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Thursday July 29th 2010 – 6:50am July 29th is the celebration of Saint Martha & the Dragon. Martha was the sister of Mary Magdalene and Lazarus. Remember, in John’s gospel he writes, “Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus.” Yet after the crucifixion, according to some legends, Martha, her brother, sister, and others were set adrift, from what is now Israel, without a rudder, sail or food. However, they inevitably survived and landed safely in Marseilles, France. They then traveled inland to Aix where Martha’s preaching converted many a heathen to Christianity. When Martha arrived in Nerluc, near Saintes Marie de la Mer, she found a town plagued for over twenty years by a hideous beast-like dragon which the townsfolk called the Tarasque. Martha listens to their stories about this beast and then sets out, bear-footed, to search for the creature. When she finds it, she makes the sign of a cross which, according to legend, stops the dragon as if it were pierced by a sword, while sprinkling Holy Water upon it to quench his ‘fire’ breathing antics and make him submissive. She then uses his sharp tooth to cut off her own braids which she then uses as a bridle to lead him back in town, tame as a lamb. However, the townspeople went berserk upon seeing the dragon and they kills the Tarasque with a shower of stones and, although Martha weeps, she forgives the people’s action because she understands their long-time suffering. Legends describes the dragon as being enormous with a body like an ox but with six short bear-like legs with enormous claws. On his body he has two shields like those of a turtle but covered with curved spikes, and the rest of his body is covered with closely overlapping scales that formed his armor. His tail is long and curved like a scorpion. His head is that of a lion, yet with a horse’s ears, but his face, with eyebrows and mustache, is that of a sad and bitter old man. The Tarasque was described as being an evil fire-breathing beast.
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6:45am For the history buffs: On this date in 1566 Agnes Waterhouse was hanged. She and her daughter Elizabeth, were two of the Chelmsford Witches tried in the first major trial after the institution of the Elizabethan statute against Witchcraft in 1563. Agnes was originally accused of bewitching a child and of other wicked deeds but in her confession, obtained through torture, she told tales of worshipping Satan, who appeared to her in the form of a spotted cat, and later as a toad. Satan taught her and her daughter how to do many evil deeds from murder to bewitchment. Agnes also claimed that they both fed their own blood to the cat after pricking herself. This was proved by the shape of certain blemishes on both of their bodies. In the end, Agnes was hanged on this date and Elizabeth, seemingly acquitted now, was hanged thirteen years later in a second trial. …...…. Also, Pascal Beverly Randolph, the 19th Century Adept and author of The Magia Sexualis, shot himself in head and died on this date in 1875 in Toledo Ohio. He is credited with being the first overt spokesman in the west of sexual ‘gnosis’ which he claimed had been hidden for centuries in layers of religious symbolism. He is said to be the founder of The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (c.1881) which is also known as the Brotherhood of Eulis. After his death he was succeeded by a Mr. Freeman B Dowd on April 15, 1907, who was succeeded by Dr. Edward H. Brown, who in turn was succeeded by R. Swinburne Clymer. …...…. And it was on July 29, 1924 that Elizabeth Virginia Short was born to Cleo and Phoebe Short in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. During the Depression the family fell on hard times and Cleo simply abandoned his wife and five daughters by faking his suicide. His empty car was discovered near a bridge and the authorities believed that he had jumped into the river below. Years later, when he resurfaced in California, Elizabeth, who always wanted to be an actress, came out and briefly stayed with him. Her claim to fame came on January 15, 1947 when a passerby spotted a nude body in a vacant lot near Hollywood. The dead woman seemed posed, lying on her back with her arms raised over her shoulders, her legs spread eagled. She had been cut in half at the waist. Her face and body had been slashed viciously. Rope marks on her ankles, wrists and neck suggested a very nasty scene before she died. After she was identified as Elizabeth Short the press dubbed her The Black Dahlia because of her black hair and black attire. Her murder still haunts the Los Angeles Police Department since the heinous crime was first committed back in 1947. …...…. And finally, Stanton T. Friedman was born on this date in New Jersey in 1934. He worked fourteen years as a nuclear physicist with highly classified, eventually cancelled projects as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and nuclear power plants for space. He has always been interested in Flying Saucers and since 1967 he has lectured on the topic “Flying Saucers ARE Real” at more than 600 colleges and over 100 professional groups in 50 states, 9 Provinces, England, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Holland, France, Finland, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Korea, Mexico and Israel. He has published more than 70 papers on UFOs besides his dozens of conventional articles, and appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows. He wrote the book The Quest for Truth about UFOs (2003). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday July 28th 2010 – 9:00am Alrah writes - "93 Jerry, Just a random lateral thought in passing... maybe the astral critters that knocked specific books off your shelf were wanting you to use bibliomancy with them? :-) Alrah. 93 93/93."
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8:45am Dave Solina writes - "Jerry, 93 Thanks for the kind wished, you are a very dear friend, I am sorry that the gift caused any trouble, and I understand your frustration. Working with "plastic monsters" all day for a living has made me become a master of computer S&M and somewhat jaded to the pain. I will make sure we have the time to do the transition when I am in town, and can help with the software. Cheers 93 93/93 DFF."------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6:34am A great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY goes out to Dave Solina in Florida. I’ll throw down a few beers for you tonight in your honor, wish you were here to join in. ... And despite all the aggravation with the computer that you gave me, I know I'll be great once it gets up and running and I do appreciate it. I really do. But personally, I just like to bitch. I got this way living with a three Scorpios; one for eight years, another for three and the last one for twelve years. You'd think I'd learn? ... Have a great day!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6:30am For the history buffs: Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith was born on this date in 1904 to Aleister Crowley and his wife Rose. Sadly she would not live long and she died shortly afterwards. Duncombe Jewell remarked later that she had died of “acute nomenclature.”------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday July 27th 2010 – 3:05pm In regards to my last posting Matt writes - “93 Jerry, What I'm thinking is that I'll copy my fonts - which I'm sure probably include many of the same astrological and hermetic ones that you had - onto a USB memory stick and then just transfer them from the stick over to the fonts folder on your computer. I'm pretty sure this will work. I just need time to get a memory stick. I should be ready to do this Saturday at the latest - I get out of class at 3pm that day. I might be able to make do Thursday or Friday, but not totally sure on that. ... I'll email you. Sound good? 93s, Matt.”
Reply: Great! It sounds like this will work just fine. I’m in the middle of reviewing my book on astrology; my manuscript looks like Hell and I’m going mad trying to decipher stuff it. Or maybe I was mad already?My phone is back up and running.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:30pm To address an incoming email concern. Yes, I know its all (most likely) easy fixes but not being a computer oriented person means that everything is a major fuck-up in my mind. And sitting here alone in my apartment, waiting for ‘help’ to arrive 'someday' is nerve wracking for a Cancer who has been thrown outside their comfy zone. Technology and I are like water and oil; we don’t mix. Simply telling me to do this, click here, download this and it should be fine sounds like “bla bla bla.” ... I am more of a Right Brain kinda person; you know, the writer, dreamer and artist. You Left Brain people are the logical ones in mundane matters, not me! I'd rather crawl into my shell and hide.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:07pm Ah, another major problem has arisen with my new computer. It seems Windows 7 has no astrological symbols in its font file. When I went on the menu bar I hit "Insert" and could not locate one font which has astrological, planetary or magickal symbols. Worse yet, this new Windows 7 program automatically changed every single symbol to gibberish in all my manuscripts making twenty years of typing worthless to view and print copies without scrutiny. Ya, I got a fast computer but my life's work has been reduced to crap ... anyone out there know how to fix this mess, or where I can, or if I can download astrological fonts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5:40am For the history buffs: Dr. William Moriarty, the real figure on whom Dion Fortune based her character called Dr. Taverner in her book titled The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, was born in Dublin, Ireland on this date in 1873. Contrary to popular opinion, Dr. Taverner was not based upon Aleister Crowley. It has been written that “Moriarty was not an MD. He was not even a PhD. He just fibbed a little.” …....…. And Robert ‘Bobby’ Kenneth Beausoleil, aka Cupid, Jasper, Cherub, Robert Lee Hardy and Jason Lee Daniels, killed Gary Hinman on this date in California in 1969. Beausoleil was part of Charles Manson’s Family. He was eventually convicted and sentenced to death but it was commuted to Life when California briefly outlawed the death penalty in 1972. In the sixties he had briefly been the lover of the underground film producer Kenneth Anger and had even supplied him with the soundtrack for his film Lucifer Rising. Beausoleil also acted in the original film version of Lucifer Rising which later mysteriously disappeared. He played the part of Lucifer. After their falling out, Kenneth Anger began referring to him as ‘The Toad.’ …..….. also, on July 27, 1979 the movie The Amityville Horror opened in theaters. It is tenuously based on a true story about a large haunted house on the coast of Long Island in which George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into. They are unaware that all the strange happenings might be caused by the fact that a murder took place in the house several years back. The Lutz family inevitably turns to their family priest Father Delaney who performs an exorcism but the evil spirit in the house causes him to become blind and makes him very ill. George and Kathy with the help of another priest Father Bolen, and a police detective, face the fears of the house, but are yet unaware that the spirit is planning to possess George and then kill the children. …...…. And finally, on July 27, 2003 Helen Parsons Smith, the ex-wife of both Wilfred T. Smith and Jack Parsons of Agape Lodge O.T.O. fame, died at the age of 93 in California. Her body was cremated and her ashes scattered over Lake Tahoe.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monday July 26th 2010 – 9:35pm Today ends on a positive note. I guess the Gods do like me. At 9:00pm my phone went beep, beep, beep … I got up, picked it up & I got a dial tone. I immediately tried to use it and it works! Yes! I guess the bitching at AT&T paid off!
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2:50pm Well, I have a great high speed internet via DSL through AT&T but AT&T shut my land-line phone off in the process by accident ... most likely thinking that I won't need the line because I must have a cell phone! ... and they can't come out until Thursday to fix it! What idiots! In other words, you can’t reach me by phone, nor even by the phone at the front of my apartment to be let in. I can only be reached by email. … but at least I have high speed Internet ... and I can read your emails quickly! ... and have I mentioned that my AOL crashed today thanks to my new computer ... and I got no Adobe, no scanner and my astrology program can't be uploaded thanks to Windows 7! ... and many of my old files can't even be read properly or like they use to be thanks to this new FUCKING Windows 7!!!!!!!! ... Aughhhhhhh! So what have I been doing today? I had to hook up my old computer simply to be able to read and work on my files! Yes, I now need two computers ... one for my website and internet and the other for my old Word files! I’m going crazy with so many changes. It’s a Crab’s nightmare! ... By the weekend I'll be chewing nails (or most likely by Wednesday). Anyway, I'm already planning on hiding this weekend, being emotional and drinking myself into a stupor so I can forget this week. I'm going to start to drink in a few hours as a kind of dress rehearsal.p.s. Windows Vista and 7 SUCK! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6:20am After days of computer woes, aughhs & screams, I'm sort of up and running. I cannot thank Dave Solina enough for the new computer but the nightmare is the fact that Discover Windows 7, the latest, is not compatible with many old programs and we're having a nightmare of a time getting things to work. At least we got my website kinda working and I'm connected to the Internet etc. ... I'm about 80% crawling right now ... I guess life is good but it's never perfect. I fear it'll take me a week to get use to things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6:15am Alrah replied to yesterday's post where I wrote - "Great advice but I already drank alot, pee'd in the damn computer ... and it's not working any better. What is tip 4?" She writes:*giggles**giggles some more**gives up and kills herself laughing*I guess that's one weapon you just can't put out of harms way. :DIt's a sticky situation.... :DBut your word for today is : Fructiculose, (producing much fruit). I think you skipped to tip 4 last night. :DBest,Alrah.93 93/93------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6:10am For the history buffs: George Bernard Shaw was born on this date at 3 Upper Synge Street in Dublin Ireland in 1856. He was a noted Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. He was a man of whom Aleister Crowley wrote, “... was engaged in public exhibitions of rapier play; his subtlety made his colleagues doubt his sincerity.” …........… also, Carl Jung was born on this date in Kesswil, a Swiss hamlet near the falls of the Rhine in 1875. His grandfather, a Rosicrucian freethinker was reputed to have been an illegitimate son of Goethe. He was one of the great explorers on our “inner space” and, besides a strong background in Freudian theory, he had an apparently inexhaustible knowledge of mythology, religion, and philosophy in general. Jung was especially knowledgeable in the symbolism of complex mystical traditions such as Gnosticism, Alchemy, Kabala, and similar traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism, all of which he brought into his theories about human archetypes. …........… and Aldous Huxley was born on this date in Surrey, England in 1894. He was a novelist best known for his books titled The Devils of Loudun (1952), The Doors of Perception (1954) and Heaven and Hell (1956). Numerous historians and biographers of this gentleman have always stated that there is absolutely no proof to even support any allegations that Aleister Crowley ever met Huxley and, least of all, that Huxley would become fascinated with altered states of consciousness after dropping mescaline given to him by the Great Beast. But let’s reflect upon some of the facts. We know that Aldous Huxley was visiting Berlin while Aleister Crowley was living in the city. This fact is mentioned in one of Huxley’s biographies where it states that “Aldous had gone on to Berlin and Paris, accompanying his friend Sullivan on a ‘tour of great men’ ... a most entertaining piece of sightseeing.” This was in late September, early October of 1930. It appears that Huxley was traveling with his dear friend John William Navin Sullivan (1886-1937) who at the time was on ‘a tour of great men’ interviewing as many eminent scientists as he could find for an upcoming book. We also know, Sullivan was a friend of Aleister Crowley’s. In fact, in Crowley’s unpublished diaries on October 2nd 1930 he mentions that he received a “letter from Sullivan - who arrives tonight with Aldous Huxley” According to other diary entries he had “dinner & Mikado &c with Sullivan & Huxley,” and again on another day, “Spent evening with Huxley & Sullivan at Muenchner Hofbraeu one of those large mediocre places which delight the grossness of Sullivan ... Huxley improves on acquaintance. We left him, very tired, at 1 A.M. Sunday.” So we can put to rest some of the stories by saying that Aleister Crowley definitely did meet Aldous Huxley. Although there is no indication in Crowley’s diaries as to what they discussed, it is highly unlikely that magick, drugs or Liber AL vel Legis were not mentioned, these being Crowley’s favorite topics of discussion. As far as Huxley being introduced to mescaline, although Crowley’s diaries do not specifically mention Anhalonium lewinii (peyote cactus), this was his drug of choice during that period of his life, and it is safe to assume that he shared with his friends. There is story worth mentioning. Aldous Huxley died on November 22nd 1963, shortly after his wife Laura gave him LSD for the ‘passage.’ …........… and finally, on this date in 1943 Michael Phillip Jagger was born on this date in Dartford, Kent, England. He dropped out of London’s School of Economics to be a rock star and he formed The Rolling Stones which began recording in 1963. The band struck stardom in 1965 with their international hit (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. During the late 60’s Mick Jagger became associated with the underground film producer, and avid Crowleyite, Ken Anger and he did the music for Anger’s 1969 film version of Invocation of My Demon Brother.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday July 25th 2010 – 6:00pm Alrah writes - "93 Jerry, Sounds like I spoke too soon. If I can help (re: computer problems) let me know... Tip 1... please put down the bottle. Terrible things happen when you mix computers and drink. And hard drive amnesia does not get better when you sober up. :-) Tip 2... don't swear at the computer. It'll just sulk. If you call it something like 'darling' or 'sweetheart' instead then it'll behave better. (Maybe that kind of animism is more about changing your own attitude towards it - but hey - it seems to work. :D ) Tip 3... Remove all hammers, axes, and weapons in general from the vicinity. Good luck, and I'll be thinking about you in your hours of need. Alrah. 93 93/93."
Reply: Great advice but I already drank alot, pee'd in the damn computer ... and it's not working any better. What is tip 4?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I am experiencing technical difficulties as I switch over my old computer to a new one and hook up DSL. I may be off-line awhile [and drinking heavily]. :(------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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