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Learning Goetia (more notes than substance)

2008-12-10T09:46:32Z

Learning Goetia (more notes than substance)

I have been going over the Goetia with two of my students and one of my brothers in A.'.A.'. (albeit a female brother) and I got to recalling how I was taught this material by my superior.

When my superior was teaching me this material after some detailed if not completely learned discussion he and his wife took me into the Temple 1.) and proceeded to call up a bunch of martial demons with Samech and the Goetic evocations (he had an Atlantis edt. he worked from), in which I got to do an opening Star Ruby. He then sent them on the warpath against Marcelo Motta. The trial was coincidentally beginning the next day and I was one of the Caliph's principle body guards - I got to push Grady around in his wheelchair.(2. I had visions of these cartoon-like entities (I had not yet seen DePlancy but they looked for all the world like his charicactures) crawling out of the seals and expanding to gargantuan (10 or so meters high) sizes - some I saw head to the east into Concord where I lived (and where I latter found out that Motta was staying). (3. and the others to San Francisco (4. where they perched around the courthouse and would fly in an out of the walls, kind of like in Caspar. We all know how the Motta trial turned out, and I'm certainly not giving all the credit to Frater B (5. but it was certainly an interesting introduction and I have relied on them off and on ever since.

1. Aside #1 Some years later, Keith418 myself and our good friend JG tried, on that very spot, to bottle up the qliphoth of the Sepiroth. We had experimentally let them loose some months before. My teacher was long gone at that point, having migrated to the hill country south of the Mason Dixon line, not far from Sherman's march. We caught all but two that night. We could not capture Lilith or Gameliel, and so we were still cursed with copious doses of sluttery and men behaving like asses. Though I have to admit that I recently revived the method of binding, for controlling the qliphoth of Tiphareth in a recent legal problem that I was having and the results were miraculously effective.

2. Aside #2 When I went out to do Resh - I was of course the only one who was anywhere where the Sun could be seen, on either side. My Superior drove by and asked how the case was going. He was a delivery guy then and had a Van he drove around and made it a point to hit the courthouse at noon.

3. Asides #s 3 & 4. This would be the same place the Caliphate election would eventually be held at which I was coincidentally HB to be's driver. The Concord Hilton had one of the great pickup bars I have ever been to and I enjoyed many a loose woman there in the late 70s. Fabulous Boob to body size ratios.

4. I too had been doing astral traveling to San Francisco. A friend and I had both read Ophiel and we were trying to travel to each other’s temples alternately on the astral. It was a very interesting and amazingly successful practice. The neighborhood where I was traveling to was different but I had to pass the courthouse to get there.

5. The Ninths were actively seeking partners for martial sex magick against Motta too.

Confused in Californication

2008-11-14T05:42:50Z

Our Primate recently penned an editorial denouncing the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Since he opened this blog to comments I thought I would add my 93 cents. Unfortunately and for whatever reasons he has deemed my response unworthy of being unscreened. It is also interesting that he and none of the other yes men whose comments have been unscreened has even mentioned James Wasserman IX*'s about as equally well reasoned (given the facts of EGC) completely opposite interpretation of Thelema in relationship to Gay Marriage presented here. I present my minor disagreement with our Primate over principles as opposed to practicalities here for the amusement of my friends.

Recently I was struck by the beauty and sublimity of the use of the Gnostic Mass in the recent marriage our dear brother </b></a>and sister </b></a>kakurowski. This has been the norm in my experience of the marriages carried out in the O.T.O. community, that the bride and groom have chosen to celebrate the Gnostic Mass as the central rite of their marriage ceremony. But it seems that in regard to homosexual marriages we are doing almost exactly the same thing here that the state is doing with civil unions. We are denying them actual direct access to the sacrament of the mystical marriage by denying them the right to participate in the Gnostic Mass as Priest and Priestess. Expecting them somehow to be satisfied with vicarious participation as communicants (albeit specialized). Instead of celebrating their homosexual love we are clearly subordinating it to the heterosexual love portrayed in the traditional interpretation of the Gnostic Mass. Why should gay couples have any less a right to perform the Gnostic Mass to celebrate their marriage as heterosexual people? Seems an obvious and quite egregious example of reducing them to second class citizens, second to the heterosexuals who are the only ones who can perform an official Gnostic Mass for the purpose of marriage. I applaud your stance on political correctness here, but it seems we may have a little reorganization of our beliefs ourselves to really uphold the standards of religious liberty that are inculcated in such documents as Liber Oz and the Baghi Muattar. It really one thing to say something and something else entirely to do something. At least Unitarians, Episcopalians and Congregationalists have the right to have homosexual clergy perform their marriages, we on the other hand would only be able to recognize it in the context of an overtly heterosexual magical formula. Color me confused.

Are we still the TV generation

2008-10-22T23:48:33Z

If I believed it, it almost might make want to vote for him. This must be some "hip" neocon advisors idea of what is cool TV, I'm surprised 24 isn't on it (maybe because I don't like it). Does this somehow indicate that I am the kind of person whose vote they are courting? Interesting they didn't get it, but the idea did cross my mind once of twice. It would have been futile in a state as blue as mine in any case.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2008/10/02/john-mccains-weird-tv-habits

"McCain listed Dexter, Lost, Seinfeld and The Wire as his favorite shows, and also called Showtime's nudity-filled series The Tudors 'one of the best shows I've watched recently.'"

It's no secret that Lost and Dexter are the favored poisons of my current TV watching addiction. Seinfeld does have its moments as king of the situation comedy hill, not sure what American SitCom even comes close. I know that keith418 and anjanidevima like the Wire, so far I haven't been hooked; two episodes and I don't really find the characters interesting. Is this supposed to be better than Homicide? I do enjoy the Tudors, not as good as Rome but almost as interesting to nitpick history over. Both historical eras are particular favorites of mine and I can pick nits with the best of them, Anne B. is certainly a hottie, one can almost imagine that she is a precosious 14 year old.