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Post by merlin on Nov 25, 2019 10:04:03 GMT
I was wondering to what degree Kenneth Grant was influenced by Frater Achad's work. The Aeon of Maat is more or less omnipresent in Grant's work, and Achad is often quoted by Grant. On the other side, with all respect, I doubt that Achad would agree with everything that Grant wrote. He seems to me more of a "traditional" occultist than Grant, if these definitions make sense at all. So any feedback or thought would be appreciated.
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Post by Michael Staley on Dec 16, 2019 11:30:43 GMT
I think that Grant was always interested in Achad's work. At the time of the lengthy and detailed correspondence between Achad and Gerald Yorke (1948-1949), Grant and Yorke were working together on making typed copies of what they considered the most important of Crowley's papers prior to their despatch to Germer in accordance with Crowley's Will. In late 1950 and early 1951, Grant made a typed copy of the Achad-Yorke correspondence, and was interested enough to borrow Achad's three main books from Yorke.
Many of the documents which Grant wrote in the early days of New Isis Lodge have survived, and the influence of Achad is discernible in places. However, in the early volumes of the Typhonian Trilogies, Grant was fairly sceptical about Achad's work in detecting the incoming of the Aeon of Maat - see, for instance, the chapter on Achad in Cults of the Shadow. Grant was clearly revising his outlook when writing Nightside of Eden, since the Aeon of Maat features throughout the chapters in the first part of that book.
The change is most visible, though, in Outside the Circles of Time. Although much of it focuses on the work of Margaret Ingalls, the core is an examination of Achad's work on the inauguration of the Aeon of Maat, Achad's derivation of Egg and Nest from the word "Manifestation" (which he regarded as the secret word of Nuit), and how that was itself an echo of The Amalantrah Working of 1918 in which Achad had participated from the end of March until sometime in June.
I wouldn't describe Achad as a "traditional" occultist. In my experience over the years, many occultists are dubious about Achad's work, in particular his gematria. Having said that, there is a lot of interest in the forthcoming book from Starfire Publishing, The Inauguration of the Aeon of Maat, which publishes correspondence between Achad, Yorke and others in 1948 and 1949.
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Post by merlin on Aug 18, 2020 19:35:24 GMT
Having said that, there is a lot of interest in the forthcoming book from Starfire Publishing, The Inauguration of the Aeon of Maat, which publishes correspondence between Achad, Yorke and others in 1948 and 1949. At this point it should be interesting to hear from those who have the book. A short review or just an opinion about this work would be much appreciated.
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Post by The Double-wanded One on Feb 25, 2023 3:42:56 GMT
Here is something I just noticed in the Ab ul-Diz working: So, through Ab ul-Diz through Mary Desti, out of nowhere references the discovery Frater Achad would make in Liber 31 a whole 7 years earlier.
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