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Subject: October 1998 e.v. Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter
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Copyright (c) O.T.O. and the Individual Authors, 1998 e.v.
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Calendar events in the San Francisco Bay Area for October 1998 e.v., in
brief. Always call the contact phone number before attending. Some are
limited in size, change location and may be subject to other adjustments.
When you call, you don't get lost or disappointed. Initiations are private.
Donations at all OTO events are welcome.
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The viewpoints and opinions expressed herein are the responsibility of the
contributing authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of OTO or its
officers.
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10/2/98 Lesser feast of Jack Parsons
10/4/98 Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
10/5/98 The Rite of Luna 8PM (510) 527-2855 Sirius Oasis
10/6/98 Enochian Watchtowers class with (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
Frater Majnun 8PM
10/7/98 College of Hard NOX 8 PM (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
with Mordecai in the library
10/11/98 Lodge luncheon meeting 12:30 (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
10/11/98 Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
10/12/98 Lesser Feast of Aleister Crowley (510) 527-2855
at Ancient Ways Store in Oakland
7:30 PM
10/13/98 Enochian Watchtowers class with (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
Frater Majnun 8PM
10/15/98 Ritual Study Workshop with Cynthia (510) 658-9393 Thelema Ldg.
8:00 PM
10/17/98 The Rite of Earth at OZ House (510) 654-3580
(call for time)
10/18/98 Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
10/18/98 The Lesser Feast of Grady McMurtry
10/19/98 Section II reading group with (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
Caitlin: Sidonia the Sorceress
by Meinhold. 8PM OZ House
10/22/98 Ritual Study Workshop with Cynthia (510) 658-9393 Thelema Ldg.
8:00 PM
10/25/98 Finnegans Wake reading 4:18 PM (510) 428-0870
10/25/98 Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
10/26/98 Sirius Oasis meeting 8:00 PM (510) 527-2855 Sirius Oasis
in Berkeley
10/28/98 College of Hard NOX 8 PM (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
with Mordecai in the library
10/31/98 All Hallows Eve OTO initiations (510) 652-3171 Thelema Ldg.
(call to attend)
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Announcements from
Lodge Members and Officers
Brother Satyr, Scourge Forth
"Behold her, Madonna-like, throned and crowned, veiled, silent, awaiting
the promise of the future. She is Isis and Mary, Istar and Bhavani, Artemis
and Diana." The Rite of Luna concludes Aleister Crowley's cycle of Rites of
Eleusis on Monday evening 5th October at Sirius Oasis in Berkeley, beginning
at 8:00. This will be the evening of the Harvest Moon, full in Aries.
Onlookers are invited to contribute to this ritual by bringing a good supply
of some favorite beverage for the libations, of which the traditional nine-
fold service is planned; feel free to bring lunar snacks as well. Dress if
you please in white and silver or pale shades of blue. "But Artemis is still
barren of hope until the spirit of the Infinite All, great Pan, tears asunder
the veil and displays the hope of humanity, the Crowned Child of the Future."
"The Rite of Earth" is a grounding exercise which has been added by local
tradition to many of our cycles of the Rites. This year a newly written Rite
of Earth ritual will be offered, as a summation to close out our nineteenth
performance of Liber DCCCL, in the back garden at Oz House in Oakland, on
Saturday afternoon 17 October. Call Oz at (510) 654-3580 for time and
directions, and to contribute to the event.
Thelemic Birthday Boys
Early in the autumn we observe the lesser feasts of three pioneering
Thelemites, each of whose leadership efforts was critical in determining the
style and direction of Ordo Templi Orientis, particularly as it came to be
established in California in the 1930s e.v. and revived here in the 1970s.
Not only was Aleister Crowley born this month in 1875, but Jack Parsons and
Grady McMurtry, his two young correspondents who first discussed in 1946 e.v.
the establishment of Thelema Lodge in northern California, had also been born
under the sign of the scales. As Grady enjoyed pointing out, all three men
were poets, and often sent their verses to one another. Our celebrations of
their lives will take the form of readings, with all who attend welcome to
bring favorite short passages and texts to read. If possible, try to bring a
favorite portrait photograph or an artistic representation as well, to show
around. For the feast of Jack Parsons on Friday evening 2nd October we have
not confirmed a location at press time, but those interested are welcome to
call the lodge in the preceding days for information. (That same night there
will be a tenth anniversary party at the Ancient Ways store -- for which
Thelema Lodge extends warm congratulations -- which is likely to be infused
with the spirit of Jack Parsons later on in the evening. No, we don't mean
tequila!)
Crowleymas will be celebrated there at the Ancient Ways store in Oakland,
at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and 41st Street, beginning at 7:30, and
sponsored by Sirius Oasis. Bring light food and drinks to share, and your
favorite short Crowley texts to read, as well as your favorite portrait of the
Beast. The following Sunday afternoon at 6:00, before mass on 18th October,
we will gather at Thelema Lodge to read from the poetry and other writings of
Grady McMurtry, who founded this lodge on Crowleymas Day 21 years ago.
Gnostic Catholic Church
The gnostic mass celebrated every Sunday at nightfall at Thelema Lodge is
an open ritual, and all whose will it is to participate with us in communion
at the climax of this pagan eucharist ceremony are welcome in Horus Temple.
Arrive by 8:00 to be ready when the deacon calls us into the sanctuary at the
opening of the ritual. Those who have not previously attended lodge events
should contact the lodgemaster by telephone for directions and information.
To serve the lodge as an officer in the gnostic mass, get together with other
communicants to learn and rehearse the ceremony, and discuss your efforts with
one of our gnostic bishops, then ask the lodgemaster for a date on the temple
calendar.
M.'. M.'. M.'.
Initiations in Ordo Templi Orientis are next scheduled at Thelema Lodge for
Saturday afternoon 31st October, Hallowe'en Day. All who wish to attend are
asked to confer ahead of time with one of the lodge officers for information
regarding the degrees to be worked and the time to arrive. Initiation rituals
usually conclude with a feast for all involved, and those attending as
witnesses are welcome to contribute drinks and dessert dishes to this meal.
Application for candidacy may be made to the lodge, using the requisite form
for each degree, by anyone who is free, of full age, and of good report. Each
application must be signed by two active members of the degree being sought.
Following submission of the completed application to the lodge, it will be
mailed to the U S Initiation Secretary's office for registration and
verification. The applicant assumes responsibility for maintaining good
contact with the lodge throughout the period of candidacy, which will always
exceed one month in duration. When one is not able to attend lodge events
during this interim, or otherwise communicate with the officers of the lodge,
candidacy will lapse for all practical purposes. No initiation can be
performed without full payment of dues (including any past dues still owing),
which are forwarded to the O.T.O., and of the initiation fee, which is
retained by the lodge. At Thelema Lodge we do not accept any payment prior to
the day of the initiation, so all accounts are to be settled at the time the
"red book" registration is completed here by the candidate.
A N.O.X. Is As Good As A Boost
If, as is self-evidently the case, everything causes any particular thing,
then if we wish to understand the cause of anything at all we must therefore
inquire into everything. That is the purpose of the College of Hard N.O.X., to
inquire into everything (though the present Dean blissfully expects to be long
dead before we get around to O.J., Princess Di, or the President's moral
stature). This month's inquests will take place on the evenings of October the
7th and 28th at eight o'clock in the lodge's commodious yet cozy library. The
tuition charged is whatever you wish to give, though you must at least put in
your two cents.
For the 7th we will take one of our occasional forays into the analysis of
a specific text by considering the questions raised in Gilbert Murray's
lecture, "The Stoic Philosophy" (given as the Moncure Conway Memorial Lecture
at South Place Institute, March 16, 1915; copies of the text, for anyone
interested, are now available at the lodge). Murray was an eminent British
classicist, regius professor of Greek at Oxford for nearly thirty years,
justly famed for his translations of ancient Greek drama, and an outstanding
scholar who produced new insights into Homer, and Greek religion and
philosophy. In the decade before World War I he acted as a major contributor
to the beginning of the still ongoing revival of ancient Greek drama as a
living art by personally directing many theatrical productions of plays by
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes The lecture under
consideration gives a brief outline of Stoicism, a philosophical movement
which began to coalesce in the Athens of the fourth century b.c.e., and
eventually became one of the principal ideologies of the educated classes of
the Greco-Roman world. Its two most famous exponents were remarkably different
individuals. Epictetus, a Phrygian slave brought to Rome in the first century
c.e., is reputed to have calmly said to an abusive master who was twisting his
arm behind his back, "If you keep on doing that, you'll break my arm.", and
when his arm was indeed finally broken he just said, "I told you that would
happen." The other well-known Stoic was Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from
161 to 180 c.e., who was perhaps the most conscientious, hard-working, and
civic-minded of all the men who held that office (though his utter failure as
a father left Rome saddled with the sixteen year reign of his paranoid,
athletics-worshipping, and megalomaniacal son Commodus). His collection of
Meditations was apparently written merely as informal and fragmentary notes to
himself, but it is now generally considered to be Stoicism's greatest classic.
On October 28th the College will take up in detail the thorny issue of the
relationship between Thelema and Satanism, specifically the questions, "Is
Thelema a form of Satanism?", "Is Satanism Thelemic?", and "Was Aleister
Crowley himself a Satanist?".
Sidonia the Sorceress
Join Caitlin at Oz House on Monday evening 19th October at 8:00 for a
reading from "Sidonia the Sorceress," the obscure German Romantic historical
novel which became a late-Victorian occult best-seller. Crowley himself most
likely read the combined edition of Wilhelm Meinhold's two great witch novels,
published in two volumes by the Reeves and Turner company of London in 1894.
Very possibly it took the place of his assigned texts in chemistry and history
and philosophy for several evenings as a Cambridge undergraduate. (It seems
that a good deal of what later would become the Section Two reading list for
Probationers of the A.'. A.'. formed Crowley's personal undergraduate
curriculum of alternate and occult education, pursued in the freedom of
college scholarship at the University of Cambridge in the mid-1890s.) The two
works, "Sidonia the Sorceress" and "The Amber Witch," are recommended together
on the reading list, with only the bald comment that "These two tales are
highly informative." As the text of "Sidonia" is quite long and now extremely
rare, we will share a xerox copy and discuss the romance of witchcraft and the
descriptions of occult practices in this story, with readings of a few
selected passages.
Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold (1797-1851) was raised on the remote Baltic
island of Usedom, where his father was a Lutheran pastor; he was educated and
took orders in the Lutheran church, qualifying as a Doctor of Theology. After
receiving an isolated parsonage he began an obscure literary career in his
spare time. He took his subjects from local Pomeranian history, and produced
an early tragedy and a quantity of lyric verse. A collection of his poetry
was circulated in 1824, and was commended by Goethe. In a historical magazine
Meinhold published a chronicle of the Thirty Years War, claiming to have
transcribed it from a seventeenth century source, though in fact he had
fabricated the entire text. When Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, took
enthusiastic notice of the forged document and wanted to have it republished,
Meinhold was forced to admit his fraud, but the king nevertheless praised the
work, and financed an edition of it which appeared in 1841-2 as "Die
Bernsteinhexe" (The Amber Witch). It fed in to a current historical
controversy regarding the role of the Roman church in local German witch
prosecutions before the Reformation, and hence attracted attention at first,
though this turned to resentment as Meinhold's forgery of the document became
known. Some critics refused to believe him, and he even showed his notebooks
and rough drafts to reviewers as evidence of composition. After the
controversy died down he was punished for fooling the literary establishment
by being ignored completely for the rest of his life. A few years later he
published a second, and even longer, work based upon another Pomeranian witch
prosecution, originally entitled (after the defendant in the case) "Sidonia
von Bork." It appeared as volumes 5, 6 and 7 of a collected edition of
Meinhold's works published near the close of his life (in 1946-8), attracting
no attention whatsoever.
Meinhold remained obscure in Germany, where his works are still ignored,
and he does not rate mention in the standard reference works. There was
however a vogue for his tales among English readers several decades after his
death, and both of the Pomeranian witch-trial accounts appeared in English
translation. "Sidonia the Sorceress" was translated by Lady Jane Francesca
Elgee, wife of the great ocular surgeon Dr William Wilde, who in her youth at
mid-century had been a fashionable celebrity in Ireland, publishing romantic
poetry in the newspapers under the name of "Speranza." Six feet tall,
flamboyant and beautiful, "a very odd and original lady," she was a learned
woman, particularly accomplished as a linguist, and a committed patriot who
looked to future European involvement for Ireland as an alternative to British
domination there. She published thirteen books, "Sidonia" being by far the
most successful and going through many editions. Her son Oscar Wilde, whom
she supported and encouraged throughout his life, became one of the greatest
literary critics, comic dramatists, and tragic victims of the 1890s, and
always admired her greatly." (From her son who admired her greatly.)
Enochian Structures
As an orientation to Thelema Lodge's anniversary reading of Liber CDXVIII,
"The Vision and the Voice," beginning in November, Michael Sanborn, an
Enochian magician of many years' experience, will conduct a two-part intensive
workshop exploring the structures of the Enochian Watchtowers within the
Thelemic tradition, on Tuesday evenings 6th and 13th October, beginning at
8:00. Part I will provide an introduction to the basic angelic hierarchy of
the Elemental Tablets, while Part II will touch upon a few of the many
coordinate systems used to express the richness of the magical dimensions
uncovered by the Elizabethan magus John Dee and his scryer, Edward Kelly.
Finnegan at the Frederick
On the theory that the next best thing to doing it must be sitting around
with a Guinness all afternoon punning about it, a growing group of Re-Joyce-
ing reiteraters have been assembling monthly for a complete pronunciation
through "Finnegans Wake," a Thelema Lodge "work in progress." We hold our
readings in Eric's penthouse in the Frederick Apartments, usually on the third
Sunday afternoon of the month; this time it's on 25th October at 4:18 (due to
the lesser feast of 777 at the lodge the week before). Call Eric ahead at
(510) 428-0870 for directions, or to find our place in the book in order to
look ahead at the pages we'll face.
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Crowley Classics
The Beast Takes a Ticket
Part Two: Aleister Crowley at the Theater
The tradition of lurid melodrama at the Theatre du Grand Guignol, an infamous
salon in late nineteenth century Paris, became synonymous with the dramatic
presentation of violence, gore, torture, and perversion. In the tradition of
Edgar Allan Poe, short plays and tableaux were presented to depict famous
murders and outrages, with trick staging and a suggestive prurience intended
to shock and thrill the jaded Parisian bourgeoisie. The extreme stylized
violence and the casual immorality came from a vulgar French tradition after
which this theatrical style was named, the Guignol "theatre" of hand-puppets,
which was popular in provincial France, and was the direct precursor to the
animated cartoons of our own century. This piece was published at the end of
a volume of Crowley's comic poetry, "In Residence: the Don's Guide to
Cambridge" (Cambridge, Elijah Johnson, 1904).
Au Theatre du Grand Guignol
Le System du Docteur Goudron et du Professeur Plume<>
What this system really implies.
Poe!
Poe by the gift of the Lord!
Poe in his tragedy,
Black melodrama,
Horrid, overwhelming,
Nerve-shattering maniacal effort
Dictated by morphia, Poe
The American poet
Translated by Baudelaire,
Stephen Mallarme
And other people
Of singular and perhaps
Unique talent
(Now joined by
Andre de Lordes)
Is a splendid success
At the quaint little theatre
Of Montmartre.
Speed! -- I mean Poe!
"(Unhappily our contributor returned alive from watching the start of the
Paris-Madrid race. He had provided himself with a copy of Mr Henley's
"Imperishable Poem," and the meter, in which there is but one rule, viz.
"anything scans," seems to have run away with him. Would the motor had done
as the meter! He will be printed as prose." -- [1904] Ed.)
Filled with anticipations of the most blood-curdling order, we sought the
breezy heights of Montmartre. The Sacre Coeur, looking more than ever like a
compromise between an Indian mosque and a Buzsard cake, towered above us in
the frosty twilight.
It is, however, invisible from the theatre itself, so that we were able to
give our undivided attention to the system of Doctor Goudron and Professor
Plume, and it is our interpretation alone which has any real value. It will
be necessary first to call the attention of the reader to our own system,
without some account of which he may find himself embarrassed, even
bewildered.
Mr George Macdoanld in his masterpiece of Haggardized Rabbinical tradition,
"Lilith" (Off, Lilith!),<> has broken the wind of the poor
phrase to this effect:
"To grow and not to grow; to grow larger and to grow smaller at one and the
same time; yea, even to grow by the simple process of not growing."
In these unpretending and innocent words lies hid (for the eye of the wise
to discover) the germ of the most stupendous and far-reaching system of
philosophy that has ever been presented to the astounded consciousness of
mortal men. Quickly overrunning the civilized world, it has penetrated
(auspice Teucro) into the very remotest steppes of Central Asia, the wildest
savannahs of the American prairie, where dog and oyster burble in plethoric
harmony among the verdant shoots of cactus and coyote, where the giant
Appomattox rolls in sulky majesty to the red bays of the Pacific. The Society
formed to exploit this unheard-of invention is, naturally, of a most secret
nature: perhaps I am revealing too much when I say that members are permitted
to inscribe after their names the letters L.A.L. By the "New Method,"
therefore, let us continue our interesting studies of the system of Doctor
Goudron and Professor Plume. "Laure," the first of three curtain (and hair)
raisers, is a charming little drama. An ingenue comes by accident into
possession of a letter compromising her mother. Discovered by her father, she
saves her mother by accusing herself. The mother, secure once more, bullies
and ill-treats the heroic child, so that the curtain falls on her despairing
shriek of "Miserable!" Here then is truth! Not in a well, as lewd fellows
have impotently pretended: but here, here in the stage of the Grand Guignol.
It was just what happens every time, when anyone is fool enough to sacrifice
themselves. It was magnificent; it was war!
Curtain-lifter No. 2 was a still wittier scene, yet the element of
improbability<> damped, not indeed the enthusiasm of the mob, but our
own more sober and judicious pleasure. You ask therefore in vain for detail.
"La Mineure" (No. 3) was, on the other hand, even more life-like than No. 1.
A witness retained by justice to identify a criminal discovers him by
chance in the person of the President of the Court himself. She is hauled to
the deepest dungeons of Saint Lazare, and everything thus ends happily. For
one moment the nerves of the spectator are braced up to meet the sword of
Damocles -- and then, with a single blow, the Juge d'Instruction subtly and
delicately strikes in, and we can breathe again.
The Docteur Goudron was now to appear, and it was a spectacle saddening to
the serious philosopher to observe everybody pretending, often most
elaborately, that they had read Poe's story on which the play was based.
Alas! that we should have been among them! Yet so it was. Many years have
elapsed since our feet trod civilized MacAdam; many years since we spent hour
after happy hour poring over our Poes. Surprising? Ay, but true. Yet some
dimmest recollection of Dr Tarr and Professor Feather does hurtle heavenward
to us across the mist-kissed abyss of memory: so much, no more.
The actor who represented Doctor Goudron -- his name is worthy to be graven
on tablets of iron: it is consequently not to be printed here. His self-
restraint, his command of expression, his elocution were alike wonderful.
Booth, Irving, could not have done it better: it could have barely been
equaled even by Wilson Barrett in his prime.
Horror holds one from the outset: but when from words we go to deeds, the
formulation of the Logos in the plastic, alas! the element of music-hall
supervenes -- O Catulle Mendes! didst thou say, forced like Galileo to thy
knees by an iniquitous tribunal; Personne ne croit a ces cadavres!"? Yet we do
so. The director's murder is done magnificently; better then Macbeth, better
VLADIMIR SVAREFF, P.L.A.L.
Our other item is an early dramatic sketch by Crowley, unpublished until it
circulated during the 1970s in the early journals of Thelemic studies from "a
typescript attributed to Aleister Crowley in the University of Texas
collection." This comically sinister stage piece is found on five sheets of
secretarial typescript among the J. F. C. Fuller papers in the Humanities
Research Center at Austin. The attribution to "Aleister Crowley" has been
penciled in, possibly by the author himself. The piece is a sort of
theatrical pantomime; a dumb-show or silent dramatic skit, with the succession
of emotional responses to be displayed by the leading lady blatantly indicated
in each scene by the typist's underscoring (here rendered in italic type).
Reminiscent of an early silent film scenario, the directions seem to indicate
that it was conceived instead for a small stage, perhaps very much on the
order of the Grand Guignol. It might almost be the outline for a cheap Roger
Corman horror film from the 1950s, or a sleazy Wes Craven shocker from the
1980s.
The editors thank Frater H. B. at O.T.O. International for assistance with
this text from the archives of the Order.
The Opium Dream
by Aleister Crowley
Never mind the excuses for the presentation.
The Story
A girl is dragged on to the stage, "half unwillingly," by a page. We
understand that she is the captive in one set of circumstances or another, of
a Chinese Bonze. "She expresses abandonment."
than the Cenci; better than the Mother's Tragedy.<> No!
this praise is too fulsome, too indiscriminate; but any way, better than the
other two. He groans like laureled Martial in Burns's poem; yet his assassin
does not tickle the ears of the groundlings with a coarse "Creve, non de D----
!" but in supreme self-mastery, the iron control of a lunatic whose sanity is
at stake, enters stern and silent, his eyes glittering with fiendish joy --
Baviere, thy poster is superb! -- and develops with calm and scientific
precision his system to the raving crowd of madmen and madwomen. Per Gynt!
ay! but Peer Gynt with a tang! Peer Gynt vital, real, terrible.
What is the system? That is fine; but remember, my friends, that our own
system comes first! Charity begins at home and ends in the workhouse: so the
new method must absorb our space -- ay! and infinite space! -- to the
exclusion of our unworthy imitators, Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume. To
Montmartre then, reader! to the Grand Guignol! To the Madhouse, ha, ha, ha!
Shudder, shiver, shake, shriek, do everything that begins with sh, except hush
-- and that is Irish, after all.
Of one thing only do I warn you: from start to finish there is not a word
or a gesture that could shock the most innocent maiden, or bring a gleam to
the eye of the least hardened roue, or the most expert member of the Vigilance
Society.
This, in a French theatre, is as rare as it is delightful;<> and
though it is conditioned, like all phenomena, by space, time, and causality,
it is none the less refreshing.<
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a museum of antique fortune telling cups
Yronwode
Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous
Ethnomagicology
Yronwode Home:
personal pages of catherine yronwode and nagasiva
yronwode, magical archivists
Lucky Mojo
Magic Spells Archives: love spells, money spells,
luck spells, protection spells, etc.
Free Love
Spell Archive: love spells, attraction spells, sex
magick, romance spells, and lust spells
Free
Money Spell Archive: money spells, prosperity
spells, and wealth spells for job and business
Free
Protection Spell Archive: protection spells
against witchcraft, jinxes, hexes, and the evil eye
Free
Gambling Luck Spell Archive: lucky gambling spells
for the lottery, casinos, and races