"Matthew says he was taken to Egypt as an infant (for a grossly improbable reason) and as a small boy was brought to Nazareth. His opponents say he went to Egypt as a young man, looking for work, and learned magic there. The early elements of the gospels say nothing of his having been in Egypt, but contain accounts of many magical proceedings that ( Read more... )

I wonder if Crowley anywhere in his published works, and other than the Tunis Comment, which I maintain contains its own second esoteric meaning, where in his voluminous writings does he explicitly state something like this: "You may study this book, but never talk about those studies." Many thelemites are of this opinion and say Crowley made ( Read more... )

Sheriff Taylor, you made this all too cold world a brighter, warmer place. It was all about Love!

The Soul in and of the Work. She is said to be the source of Water for the rest of the Arcana, and indeed it is so! Water downward goes, the movement of Soul is the dimension of depth, and in this she is most excellent.
Her crown is a reflection of the supernal triad, with the mysterious Daath as its diadem. She is the Soul in at-one-ment. Being ( Read more... )

C.R.C. Lived to be 105yrs old.
Into the temple go I,
though not alone am I!
He who holds my hand from
the inside out is with me.

Up on the roof with  boyfriend to view partial eclipse. Since we knew apogee took an hour, we were able to tell what time it was by viewing. That was a cool kinda, ancient man, experience. Anyway, with my Sun and Moon conjunct I figure I should not miss these celestial events. My Grandmother came and visited me while I was up there too! Say ( Read more... )

Doug, I and our friend Karen went to the Grand Canyon this weekend to view the solar eclipse in its full annularity. I had never been to the Grand Canyon, add to that a full solar eclipse and, well, its beauty beyond words. I had, of course, viewed pictures of the G.C. and my first classical piece I ever heard was Grand Canyon Suite, I think by ( Read more... )

Half awake, first few sips of coffee, pretending to read FB, I lite upon this conversation 'tween mother and daughter: ""The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye." Mom replies: "‎"and sailed back ( Read more... )

Cookie, the beautiful white ferret is gone. We will cry tonight and bury her tomorrow.
And as far as you go Death: Be Not Proud.

"Great is their number who perhaps had attained to perfection, had they not already thought themselves perfect."

Thomas Vaughn