From: Josh Norton Area: MagickNet To: Erin 10 Sep 92 11:42:02 Subject: Irish Sources and Stuff UpdReq ER> Give me an Oriental language any day of the week! They are simplicity >itself. None of this complicated grammar, these >declensions of nouns, these conjugations of verbs, these >exceptions to rules governed by blood temperature and how >hot the moon is. All you have to learn is the character >system. And even it's not as intimidating as it looks. > Erin Did you ever try to learn to SPEAK Chinese? There are lots of words that can only be distinguished by the inflection the speaker puts on them. I.e., whether his voice rises or falls at certain points, and by how much the pitch of the voices changes. This use of tonality is much more complex than in Western languages, and very difficult for English-speakers to get used to. * SLMR 2.1a * Follow a Paranoid 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Swinger Area: MagickNet To: Stephen Hovey 11 Sep 92 15:41:38 Subject: cards UpdReq Hi I just had to jump in to say that for the most part I agree with your observation on Tarot. However in 30 years of reading I have never had a problem with calling on higher powers for help and guidiance with my readings. reasonable protection will sift out the "astral riff-raft. Swinger 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Wind-Walker Area: MagickNet To: Tony Iannotti 10 Sep 92 18:23:06 Subject: The Book Of Thoth UpdReq quoting TONY IANNOTTI To: JONATHON BLAKE ___------------------------------------------------------------------------ TI}> Yes, I knew this, and also it is described in MTP as TI}>``[A]n account of the divine perfection illustrated by the TI}>seven-fold permutation of the dyad[,]'' which sounds more TI}>to me like a planetary system. (the only seven I find in TI}>216 is the six lines plus a summary) Anybody ever looked at the Stanza's of Dzyan? Also liber trigrammaton? any possibility that either of those are it? Or Crowly playing around with the planetary sigils, etc from Enochian? TI}> What I should have said was that the Equinox III(7) was called the Shih TI}>Yi, but that it's contents are the Yi King. However, some TI}>books, like the Tao Teh King, Liber Nike, and Liber TI}>Cadaveris, did have more than one number. not forgetting liber AL having two numbers. << tho if one wants to be really picky it is two different works. >> << I knew there was fatal flaw in my thinking there. >> Love Is The Law, Love Under Will. Wind-Walker * SLMR 2.1a * Coup de grace -- French for lawnmower? 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718