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Sirius
Dec 27, 2013 3:32:58 GMT
Post by Gregory Peters on Dec 27, 2013 3:32:58 GMT
This star system plays a rather major role in the Typhonian Trilogies. In Nightside of Eden Grant mentions that Robert Temples The Sirius Mystery is one a major source of Typhonian information for the tradition (I am paraphrasing, but the importance of the work is singled out). I came across an interesting page that has collected references to Sirius from the Typhonian Trilogies: mysteriesofsirius.com/sirius-references/references-to-sirius-in-the-writings-of-kenneth-grant/
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Post by Marc on Jan 2, 2014 2:09:28 GMT
Gregory, I have just read through that and it's quite amazing that someone actually listed all of these references. I've always had a fascination with Sirius as well. I think it is a star system that has and possibly is still playing an interactive role in human consciousness and this planet in general. Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery is a classic. Graham Hancock also has referenced it quite a bit with Robert Bauval in the Egypt research they have done.
Curiously, I wonder if anyone has done the same analysis of Crowley's works and extracted his mentions of the Sirius system.
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Sirius
Jan 2, 2014 16:27:32 GMT
Post by stephen on Jan 2, 2014 16:27:32 GMT
No analysis of Crowley's references to hand, Marc, but I thought that the following might be pertinent: Lyric of Love to Leah by Aleister Crowley
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of the hideous Heat & hate of Sirius- Shun his baneful brilliance!
Let us dance beneath the palm Moving in the moonlight, frond Wooing frond above the calm Of the ocean diamond Sparkling to the sky beyond The enchantment of our psalm.
Let us dance, my mirror of Perfect passion won to peace, Let us dance, my treasure trove, On the marble terraces Carven in pallid embroeideries For the vestal veil of Love.
Heaven awakes to encompass us, Hell awakes its jubilance In our hearts mysterious Marriage of the azure expanse, With the scarlet brilliance Of the Moon with Sirius.
Velvet swatches our lissome limbs Languid lapped by sky & sea Soul through sense & spirit swims Through the pregnant porphyry Dome of lapiz-lazuli:- Heart of silence, hush our hymns.
Come my darling; let us dance Through the golden galaxies Rythmic swell of circumstance Beaming passion’s argosies: Ecstacy entwined with ease, Terrene joy transcending trance!
Thou my scarlet concubine Draining heart’s blood to the lees To empurple those divine Lips with living luxuries Life importunate to appease Drought insatiable of wine!
Tunis in the tremendous trance Rests from day’s incestuous Traffic with the radiance Of her sire-& over us Gleams the intoxicating glance Of the Moon & Sirius.
Take the ardour of my impearled Essence that my shoulders seek To intensify the curled Candour of the eyes oblique, Eyes that see the seraphic sleek Lust bewitch the wanton world.
Come, my love, my dove, & pour From thy cup the serpent wine Brimmed & breathless -secret store Of my crimson concubine Surfeit spirit in the shrine- Devil -Godess -Virgin -Whore.
Afric sands ensorcel us, Afric seas & skies entrance Velvet, lewd & luminous Night surveys our soul askance! Come my love, & let us dance To the Moon and Sirius!
Tunisia, August 1923 e.v.
Not sure what the forum guidelines have to say about incorporating material like this, but on this occasion I'm going to plead sweet ignorance as well as poetic licence
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Sirius
Jan 2, 2014 17:58:43 GMT
Post by Marc on Jan 2, 2014 17:58:43 GMT
Interesting, I had not read that before. Thanks for posting it!
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Post by stephen on Jan 3, 2014 15:19:58 GMT
Glad you liked the poem, Marc. I posted it not just because it's a fine poem by Crowley, but because it's probably the best indication that we have of his attitude to Sirius. Fact is, references to Sirius by Crowley are very sparse and I am not aware or cannot recall any of his writings where he identifies Sirius/Sothis with the Silver Star of A.'.A.'.
The poem does, however, clearly indicate his appreciation of the ancient significance of Sirius with regard to the searing summer heat associated with the Dog Days. Sirius is from the Greek seiros - "scorcher" with a gematria of 595; o seiros - "The Scorcher" has a value of 665 - one less than 666, alas, although we might take some consolation from 6+6+5 = XVII The Star.
The only other reference that I have is from Crowley's magical diary for 16 June 1923 e.v.
"..It is really a function of any star to decide arbitrarily what shall count as 'I' to him. That is the magical power - to extend one's kingdom as one will over distant spheres like snowflakes & Sirius, & distant planes like the analysed ideas that I have been seeing lately, & the realms corresponding to abstract words such as Beauty or Tragedy or Self-control."
Page 65, 'The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley' (Ed.Stephen Skinner, Neville Spearman, 1979). The poem - minus the typos which I failed to correct before pasting it above - is on pp.123-4.
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Sirius
Jan 3, 2014 21:15:38 GMT
Post by Gregory Peters on Jan 3, 2014 21:15:38 GMT
Great post Stephen, thanks for the additional material.
I think you are correct that Crowley did not directly reference Sirius much. It was left to Grant to pick up the thread and expand upon the Silver Star.
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