Unicursal IN MY MOUTH BE THE ESSENCE OF THE LIFE OF THE SUN Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information hermetic.com/informa... #propaganda #mouth #essence #life #sun #eucharist #GnosticMass

This is huge:

Some #equinox musings, if you missed them: #thelema #witchsky #occultsky

I spent too much time trying to figure out how I should approach this one. Below is an image from JFC Fuller. Some 20 years after this painting he would become fascist. Even when he was close to Crowley he pretty deep into chudhood. But the image is still instructive, so I want to highlight it.

Sorry folks I'm still (and likely will be for a long while) preaching my way through Tantraloka. I'll try to reserve some energy for posting, which is hard when the only relevant news is hot gossip/drama, between the daily deterioration of the fabric of political life.

Marketa Leupoldova has created a gorgeous set of photos celebrating the Yakuts, an indigenous people of eastern Siberia known for their traditions in shamanism and animal deities including Uluu Suorun (the Great Raven). Model: Aldana Duoraan #art #beautifulbizarre

I dunno who needs to hear this but if someone is offering insights in the style of the image on the left, but cannot articulate in clear simple terms what is intended by Chumbley's illustrations in Azoetia like the one on the right, they should be summarily dismissed.

The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld #OmniumGatherum library.hrmtc.com/20...

A favorite. You can watch it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQfU...

Grady may not have been, like, ideal. But the more time passes the more it feels like the Music Lawyer is a pale shadow in comparison to the Drunk Poet.

Thoughts from a recent meditation: "Love is to identify the Other with the Self."

Yet another image of Gerald Yorke, this time care of Pete Koenig.

Both can be true. I’m still grateful a faction of SRIA nerds embraced comasonry. Now if only the UGLE etc would get the memo. That or the GOdF would finally assert a stronger presence outside the continent.

Occult artists that are women > their much more famous partners that write

Been noticing a bunch racking up recently. Sabazius starting Substack in $current_year, Kaczynski talking with Jason Louv and Peter Grey, Kaminsky / Occult of Personality featuring an apparently manosphere book … and this, and everything. Just, ugh.

Nigel Jackson is a very interesting character to me. These cards were clearly devised while he was still an active practitioner of Witchcraft. Chumbley's fingerprints are all over the symbolism in this deck which was around the time of Pillars of Tubal Cain.

in Middle English — the language of Chaucer and the author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* — the word "concept" was spelled "conceit" 🙂 🙏

I'm consistently disappointed with the quality of public discussion of the sexual mysteries of the OTO, even from bona fide outlets. The relevant material has been extremely public for half a century and the facts are not terribly difficult to collate together.

don't make me tap the sign, sfgate

There’s some incredibly funny and humanizing stuff in the microfilms. “Babe, we can’t be together, u love Karl Germer more than me”. Truly, Crowley was God’s cuntiest soldier sometimes. Girl, go to therapy. #witchsky #occultsky #thelema

This but unironically. Resh is foundational, fellow Aspirants.

The mystery traditions feature heavily the images and rituals of death. Often these are explained as gateways to new life, understood as a promise of an afterlife. Actually the point is not immortality, but that by preparing you for death, they teach you how to live.

Hermes psychopompos- with his caduceus staff- he is a guide to the souls in the afterlife. From the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. My photo, British Museum.

A rare 19th century text from the early pagan revival made freely available for the first time!

A meditation on Tiphareth today:

This is something that kills me about the Church of Satan in particular. "We invented Satanism". <- this is probably big news for people like the French Diabolists from the 17-19th C. organizing grimoires with Lucifer veneration protocols.

The Satipatthana Sutta www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/...

This is in response to you whipping your dick out and going on anti-communist screeds in a thread about 75 year old bus stops. As someone with actual initiatory links to Parsons, you're an absolute fucking disgrace to his legacy. Take his name out of your mouth and fuck off.

I beg you to stop conflating Thelema and Satanism. I also beg you to realize the Satanic Temple is a group of right wing grifters who have suckered the internet.

“… he may make severe the ordeals.” ~Liber L vel Legis 1:38

The work of the angel on the being of the aspirant can begin long before they become aware of the fact. However, over time signs may appear, the name of the angel being one. For context, I received the name while a probationer, but had been an occultist for nearly 20 years by that time.

If we take the orthodox history of Liber L vel Legis, it would seem that Crowley heard the name Aiwass after he claimed Adeptus Minor (1900), and anchored it to Adeptus Major (1904). He did not write Liber VII until 1907, at which point he starts claiming Magister Templi. Now, by then,

Look I had a couple of mezcals and things got wild. Whomst among us?

finna get this printed

I understand not just the pride aspect & also the legal mandate to aggressively defend copyright, but there comes a point where groups like the OTO become legal funds standing between you and fresh & accessible editions of the Prophet’s writing, and it feels like we’ve been past it for a long time.

Both more amusing and probably more accurate than passing around the dubious as hell Yeates/Crowley story for the ninth time this year:

This is the way:

Last week I had the opportunity to teach an intro course on some topics in global religion that I think have been of interest to Thelema for some decades but few have seemed to try immersing themselves within. Recent events have caused these topics to become better understood and

Part of the issue is that the platform is still rough around the edges for posting anything vaguely longform which most of these discussions require. It is not easy to see up esoteric talking points in 300 characters. There’s plenty to come, though.

“Communication is only possible between equals.” — Robert Anton Wilson.

Guys I hope it's not insufficiently left to say this, but we really don't need a bunch of people who can't outline the contents & contours of (for example) the Pali Canon or the European grimoire traditions to gatekeep what's "traditional spirituality" or woo, and what isn't.

I’ve spent the last month drafting ritual scripts from newly translated/arranged 10th C. texts and hopefully I’ll have some of these actually squared away sooner rather than later.

Greater Feast of Wilfred T Smith, died April 27, 1957 at Malibu, California hermetic.com/hermene... #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

Of the Divine itself, no person can think. And so I’ll abandon everything that I can think, and choose for my love that thing that I can’t think. Because That may be loved well, but not thought. By love That may be had and held; but by thought neither. ~ *The Cloud of Unknowing,* ch. 6

Question: for those that would start down the A.’.A.’. path but face barriers, roadblocks, or other things that discouraged you, what were the biggest obstacles, and what would help?

I know "religion" is a scary word for many, but I think religions have a lot of power to effect positive change in the world up until they become the power structure itself, then they turn real shitty. That's part of the reason I find the quest for respectability so distasteful in my coreligionists.

This ‘hieroglyph’ by Athanasius Kircher (1602-80) shows correspondences between parts of Pan’s (or Jupiter’s) body and aspects of the cosmos. The ruddiness of Pan’s face symbolizes cosmic heat, and his pipes correspond to the harmony of the planets. 🎨 ‘Obeliscus Pamphilius’ (1650)