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Aleister Crowley, Book of Law & Pop Culture
Lest you think that Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley, 1875-1947) was just some crazy fool that no one took seriously, think again. Crowley has had a large influence upon modern rock music. Guitarist Jimmy Page of Zeppelin is a devout follower of Satanist, Aleister Crowley, who proclaimed himself as “The Beast 666″. Aleister Crowley was also a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason and 97th Degree Memphis Rite Freemason and is recognized as the master Satanist of the 20th century. In 1971, guitarist Jimmy Page bought Crowleys Boleskine House on the shore of Loch Ness where Crowley practiced his hellish, satanic sex-magick rituals, including human sacrifices. Guitarist Jimmy Page actually performed Crowley magical rituals during their concerts. Their song “Stairway to Heaven” carries the reference “May Queen,” which is purportedly the name of a hideous poem written by Crowley. Page had inscribed in the vinyl of their album Led Zeppelin III, Crowley’s famous “Do what thou wilt. So mete it Be. Page and Robert Plant claim some of Zeppelins’ songs came via occultic “automatic handwriting,” including their popular “Stairway to Heaven.” The cover of the Sergeant Pepper’s album by the Beatles showed a background of, according to Ringo Starr, people “we like and admire” (Hit Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul mccartney said of Sgt. Pepper’s cover, “. . . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . . .” (Musician, Special Collectors Edition, – Beatles and …
Interview With Peter Lamborn Wilson
If we take the net as a metaphor for that global society then it’s inevitable that Coca-Cola and Disney World will take over. Because that is the one world – if the net retains its anarchic quality, its egalitarianism, its horizontal structure, as opposed to its pyramidical structure, then a plurality of different personhoods are possible. True communicativeness, not so much communication as communicativeness, a quality of communication not just a spectacle of communication, with a deep heart to heart or what Sufi called a ‘breast to breast.’ It’s possible the net could be a tool for this, and that is why I have retained some interest in it, though I have become more and more cynical and pessimistic. In as much that the net will be taken over by the Coca-Cola culture, it’s just going to be another medium like all other media. If the net can resist the centralization of capital and the centralization of militarism then it could fight against false globalism for a real solidarity of peoples, but is this going to happen I don’t know.
Rev. Ivan Stang at Baltimore SubGenius Devival
Rev. Ivan Stang at Baltimore SubGenius Devival
On Nov. 10, 2007, inside a huge rented Methodist church building in Baltimore, Ministers in The Church of the SubGenius enjoyed a Slack-packed devival with four bands and seven preachers, all in the name of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs. Rev. Ivan Stang herein presents the sermon known as “SubGenius 101,” which covers “Bob,” Slack and The Conspiracy for the uninitiated
Terence McKenna – Culture Is Your Operating System
A New Qabbalah Is Born
Review of Wahid Azal’s Liber Decatriarchia Mystica !
The release of Wahid Azal’s Liber Decatriarchia Mystica: Sketchings of the Thirteen Encompassing Spheres of the Tree of Reality and assorted material, spawns the birth of a new qabbalistic model of the universe.
Liber Decatriarchia Mystica is the published portion of Wahid Azal’s grimoire and in it is introduced the high qabbalistic theosophy of Bayani Gnostic Universalism with a new model of the Tree of Life consisting of 13 Spheres and 36 Subtle-Ray Pathways. This new Tree is dubbed by Azal the Tree of Reality (shajarat’ul-haqíqa). The main treatise of the work is the author’s inspired re-write of the Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzirah) based on a syncretism of a post-Islamic Ibn ‘Arabian Sufism with Alamut Isma’ilism, Hermeticism and Shamanic gnosis all wed to Bayani gnosis (Babism) radically re-interpreted and universalized within a qabbalistic framework. Besides Islamic and qabbalistic arcana, Azal also addresses Enochian magick and even rewrites the Emerald Tablet of Hermes in one of the final sections of the treatise. The glosses to the treatise provide an advanced primer on high Shi’ite Islamic esotericism with copious quotations from the works of the Essence of the Seven Letters, including Imáms ‘Alí and Ja’far Sádiq, Shaykh Ahmad Ahsá’í and Ibn ‘Arabí. A detailed treatement and a unique interpretation of the magickal Greatest Name symbol is also given. The final gloss of the treatise even reproduces one of the lost chapters of the Qur’án, bolstering the case for the succession and vicegerency of ‘Alí.
Was Timothy Leary Right?
Are psychedelics good for you? Its such a hippie relic of a question that its almost embarrassing to ask. But a quiet psychedelic renaissance is beginning at the highest levels of American science, including the National Institute of Mental Health NIMH and Harvard, which is conducting what is thought to be its first research into therapeutic uses of psychedelics in this case, Ecstasy since the university fired Timothy Leary in 1963. But should we be prying open the doors of perception again? Wasnt the whole thing a disaster the first time?
