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it's funny when people misread RAW, the original anti-Da-Vinci-Code-style conspiracy theory writer, as "another da vinci code lecture." Helps to realize that RAW wrote Illuminatus! in the seventies, about the sixties, and there was no talk of da vinci codes at the time. He wrote several volumes (esp. the Cosmic Trigger trilogy) of informed and ( Read more... )

DuQuette is an explanatory force as a post-Crowleyan interpreter of Tarot and "Solomonic" magic ( Read more... )

Question 90. The taking of God's name by way of adjuration

1. Is it lawful to adjure a man?
2. Is it lawful to adjure the demons?
3. Is it lawful to adjure irrational creatures?

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more alchemy images

1911 Iamblichus translation

Aleister Crowley course at "DeCal" this spring
crofton black article on ricius and christian kabbalah
nice big image of the pico/cusa/PD 3x3 cosmos diagram
found googling cosmic harmony images (kircher fludd etc)
last section of Iamblichus' On the Mysteries
Idries Shah and another guy on teaching ( Read more... )

In the Oration on the Dignity of Man, when Pico talks about man's position as unfixed he is couching this freedom within Aristotelian concept of form, applied as Thomas does Neoplatonically to the Angelic Mind

I want to explore the way Dionysius impacts the thinking of Pico, his methods of reasoning about philosophy and the angels, as well as the angelic content. thomas heped explain the Aristotelian Theology and original metaphyics of Dionysius. Iamblichus had recently been discovered, and Proclus already well studied by people like Cusa who ( Read more... )

have been getting interesting results looking at the ars notoria ( Read more... )

I need to spend more time in the office of my angelic advisor
the tricky part is remembering how to find the door to the office
not supposed to wear perfumes or make myself tasty beforehand