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| 23s Everywhere |
[Aug. 21st, 2007|09:04 pm] |
Numerology (along with biblio-addiction) appears to be a common piece of travelling luggage for Occultists. Numbers like the glyphs of thee Hebrew alphabet (which are themselves numbers in esoteric Kabbalistic Gematria) are liable to swarm in synchrinistic clouds. Ov late I've been travelling through one such cloud.
As always it gets hard to see what's behind you once you enter their slipstream. Was it thee release this year of thee motion picture The Number 23 featuring a movie noire Jim Carey ? Or something that has been creeping up on me thee longer E keep that Absinthe Totemic diary of Mr Crowley in my library ? Its always easy to tell when you enter that swarm-field though as all of a sudden there is a tendency to see or to start looking for connections.
The music of Coil led me in a slow moving arc through this reality distortion field - the Ape of Naples album echoing constanly around thee peripheral. Every now and then my own responses (www.purevolume.com/gothick) reaching through as counter-tunes. Backwards through time thee currents pulled me, first to Sleazy and then to TG and somehow via The Endless Not to PTV3. And then thee King/Queen of Cultural Engineering exploded all around. Thee name rang a huge Tibetan bell buried in thee subconscious. Again was it Mezlim magazines from thee 80s ? Or more possibly Thee New Equinox magazines, laden with thee currents of thee new English Qabbalah?
Hard to tell, but here in thee centre of thee storm E face magicks from thee past of TOPY and magicks from thee future. In two days time thee Ritual Ov Thee Three Liquids will dance around me like a crazy sigil-laden party whilst the Magus within utters enough of this old-skool methodology. Enough of thee tactics of shock and awe. But you have to admire the courage and individuality of an artist such as Genesis P-Orridge, from the shock-art of Coum Transmissions to the pop-art of Psychic TV to thee rock-art of PTV3. Truly is every man and wo/man a star! Or a Godstar maybe ;-)
And where was 23 in all of this ? Oh yes, hiding on all those PTV3 albums, like silent memes seeded in thee space-time continoum. As an emnation of thee dieties of thee Lovecraft Mythos, thee 23 current is liable to operate beyond space-time. Thee interesting thing is its ability to strengthen itself through association. For if E were to pack a handfull ov books in my pirate-chest cum wizard's trunk to take away to a desert shore they would have to include R.A Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati along with 777 (just to be sure of the connections) ! Cosmic Trigger I has always seemed totemic itself in some strange way, as if all its magicks of chance and Sirius-borne communication just pour out, infiltrating space-time again and again, opening your eyes to their very existance and then them seeping within your periphery.
And if you look into thee face of Chronzon long enough you will see patterns and believe yourself to understand. That is why thee Oath of the Abyss is so dangerous, to see greater meaning in all things is to experience mankind's true capacity for delusion .....
So I walk through the blackened swarms of chaos, dancing through thee City Ov Thee Pyramids, crossing thee abyss! |
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| So Which Major Atu am I ? |
[Nov. 2nd, 2005|12:58 pm] |
You are the Magician card. Magick is the use of the
will to effect change in reality. The will is
the ability to direct knowledge and experience
towards an end goal. The Magician is capable of
manipulating his environment because he knows
it so well. He effects the thoughts and
emotions of those around him. Therefore, the
Magician is often thought of as an artist,
writing or speaking in a way that strongly
influences others. The Magician understands how
to bring concepts into form and how to express
metaphysical concepts in a physical way. He is
seen with the symbols of each suit: a disk, a
cup, a sword and a wand. These symbols are each
a physical expression of a concept. They are
The Magician's tools. Following after The Fool,
The Magician acts as a messenger. His planet is
Mercury, who is Messenger of the Gods. He
brings The Fool into the new world that The
Fool seeks. The Magician represents the act of
creation. Because he can use his knowledge to
form something new, he seems to be able to make
a thing appear out of a void. Image from: L. S.
Irish.
http://www.muttart.com/originals/magician.htm
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| The Devil Rides Out |
[Nov. 1st, 2005|08:20 am] |
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Just the right film for Halloween! Its been some time since I first saw this and on this viewing I was struck by just how much properly-researched information Wheatley put into this. For example, the villain Mocata quotes Crowley's description of magick being "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will". He has Crowley's famous penetrating stare. The Duc De Richleau uses portions of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram when constructing his protective circle. Ok so the effects are not so special these days but the sabbat devil is still quite striking and the use of Eliphas Levi images in interior and costume design quite striking. |
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| Daigon Alley - London |
[Oct. 24th, 2005|10:34 am] |
Having visited London for many years the walk down to the British Museum and Museum Street is second-nature. Finding the Atlantis Bookshop is easy on auto-pilot, though through the years the place has changed somewhat! Now its all trendy pine bookshops, decent lighting and a window full of Da-Vinci (isn't Mr Brown popular) tarot cards. You can still make out the old fireplace in the room but the days of locked bookcases full of first editions of The Equinox or Magick in Theory and Practice seem a long way off - or maybe they're just hidden downstairs with the Equinox Bookshop ex stock these days !
I did my usual scan of the shelves. Its a ritual I've practiced for many years - I'm looking for something special in the Crowley line but never quite manage to find it. Back in the seventies you could carry on down Totenham Court Road to some of the old second hand bookshops and find Duckworth editions of the Magical Record or old Magick's back when Grant was allowed to put the OTO lamen on the spine. Nowadays its much, much harder.
So I left Atlantis empty handed - having dalied with a copy of Silk Milk by the illustrious acrobat come chaos magician Orryelle (who I once missed suspended from a tree in Brighton during a Thelemic Symposium), reconciling the traditional hermetic magician looking for grimoire talismans with the 21st centuring chaos mage, looking to bend any method to his Will. Both lost out.
And so, for the first time, I made my way down to Daigon Alley. That's what it should really be called. The muggles (ha ha, just maintaining the Harry thing for a while there) call it Cecil Court and its the home of Watkins Bookshop and Esoteric Centre. Ok, so its got that new-age, clean, pine bookshelf feel but it has been around since the 1800s! Downstairs is the second-hand section but that only threw up a couple of Kenneth Grant reprints by Skoob. Do you rememember when you couldn't get hold of Images and Oracles of Austin Spare for love or money ? I saw my first edition in my local library of all places and spent years hunting down the Alphabet of Desire. Fulgar made things a lot easier with their reprint and the other big yellow Spare book.
So I began the ritual in Watkins - a £40 white Enochian volume vied with old Peter Carrol books for my attention. The Shadow of Solomon jumped out the in-house magazine and promised to intrigue the Historic Templar Archaeologist within. And there were those damned Da-Vinci tarot again !
The rest of the arcade holds equally intriguing bookshops and you half-ecpect to see a wand or cauldron shop around the corner. Fortunately Watkins' Esoteric Centre has plenty of crystal tips to put on that "found in the woods" made by hand Wicca wand you always wanted.
I left with my booty (including the new A4 zine The Oracle)and on the way back in Monmouth Street stopped by Mysteries. This shop has always had more of a new-age feel than the hardcore Magick aura of Atlantios and sure enough people were being ushered upstairs to a waiting room before having their cards read or whatever happens round the place. New bookshelevs here too and again very little in the hermetic line. Its as if everyone has fallen out of a bad episode of Buffy or Charmed - plenty of teen wicca wannabe material but little of any merit. Is this a reflection on publishers only being prepared to issue safe titles ? Of the industry being run by a few imprints ? Gone are the days of Cape and Thorsons and Element. It was nice to see a reprint of Gardener's High Magic's Aid (by those rascals IMHO Books) in Watkins but only ambient chakra hi-hop in Mysteries.
So in summary it was good to find Watkins and hard to believe that in all these years I'd never visited before. The arcade does have plenty of atmosphere and who knows, perhaps Zendiq's Fine Wands for Gentlemen Wizards will be opening soon! |
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| A Fortune-Teller Told Me |
[Oct. 10th, 2005|09:59 am] |
Recently I've been reading this little book - A Fortune-Teller Told Me : Earthbound Travels in the Far East
by Tiziano Terzani - which I found interesting having travelled extensively in the Far East myself. The author obviously find the spread of western materialism and values in the East distatsteful and the viewpoint of other times he brings to places such as Singapore is most interesting. The book focuses on a prophecy given to him in Hong Kong and by which he decides to live out a year without flying. The encounters with various fortune-tellers, seers and mediums - many of the chinese disporia are interesting in the similarity of answers he receives which appear close to the mark. |
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| And I Searched for my Lovecratian Self |
[Oct. 7th, 2005|09:46 am] |
I amNyarlathotep!
The 999 forms of Nyarlathotep are a point of meditation for the true initiate. It is through these manifold faces that the secrets of the universe are made known. Called "The Crawling Chaos", Nyarlathotep is the disembodied ego of Azathoth and thus the universal "I" of known reality. Some of the many documented forms are; Father of Knives, Nephren-Ka, the Black Man, the Beast of the Lashing Tongue to name a few.
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| Mutating Musical Currents |
[Oct. 7th, 2005|08:57 am] |
The past few weeks I've been working on some musical compositions. What started out as a single album's worth is quickly mutating into a double one! What started out as instrumental, chilled pieces with pian and bass are morphing into hard guitar numbers and acoustic Dyalanesque works. The title has gone from Neon Chilll to Abyss Walker and will probably change again before its completed. The later title hints at the more esoteric and Lovecraftian themese that started to develop in instrumental pieces such as "John Dee's Crystal" and "From the Oceans of Innsmouth".
So if you're interested go to http://www.t3kton.com and download the free MP3s.
Here in Albion autumn is starting to kick in, mist covering the hills and the chill of winter strating to brush everything. Its a good time to head out to the stone circles that scatter the land around these parts and awake the spirits ready for Samhain. |
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