From:    Christeos Pir                          Area: Thelema
To:      Josh Norton                             6 Aug 93 21:02:52
Subject: Re: multiple truths                    UpdReq 

 -=> Josh Norton sent a message to Frater Almost on 03 Aug 93  13:10:06 <=-
 -=> Re: Re: multiple truths <=- 
 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
 JN> Eat your grass, o cows. It's what you're supposed to do.
  My, my. Having an off week?
 Oh, and... MU!
 BTW, I'm still working on the ms of "Son of..." -- I do have some minor
 points that came to mind while reading the first part, and much of the
 second (Chapter 3) is beyond my experiences, but by-and-large it reads
 pretty well. As I've said before, I don't always agree with your
 conclusions, but then I haven't got anywhere _near_ the number of hours
 of flight time you've logged!
 I also had an exquisitely detailed, though fleeting, vision while
 reading it:
    The tablets are like a Japanese puzzle-box (or Pinhead's <G>), the
    pieces of which are the names of the "Governors". When the whole
    thing is put together, we see the names of the various angels, etc.,
    as we're used to seeing them (OROIBAHAOZPI, etc.). Calling on the
    "Governors" or Divine divisions of the world (universe?) is like
    pushing on one of those pieces, which in my vision then glided out
    for examination/use in a manner reminiscent of the scene in 2001
    where Bowman disables HAL, and were shaped in the forms of their
    sigils. This whole scene was shown superimposed on a view of the
    sky, which I understood to be showing that our physical world is on
    the surface of a Magickal or Spiritual hypersphere.
    A few moments later, I was also "told" or shown that another way of
    looking at the difference between, and interplay of, the two (the
    tablets and the "Governors") is in whether we look down (at the
    earth) or look up (at the sky)... ie, whether we concentrate on the
    elemental aspect or on the Spiritual* aspect.
 [* As you point out, they're both Spiritual, as pertaining to a `higher
 level of energy' than the manifested world. I used "Spiritual" as
 opposed to "elemental" in the above simply to differentiate between the
 `matter' and `energy' aspects of the Spiritual.]
 Love is the law, love under will.
      - Christeos Pir
 ... yea, into the mighty sea.      

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From:    Richard Kaczynski                      Area: Thelema
To:      Titus Vandessel                         6 Aug 93 10:53:42
Subject: The G.D.                               UpdReq 

 > I was under the impression that AC was asked to leave the GD by
 > Mathers, due to his publication of the GD rituals, thereby
 > breaking his oath. Mathers filed a lawsuit over the matter,
 > which he lost, & the GD splintered thereafter.
Well, it's kind of a "You can't quit, you're fired" situation.  Crowley dumped 
Mathers in 1901, a year after the big G.D. blowup.  Around 1904, when Crowley 
received the Book of the Law and, on a small scale, denounced Mathers as 
having lost touch with the Secret Chiefs and engaging in a magical war 
against their new representative (Crowley, of course), Mathers threatened to 
sue for libel and officially expelled Crowley...3-4 years after they 
originally split.  Crowley's publication of the G.D. rituals didn't happen 
until 1909-1910, which included more litigation with Mathers.  By then, much 
of the G.D. had fallen into abeyance.


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