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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 29, 2010 10:55:56 GMT
I actually read a few Crowley biographies (can't actually remember how many now as it was a long time ago - at least three anyway). I browsed my shelves and found the one I never could get into. It is by John Symmonds and a translation, published by one of our esoteric publishers. The Great Beast. Seems to by Mayflower originally. I think that may have been the first one I read. The two I know for a fact that I read and enjoyed were "A Magick Life" (by Martin Booth) and "Do What Thou Wilt" (by Lawrence Sutin), but I can't differentiate between them in my mind now.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 29, 2010 11:03:17 GMT
That's pretty much it - plus a bit of dressing up and prancing about. drstrange
Love it. Best summary of the occult in a long while.
Here's a paraphrase of Samael Aun Weor a noted occultist.
Weor says that when the orgasm is reached the christic atoms are expelled and replaced, via genital orgasmic contraction, with what he calls impure "atoms" of fornication": When, through willpower, the akashic current meets the "atoms of fornication" so that instead of rising, the energy is rejected by the divine triad (atman-buddhi-manas) and is forced downward into the atomic infernos of the human being, which forms the "tail of satan", (the kundabuffer, or negatively polarized kundalini).
Can you imagine attempting that line on your first date?
'Fancy a coffee? By the way...'
On a serious note I would recommend Crowley's '777' dictated to a student I think. It is a superb erudite work and shows that Crowley was an adept. On the other hand I would go carefully with anything else he wrote because he loved deceit.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 29, 2010 11:14:12 GMT
Weor says that when the orgasm is reached the christic atoms are expelled and replaced, via genital orgasmic contraction, with what he calls impure "atoms" of fornication": When, through willpower, the akashic current meets the "atoms of fornication" so that instead of rising, the energy is rejected by the divine triad (atman-buddhi-manas) and is forced downward into the atomic infernos of the human being, which forms the "tail of satan", (the kundabuffer, or negatively polarized kundalini). Yeah, I've had that. Kundabuffer. Bit like a Kinder egg. Only buffer.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 29, 2010 11:18:21 GMT
Characters like Crowley are like a gift from heaven for writers of horror fiction (if you'll forgfive the expression). I've used Crowley-like characters several times in my stories, as I know have others. I'll probably use them again.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 29, 2010 12:26:16 GMT
Characters like Crowley are like a gift from heaven for writers of horror fiction (if you'll forgfive the expression). I've used Crowley-like characters several times in my stories, as I know have others. I'll probably use them again. Are you saying, "if he hadn't existed, it would have been necessary to invent him" ?
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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 29, 2010 12:31:08 GMT
Characters like Crowley are like a gift from heaven for writers of horror fiction (if you'll forgfive the expression). I've used Crowley-like characters several times in my stories, as I know have others. I'll probably use them again. Are you saying, "if he hadn't existed, it would have been necessary to invent him" ? And re-invent him several times over. Would we have been able to invent someone quite so iconic? That he existed casts a nice glow of authenticity over any created character based on him. I wouldn't have liked to have been him. I probably wouldn't have liked to have met him, let alone have gotten to know the man. But I'm glad he existed.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 29, 2010 13:55:25 GMT
All this talk about the Black Pearl series, has reminded me of a book I picked up a while ago: Black Plume - The Suppressed Memoirs of Edgar Allan Poe - David Madsen (1980, Grafton 1991). Does anyone know if it might be Suster under a pseudonym? Further, on the subject of libraries & the occult, I did once request a book on demonology through an interloan search, that was mentioned in Lovecraft (but did actually exist). No surprise that the most recently published copy was with the British Library, but was too old for them to lend out. The letter I received pointed me to a weblink for an online version - as I didn't have internet access at the time, I used the library & was greeted with this page: Forbidden - reason: Occult . I believe the book I was after was Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.
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Post by marksamuels on Jul 29, 2010 14:01:36 GMT
All this talk about the Black Pearl series, has reminded me of a book I picked up a while ago: Black Plume - The Suppressed Memoirs of Edgar Allan Poe - David Madsen (1980, Grafton 1991). Does anyone know if it might be Suster under a pseudonym? No idea! But it's been added to my "wants list". Porno Poe? Crikey. The closest thing I can think of, in my sheltered experience, was when Marc Olden has an aghast Poe visit a trannie sex party in Poe Must Die!Mark S.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 29, 2010 14:21:27 GMT
All this talk about the Black Pearl series, has reminded me of a book I picked up a while ago: Black Plume - The Suppressed Memoirs of Edgar Allan Poe - David Madsen (1980, Grafton 1991). Does anyone know if it might be Suster under a pseudonym? No idea! But it's been added to my "wants list". Porno Poe? Crikey. The closest thing I can think of, in my sheltered experience, was when Marc Olden has an aghast Poe visit a trannie sex party in Poe Must Die!Mark S. Well it's not quite that, from the look of the back blurb, but still sounds good. Cover & Blurb of Grafton edition: Cover Artist: Ian Miller
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 29, 2010 14:49:03 GMT
...as I didn't have internet access at the time, I used the library & was greeted with this page: Forbidden - reason: Occult. I believe the book I was after was Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. Brilliant. One last non-fiction recommendation - "Grimoires: A History of Magic Books" by Owen Davis. Includes a chapter on the fictional grimoires of HPL, REH, CAS, et al.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 29, 2010 22:32:14 GMT
Thanks for that, Dr. Strange, I'll look out for it. Don't know if I'm being to hopeful, to try & check the library catalogue .
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Post by marksamuels on Jul 30, 2010 13:30:57 GMT
Dang, H.P. !!! I thought that Black Plume book would be more like this: I must go and have a lie-down. Mark S.
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Post by humgoo on Dec 16, 2022 14:11:51 GMT
My good mate Ray Russell did once get one of those handwritten curses from Gerald;quite the full monty. But his wife Rosalie binned it, I believe. From R. B. Russell, Fifty Forgotten Books (And Other Stories, 2022), pp.121-3:
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Post by helrunar on Dec 16, 2022 16:58:42 GMT
Great anecdote! Suster sounds ridiculously self-important as so many "black magicians" are... the whole trip is an attempt at compensating for a massive inferiority complex--and in Suster's case, an overwhelming case of narcissism.
The homoerotic lashings of ginger cream are an interesting twist I haven't heard of in other accounts of this colorful figure.
Best, Steve
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 16, 2022 17:14:04 GMT
My good mate Ray Russell did once get one of those handwritten curses from Gerald;quite the full monty. But his wife Rosalie binned it, I believe. From R. B. Russell, Fifty Forgotten Books (And Other Stories, 2022), pp.121-3: You just made me buy the Kindle edition of FIFTY FORGOTTEN BOOKS! There is something similar by Christopher Fowler that I enjoyed.
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