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Re: More OTO ritual

From:

Al Billings <[log in to unmask]>

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Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:21:26 -0800

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I think the point is that you cannot prove or disprove the existence of
'God' (whatever that means) academically so the existence or
non-existence of "God" has no role in academic discourse. The discourse
has to rest of observable and provable phenomena.

Al

mina wrote:
> Jason and list,
> I know what is Academic approach very well. And I know what my heavy
> burden to call all the sages know as Yeats wrote and what Yeats's
> heavy burde is. However, I always think what magic and miracle are. We
> may read and collect the magic and miracle events like Stigmata. I
> hope you can understand the case of Yeats's automatic writing and his
> unknown instructors by the collecting books. Where are they now? They
> are angels or devils?
> Also I think that his prophetic poetry. Magic is not human beings area
> I think, but God's area, so if you can do magic power, it is from
> God's allowance. We are all going to one purpose, the achievement of
> "Unity of Being," Oneness. Yeats showed it very well and he supported
> the hidden Goddess, Immortal Rose for coming ture Rosy Peace in the
> future.
> You may read his books and his autobiographies to study his miracle
> world. That is academic study for the Occultism. And look around our
> world, and feel the reality from the Immortality. I think I am not
> separated from Yeats's magic and prophetic poetry world but it is a
> procedure because I studied, realized, and do my duty from his messages.
> What is good for Academic -study-Magic? For calling the Ideal l world
> and Immortality, we are doing, right? I analyzed and interpretated
> with many Gnostic materials, his poetry books, Occultims, Orientalism,
> Bible, his philosophies and so on. And finally I find it is a miracle
> and his sacred duty is from God. Yes, everything is from God's will.
> He was the last prophet for Immortal Rose and great magician and
> priest for Sophia. I expect it is coming to the New world after
> finishing the 2000 year period. Yes, there is coming New Age as Yeats
> wrote. It is my own thoughts? I think the greatest adepts and
> magicians may agree with my opinion.
> Mina
>
> */jason winslade <[log in to unmask]>/* ¾²±â:
>
>     I really have a problem with phrases like 'God's will' and
>     'greatest priest' in an academic forum. All this language sounds
>     awfully dogmatic, especially with talk of 'promoting prophesies'.
>     Maybe this isn't the right list for this kind of discussion?
>     Especially when you ask a question like 'how can academic study
>     about magic?'
>
>     */mina <[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
>
>         How can academic study about magic?
>         Yes, as a scholar, I have studied his poetry for over 15years
>         and finally I made my theory.
>         Therefore, I declared he is the great priest for Sophia,
>         Immortal Rose. I hope all sages and magicians will come back
>         to the greatest white magician as Yeats prophesied. How can we
>         understand and show the evidence of the magic?
>         The supreme and secret magic will be solved, although it is
>         looks like impossible to do. How we can know it? Those are our
>         behaviour and theses like this forum of Academic-study -magic?
>         As a Yeatsian, I can see the processing of Yeats's prophecy
>         and I have promoted it.
>         He already gave the Immortal Rose in the world prophetic words:
>         Dear shadows, now you know it all,
>         All the folly of a fight
>         With a common wrong or right.
>         The innocent and the beautiful.
>         Have no enemy but time;
>         Arise and bid me strike a match
>         And strike another till time catch;
>         Should the conflagration climb,
>         Run till all the sages know.
>         We the great gazebo built,
>         They convicted us of guilt;
>         Bid me strike a match and blow
>         Let's analyze this poem. Yes, it is prophetic poem. It is the
>         messenger of Sophia's prophecy, mystic poem. It is King
>         Athur's Magic Sword.
>         Yeats was defeated and he has waited for the right time, and
>         he wrote the importatant messeage for Immortal Rose to do in
>         the future " Arise and bid me strike a match / Should the
>         conflagration climb, / Run till all the sages know."
>         Yeats is waiting for the Immortal Rose will be awakened and
>         arise by his calling with his love poems and bid him to old
>         ancient wisdom will come and spread.
>         Who is the real priest for Immortal Rose, Divine feminine?
>         It is time for New Age. Yeats shows his prophecy, The Second
>         Coming and recovery of the Divine Feminine in his whole poetry
>         and many stories.
>         His words and authority are all from God, his unknown
>         instructors. His role was the masculine principle, Christ and
>         he left his poetry for the feminine principle to awaken. Yes,
>         the masculine principle, Christ protects the feminine
>         principle, Sophia. How can we show the evidence of his unknown
>         instructors and the presence of the hidden Goddess, Holy Grail
>         in the world? Only God allows it to the chosen man.
>         I have the evidence of Yeats as the greatest gnostic priest
>         and chosen man from his whole poetry and his anotehr works
>         such as essays and short story books. I opened his prophecy in
>         academic area as a my Ph.D. thesis and my many other theses.
>         He has the greatest vision for future generation, our
>         generation, so I have tried to show it. We can make the
>         evidence of God's will, Yeats's prophecy by analyzing his
>         whole poetry and declaring and showing all miracle things in
>         academic study areas.
>         Although my theory is looks like my personal opinion, at least
>         I can help Yeats's prophetic poetry and God's will as Yeats
>         prophesied. And I can do "Run till all the sages know." It is
>         miracle and magic so I at least analyze Yeats's mystic poetry
>         and now it seemed to my own belief but it is from God's will
>         analyzed Yeats's whole messages to his descendants.
>         Mina
>
>         */diane yoder <[log in to unmask]>/* ¾²±â:
>
>             Such statements as "Yeats was chosen by God" hold more to
>             a glib personal belief than something that can be
>             discussed in an academic manner.
>
>             Although I do agree Yeats' occult beliefs are understudied
>             in English literature. Those of us in the discipline of
>             Religion and Literature are keen on studying his
>             religious/occult beliefs.
>
>             Diane Yoder
>             MA candidate
>             Antioch University-McGregor
>             Yellow Springs, Ohio
>
>             On 11/26/06, *mina* < [log in to unmask]
>             <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>                 Dear Mogg and list,
>                 Mogg:
>                 I like the comments about Yeats - I agree he is a much
>                 misunderstood
>                 magical genius - on the otherhand comments such as
>                 'crowley was a black
>                 magician' is a bit too glib - you need to say more -
>                 especially on such
>                 a list.
>                 I understand your words, mogg. I don't know Crowley's
>                 magic, because I don't need to study it. However, I
>                 know Yeats is a great white magician and he was chosen
>                 man by God to sacred duty for the feminine prinicple,
>                 Daughter Sophia who is staying with mankind. Yeats's
>                 poetic purpose is to awaken Sophia. You may can know
>                 when you only read his Rose poetry. The last 2000
>                 years was dark age and masculine age so the feminine
>                 principle was hidden. I think all magicians and
>                 hermits's final purposes are to acheive "Unity of
>                 Being" as Yeats emphasized: unite the masculine and
>                 the feminine principles. Although Yeats is looks like
>                 defeated man, he and all heavens are witing for the
>                 right time, because God only decided time to Judge and
>                 clean up the world. Yeats is waiting for his
>                 descendants, the upstanding young men. Nowadays, I
>                 find Yeats has not been to acknowledged as the great
>                 magician and the priest for Sophia as the last prophet
>                 for Immortal Rose. It is all God's will so Yeats also
>                 is waiting for the right time.
>                 All magicians and sages should know Yeats's messages
>                 in his magic poems. And I think it will be happened
>                 because "there is no enemy but tiem."
>                 I have read some books of Rosicrucianism, Cabalism, I
>                 do not study OTO ritual. However, I at least think it
>                 is time for us to know Yeats's magic power and open
>                 his great message for coming New World, New Age, Rosy
>                 Peace.
>                 In Light,
>                 Mina
>
>
>                 */Mandrake of Oxford < [log in to unmask]
>                 <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>/* ¾²±â:
>
>                     Dear all
>
>                     interesting discussion - although it is in danger of
>                     accepting the equation that
>                     Thelema = OTO
>                     its surely a slice of, rather than the whole cake ; )
>                     Its a moot point how many thelemite are nonaligned
>                     / independent -
>                     perhaps the majority?
>
>                     I thought sites such as Lashtal were non-aligned
>                     resources
>                     - hence their value
>                     (rather than the supposed 'academic' aura?
>                     the authors might or might no possess?)
>
>                     Some OTOs have abandoned the gnostic mass
>                     - although it was perhaps the one ritual designed
>                     for them - )
>                     There are other Thelemic rites - connected with
>                     the secrets of eucharist
>                     magick - or better still up your own ;)
>
>                     The consumption of sacramental food is a tradition
>                     far older than gnostic christianity -
>                     i'd thought the cooking would remove any
>                     biological danger
>                     - is that naive?
>
>
>                     I like the comments about Yeats - I agree he is a
>                     much misunderstood
>                     magical genius - on the otherhand comments such as
>                     'crowley was a black
>                     magician' is a bit too glib - you need to say more
>                     - especially on such a
>                     list.
>
>                     bb/93
>
>                     mogg
>
>                     : ) .....................................: )
>                     Mandrake.uk.net <http://mandrake.uk.net/>
>                     Publishers
>                     PO Box 250, Oxford, OX1 1AP
>                     +44 1865 243671
>                     homepage:
>                     Blogs =
>                     http://mogg-morgan.blogspot.com
>                     <http://mogg-morgan.blogspot.com/>
>                     http://mandox.blogspot.com
>                     <http://mandox.blogspot.com/>
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>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>                     >
>                     > Other examples of things the OTO does would be
>                     the Rites of Eleusis
>                     > (which, as a Classics major, I can say have
>                     nothing to do with the
>                     > ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries).
>                     > But it gives you an idea of the respectable
>                     types of things OTO
>                     > generally does.
>                     > http://oto93.com/eleusis.html
>                     <http://oto93.com/eleusis.html>
>
>                     Perhaps there has been some sort of fundamental
>                     change with regard to the protocols of the Gnostic
>                     Mass, but I still take issue with the established
>                     practice of feeding menstrual blood and sperm to
>                     uninformed attendees by way of the 'Cakes of Light'.
>
>                     Cors in Manu Domine,
>
>
>                     ~ Khem Caigan
>
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