Happy 8th of April, 2024!
Apr 9, 2024 1:27:05 GMT
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Post by kylefite on Apr 9, 2024 1:27:05 GMT
Whether it was a matter of calendrical fact or fiction, Had! The manifestation of Nuit! occupies a mythical space aligned with the date April 8, 1904. Feeling as I do that myth is a living thing, I am more than happy to embrace the cryptic, lush and inspired poetry of Liber AL on this day!
This afternoon, I was fortunate to watch the Eclipse. At the Moon's utmost coverage of the Sun, I was reminded of an image from the cover of an album I once owned. It was an old vinyl pressing of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This reminded me of Kubrick's 2001.
I was at work, having stepped outside with laughing co-workers, all wearing protective glasses from the local library. For a moment, I thought all the joking and laughter to be ignorant of the import and sublimity of the moment. Would that we'd all been in awestruck hushed silence atop some Aztec temple! But that was just another manifestation of my personal predilections imposing themselves on the thing in and of itself. How fitting, this frivolity, for the day announcing The Aeon of the Child! Who would rob wild joy from Christmas morn and make of it a morbid ceremony?
Other "signs and wonders" followed for me. A very Magical day and now it is linked to the "writing of the Book."
For those observing this Monday as a Thelemic Holy Day, Cheers! For those who aren't or do not, all is well and wonderful!
I tend to veer toward Richard Cole's view of the writing as a preconceived plot to secure power in the political sphere of the occult by one Aleister Crowley. But then, this plot was dipped into a well of wild inspiration and insight (perhaps to such a degree that one may question the questioning!).
On Lashtal.com, I encountered those who felt the provenance of the Book of the Law was not so important as its content. It's an approach I take with regards to Carlos Castaneda. But with Liber AL, I took (and take) great interest in its provenance. Maybe that's because my concerns lie with the occult world, spirit contact and so forth.
That being said, I see the young Crowley as one totally taken with that idea of The Secret Chiefs-and far beyond driven to contact them. I don't think that passionate drive is to be disregarded. It becomes mixed into his other needs and desires-but it remains...a arrow shot at the heart of the sun, the launch pad for "Perdurabo."
Wishing members of The Primal Grimoire an inspired April 8th, however that inspiration will spill into your Magical Universe!
This afternoon, I was fortunate to watch the Eclipse. At the Moon's utmost coverage of the Sun, I was reminded of an image from the cover of an album I once owned. It was an old vinyl pressing of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This reminded me of Kubrick's 2001.
I was at work, having stepped outside with laughing co-workers, all wearing protective glasses from the local library. For a moment, I thought all the joking and laughter to be ignorant of the import and sublimity of the moment. Would that we'd all been in awestruck hushed silence atop some Aztec temple! But that was just another manifestation of my personal predilections imposing themselves on the thing in and of itself. How fitting, this frivolity, for the day announcing The Aeon of the Child! Who would rob wild joy from Christmas morn and make of it a morbid ceremony?
Other "signs and wonders" followed for me. A very Magical day and now it is linked to the "writing of the Book."
For those observing this Monday as a Thelemic Holy Day, Cheers! For those who aren't or do not, all is well and wonderful!
I tend to veer toward Richard Cole's view of the writing as a preconceived plot to secure power in the political sphere of the occult by one Aleister Crowley. But then, this plot was dipped into a well of wild inspiration and insight (perhaps to such a degree that one may question the questioning!).
On Lashtal.com, I encountered those who felt the provenance of the Book of the Law was not so important as its content. It's an approach I take with regards to Carlos Castaneda. But with Liber AL, I took (and take) great interest in its provenance. Maybe that's because my concerns lie with the occult world, spirit contact and so forth.
That being said, I see the young Crowley as one totally taken with that idea of The Secret Chiefs-and far beyond driven to contact them. I don't think that passionate drive is to be disregarded. It becomes mixed into his other needs and desires-but it remains...a arrow shot at the heart of the sun, the launch pad for "Perdurabo."
Wishing members of The Primal Grimoire an inspired April 8th, however that inspiration will spill into your Magical Universe!
