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Post by parzival81 on Jun 2, 2014 20:31:31 GMT
There seems to be some phases in Grant's activity. There was the initial New Isis Lodge and the fight with Germer. This there is his publications of Crowley's work (who with Regardie were very diligent secretaries because I'm not sure without his publishing activity there would be a Thelema now) His Work with Symonds in this Publishing did a lot to create an image of Crowley that the Caliphate would like to sanitize. Then, there was the first trilogy which seems to have been an exciting extension of Crowley's work. Followed by "Outside the Circles of Time"--which seems like this atomic blast in the face of Magick and the beginning of a love affair with Maat.
I have only been studying the occult for two years. Prior to that my spirituality consisted of Chogyam Trungpa and Saint Foucault. The Occult is a very different cup of tea to Deleuze and Derrida. Within my little peer group at the Caliphate (vicious little critters that we are) I'm doing fairly well in terms of study. I'm a heretic, center of pestilence and have even been accused of being a black magician-- always behind my back, of course, in terms of reputation. I just love the Gnostic Mass and the fact that there are accessable groups of Thelemites to befriend, love, amd fight with. some of my elders are awesome.
I digressed, shamefacedly,but the amount of reading and studying just Crowley and Grant feels impossible. There is such a monumental amount of material to read. The Peter Koenig site would take years to sift through. May some of my respected elders in the Typhonian Occult community and offer us acolytes some of your wisdom on these pivotal events and periods of Grants Corpus.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2014 0:00:16 GMT
Deleuze's epistemology, his transformation of the image of thought, will stand you in good stead as one of a range of tools for assaying occult texts for the meagre percentage of gold they very occasionally contain.
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Post by parzival81 on Jun 3, 2014 3:53:44 GMT
Yes, I find that a lot of so called post modern thinkers mesh very well with Thelema. This is an effect of the relationship they had with Nietzsche. They looked to Nietzsche to provide an out to what they saw as the failure of phenomenology and Marxism, which is what there teachers taught. So they either went the way of Saussure, like Althusser and Lacan, or like Deleuze who wrote Nietzsche and Philosophy really Deleuze is a must read for anyone who wants to mix Thelema with politics. Deleuze asked the question how one over comers their inner fascism before they can overcome the problems of society. This is why I abandoned all of Critical Theory at the end of a Bachelors at UC Berkeley for the Occult.
Like Nietzsche, I was looking for a way to overcome the morbidities within myself, so I can diagnose what needs to happen in society.
One of the problems with Occult Writers is that none of them ate academically trained. Yes, Crowley went to Cambridge, but he was a biochemistry major and I don't think he graduated. But none of the big names in the Occult today went to school. That's why it takes them ten books what they can write in three.
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Post by parzival81 on Jun 3, 2014 3:56:40 GMT
With the exception of Nema. She is a very direct and concise writer. Who also makes contributions to the growth of Occult thought.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2014 7:56:33 GMT
One of the problems with Occult Writers is that none of them ate academically trained. Yes, Crowley went to Cambridge, but he was a biochemistry major and I don't think he graduated. But none of the big names in the Occult today went to school. That's why it takes them ten books what they can write in three. The claim made in Jean Overton Fuller's Victor Neuberg book (and probably elsewhere) that Crowley read chemistry at Cambridge is incorrect. Crowley enrolled for the Moral Science Tripos, (philosophy and political economics) didn't like it, and seems to have re-engaged in English Literature. There were no American-style 'majors' at Cambridge in the 1890s. Crowley may have attended lessons in chemistry as one item in the school curriculum during his brief enrollment as a day boy at Eastbourne College, (then a fee-paying school for boys aged 11 - 18) in January to July 1894, but this hardly makes him "a boy who had been trained in the exactitude of mathematics and chemistry" as he describes himself in the turgid Confessions.
Anyway, Parzival, who cares what lessons he attended as a school boy? The thing to remember is that Crowley is a very unreliable narrator. Trust him, yes - but trust with verification! 
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Post by parzival81 on Jun 7, 2014 17:57:12 GMT
The problem I have with that is the Beloved Prophet of the New Aeons of the other Noble Orders. So I am a Jesuit of Crowleyanity. I just pursue that attitude academically. It stands me in good stead. By
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Post by parzival81 on Jun 7, 2014 18:06:42 GMT
I fucked his title. I'm a member of an occult order that he designed for spiritual enlightenment. I take vows saying the the Liber Al is a true text, but the ultimate text. I feel decided to take that leap of faith that Thelema is the ultimate text for Gnosis. I just allow other branches of Thelema influence my views profoundly. I'm a member of the Horus Ma'at Lodge. I consecrate myself with the Double Current. I think Hoor pa Kraat is a bigger deal than Ra Hoor Khuit. Heru-_ra-ha mystifies me the mystic apprehension as twins. Which is ruled by Gemini than by Mercury ultimately Hod. So I apprehend Heru Ra Ha as the Hidden God and Baphomet.
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