There are no ''wizards'' within the Masonic grades. Freemasonry is not a magickal society. You seem to be asking why are some countries poor when they have a rich history of societal shamanism? What has financial wealth to do with it?If magic is so easy, why are nations, in which the practice of shamanism is a tradition, among the poorest in the world while the wizards of free masonry rule the world? Red Garter anyone?
Oh, the hippie was one, too?Apparently. I'd be more shocked by the hippie.
I believe that I was once almost shot by a college professor because I said the phrase, " This staff makes me feel like a king in Africa. Only by his handler shouting repeatedly,"He does not know what he's saying" Did I escape with my life.
Nina Kulagina
The trouble I have with both philosophy and magick is ]they tend towards abstruse terminology that can only be understood by 'insiders' who have been initiated into the system. I'm not a joiner and I distrust jargon.
Try Chaos Magic mate...make it up as you go along And I'm much the same- I'm not a joiner and not one to bow down to someone's self-appointed grandeur.
Not without critics though. Personally it's impossible for me to believe either way.
This is plain odd: Cossack magick pracktitioners erected a monument to Aleister Crowley, then set it aflame. They claim him as the guardian angel of the Kuban region (more or less the current day Krasnodar territory, but harking back to when it was Cossack land), since apparently the number 93 of Krasnodar territory's position in the list of Russian subjects (roughly equivalent to counties) was also significant in Crowley's belief system. Most modern-day Kuban Cossacks, though, are much more likely to profess allegiance to the Orthodox Church, and I suspect they would not take kindly to this group. But before you get too warmly disposed towards them, that article concludes by reporting another of their magickal rituals: encircling Cossack monuments with salt, "to protect them from Gays, terrorists, Banderovtsy (ww2-era Ukrainian separatists with Nazi links - a dig at modern day Ukrainians who object to the Russian occupation) and Turks"
I have long been interested in the strain of black magic practiced by far-right, ultra-nationalist Eastern European groups and organisations.
PUBLISHED: February 12, 2017 07:59
Rare Aleister Crowley book could raise £1,000 for Shrewsbury charity shop
A Shrewsbury charity bookshop is set for a windfall after receiving a rare work by legendary English occultist Aleister Crowley.
The town's Oxfam Book Shop has decided to put the book, which was limited to a print run of 200, on eBay with a hope of raising £1,000.
The book, Tannhauser, is unusual in that it is based on an opera by Wagner, and was confined to such a limited print run.
Store manager, Tom Coton, explained how the shop came into possession of the rare copy.
Speaking of lucky Crowley finds, I picked up a copy of the Book of Lies at a library book sale a few months ago for 75 cents.
I read through it last week. Couldn't make heads nor tails of it.
Does anyone on this board think they've managed to filter out the nonsense and find enlightenment through Crowley's work?
And don't worry - Crowley went to great lengths to make his work unreadable filling it with nonsense, disinformation, private jokes and phony esoteric mumbo-jumbo. Hence - Book of Lies.
It's not just'im. When sociology was the big new thing, it was written up in deliberately obfuscatory styles to make it sound complex and important. Using huge obscure words where simple ones would do was way of showing how intellectual you were, Dude. (It was usually dudes.) Pretentious and pathetic.
It's not just'im. When sociology was the big new thing, it was written up in deliberately obfuscatory styles to make it sound complex and important. Using huge obscure words where simple ones would do was way of showing how intellectual you were, Dude. (It was usually dudes.) Pretentious and pathetic.