~ OCTOBER 19th - 31st, 2008 ~
(the latest entries are always added to the top)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - AL I:40
Friday October 31st 2008 - 5:00pm You just don't realize how much Shit Happens in the world until it is sent to you ... :/
4:15am HAPPY WEENIE DAY! ... I have a fun Halloween Story that took place on October 31, 1938. Grady Louis McMurtry loved telling a story about a Halloween Party in 1938 which was attended by numerous science fiction types at Clifton’s Cafeteria in southern California. He recalled that there was, according to his words, “this idiot running up and down on the other side of the table,” a long conference table in the center of the room. The person was trying very hard to hide and would crawl along the floor and jump up whenever some one approached. He was wearing a horrible Halloween mask and was trying to scare everyone, especially the girls. However, no one was impressed, he wasn’t well hidden and everyone saw him crawling around the floor. Most saw him simply as an annoyance. After awhile the mask came off and who did it turn out to be? None other than a young Ray Bradbury! Years later, around 1981, when the opportunity arose to ask Ray Bradbury if the story was true. Bradbury wrote, “My God, yes, I remember Grady McMurtry, and of course what he remembers is true. Ray Harryhausen made a mask of my face and from that made a latex horror mask which I wore to the Paramount Theatre on Halloween of 1938 to see Bob Hope in The Cat and the Canary.” Bradbury continues by saying, “... Grady was probably with us when, on occasion, during the movie, I popped the mask on and shoved my face over people’s shoulders in various rows. I was 18 at the time, so I guess I may be forgiven.” Thursday October 30th 2008 – 10:45pm Ricardo Flores sent in a bunch of 'new' Shit Happens statements. Check them out. Thanks Ricardo, love them!
7:00am For the history buffs: I didn't get anything ready today, maybe later ... if I get the time, I'll post something.Wednesday October 29th 2008 – 7:20am For the history buffs: James (Jemmy) Hirst died on this date at the age of 91 in 1829. He was an eccentric British bloke who wore a red coat with blue sleeves, harlequin breeches, a glossy waistcoat made of drakes feathers’ and a huge lambskin hat, a full three yards in circumference. In his Last Will and Testament he left £12 for 12 old grisly maids to carry him to his grave, with £5 for a piper and a fiddler to play as they carried him to his final resting place in the churchyard. He had been born in Rawcliffe, England in 1738, the son of a wealthy farmer. As a young man he felt the need to train one of his father’s bulls named Jupiter to be a mount for riding like a horse and for pulling his wickerwork carriage. However, when Jupiter found it difficult to pull the carriage, Hirst added a huge mast which he then fitted with sails but this was not an altogether wise move. On one particularly windy day it forced the carriage and bull out of control to crash through a shop window, earning him a ban from the town of Pontefract. If this was the only eccentric thing he did he would have been forgotten but he also tried to train an otter to fish for him for which he claimed success. Others point out that getting an otter to catch the fish wasn’t out of the ordinary but getting it to let go of the fish was a bit hard. Hirst also hunted by using pigs instead of dogs as pointers. The list of eccentricities goes on and on. When he finally married his housekeeper, he wore a toga and decided that the ceremony should be conducted in sign language. …...…. Joseph Goodavage was born on this date in Philadelphia, PA in 1925. His first book, Astrology: A Space Age Science, was published in 1966, and Write Your Own Horoscope followed in 1968, to name but a few of his books. Goodavage passed away on April 14, 1989, in Kansas City after battling heart disease for many years. …....... also, on October 29, 1949, after being admitted into the hospital, apparently too late, G. I. Gurdjieff died but “Four hours after his death, his forehead was still warm. And when J. G. Bennett stood alone beside the body in the chapel of the American Hospital, he could hear someone breathing - even when he held his breath and closed his eyes. He suspected Gurdjieff of a last practical joke.” In truth, he was dead and thus ended the life of the man whom the British press call a “fakir and shit.” The Times magazine described him as a “remarkable blend of P. T. Barnum, Rasputin, Freud, Groucho Marx and everybody’s grandfather.” …...….. also, Vera Stacey Wainwright died on this date in 1967. She was a woman whose poetry appeared in a book titled Poems & Masks; the ‘Masks’ were drawings done by Austin Osman Spare, whom was introduced to her by Victor Neuberg during World War Two. …...…. And finally, on this date in 1997, Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder of the First Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Bible, died of cardiac arrest in, of all places, the Christian hospital of St. Mary’s in San Francisco. His death certificate incorrectly lists the date of his death as October 31. In 1956 he had purchased the old Victorian house on California Street in San Francisco’s Richmond district and painted it black. It was reputed to have been a den of iniquity and a speakeasy. It would become home to the Church of Satan. After his death, the house remained unoccupied, fell into disrepair and was finally demolished on October 17 of 2001.
Tuesday, October 28th 2008 – 3:30pm Luna writes, "THANK YOU for the new Grady stuff on your site. I still have no freaking idea why I am connected to "grady"...but I am...and when I read things by him...with his jargon and style...it somehow calms me down, and helps me to tune into the bay area dreamcatcher... thanks Jerry...."
3:20pm Robert Flores writes, "Hey the articles look great!"2:00pm Frank writes, "WOW! More! More! More! Love the Grady stuff. Give us more."12:40pm The fourth article in the series FROM THE CALIPH, which first appeared in The Magickal Link, Volume 1I, No.1 January 1982, is now on-line. 12:20pm The third article in the series FROM THE CALIPH, which first appeared in The Magickal Link, Volume 1, No.12 December 1981e.v., is now on-line. 11:15am The second article in the series FROM THE CALIPH, which first appeared in The Magickal Link, Volume 1, No.11 November 1981e.v., is now on-line. Again, thanks to Frater Orpheus.10:30am We are beginning to up-load and add a lengthy series of talks that Frater Hymenaeus Alpha 777 (Grady Louis McMurtry) did here in Berkeley which were later transcribed and published. The series is titled FROM THE CALIPH. The first installment appeared in The Magickal Link, Volume 1 No.10 Oct.1981e.v.. I wish to thank Frater Orpheus for making this page, and other pages, possible. It is our aim to make as much of Grady's material available as possible.7:06am And I should like to mention that my dear friend Miguel Walters was born on this date in 1969. - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! - Out of curiosity, I looked into my 1969 diary to see if I had an entry for Oct. 28th and I did - all it says is “Spent day with Patty. Sex, sex & more sex. I hated to go home.” … and who knew, on the same day, a baby would be born in Brooklyn, New York and we’d meet up years later in California! I guess it could be said that we were both immersed in a vagina on that day, both looking at it from a different point-of-view! :)7:00am For the history buffs: Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh was born in London into a comfortable middle-class family on October 28th 1903. The first inkling of any interest in Crowleyism on Waugh’s part appeared in a short story that he wrote in 1933 titled A Step Off The Map, subtitle: An Experiment Begun in Shaftesbury Avenue and Ended in Time. It was published in Harper’s Bazaar (London) in December of 1933. It was later edited and released in a book titled Mr Loveday’s Little Outing and other Sad Stories (1936). It was also renamed Out of Depth. The story describes a dinner party attended by an American whose name, believe it or not, is Rip van Winkle. In this story there is another character named Doctor Kakophililos, which is Greek for a “Lover of Evil.” Dr. Kakophililos is said to be “a great magician” and is described as “an elderly man, quite bald, with a vast white face that spread down and out far beyond the normal limits.” This doctor always replies in a typical Crowley fashion - “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” …..... and finally, Albert Karl Theodore Reuss died on this date in 1923. He was a singer, druggist, journalist and possibly even a spy for the Prussian Police. He claimed to have used a charter supplied to him by John Yarker to establish a “Masonic Academy” which became known as the Ordo Templi Orientis or O.T.O. Reuss was Aleister Crowley‘s predecessor as the Head of the O.T.O., who had attempted to revive the Order of the Illuminati in Munich and Berlin. Monday October 27th 2008 – 6:25am The 'ENLIGHTMENT QUIZ' is now back on-line. TAKE IT! Send me your results!
6:00am I would officially like to announce that my FOR SALE section is back up and running. YEA!!! This section will include books, magazine, LPs, other misc & etc from my storage area and apartment; or in others words - anything and everything. The LINK is off to the right of this page at the top in the white box. ... Anyway, after my last computer crash I lost quite a pages items on my website, luckily nothing too important but it did jumbled my for sale section and I’ve had to go back and reconstruct everything from scratch. What a nightmare! ... Now, many, and I mean many, of the originally items have been drastically reduced. I also hope to start updating a lot of new items all week long, almost daily if permitted. At the moment I got about two hundred things to add and it'll take awhile to catalogue everything.5:55am I announced last week that those wishing to 'smell' the HOLY TOASTcan come to my apartment on Friday night October 24th and for $1.00 donation they would be entitled a 'sniff' of the toast ... and like lemmings they came. If you want to learn more about this Sacred Gathering, click HERE ... and discover how the laughing god is the most dangerous god. ... and I want to thank Mick Roche for supplying us with this page.5:45am For the history buffs: The Norwegian, Olaf Jansen, whose story was told in a book called The Smokey God, was born on this date in 1811. He and his father had traveled into the hollow earth and spent time living with a race of giants, stating that, “my experiences make Marco Polo look like a piker.” ...……. And the noted World War I military tank expert, J. F. C. Fuller, signed the Oath of Probationer and joined Aleister Crowley’s AAon this date in 1910. He also wrote the now classic book titled The Star in the West, A Critical Essay upon the Works of Aleister Crowley (1907. …..…. Also, Patricia Crowther was born Pratricia Dawson on this date in 1927 in Sheffield, England. Her family lived next door to a palmist named Madame Melba, who predicted that Patricia would later develop great clairvoyancy powers and follow in the foot steps of her great-grand mother, who had been a herbalist, clairvoyant, and fortuneteller. She inevitably ended up into the Old Religion, or witchcraft and was a High Priestess initiated by Gerald B. Gardner in 1960. She is considered by some to be Gardner’s spiritual heir, and has formed many flourishing covens throughout the United Kingdom. …..…. And finally, on Ocotber 27, 1942 Aleister Crowley recorded the First and Second Enochian Calls on a phonograph. Sunday October 26th 2008 – 1:45am For the history buffs: Gilles de Rais died on this date in 1440. He was a Marshal of France, one of the richest and bravest noblemen in the land, very cultured, sophisticated and supposedly a pious man. His chief claim to fame was that he fought by the side Joan of Arc. Years later, after his own arrest, his ecclesiastical accusers claimed that Gilles de Rais was a ‘heretic, sorcerer, sodomite, invocator of evil spirits, diviner, killer of innocents, apostate from the faith, idolater.’ Many historians claim that they fabricated the case against him and point out that his crimes only became ‘known’ when his servants were tortured until adequate evidence was given against their master. De Rais himself was then tortured and supposedly made a full and ready confession, not only to the 140 murdered children, of which he was charged but to the murder of at least 800. Predictably, de Rais was found guilty and in a show of public contrition and humility he begged forgiveness from the parents of the children he admitted to slaughtering. Like his beloved Joan of Arc before him, he was sentenced to death by fire. But as an act of mercy’ for not recanting his confession, he was first garroted to death before being thrown on the flames - “that the fire should not kill him but was shown a pity.” ……. And Constant Martin Chevillon was born on this date in 1880. He was the head of the European Masonic FUDOSI (Federation Universelle Des Ordres et Societes Initiatiques) who spoke openly on Masonic subjects and wrote several books in addition to countless articles on a great variety of other topics. His religious, or ecclesiastical name, was Tau Harmonius. He openly spoke against Herbert Spencer Lewis and AMORC, whom he believed was a fraud. On March 22, 1944 Chevillon was executed by the Gestapo by firing-squad. It was no secret that Nazis were dealing hard on movements which they felt would pose a threat to their new Reich, among those were chiefly Masonic orders. ……... And it was on October 26, 1910 thay Aleister Crowley performed The Rite of Jupiter of Eleusis in Caxton Hall. …..... and finally, on October 26, 1982 Sybil Leek died at the age of 65 in Florida after a long battle with cancer. One report of her death has it that a train derailed near to her Melbourne home and dosed her with a toxic gas which had caused her illness. She will be remember as a remarkable woman of many accomplishments, a gifted Psychic, Astrologer and Writer who did much to influence the revival of the modern day witchcraft movement. Aleister Crowley supposedly said to her as a young child that “This is the one who will take up where I leave off”, adding “You’d better remember that, young lady. You’ll hear all sorts of things said about me and they’ll say the same things about you, but I shall have broken the ground for you.”
Saturday October 25th 2008 – 7:30am For the history buffs: M. Gerard Encausse, aka Papus, joined the French army medical corps when World War I first broke out. Sadly, while working in a military hospital, he contracted tuberculosis and died on this date on 1916 at the age of 51. He was the man, whom it has been written, who had a “... willingness to confer and receive high sounding but meaningless occult dignities.” ……… And it was on October 25, 1962 that the O.H.O. of the Ordo Templi Orientis, successor of Aleister Crowley, Karl Germer, he shed his earthly vehicle. He died of prostate cancer. His successor, Grady Louis McMurtry, wrote that “... surgeons had made the incision at the level of the Lower Penal Sign known to our Order, found that the cancer was inoperable, sewed him up, and sent him home to die. Naturally Sacha was completely incapable of changing the bandages, the wound became infected, he was taken back to the hospital, and it was while the nurses were trying to clean him that he died screaming.”
Friday October 24th 2008 – 10:50am The last parody that I'm up-loading today is ALEISTER CROWLEY'S 1947 DIARIES. This was the least successful of all the parodies because there were more 'inside jokes' than you could shake a stick at. If you still want to read it anyways, click HERE.
10:35am Yes it's true, I found an old disk with most of the old parodies that I have thought long lost. All I had to do was up-load them and format. Here is the latest; Aleister Crowley's MISSING CHAPTER to Magick Without Tears ... Click HERE and groan.10:25am Jerri writes, "93! Jerry, I am crying over here!! A Liber worth 15 cents? Hysterical. It is truely a gem and is the only way I'll ever perform the mass again-robed in my 'easy access' cat woman costume, equiped with brass ashtray in one hand and a beer in the other! You must have pissed off a couple few people with this... Finally, women on the Saints list? Hehehe... $ The Community Hordes of Travesty bless you. 93 93/93 Jerri." ... Reply: David Scriven, aka Frater Sabaziass, has yet to talk to me since the day he first read it! I guess its the 'Riverside' comment that hit too close to home! 9:45am Since the day that Aleister Crowley first established the Sacred Order known as A.'.A.'. back around 1907 people have been trying to discover the meaning behind the double 'As' ... is it Argentium Astrum, or Astron Argon, or maybe even Atlantean Adepts? ... but I say nay, they all wrong ... the letters represent the Automobile Association. Read the Great Beast's orginal first draft for Liber Causae and discover the truth : Liber LXI vel Causeway. 9:15am OK, I'm really ashamed of myself. I went and did it ... I have posted Liber worth Fifteen Cents, THE REAL GNOSTIC CATHOLIC MASSE of the AMERICAN O.T.O. back on-line. Click HERE. 8:25am When I first wrote and released THE MILKMAN LETTERS back in 1994 I thought a few people might find them amusing and we'd all have a good laugh but I was not expecting the number of letters from idiots around the world who thought the correspondence between the milkman Michael Phillip Rae and Aleister Crowley were actually real! Then, when I began compiling the biographical sketches of people who knew Crowley for RED FLAME No.3 issue titled The Friend & Acquaintance of Aleister Crowley (1996) the imp side of me chuckled and I tried to pull a fast one. Although all the biographical sketches were of real people, I slipped in a bogus one about Michael Phillip Rae to keep the 'myth' alive that he was an actual person. [I am so ashamed of myself at times] I thought it would be funny but the Editorial Staff on Red Flame thought otherwise and they requested that the biograhical sketch of Rae be pulled and it was ... be that as it may, if you enjoyed The Milknan Letters you'll enjoy Rae's biography ... click HERE.8:10am I have also posted in the parody section a piece called HOUSE RULES... These 'House Rules' were actually located on a plaque at Netherwoods in Hasting at the boarding house in which Aleister Crowley spent his last few years. Although it is believed that he did not write such, his presence there must have inspired them. They're kinda silly but amusing; click HERE to read them ...8:00am I also located on the same old disk THE DEGREE STRUCTURE OF THE OTO which includes the secret 'Hidden Truths' per each degree. This parody actually appeared in my mail in an unmarked envelope back in 1987. It was later published in The Magical Link Vol.1, No.3 April 1987 e.v., pg.18 and later in RED FLAME No.6 The Foolish Issue (1999). Click HERE if you'd like to know the TRUTH!7:50am I located on an old disk The HYMN TO SPAM which was written by Donald Reynolds [LA: New Orleans, circa 1987] as a parody of Aleister Crowley’s Hymn to Pan. This priceless parody would later appear in RED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Journal No.6 The Foolish Issue (1999), pg.141. If you'd like to read it, clisk HERE.3:35am For the history buffs: Fritz Haarmann, the ‘Vampire’, was born on this date in 1879. At his trial, when he was asked by the prosecutor, “How many victims did you kill?” Haarmann replied, “It might be 30, it might be 40, I can’t remember the exact number.” Then, when he was asked how he had killed his victims, Haarmann replied dispassionately, “I bit them through their throats.” Fritz Haarmann, who by now was being called the ‘Hanover Vampire,’ was executed on April 15, 1920. As he was being escorted from his cell, before being beheaded, he smiled and said, “I will go to my execution as if it were a wedding.” His brain was removed and handed over to Gottingen University for studying. …….... And it was on October 24, 1914 that Aleister Crowley left London, went off to Mexico and there, “...reached such a low state that even the toughest of whores avoided him. His body was filthy, he had a thick, beard, and he was foul-smelling. There was no telling just how far he wanted to go in his orgy of masochism because a mountain-climbing friend of his, a man named Oscar Eckenstein, rescued him in time.” ……… and speaking of strange things; the movie From Beyond opened on this date in theaters in 1986. It is a movie loosely based on a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It basic plot takes place in the attic laboratory of Dr. Edward Pretorius, he and his assistant Crawford Tillinghast are working on a resonator which will stimulate the pineal gland, which, Dr. Pretorius believes, is a dormant sensory organ. The experiment works and Crawford sees flatworm-type creatures swimming in the invisible ether all around him. …....…. And finally, on October 24, 2002 Harry Hay died. Hay was one of the founders of the modern gay movement as well as the Radical Faeries in 1978. Although he never personally met Aleister Crowley, he did know some of his followers in California around 1935 when he briefly worked at the Agapé Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis, which was then located on Winona Boulevard in Los Angeles. At that time he played the organ during the Gnostic Mass. These Masses were beautifully performed with extreme seriousness, but it must be remembered that this was still California and even back then something humorous or ‘a twist’ was often added. Some believe that it must be something in the air. It was reported that Harry Hay, “mischievously slipped ‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ or ‘Yes, We Have No Bananas!’ slowed to dirge tempo, into the contrapuntal themes he was hired to play” for the Gnostic Mass. However, more humorous is the fact that Harry Hay frequently “dropped into his former Catholic church to play a mass earlier in the day-just to balance his sacrilege.” Thursday October 23rd 2008 – 6:45pm Just when you thought you've read it all, a friend just sent me this story out of Japan:
Woman Jailed for 'Killing' Virtual Spouse
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
TOKYO (Oct. 23) - A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his ID and password to log onto the popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in May, a police official in the northern city of Sapporo said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of department policy. Players in "Maple Story" create and manipulate digital images called "avatars" that represent themselves, while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting monsters and other obstacles. In virtual worlds, players often abandon their inhibitions, engaging in activity online that they would never do in the real world. For instance, sex with strangers is a common activity.The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their 'characters' were happily married to kill the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his online avatar was dead.The woman, a piano teacher, had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said. The woman was arrested Wednesday and taken 620 miles from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sapporo, where the man lives, the official said. "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.She has not yet been formally charged. If convicted, she could face up to five years in prison or a fine up to $5,000.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:05pm Mick writes, "Jerry 93! Blog on the Holy Toast is HILARIOUS! INSPIRED! I'm bringing the camera tomorrow night. This has all kinds of possibilities! Great! Mick 93 93/93." ..... Reply: Gee, photos? I hadn't thought off that as a money maker? Maybe I'll charge $1.00 for a 'sniff' & fifty cents for each photo a person takes? For more details - click HERE. 9:50am A student writes, “Swimming in the details of my Scorpio Sun in the 5th house. I note what appears to be a square between my sun and my Fortuna. I can't find much of anything on this aspect. Any ideas or insights?” ….. For starters, I avoid ‘interpreting’ anyone’s chart. I believe strongly, as you are aware, that the process replies on ‘Know Thyself’ for only then can true epiphanies emerge. But, in truth, although you might get some gleaming from focusing upon this particular aspect, why are you? As I have told all my students, especially those in the man of Earth; focus upon what is occurring in the first four houses! Yes, it is important to understand your Sun, Moon and Rising but jumping all over chart which represents the sum total of your incarnation is like trying to intimately understand the force within a higher Sephiroth while looking at them from Malkuth. You, as an inquisitive Scorpio, always wants to ‘know everything’ too soon … here is a task for you; when you can submit an adequate paper of the first four Houses in your chart and explain your understanding of the aspects influencing them, then we have a foundation whereby we can talk astrology. OK?"7:50m & Carol from Texas finally surfaces but all she writes is five words about the Holy Toast under the email Subject of ‘Hungry for info’ … she writes: “OK … I’ll bite, how much?” …. I wonder what she means.7:45am Evelyn writes, regarding the Holy Toast blog listing of yesterday at 4:18 - "What other experiences are you allowing in close proximity to The Toast (apart from simple veneration and Scratch 'n' Sniff activities)? PS. Is it not likely to go limp at some stage?" ...... I replied: I will allow any activity, if the price is right! :) and it'll never go limp, as long as inspiration drips off my brow and my heart pounds faster and faster in Her presence, it'll remain hard and stiff which is the 'miracle’ and the proof that the Toast was sent to us by The Great Beast 666 as a sign! ....... 8:12am And Evelyn replied, "I'll bear your reply in mind whilst I contemplate the notion of the "right price"!" 6:30am For the history buffs: On this date in 1974 in New York City, John Lennon and his then personal secretary and girlfriend May Pang had just ordered pizza. It was a hot night as John stepped out onto the terrace in their upper East side apartment. Pang, who was in the bedroom, heard John frantically shouting for her to come. As Pang walked out onto the terrace, she later claimed, “my eye caught this large, circular object coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we’d see heading for a landing at Newark Airport.” It was a UFO. As it got closer John and Pang could make out a row or circle of white lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft, which were flashing on and off. Pang also recalled, “It was, I estimate, about the size of a Lear jet and it was so close that if we had something to throw at it, we probably would have hit it quite easily.” Afterwards they immediately called the local newspaper to report the sighting and were told that at least seven other people had called in claiming to have seen the UFO. As for the rest of the evening, John kept saying, “I can’t believe it... I can’t believe it... I’ve seen a flying saucer!” John cryptically referred to his experience on the cover of his album Walls And Bridges, which was released in 1974.Wednesday October 22nd 2008 – 9:30pm Jerri of Sacramento writes, "YOU got the toast!! that's hilarious."
7:45pm David Miles saw the posting below about the Holy Toast and asks "How hard is your toast? Inquiring minds want to know...." .... to which I replied, "93 Sounds like a personal question? But for the 'Inquiring Minds' ... its hard, very, very hard. :) 93 93/93 Jerry."4:18pm Constantine the Great carried into battle the Holy Lance, the Sacred Spear of the Roman centurion Gaius Cassius Linginus, which pierced the side of Christ (John 10: 34-37); Napoleon sought the spear, Hitler held it as a symbolic implement of power ... now, we piss on them all, the Christian Aeon is dead and despite numerous (supposed) attempts where the Virgin Mary appears in windows, walls and reflections to guide the foolish, I scream "Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you!" (AL III: 55) She has given way and is now all but dust because our savior, our Prophet, Aleister Edward Crowley, the Great Beast 666, has given us a symbolic implement of power! It miraculously appeared burned into two pieces of toast in a double-slice toaster [see blog entry Oct.2nd 2008 5:15pm for details and also click HERE] ... and is this NOT (Nuit) a TRUE miracle? I believe, and I am proud to tell all local members that one of the Sacred Relics now resides at my apartment. Nay, verily, the toast is Divine! When I held it, I fell to my knees, cried, I knew by the 'smell' that I was in the presence of Greatness. I am a changed man. ... Those wishing to 'smell' the toast can come to AO583's apartment Friday Night and for $1.00 donation they are entitled a 'sniff' of the Holy Toast.9:30am Another gem surfaced on an old disk. This is a chronology which I called A Beastly Life of a man named Crowley. It was originally begun in the Summer of 1994 and was a file where I typed in dates and events which amused me about Aleister Crowley's life; which I could use for my personal research. It was later edited down (greatly) into the Appendix in Red Flame No.3 The Friends and Acquaintances of Aleister Crowley; which was relased on January 10, 1996 where it retained it's orginal title - A Beastly Life of a man named Crowley. ... The lengthy original was assumed lost but I just discovered it last night on one of the many old disks in my possession; the version that I have uploaded on-line is that original chronology. It will be added to and changed as it is proofed. If you see an error, or you think that there is something that should be added, please feel free to email me at Cornelius93@aol.com. I hope you all enjoy! Click HERE. 9:00am Ah, I found on an old disk an article that I wrote back in 1995 which later appeared in Red Flame, A Thelemic Research Journal No.6 The Foolish Issue (1999), pg.125. It is titled THE CHARACTER, ALEISTER CROWLEY, As portrayed in Novels and Short Stories, a novel image of Crowley. I have uploaded this little gem on-line and if you'd like to read it, you can either go to the Contents Page of click HERE.7:05am For the history buffs: Timothy Francis Leary was born on this date in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1920. He took LSD for the first time in 1962 and wrote, “It was the most shattering experience of my life.” He once stated in an interview, “...well, I’ve been an admirer of Aleister Crowley, I think I’m carrying on much of the work that he started over a hundred years ago, and I think the 60’s themselves ... Crowley said Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, under love. Its a very powerful statement. I’m sorry he’s not around to see the glory he started.” He died on May 31st 1996 at his home in Beverly Hills, California wearing a t-shirt that read: “If you only have one wish, make it BIG.” His last words are reported to have been: “Why? Why not? WHY NOT? Why not? Why not? Why not?” and later, “Beautiful.” On February 9, 1997, a portion of Leary’s cremated remains were launched into space.Tuesday October 21st 2008 – 6:30am For the history buffs: Today we celebrate the Feast of the miracle of the Black Christ is celebrated on this date in Panama. According to the legends a galleon sailing from Portobelo hit a fierce storm and sank but a boxed dark wooden image of Jesus Christ floated free and was washed up on a nearby beach. There it was found by the townspeople and taken back to Portobelo. The annual celebration of the Feast of the Black Christ began in many years later 1821 when a tragic cholera epidemic ravaged the Isthmus. The Portobelo residents assembled at the church, prayed before the Black Jesus and all made a vow to celebrate a feast day in his honor each October 21 if the town were spared. Oddly, the epidemic completely bypassed the town while ravaging all those around it. ……. And I should point out that Mary Alice ‘Linda’ Goodman gave out different birth information to different people. She always cited either April 9 or 10th as the day of her birth, and the year as 1925 with a widely varied birth time. It is even said that she bribed the record clerks in her home town to give out false information. She wanted her chart ‘never be known.’ After a tumultuous and often difficult life, she died from complications of diabetes on this date in 1995. Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs and her Love Signs, both of which were on the best seller lists for a very long time
Monday October 20th 2008 – Jerri writes - "My assertion is that I provided you with an intelligent reply to an 9:00am post on 10/20 which, in part, challenges that certainly a woman could not possibly come up with an answer to your question. To have done so is proof that women aren't stupid and thereby disproves your claim. I would certainly never want to insult a man's intelligence by bringing up the obvious and openly pointing that out :)- " ....... Reply: and your point is .... woman are stupid because they walk in circles, right?
4:30pm I am utterly shocked and sadly dispointed that not one woman anywhere in the world, outside of Mary earlier this morning, sent me an email to voice any opposition for me generically calling their species 'stupid! ... you must all be a sleep to let me get away with that one! :) Or maybe you're just ... nay, that's too easy.11:30am Jerri writes, "I am guessing that the answer to your 9:00am posting has to do with the nature of men and women. Force and form, postive and negative. Due to the fact that men are outwardly positive and inwardly negative, and women are outwardly negative and inwardly positive-the way that the planes effect us would be entirely different (opposite). Women are 'negative' (passive) on Malkuth and while working on Yesod, we are 'positive' (active). Logically, if we are travelling up the tree, we would become passive in Hod, but positive again in Netzach. Men, who are positive on Malkuth, would then become positive again on Hod." ... Reply: Damn, woman you’re good. Here, on my end, I’ve been wondering for awhile if I was moving too fast for you with all my magickal theory babbling and if it has been sinking in and now you slap me up side the head and say, “Why shouldn’t it have been?” ... But there is more to it, like the Formula of ON; which we’ll discuss when we meet. But, in brief, the male ‘O’ (Ayin) resides on the Left Hand Pillar while the female ‘N’ (Nun) resides on the Right. We both work different formulas.10:10am I just received my copy of the latest release out of Teitan Press. It is a nicely done hardback titled A Concordance to The Holy Books of Thelema (2008); edited with an Introduction by Colin D. Campbell with a forward by Dr. Richard Kaczynski. All I can say is that a lot of books come out which, to me, are fascinating reads; ones that I’ve yearn for and ones which I devour their pages with glee like a fat Italian sitting before a five course meal and a bottle of wine. [I wonder; am I allowed to politically say that?] Anyway, this is not a ‘read me from cover to cover’ kinda book. It’s for the researchers; for those individuals who are serious in their quest not only to know themselves but Thelema. Damn, this is the kinda book I always drooled for. It will permanently go next to the books right here on my desk for easy grabbing. To say that this book is a must have in all occult and Thelemic libraries would simply be downplaying its worth. Don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting that my student go out and order this book … I'm telling you to do it! Go to Weiser’s website and order it NOW. You will not be disappointed. 9:58am Mike, I’m not publishing your comments … they only verify what I’ve said this morning about men in general and they prove me wrong when I referred to woman as being the ‘stupid’ ones. 9:45am In response to Mary’s latest I can only say - admittedly, you live far away in England so I’m not worried about you 'coming to my apartment and punching out my pilot lights.' Anyway, when you wrote : “… is it because men are dogs; they’ll cheat and fuck a hole in a tree if given half a chance; men need to learn control of their ‘Malkuth’ or willy?” … Reply: kinda blunt but you’re not as stupid as I thought. I apologize. … Willy? Haven’t heard it called that in awhile.9:00am OK Mary, I know … I should have realized that you guys have no sense of humor after I posted my 8:10am thingy. And yes, I do think woman have an edge. When climbing the Tree of Life men have to accomplish Malkuth, and then focus on Yesod in order to achieve the man of Earth grade. Woman, for the most part, are already there. Also, when men reach into Yesod they naturally shift toward Hod-8 on the left side of the Tree of Life in their questing for the Lover grade. They require ‘intellect’ but women from the point-of-view of Yesod almost circumvent the sphere of Hod and intuitively focus into Netzach-7 (Venus) on the right side of the Tree when moving toward the Lover grade. The question is; do woman need to fully accomplish Malkuth or Hod? Yes and no; at least not in the same way a man does. So, if this is a natural process – how can we consider it to be wrong? Or better yet, we need to ask, why is it so? The answer is simple, but you must figure it out but I not sure that you will because the Gods, luckily, made you guys stupid. [hee hee]8:10am Mary, let me address some of your questions about sex magick. As for bodily secretions, or as your question puts it: - “ ... men who masturbate to feed 'astral entities', would it be the same for a woman? Would their fluids be a means as useful as male semen?” - I don't know you well enough to go into this too in-depth and the problem with sex magick is that no two people are ever alike. So this is a difficult topic to discuss. On the most mundane level; what one person has no problem with, another may find disgusting and what is needed to be written to answer this question is often a razors edge which can easily be taken wrong unless both parties are on the same page. [the rest has been edited out of my reply] ... and to your question about OTO VIIIth Degree magick : "On a mundane level eastern Tantras tell us to visualize our physical partner as a representation of either a God or Goddess. If you have no physical partner and you are working astrally what should you be visualizing while masturbating?" ... reply: Your answer of visualizing the body of a God or Goddess is ‘almost’ correct. It must be understood that the upper degree Grade Papers ‘always’ speak from and to a male point-of-view. It fact, some argue that Crowley wrote them as such because he believed that it was not necessary for a female to know the truth behind sex magick. There is a good argument for this simply by looking at his life and how he treated woman. Furthermore, the OTO Mysteries, as they unfold from Minerval upward in the OTO, are pure Phallic regarding the utterance of the Word and its purpose. There are few real female secrets revealed anywhere except those being taught by a man ‘to a man’ as to how he should view his Chalice or "vehicle". The OTO is clearly a male dominated fraternity but this is not bantered about openly in the Order out of fear of, as one upper degree put it, “losing our female population.” … Anyway, the Soul of humanity is neutral. It is neither male, nor female. It is said that ‘we cloth it in the image of desire” of a God or a Goddess. Thus, from a female point-of-view you must establish an image in your mind that best inspires a response of arousal. But remember, Section X titled ‘Of Greater Marriage’ in Deorum cum Hominibus, was written for a man. ... To answer your question about Francis King's book on The Secret Rittuals of the OTO; sadly, King edited it. He took out odd things from De Natura Deorum (Of the Nature of the Gods). For example: on page 173 in Secret Rituals there is a reference to ‘The Mountain.’ King left in the fact that some mountains are ‘female’ but he edited out as to why which states - “Mountains are female when they are hollow; more especially, when they are inhabited: for example, Abiegnus, the Mountain of the Caverns.” There are other omissions in this piece and throughout the entire book but I think you get the jest of what I'm say. ... and finally, you asked, " ... you seem to talk more to woman than men on your blog about sex magic. Do you teach men privately?" ... Reply: This is a great question. -The answer: No - You've been reading my blog for awhile now. Don't you realize even my most harden male students seemingly miss the point when sex magick is being discussed. This is because men are symbolically referred to as dogs which naturally work out of Malkuth and their focus on this topic is usually wrong. It's very difficult to get a man to stop thinking all things 'mundane' and to move them upward into Yesod, or the Moon. Woman, on the other hand, are cats naturally working out of Yesod. You guys have an edge up on us and I enjoy talking with woman because you guys unconsciously 'get it' ... but I'm not worried about woman having an edge, the Gods made you stupid so you that won't figure it out. [hee hee, I'm just joking] 7:45am For the history buffs: Béla Ferenc Dezso Blasko, more commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was both on this date in in Lugos, Hungary in 1882. He shot to stardom in the title role of the 1931 film version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, wherein he set the standard for movie vampires. He also starred in such memorable movies as The Black Cat (1934), The Wolfman (1941) and Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). In 1955 Lugosi committed himself to an institution, admitting to a long time addiction to methadone. In his last years his life and career were on the skids, but he still worked a little in television and low-budget films. He died while working on what has been called one of the worst movies ever made - Plan 9 From Outer Space. ….…. And Selena Fox was born on this date in Arlington, Virginia in 1949. She has been called Americas Wiccan High Priestess, Pagan scholar, ecospiritual minister and ritual artist. She founded Circle Sanctuary which is a legally recognized Wiccan church in a worldwide Pagan ministry. In 1986 she married Dennis Carpenter, a Wiccan priest and former school psychologist who is now a renowned Pagan scholar. Selena Fox earned her master’s degree in counseling at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and became certified as a clinical psychotherapist in 1995. ………. And finally, on October 20, 1967 Roger Patterson, while trekking on horseback high up in Bluff Creek Valley of California, spotted a big breasted Big Foot, obviously a female and was luckily enough to film her. This was the first time someone ever captured a ‘Sasquatch’ on film.Sunday Oct. 19th 2008 – 8:00am To address a question: all I can say is that simply by our nature most men build up a hard façade around their libido and protect it; revealing it and their emotions cautiously and guardedly. This why men often ‘become blinded’ when aroused; they stop thinking straight, rational thoughts go out the window and their lower head starts doing all the thinking for them as their libido being unleashed has only one purpose at this point; to get laid. Men are dogs. I tell everyone to listen to Meatloaf’s old song ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’ to fully appreciate the male libido and its downfall. The song epitomizes it. Anyway, it is extremely difficult to get the average man past the Qabalistic sphere of Yesod-9 due to its sexual and animalistic nature. Instead of learning to control the astral (i.e. thoughts) the average man would rather drop down his head to Earth (Malkuth-10) and hump the nearest hole he finds. Yes, men are dogs. … Women, on the other hand, are naturally far more active in the astral than men and if I wasn’t Cancer with Pisces rising, I’d be jealous. It’s rarely an issue to find a woman who isn’t already playing in the astral waters of Yesod-9 (Moon) but it is unusual to find one who may be consciously aware of doing such. … Remember, dogs rule the Earth and men are dogs. Its our natural stomping ground! But what animal symbolically rules the Moon? It’s the cat and women have long been associated with the furry little pussy. These are not just random images drawn from our collective unconsciousness; they hold truths to our archetypes and how they work, play and manifest. ... If men do move on; Hod-8 is a natural stopping point in the Lover grade for most. This sphere is ‘intellectual’ and appeals to the man’s sense of need, moreso than a woman’s which natural finds solace in Netzach-7.
5:00am For the history buffs: Crowley’s Rite of Saturn of Eleusis was performed on this date in 1910 at Caxton Hall, Westminster and a review of this ritual which appeared in the Sketch stated, “...beautifully conceived and beautifully carried out. If there is any higher form of artistic expression than great verse and great music, I have yet to learn it.” ….….. also, on October 19, 1928 the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) was Incorporated in California. Later Aleister Crowley was to write and ask H. Spencer Lewis to surrender his estates at San Jose believing AMORC to be a commercial enterprise of the O.T.O. and therefore to be his rightful property. …..…. And how can I not mention that Harris Glenn Milstead was born on this date in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore in 1945. At the age of 12, his family moved to Lutherville, another nearby district, just six houses from a boy of the same age named John Waters. Around 1966, John cast Glenn in his first film. Harris was remodeled by John and his makeup artist, Van Smith, into drag queen horror show known as ‘Divine.’ Through Waters' films, Divine became synonymous with vile, repulsive acts with an attitude to match. But throughout his career, Harris longed for a way out of that mask, wig and dress. Divine died of sleep apnea on March 7, 1988.CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY
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