Magick
- W. Somerset Maugham's 'The Magician'www.rawillumination.net W. Somerset Maugham's 'The Magician' is a fun read
An old friend of mine (and gafiated science fiction fan) Richard Newsome and I agreed to read The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham togethe...
A few sentences about the book.
- www.magickalley.com Unraveling Magick: An In-Depth Examination of the Psychological, Spiritual, and Resonance Models
Title: Unraveling Magick: An In-Depth Examination of the Psychological, Spiritual, and Resonance Models Author: Nicholas Kingsley Abstract: This paper seeks to enhance the understanding of magick as an academic discipline and practical endeavor by dissecting the Psychological, Spiritual, and Resonan...
Which model do you subscribe to mostly?
- dovestamemoria.blogspot.com Lion of Light: I am The Beast whose Law is Love
Lion of Light: “Enduring Magical Biography” An Afterword by Gregory Arnott p. 231 - 240 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Th...
- www.apstrange.com The Journey of the Fool
The Major Arcana of the Tarot is filled with timeless images of mysterious origin, each numbered and offering a plethora of interpretations ...
The fool, Lord Timothy Dexter and Emperor Norton I
- 11/11 Ordo Templi Orientis Scarlet Woman Lodge Open House Free Event in Austin, TX
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Please join Scarlet Woman Lodge for a magical, mystical evening of fun!
The event is FREE and open to the public.
We’ll be hosting a community evening with feasting, fraternity, a silent auction, short talks on our initiatory system, and more!
The “three sisters” refer to the Native American tradition of growing corn, beans, and squash together as they help each other grow. Much like our three sisters, Scarlet Woman helps us to grow as well, both individually and as a community. Come see what we celebrate!
Date: November 11, 2023
Time: 4:30 to 8:30 PM
Place: Suite 304, 1514 Ed Bluestein Blvd, Austin, TX 78721
(Look for the Lime Green Buildings)
https://scarletwoman-oto.org/
Love is the law, love under will.
- www.rawillumination.net English university to offer graduate degree in magick
Reed Hall at the University of Exeter (public domain photo by Benjamin Evans, source.) From the New York Times: "In the ancient city of E...
That could be fun ;)
- boingboing.net "Occult Strategies"explores magical practice through play | Boing Boing
Originally conceived in the early 1970s as a collaborative tool for musicians, artists, and other creators, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies were embraced by generations of us…
- publicdomainreview.org Marked by Stars: Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy
Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil water, witches transmit misery through optical darts, and numbers, arranged correctly, can harness the planets’ powers. Anthony Grafton explores the Renaissanc...
- engelsbergideas.com Irrational Rationalists: Pythagoras matters
The Ancient Greeks are often held up as models of reason, but they combined rationality with the mystical and the magical, often to creative ends.
Magick is everywhere
- resobscura.substack.com Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
How cool is that? ;)
- www.atlasobscura.com 6 Dark Places Aleister Crowley Performed His Particular Brand of Magick
A guide to traveling with "the wickedest man in the world."
>To Péladan, the point of magic was the creation of the free individual. We are not born individuals, Péladan taught, and our education and upbringing are designed to keep us from achieving individuality. “Society,” he wrote, “is an anonymous enterprise for living a life of secondhand emotions.”
- www.rawillumination.net The new RAW book, "Lion of Light'
Hilaritas Press chose Maybe Day on Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the original Maybe Day, to announce the release of Lion of Light, a co...
cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/200671
> Seems to be an interesting book
Exploring Mystical Union and Spiritual Embodiment in Jewish Mysticism with Professor Adam Afterman.
- New MA programs in Magic and Occult Science
A great interview on the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast about new MA programs at Univ. of South Carolina and Exeter (UK) on the History of Magic and Occult Science. These are weird and exciting times.
- publicdomainreview.org “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination
Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the death of Ramon Llull, Jonathan Gray looks at how their early visions of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/127281
> Some history
- Robert Anton Wilson Trajectories Letter
Robert Anton Wilson had a profound effect on me as a 19 year old. His books introduced me to Korzybski, and I bought a copy of Science and Sanity to read on my lunch breaks, while I was working as a labourer on farms. It got me interested in maths, and I went to university to study electrical engineering (which Bob also studied) so I could understand the maths in the book.
A while ago I bought a copy of Trajectories (which can be found on the internet archive https://archive.org/details/chaosbeyondbesto0000wils/mode/2up). I was over joyed to discover that the book contained a personal letter from Bob that was hand signed. I've redacted personal info from it, and although it is a personal letter, I don't think Bob would mind, since he was quite open about his health issues later in his life.
I love the use of different calendars, highlighting the arbitrariness of time keeping in different cultures.
- Witches.live - A Mastodon Server Dedicated to Witches and Witchery Enjoyers!witches.live witches.live
A witchy space for most any face! Whether a witch or a witch-respecter, join the coven that is free of fash, TERFs, feds, and bigots
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/107515
> From the instance description: A witchy space for most any face! Whether a witch or a witch-respecter, join the coven that is free of fash, TERFs, feds, and bigots. > > Are you a witch? Are you two witches? Do you like spells, and spell accessories? You've come to the right place!
- chapelperilous.us The Truth Comes on Swift Wings
Wilson wrote this piece and had published in both the Berkeley Barb and Samuel Edward Konkin III, aka SEK3's, The New Libertarian magazine. The article is a pontification of Magic(k) through the lens of William S. Burrou...
Some "easy" magick.
- The Return of the Magicians
New wave of Magick? Sad and optimistic at the same time.
- chapelperilous.us Robert Anton Wilson's 2005 'Crowley 101' course
During the spring of 2005, I believe, RAW taught is Crowley 101 class at the Maybe Logic Academy. I took the class along with a group of dedicated searchers. There were a number of regulars at MLA, and we all tended to t...
>What he did offer was a very RAW examination of some fundamental Crowley concepts. The assigned texts for the course were Crowley’s Book of Lies and also Book of Thoth. Wilson also had recommended texts like The Widow’s Son and various articles, etc.
- www.quantamagazine.org The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories
For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression.
>You also have many projects that have nothing to do with computer science, such as your musical composition, Fantasia Apocalyptica. You even built your house around a two-story pipe organ. Is this variety also part what makes you happy? I wrote a couple of books, including Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, that are about theology — things you can’t prove — rather than mathematics or computer science. My life would not be complete if it was all about cut and dried things. The mystical things I don’t understand give me humility. There are things beyond my understanding.
>In mathematics, I know when a theorem is correct. I like that. But I wouldn’t have much of a life if everything were doable. This knowledge doesn’t tear me apart. Rather, it ensures I don’t get stuck in a rut.
- www.rawillumination.net Letter to Green Egg: 'my forthcoming book on Crowley'
[Editor's note: I have always enjoyed reading Robert Anton Wilson's letters to various publications; they contain some of his most pungent s...
Robert Anton Wilson writes a letter
- share.snipd.com Episode 13: Lionell Snell on Magical Thinking
Episode 13: Lionell Snell on Magical Thinking
Very nice podcast
- www.rawillumination.net Apuleius Charlton's bibliography of recommended magic books
At his blog, Jechidah , Apuleius Charlton has a new post up to answer a question posed by Spookah, "Apuleius, I feel curious, which other bo...
Book lists are like gems.
- A Search for Paul Brunton – New Dawn: The World's Most Unusual Magazine
Paul Brunton is the pen name of Raphael Hurst (21 October 1898 – 27 July 1981), a British author of spiritual books. He is best known as one of the early popularizers of Neo-Hindu spiritualism in western esotericism, notably via his bestselling A Search in Secret India (1934) which has been translated into over 20 languages.
- Aleister Crowley & William Butler Yeats Get into an Occult Battle, Pitting White Magic Against Black Magic (1900)
Found via boingboing for the summary as well.
Those there parties back then!
- Magick for the revolution?
My knowledge of magick is superficial at best, so I would like to hear what more competent people say.
The general question is how (if) magical tools can be practically used to further the cause of anarchist (without adjectives) revolution.
The more specific question is, for starters:
Does it make sense to view money as a sigil for geas of obedience? And if it does, can we imagine the way to break this bond? Strip money of the power aspect and reduce it to purely technical role of an exchange token?
- rawilsonfans.de Magick (1975)
Magick, like science and unlike religion, is not dogmatic, does not ask for faith, and positively encourages scepticism and original thinking/research.
cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/16326
> mosprobably by RAW
- Recommended Magick Reading
Mostly the usual suspects: John C. Lilly, Robert Anton Wilson, Grant Morrison and others
- boingboing.net Ioan Petru Culianu, argonaut of the 4th dimension | Boing Boing
Thirty years ago today—on May 21st, 1991—a bullet fired by an unknown murderer sadly ended the life of 41-year-old Professor Ioan Petru Culianu. Romanian-born, citizen of the world and of the mundu…
Works about Culianu A biography and an analysis of his death was published by Ted Anton under the title Eros, Magic, and the Death of Professor Culianu (alluding to Culianu's most influential work, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance). Elemire Zolla, Ioan Petru Culianu, Alberto Tallone Editore, 1994. Umberto Eco, Murder in Chicago, in The New York Review of Books, April 10, 1997 Sorin Antohi (ed.), Religion, Fiction, and History. Essays in Memory of Ioan Petru Culianu, Volumes I-II, Bucharest, Nemira, 2001. Sorin Antohi (coordinator), Ioan Petru Culianu. Omul și opera, Iași, Polirom, 2003 Matei Călinescu, Despre Ioan Petru Culianu și Mircea Eliade. Amintiri, lecturi, reflecții, Iași, Polirom, 2002, 2005(2). Andrei Oișteanu, Religie, politică şi mit. Texte despre Mircea Eliade și Ioan Petru Culianu, Polirom, Iași, 2007 (ediția a doua, revăzuta, adăugita și ilustrată, Polirom, Iași, 2014) Marcello De Martino, Mircea Eliade esoterico. Ioan Petru Culianu e i "non detti", Roma, Settimo Sigillo, 2008. Olga Gorshunova, Terra Incognita of Ioan Culianu, in Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie, 2008 № 6:94-110. ISSN 0869-5415
A rare audio recording of Gerald Suster's lecture on Aleister Crowley - recorded in West Hollywood, California on September 1st, 1989.
