From:    Josh Norton                            Area: MagickNet
To:      Paul Hume                              24 Aug 92 12:12:02
Subject: Re: A few questions                    UpdReq 

PH>Josh and Greg -
  >Nice summary Josh except one slip.
PH>The Greater Key of Solomon isn't comprised of chunks of the other books
  >of the Lesser Key. The Theurgia-Goetia, Almadel, and Notary (or Pauline)
  >Art, are published in different editions. There is a
  >complete edition of the Lemegeton done by the redoubtable
  >Hermetic Research Series in the UK. It has not yet been
  >release by their licensee (or acquirer) in the US, Phanes
  >Press. Anne and Nelson White, proprietors of the Magic
  >Circle
  >bookstore in Pasadena, and (I think?) among the founders of the OTA, did
  >a full edition as well.
PH>The Mathers translation (pirated by Crowley and in turn pirated by De
  >Laurence) is of course just the Goetia.
I have two books -- one titled "The Lesser Key of Solomon, or Goetia",
with an introduction by Crowley. This one lists the 72 demons and their
sigils, plus some stuff on the magickal weapons and appropriate
conjurations.
The second book, titled "The Greater Key of Solomon" and having Mathers
as the translator contains stuff not found in the Crowley book, but does
not conform to the five "parts" that I quoted. It contains Tables of the
Planetary Hours, with their Angels. Also has some extremely wordy
conjurations, instructions for various rites for specific purposes,
pantacles of the Planets, and descriptions of the proper sorts of
behavior necessary to the many parts of the magickal work. These are all
jammed together into two books, not four, which is why I assumed it was
a condensation or selection from the whole. I didn't mean to imply that
any of these were part of the Lesser Key.
 * SLMR 2.1a * Politically correct: a Maoist in Liberal clothing.


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From:    Chris Sherbak                          Area: MagickNet
To:      Graham Jenkins                         25 Aug 92 23:10:06
Subject: Re: Introduction                       UpdReq 

 -=> Quoting Graham Jenkins to All <=-
 GJ> Greetings Everybody,
 GJ> Anyway, if anyone reads this and decides to
 GJ> reply then I will know that I have set everything up right 
 GJ> here.
 And a late (but heartfelt) greeting from Southwest Michigan, where the
 nights are cold and dry or hot and sticky, whichever you prefer.  Just
 wait a day or two!
 css
... Druids do it in the woods!
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


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From:    Grendel                                Area: MagickNet
To:      Paul Busby                             24 Aug 92 20:26:00
Subject: A few questions                        Rec'd UpdReq 

 >  A>    [In] Traditional Wicca, members are Oathbound not to discuss
 >  A> the details on how [Drawing Down the Moon] is done.
 > Huh?
 Depends on which details in my book.
 Wassail,
 Grendel


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From:    Farrell McGovern                       Area: MagickNet
To:      Ellen Reed                             24 Aug 92 11:06:14
Subject: Sun? Female?                           UpdReq 

In a Lo-rez Cyberspace object, Ellen Reed @1:102/943 texturalized this 
into my current Cyberspace co-ordinates
 ER> The way I heard it was "There is only one God, he is the Sun God, 
 ER> Ra etc. Not that it matters.
    I have heard that version too...and read it in _Illuminatus!_.
ttyl
     Farrell


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From:    Farrell McGovern                       Area: MagickNet
To:      Shaman                                 24 Aug 92 11:09:18
Subject: Fundies, Fools??!!??                   UpdReq 

In a Lo-rez Cyberspace object, Shaman @93:9708/0 texturalized this 
into my current Cyberspace co-ordinates
LA>>Hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries. While the Salem Witch 
LA>>trials were very much overblown(only one person was executed), 
LA>>the trials in England and
 S> While agreed with the intent of your post, I would like to point 
 S> out that more than one person was killed in Salem.
 S> I realize I'm probably nit-picking, but as you can see there WAS 
 S> more than one person killed in Salem. You're right compared to 
 S> the burnings in Europe these aren't a lot, BUT they were more 
 S> than should have been allowed.
    When even one person is wronged because of their religious preference, 
that is a crime.
ttyl
     Farrell


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