On 13/05/2013 18:11, Pitch wrote:
The debate seems a bit long winded and I couldn't really stick with it
long enough to
get to the point - i find a lot of comments on Liber Al a little boring
- especially those involving so-called "gematria".
Can someone summarise the change?
Wonders whether the picking over of the already well fleshed crowley
corpse is evidence of a lack of magical creativity?
Wonders why crowley's egyptian communicators were so dyslexic ?
Is there a change of authorship for supernatural Aiwass to Aleister
Crowley the human being ?
Was once thought that Liber Al was exempt from wrangling over trade
marks and copyrights - is this more of the same?
Magical Libers (written by humans) to tend to evolve
"Love and do what you will"
Mogg Morgan
> Aloha,
>
> On 5/13/2013 2:21 AM, D G Mattichak jr wrote:
>
> >There has been a debate in the Thelemite world lately over a proposed
> change to the text of the Book of
> >the Law by OHO of OTO William Breeze. It thought that this might be
> of interest to some of the people
> >here on the list.
>
> A few thoughts & observations:
>
> 1.) It appears the Crowley was not a particularly careful editor or
> manager of the publishing process. No reason that he should have been.
> But uncertainties about authorial intention and document content
> arise later because of it.
>
> 2.) I swear that I've read similar arguments about a number of authors
> and works in a number of literary journals over the years. Reminds me
> that lit crit techniques and outlooks may bear even on matters of
> occulture.
>
> 3.) The change from "fill" to "kill" does alter the meaning of the
> poem. I
> suppose that it equally alters the conditions of rituals proceeding
> from the poem.
> So, for OTO practitioners, the change of a word holds greater import than
> a footnote about variant readings would have for a reader (like me).
>
> 4.) If discarnate entities want us human practitioners to transcribe
> their
> words as communicated, then they probably owe us a great deal more on
> the unambiguity front. Why not, in the early 20th Century, use radio and
> Morse code, for example? Maybe Crowley wasn't really certain which word
> Aiwass communicated--Some noise in the psychic channels!?! Peculiarities
> of accent?!? A moment's distraction?!?
>
> 5.) What really surprised me was that OTO practitioners took to
> Change.org
> to petition for and against this change of a word! It somehow
> normalizes the
> role of the Interwebz in occulture in a manner that I hadn't noticed.
> Something
> for me to remember when one of the Trads I'm affiliated with has a
> dispute.
>
> Musing Agitation In The Etheric World! Rose,
>
> Pitch
> has taken psychic dictation and made errors
>
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