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Manic Depression...
Rough day today, work was good, though difficult with my back being out. But after I got off work, I went and saw a chiropractor, who looked me over and just kept saying, "wow... hrm.... yeah, WOW!" Telling me that my back, and my shoulders and my hips are all out of alignment, measuring me and telling me that I way a full 25lbs heavier on my right ( Read more... ) -
Another "Arabic Hermes" brain dump...
It is unfortunate that this work doesn’t delve deeply into any of the actual texts attributed to the character known as Hermes Trismegistus; though, in the introduction the author tantalizingly alludes to a companion work titled “The Arabic Hermetica” which will in fact deal solely with THAT! This work however is titled “The Arabic Hermes,” and ( Read more... ) -
The Arabic Hermes:
So, I picked up a new book yesterday, or rather, Sondra got me one for my birthday. It's called The Arabic Hermes, and its written by the Assistant Professor of Classics at USC. It is a very scholarly read that details, (as far as I can tell) the transmission of the writings known as the Hermetica to the Persian and Arabic world; the nations that ( Read more... ) -
An Electrical fire in my kitchen!
So what the hell happened???
Sylan was cooking bacon, no differently than we've ever done before when all of the sudden there was a popping sound and a giant blue flame burst from the heating element on the stove and send red hot embers flying through the air. Sondra and Dylan were both there in the kitchen when it happened, Dylan was closer and ( Read more... ) -
Here are the notes on Gunther's chapter "Christeos Lucifitas"
SIDE NOTE:
IAO=Yod, Aleph, Vav= 17
17=The Star=Heh
Heh=The Great Mother who hides the three mother letters (Aleph and Mem and Shin totaling 341) in the Great Name: AHIHVH, which unites AHIH and IHVH. (Microprosipus and Macroprosipus)
The total innumeration of that name then, substituting the three Heh’s for the mother letters is then 358, the ( Read more... ) -
On second thought...
It doesn't often happen that I have occasion to get less then a 24 hour turn-around once I've made a decision about somthing, at least not when I am in the wrong. Typically I am way too stubborn and self absorbed for that ( Read more... ) -
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And yeah, I don;t think I'll ever figure out these damn LJ cuts. -
Initiation in the Aeon of the Child:
So far so good. It is a decent read. Much better than I was expecting from the conversations I had with folks about it up to this point. Till now, every conversation I had about it, (and I am fully aware of how limited those interactions were) went something like this
Me: "Have you read Initiation in the Aeon of the Child."
Them: "Yeah! OMG, its ( Read more... ) -
The scariest night of my life...
Friday August 27th 2010 was the single scariest evening of my life ( Read more... ) -
Further readings on Agrippa...
...since my post last night, I've read Nauert's description of the 1510 edition of Three Books of Occult Philosophy, before Agrippa's trip to Italy, and its difference from the later 1534 edition ( Read more... )