soz replied to the topic The word of the equinox in the forum Thelema
Fall 1947: brilliance (according to Augustus John, quoting a letter from Crowley in Chiaroscuro, Jonathan Cape, 1952, p. 82): … 27 September, 1947… The greetings of the Equinox of Autumn! The Word of...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic here's a poem about everybody's favorite subject in...
Really nice- I quite enjoyed that
View Articlesoz replied to the topic The New Qabbala in the forum Private
Hope this isn’t too pestilential- I’m one of those who interprets TOBTL differently: II:53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art emphatically my chosen; and...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic The Chess Master Mikhail Botvinnik in the forum Private
I’m a chess player (USCF rated expert) and there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Crowley was a strong chess player. I estimate his playing strength was around 2300-2400 (FIDE master level).
View Articlesoz replied to the topic No More Heroes in the forum Crowley Clippings
that brings back memories, a year in Canterbury in the late seventies, “whatever happend to/ Leon Trotsky.. the great Elmyra, and Sancho Panza (lol). The thinking man’s working-class occult Doors; I’m...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic No More Heroes in the forum Crowley Clippings
um, I meant to write “heady days” and “Kill Your Pet Puppy”, I think I’ll stagger off into the arms of Morpheus for a while. a long while.
View Articlesoz replied to the topic What's the novelty? in the forum Thelema
To call Thelema an “ideology” is to miss the point a bit, in my view. Looking at the _Holy Books of Thelema_, I consider them to be both unique and completely new, and beyond comparison to any previous...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Crowley's homosexuality in the forum Biography
Crowley had a much deeper understanding of desire than most of us do, and of the sexually repressive nature of middle-class Victorian England. When he was in public school he was hit on by repressed...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Crowley's homosexuality in the forum Biography
I don’t agree. It’s reasonably clear from reading the Confessions that the loves of Crowley’s lives were female, and it’s beyond the shadow of a doubt that he wasn’t gay.
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Revelations in Liber AL in the forum Thelema
I haven’t read the entirety of the original thread, so my apologies if this has already been gone over. Something I find fascinating are the descriptions Crowley gives of who or what Aiwass is in...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Revelations in Liber AL in the forum Thelema
I hit the Submit button a bit early, and should add 4. A very sweeping claim, as in the second quote: “The proof of His praeterhuman nature… is partly external, depending on the concealment of… (c) of...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Crowley & Enochian Chess in the forum Chess Master
AFAIK, Enochian chess is/was used for divination, spiritual initiation, and magic (actively influencing the world(s)). The Golden Dawn did not use it as a strategy game. Mathers wrote the “Original...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Wikipedia's "On This Day..." in the forum Crowley...
There is an appeals process, but if it’s to be done it would be better if it were done by someone disinterested who has a prior editing history on Wikipedia. Paul probably couldn’t do it, since it’s...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Is Thelema not so different? in the forum Thelema
I dunno. I see a lot of people making assumptions about the intentions of what other people say, in what one might gently refer to as “ego involvement”. Reading back to the beginning of the discussion,...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Is Thelema not so different? in the forum Thelema
Per contra: If one is an artist or poet or mystic then dreams, fantasies and various non-immanent states of consciousness are often not only important to doing one’s will, but crucial. If a visionary...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Politics and Thelema in the forum Thelema
"name538" wrote: …each race can express it’s[sic] true nature and purpose, then each cog will fit into place Your theories fascinate me. Each race has its true nature and purpose… "name538" wrote: If...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Your favourite Liber AL verse in the forum Thelema
Verse 1:26 really sends chills down my spine I:26 Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic LAShTAL Online Chess Tournament in the forum Stuff
Sure, count me in (to a regular-style chess tournament)
View Articlesoz replied to the topic Thelemic approach to treatment of addiction? in the...
I think that part of a Thelemic approach to treating addiction to opiates, for example, would involve using science. Not that it’s particularly easy to kick but from what I hear it’s much easier now as...
View Articlesoz replied to the topic On this day in history in the forum News Articles
Awesome. Thanks for posting this, and looking forward to more.
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