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Can Entities Hurt?

Caitlin MacKenna — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:38:48 +0000

There are attested cases of entities hurting people, even leaving marks on the body. Anthony North at Beyond the Blog claims that this phenomenon is akin to stigmata and that entities are hallucinations. Sometimes, they are, I'm sure, but not all, Mr. North, not all.

Aleister Crowley gave this perspective an unwarranted credibility when, during his Buddhist phase, he wrote in his introduction to S.L. MacGregor Mathers' edition of the The Goetia that the Goetic spirits were all parts of the human mind. Of course, in other writings, he said just the opposite. Anyway, this post is a good example of the "psychological" explanation of spirits favored by so-called "scientific" occultists.

Psychic entities can come in many forms, varying from incubi, to ghosts, to aliens, and even the ‘hallucinations’ conjured up by a magical adept. Yet the most virulent tend to appear during poltergeist infestations.

Occasionally such entities go further than simply being seen. There are attested cases of such entities actually hurting people, even leaving marks on the body. Does this suggest the entities are real, or can other elements explain the phenomenon?

To me, such entities are basically hallucinations.

The mind constantly interprets the data received from the senses, but should that data be interrupted, such as through tiredness, altered states, natural illusion, etc, a strange phenomenon occurs. Read more

Communion with the gods

emptymindedgirl — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:35:51 +0000

He promised it would be unlike anything I had ever seen, felt, or heard.
He promised it would be extraordinary.
He promised he would be at my side for the duration.
He promised it would last only minutes.

The last two promises were broken.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Things have been quite horrible with me this month. My best friend was hospitalized at the start & in very bad condition. Her touch-and-go situation there has kept me quite unstable. The reason for her stay has also affected my home life. So much traveling (to and from her locale), so much worry about her, so much worry about my fiancé, so much worry about work, so much worry about the future... So much stress... So much mental anguish...

When Jack, my fiancé, came home from work today to find me returned from NY a day early, he was ecstatic. He rushed to me and covered me with sweaty kisses. I had to fight the urge to ask him to stop as I wasn't in the mood for any closeness let alone intimacies (though I'll admit to finding his salty skin delicious). Oh, yes, I was happy to see him and touch him again. It had been nearly a week since I'd left. But circumstances have made me cringe at men, even him, being in close proximity and moreso at the idea of sex (we hadn't done anything in a full two weeks - unable to orgasm for a month). Thankfully, he's understanding. I just wish I could understand better and be able to help myself cope.

He bathed quickly and returned to a dozing me. He sat upon the floor and held my hand as I went over the past day's hospital activities (I phoned him each day save this last day). He and my friend are very close but, sadly, he's unable to visit her. He listened intently. "I need a shower," I said, concluding my talk. He accompanied me to the bathroom door, making me feel uneasy. I asked him if it was ok if I bathed alone. He sheepishly turned away. "Jack? I love you." Seeing the tears welling in his eyes brought my own out.
He told me he would have something special for me when I was finished. "Magic," he said. Not knowing at the time what he really was hinting at, I just blew the word off and showered.

I finished toweling off in the bedroom and he walked in behind me. A jolt shot up my spine and I quickly covered myself. My androphobia reared its head, something that has been happening much too often this month. "I'm sorry," he softly apologized and turned away to stand in the doorway. "It's ok. You scared me." I let off the towel and wanted so much for him to turn and see me. But he didn't. Perhaps that was for the best. He told me to wear my pajamas (despite it being early afternoon). Dressed, I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him from behind. After a bit, he circled around and held me. Despite my unfortunate "new" fear, there are still those perfect moments in time that are treasured between us. After a moment, as he stroked my back, he said, "You need to take your underwear off."

What!? He gave his shy laugh that I adore. He told me that what he had planned would go better without them. A twinge of fear crawled over my flesh. "You're keeping your clothes on, honey." He asked that I trust him and that I would thank him later. After he walked away I pulled my brassiere off; I needed my bottoms for "security."

I walked into the living room...
The blinds were closed and lights were out, darkening the large room. The only light came from one flickering tall candle on the coffee table which was pulled several feet away from the couch and the sunlight that couldn't be blocked from around the blinded window. Behind the candle sat an open hardbound book. On either side of it sat a small digital clock and glass of water. Jack stood at the short table waiting. "What're you doing?" I asked. He told me he had been planning something for months. He asked me if I was willing to forget this month if only for a few minutes. If I was willing to submit myself to him spiritually. If I was willing to walk with spirits. I found his questions nearly humorous but held my composure and agreed.

He promised it would be unlike anything I had ever seen, felt, or heard. He promised it would be extraordinary. He said I would travel, astrally, to another realm, dimension, whatever I wished to name it. When I asked how long I would be there he answered, "Only a very few minutes. I'll be with you. I promise." His promises, reputation with occult experiences, and that shy smile won out.

I sat upon the couch and let him maneuver me into the nook of it; his hand grazed my breast and I gave him a teasing smile. He reached down, pulled my pants elastic, and peered down. "You'll regret those," he laughed at my panties. "Why?!" I laughed. He said it was my last chance but I refused. I was happy that the minor sexual incident was a cutesy one. It calmed me even more.

He told me his simple instructions: "Hold it until I tap you three times, then breathe." Then he told me to stare at the clock after a kiss... Ok...

He read a bit from his book in Latin (I knew the language as I've heard him read in that tongue before) and held a smooth brown stick, no larger than a pencil, which was laid upon it. I took it for a wand. He whispered to the candle's flame then held the tip of the "wand" to it. It ignited and he quickly blew it out sending rippling scentless smoke into the air. Another word was said, then he placed the cherry tip into his mouth. He stepped over to me, placed his free hand upon my chest, and after removing the stick, brought his mouth to mine. He shotgunned a rather massive amount of tasteless smoke into me. I stared into his beautiful green eyes as he intently stared into mine. I glanced at the clock - 2:44. Three quick taps from the fingers on my chest--I exhaled a massive gray cloud. I looked at him again in time to see him remove the stick from his mouth again. This time, he leaned in to kiss; smoke rippled out of his mouth and nostrils like a hellish dragon. His lips enveloped mine and his soft tongue danced with me. I lightly sucked some of his smoke in... He quickly tapped my chest, stepped immediately away, and pointed at the clock - still 2:44...

Is that it...?

2:44...

Um, nothing happened...

2:44...

Jack...?

...

Blindness took me. I sank. I sank into the cushions. I sank. I sank into velvety blackness. I sank. For hours I rested in the dark.

There was a glass of water. There. In the dark. I reached for it. I reached through the air.

The air - composed of intricate geometrical pattern. The air as it is. The air as it has always been. Solid. Real. Tangible. I studied it for many minutes.

The string of my underwear irritated. Tight across me. An annoyance.

The glass was cool. Damp. Light. Full of liquid. Diamonds. Not water. Something like diamonds. Something more precious than water. Something more real. Something complex. Something beautiful. Something perfect.

He stood there. Some distance from me. Scowling. God. Horus.

This is yours. I set the glass down from where I found it. I watched him. I watched him, unmoving. I watched for many minutes.

I grasped a beam of air to help me rise up. I stood there. I stood before a god.

He scowled.

Thank you. I knew he wanted me there. He wasn't upset. He was simply divine.

I pushed through the air. I took a step out.

And appeared within the god's private chamber. His bed. Massive. Composed of paints. Oils.

A high window was open. Trillions of yellow lines grouped through it. Closer. Line after line of yellow light beings. Dancing. Purpose: to bring light and glory to god. For hours I watched. I watched the erratic motions of the light's dance.

Horus. Scowling.

This isn't my world. I took a second step closer to him in that dark room. I'm happy to be here.

I sat upon warm warm dirt. Scent of earth. Scent of life.

Tight across me. An annoyance. I ran my finger along the string. Hot. Unnatural.

I pressed a hand to the wall. I pressed my face to the wall. I spread across the wall. To feel every corner. To feel foundation. To feel. To become.

A glass window kept the grass from me. The trees whirled. Leaves scattered. They need me. It would be morning soon. Then perhaps I could join them.

Thick air swung through the blue sky. They need me.

Birds sang. Sang to me. Called to me. I love them. Swam in the air.

Horus smiled.

"Demeter."

"Samantha."

"Welcome home."

Jack sat cross-legged before me at the glass doors. He was smiling lovingly. He was so beautiful. So real, so beautiful. I ran my fingertips over his cheek. Held his hand. My god.

"Where were you?" I asked. "Right here the whole time," he answered.

"What time is it?" I was gone half a dozen hours at least. Motions took ages to make. So precise in movement. So engulfing were the experiences.

He pointed to the coffee table, some minute distance away. There was the clock - 2:49.

2:49.

5 minutes.

5 minutes of time.

5 minutes.

He helped me rise from the carpet. His hand upon my waist sent ecstatic chills through me.

We walked, lightly, feathery, to the bedroom. I laid upon my back and extended my arms out. The cool invisible air tickled me all over. He ran his hands up my legs, up my torso, along my arms, and back until they met my face. His hands all over me were comforting. "You're so beautiful," I whispered.

He began to unbutton my top, "May I?" I couldn't stop a toothy smile. With each button undone, cool air rushed in to tackle untouched skin. After pushing off my top, he slowly brought down my bottoms. The disappearance of my panties were an incredible relief. He was right. I shouldn't have worn them.

Undressed, he climbed up over me; I was eagerly spread. "You're so beautiful, Jack. I love you." I climaxed seconds after his entering. Several minutes of bliss later, he spilled his seed within me. My god.

My Horus.

3:20.

I sat up in the cold room. It was different. No, everything, every item, was the same. But it was different. He watched me as I walked out of the room and paced the other rooms. It was different. Everything was different. There was more. Unseen, but more. The world grew. In a short period of time, minutes, the universe expanded.

Back into the bedroom, I just looked at him, perplexed. "What are you thinking?" he asked.

I hadn't any words. There were no words. The words I provide here do not do justice.

Speechless, I climbed back into bed. I scampered onto him and made love again; my lips never parting his.

_____________________________________________________________________________

He promised he would be at my side. He wasn't. He became a god. My god. Horus. He was there for me, Samantha, but not for me, the spirit. That's what I was. I left Samantha behind and walked as a ghost.

For hours. For days. He promised it would last only minutes. It didn't. It did. For Samantha. But I wasn't her. I wasn't alive. I surpassed living. I was spirit. I was eternal.

I was a goddess.

Correspondência de Fernando Pessoa vai ser leiloada

peregrinacultural — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:41:57 +0000

Num artigo publicado ontem, 15/7/2008, no New York Times, por Michael Kimmelman, soube da gritaria, da confusão lusitana ao redor da venda da correspondência de Fernando Pessoa ao escritor britânico Aleister Crowley. Esta correspondência do poeta português com o místico escritor britânico foi iniciada em 1930. Sua venda, negociada pelos herdeiros de Fernando Pessoa, está marcada para o período de alta visibilidade na Europa, o outono, que é a estação de abertura dos eventos culturais do ano e será feita em leilão público. A confusão é gerada pela reclamação de alguns da saída do país de documentos de tal importância.

Mas, é justamente de vendas como esta, que a Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal pode se beneficiar, como já o fez no ano passado quando arrematou, para seu acervo, cadernos de notas de Fernando Pessoa. Como Kimmelman em seu artigo lembra, a maior parte da obra de Pessoa está em manuscritos, nunca tendo sido publicada -- diz-se que chegam aos 30.000, ainda guardados em baús na última moradia do escritor.

A decisão dos herdeiros de venderem pelo maior e melhor preço estes documentos é volátil. Recentemente o ministro da cultura de Portugal, José Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, lembrou, numa conferência aberta ao público na Casa Fernando Pessoa, que o estado português tem o poder de manter dentro de seu território qualquer objeto (e os manuscritos se enquadram aqui) que achar ser necessário para o patrimônio nacional. A mensagem, bem entendida por Manuela Nogueira, a sobrinha de Fernando Pessoa, que se encontrava na audiência, era de que ela não se sentisse muito confiante, porque a qualquer momento o governo poderia decidir que tais documentos eram do interesse cultural do país e não só proibir sua venda, como também tombar tais documentos, e nada dar aos herdeiros em troca.

Manuela Nogueira já estava preparada para a luta. Já havia fotografado tudo que pretendia vender de modo que cópias estarão sempre abertas para estudiosos, não importando o destino final dos originais. Além do que, um contrato já havia sido assinado por ela e pela casa de leilões.

O artigo de Michael Kimmelman continua então com considerações sobre Pessoa e sobre a alma portuguesa, inclusive opiniões sobre a última, com uma breve entrevista sublinhando as opiniões de Inês Pedrosa, a escritora que esteve recentemente aqui em Paraty, na FLIP [Feira Literária Internacional de Paraty] deste ano. O artigo revela também algumas opiniões de Jerônimo Pizarro diretor da Casa Fernando Pessoa, em Lisboa. Mas, o assunto pelo qual tenho interesse aqui é diferente daquele enfatizado pelo New York Times, que se mostrou mais interessado em mostrar a forma peculiar, culturalmente falando, de pensar dos portugueses – um artigo até bastante irônico. O que me interessa é ponderar sobre os diversos direitos envolvidos neste caso, para que possamos, no futuro, pensar em como resolver situações semelhantes que certamente ocorrerão na tentativa de preservação de uma cultura brasileira:

1° - Tanto no Brasil como em Portugal seria necessário tornar mais claras as regras estabelecidas para dar prioridade ao que deve ou não ser preservado dentro do país.

2° - Acredito que os herdeiros têm todo o direito de vender os documentos. Muitos autores, com herdeiros, fazem projetos de vida contando com esta possibilidade de renda para as gerações futuras, assim como os grandes donos de terras o fazem.

3° - Também acredito que o governo tem todo o direito de comprar os documentos. Se são de tamanha importância como se diz, tenho certeza que qualquer governo acharia os meios de comprá-los no leilão, ou seja ao valor estabelecido pelo mercado.

4° - Onde há vontade há um meio. O governo pode se juntar a diversas ONGs culturais para comprar os documentos e mantê-los na Biblioteca Nacional ou em alguma outra instituição pública de acesso livre aos estudiosos.

5° - Nada impede que um grupo de intelectuais e outros interessados, que hoje choram e gritam lamentando a perda física dos documentos, não se cotizem para comprá-los e depois doá-los ao país. Acho que as pessoas têm que aprender a colocar o dinheiro onde insistem ser um bom investimento, quer seja cultural ou econômico.

6° - Não há nada mais injusto do que o governo proibir alguém de vender algum objeto ou documento por o haver declarado Patrimônio Nacional, tombá-lo e não indenizar o atual dono do patrimônio ao preço de mercado.

7° - Se nenhuma destas possibilidades aparecerem, por que os documentos não podem sair do país e serem velados por uma outra instituição de responsabilidade social como seria o caso de uma biblioteca especializada em manuscritos de grandes autores?

8° - Último, estive vendo, no outro dia que a Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro é a 7ª maior biblioteca do mundo. ALÔ !!!! Diretores da BN, está na hora de aumentarmos o nosso patrimônio! Tenho certeza de que Portugal preferiria que nós brasileiros – da mesma pátria, porque afinal nossa língua é nossa pátria – fossemos os guardiões destes documentos. Melhor do que qualquer outro país que se interessar possa, não é mesmo?

Dossier Pessoa - Crowley

Luísa Vinuesa — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:43:48 +0000

Manuscritos importantes herdados de Fernando Pessoa vão a leilão em Outubro

26.05.2008 - 08h40 Kathleen Gomes

Uma parte significativa do espólio de Fernando Pessoa que ainda se encontra na posse de familiares do poeta vai ser leiloada em Outubro, em Lisboa, pela P4 Photography.

Um dos documentos que pode atingir somas consideráveis é o chamado dossier Pessoa-Crowley, que reúne todos os papéis relativos ao encontro do poeta português com ocultista inglês Aleister Crowley, em 1930. Material que poderá suscitar o interesse de compradores ingleses, numa leiloeira em que 70 por cento das vendas são feitas para o estrangeiro.

Outras peças a leilão: cartas astrológicas, livros e revistas, entre as quais a Contemporânea e uma Orpheu com dedicatória de Almada Negreiros, manuscritos não especificados pela leiloeira e o contrato de arrendamento da casa da Rua Coelho da Rocha, que é hoje sede da Casa Fernando Pessoa. Será um leilão mais ambicioso do que os realizados em Novembro de 2006 ou Dezembro de 2007 pela mesma leiloeira, que incluíam fotografias de época de Pessoa. "É muito mais complexo leiloar papéis do Pessoa do que fotografias", nota o colombiano Jeronimo Pizarro, um dos investigadores que tem trabalhado na edição crítica da obra do poeta, a partir do espólio que em depósito na Biblioteca Nacional (BN).

O dossier Pessoa-Crowley é constituído, na verdade, por "dois dossiers que deverão ter entre 800 e 900 páginas, dos quais 700 correspondem a manuscritos de Pessoa", segundo Pizarro, que levou a cabo a digitalização do espólio que pertence aos sobrinhos do poeta. Esses dossiers integram a correspondência, em inglês, de Pessoa e Crowley entre Dezembro de 1929 e 1931, de Pessoa e a editora de Crowley, a Mandrake Press, além da novela policial incompleta que o poeta escreveu baseada no suicídio encenado de Crowley na Boca do Inferno (cavidade rochosa batida pelo mar próxima de Cascais) em Setembro de 1930.

The Mouth of Hell, na descrição do americano Richard Zenith, organizador de várias edições de Pessoa na Assírio & Alvim, é a história de um detective inglês que vem a Portugal investigar o caso. O sobrinho do poeta, Miguel Roza, que é o actual proprietário dos papéis relativos ao caso Crowley e que chegou a considerar vendê-los em leilão na Christie"s nos anos 90, editou um volume em 2001, intitulado Encontro Magick, que compila esses documentos (em português) e que permite ter uma visão do que estará em causa no leilão de Outubro.

Pizarro diz ter alertado o director da Biblioteca Nacional, Jorge Couto, para a importância de comprar o espólio Pessoa-Crowley. "As pessoas que trabalham na edição crítica dão muito valor aos originais. Consideramos que tudo é fundamental, até ao último dos papéis. É trágico não estar junto do restante espólio. Estamos a falar de uma altura em que Pessoa escrevia cartas praticamente todos os dias. Se há um período da sua vida que conhecemos bem é esse, e se conhecemos bem é porque trocou correspondência com Crowley."

Em 1979, o Estado português adquiriu o espólio de Pessoa, mas Pizarro lembra que a família do poeta "nunca vendeu todos os livros nem todos os papéis". Segundo o investigador, a família detém 140 livros e revistas e "mais ou menos 2300 papéis", o equivalente a 10 por cento da biblioteca na Casa Fernando Pessoa e 10 por cento do que se encontra na BN. O suficiente, defende Pizarro, "para corrigir ou complementar metade do que já conhecemos".

Jorge Couto disse ao PÚBLICO que, "em questões de leilões, a BN nunca revela previamente interesse" porque "isso é uma forma de fazer disparar o mercado". E adianta que há dias um conjunto de manuscritos de Almeida Garrett atingiu "o valor inesperado" de 38 mil euros num leilão, que a BN não pôde igualar. Em Dezembro, a BN exerceu o direito de preferência e comprou por 30 mil euros o manuscrito do livro Indícios de Oiro e um conjunto de cadernos de Mário de Sá-Carneiro num leilão da P4 Photography.

Pizarro considera que o Estado português deveria fazer "um segundo arrolamento para ter a certeza de que os papéis fiquem em Portugal". O arrolamento é uma figura legal que prevê limites para o que os proprietários dos bens em causa podem fazer com eles, nomeadamente a venda para o estrangeiro. Foi este o recurso utilizado pelo Estado português em finais da década de 60, quando a família estaria a negociar a possibilidade de vender o espólio pessoano para o estrangeiro.

Jornal O Público

Magic, Culture, Identity

Vince Stevens — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:44:09 +0000

Taylor's latest post helped codify a few things I'd been considering as well in the world of magical practice and the role of identity.

As noted previously, a great deal of the influence on my magical and meditative practices are distinctly Eastern, mostly Taoist, Indian, Chinese and Buddhist. Such practices also have far different identity-concepts for people with magical and mystical inclinations and skills. The often-eccentric Taoist Immortal, a studious Chinese Fang-shih, an awakened Buddhist mediator, are different identities than the western magician.

Thus I've begun to wonder if the concepts of the Western Magician are not just different - is it possible they are too limited? Do the identities provided in Western Magic limit who we are and what we can become, especially in an age where we have so much information at our finger tips:

A few factors and things I've thought of:
* The aforementioned dominance of Crowley. I of course consider him talented, but also over-rated, and a person who despite his many experiences, never actually seemed to grow much as a person. He became very iconic - and perhaps having that icon was too limiting.
* The ironic influence of Chaoism. Chaoism's deconstructive bent was entirely necessary for magical and mystical practices to make any progress because one had to go back to the basics. However ages later, it appears there's still far more deconstructing going on that constructing. I feel the deconstructive vein in magic has gone too far, with systems being built up and torn down, but little being made for the long term.
* The western role model for the magician. The west's spiritual heritage is often anti-magical and extremely limited in it's acceptance of mystical experiences. Thus western magic has an odd undercurrent of negativity running through it - the Faustian image, excessive Crowley, battling secret-societies, etc. This self-limiting and subconciously negative view of magic is one I find very troublesome and suspect lies as a mild, constant poison in western culture.
* The association of magic with rebellion in our culture. Though understandable given the last item, rebellion is only useful in what comes out of it. If the Revolution doesn't build something, then what's the point of it?
* The rebellion aspect of magic also prevents it from being integrated socially - when you are considering yourself an "outsider" there's only so much one can do with society at large. Most of history has practitioners of magic not as outsiders in the large, but part of society - even if the society kept them at a distance for obvious reason.
* The dissociation of magic from other practices. Being "a magician" is in a way really limiting - as our ideas of a magician are limiting.

Coming to the Western approach from a mix of being an outsider and an insider, I think our concepts of the magician need to change for magic to evolve and grow, embrace broader identities. Maybe we need to be practitioners of magic while being more, where magician is part of a larger - but integrated - picture.

A Confession

imagineyourreality — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:11:18 +0000

I have a confession to make. I'm not really a magician. I realized this the other day, when in the process of decluttering my house, I decided to take my Golden Dawn and Crowley books, as well as copy of Agrippa's Three Books of the Occult into Powells to trade them in for credit. I'd read the books and done the practices years ago, even re-read Book 4 by Crowley recently and the most profound thought I had was, "This is taking up a lot of space and gathering a lot of dust." So when I turned those books in, which could be considered classics of western occultism, I realized my focus about magic had changed. I realized I'd become someone who happens to do magic, and uses it when appropriate as opposed to being someone who is defined as a magician.

Of course I still have plenty of occult books that, as far as I can tell, I probably won't get rid of. I've got my William G. Gray, my Franz Bardon, my Pascal Beverly Randolph, my various books on alchemy, Taoist practices etc...but I've also been gradually filling those bookshelves with books on NLP, communication techniques, semiotics, cultural studies, multimodality, Neuroscience, physics and other areas of interest that are relevant to my spiritual practice.

It's not even so much that I no longer have books by Crowley or the Golden Dawn that doesn't make me a magician. Those are just books. They don't confer status, beyond what meaning people read into them. It's the change in focus, the change in attitude, the realization that my spiritual path has grown to include a wider range of studies and interests than traditional ceremonial magic could offer. Instead of limiting myself to one particular paradigm for how life should be lived, I'm interested in discovering the variety of paradigms available and have been for a long time.

I explored the paradigm of Crowleyian and Golden Dawn Western Ceremonial magic a long time ago. I got stuff out of it, but I moved on to other paradigms of western ceremonial magic that I found more useful (and still do to this day). And I continued moving on, but when I reread Crowley and his fervent desire to rehabilitate magic, I realized I wasn't a magician, because the result of his attempted rehabilitation of magic hasn't even remotely occurred, and yet it seems that so many people still operate on that current. I'm just not one of them. I haven't been for a long, long time, so why continue pretending to be something I don't feel fits me?

I happen to practice magic, along with a lot of other practices. I think that works as a better descriptor of the place of magic in my life and the current I'm exploring.

Rokkikirjoja kesään!

yopop — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:49:47 +0000

Joko jokakesäinen "luen loman aikana suuria klassikoita" -suunnitelma alkaa rakoilla? Kaipaatko romanttisen hömpän tilalle rujompaa menoa? Naurattavatko Juoppohullun päiväkirjat jo vähän liikaakin?

Iskevätkö sinuun vaarallisesta ja rankan glamoröösistä, huumehöyryisestä, irtosuhteiden täyttämästä rock-elämästä kertovat eepokset, joissa sattuu ja tapahtuu vähintään kyseenalaisen paljon kaikenlaista epäpyhää ja kaikkea sitä, mitä et omalle kohdallesi toivoisi, mutta mistä olet kuitenkin jollain - osittain kierollakin - tavalla utelias lukemaan aina vaan lisää ja lisää? Siinä tapauksessa saatat olla kiinnostunut seuraavista teoksista:

Rankimmat bändisaagat

Mötley Crüe & Strauss, Neil: The Dirt - Törkytehdas
Kaikkien rock-kirjojen isä, äiti, isoveli, pikkusisko, lemmikkigerbiili, loma-asunnon naapuri, biologianopettaja, nimi hautakivessä, presidentti, toimitusjohtaja, marsalkka, luotto-olkapää ja näyttelyhevonen. Tästä kaikki lähti, tähän kaikki päättynee.

McIver, Joel: Metallica - Thrashtitaanien tie maailman mahtavimmaksi metallibändiksi... ja mitä sitten tapahtui
Fanipojan avoin tilitys, joka toimii ja vetää mukanaan. Ihailtavaa omistautuneisuutta asialle sekä mukava pieni "piikki lihassa" -ote esimerkiksi siihen kuuluisaan Napster-oikeudenkäyntiin.

Leaf, David: Kiss - Maskin takaa, virallinen historiikki
Gene Simmons vs. Paul Stanley, ja ehkä muutakin.

Wall, Mick: Iron Maiden
On vain yksi ja ainoa Iron Maiden, tässä lisää siitä.

McIver, Joel: Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
On vain yksi ja ainoa Black Sabbath, tässä lisää siitä.

Everett, True: Nirvana - tositarina
1990-luvun alun Seattle on tullut tutuimmaksi lähinnä grungen merkeissä. Tämä ehtymättömän fanipojan (tai nolon hännystelijän, päättäkää itse) teos Nirvanasta ruokkinee suurehkoakin dekadenssinnälkää.

Vahvat persoonat (ei minkäänlaisessa paremmuusjärjestyksessä)

Simpson, Mark: Pyhä Morrissey (Sammakko 2006)
Brittiläisen (80- ja 90-luvuilla suositun) The Smiths -bändin laulajan elämäkerta

Jovanovic, Rob: Kate Bush -elämäkerta (Like 2006)
Omintakeisen brittilaulajattaren mystinen elämä.

Crawford, Sue: Ozzy (Johnny Kniga 2003)
Vähän turhan mässäilevä ja mehusteleva teos Ozzy Osbournesta, mutta toiminee sosiaalipornon ystäville.

Osbourne, Sharon & Dening, Penelope: Täysillä - omaelämäkerta (Ajatus Kirjat 2006)
Metallimusiikin virallinen rokkivaimo, lähes kaiken nähnyt Sharon Osbourne riisuu itsensä alasti ja paljastaa syvimmätkin tuntonsa elämästään paitsi Ozzy Osbournen rinnalla, myös isänsä varjossa. Kirjan rehellinen ote tuskin jättää kylmäksi.

Johnstone, Nick: Patti Smith - Rock'n'roll nigger (Johnny Kniga 2007)
Veteraanijenkkipunkkarittaren elämäkerta.

Jameson, Jenna & Strauss, Neil: Erotiikan ammattilainen - seksitähden päiväkirja (Readme.fi 2006)
Jenna on VÄHÄN pihalla... Tämä kirja saa olon melko surulliseksi.

Manson, Marilyn & Strauss, Neil: Helvettiin ja takaisin (Like 2003)
Hollywood-satanistin lapsuudentraumakattaus ja backstagesekoilua poikineen.

Sixx, Nikki & Gittins, Ian: Heroiinipäiväkirja (Like 2008)
Jos Törkytehdas ei täyttänyt tarpeitasi, kannattaa tarttua Mötley Crüen perustajan, biisintekijän ja basistin omiin huumekatkuisiin muistelmiin.

Cobain, Kurt: Päiväkirjat (WSOY 2003)
Autenttiset päiväkirjamerkinnät paljastavat Nirvana-keulahahmon ja sittemmin koko 1990-luvun nuorison itsetuhoisuuden ikoniksi nousseen Kurt Cobainin asennoitumisen elämään sekä sen tyhjyyteen ja turhuuteen. Kirja pysäyttää hetkeksi miettimään, oliko heroiini loppujen lopuksi syy vai seuraus moniin tapahtumiin herran elämässä.

Uudemmat bändikirjat, joiden tenhosta ei oikein osaa sanoa juuta eikä jaata

Myers, Ben: System of a Down - Hollywoodin hypnootikot (Like 2007)
Isoksi kasvaneen omaperäisen rockbändin tarina.

Myers, Ben: Green Day - Amerikan idiootit & uuspunkin kukoistus (Sammakko 2006)
Pop-punk-bändin vaiheet kuorrutettuna yleisellä "uuspunk"-käsittelyllä.

Yleisiä musiikki- ja populaarikulttuuri-ilmiöitä

Baddeley, Gavin: Goth Chic - johdatus pimeän puolen estetiikkaan (Like 2005)
Baddeley valottaa hyvin paljon nimenpudottelua hyödyntäen tätä synkkyydestä viehättynyttä alakulttuuria musiikkeineen, elokuvineen ja klubeineen. Suomesta mukana HIM, josta tosin annetaan vähän erikoinen kuva...

Levine, Noah: Dharma Punx (Like 2006)
Ongelmanuoret muistelevat elämäänsä punk-ympyröissä. Osa ilmeisesti kääntyi sittemmin buddhalaisuuteen ynnä muuta ehkä vähemmän yllättävää.

McNeil, Legs & McCain, Gillian: Please kill me - punkin sensuroimaton esihistoria (Like 2004)
Järkälemäinen kirja valottaa nimensä mukaisesti punk-kulttuurin historiaa, kehittymistä ja tiettyä tuhoakin. Paljon haastatteluita henkilöiltä, jotka olivat ns. asioiden ytimessä punkin esihistoriallisella kaudella.

Robb, John: PUNK! Brittipunkin haastatteluhistoria (Like 2007)
Lisää punk-asiaa, entistä enemmän haastatteluja.

McNeil, Legs & Osborne, Jennifer: Alaston Hollywood - Hollywoodin pimeä puoli, pornoelokuvateollisuuden historia (Like 2006)
Onhan tämäkin eräänlaista rockia... Ainakin ihmiskohtalot ovat yhtä surkuhupaisia kuin tietyillä rokkikukoilla kaikessa rajuudessaan.

Lachman, Gary Valentine: Tajunnan alkemistit - Kuusikymmenluvun mystiikka ja Vesimiehen ajan pimeä puoli (Like 2003)
1960-luvulla vedettiin selkeästi lsd:tä yli 400 sivun verran. Mukana all star -kasti kyseisen ajan "maailmanparantajia", aina Mansonin perheestä Aleister Crowleyhin asti.

Mudrian, Albert & Peel, John: Choosing Death - Deathmetallin ja grindcoren hämmentävä historia (Like 2006)
Äärimetallin tapahtumia ja historiaa.

Listan järkälemäisyydestä johtuen laitoin mukaan vain suomennusvuodet, en siis alkuperäisteosten julkaisuaikoja. Jäikö jokin mielestäsi oleellinen teos uupumaan listaltani? Kommentoi asiaa!

Törkyisän täyteläisiä ja hyvillä riffeillä kuorrutettuja heinäkuun hetkiä kaikille!

Necronomicon Part 5

dalethion — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:22:35 +0000

Restul articolelor din aceasta serie le gasiti aici. Astazi vom vorbi despre motivele pentru care Lovecraft ar fi putut afirma ca Necronomicon este doar o carte fictionala, creata pentru prima data de el.

De ce afirma Lovecraft ca Necronomicon este creatia lui?

Raspunsul la aceasta intrebare interesanta depinde de doi oameni: poetul si magicianul Aleister Crowley si o croitoreasa din Brooklyn numita Sonia Greene. Nu exista indoieli ca Crowley a citit traducerea lui Dee a Necronomiconului in Bodleian, probabil atunci cand a cercetat lucrarile lui Dee; prea multe pasaje din cartea lui Crowley "Cartea legii" par a fi o refrazare a pasajelor din traducerea lui Dee. Ori aceasta, ori Crowley, care afirma ca isi aminteste viata ca Edward Kelly intr-o reincarcanare anterioara, si-a amintit-o din viata anterioara!

De ce Crowley nu mentioneaza in lucrarile sale Necronomiconul? Era extrem de reticent in privinta surselor sale de inspiratie. Exista o banuiala foarte mare ca "777", pe care Crowley sustine ca a scris-o, era de fapt plagiata dupa notitele lui Allan Bennet. Datoria sa spirituala catre Nietzsche, pe care Crowley il descrie la un moment dat ca "aproape o intruchipare a lui Thoth, zeul intelepciunii", este absolut ignorata; de asemenea si influentele Kasidah - a lui Richard Burton - in ceea ce priveste doctrina lui a "Vointei adevarate".

Probabil ca Necronomicon a devenit o rusine pentru Crowley cand a realizat faptul ca introdusese inconstient pasaje din Necronomicon in "Cartea legii".

In 1918 Crowley era in New York. Ca de obicei, incerca sa isi imbunatateasca reputatia literara si contribuia la publicatiile "Internationalul" si "Vanity Fair". Sonia Greene era o emigranta evreica energica si ambitioasa care spera sa isi impuna stilul literar; ea s-a alaturat unui club numit "Walker's Sunrise Club"; acolo s-a intalnit prima data cu Crowley, care fusese invitat pentru a vorbi despre poezia moderna.

Faceau o pereche reusita. Intr-o scrisoare catre Norman Mudd Crowley o descrie pe femeia sa ideala ca:

"...destul de inalta, musculoasa si bine facuta, ambitioasa, energica, pasionala, intre 30 si 35 de ani, probabil o evreica, o cantareata sau o actrita. Ea este "in pas cu moda", poate putin prea vulgara sau excentrica. Extrem de bogata bineinteles."

Sonia nu era actrita sau cantareata, dar se potrivea perfect in celelalte aspecte. Castiga ceea ce, pentru acea vreme, era o suma imensa ca designer si ca vanzatoare de palarii pentru femei. Era descrisa ca "o femeie cu o carisma impresionanta si magnetism personal", "intr-adevar glamour si cu o puternica alura feminina", "una dintre cele mai frumoase femei intalnite" si "o femeie culta, dar excentrica". In 1918 avea 35 de ani si era divortata avand o fata adolescenta. Crowley nu pierdea cu femeile si s-au intalnit in mod neregulat doar pentru cateva luni.

In 1921 Sonia Greene l-a intalnit pe novelistul H.P. Lovecraft si in acelasi an Lovecraft a publicat prima nuvela in care il mentioneaza pe Abdul Alhazred ("Orasul fara nume"). In 1922 mentioneaza pentru prima data Necronomicon ("Dulaul"). Pe 3 martie 1924 H.P. Lovecraft si Sonia sa casatoresc.

Nu stim exact ce i-a spus Crowley lui Sonia Greene, dar nu stim nici ce i-a spus Sonia lui Lovecraft. Insa, sa luam in considerare urmatorul citat din "Chemarea lui Cthulhu" (1926):

"Cultul nu va muri pana cand stelele nu vor fi iarasi la locul lor si pana cand preotii ascunsi nu il vor fi sculat pe Cthulhu din mormantul sau pentru a isi reinvia adeptii si a isi relua domnia pe Pamant. Timpul va fi usor de stiut, pentru ca atunci omenirea va fi devenit ca "Cei vechi si mari": liberi si salbatici, dincolo de bine si rau, legile si moralitatea fiind lasate in urma, toti oamenii tipand si omorand si extaziindu-se de fericite. Apoi "Cei vechi" eliberati ii vor invata noi metode de a urla si a omori si a se bucura de faptele lor, si tot pamantul va arde cu un holocaust de euforie, libertate si extaziere."

Se poate sa fie scurt acest pasaj, se poate sa fie incurcat, dar este clar ca suna aproape la fel ca si "Cartea legii" a lui Crowley. Este usor de imaginat situatia in care Sonia si Lovecraft rad si vorbesc intr-o camera luminata de foc despre o noua poveste si Sonia ii da niste idei bazate pe ceea ce ii spusese Crowley; nici nu ar fi trebuit sa il mentioneze pe Crowley, doar sa dea cateva idei care sa aprinda imaginatia lui Lovecraft. Nu exista nici o dovada ca Lovecraft a vazut vreodata Necronomicon, sau ca macar stia de existenta cartii; Necronomiconul sau este uimitor de aproape de spiritul originalului, dar detaliile sunt pura inventie, asa cum este normal. Nu exista Yog-Sothoth, Azatoth sau Nyarlathothep, dar exista Aiwaz.

Va urma pe acelasi subiect. Maine cred ca voi termina de vorbit despre Necronomicon.

Aleister Crowley, Sonia Greene si H.P.Lovecraft:

(Image credit 1 & 2)

Health

mikenoxaura — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:22:46 +0000

I have noticed lately an increasing use of the expression "panic attack" by physicians to write off what they do not understand. This, in fact, occurred to me today. I have 3 generations of hypertensives with strokes and heart attacks behind me, and 4 of diabetics. Now, to any rational person, this would be a major concern.

Much to my chagrin, and irritation, this is what the cardiologist expressed as probable for me. Guys, i had severe chest pain, dizziness, and fatigue that nearly made me pass out yesterday. While those are symptoms for a panic attack as I've read, the fact is, i was in no way shape or form panicking at the time! In fact, i was feeling intensely happy about a new job, satisfied after nearly hour long intimacy with my wife, and feeling smug about some new poems I've just written. Does that sound like a person who would be panicked? I should think not!

George Carlin (RIP) had said in a late 80's HBO special (called "Doin It Again" if i recall) that medicine was "guess work and a white coat" and stated "you ought to give your goddamn goofy doctor a bowl of broccoli, he's probably got cancer too!" I'm the child of two nurses, and frankly, i have to agree with Mr. Carlin. Too many doctors pick a diagnosis, and won't budge or even check if the data is incorrect.

To put it simply, medicine, and i might add psychiatry and psychology, are not SCIENCES! They do not follow rigorous scientific means, and use too much assumption in their diagnosis to be even 50% reliable. If humankind is ever to extend lifespans in a reliable and healthy fashion, returning to the ages mentioned in the Torah and so on, then we are going to have to reform these three scandalous professions and eliminate the charlatans.

The same things have occurred in our religions. People have lied about and twisted writings by L Ron Hubbard, making him seem even nuttier than he was. Folks, when you take anything, and i insist anything, out of context; whether it be writings in the bible and Koran, works by Hubbard or Crowley, or the ideas of eugenics, you are headed towards disaster, and i pray also your Darwin Award whereby you are removed from the gene pool.

Take Anton Lavey, for instance, no there;s a quack! read the following by Tom Blackwood....

Things To Do Grand Magister Blackwood’s Satanism

The Religion of Confusion

I have been around Satanism and Satanic people my entire life and one
thing is most certainly clear there are some confused individuals in
Satanism.

I have always stood my ground even against fellow Satanist’s however
it is time for a reality check!

1. LaVey did not invent Satanism and to make it clear it is a three
thousand or more year old religion, LaVey might have put a “media
spin” on it however, and his teachings were simply opinion and now
are gathering dust.

2. Satanism doesn’t require you to wear black and get a hundred “I
Love Satan” tattoos all over your body, a few nice touches honor the
Master but do not think he wants you looking goofy with flames
tattooed on your face, besides what kind a career could you get?
Satan wants you to gain personal wealth, so appearance is everything
if you want to look odd, and then make sure you pursue and odd career
and be the best, Satan is tired of broke servants.

3. Satanism is so far from being nice or acting like you really
give “three shits” what anyone thinks I never have and never will nor
will Satan so quit “role-playing” Satanism is a religion for strong
individuals.

4. Screw the safety of the Internet if Satan would want Email he
would probably Spam us every sex site, tobacco site and make drugs
available over the Net, find offline groups and participate “big
word” participate offline, Satan doesn’t have a lap-top when you go
to visit him someday how will he know you!

5. Practice Satanism Offline, the Joys of Satan, Orders of Vaseline,
and Temples of Holy Big Dick amount to nothing unless they are
offline, maintain an informational site or exchange emails or post
articles, but do not practice Satanism online!

6. Be committed “get a spine” and if your organization needs help or
wants to launch a project get from behind the monitor and donate some
time, or send them a check, Christians keep building churches and
Satanism keeps growing dimmer!

7. Burn LaVey and read the Masters!
LaVey was a showman, repeatedly his lies were exposed and in reality,
he really remained confused and bitter, his writing style shows this
well and contradictions show his lack of knowledge!
Perhaps welfare and keeping the “Black Shack” intact was most of his
worries.

8. Find a cause or something you strongly believe in and “bulldozer”
all the cynics and critics under by picking your battles and
remaining strong, shout out “I am a Satanist so Fuck You; I will have
an opinion that matters!”

9. Former Church of Satan Leaders, LaVey sympathizers “don’t come
round here no more” practice your form of “pseudo-Satanism”
elsewhere, Satanist’s worship who?

10. Find yourself before the Master Satan finds you, get it together
practice your worship and research him, get to know your Master and
he will get to know you, your actions will speak louder than any
ritual words.

11. “Climb out of the closet” become knowledgeable be a “street
leader” or “community leader” representing not some E-Group but a
group that gathers even once a year offline!
Show Satan you are there for him you reside on his Earth, so give the
Master the respect he has due!

12. “Get Balls” and stand up for Satanism, offline print flyers hand
them out everywhere you go and organize even one or two at a time,
size isn’t important when it comes to a “quality offline
organization.”

13. Satanism has nothing to do with the television show Charmed, so
don’t dress Satan up all pretty just to “take him out” Satan is as
great looking or as ugly as we all are, and you can’t apply Celtic
Knots and Wiccan “Tree Rubbing” or Pagan drum beats to the worship of
Satan.

14. Let’s celebrate the Master Satan more on Halloween, quit dressing
like Christian Vampires, Disorderly Nun’s and Sponge Bob Square-
head’s and start dressing like She-Devil’s and even Satan himself,
spend a “few bucks” and honor him right!

15. Quit being so fucking nice to the Christian’s and Muslims and
realize they will “stab you in the back every time” fuck them; leave
them alone furthermore they do not require our space!

16. Listen what pleases you don’t stop buying Slayer albums however
find out the bands that really support Satan and get behind them
screw the “in-it-for the money” rockers and support the one’s with
fellow Satanists, and quit thinking LaVey could ever hold a tune, his
singing his organ music ranks the worst known to man or woman.

17. Wear the pentagram, and buy a nice larger one “screw the tiny
one’s” that the mall carry, find yourself a great one “be proud
symbolize Satan” carry is symbol through-out life and show the public
you are an individual, and practice Satanism.

18. Avoid religious combat at the workplace, do not argue with the
sheep, and just know you could tear them to shreds, you have no
employee rights when you are a Satanist the A.C.L.U. probably does
not have time for your case!

19. Take your battles and choose them wisely, fight against Christian
Tyranny or its attempt to overthrow Satan from society with whatever
means necessary.

20. Don’t hesitate to bring back “animal sacrifice” just don’t kill
children and avoid murder charges Satan doesn’t need “virgins or
souls” he has had plenty of them for years and he doesn’t need them
dead, convert them to follow him he will much more pleased that
having you sit in jail for murder, what will you do for him there,
surrounded by Bibles and “born again” losers!

21. Practice spells and Satanic Work’s, delve in ancient formulae and
learn older world languages that will allow you to perfectly perform
rituals, and if you desire the leadership roles for Satan remember he
expects allot from his people.

22. Quit blaming the time, the family, the job become a Satanic
patriarch and do it in the next few months, study, plan and make your
move in the name of Satan become known for what you represent.

23. Write you own spells, incantations, and rituals and burn all the
stupid books that Wiccan writer’s “churn out like pop-corn” and
convince people the paths of “mumbo-jumbo.”

24. Quit thinking just because you’re a Satanist that every girl or
guy needs to fuck you that is the case if you wield the power and
otherwise get a life, get some game, get a haircut do whatever it
takes but get laid, but quit thinking because someone is a Satanist
they owe you some dick or pussy!

25. Finally get the word evil back into the vocabulary, when dealing
with sheep it is an easy word to scare the “shit out of them” and
avoids fighting, using the word evil has gotten me over a lot of
business jams and messes and is the reason I sprinkle the word often
into situations I find dislikable.

Speaking of quacks and Satanism, what about the order of nine angles trying to say Tom was never a member? Bullshit! So was I, although i never pursued leadership! That crotchety pile of trash was tumbling apart in the late 90's and did fall... The problem is there magickal doctrines are really Lavey and Crowley rehashed with garbage from Montague Summers and other self obsessed Christians decrying medieval superstitious false satanism!

The same thing goes for Obama. here's a man who is spouting pieces of the communist manifesto about "The Collective" and "Significant Global Interdependency" and talking about taxing the middle class when he's freaking rich! The mans a fake, a liar, and a charlatan!

We need to return to the significant values that people like Aleister Crowley were trying to pass onto us. We need self-reliance, interdependence, guts, and justice. Those values were what built this country, and what can save us from economic ruin!

The Invisible Web Episode 18 (2.09) Our Great Podio Horror

invizweb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:54:14 +0000

The Invisible Web Episode 18 (02.09): Our Great Podio Horror

On this episode of the Invisible Web I celebrate Midsummer's Day with the odd synchronicities of the holiday. I also review two movies an episode of a legendary BBC Science fiction television series. BAD WOLF~!

Gylfaginning featuring Fenrir, from Snorri's Prose Edda.

Fenrir @ Godchecker

Happy St. John's Day, from Cryptomundo

Happy Solstice/ Midsummer's Day et all

Doctor Who @ Sci Fi Dot Com

New York Asian Film Festival going to July 3 at IFC (and from July 3 - 6 at the Japan Society)

Pre-order DIY Totemism by Lupa!

Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem - NOW AVAILABLE!

Believe it or not another episode will be released this weekend focusing on Pro Wrestling and some MMA.

Synchronicity

mikenoxaura — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:50:00 +0000

Before we get into the meat of the discussion, let's start by defining this word...According to wikipedia, Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related. In order to be 'synchronistic', the events must be related to one another temporally, and the chance that they would occur together by randomchance must be very small. Now, skepdic.com had this to say,

"Synchronicity is an explanatory principle, according to its creator, Carl Jung. Synchronicity explains "meaningful coincidences," such as a beetle flying into his room while a patient was describing a dream about a scarab. The scarab is an Egyptian symbol of rebirth, he noted. Therefore, the propitious moment of the flying beetle indicated that the transcendental meaning of both the scarab in the dream and the insect in the room was that the patient needed to be liberated from her excessive rationalism. His notion of synchronicity is that there is an causalprinciple that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. He claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal world of perception. "

You may be wondering why I'm bringing this up to you, which is all and good, as i usually am talking about politics and so on. The reason is simple, according to the Law Of Attraction, as explained in "The Secret" by Abraham, via channel Esther Hicks, we attract what we feel most strongly about, so, if i don't want something and i'm saying "oooh, i really don't want that, no,No,NO, and it doesn't make me feel good.." well, that's exactly what i'm going to get!

I do not want Obama, and i'm no big fan of McCain either, so should i always rant about them? No, it would be better to focus on what i do want andneed. The reason for bringing up "synchronicity" and trying to open some eyes is, according to Jungian psychology, the Kyballion, and some Law Of Attraction teachers, syncronicities are warnings of an event forthcoming and guideposts to that event.

Today, i was trying to explain to a young woman why Obama would be a bad idea. She happened to ask me the one question that has been eating at my heart. "What alternatives are there then?"

This stirred me up. What, as a satanick priest, am i to tell people to do? Vote for the lesser of two evils? Why would i encourage that waste? I don't vote Republican, ever, because i AM enviromentally aware and focused on helping people, and i'm sorry, but they are abysmal in those areas. I vote Libertarian most of the time because they are Constiustionalists and the Constitution Party is overrun with christian fundamentalist nutjobs.

So i remembered a quote, which, ironically, popped up on my email just as i sat down to puzzle this out with you good people.

"Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward something that is pleasing? You can't cease to vibrate, and Law of Attraction will not stop responding to the vibration that you are offering. So, expansion is inevitable. You provide it, whether you know you do, or not. The only question is, what is the standard of joy that you are demanding for yourself? From your Nonphysical perspective, it's a high, high standard. "

Abraham Hicks

Source: Excerpted from the workshop in Seattle, WA on Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Thanks to Anita on Gaia Community for posting that, syncronicitously, just when i needed it!

Guys, accepting a "lesser of two evils" isn't any good. The signposts are here. Satan speaks to Me and others now, regularly. We Satanists have finally emerged from the dark ages and are leaving the athiesmof the Church Of Satan behind in droves. So why should we keep acting and voting like the masses?

Read the following qoutes, and think about when they may have applied to your life...

"Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves."

Swami Satchidananda

"In shamanistic cultures, synchronicitiesare considered to be teachings as well as sign indicating where one should focus one’s attention, such correspondences demonstrate the usually hidden links between the individual psyche and the larger world. Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes – for instance, among the Secoya shamans, a dream of seeing yourself in the mirror suggests that you will soon encounter a jaguar in the rain forest. Shamans see such temporal conjunctions as essential aspects of reality, revealing its ultimately dreamlike and magical qualities."

Daniel Pinchbeck

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Page: 45

". . . The mind seeks knowledge as a handle on the cosmos from which it gains leverage for greater control and self-satisfaction, but synchronicity will not allow itself to be used so roughly. Like the flea (on the ‘iron bull’), we must eventually give up our effort to penetrate the impenetrable and surrender to a reality which we cannot master but to which we must submit. In the end, to be honest to our exploration or synchronicity we must ourselves surrender to it. This means to relax and allow the sometimes fickle tide of fate to take its natural course, to let it wash over and benignly carry us. We must sacrifice the urgent, petty agendas of the ego to a larger field or participation. We must learn humility andown humor, finding guidance in intuition and making logic a servant rather than master. Control is a personal experience, surrender is a transpersonal one. Through surrender we learn to move with the rhythms that flow through our existence and in so doing open ourselves to the wellsprings of life that are the gift of the divine Trickster."

Allan Combs

Source: Synchronicity

We need to surrender ourselves to Satans Will, which is to become Masters of our world, not through violent force or manipulation, but by purest intention. How? By living to the fullest. By giving our damn best and accepting no less from everyone! read Duty by Aleister Crowley below, and think about it.

Duty

A note on the chief rules of practical conduct to be observed by those who accept the Law of Thelema.

Aleister Crowley

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” [AL I:40]

“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” [AL III:60]

“... thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.” [AL I:42–44]

“Love is the law, love under will.” [AL I:57]

“Every man and every woman is a star.” [AL I:3]

A. Your duty to yourself.
1.	Find yourself to be the centre of your own Universe.
	“I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star.” [AL II:6]
2.	Explore the Nature and Powers of your own Being.	This includes everything which is, or can be, for you: and you must accept everything exactly as it is in itself, as one of the factors which go to make up your True Self. This True Self thus ultimately includes all things soever; its discovery is Initiation (the travelling inwards) and as its Nature is to move continually, it must be understood not as static, but as dynamic, not as a Noun but as a Verb.
3.	Develop in due harmony and proportion every faculty which you possess.
	“Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!” [AL II:70]
	“But exceed! exceed!” [AL II:71]
	“Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” [AL II:22]
4.	Contemplate your own Nature.	Consider every element thereof both separately and in relation to all the rest as to judge accurately the true purpose of the totality of your Being.
5.	Find the formula of this purpose, or “True Will,” in an expression as simple as possible.	Learn to understand clearly how best to manipulate the energies which you control to obtain the results most favourable to it from its relations with the part of the Universe which you do not yet control.
6.	Extend the dominion of your consciousness, and its control of all forces alien to it, to the utmost.	Do this by the ever stronger and more skilful application of your faculties to the finer, clearer, fuller, andmore accurate perception, the better understanding, and the more wisely ordered government, of that external Universe.
7.	Never permit the thought or will of any other Being to interfere with your own.	Be constantly vigilant to resent, andon the alert to resist, with unvanquishable ardour and vehemence of passion unquenchable, every attempt of any other Beingto influence you otherwise than by contributing new facts to your experience of the Universe, or by assisting you to reach a higher synthesis of Truth by the mode of passionate fusion.
8.	Do not repress or restrict any true instinct of your Nature; but devote all in perfection to the sole service of your one True Will.
	“Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me.” [AL I:51] “The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accurséd! Accurséd be it to the æons! Hell.” [AL I:41] “So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.” [AL I:42–44] “Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy.” [AL I:61]
9.	Rejoice!
	“Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.” [AL II:9] “But ye, o my people, rise up & awake! Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!” ... “A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” [AL II:34–35, 41–44] “Now rejoice! now come in our splendour & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings!” [AL II:64] “Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thy heart & rejoice!” [AL II:66] “Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” [AL II:19–20]
B. Your duty to other individual men and women.
1.	“Love is the law, love under will.” [AL I:57]
	“Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!” [AL I:12]
		Unite yourself passionately with every other form of consciousness, thus destroying the sense of separateness from the Whole, and creating a new baseline in the Universe from which to measure it.
2.	“As brothers fight ye!” [AL III:59]
	“If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.” [AL II:59]
		To bring out saliently the differences between two points-of-view is useful to both in measuring the position of each in the whole. Combat stimulates the virile or creative energy; and, like love, of which it is one form, excites the mind to an orgasm which enables it to transcend its rational dullness.
3.	Abstain from all interferences with other wills.
	“Beware lest any force another, King against King!” [AL II:24]
		(The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game.) To seek to dominate or influence another is to seek to deform or to destroy him; and he is a necessary part of one’s own Universe, that is, of one’s self.
4.	Seek, if you so will, to enlighten another when need arises.	This may be done, always with the strict respect for the attitude of the good sportsman, when he is in distress through failure to understand himself clearly, especially when he specifically demands help; for his darkness may hinder one’s perception of his perfection. (Yet also his darkness may serve as a warning, or excite one’s interest.) It is also lawful when his ignorance has lead him to interfere with one’s will. All interference is in any case dangerous, and demands the exercise of extreme skill and good judgement, fortified by experience. To influence another is to leave one’s citadel unguarded; and the attempt commonly ends in losing one’s own self-supremacy.
5.	Worship all!
	“Every man and every woman is a star.” [AL I:3] “Mercy let be off; damn them who pity!” [AL III:18] “We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.” [AL II:21]
		Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even assimilable to, your own. The impersonal Universe of “Nature” is only an abstraction, approximately true, of the factors which it is convenient to regard as common to all. The Universe of another is therefore necessarily unknown to, and unknowable by, you; but it induces currents of energy in yours by determining in part your reactions. Use men and women, therefore, with the absolute respect due to inviolable standards of measurement; verify your own observations by comparison with similar judgements made by them; and, studying the methods which determine their failure or success, acquire for yourself the wit and skill required to cope with your own problems. Pity, sympathy and like emotions are fundamentally insults to the Godhead of the person exciting them, and therefore also to your own. The distress of another may be relieved; but always with the positive and noble idea of making manifest the perfection of the Universe. Pity is the source of every mean, ignoble, cowardly vice; and the essential blasphemy against Truth.
	“To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss.” AL III:62
C. Your duty to mankind.
1.	Establish the Law of Thelema as the sole basis of conduct.	The general welfare of the race being necessary in many respects to your own, that well-being, like your own, principally a function of the intelligent and wise observance of the Law of Thelema, it is of the very first importance to you that every individual should accept frankly that Law, andstrictly govern himself in full accordance therewith. You may regard the establishment of the Law of Thelema as an essential element of your True Will, since, whatever the ultimate nature of that Will, the evident condition of putting it into execution is freedom from external interference. Governments too often exhibit the most deplorable stupidity, however enlightened may be the men who compose and constitute them, or the people whose destinies they direct. It is therefore incumbent on every man and woman to take the proper steps to cause the revisions of all existing statutes on the basis of the Law of Thelema. This Law being a Law of Liberty, the aim of the legislature must be to secure the amplest freedom for each individual in the state, eschewing the presumptuous assumption that any given positive ideal is worthy to be obtained.
	“The word of Sin is Restriction.” [AL I:41]
		The essence of crime is that it restricts the freedom of the individual outraged. (Thus, murder restricts his right to live; robbery, his right to enjoy the fruits of his labour; coining, his right to the guarantee of the state that he shall barter in security; etc.) It is then the common duty to prevent crime by segregating the criminal, and by the threat of reprisals; also, to teach the criminal that his acts, being analyzed, are contrary to his own True Will. (This may often be accomplished by taking from him the right which he has denied to others; as by outlawing the thief, so that he feels constant anxiety for the safety of his own possessions, removed from the ward of the State.) The rule is quite simple. He who violated any right declares magically that it does not exist; therefore it no longer does so, for him. Crime being a direct spiritual violation of the Law of Thelema, it should not be tolerated in the community. Those who possess the instinct should be segregated in a settlement to build up a state of their own, so to learn the necessity of themselves imposing and maintaining rules of justice. All artificial crimes should be abolished. When fantastic restrictions disappear, the greater freedom of the individual will itself teach him to avoid acts which really restrict natural rights. Thus real crime will diminish automatically. The administration of the Law should be simplified by training men of uprightness and discretion whose will is to fulfill this function in the community to decide all complaints by the abstract principle of the Law of Thelema, and to award judgement on the basis of the actual restriction caused by the offense. The ultimate aim is thus to reintegrate Conscience, on true scientific principles, as the warden of conduct, the monitor of the people, and the guarantee of their governors.
D. Your duty to all other beings and things.
1.	Apply the Law of Thelema to all problems of fitness, use, and development.	It is a violation of the Law of Thelema to abuse the natural qualities of any animal or object by diverting it from its proper function, as determined by consideration of its history andstructure. Thus, to train children to perform mental operations, or to practice tasks, for which they are unfitted, is a crime against nature. Similarly, to build houses of rotten material, to adulterate food, to destroy forests, etc., etc., is to offend. The Law of Thelemais to be applied unflinchingly to decide every question of conduct. The inherent fitness of any thing for any proposed use should be the sole criterion. Apparent, and sometimes even real, conflict between interests will frequently arise. Such cases are to be decided by the general value of the contending parties in the scale of Nature. Thus, a tree has a right to its life; but a man being more than a tree, he may cut it down for fuel or shelter when need arises. Even so, let him remember that the Law never fails to avenge infraction: as when wanton deforestation has ruined a climate or a soil, or as when the importation of rabbits for a cheap supply of food has created a plague. Observe that the violation of the Law of Thelemaproduces cumulative ills. The drain of the agricultural population to big cities, due chiefly to persuading them to abandon their natural ideals, has not only made the country less tolerable to the peasant, but debauched the town. And the error tends to increase in geometrical progression, until a remedy has become almost inconceivable and the whole structure of society is threatened with ruin. The wise application based on observation and experience of the Law of Thelemais to work in conscious harmony with Evolution. Experiments in creation, involving variation from existing types, are lawful and necessary. Their value is to be judged by their fertility as bearing witness to their harmony with the course of nature towards perfection.

This is the course of mastery, to be dutiful and live fully and freely. And by what morals do we judge this?

Read Liber Oz by AC and think on that.

Liber LXXVII"the law of
the strong:
this is our law
and the joy
of the world." AL. II. 2

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." --AL. I. 40

"thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay." --AL. I. 42-3

"Every man and every woman is a star." --AL. I. 3

There is no god but man.

1. Man has the right to live by his own law--: to live in the way that he wills to do:
to work as he will:
to play as he will:
to rest as he will:
to die when and how he will.
2. Man has the right to eat what he will:: to drink what he will:
to dwell where he will:
to move as he will on the face of the earth.
3. Man has the right to think what he will:: to speak what he will:
to write what he will:
to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:
to dress as he will.
4. Man has the right to love as he will:--: "take your fill and will of love as ye will,
when, where, and with whom ye will." --AL. I. 51
5. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.: "the slaves shall serve." --AL. II. 58

"Love is the law, love under will." --AL. I. 57

That about says it all, i'd say.

Mike Noxaura

Ventures Into My Own Mind

celticrebel — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:22:03 +0000

Outside of the scope of "research," I rarely watch any television these days. That said, there is the exception of Sunday Night. Not in the mood to drink anymore after the weekend, it has been the one night I "allow" myself to be entertained, particularly by Adult Swim's Venture Brothers. If I had to say there was one show I watched semi-regularly, that would be it. It is quirky, bizarre, immersed in oblique 80's references and actually, quite funny.

Now, I like to consider myself a smart person. Yet, here it was lying under my own "smart" nose for how long now? How many times had I seen the intro by now?

How blatant! Compass and the Square. Check. Solar symbology. Check. The only thing missing is the "G." Oh wait, right after the two brothers "high-five" each other, they shout, "Go Team Venture." Checkmate!

I'll go easy on myself though. Spent most of life sleeping, knowing something was very wrong with the world, hence "rebelling" against everything, but never taking the time to find out why. A few years of "awakeness" in comparison to a lifetime of ignorance, well it's gonna take some time. A little research (or really, just looking at the symbols with my eyes/mind open) finds more:

UN like globe. Check. UN hued blue theme. Check. A winged disc? Overkill! Just in case there is anyone left out there who may still mutter that abominable word, "coincidence," I am including the below left image for comparison to the background of the Masonic logo above.

I also stumbled across this image on the right. What the hell is that? The Roman laurels (alternately, oak leaves) are clear enough, but why is there a knife juxtaposed over the globe? Other than SOSVS being a special unit of the US Air Force (hence the imperialistic laurels are fitting), I could find nothing else on this "organization." If anyone out there knows, please chime in.

Can't I just watch 30 minutes of TV and not be "molded" or "shellacked" with symbols? Dammit! Is nothing sacred? Actually, I should probably rephrase that. A more appropriate sentiment would be: "Does everything have to be sacred?"

I may have fiddled with some of the earlier verbs too. Perhaps, I'm still somewhat in denial that I too am not immune from "mind manipulation." Though loathe to admit it, I'm sure some of the sexual ideals implanted in my head, particularly my fascination/proclivity for tall thin blonde Baltic fashion-models while living in Manhattan, may have not necessarily been ... uhm, natural?

How could I deny the arch-nemesis of Dr. Venture being The Monarch. Did it really take my delving into butterflies and monarch mind control whilst looking at I Am Legend, and the days following where I could nary leave the house without exposure to random butterflies of sorts (more on that later). The Venture Brothers is replete with more Butterfly and Skull/Bones imagery than one could find ... oh I don't know ... anywhere outside of should a trucked filled with Monarch specimens crash into the infamous Yale mausoleum. [Sorry! Am presently unable to conjure up a better metaphor.]

As Doctor Girlfriend, the Monarch's lover and super-sexual female character once confesses: "That was my mission. I seduce you. Turn you into a butterfly. And then The Monarch was gonna tie you to this huge bug-zapper thing."

I had come to accept Monarch imagery as a triple entendre, referring to the actual butterfly, mind control and on occasion, metamorphosis. Thanks to this mental venture, I've found another meaning, which again, I can't believe I had to watch this cartoon with my eyes open to get it (will clean and re-upload):

Aaaaargh! Royalty. How did I miss that? Quadruple entendre! Looking at the clip, you may also note the gray alien (alternately, Crowley's "Lam") look of the chief/controller [end of clip], the Guild/"Council of 13," or how in the balcony scene, the shadowy members of the Guild bear an uncanny resemblance to the masked revelers looking down on Tom Cruise during Eyes Wide Shut.

One of the show's quirks is the Monarch's lair, which he calls the "cocoon." He's regularly harassed about it (cause a "flying cocoon makes no sense"). While this makes for good comedy, honestly, it looks more like a beehive to me.

That (the hive) would fit in a lot better with the mind control theme I (and others) have been exploring as of late. "Turning us all into butterflies" synchs heavily with the Borg "hive-mind" metaphor from Star Trek. Resistance is not futile! [See how embedded messages are used to attack the will?] Note the coverage map of the United States (which I believe has been the testing ground for these social engineering agendas). Also, I didn't know that Utah was officially the hive-mind state, though a long-ago visit there had given me that impression. {*1}

For any fans who've yet to fathom just how immersed in the occult Venture is, let's look at magick. Yes, I chose the Alistair Crowley spelling intentionally.

One of the main characters is Dr. Byron Orpheus. He's a magician, psychic and necromancer. That's him below bringing forth the blue flame (which I recall Michael Tsarion referencing from the Hellboy movie) and the horns of Mendes. Alas, what's on the back of his cape? Nothing. Just a little pyramid.

I was at least aware enough to seriously contemplate another "interesting" character from the show: Dr. Henry Killinger. Yes, you read that correctly. The best way to describe him would be Henry Kissinger (whom he also sounds like) meets Mary Poppins (cause he flies around by using an umbrella). He walks around with his "magic murder bag" and is apparently immune to wizardry.

Far more interesting, is that while Killinger is openly feared by most, and seems extremely powerful and evil; his "evil" acts always assist whoever he's affecting find their inner self, and grow spiritually. WTF? Is this mind control or multi layered truth? [Synchs with an idea I had begun to contemplate previously, also touching on here.] Initially, the Mary Poppins connection just seemed like a good gag, and perhaps also a way of explaining the "nurturing" side of Killinger. Then, I read up on Helen Goff (aka P. L. Travers), the Mary Poppins creator, and learned she allegedly belonged to The Golden Dawn (hence, a synch back to Crowley). {*2}

There are several other characters I could expand on, but I would rather get back to the 80's thing for a second. In one of the episodes, The Monarch laments "Please don't bring up that time I was making out with Stiv Bators and Lydia Lynch." I laughed heartily, and everyone watching it with me was like, "Who?" I have to reflect how narrow a segment of people in the general population would ever get that joke? What "mass" of people is this show aimed at?

But, before I put on my own tinfoil hat and think this show is aimed square at my noggin, I'll note one episode featuring both David Bowie and Klaus Nomi. The former appears as a hero (interesting to learn that David turned down the [black] Queen's offer for knight-hood [topic from my last blog] and played Nikolai Tesla in The Prestige), and the latter as a villain (if you're unfamiliar with Klaus, you must listen to/watch this clip).

Note: Said episode (Showdown at Cremation Creek) is presently available online (Part I, Part II), and highly recommended, as it contains many of the characters and concepts I discuss herein. I think Iggy Pop's in it too.

While I'm not going to venture whether the show's intent is benevolent or nefarious, I will point out one of my favorite characters (and I'd surmise, the favorite of most fans): Brock Sampson. He is one mean son of a bitch and a man's man. The three following images round him [and my enigma] out. Sexual innuendos. Is he kicking the UN's ass? Pyramidal mayhem and destruction?

The villains in the show are all answerable to an organization named The Guild of Calamitous Intent. Brock a former OSI (OSS/CIA reference) agent and Guild operatives have a mutual professional respect for each other. In the most recent episode, which is a flashback set in the 80's, the OSI seeks to recruit some kid genius to spy on The Guild. He debates the agents:

"The Guild of Calamatous Intent? That's like a businessman's club or something."

"That's what they said about the Bilderberg Group son, and then WHAMO, the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down."

"No it hasn't!"

"Oh, it will kiddo! It was decided at the last meeting."

This scene was followed by the agents trying to wake him up: "Open your eyes kid," with Brock adding, "The real one!" That was ... uhm ... overt. Seeing that I've touched on the topic of sex again, I'll have to point out the show's even got androgyny. Dr. Girlfriend, whom I mentioned earlier, while being fully charged with sexuality and idealized form, has a huskier voice than most NFL linebackers. The image below, needs no explanation (Christopher Knowles has written many an article on the topic, and may find this of interest): {*3}

Humor or mind manipulation? I'll leave that for you to decide. My recent research has convinced me that hardly any "entertainment" is free of the latter. {*4} How many South Park fans have you seen, who in lieu of thinking for themselves, run around endlessly repeating some catch phrase from that show ("expressing themselves"). {*5}. That's not going to happen with my Venture Brothers is it? Geez, I can be so delusional at times:

Webster's helps out yet again. Fan is a stem of fanatic which means "marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion." While, as those who've been following me lately know, I've been trying to focus on the positive. However, the following animation, where one to conjecture my thoughts on the ritual act of revealing and intercising the soul, well then, a picture (and a few words) are worth a thousand words (give or take a few).

I'm sure were I to go back and check prior episodes of the show, this article may never end. I had actually intended to use this as a lead-in to the aforementioned butterfly imagery I had been coming across, thus ... to be continued.

:: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

*1: Seeing that Mormonism, is basically a religion created out of Joseph Smith combining Christianity and Freemasonry (and a little artistic license), the resulting combination replete with occult ritualistic practices, mostly performed by followers who know nothing of the origins of what they engage in (yes, like Roman Catholicism, etc.), yet are still compelled to follow, makes the "beehive" state (hive-mind) symbol ... choice! [LB]

*2: Be wary of anyone using aliases featuring initials. There's R.C. Christian of the infamous Georgia Guidestones. J.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter series (if anyone buys that yarn about her being down on her luck before coming up with this character, they you're, um, gullible). I'm sure there's dozens more should someone take the time to research. [LB]

*3: Playing within the confines of my own head at the moment is a song by The Replacements: "Here come Dick, he's wearing a skirt. Here comes Jane, y'know she's sporting a chain. Same hair, revolution. Same build, evolution. Tomorrow who's gonna fuss? And they love each other so ... androgynous." Followed synchromystically by: "Mirror image, see no damage. See no evil at all." [LB]

*4: As I surmised during a recent conversation with a friend: "Do you really think they would let the common man have access to the greatest mass mind control tool ever devised [television]? Honestly!" He was ruing how in our area, new [de facto] rules have made it far more difficult to get on the Public Access channel than it was back when he got his license. [LB]

*5: One day, I will have to devote an entire article on South Park (as I've said before, and keep saying). Truther Thoughts recently wrote a fascinating look at the four main characters as archetypes of the world's power factions. My focus will be more on how the Parker/Stone team are likely just poster children for the series (not the true minds behind it), just like Bill Gates is the poster boy for "getting rich" (alternately, "software genius") that IBM put on it's own software division. [LB]

Aleister Crowley

Josi Vice — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:23:28 +0000

Edward Alexander Crowley, conhecido como Aleister Crowley, (Warwickshire, Inglaterra, 12 de outubro de 1875 – Hastings, Inglaterra, 1 de dezembro de 1947) foi um polêmico ocultista britânico, conhecido por suas posturas controversas e pelo tarô que leva seu nome. Criou a doutrina de Thelema. Em certo momento conheceu Fernando Pessoa. Seu trabalho influenciou composições ao longo da carreira de Bandas de Rock e escritores, principalmente Iron Maiden (cujo vocalista Bruce Dickinson irá dirigir um filme sobre a história de Aleister Crowley), Beatles, Paulo Coelho, Raul Seixas, Ozzy Osbourne, Led Zeppelin (seu guitarrista e fundador Jimmy Page chegou a comprar uma mansão onde Crowley viveu) e possivelmente Rita Lee.

Edward Alexander Crowley nasceu quase à meia-noite em 12 de outubro de 1875, em Warwickshire, Inglaterra. Seu pai, rico cervejeiro, membro fervoroso de uma seita cristã, das mais puritanas, irmãos de Plymouth, impunha rigor na educação religiosa.

Aos quatro anos, Crowley lia a Bíblia e aos seis, era um exímio jogador de xadrez. Ingressou no Trinity College. Ali, aprendeu hebraico, grego e latim. Na mesma época, começou a se interessar por ocultismo. Abandonou o colégio em 1898, ano em que foi admitido na Ordem Hermética do Amanhecer Dourado (The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn G.'.D.'.), onde foi iniciado em Magia Cerimonial, Cabala, consagração de talismãs, invocação de espíritos etc.

Utilizando o pseudônimo de Aleister Crowley, começou a publicar poemas e outros textos considerados pornográficos. Esse fato, sua vida sexual publicamente desregrada e o ciúme provocado pela sua rápida ascensão da Aurora Dourada valeram-lhe a antipatia dos membros da Ordem.

"(...) ele adquiriu um apartamento em Londres usando o nome de Conde Vladmir Svaref, onde dispôs dois quartos para construir um Templo Branco e um Negro. (...) Reza a lenda, certa noite, no Templo Negro (...) ele e Bennet, envergando trajes cerimoniais, invocaram espíritos utilizando o pentagrama mágico com seu círculo traçado no chão. Acenderam os incensórios no altar e jogaram folhas de meimendro, datura e incenso, que produziram uma fumaça espessa e de aroma forte. Apareceram 316 demônios que giraram sem parar em volta do círculo sagrado."

Não demorou o rompimento espetacular com a Golden Dawn, o que teria incluído, segundo os seus seguidores, "fabulosas batalhas entre hordas demoníacas" conjuradas por Crowley contra seus inimigos e vice-versa.

Em 1900, o mago foi a Nova York e depois ao México, onde travou contato com o venerável-mestre da maçonaria local. Em viagem ao Ceilão, foi introduzido nos segredos da ioga e na filosofia budista. Em 1903, de volta à Europa, foi morar na Mansão Boleskine, localizada nos penhascos próximos ao Lago Ness, Escócia. Durante uma viagem ao Egito, conseguiu finalmente estabelecer contato com seu Anjo Guardião e concebeu a doutrina de Thelema. Em 1907, fundou a A.'.A.'., Astrum Argentum, a Ordem da Estrela de Prata.

Em meio à serie de livros que escreveu até 1911, destacou-se o Liber 777, ou Livro das Mentiras, que impressionou o líder da Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), na Alemanha, ordem que se auto-proclamava legítima herdeira dos Cavaleiros Templários. Crowley foi nomeado representante da OrdoTempli Orientis para os países de língua inglesa. Em 1920, fundou a Abadia de Thelema, na localidade de Cefalu, na Sicília, Itália. Atividades suspeitas e boatos sobre missas negras e orgias de sangue levaram a sua expulsão do local, por Mussolini, em 1923.

O envolvimento de Crowley com drogas deu-se, a princípio, por conta do consumo de morfina para fins terapêuticos, posto sofrer ele de asma. Incentivado por Alan Bennett passou a utilizar drogas para finalidades ritualísticas. Cientes do prejuízo que tal uso causava à sua saúde, lutou uma verdadeira guerra para livrar-se do vício. Ao que tudo indica, conseguiu tal intento apenas já perto do final de sua vida, quando nem mesmo a morfina utilizava mais.

Crowley dizia que o uso de drogas com finalidades magicas era lícito. Porém ressaltava que o mesmo só deveria ser tentado por alguém que tivesse uma vontade e uma disciplina firmes o bastante para não se deixar dominar pelo vício.

=== Características pessoais ===

Crowley, sem dúvida, foi um intelectual do ocultismo mas também é famoso pelo seu gosto pelo Desporto: além de ter sido um excelente enxadrista desde a infância, praticou também o ciclismo, a canoagem e sobretudo, o alpinismo, tendo realizado várias excursões aos picos da cordilheira do Himalaia.

Outro aspecto marcante de sua biografia refere-se à vida sentimental. Foram duas esposas oficiais e muitas amantes, as chamadas mulheres escarlates, todas elas parceiras de Crowley em suas operações mágicas, que as utilizava como médiuns. De seus filhos, somente a primeira, do primeiro casamento, sobreviveu. Seu nome era Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith Crowley, um panteão que reúne alegorias representativas de Justiça, Amor, Beleza, Face Negra da Lua, Poetisa, Adoradora de Ba'al e Rainha dos Demônios e dos Mundos Infernais. Quando Crowley morreu, Lilith recusou o legado literário ocultista de seu pai.

Entre outros epítetos, todos auto-atribuídos, Crowley foi chamado: Perdurabo (em latim, "Eu perdurarei até o fim"), Parzival, Baphomet (como líder da O.T.O. em países de língua inglesa), Deus est Homo (como chefe da O.T.O. mundial), "O mago das mil faces", "A Grande Besta" (To Mega Therion, em grego) ou ainda, como queriam seus detratores, "O homem mais perverso do mundo".

Durante a II Guerra Mundial, Ian Fleming e outros propuseram uma operação de desinformação na contra propaganda de guerra, em que Crowley teria ajudado o MI6,serviço secreto britanico como agente especial para atrair o oficial nazista Rudolf Hess,segundo no comando dentro do poder na Alemanha junto ao lider Adolph Hitler.Crowley junto com Louis de Wohl,nascido na alemanha, e recrutado durante a Guerra pelo MI6 britanico, um ocultista e supostamente um membro "Lantern do The Seven Circle",supostamente ,ambos ajudaram ao serviço secreto inglês e na criação do plano de ocultismo,desenvolvendo horóscopos e diversos documentos falsos para ludibriar os nazistas. Crowley ,acreditasse também que tenha se utilizado de acrônimo de Maskmelin[1],um mágico e mestre secreto da "The Seven Circle"[2] ,denominado pelo codename Secret Agent 777,uma referencia baseda na Qabalistica escrita pelo próprio Aleister Crowley numa coleção , editada e introduzida pelo Dr. Israel Regardie .Tanto Crowley,Ian Fleming,e outros infiltrados agentes faziam parte de uma Operação desenvolvida baseada no livro “Flying Visit” de 1940 ilustrado por David Low, — uma humoristica novela sobre a visita a Inglatrra por Adolf Hitler-,escrito pelo irmão mais velho de Fleming,também um agente infiltrado cognominado por “Lantern” nos Serviços Secretos da organização MI6,que poderiam então passar ao longo informações falsas sobre uma alegada pró-alemão círculo na Grã-Bretanha.O governo britanico abandonou esse plano quando Hess voou para a Escócia, falhando o seu avião sobre o próximo Eaglesham mouros, e foi capturado. Fleming então sugeriu usar Crowley como um interrogador para determinar a influência da astrologia com outros líderes nazistas, mas seus superiores rejeitaram esse plano. Em algum momento, Fleming também sugeriu que a Grã-Bretanha poderia usar Linguagem enoquiana como um código, a fim de planta provas.

Outro esquema envolvendo Crowley com o já famoso "Ritual das Bruxas". Este era destinado a Hitler e os nazistas do alto comando para evitar a invasão da Inglaterra. Importa agora de que este foi elaborado um hoax para enganar Hitler, que acreditava na feitiçaria e nos poderes do oculto. O ritual teve lugar em Ashdown Forest, Crowbourgh em Sussex, e os ocultistas a serviços de Aleister Crowley e seu filho Amado Crowley.Uma rede de infiltrados agentes do oculto ou "Lantern's', entre eles o famoso cultista amigo de Crowley, um também membro da The Seven Circle, Cecil Hugh Williamson[3].Williamson foi o fundador do Centro de Pesquisa Witchcraft na Segunda Guerra Mundial, e o Museu de bruxaria em Castletown sobre a Ilha de Man[4]. Em 1938, ele foi convidado a ser o cabeça de uma secção especial do MI6, anexado ao Foreign Office. Seu objetivo foi o de recolher e assimilar as informações sobre os nazistas e magia .A fim de facilitar a Operação Witchcraft, ele formou o Centro de Pesquisa, tendo Crowley como um importante agente duplo. Uma parte de sua estratégia, foi a de determinar em que o alto comando nazista seria influenciado pela astrologia, e superstições previsões (em particular as de Nostradamus)[5]. Isto foi feito através do estudo da grafologia e outros métodos.O mago Gerald Gardner,um discipulo de Crowley e fundador da Wicca, alega que ele e seu novo coven, local de feitiçaria , onde são denvolvidas o ritual,que teve lugar no New Forrest, Hampshire. Segundo Gardner, talvez Crowley e seu coven foi realizado num ritual semelhante, mas não sob os auspícios e apoio dos governos na época ou mesmo do MI6 .

Aleister Crowley faleceu em 1 de dezembro de 1947, aos 72 anos, em decorrência da fragilização de seu estado de saúde causado pela asma crônica que o atormentava.

Alguns de seus mais influentes livros incluem:

* The Book of the Law
* Magick (Book 4)
* The Book of Lies
* The Vision and the Voice
* Liber 777
* The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
* Magick Without Tears
* Little Essays Toward Truth
* The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King
* Aleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary