
  and my heart stopped as sometimes occured in meditation or casual instances. We
both knew it was not my time. A great vision in the clouds was efore me and the
sky seemed painted. Every contour and shadow only perfected the image. I've had
visions in the clouds since i was young. At the end they told me i could go with
them, but i said i ahve things to do down here. Some time later i began to
indulge. Formal A.'.A.'. recognition is not required and if you want a record
for the experiences which were too quick to stop and write about then i suggest
you check the akashik or go fuck yourself. I am a very small person inside but
sometimes now how to speak when i chose to. I dunno why some in the west want so
much from me, they even got blood from my stone of a heart but still they seek
more. I said if have to heal myself (and perhaps even do the rest thereafter
myself) i would only become "very fucking pissed" and would take it out on the
proepr authorities
  in the west. I test you, not the other way around.
　
I was at a building formerly owned by a cicero. I was invited by some i met
socially who claimed some extensive esotericism, like bleeding thier negativity
into a crystal so that it in turn became black. It was "goth night" at the
upstage, a nightclub in that building. THe place was sold after i began to
formulate a means of expressing discontent online, roughly in the year 2005 or
2006. It was later housed at a gay night club downtown called "pegasus." Once
there i spent some time by myself, not really knowing anyone. I sat down with
the group who brought me and they had gathered soem friends from the crowd. The
main one, who i suspect of being a shapeshifter, began a name game. She was
lucifer, the next muhammed, jesus, confucius and buddha in some order. I was
"sqiggly wiggly." Though some get the impression that I am, I try not to be an
untouchable person after this manner and some (LHP and similar types with lack
of extensive indulgence) take this
  as weakness as determined by a western mindset I am again tiring to indulge.
This may or may not be evident in my current prose. So we left and another girl
came home with us. She spent the night and demonstrated some telepathic ability
in the form of a test. After a subsequent conversation she invited me to the
porch and superimposed her appearance with that of a much older male. She then
impposed a trance on me an cautioned me not to indulge it but i tried to use it
for the healing i knew she wouldn't give. She gave me some of my energy back for
a moment and i tested her, asked her to show me how to prevent it being taken as
such (usually i can prevent it but i made a stash on the astral and have been
rather absent minded due to my so-called faith in my eventual return concerning
these artifacts). I was giddy and energetic again, and it had been a while. I'm
not really what i am at other points, and have been known as a pot-head (my
usualy disguise),
  some one who always looks like they want to kill some one, some one who perhaps
never read a book, some claim i'm very intelligent when they get in that mode,
but before all this i was the kid who'd bash his head against lockers and brick
walls or punch them, vandalize public and private property huff glue and cut
himself while listening to metal. Before that I was just a child who soemtimes
had a fetish for oriental "mind over matter" meditation and found his soul spot
in the woods where he'd try to venture to the point where no sign of
cEvilization could be seen. I'd read encyclopedias and watch 1980's horror and
martial arts and action films at age 8 and got into nine inch nails greenday and
white zombie when i was in fifth grade. I hade numerous occult experiences, and
one worth mentioning for it's simplicity is when i took a small statuette and
threw it for no reason at age eight or nine or maybe 10. It and time stood still
as it floated in midair
  then fell. It was nothing to me, just like when i awoke to find myself floating
above my bed. Only relevant thing to say about that is that i checked to see if
i was holding myself above my bed as if doing push ups in my sleep before i fell
moments later. All that time i spent trying to walk up invisible stairs for
"mind over matter" and i did it in my sleep at age 10 or 11. I used to see solid
shadows in human form at the foot of my bed, sometimes strange music
accompanied. I'd eventually conjure one after him and four of his friends
summoned me, with that music, to my mothers sitting room. They were in "star"
form and discussing politics. I beseached them as thus "oh great and unholy
masters, bestow thy infernal powers upon me." THey laughed and said i was too
pretentious and i tacitly understood what that menat without ever hearing the
word before. I was 12 or 13 at the time. This is a small recollection, the rest
would only encumber this.
　
　
My current pretentiousness is a form of NLP-metaprogramming, keeps me focused in
spite of all the crack alcohol and weed and whatever other stressors I endure. I
was given two names. God amungst men, man amungst gods.. God Satan CHrist
AntiChrist. These are my mottos today. When i was about 8m or 9 my sunday school
teacher told our class that god was everywhere and all seeing. I tried
internally to percieve from this perspective. I recieved a vision of christ in
blue orangish and white robes and a light blue aura floating down the street
near the school instead. Later within about 2 years i heard a voice in my head,
not entirely unusual. It told me i was weak ugly and stupid but would correct
this. Told em the spirit moves the body and implied the obverse was not correct.
I would later attribute my strength to my spirit, and i was the smallest person
on my little league football team, or nearly so, but my coaches used me as an
example for my ability on
  the line. I started offensive and defensive line and once evne had some one in
tears of frustration because i knocked him on his ass every play. I got mine
too. I'd break through the line and get spear headed each time during one game.
I attribute this to something dirty i did during a pile-on once.. I wasn't
always so un-western and did indulge it for a time. But later became sick of it
knowing that those i hung out wiht would not ___ as deep as I would. Not in
politics or the occult, they only wanted charms banter and rhetoric. I wanted
essence. When I was in fifth grade i watched MTV (later i'd ahve to stop due to
thier lack of adherance to their namesake and that metal music became confined
to late night television adn eventually mtv2 for preferance of reality t.v.
which only entertained me during my 6'th grade year when the real world had a
"punk" participant, and i was young and perhaps easily fooled into that...) i
saw some punk rockers in new
  york during one of thier commercials and knew this was the true path. I still
cannot claim to be punk because I'm not a gutter punk. But lack of worthwhile
participants caused me to isolate and become an occultish hermit during my
highschool years, only hanging out when we cut class to smoke pot and spending
the rest of my time reading about politics and the occult or my rather extensive
experimentation. No sleep for 2-5 days and repeat on waking, sleep is for the
weak. Not more than half a meal a day if that, sometimes 1, food is for the
weak. no water unless at school at the fountain or at the eat n' park, water is
for the weak. No oxygen for preferance of huffing glue, smoking cigarrettes and
weed and pranayama restrictions on breathing, air is for the weak. Or such was
my mantra. Lots of self hypnosis, trance work and etc. I rose on the planes and
saw my higher self and brought down my transcarnated dharma somewhat after
meeting gabriel. THis
  followed by months of lsd. Only quarter and half hits at first, then full hits
then two and this led to an extreme experience. I cut myself while throwing
broken glass at a wall to see it sparkle in the sun. I was perhaps the only one
in highschool with lsd and once had 20 people tripping in the same day. And i
was already being cursed and afflicted for years by this point, but also
vampirized (eventually to the point of brittle bones, cold chest for weeks and
even feeling hands clasping my chest when waking after a vampiric dream, and
where was the FRATERNAL A.'.A.'., no other A.'.A.'. matters). I allowed myself
an indulgence, being the guy who always looked like he wanted to kill some one
wasn't my full personality so i said "holy shit" in a failed attempt at emoting.
THe underside of my finger dangled and i began to bleed. My sister told me to
run to the bp gas station but i told her it would only make me bleed faster, so
i walked. Once there i
  nearly passed out and puked. When i regained myself i went into the bathroom
and had a funny thought when i noticed i was leaving bloody handprints on the
wall. Spent five hours in the waiting room at the e.r. laughing at other
paitents with my sister and the enxt day the clerk at the b.p. told me some one
came in later and thought some one had been murdered in bathroom. Mission
accomplished. I seldom do these things anymore, having been so severely
dispirited and disheartened. Been a couple months since i threw some uprooted
plants into the sunroof of a car with a friend. Been a couple years since i
flatted the tires of nearly every car on the street. THough i did, with a
friend, get a cut closed down with our obscene graffitti a couple months ago. In
an unrelated incident i wrote "sanity is a liability, jump here to find freedom"
on the side of a bridge.I'm a very small person, and deep inside i'm only a
child. I just wanna be me but they hate me and
  want me to conform, they want to "steal my freedom" as said above, make me some
bland idiot western intellectual. Get the context now?
Years of my life, can the A.'.A.'. return them? I take payments out the ass as
well, you know? I even came in my good clothes, looking all jesus like in my
skin suite. I hate you people. Only whitey calls me a racist, because of white i
say about whitey. In new york there was a riot. 1920's. Italians irish and
blacks, the rally cry was "let's kill all the white people." Where is YOUR
heart? Mine is stolen. I am irish and cicilian, but have other reasons to say
"kill whitey." THe misfits wrote a song, "let's kill all the white people." I
feel my punk said it best. Better than the hippies, and perhaps because they
lack superficiality. Not just the superficial lacking but also lack of "v for
victory" peace sign, new age rhetoric, sex drugs music and communes and etc.
　
I'm 26 years old. But if i go with the adepts of the generation prior to mine
(which i was told not to, for thier vulgarity, see also the "illuminatus!
trilogy" when wilson/shae claim "the great white magickian is dead, now is the
time for black brothers" and need i remind you of your fraternal obligations?
fair enough, your order is naught and i did say if i can outdo any adept in any
sense then i would denounce the entire organization because i test you, not you
unto me) i'd only indulge the moonchilde ritual i came to save this body from.
Crowley denounced it. Fuck any cult that uses it. And fuck scientology as well.
Yeah, i heard that story too, along with kenneth angers falling out with that
guy from led zeppelin. Also came across an article online, republished from
1983, year i was born, called "the beast is back." 1983, NOT 1984. Yes, I was
once head of an illuminist order which uses the eye in the pyramid design, but i
fucking hate mentalists.
  Orwell wasn't bad.Some golden dawn societies, however, and perhaps some
chivalric ones, posture themselves a certain way. Several national and
international politions were at my grandfaths funeral. I am the seventh son of a
seventh daughter. My ancestors owned various establishments and were partial
owners of what is now a internationally reknown football franchise. I grew up in
a room with no insulation or heating and grew to lvoe the cold. Some of the
coldest winters on record. I no longer wear t-shirts or go out barechested in
snow storms but we don't have snow storms anymore. I do sometimes leave my
window open on winter nights. I am 26. 13 years. I am mostly self taught. I'm a
fucking weed, not wanted to live but somehow making root and perhaps even
flowers at times. Since the age of 13...i rise but only did so until age 21-23,
then I indulged myself. Now i suffer trial by fire. I couldn't go to college,
they first tried to make me take clases i
  didn't want by claiming to ahv eno info on any class but those my mother wanted
me to take and when i persisted she left and came back with for only the classes
my mother suggested. The next attempt was met with more extravagant
interference. I am mostly self taught. Due to U.S.ian education system in public
schools me and my classmates tried to ahve our math teacher fired but he was
only transfered. Two of his students in his student body passed with "d"
averages. I've been fucked on that end ever since though "tested posative" for
calculus in an online I.Q. test. I've known since the fifth grade that such
things are bogus but did score a high of 152, the real score should ahve been
clsoe to mensa status had i a PROPER education. I was a borderline genius in
gradeschool. FUCK THE U.S. My burnt foreign I.D. in front of the statue of
liberty (and captured on camera and available online from an ftp site whose addy
i forgot) was perhaps a FUCKING WASTE. So
  much can happenn so little time sinc ehte last just war.
　
But they never did live up to thier standards, did they? Slaves, prejudice, no
men being equal and thier having said "who gives a fuck about the rights of
woemn children gays and anyone perhaps not quite so masculinely anglo saxon as
they" and etc. Censor me and die. My only threat is that i will find a way. I am
not a badass, I am a very small person. Western mvoies make what i might
naturally say seem cheesey and generic.
So i once said that i would make serial killer movies a reality, stop short of
cannibalism and kill thier secondary incarnations first. THat girl who was
killed and mutilated in 2005 looks alot like the shapeshifter from above. I said
I would atack thier heads of state for attacking mine meaning me. THe killer
looked a little like micheal meyers and had "23" in his yahoo addy. He too
stopped short of cannibalism, i did this in honor of achilles. I took latin in
highschool because i knew from crowley's mitap that it would become nessesary.
He told his class he didn't care, it was a dead language. I ehar now they no
longer offer many if any language courses. Was once a blue ribbon highschool and
is now a security state highschool. No language classes but some couple hundred
security cameras. So much for the state budget on learning....I found myself
cutting class for many reasons. I first started in fifth grade and some may say
i was too smart for my own
  good. i knew my grades did not reflect anything mroe than rote memory. The
teacher just let us walk out, and we played hide and seek or whatever in the
hallways. Give somebody something WORTH trying for. Otherwise they just waste
lives, but the trend towards aristocracy prefers this anyway. Social darwinism
is nothing more than a socioalized darwinian pretense which favors obeiscance
and the status quo and those in power. It's an attempt to justify corporate
feudalism in it's modern ad-libbed an open ended form which is validated only
under a vulgar understanding, it does not encourage true intelligence. FUck what
crowley said, for having said just that i FEEL like a motherfuckinggod.
Employment record is used as a vice, a form of extortion. Lose your job on bad
terms, even if they are contrived biased or unfounded, and expect to wait one or
more months for a new one or simply take the bullshit jobs that don't care. Some
are lucky and there are
  loopholes but this is not what the U.S. was supposed to be. A fucking drug test
to work at a cogo's? For a minimum wage job that won't even or ever afford me
life liberty and the persuit of happiness either in constitutional terms or
modern terms? BULLSHIT! I used to disdain being buried with the rights of a
saint by A.'.A.'. members, but maybe they knew something i didn't about myself.
I hate to indulge this, i'd rather smoke crack.
 
 
 
I'm only pissed at the hierarchy, shit should roll uphill and no this doesn't
mean i should suffer for your sins, I am no christ as such.




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Tahuti Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis, NYC, is proud to present …..


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On Saturday, December 5th, 2009







In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Rider-Waite tarot deck,

Tahuti Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis  is proud to present…..





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Burning the F****G book:

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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.





On Saturday, December 5th, 2009







In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Rider-Waite tarot deck,

Tahuti Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis  is proud to present…..





Professional Tarot Reader  Courtney Weber  for a


Tarot Reading Workshop


Burning the F****G book:

when to let the cards do the talking

    Read tarot like  A pro




OPEN EVENT
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Since beginning the study of Tarot at the age of 15, Courtney Weber has
gained a bi-coastal clientele and is a highly popular Tarot consultant
at corporate, community and underground arts events in the Northeast
Region.  She has lectured on the Tarot at the Harvest Home Gathering,
Pagan Odyssey, Laurelin Community Center and at the NYC Pagan Pride Day.
In the fall of 2009, she was a featured Tarot reader in Time Out New
York.  She has been a featured astrologer on Oomph.net and
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For two years, Courtney wrote (under the pen-name of Sister Mary
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Crowley Mass  Song-

We disciples of Aleister Crowly
Gathered round his bier to pay respects,
Pass strange drugs and sing ribald godsongs
to chastise and to enflame to our intellects.
Always thought I'd be one of Crowleys disciples,
Doing Resh and Jugorum with great zest, slash, slash
And when I retire I'll write class D publications
and aspire to be a Magus like the rest.
Crowley was strictly King James Bible,
Classic beasthood by the book and bell
Surely he foresaw in the direful eighties
what the new age magick current would reveal.
Drink to me I love you says the Goddess.
Pass strange drugs and wine instructs Hadit
Worship me with  swords, spears and blood
Says Ra Hoor, that our sleazy foes the Xters might be beat!
Annihilate the Xtians is the watchword
extirminate them to a living soul
Annihilate the creeps says Ra Hoor Khuit
and get on with sex and drugs and Rock and Roll.





Is Aleister Crowley really dead,
really dead.
Did he do those terrible things they said,
things they said.
Is he but dust beneath the sod,
beneath the sod.
Or was Aleister Crowley really god?
really god.

Hark what's that shuffling host,
shuffling host,.
Good grief it's Aleister Crowleys ghost
Crowleys ghost.
Holy of holy is the game
and Aleister Crowley is the name.
Praise the name.

Evoe Pan was his favorite Hymm,
his favorite Hymm.
Becaue it reminded him of him,
him of him.
Heroin was his favorite dope,
it cures from love, peace and hope.
and the pope.

Is Aleister Crowley really dead,
really dead.
Did he do those terrible things they said,
things they said.
Is he but dust beneath the sod,
beneath the sod.
Or was Aleister Crowley really god?
really god.

Crowley had a wife her name was Rose
her name was Rose.
Tis sais she had a very pretty nose.
pretty nose.
And he himself regarded it with awe,
It lead to the receiving of the law.
The Book of the law.

Twenty thousand feet over Chogo Ri,
Chogo Ri.
Crowley and Oscar Eckenstein laughed with glee,
laughed with glee.
Nobody else had climbed so high,
One more step by god they'd touch the sky.

Is Aleister Crowley really dead,
really dead.
Did he do those terrible things they said,
things they said.
Is he but dust beneath the sod,
beneath the sod.
Or was Aleister Crowley really god?
really god.

Victor Newburgh was his favorite accolyte
Tis said he kept him late at night
And when the eye of Horus he had kissed
He cried I am a fundamentalist.

Crowley had some squares of Abremelin.
T'is said he used them to keep a dog from yelling.
The beast of hell was the product of the fun.
He cried by god look what I have done.

Is Aleister Crowley really dead,
really dead.
Did he do those terrible things they said,
things they said.
Is he but dust beneath the sod,
beneath the sod.
Or was Aleister Crowley really god?
really god.

Nobody knows whos Lodge is whose.
Nobody pays his fucking dues.
There is only one thing I don't know,
who's in charge of the bloody OTO.

The last word on Crowley was Sashas
For she was  last to ever haul his ashes.
One night in a fit of drunken Glee
She dashed them 'neath that north NJ tree,
A lone pine tree in Bergen County.

Holy, Holy, Holy
Aleister Crowley
One hand to Malkuth,
The other to the Crown





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Dear friends,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

As some of you will recall, in the summer of 2008 the family of
Phyllis Seckler (Soror Meral) formally transferred the ownership of
the literary copyrights to Soror Meral's writings to the College of
Thelema of Northern California, and acknowledged the COTNC as the sole
legal custodian of her literary estate, library, and archives.  (For
more information, see http://cotnorcal.org/COTNC/A_Note_on_Copyrights.html)

Accordingly, we are proud to announce a new area of the COTNC's
website dedicated to presenting selections from Soror Meral's large
and varied body of essays and poetry.  The offerings will vary from
time to time, but at the moment we are presenting:

Poetry:

Adoration of Nuit
Hymn to the Lord
The Light of Life

Other writings:

Letter Regarding Soror Meral's Story (originally published in In the
Continuum, Volume 5, No. 9)
The Worship of Nuit (originally published in Black Pearl, Volume 1,
No. 6)

You can find the new area of the website here:
   http://cotnorcal.org/COTNC/Soror_Meral.html

We hope you will enjoy these unique and historic writings!

(NOTE:  In the Continuum and Black Pearl are published by the College
of Thelema (based in Southern California)--a separate organization
from COTNC.   As the owner of Soror Meral's personal writings, the
COTNC supports the right of the COT to publish Soror Meral's writings
in their original form within In the Continuum and Black Pearl. )

Love is the law, love under will.

Sincerely,

Dr. David Shoemaker
Chancellor, COTNC

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do as you please.

rwr <dick.richardson@...>:
>> Magic, Mysticism, Religion and Philosophy
>>
>> Magic. Never seen any magic other than on the stage
>> and bunnies flying out of hats.

that's odd. it has two primary valences, and you can
encounter it in occult lodges and witchy herb shops:
rituals and spells.

>> Fun, but not very interesting.

well if you didn't see it, then you can't really be a
very good judge of what is interesting about it, then.

>> Religion. Well, they have made a fine mess of the
>> world have they not; nothing like religion to
>> alienate people from people is there and brainwash
>> the masses into submission.

agreed, or raise them up to a civil standard.

>> Philosophy, well, that sure is a lot of talking ???

that varies considerably depending upon whether you
are unfamiliar with the process and just doing some
kind of archaeology of ideas, or if you have something
to work on (at which point it begins to overlap or
merge with mysticism by my estimation).

>> about what exactly.

the conventions of philosophy are focussed upon the
consideration of belief and value in development:

	 * epistemology  --  what is knowledge?
	   what is known? what is real? etc.

	 * ethics  --  what is right, correct,
	   or justifiable in thought and deed?

	 * metaphysics  --  what lies beyond the
	   apparent, if anything? how does it work?

	 * aesthetics  --  what is beauty? what are
	   the principles of perfect and artistry?


>> Mysticism: or rather Mystical Experience. Now
>> there is a thing to be sure. Know quite a bit
>> about that from the inside for many years.

there is a heavy focus upon it within Hermetic
contexts. this is primarily because there are so
many moral justifications for it and so many ways
to fake advancement or progress within it.

>> But it is hardly prudent or effective to write
>> about it or mention it;

nonsense. such writ and mention allows for the
proper analysis to come into being of its actuality.

>> for the world does not like or want mystics,

they are glorified and heroized beyond measure,
particularly where they appeal to ascetic rigours.

>> for they rock the boat of conventions....

that is primarily the "bad boy" mystics who tend to
be charlatans, posers, armchair aficionados, and worse.

>> ...no wonder mystics can so easily become hermits
>> and say nothing. ....

judging by the sheer number of mystics or those who
seek to affiliate with such a label, and particularly
those who vomit forth huge piles of expression on the
topic of great and little worth, it isn't easy at all.

George Pitts <george.pitts@...>:
> ...Nuisance Religion, taken from my monumental
> 35 volume Sixth Gospel, is my trademark....

aimed at Christians, then. we have a comparable
interest, then, in having constructed a Gospel.
you style yours "the Sixth", and i mine "of Satan".

> I'm often compared to Crowley,

by whom, and why?

> yet my philosophy put in practice sets me apart,
> Pure Design, Chance, or Mistake. ...

what characterizes this philosophy, and what are
its resonances with things Thelemic?

Restriction is Sin.

333

I agree with you, Dick, 110 %. They say I´m a mystic, I rock the cradle of
filth. Nuisance Religion, taken from my monumental 35 volume Sixth Gospel, is my
trademark. My stunning internet marketing impact along with its results looks
like magic. Well, I´m a showman of Serious Entertainment, "RESTRICTED" is just
a label that has accelerated my sales worldwide, you know, the market. I´m
often compared to Crowley, yet my philosophy put in practice sets me apart, Pure
Design, Chance, or Mistake.  And here I go, raising many a brow, amidst envy,
the passion of the mediocre, carving my dark writing career for over 16 years,
successfully marketing my extremely prolific work for over 6 years, Seriously
Entertaining thousands worldwide. Judge for yourself.




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To: thelema93-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:47:25 AM
Subject: [t93] Magic, Mysticism, Religion and Philosophy



Magic, Mysticism, Religion and Philosophy

Magic. Never seen any magic other than on the stage and bunnies flying
out of hats. Fun, but not very interesting. Religion. Well, they have
made a fine mess of the world have they not; nothing like religion to
alienate people from people is there and brainwash the masses into
submission. Philosophy, well, that sure is a lot of talking – about
what exactly. Mysticism: or rather Mystical Experience. Now there is a
thing to be sure. Know quite a bit about that from the inside for many
years. But it is hardly prudent or effective to write about it or
mention it; for the world does not like or want mystics, for they rock
the boat of conventions. I guess, all this is why most folks talk about
the weather and what was on TV last night. For no matter what you say,
about anything, there they wait like old hags at a hanging waiting to
gobble you up.

Ahh, tis a strange world begoraha and no wonder mystics can so easily
become hermits and say nothing. Pity, but there you go.

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Magic, Mysticism, Religion and Philosophy



Magic. Never seen any magic other than on the stage and bunnies flying
out of hats. Fun, but not very interesting. Religion. Well, they have
made a fine mess of the world have they not; nothing like religion to
alienate people from people is there and brainwash the masses into
submission. Philosophy, well, that sure is a lot of talking – about
what exactly. Mysticism: or rather Mystical Experience. Now there is a
thing to be sure. Know quite a bit about that from the inside for many
years. But it is hardly prudent or effective to write about it or
mention it; for the world does not like or want mystics, for they rock
the boat of conventions. I guess, all this is why most folks talk about
the weather and what was on TV last night. For no matter what you say,
about anything, there they wait like old hags at a hanging waiting to
gobble you up.



Ahh, tis a strange world begoraha and no wonder mystics can so easily
become hermits and say nothing. Pity, but there you go.





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The Path of the Shadow Power Shaman:
Sorcery and the creation of a Spirit Familiar

- A 2 day experiential seminar in Italy with David Beth from December 4th-6th -

For millennia sorcerers and shamans of different traditions have been working
with the so-called Familiar spirit, an entity which is uniquely bonded and
attached to an individual sorcerer. The spirit Familiar becomes probably his
most intimate metaphysical aide and assists the practitioner in a great variety
of magical and spiritual operations. Dream Control, accessing spirit worlds,
sexual magic, esoteric creativity such as automatic writing and drawing as well
as initiation are all among the areas in which the Familiar may exercise his
unique powers.

Based on initiatic knowledge and transmissions of various traditions such as
Voudon Gnosis and Kosmic/northern Gnosis, David Beth will lead us in the
individual reception and creation of a personal Familiar through techniques of
sorcery and spiritism. Methods of feeding and empowering the entity will be
taught as well. Due to the intense and individual character of this work we have
strictly limited the number of attendees to 8, possibly 10 people and require
participants to be of mental stability. This workshop will have a lasting
powerful magical and transformative impact on everyone.


The Teacher:

David Beth is an internationally renown authority on Voudon Gnosis; a close
associate of Michael Bertiaux he serves as Sovereign Grand Master of Ordo Templi
Orientis Antiqua and La Couleuvre Noire.  He is also a dedicated non-dualist
Gnostic Bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica Aeterna and Grand Commander of the
Fraternitas Borealis, two organizations working in their unique ways with the so
called Kosmic Gnosis. His latest book ´Voudon Gnosis´ was released to rave
reviews by talismanic publishers Scarlet Imprint.

Details/further information:

The workshop will take place near Modena, in an hillside region of northern
Italy. A secluded but welcoming lodge in the woods will be at our disposal for
the complete seminar, with traditional meals prepared by the owner family.
Details to reach the place will be given to the participants. Bologna
international airport and Modena rail station are both within an easy 1 hour
reach of the destination.

Participation fee is 280€, including 2 nights of accommodation and all meals. We
require an advance payment of 100€ as a confirmation, due by November 15th. We
expect the limited slots to fill very quickly, so booking as soon as possible is
recommended.

For more information and reservation, please contact Marc'Aurelio Pozzi, email:
marc.aurelio.pozzi@..., facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/marcaurelio.pozzi.

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Hello, I have something in common with Crowley, not just because I´m often
compared to him.

I´m a privileged Czech citizen happily imparadised in the tropics of Nicaragua,
Central America. My real name is Libor Soural, see
http://thesixthgospel.blogspot.com/, born to a die-hard Roman Catholic mom, she
donates to the Church, my dad is a former communist leader, a
former maximum-security prison director, a capitalist
government-employed lawyer, a die-hard atheist. I studied in three
countries, the Czech Republic, the US, and Spain,
earning my Bachelor´s degree in English and Spanish Philology, majoring
in philosophy, history, literature, and psychology. In the US I was
heavily sponsored by the Merrill Lynch,
Mr Charles E. Merrill, my good old friend, yeah, the billionaire, loved
my early crypto-communist dark writing style. I went to Hollywood as a
screenwriter loaded with over 20 blockbusters that never came out.

I
made some cash, though I never really made it as a screenwriter or
filmmaker there, so I changed my lifestyle 110 % in a third-world
country as an English university professor, a freelance real estate
agent, and a cigar exporter. Six years ago, by pure design, chance, or
mistake, I quit my formal academic job and I´ve become an internet
marketing guru from scratch, selling my monumental 35 volume E book
business Sixth Gospel - Serious Entertainment franchise worldwide at an
unprecedented level - a fair consolation prize for my 16 year dark
writing career span. My transcendental showbiz is always very personal,
one on one direct sale, no automated system or employees, no credit
cards or Paypal, I´m very anti-hightech, just legitimate cash wired through
Western Union and Moneygram to my headquarters in Managua, Nicaragua.

I´ve been raking the Internet for years, Skype, Yahoo groups, Facebook,
Myspace, Youtube,
etc, and modestly put, I do kick some serious ass, I make people
curious, intrigued, freaked out. My business I sell to anybody anywhere
is just about fun and cash, seriously. I challenge everybody
everywhere. Anybody English spoken is a $ 200 potential to me. I deal
in numbers. I get readers/resellers in quite a few countries. People
get motivated by the amount of money and fun I get. I honestly show
them my working path, delivering them the complete package, letting
them join me freelance, giving them the chance of becoming a better
marketer or businessman than I am, and they know I´m pretty good.

How
would I define my religion ? One of my books is entitled NUISANCE
RELIGION, but my Sixth Gospel is a spectrum of everything imagined or
real. My gripping, appropriately creepy, Slaughter Catalogue 1993 -
2009, is some ample evidence of my transcendental unique authorship,
judge for yourself, though the free prefaces on my website I try to
keep clean to stay neutral for any new reader/reseller are just
foretastes for all kinds of breathtaking hardcore topics I´ve covered
all along as the dubbed Czech Hollywood Warrior Priest in my Serious
Entertainment. Theatrically, sometimes they call me Czechwizard.

Why the Sixth Gospel ? Well, I know the Four, heard speculating about the Fifth,
and that´s where I come in with my Sixth.

I hope I´ve been useful. The tip of the iceberg is at
http://thesixthgospel.blogspot.com/. The huge rest is yet to be purchased.



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From: Frater Uranus <frater.uranus@...>
To: thelema93-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:04:28 AM
Subject: [t93] Re: There’s a malignancy about the Book of the Law.


93!

> The COMMENT reads "it is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading"
> Was this so Crowley could sell more books?

I highly doubt it. The Comment was a result of actions taken by Norman
Mudd, a subject of much consternation to Crowley. The part reads to me
as if he were writing to those of Christian virtue because yes, to
them, it is a blasphemous tome that should be destroyed.

> Same as this world manifestation, the book is composed of light and dark
> forces that beg for refinement.

See the other Holy Books & Liber 418. A true religion is not happy go
lucky, hug the trees, pet the bunnies and love one another kind of
thing. Not Buddhism, not Hinduism, not the Judaic traditions etc.
There are dark elements of each that we often hear little of as they
are white washed by followers trying to sanitize the negative elements
in order to appeal to a broader base.
>
> I have since stabbed my copy 3 times in order to kill it's curse.

LOL. Wise move. The formulae of Thelema is one of turning the world
upside down and restructuring it. One's life can go to hell in a hand
basket if one properly applies its formulae to their lives because it
is about finding the truth of one's core and the rest of the universe
is working against that and will fight you and assault you in various
ways to keep you from making these changes to yourself and at times it
will seem like a curse but when you make it through you will see the
curse as a true blessing. You will lose friends, family & other loved
ones on the path because they are going to become incompatible with
you. It may not even be something perceptible, it could be a subtle
shift in your auric energies that agitates their old aeon ways. If you
do not feel this is for you, then yes, treat Liber Al as a curse,
treat it as a Centre of Pestilence and those who discuss it as a
Centre of Pestilence. Otherwise, join us in this bliss and discover
what true freedom can be!!!

Frater Uranus






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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

Greetings Ian,

I'll buy that.  Given Crowley's distaste for the bible-thumping masses (his
father included!), could it be that this was his simple yet obscure way of
saying that destroying the Book means one should live by the principles spelt
out in the Book of the Law rather than becoming another streetcorner preacher? 
It is plausible to me that this might be a way to 'destroy' the Book.  Just to
clarify a bit, I'm not using 'bible' solely as a reference to the Christian
Bible, but as a book (sic) which serves to represent the fundamental
religio-philosophical doctrine of any belief system.  Yet, it is part of duty
as Thelemites to promulgate the Law.  Promulgate doesn't necessarily mean
preach; ita can also mean 'to make known'.  From my personal experiences, I
have found that just by living (in my own way) by the principle of the Law, I
attract far more interest in Thelema than does the aggressive efforts I've seen
others use to "spread the gospel".  It
  seems to me that Crowley may have cryptically been saying that one should
practice what one preaches (What Crowley cryptic? No, never!! lolol).  To me,
destroying the Book of the Law and promulgating the Book of the Law
sounds pretty smilar to the concepts of panphage and pangenetor in the missal
of the EGC mass.  Just my 2 cents worth.  That's okay because 2=93 (AL
I:4).  

Ross (Frater Sekhem-f n Anpu)

"Love is the law, love under will."



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From: Ian Sturrock <sturrock@...>
To: thelema93-l@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [t93] Re: There’s a malignancy about the Book of the Law.
 
I found it fairly easy to embrace, as the only rational way to do so meant that
I could not follow it to the letter, which helped avoid the far direr curse of
dogma.

--
Ian Sturrock




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93!

> The COMMENT reads "it is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading"
> Was this so Crowley could sell more books?

I highly doubt it. The Comment was a result of actions taken by Norman
Mudd, a subject of much consternation to Crowley. The part reads to me
as if he were writing to those of Christian virtue because yes, to
them, it is a blasphemous tome that should be destroyed.

> Same as this world manifestation, the book is composed of light and dark
> forces that beg for refinement.

See the other Holy Books & Liber 418. A true religion is not happy go
lucky, hug the trees, pet the bunnies and love one another kind of
thing. Not Buddhism, not Hinduism, not the Judaic traditions etc.
There are dark elements of each that we often hear little of as they
are white washed by followers trying to sanitize the negative elements
in order to appeal to a broader base.
>
> I have since stabbed my copy 3 times in order to kill it's curse.

LOL. Wise move. The formulae of Thelema is one of turning the world
upside down and restructuring it. One's life can go to hell in a hand
basket if one properly applies its formulae to their lives because it
is about finding the truth of one's core and the rest of the universe
is working against that and will fight you and assault you in various
ways to keep you from making these changes to yourself and at times it
will seem like a curse but when you make it through you will see the
curse as a true blessing. You will lose friends, family & other loved
ones on the path because they are going to become incompatible with
you. It may not even be something perceptible, it could be a subtle
shift in your auric energies that agitates their old aeon ways. If you
do not feel this is for you, then yes, treat Liber Al as a curse,
treat it as a Centre of Pestilence and those who discuss it as a
Centre of Pestilence. Otherwise, join us in this bliss and discover
what true freedom can be!!!

Frater Uranus

I found it fairly easy to embrace, as the only rational way to do so meant
that I could not follow it to the letter, which helped avoid the far direr
curse of dogma.

--
Ian Sturrock


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93 --

  > From: "mg_323" <mg323@...>
  >
  > I find it difficult to embrace a
  > book that if followed to the
  > letter would result in a good
  > chance of one getting thrown in
  > jail.
  >      [...]
  >  I have since stabbed my copy 3
  > times in order to kill it's curse.

LOL.  Best thing I've read in 33 days.  Thank you.

- CXLVII

93 bro.

In the case of the Comment, yes, it's difficult to me to understand the part of
destroy the copy after you have read it, I'm sure it wasn't meant to sell more
books, I find that somewhat childish, but I haven't found the deeper meaning
yet, perhaps someone wiser than me will answer that part.

Secondly, the Book was not meant to be followed blindly and most important,
literally, it's symbols and concepts are meant to have an inner meaning, that's
it, they're archetypes if you excuse me the word, meant to be understood by the
Self, the real Self in the new Aeon; so with few exceptions, the Book is written
symbolically and metaphorically, the metaphors are to be applied to the soul and
it's inner Life.

Thirdly, yes, there's both Light and Darkness in the Book, that can't be denied
and the book by it's very nature it's difficult to accept since it attacks the
core of christian belief, that it's, it attacks the core of western society's
morals because even as many fance themselves as atheits they're driving
themselves by christian morality. I agree with the part that its energies need
refinement since it's evolving continually.

Lastly, I haven't experienced nothing wrong with the Book, neither a curse and
I've studied it for years, it simply becomes more and more fascinating as time
passes and I find new clues and understandings within it

I find it difficult to embrace a book that if followed to the letter would
result in a good chance of one getting thrown in jail.

The COMMENT reads "it is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading" Was
this so Crowley could sell more books?

Same as this world manifestation, the book is composed of light and dark forces
that beg for refinement.

I have since stabbed my copy 3 times in order to kill it's curse.

Dear friends,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

In October 1979, our founding Lodgemaster, Phyllis Seckler (Soror
Meral) was granted a Charter for 418 Lodge.  This makes 418 Lodge one
of the oldest continuously operating Thelemic groups of any kind,
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mark our 30th Anniversary!

The Celebration will take place on Saturday, October 24, beginning at
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The schedule for the evening includes a lecture by our current
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NOTE:  We will celebrate the Gnostic Mass the following day, Sunday,
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--- In thelema93-l@yahoogroups.com, "nagasiva yronwode" <nagasiva@...> wrote:
>
> dayp
>
> "threefold31" <threefold31@> (R Leo Gillis):

>
> > This was illegitimate, because if you're
> > grafting something onto the Tarot order,
> > then you have to switch what you're grafting,
> > not vice-versa. But this was their only
> > mistake, and the adept could easily switch
> > them back to layout the cards in TdM order
> > instead.
>
> this is nonsense. there never was any 'legitimacy'
> to the gaming decks, including the TdM. occultists
> pretended that they were esoteric and full of
> wisdom, but in fact they weren't, and the reason
> the GD Switch was conceived was because of the
> obvious matching symbolism between game cardd
> and zodiac after occult associations were matched.
>

>
> > The Tarot de Marseille order is the correct
> > one, and really shouldn't be messed with.
>
> nonsense. the Fool then would have no number.
> the Hanged Man would then be IIX (nonsense).
> next you'll be telling us that the reason for
> the GD Switch ws because you were named Leo.
>
> > If you want to graft Hebrew onto it, fine,
> > but you make it all a mess when you change
> > the order of the cards themselves,
>
> this is wrong. the cards are a game and
> absolutely arbitrary. the game was being
> turned INTO an esoteric tool, and the
> imperative sequences are the ones relating
> to the real world (zodiac) and the social
> world (Hebrew).
>
> > which are a specific sequence with
> > specific reasons behind it, as occult
> > as those reasons might be. ...
>
> this is a lie, an error, a falsity. before
> de Gebelin there was never even the concept
> of such an esotericism associated with the
> Tarot (the 22 resonance drawing attention).
> one might as well explain that the reason
> there are 22 non-utility/non-railroad
> properties in Monopoly is because it has
> some kind of important occult reason
> behind it that should not be futzed with.
> this is nonsense and completely unsupported,
> as is the balance of your expression.
>
> 333
>
>


Dwtw

Nagasiva, as usual, has plenty to say about this (or any) subject. And while I
respect his erudition, it is disheartening to see my statements misunderstood to
the point where they are regurgitated in a corrupt form, and then criticized
because they do not conform to his conclusions about the Tarot.

So to be clear, I am NOT of the camp that believes the Tarot had any esoteric
origin. All the later grafting of Hebrew letters and their associated symbol
sets of zodiac, planets, etc. was simply an attempt by various occultists, from
the Comte de Mellet, to Eliphas Levi and the Golden Dawn, et. al. to expand the
usefulness and meaning of the Tarot to include their variety of symbols.

By the time we get to Crowley's attempts to 'rectify' the Tarot, we are dealing
with the sequences found in the Cipher ms., and AC's understanding of it,
followed by the admonition in Liber AL that 'Tzaddi is not the Star', etc. All
switches, double loops, etc. found in Crowley's work has to be ultimately
referenced back to his predecessors, all of whom had their own arrangements. But
none of these was the 'original' Tarot, which was merely a trick-taking game,
with no overt 'hermetic' correspondences.

Perhaps some of my statements contain factual errors, which I'm grateful to have
emended by superior scholarship, but this is different from putting words in my
mouth and misreading what was said due to prior prejudice. And I am probably
also guilty of misreading nagasiva's statements, but this is due as much to his
convoluted and precious prose as it is to my own errors of comprehension.

Now as far as all the various hints or blinds or just plain mistakes that AC
left us in his various tables of correspondences, I tend to go with what was
actually written on the cards as they were printed, which does not seem to be
contradicted by the text of the Book of Thoth. AFAIK, the Emperor has a Tzaddi
and an Aries symbol on it, and the imagery contains rams. Likewise the Star has
a Heh and an Aquarius symbol on it, and the imagery contains two bowls of liquid
being poured out. The cards are described in these terms in the text of TBOT. So
I'll go with what is on the cards, not what discrepancies may be found in
various tables.

As for the 'illegitimacy' of swapping the Tarot sequence of VIII and XI, I am
not claiming that the TdM order is 'legitimate' and later orders are not. An
unfortunate choice of words. My point is simply that if one is trying to match
up to an order, and then you change what you're matching to because you don't
like it, that seems illegitimate, i.e., it seems like cheating. If you're the GD
or Kenneth Mackenzie or whoever, and claiming the Tarot is an occult symbol set
that has an importance hidden in its very sequence, then it seems like cheating
to switch the order to conform to what you're grafting onto it. But then, the
whole grafting of Hebrew, etc. onto Tarot is in a sense illegitimate, since
there is no evidence that Hebrew and kabbalah has anything to do with the
original Tarot. It's all an intellectual game in the end, and I was merely
pointing out how the rules get bent so that things turn out in a certain way.

On another note, now I'm not so sure of exactly what nagasiva's position is on
this Heh-Tzaddi switch. I read all his convoluted responses on Tarot-L, and
here, and I thought I knew, but I must confess that I'm no longer so sure.

And in case anyone is unsure of what my position is, I'll just say that there
are four different solutions to 'Tzaddi is not the star', based on the four
ordeals one must go through to understand Liber AL.
Even Liber 231 is only true up to the grade of Exempt Adept.

And as for my moniker, my parents named me Leo. It's on the birth certificate.
It is not an affectation like so many of the names encountered on this group.
And I'm certain it has nothing to do with the Cipher ms. switch of the Tarot
card sequence, or Crowley's switching of the cards back to where they were
before. It has everything to do with a bad-ass paratrooper who killed a lot of
Germans in Normandy, and survived the 'hole-in the doughnut' in Belgium, better
known as the Battle of Bastogne.

Love is the law
Leo

grimmwotan wrote:
.
>The Truth About Initiation - OTO Mundi
.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJoBDGEhWCs&feature=channel
.
>Complete explanations about secrets and truths, things they are hidden of the
public in general, the about of all of the Iniciatic systems linked to the
dogmatism, >monotheism and solar phallus systems in general, flaws, traps, lies
and development forms that are going besides these vile limits appearing!
.


That's not the truth and it's not complete. This is, though:

http://alamantra.wordpress.com/errata/rhetoric/

Moving along, we come to the point in which the misguided advises the
well-meaning.

This charlatan is later expanded upon when the complex ego, and the
real star of the show, is the most exciting part of the puzzle.

On the surface, there are a few clues that identify the hologram.

Another possible derivation is from the translation of a universal
inspiration and an allegorical portrait of an androgynous example.

After popping up in numerous places
.there's always still one level
deeper


Bliss:
Alamantra
www.myspace.com/alamantra
www.alamantra.wordpress.com



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Háils!!!
.
The Truth About Initiation - OTO Mundi
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJoBDGEhWCs&feature=channel
.
Complete explanations about secrets and truths, things they are hidden of the
public in general, the about of all of the Iniciatic systems linked to the
dogmatism, monotheism and solar phallus systems in general, flaws, traps, lies
and development forms that are going besides these vile limits appearing!
.
Grimmwotan!

93 333,

Thank you for a lively debate on the subject of the "correct" interpretation of
the Star/Emperor question. I think that ultimately this question falls under
"The Comment" to the Book of the Law and that each should make his own decision
as to the correctness of the interpretation, only after consulting the writings
of the Prophet for themselves.

It's been a pleasure to be able to present my opinion and arguments on the
matter and I feel I have learned much from the debates that ensued from these
discussions. This alone has been worth the efforts of all those making their
arguments and opinions on on the issue.

I can only hope that there will be further discussions of this caliber in the
future, as I have truly enjoyed following this one.

Agape,
Joel

"Joel" <xenu93@...>:
> ...quote from Crowley. It comes from the internet
> edition of the 1977 edition of 777 and occurs on
> page 124. The notes on Table VI Columns CLXXX
> and CLXXXI The Atus of Thoth

<snip>

agreed that Crowley wrote a lot of different things and
some of them support almost any position. what matters to
me is structure and timing. later, Ross focusses on timing.
my focus is always on structure (cipherment/style/position)
and i will try to coordinate this with timing.

I accept that your quote shows what you say that it
shows, or gives out as showing. I am not convinced that
it is the Final Word on the matter, however, because of
the number of possible positions of support one may find.

> ...shows two places where Crowley clearly argues for
> the shift of the Hebrew letters, but leaves the
> Astrological symbolism the same.

agreed that such arguments can be found, and that others
aimed in the other direction (based on a lack of revision
of text and lack of support of the Tzaddi/Heh transposition)
could be said to constitute the opposite indicator, or of at
least confusing and inconsistent contention on the matter.

> One more place that seems to show his intent on the matter is in "The Book of
Thoth" page 287, "The Vital Triads" where for the section "The Three Demiurges"
He gives:
> "X.  The All Father 3 in 1.
>  IV. The Ruler
>  V.  The Son (Priest)"
> and for the section
> "The Lingam The Yoni The Stele
>  (Priest, Priestess, Ceremony)" He gives:
> "XV.    Erect & Glad.
>  XVIII. The Witch: Yoni,stagnant and waiting.
>  XX.    God and Man as twins from Nuit and Hadit."
>
> From these three paces and the cards themselves,
> it seems clear to me (only my opinion) that he
> intended the Roman Numeral Atu Keys to remain
> the same, along with the astrological assignment,

this much agreed.

> but for the letters He' and Tzaddi to be
> transposed as occur on the cards.

I see no indication on this page about Hebrew
whatever. again agreed regarding this particular
instance of an indication about Trump/Zodiac.
I do see in Tables of Correspondence the very
opposite contention regarding Hebrew/Zodiac/Value.

it seems obvious to me strictly from those tables on
page 278 of the Book of Thoth that he intends to
switch out Star and Emperor cards in *exactly* the
same way that the GD switched out Justice/Strength.

333

dayp

"threefold31" <threefold31@...> (R Leo Gillis):
> The Heh-Tzaddi switch ....
<snip>
> ...nagasiva has basically gotten the answer correct,
> if i read his essay properly. ....

> The 'occult' tarot has three sequences that are concurrent
> with each other; Tarot order, Hebrew alef-bet order, and
> 'magickal attribution' order,

magical attribution, yes. an association/correspondence set.
the Tarot order is the order of the Trumps, since by and
large this is what is being used for the correspondences.
it is ENTIRELY ARBITRARY as a game and nothing more.

> (which is connected to Hebrew via the Sefer Yetzirah).

by several versions in more than one association, yes. this
is not so simple as to yield a single matching. what seems
to remain consistent is the ZODIAC, and the Planets/Elements
change in association through time with various people and
documents, including more than one version of Sefer Yetzirah
(see Dummett, or i'll reproduce them here if desired).

> If we take the Tarot de Marseille (TdM) order as a constant,

it seems a stable enough launch point. de Gebelin sought to
occultify it in his "Monde primitif" as did the Comte de Melet,
though their sequences and orientations (particularly the
Hanged Man) weren't always consistent with the game upon which
they fantasized the Book of Thoth.

> we begin in the same place the Golden Dawn began.

this appears false on its face. the Golden Dawn developed in the
wake of the Cypher Manuscript, which contained the switch in its
content, and the Golden Dawn used this as their launching
platform. therefore, strictly speaking, they began with the
'corrected' Trump sequence *which they inherited*, and this
differed from the TdM because of the 'GD Switch' (i.e. they
popularized it but unless one of them wrote the Cypher Ms.,
then they merely followed on the recommendation of another
(Runyon and others suggest Kenneth Mackenzie, who was not a
member of the Golden Dawn but of the Brotherhood of Luxor).

> We then place the Hebrew letters on this order, and
> everything is great *except* that Teth lines up with
> Justice and Lamed lines up with Strength.

the Hebrew is unimportant except in its number-letter
sequence. what is relevant is what the Sefer Yetzira
associates to these letter-numbers with consistency
(zodiacal association to the letter-numbers you are
mentioning).

> This won't do, since Teth is also Leo the Lion, and Lamed
> is Libra the Balance, and these obviously should correspond
> to the cards having a Lion and the Balance on them.

this could, if misunderstood, give the impression that the
Hebrew was an important key to the Trumps, which in fact it
was not. the letters(22):zodiac(112)/planets(7)/elements(3)
were matched with the Trumps (22) by a variety of people,
and the author of the Cypher Ms. noticed that a blatant
mismatch (never mind the wealth of lesser mismatches
which he ignored) became apparent:

     Trump VIII, Justice, was paired with Leo
      the image of the Justice card featured a
      woman holding a sword and scales.

     Trump XI, Strength, was paired with Libra
      the image of the Force/Strength card featured
      a woman holding the jaws of a lion.

they realized that in order for the gaming deck to more
closely approximate in symbolism the attributions given
to the Trumps the two cards should be transposed, and
noted this transposition with fake explanations (different
ones!) about the importance of the previous arrangement
and symbols) in the document given to the Golden Dawn.

> So the GD switched those two cards in the TdM order.

the Cypher Ms. also re-arranged the TdM so that the Fool
was given the number 1 (I), whereas previously it was
provided no number in the TdM. the game of Tarocchi had
the Fool, the Juggler (I), and the World (XXI) as special
cards and the occult Tarot blasted these conventions out
of synch with the Fool (1/0), Juggler (10 with the 0
crossed out, matched with Beth(2)), and Universe (XXI,
with all cards after the Juggler not re-numbered in
Romans until 3 pagees later, matched with Tav(400),
the 22nd letter). on page 35 of the Cypher Ms. the
same old series is given, but the Sefer Yezirah values
and zodiacal values are transposed, leaving the Roman
values as TdM but in need of transposition to correct
the values assigned to them, providing the Fool a 0.

note that this is PRECISELY WHAT CROWLEY DOES IN HIS
TABLES OF CORRESPONDENCES (corrupts the Roman Numerals
and corrects the rest for the reader, leaving only
the 'fix' to be applied by those with eyes to see
as he arranges them by Roman Numeral order.

> In effect, they were hijacking the Tarot order, and
> making it conform to the Hebrew alef-bet.

there was no conformance until later when people like
Case began installing Hebrew letters into the gaming
deck's imagery so as to reflect the artificial mesh.
there was an arrangement of the Trumps (approximated
in 2 different Ms. locations (p. 32, p. 35)).

the Cypher Ms. even proposes an "explanation" for the
original order of the Trumps, which is a lame attempt
to give the gaming deck an occult origin:

   "VIII JUSTICE = [Lamed] (3) and [Libra]
    AND IX STRENGTH = [Teth] (9) and [Leo] WHICH"
[p. 37]
   "CAUSETH A TRANSPOSIT(ION)
    FOR THESE ARE COGNATE SYMBOLS
    BUT AT ONE TIME THE SWORD OF
    JUSTICE WAS THE EGYPTIA(N)
    KNIFE SYMBOL OF THE SICK(L)(E)
    OF LEO WHILE THE SCALES
    MEANT THE HAVING
    QUITTED THE BALANCE POINT
    OF HIGHEST DECLINATION
    SO THE FEMALE AND THE LION
    GAVE THE IDEA OF [Venus] VENUS
    LADY OF [Libra] REPRESSING THE
    FIRE OF VULCAN ([Saturn] in [Libra])
    EXALTED - BUT EARLIEST WAS
    THE LION GODDESS TO [Leo] AND MA(T)
    T(O) [Libra] WITH HER SCALES - AND THIS
    IS BETTER - ALSO [Libra] WAS GIVEN
    TO HOR(U)S AT ONE TIME"*

> This was illegitimate, because if you're
> grafting something onto the Tarot order,
> then you have to switch what you're grafting,
> not vice-versa. But this was their only
> mistake, and the adept could easily switch
> them back to layout the cards in TdM order
> instead.

this is nonsense. there never was any 'legitimacy'
to the gaming decks, including the TdM. occultists
pretended that they were esoteric and full of
wisdom, but in fact they weren't, and the reason
the GD Switch was conceived was because of the
obvious matching symbolism between game cardd
and zodiac after occult associations were matched.

> One of the things Crowley did was to switch
> Justice and Strength *back* to their proper
> order, so that his Book of Thoth has the
> correct TdM order, where Justice is VIII
> and Strength/Lust is XI. Now the cards are
> in the right order, but two Hebrew letters
> (and their 'magickal attributions') are
> switched. No big deal.

there is nothing so clearly done by Crowley, who
places multiple series of symbolism/card/number
sets in different places, mimicking the Cypher
Manuscript in his Tables of Correspondence so as
to provide the reader with a hint as to the
intended construction regardless of what may
have come from the printer on the cards or be
explained in the Little White Book. the card
symbolism is the ARBITRARY aspect of the Trump
set, whereas the zodiac and the Hebrew are not
at all arbitrary, and this allows them to be
the keys, NOT the reverse. Crowley's ciphering
of the Tables of Correspondence in precisely
the same manner as was given in the Cypher Ms.
is the obvious indicator of what ought be done.

<a great number of mistaken assertions omitted>

> ...I believe [333] is... advocating that the
> actual card of the Emperor should then in
> consequence be placed in position XVII and
> the Star should be placed in position IV.

no, the opposite, and Crowley knew it, and had
everything screw-puzzle-wise in the Tables of
Correspondence which was aligned to the Roman
Numerals just like the Cypher Manuscript.
the intent is obvious. those who had the ms
available to them would be able to tell this.

> ...The Emperor needs to be paired with the
> Empress, and the Star/Moon/Sun sequence
> should remain intact.

this is correct, by both GD Switch and AC,
to my read, regardless of AC's BoL blind.

> The Tarot de Marseille order is the correct
> one, and really shouldn't be messed with.

nonsense. the Fool then would have no number.
the Hanged Man would then be IIX (nonsense).
next you'll be telling us that the reason for
the GD Switch ws because you were named Leo.

> If you want to graft Hebrew onto it, fine,
> but you make it all a mess when you change
> the order of the cards themselves,

this is wrong. the cards are a game and
absolutely arbitrary. the game was being
turned INTO an esoteric tool, and the
imperative sequences are the ones relating
to the real world (zodiac) and the social
world (Hebrew).

> which are a specific sequence with
> specific reasons behind it, as occult
> as those reasons might be. ...

this is a lie, an error, a falsity. before
de Gebelin there was never even the concept
of such an esotericism associated with the
Tarot (the 22 resonance drawing attention).
one might as well explain that the reason
there are 22 non-utility/non-railroad
properties in Monopoly is because it has
some kind of important occult reason
behind it that should not be futzed with.
this is nonsense and completely unsupported,
as is the balance of your expression.

333

* - analyzed within "Secrets of the Golden
Dawn Cypher Manuscript", deciphered and
annotated by Carroll "Poke" Runyon
(Afterward by R.A. Gilbert), 2000
C.H.S., Inc.; pp. 127-137 (ms. pp. 32-37).

Dear friends,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

We are pleased to announce our next series of classes at the
Sacramento Campus:

Construction of Magical Rituals

This class will cover the basic building blocks of effective magical
rituals, including a selection of traditional banishing, purification,
consecration and invocation techniques.  Over the course of several
class meetings, attendees will collaborate in designing and performing
a magical ritual to fulfill an aim designated by the participants.
While we can't cover everything in every ritual, it is anticipated
that we will move through at least 2 cycles of ritual design and
execution, which should give us time to cover:

Classical Qabalistic hierarchies of invocation
Basic Enochian invocations
Various forms of Pentagram and Hexagram rituals
Assumption of God-Forms
Vibration of Divine Names
Scrying techniques (given sufficient time and interest)

This class series will be led by COTNC Chancellor Dr. David Shoemaker,
and will begin on Tuesday, August 11, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm.   Classes
will continue to meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.  For more
information, and directions to the Soror Meral Building, please email
us (cotnc@...) or call 916-273-5631.

We hope to see you soon!

Love is the law, love under will.

For more information about our work, please visit www.cotnorcal.org



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Dear friends,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

The College of Thelema of Northern California is pleased to announce a
new class series at our West Chester Campus (in the Philadelphia area).

Foundations of Mysticism:  This course will include a detailed
investigation of the practices outlined in Aleister Crowley’s Liber
E.  It will be experiential in nature, and will include information,
tips and actual practice.  The course is designed for practitioners
who wish to develop a regimen of spiritual practices that includes
postures, breathing and concentration exercises, and exercises that
will help to develop intuition and increase self-knowledge.

The class will be held on the third Saturday of each month from 2:00
to 3:30 pm starting Saturday, September 19, 2009 and ending Saturday,
February 20, 2010.  We request a donation of $5-$10 to help pay for
the rental space.

Our classes will be held at the West Chester Wellness Center
(http://www.westchesterwellness.org/
) at 828 Paoli Pike in West Chester, PA. The entrance is next to the
parking lot, and displays signs pointing to the studio in the
basement. Please note that we are not permitted to smoke in (or right
outside of) the facility. Directions to this beautiful center are
available on their web page.  The center is also accessible by public
transportation.

Please email the West Chester Campus at cotnc_wc@... for
more information.

Love is the law, love under will.

Sincerely,

Dr. David Shoemaker
Chancellor, COTNC

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Tahuti Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis, NYC, is proud to present:





"Mend me this shoe, that I may walk,



finding the Fifth Power of the Sphinx"



a special lecture and book signing by noted author, teacher and student
of the A.'. A.'.:



J. DANIEL GUNTHER
Author of Initiation in the Aeon of the Child


Saturday, July 25, 2009

6:00 pm





A book signing will follow the lecture.


     Visit the web site here: http://tahutilodge.org/JDGunther.php
<http://tahutilodge.org/JDGunther.php>

     "Mend me this shoe, that I may walk – finding the Fifth Power
of the Sphinx"




J. DANIEL GUNTHER, author of Initiation in the Aeon of the Child –
the Inward Journey, is a life-long student of esotericism, mythology and
religion. For over thirty years he has been a member of A\ A\, the
teaching Order established by Aleister Crowley. He is considered one of
the foremost Authorities on the doctrines of Thelema and the syncretic
method of Magick and Mysticism taught by A\ A\



He is on the editorial board of The Equinox, published by Weiser, and
has served as consultant and advisor for numerous other publications in
the field of occultism.



On July 25, 2009, Daniel Gunther will appear in person at 22 East 30th
Street in New York City to deliver his Lecture entitled, "Mend me
this shoe, that I may walk – finding the Fifth Power of the
Sphinx."



The process of Initiation has traditionally been compared to walking or
"going". It is commonly referred to as "the path".
Initiation truly means a beginning and a setting into motion.  It is the
first step in an unending inward journey.



What is the proper way for a Student to begin this journey in the New
Aeon of the Child? How do we realize and experience the Four Virtues of
the Adept ? How do we overcome the inertia of incarnation and manifest
the elusive Fifth Power of the Sphinx?



Join us the evening of July 25, 2009 to hear J. Daniel Gunther elucidate
these and other topics central to this mystery of the Inward Journey.





Daniel Gunther's book, Initiation in the Aeon of the Child

will be available for purchase at this event.

It will also be available for presale via Paypal through our website.

Reserve your copy today.





I ... highly recommmend J. Daniel Gunther's Initiation in the Aeon of
the Child: The Inward Journey which is, in my opinion, the most
important doctrinal contribution since Crowley's death. — James
Wasserman

This book is both enlightened and enlightening, and a welcome addition
to the post-Crowleyan literature. It is clearly deserving of a place in
the curricula of A∴A∴ and O.T.O., and it deserves to be
welcomed and studied carefully by Thelemites of all persuasions. —
Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior, Ordo Templi Orientis




     Seating is limited.   Register early and reserve your seat.



LOCATION:  22 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Starting at 6:00 pm





Admission:

$20.00 for Tahuti Lodge Current Members

$25.00 for Non Members







Book Sale:

$35.00 in advance with purchase of 1 admission to lecture.

$40.00 the day of the event







Email: cof4 (at) tahutichapter.org for additional information or
directions

(Inquires about payment can be directed to treasurer (at)
tahutilodge.org)





All proceeds from this event will go toward supporting the Tahuti Lodge

   and its work in serving the NY/NJ Thelemic community.









Love is the law, love under will.



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