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Monday July 6th 2009 – 11:15am We just had a tiny little earthquake at around 10:32am here in Berkeley; just a 1.0 magnitude. No biggie.

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10:35am For those who might be interested, the surviving parts of the world's oldest Holy Bible were put online today, generating excitement among scholars striving to unlock its mysteries. The Codex Sinaiticus was hand-written by four scribes in Greek on animal hide, known as vellum, in the mid-fourth century around the time of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great who embraced Christianity. Click HERE if you'd like to view the actual manuscript. Yes, it's true, there are no versions of the New Testament older than this one. ... Sadly, not all of the manuscript has withstood the ravages of time, but those pages that have survived include the whole New Testament and the earliest surviving copy of the Gospels written at different times after Christ's death by the four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The Bible's remaining 800 pages and fragments -- it was originally some 1,400 pages long -- also contain half of a copy of the Old Testament. The other half has been lost.

"The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures," said Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library. "This 1,600-year-old manuscript offers a window into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation," he said.

The texts include numerous revisions, additions and corrections made during its evolution down through the ages.

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10:00am & Jay writes - "... and in the end was the flesh and the flesh was made Word." ... "93 Jerry, You are the Word! We are each a manifestation of the Universal Will, the Word of god. It seems then that the practice of Chastity is the realization of this fact; Chastity is putting oneself in line with the Word on the Microcosm. The Magus, having crossed the Abyss and entered into the sphere of Chokmah, realizes the Word on the Macrocosm. One of the symbols of Chokmah is the phallus from which the Word is emitted. We are each manifested by the flesh of god: "There is no part of me that is not of the gods." The path of vav, to which Caviar refers, unites Chesed to Chokmah indicating a uniting of the Word in the Microcosm to the Word in the Macrocosm, a realizationg of one's True Will in context of the Universal Will. Crowley said that to do your Will is to have the force of the Universe behind you; to practice Chastity is to become a medium for the Universe.... I know I'm missing something here... always many pieces, but where do they fit? Love, Jay 93 93/93." ........ Reply: What you write is a good start ... keep thinking!

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6:42am In regards to yesterday's 9:33am posting; I'm still here, no Alien Sex Goddesses rescued me ... then again, I'm not an ordained SubGenius ministers, so I guess I was left behind. :(

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6:30am For the history buffs: On this date in 1187 Salah ad-Din Al-Ayyubi, more commonly known as Saladin the revered hero of Islam who united Arab forces and recaptured the holy city of Jerusalem from Christian Crusaders, marched the captive Knights Templars before him to give all them the choice of conversion to his faith or death ... all decide upon death and were killed to the last man. Some place the figure at 666 killed. …..….. and on July 6, 1935 the 14th Dalai Lama, Lhama Thondup, was born in a peasant family in northeastern Tibet in the city of Taktsir. In Tibetan Buddhism the Dalai Lama is believed to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion and when the Dalai Lama dies his soul is believed to pass into the body of an infant. When Lhama Dhondrub was recognition as the reincarnation of the previous Dalai Lama he was renamed Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, and became known as Yeshe Norbu, the Wishfulfilling Gem or Kundun. As a teenager the Dalai Lama became the head of the Tibetan government in its fight against the occupying forces of the People’s Republic of China but in 1959 he was forced to flee his country into exile. His travels in the cause of peace and for a free Tibet have made him an international celebrity, and in 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Price

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Sunday July 5th 2009 – 8:25pm Sorry for not answering all your emails but Ben Hance, MM, Charles and a few imaginary friends to be named later, forced me, since around four o'clock today to now, to drink massive quanties of beer at the local bar. I didn't want to do it, I fought hard, killed three but in the end I lost ... I drank too much ... good-night.

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11:25am To answer a quick question: the phrase 'Saturn Return' is often thrown around in astrology and magick. Most, out of convenience, will simply tell you that it occurs around the age of 30 and 50 ... but, in truth, the planet Saturn comes around our Sun full swing every 29.46 years. This means that our first Saturn Return occurs somewhere around this age while the second return actually occurs closer to the age of 60.

Still, we cannot negate that psychologically the age of 50 is one of the most crucial in our emotional growth. For this reason many magician/astrologers consider 50 to be the beginning of our second Saturn Return or when we begin feeling the 'pull' toward 'being' old. This age is similar to 20 where we sense that we're 'getting' old by becoming a young adult being drawn toward 30 ... It seems the 'pull' of the impending Saturn Return always starts affecting us about ten years before it actually hits.

Yes, both sexes can be hit hard by the first return as they realize they must begin acting 'mature' and that they can no longer act irresponsible like a child ... but both sexes can really, really flip out years before the second; often buying fancy cars and looking for young trophies of the opposite sexes.

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10:30am Mike asks - "What do you think of Daniel Gunther's new book Initiation in the Aeon of the Child? I'm going to his lecture later this month in New York and I was curious as to what your views are." ...... Reply: Parts of his book I find interesting but it would take a lengthy discourse to list all the obvious errors which a basic knowledge of astrology and Qabalah 101 should have caught. Sadly, with such obvious foundational flaws the entire premise of his book is slightly off kilter. Anyway, I advise my students, who ask if they should read it to learn more about A.'.A.'., to go ahead if they want ... but read it with caution. I also tell them that if they want to learn more about traditional A.'.A.'. teachings then they should really be reading Jim Eshelman's The Mystical & Magical System of the A.'.A.'. [2009]. ...... and while we are discussing book; have you ever read Allen H. Greenfield's book Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts? [IllumiNet Press 1994]. I just finished it [again] the other day. As twisted as it may seem, it's fun reading. The back cover reads - "For decades, rumors have circulated that the UFO phenomenon is somehow directly linked to Occultism. Now, veteran UFOlogist Allen Greenfield provides startling proof of this connection! Going beyond speculation, Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts takes us to the heart of the UFO mystery with the discovery of a hidden Secret Cipher used by UFOnauts, Contactees, Occult Adepts and their Secret Chiefs. This volume places a tool in your hands, giving you the ability to reproduce the solution yourself and trace the UFO mystery directly to its startling Source!" ... and then he reveals the truth behind what Aleister Crowley REALLY received on those April days in 1904!

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9:33am The world according to The Church of the SubGenius is suppose to end today ... "Since its inception in 1953, Church founder J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs has predicted that a fleet of flying saucers will arrive at the beginning of July to destroy the worldwide Conspiracy against the Church of the SubGenius, while all ordained SubGenius ministers will be rescued by escape vessels piloted by the Alien Sex Goddesses, also known as the Xists." ... yes, it's true, click HEREfor further details.

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8:30am To address an anonymous email. ... I’m sorry if you are confused and upset by me not spelling everything out clearly but this blog is not for everyone, it is used as a learning tool for our A.'.A.'. students. If you don't get how we work, you never will. ... I already know these Mysteries; the blog is not a place where I should be flaunting how smart I am. Many of the blog entries are for my students whom I look forward to their replies to see if they can grasp the carrots. How many great books and articles have you read over the years only to have the information forgotten down the road? It's the 'Wows' that you remember; the epiphanies which trigger a response as if you have personally discovered something. These are true magickal foundational stones that you’ll remember and which really matter. And I will not taint these 'Stones' by spelling them out too clearly ... I can only lead my students to the water ... they must drink.

But they must also remember the lessons of Plato in the Xth Chapter of The Republic; if greedy, if too thirsty, you’ll forget everything down the road. Therefore, I will NOT spell everything out here in this blog.

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7:45am Ok, since Saturday July 4th's 7:45am posting by Frater Orpheus I was waiting to see if anyone made the connection; you have not. Most of the incoming emails are not being posted simply because they are missing the point and rather than offer things that will sidetrack our students, it's best to handle these in private. Anyway, let me offer you all a place of study but first, re-read the posting that I just mentioned; then consider this from The Book of Lies; it's Chapter 6 which details The Hierophant and the Hebrew Letter Vau:

CAVIAR

The Word was uttered: the One exploded into one

thousand million worlds.

Each world contained a thousand million spheres.

Each sphere contained a thousand million planes.

Each plane contained a thousand million stars.

Each star contained a many thousand million things.

Of these the reasoner took six, and, preening, said:

This is the One and the All.

These six the Adept harmonised, and said: This is the

Heart of the One and the All.

These six were destroyed by the Master of the

Temple; and he spake not.

The Ash thereof was burnt up by the Magus into

The Word.

Of all this did the Ipsissimus know Nothing.

Aleister Crowley's Commentary : "This chapter is presumably called Caviar because that substance is composed of many spheres.

The account given of Creation is the same as that familiar to students of the Christian tradition, the Logos transforming the unity into the many.

We then see what different classes of people do with the many.

The Rationalist takes the six Sephiroth of Microprosopus in a crude state, and declares them to be the universe. This folly is due to the pride of reason.

The Adept concentrates the Microcosm in Tiphareth, recognising an Unity, even in the microcosm, but, qua Adept, he can go no further.

The Master of the Temple destroys all these illusions, but remains silent. See the description of his functions in the Equinox, Liber 418 and elsewhere.

In the next grade, the Word is re-formulated, for the Magus in Chokmah, the Dyad, the Logos.

The Ipsissimus, in the highest grade of the A.'.A.'., is totally unconscious of this process, or, it might be better to say, he recognises it as Nothing, in that positive sense of the word, which is only intelligible in Samasamadhi."

J. Edward's comment - “There is no part of me that is not of the Gods”

Any thoughts?

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6:42am For the history buffs: Phineas Taylor Barnum was born on this date in 1810 in Bethel, Connecticut, the first child of Philo Barnum and his second wife, Irena Taylor. While it is true, P. T. Barnum was the founding force behind one of America’s most famous circuses, the Barnum & Bailey Circus, or the ‘Greatest Show on Earth,’ he is mostly associated with the circus sideshow and the display of freaks. He is often quoted as saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute” but in truth he never said this. It was something one of his competitors said about the caliber of people who frequented P. T. Barnum’s sideshows. …….....… and G. I. Gurdjieff has been described “... as an insane driver who would not last two minutes on a modern road.” Fritz Peters tells that Gurdjieff frequently drove too fast on the wrong side of the road, often he would miss his turn and refusing not to retrace his steps he would look for a new route on his map. One such route brought him head on into a tree outside Paris on July 5, 1924 which was almost near fatal.

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Saturday July 4th 2009 – 8:15am I received this enjoyable email yesterday from Sally Eaton; an old OTO Initiate from out here in the Bay Area who now lives in western Pennsylvania. She writes:

Hi, Gerry –

Do What Thou Wilt Shall be the Whole of the Law

Just discovered your site after all these years. My name is Sally Eaton. You might or might not remember me from Grand Lodge in Berkeley, though I moved away long ago, in 1983. Bill Heidrick and Lon Du Quette will remember me, of course, and you might too, though it’s been a very long time.

I knew Grady and Shirin very well, saw her a year or so ago. Enjoyed your bio of him very much. I spent many an evening listening to Grady’s War Stories, along with his ancient Wagner LPs. To this day I cannot hear the Tannhauser Prelude (with or without the Venusberg) without thinking of Grady.

I would enjoy exchanging some email with you, reminiscences of those days of yore. Please give my regards to the Café Med. Is Julia Vinograd still around?

Love is the Law, Love under Will –

Best Wishes, Sally Eaton

Reply: Yes, I clearly remember your name being mentioned but we never met; you moved away from the area long before I moved out here in late 1989. Anyway, I am glad that you are enjoying the website and have appreciated Grady's bio. It was a labour of love to write.

If you have any old Grady stories that you'd like to share with our readers please feel free to send them along. He was a hoot.

Yes 'Julia' (aka the bubble lady) still wabbles around out here trying to sell her poetry books; she's a fixture on the avenue. People joke how they're going to have her stuffed when she dies and sit her in a corner at the Cafe Med with a pile of her poetry books.

I live right on Durant near Campus, a half block off Telegraph. It's never dull here.

Anyway, great to hear from you ... keep in touch and feel free to comment on anything you read on our blog!

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7:45am I received this gem from Frater Orpheus this morning. He's been paying attention! Enjoy ...

“There is no part of me that is not of the Gods”

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”

A little background on this line…

It is taken from Liber XV, the Gnostic Mass and recited by the Priest as he faces the congregation, just after consuming the Host. This line was originally adopted from a line in the Egyptian book of the Dead and was included by the Golden Dawn in their Adeptus Minor ritual and where Crowley, most likely, first gained his familiarity. (Note: both the Adeptus Minor and Priest approach the “Veil” to partake of the “ Mysteries” beyond; One representing Life and the other Death) The original passage from the Book of the Dead actually lists out 22 parts of the body and attributes them to different Egyptian Deities and then states… “There is no member of mine devoid of a god, and Thoth is the protection of all my flesh.” Thoth who represents writing or the Word. He is called “the heart and tongue” of Ra and judges the dead.

Ideally the Priest would be a fully trained and properly prepared VII° when uttering these words. But what has this phrase to do with the VII° mysteries and our discussion on “Chastity”?… Let us consider Liber XV, the Gnostic Mass. A Eucharistic ceremony whose purpose it is, as is with similar Masses, “to transform crude matter directly into Godhead.” (AC MWT pg 81)

The VII section of Liber XV is entitled “OF THE OFFICE OF THE ANTHEM” which Crowley states “may be set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can devise.” It starts…

“Thou who art I, beyond all I am,

Who hast no nature and no name,

Who art, when all but thou art gone,

Thou centre and secret of the Sun,

Thou hidden spring of all things known

And unknown, Thou aloof, alone…

This is true and poetic identification with the Godhead. An affirmation of and identification of the Priests Will with that of the Universal Will. By definition Anthems are songs of praise, sacred “vocal” music, often in celebration of the Word. During this vocal Anthem the Priest literally invokes The “centre and secret of the Sun” of which he is but the vehicle. This Anthem spells out the position of the VII° very clearly. This section then leads to section VIII “OF THE MYSTIC MARRIAGE AND CONSUMMATION OF THE ELEMENTS” and it is this section which culminates with the line “there is no part of me that is not of the Gods”. This section describes an Eight stage process which begins with the “Lord most secret”, works through the Ruach and manifested in Malkuth…

“Lord most secret, bless this spiritual food unto our bodies, bestowing

upon us HEALTH and WEALTH and STRENGTH and JOY and

PEACE and that fulfillment of WILL and of LOVE UNDER WILL

that is perpetual happiness.”

This may be seen as the measurement between Heaven and Earth. The process within the Alchemic furnace that leads to the fulfillment of our True Wills which is Perfect and “perpetual happiness”.

It is the Priest from the Supernals above who turns to the people below and states, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”… to which the congregation responds “Love is the law, love under will.” This mirrors the Deacons first actions when proclaiming the Law in the name of IAO. In a nut shell the Priest is channeling that which is above thru him and down to that which is below in order to properly charge the particula of the Host. To achieve this result the Priest must be properly versed in both the Theory and Practice of “Chastity”. Those who would reduce Chastity down to a mere focusing of thoughts or to the negation of certain acts has missed the boat entirely and as JC points out, “simply knowing 'why' you're doing certain things along with the symbology behind the implements, movements and words does not make you a true Bishop.” In order to pull that one off you must have truly prepared the body to receive the Word having given yourself over to the Universal Will so that Gnosis may descend unhampered thru the lens of the Ruach. Gnosis being knowledge that is not outwardly gained but instead inwardly Understood. Simply put, Gnosis is Knowledge received…

So how does one prepare himself to become a vessel for this gnosis??? Already throughout these Epistles we have in great detail discussed the theories behind the VII° mysteries. We discussed the quintessence of the Spirit which lies within the Dew of immortality; that one must “conquer” Maya to properly direct the Kundalini forces which lie coiled in the Muladhara and that Consciousness is the disease of this force which originates with Aleph.

The lower three Spheres all demand that you put your faith in the hands of the Gods or above the Abyss; giving yourself over in service to humanity and the Universal Will, that you may be a proper vehicle for your Word. Some of Jesus last words were…“My Will which is Thine be done“… Jesus who represented the “perfected” Man, giving himself over to the Will of God. Yet isn’t the Body simply a Temple of the Holy Spirit and does not the Kingdom of Heaven lie within?… “There is no part of me that is not of the Gods“! On one level this is an identification of my Will with that of the Universal Will and on another, a recognition that “I” am but It’s Vehicle. The proper preparation of this Vehicle includes controlling the squares from 1 = 10 thru 7 = 4; Remember that although it is the ego which animates the Adeptus, one must learn to bring it under control otherwise it will corrupt all that lies below it on the Tree of Life. The central sphere within this Ruach is Tiphereth, Our Star and the Heart Chakra.

It is clear enough that the Bishop or a VII° sits at Chesed the sphere of the Adeptus Exemptus who has freed himself from the Law of Opposites and possess the ability to “grasp” or Understand his conditions. So that He may take a dropping from the Host of Heaven above and places it in the Cup of his fashion below. This in accordance with his True Will and guided from within.

We are all already divinely connected in all ways to “God” because we are “God” and only consciousness and the image we call “Self“ separate us from the True Spirit… only intellect and ego may distort this view. It is your chosen and appointed path to realize the full potential behind the Willed intent of your life… to understand the purpose behind the incarnation; DO-WHAT-THOU-WILT… just those four words… shall be the whole of the Law.

Love is the law, love under will

Frater Orpheus

Reply: Damn you're good and as I already noted; you've been paying attention. I have read the above over and over trying to think of stuff to correct and I am simply at a loss. Well done. ... Although I should point out that your mentioning of the Anthem and how it "spells out the position of the VII° very clearly" is very true, more so than our average reader may realize. I would recommend our readers review An Epistle on OTO Mysteries where we published notes from a lengthy lecture given by Grady Louis McMurtry at Brocken Mountain Lodge OTO. The majority of the data from this Epistle was taken directly from a chart which Grady drew on a blackboard correlating the Chakra system, OTO initiations & theories, The Gnostic Mass and Aleister Crowley's Atlantis, The Lost Continent to the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Our readers should note that Section VII of the Gnostic Mass portrays the Mysteries of VIIth Degree OTO in a dramatic religious form. And, like any religious ceremony, if done correctly, it will unconsciously effectuate changes in the audience's psyche which will draw them into the fold (i.e. OTO) wanting initiation. This is why Grady use to joke about how the Mass was the OTO's "greatest recruitment tool."

Crowley also concealed the VIIth Degree in ATLANTIS Chapter VII: OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF THE ATLANTEANS: AND OF SACRIFICES TO THE GODS. Very telling, especially the last few paragraphs!

The only other thing that I would highly recommend studying is the fact that Seventh Degree OTO et Bishops not only work out of Chesed but they function within The Hierophant path which also unites to Chockmah; wherein the Minerval was initiated. It is no coincidence that both these degrees use the Word - ON' ... But which is has the dominant 'O' and which is the dominant 'N' ? ... I'd note the fact that Paul Foster Case writes how the Pillars in The Hierophant card "represent the Law of Polarity, or the interplay of opposites." ... Anyway, The Hebrew letter attributed to this path is Vau, or 6, which means a ‘nail’; a nail being something which unites one thing to another. In Hebrew Vau is used as a conjunction representing ‘and’ which unites thoughts and sentences. Also, and most important, The Hierophant card deals with 'Inner Hearing' in relationship to receiving the Word of the Gods (i.e. Chastity) ... Students should reflect on these things.

Again, well done Frater Orpheus

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5:30am For the history buffs: On this date in 1971, a contemporary and friend of H. P. Lovecraft, August William Derleth, died in Sauk City, Wisconsin. He is considered Wisconsin’s most prolific author with 150 books already in print and forty manuscripts still to be published. He was the founder of Arkham House. ……........ And on this date in 1974, in the early morning hours just outside Oakland Nebraska, Emery Wickstrom and his two sons Nick & Tom saw a bizarre creature. They said that it was only about the size of a medium dog but it had a flat, monkey-like face, a curved tail and it ran upright and it also leaped as it ran across the road at a fast speed. ….....…. And it was on July 4, 1982 that Hugh Lynn Cayce, the son of the ‘Sleeping Prophet’ Edgar Cayce, died of cancer at the age of 75. ….....…. And finally, on July 4, 1996 near Fayetteville, Arkansas, a couple of guys reported that they had just finished firing off the last of their fireworks in a pasture and then walked away toward a patch of woods to enjoy the warm night for a few minutes. In the woods they noticed a light about hundred yards away. Thinking that it was somebody shooting off more fireworks, they walked towards it. As they approached, they saw in a clearing, three triangular shaped objects hovering just above the ground. They were UFOs. Lights were pointing down off each point of the triangles. Three strange beings were also noticed standing nearby, speaking among themselves in gruff voices. The beings were described as tall and covered with very thick hair that covered their bodies completely. After a few moments the beings seem to sniff the air and glanced immediately in the guys direction. Realizing they had been seen, the beings quickly ran into their ships, which shot then away into the sky emitting a bright burst of light, knocking the witnesses to the ground. The craft seem to elongate as they accelerated.

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Friday July 3rd 2009 – 11:36am Ah .... A POSTCARD FROM HELL ... click here for details : www.quicksilver.uk.com/RTC/PFH.htm

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11:30am This morning I sat with an A.’.A.’. Initiate within the Lover grade at the Café Med discussing some of our students. It was entertaining; lessons to learn for All.

We talked about one student in particular who seems driven by an obsession to know about sex magick more than anyone else. In truth, I’ve him for twenty plus years and this is clearly the number one reason why he joined our lineage and this is no secret. I’ve been told that he has more books on this subject than all of us together but still he can’t get it. He’s become an ‘intellect’, bogged down in Malkuth but he thinks he knows it all regarding this subject. And, if I, as a father figure, don’t agree with his ‘brilliance’ he complains to his Teacher about me criticizing his postings on my blog. He’s the only student we have who, instead of reflecting on my comments and trying to learn, complains about them.

Just this week he sent me a long email regarding his views on ‘Chastity’, parts of which are very good but there are a few points I wanted to make in order to steer him correctly but I sat one morning thinking about how to ‘word’ my reply as not to get him whining and stamping his feet like a baby. Then I sat back and said to myself, why am I doing this? I am just not comfortable responding or posting his emails anymore. When this happens, a student-teacher relationship has clearly broken down. In fact, this is the number one reason why I had recently moved him out of my Clerk House into another in the first place. Now, two months later, I find that the ‘move’ was simply on paper, he's not working with his 'new' teacher and he’s back in my life as if it were business as usual. Nothing has changed. How did this happen?

Anyway, I am no longer going to respond nor post anything from him that is either good or bad. I know his heart is in the right place, maybe his intentions are even good but his attitude toward learning is clearly rooted in a horizontal, almost confrontational school of ‘me-ism’ ... and I don’t think he’ll ever understand a vertical school and its direction toward humanity, not self. Even if he stays within the A.’.A.’., I doubt seriously that he’ll ever get out of the man of Earth grade ... C'est la vie.

So, to all my A.'.A.'. students, if I don't post your emails ... take the hint.

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9:30am This week I have added lots more stuff into my online FOR SALE Catalogue ... with lots more to come!

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9:18am I knew I'd open a can of worms with my 8:30am posting. For those who asked; I too have a child. He’s my everything. There is nothing, I repeat, nothing that I would not do for him ... and I believe, prior to his incarnation, he picked me as his father for just that reason. Other children might have picked an idiot, an abusive, even a neglectful or absent parent for other reasons, or experiences. I’m not going to second guess their True Will or the foundational lessons they required for their incarnation. The bottom line; it’s ok for you to experience ‘everything’ on this plane, it’s your playground, you picked your life to gain a certain experience as if being tempered in an Alchemical furnace. However, no matter how much sex, booze or daily playing you do with children, friends or job, nothing should deter you from the Path. In the end, as everything dies and fades away, the only thing you’ll take out of this incarnation is your Word ... and until then, don't forget to stop along the way and smell all the pretty flowers.

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8:30am To address a question - "What makes a person able to leave your man of Earth grade and move into the Lovers?" ... Reply : Many things but primarily the criteria is to find those individuals who have stopped seeking to learn ‘horizontal’ for the sake of ‘themselves’ and who have shifted their purpose upwards on the Path toward ‘vertical’ thinking and learning for the sake of humanity. If so, they'd become, as Grady often called it, a ‘building block’ in the Aeon.

You might claim otherwise, but when push comes to shove, would you sell your soul to play on Malkuth while 'temporarily' promising yourself that you'll return to the path tomorrow? It's a fine line between embracing the full 'experience' for which you incarnated without denying it at the same time. What if your 'experience' is truly that of A.'.A.'. and you deny it by going off to play in the world? As Crowley would scream; it is better 'not' to take a Magickal Oath if you're not 100% committed to its Intent.

And as Crowley would probably also scream ... you can have your cake and eat it too; there is no Law beyond do what thou wilt, have fun but don't confuse apples with oranges.

Keep the Will and the Want in their proper places ...

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7:15am One student wondered if "all of us" (i.e. meaning our A.’.A.’. students) are getting it regarding all the sex magick talks on the blog; adding - “I find it just too obtuse for me to understand.” And “Is it just me?” .... Reply: No, most people don’t ever get it. You can put the secrets right in front of someone’s nose and if they’re not ready or thinking of sex too much from a Malkuthian point of view, they’ll always be seeking that ‘shred of paper’ or ‘missing piece’ to the puzzle for the rest of their life. If the Truth were so easy to understand, everyone would be practicing the Art.

Grady once chastised me for a comment I made, which I though was brilliant but he told me at the time that you can clearly tell by a person’s writings on the subject if they ‘get’ IT ... at the time I didn’t fully understand, age has taught me that he's right; there is a difference between being an intellect and an intellect as opposite as fire is to water.

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6:18am Just a reminder, there is an OPEN HOUSE tonight at my apartment starting at 6:30pm; email me for details if you'd like to attend.

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6:15am For the history buffs: Franz Kafka was a Czech writer born on this date in Prague to German-speaking Jewish parents in 1883. His uniquely imaginative works combine a realistic, sometimes grotesquely exact description of details with an overall atmosphere of fantasies, dreams, and nightmares. He portrays a world in which people are deprived of spiritual security, and tortured by anxiety and loneliness wherein all objects and events are described with a precision while bathing them without a purpose or meaning. Kafka wrote three novels and many short stories. In his novel The Trial (1925) a man is arrested, he is convicted in a mysterious court and all his attempts to learn the nature of his guilt are futile as he dies in ignorance and is executed. Another novel, The Castle (1926), presents the futile struggle of a newcomer to win acceptance in a village and gain entry to a castle of an unknown supreme authority. Amerika (1927) is an extremely comic novel about the adventures of an adolescent European immigrant in America. Kafka’s best-known short stories include The Judgment, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and A Hunger Artist. He died in a sanatorium in Kierling of tuberculosis on June 3, 1924. …....….. and it was on July 3, 1886 that the Rosicrucian Adept and member of the S.R.I.A., Kenneth Mackenzie died. …….... And Pearl Driver was born on this date in 1899. On August 9, 1933 she met Crowley who would proclaim her as his ‘new’ Scarlet Woman later that year. ………. And Raoul Loveday was born on this date in 1900. Years later this ..23-year-old Oxford undergraduate, along with his wife Betty May, would join Aleister Crowley at the Abbey of Thelema of Cefalu. Here he became known as Frater AUD or Adonis. Then tragedy struck. On February 16, 1923 Raoul died at the Abbey of gastro-enteritis after drinking impure water, not at the abbey as most historians claim, but somewhere from a stream along a thirteen mile route between the abbey and a monastery that he and Betty May had visited. Rumors still persist that this is a lie and that Raoul’s death actually occurred due to drinking cat’s blood during a Satanic ritual. Regardles how Raoul died, three days before Crowley recorded in his Magical Record that he felt a current of magical force, “heavy black and silent” threatening the Abbey. …...….. and it on on July 3, 1915 that a small boat rowed up to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. In the prow of the boat was Aleister Crowley, claiming to be an Irishman, along with Leila Waddell, whose mother was an Irish refugee of the last generation and who believes herself an Irish patriot. She was a violinist and she played Irish songs to accompany the moment. Also in the boat was J. Dorr, an Irish editor who has published papers in both Ireland and England, and Patrick Gilroy, an Irish agitator. Everyone in the boat called themselves members of the secret Revolutionary Committee of Public Safety of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic, and their early morning mission was to declare the independence of the Irish Republic, which included a declaration of war against England. Crowley, in an act of utter defiance, tore up his British Passport and unfolded as Irish flag, proclaiming loudly; “I unfurl the Irish flag. I proclaim the Irish Republic. Erin go Bragh. God save Ireland.” Afterwards the newspapers reported, “The party left the launch and went to Jack’s restaurant for breakfast.” ……....… and I should point out that Carroll ‘Poke’ Runyon (Magister Thabion) was born on this date in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1935. He earned a Masters Degree in cultural anthropology from California State University, is an initiate of an ancient Tibetan tantric order, and has served as an officer in three active Golden Dawn temples. He is also a 32nd Degree Freemason and a former soldier in the U.S. Army’s Special Forces. He is the founder of America’s oldest continually practicing Lodge of ritual magick, the Order of the Temple of Astarte in Southern California. Runyon is best known in the occult field for his discovery and development of the facial reflection technique for summoning spirits to visible appearance. He has been practicing and teaching Western ceremonial magick for 32 years and is the writer/narrator of the very successful VHS video The Magick of Solomon and The Book of Solomon’s Magick.

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Thursday July 2nd 2009 – 9:30am Ed Wormuth writes - "93 Jerry, Hope this email finds you well. I am still reading your blog as close to daily as I can. Sorry, I have not contributed anything to the discussen lately. It is my busy time and the questions are becoming more and more profound. ... I hope to have thoughts and epiphanies to share soon, but my time to poder and to wtrite are limited for a while. [I am still reading "Inside the Occult" and it has motivated me to aquire a copy of "Isis Unveiled" to further my curiosity along this line, but it's all just bits and pieces for now. 93 93/93, Ed." ....... Reply: It is sometimes nice just to get a hello. Thanks!

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6:05am Frank wants to know where everyone is, as the blog seems to be quiet of late. I replied, "Every year around late June to early August I get less emails. I think it's a summer thing. No biggie. It gives me breathing room."

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6:00am For the history buffs: Nostradamus died on this date in 1568. He was buried standing upright in one of the walls of the Church of the Cordeliers at Salon, with a marble plaque attached to the wall in his memory. However, rumors began to circulate almost immediately that there was a secret document in his coffin that would decode all his prophecies. After almost hundred and thirty years of fearing looters, his body was finally removed for safekeeping and no document was found; just an amulet. The greatest story regarding his body occurred one night in 1791 during the French Revolution. This is when soldiers from Marseilles broke into the church and ransacked tombs in search of loot. The very next morning they were ambushed by Royalists. Ironically, the soldier who had used Nostradamus’ skull as a wine glass the night before, died by a sniper’s bullet. ……....… and it was on July 2, 1881 that President Garfield was shot by an ex-Oneida Community member Charles Guiteau. After having invisible sexual intercourse with a Spirit called ‘Lordy’ Guiteau was commanded to kill the President. At his interrogation he told the police, “Get acquainted with the science of Spiritology” and you’ll understand why I did it. ……....… and it was during a severe thunderstorm on this date in 1947 that a UFO crashed on a rancher’s property in Roswell, New Mexico. Later, on July 8, the USAAF issued a press release stating, “USAAF Recovers a Flying Disk,” but the very next day the US Government changed their story and said it was merely a weather balloon. ……....… and on July 2, 1947 in Lake Okanagan in British Columbia a number of boaters saw the monster known as ‘Ogopogo’ simultaneously. One of the witnesses, a Mr. Kray, described the animal as having “a long sinuous body, 30 feet in length, consisting of about five undulations, apparently separated from each other by about a two-foot space, in which that part of the undulations would have been underwater...There appeared to be a forked tail, of which only one-half came above the water. From time to time the whole thing submerged and came up again.” ……....… And finally, on July 2, 1961, like his father who had committed suicide some thirty years earlier, Ernest Hemingway died at age 61 in his home in Ketchum, Idaho of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had rose early, as he had done most of his entire adult life, he selected a shotgun from a closet in the basement and went upstairs to a spot near the entrance-way of the house and shot himself in the head. If he had waited a little more than two weeks he could have celebrated 62nd birthday. Of all his novels, it is not what Hemingway published that brings him notoriety amongst Crowleyites as much as what was deleted from his 1926 classic The Sun Also Rises. It originally contained a short story based on an incident where Ford Madox Ford snubbed Hilaire Belloc only for Hemingway to later realize that Ford had mistaken the identity of the individual whom he had snubbed. It was not Hilaire Belloc at all, but rather the Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley.

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Wednesday July 1st 2009 – 3:10pm Every two weeks my Spam folder pops up on-line and reminds me to review all its contents and delete. It never fails, there are always one or two emails which AOL decides are 'spams' but which really are not . Here is one my dear friend Ricardo sent on June 28th!!!!

Dear Jerry, 93!

Just the night before I got your serendipitous email I was doing the second Telling of a new series I started. The topic of this series is "On Death" and that night I spoke of the states of suffering in the human dimension after (or right before, depending on which way you are going) the abyss of forgetfulness (or after rebirth). One line of the Telling had me saying "there is nothing but god under this hat" (a Toltec tribute to El Salahi). In a brush stroke of this Telling, we went through the encounter with suffering through self division and identification with parts of our experience in the human dimension. After that, the unending stream or karma starts by the struggle of the mind to achieve, obtain, secure, and, in short, to make the external world conform to our ideas of "what should be." In other words, the pain of division is increased by the drive of a divided mind to make its maps (what I want) stand for reality. One part of our divided self wants something (to hold on to a girlfriend, to feel safe, to be rich, to be respected, etc.), and it projects a map (an idealized but self-centered universe) unto the unknown territory of our experience as eternal beings. Eventually, this map collides with reality and we suffer. The suffering leads to more searching, more doing, more grasping for external satisfaction (which is never coming because the root of the suffering is not the external circumstances, but our own division, wants, and continuation with this unending karmic stream). To add to this madness, we not only have one divided personality but a whole assembly of entities inside, each one trying to satisfy their own wants without regard for the others--much less for the magical interests of the unified being.

In this second Telling I'm summarizing, we saw how the striving for external satisfaction of wants continues and increases as karma is accumulated, until the time when learn to move inside and seek not to attain and become, but simply learn to sit with the pain, the suffering, the loneliness, the violence, or whatever internal condition we find in our human incarnation. We sit with it, the horror of our internal situation, without trying to alleviate it by external means, but simply know it, feel it, and allow the reality of our inner state to flower inside as we work to balance the totality of our experience (inner and outer). As we approach a state of balance, the inner condition we all try to alleviate (by incurring more karmic debt), can more easily and elegantly remain within us. The objective here is to hold this pain of division and know it as a reflection of our own consciousness, a projection of our state of manyhood bellow the Abyss. By holding it through our activities (internal and external, ordinary and magical) we begin to unify all these opposites. In fact, when we manage to stop directing all our attention, consciousness, and energies towards Yesod and Malkuth and learn to harmonize these currents internally, we create a harmonized vehicle that can contain the essence of our internal suffering. This internal suffering then can grow and flower into its true and intended outcome: the Soul of a complete Being. A Star at the center of its Universe.

This is, of course, a balancing act. As with every balancing act, the balancing is attempted, the currents redirected, the dross burned, then the balance begins to falter and we start all over again. Process is repeated over and over until the process of balancing and inner directiveness itself is internalized and made into a habit. Then, we have a chance to see our universe as the harmonious interaction of the inner forces that inhabit us, the gods. These gods, of course, are the tyrants that direct our activities and proclivities when there is no harmonizing force directing the gods themselves. Each god wants to be king of the hill and seeks to work through our malkuthian vehicle to establish his and her own rule. Other pars of us then plot and fight for this rule. It is by bringing into play our Star, that Will that becomes the center of gravity around which all our planets (gods) revolve. Then, and only then, we have created a true system within us; a harmonious universe where the gods act in their proper orbit under the guiding light and gravitational pull of the Star. At that moment, I can say that "there is nothing but gods under my hat."

A great hug and loving kiss to you, my friend!

Ricardo

93 93/93

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3:05pm Luna writes - "I watched that trailer that Jen sent you for Robot Geisha...and the blood coming out of the buildings just cracked me up!!!"

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6:35am Under the Subject Title - "By the director of Tokyo Gore Police", Jeniffer sent me an email, writing - "Hey Jerry, I just found this and thought it was right along something you would enjoy, it is quite hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig - RoboGeisha. Looks promisingly terrible and great! Enjoy Jen." ....... Reply: yes, RoboGeisha, looks like a movie I'd enjoy! :) Thanks!

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6:30am For the history buffs: The infamous Vampire of Dusseldorf, ‘The Lover of Blood’ was executed in prison on this date in 1881 for his crimes, and as Peter Kurten moved toward the guillotine his final recorded statement was, “... after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?” smiling he added, “That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures.” ….....… and Elisabeth Klarer was born on this date in South Africa in 1910. She was this country’s first and most famous UFO contactee. She claimed that she and her sister first saw a UFO back in 1927. Then, in 1957, in the Drakensberg Mountains of Natal, she was contacted by Akon, a scientist from the planet Meton, one of seven supposed planets nearest us which are inhabited. Her first book of these experiences was published in 1980, titled Beyond the Light Barrier. She died in February 1994 at the age of 83. ….....… And it was on July 1, 1942 that Aleister Crowley’s tarot cards, which were painted by Frieda Harris, were shown in the Berkley Galleries to the public. ….....… And on July 1, 1951 the most famous case of spontaneous human combustion occurred in St. Petersburg, Florida to Mary Hardy Reeser, a 67-year-old widow. The next morning, her next door neighbor came by to visit but discovered the doorknob too hot to touch and she immediately went for help. The Police, upon entering the apartment, discover Mary’s body sitting in her easy chair, surrounded by a blackened circle on the floor, four feet in diameter. Her 175-pound body, or what was left of it, was reduced to a pile of ashes, leaving only a section of her backbone, a shrunken skull the size of a baseball, and one foot completely undamaged encased in a black satin slipper which stretched just beyond the four-foot circle. The police report states, since no chemical accelerants was ever found, that the cause of death of Mrs. Reeser occurred when her highly flammable rayon-acetate nightgown caught fire, perhaps because of a dropped cigarette. However, one medical examiner stated that the 3,000-degree heat required to destroy the body should have destroyed the apartment as well and, in fact, damage was unbelievable minimal and confined only to the four foot circle. Even stranger was the fact that the ceiling and upper walls were not even covered with soot. ….....… And I must point out that it was on July 1, 1952 that Phyllis Seckler attained to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, that attainment, or consequence, which marks the Adeptus Minor Grade, 5=6, of the AA, the full initiate of the Sephirah Tiphereth. She shared her results with Karl Germer. Many letters survive of their subsequent correspondence of the subject. ….....… And to round off today in history; it was on July 1, 1996 near Fayetteville, Georgia that a woman reported that she awoke, froze and was unable to speak, as she watched a small five foot tall grayish humanoid with thin limbs, large dark slanted eyes, and a teardrop shaped face sitting on her bed. It then moved quickly across to her husband’s side of the bed toward the foot in a sort of sitting, scampering kind of motion. It jumped off and continued on across the room where it joined at least three other similar creatures, all of whom wore dark cloak like garments and dark hats, similar to a Panama. They all huddled next to the wall on her husband’s side, talking quietly in an unknown language. All of a sudden the woman later reported that she felt unbelievably tired and she fell back to sleep. Shortly after awakening in the morning she frantically related the ‘experience’ to her husband who, besides recalling nothing unusual during the night, thought she was crazy. However, neither of them could explain the odd orange-brown stains on the carpet at the foot of the bed or the similar stain on the sheet, which had been clean when they went to sleep the night before.

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