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Showing posts with label Mr Crowley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr Crowley. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
007 - Dee Seecreet Ageent
Monday, 5 April 2010
Kenneth Anger’s The Man We Want To Hang
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Kenneth Anger’s The Man We Want To Hang
“I like the colors.”
That’s the charitable response most people give when they’re exposed to the art of Aleister Crowley (more on him here). Admittedly his works are crude and naïve – if one didn’t know that the Beast 666 had created them one would assume it was just some outsider artist – but they have their certain charms, which we’ll get to below.
A late-90s exhibition – “An Old Master” – at London’s October gallery of A.C.’s art works is the subject of magickal experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s short film The Man We Want To Hang, the title of the film also the title of the notorious Sunday Express article which had denounced A.C. as the “Wickedest Man In The World.” The title is also a pun on art being hung on gallery walls, and a possible reference to The Hanged Man of the Tarot – who appears in the film a few times – although nothing jumped out at me as I looked over that entry in The Book of Thoth to back up that line of thought (but I’m sure those with well wore copies of 777 and The Book of Thoth and a knack for undoing and uncovering occult puzzles may have better luck that I did …)
The film (with a lively score by Liadov) generally consists of slow, generous shots of the gallery exhibits, the majority of them starting with a shot of the bottom of the painting or drawing and panning up to reveal the rest, the gaze ascending, the shot itself possibly a metaphor for the process of observation of the works, as the gaze at the esoteric art reveals symbols and meanings with a correspondent ascendance in consciousness.
The art works themselves – drawn of the collections of Keith Richmond, Jimmy Page and the Ordo Templi Orientis International – depict a variety of subjects. Simple landscapes of mountains, volcanoes and sea, serpents and malevolent beings from some daemonic reality, portraits of individuals familiar to those versed in A.C.’s biography – such as Gerald Yorke and various Scarlet Women – and self-portraits of A.C., some evoking grey aliens or Lam.
If this was the only output of an artist they would have at most been a curious and obscure art historical footnote, if even that. But when put into the context of A.C.‘s life they have more value.
Throughout his life A.C. expressed his higher nature in a multitude of ways. Poetry, painting, ritual magick, sexual athleticism, writing, mountaineering, exploring higher consciousness. While he was middling in such expressions as painting and poetry, his non-fictional magickal texts are genius, a Joyce or Fassbinder of occult and esoteric philosophy, and most of us would be extremely lucky to create a single work of genius over a lifetime, let alone a multi-volumed network of texts like A.C.’s.
Aside from his texts of magickal philosophy and ritual his other great work of art was his life, which encompassed the lowliest degradations and the highest and holiest exalted states. The art works provide a visual accompaniment to it – the settings, the personalities, the extraordinary experiences.
They also provide a reminder of A.C.’s role as a prototype of the type of current creative spirit, with his multiple means of expression (poetry, art, journalism, adept, etc.) a forerunner of the of the typical artist of today, who is just as likely to write a novel, play in a band, star in a porn, run a small business, blog, than lock themselves in one monolithic way of expressing creative currents.
He ran a preview of this social reality movie like all successful intelligence agents do.
Quotes from the Beast 666 - Wickedest Man in the World
- To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
- Quotes from the Beast 666.... Stolen from all over the WWW(666)...
"Wickedest Man in the World":
The press dubbed Crowley the "Wickedest Man in the World" and repeatedly published exploits both real and fictional.
Crowley adored controversy, often describing his already scandalous behavior in even more offensive terminology. For example, he claimed to sacrifice 150 children a year, referring in fact to ejaculations that had not resulted in pregnancy. He also referred to himself as "the Beast," referencing the creature mentioned in Revelations, as well as representing himself with the number 666.
Crowley adored controversy, often describing his already scandalous behavior in even more offensive terminology. For example, he claimed to sacrifice 150 children a year, referring in fact to ejaculations that had not resulted in pregnancy. He also referred to himself as "the Beast," referencing the creature mentioned in Revelations, as well as representing himself with the number 666.
- The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Aleister Crowley
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
Aleister Crowley
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
- Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
- I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Aleister Crowley
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Aleister Crowley
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
- Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Aleister Crowley
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Aleister Crowley
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley
"Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say "no." I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible."
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
"The people who have really made history are the martyrs."
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
"There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, "Garcon! Un Pernod!""
"To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them."
- "Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law.
- Aleister Crowley
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- I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
- Aleister Crowley
- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
- Aleister Crowley
- To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
- Aleister Crowley
Upsidedowncross - Mr Crowley back from The Beyond or slightly to left behind you...
Album: Upsidedown Cross - "Upsidedown Cross"
It might be Easter Sunday, but how about taking a little time out for Satan?
Upsidedown Cross is a band containing ex members of Kilslug, and their 1991 self-titled release is an evil, sludge-ridden fiasco of noise and greasy filth. Track titles like "Kill For Satan", "Hanging Witches" and "Mass of Blood" prepare you for what you're in for with this album, and Upsidedown Cross has to be one of the most "metal" noise rock projects ever. J Mascis even makes an appearance on this album playing drums, although this is a far cry from Dinosaur Jr and even Witch, with a way messier, angrier vibe than anything he's ever taken part in.
1. Upsidedown Cross
2. Kill For Satan
3. Redrum
4. Hanging Witches
5. Batallion of Rats
6. Bloodmobile
7. Mass in Blood
8. The Cup
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Friday, 26 March 2010
Human-readable summary of the Legal Code
Composite drawing by Ann Direnger of an "alien" type reported throughout 1980's in the Hudson Valley.
I Checked on my setting for the Picasa webalbum and found this, dont know what they mean by human-readable. Who or what else would read it? Probably just some lawyer thing...
A Creative Commons licence allows you to specify the conditions under which people can copy and distribute your work.
Learn more Licence name: Attribution
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Link to the page, maybe you haft to have an account there to get in, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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Link to the page, maybe you haft to have an account there to get in, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
On the bottom of the page this line of text explained it quite clearly...
This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license).
Hmm...
Do they know anything I and the rest of us dont?
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Crowley included the portrait of Lam in his Dead Souls exhibition held in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1919. In that same year it was published as a frontispiece labeled The Way to Crowley's commentary to Blavatsky's The Voice of the Silence. Beneath the picture was the following inscription: "LAM is the Tibetan word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is 71, the number of this book.
Crowley’s portrait of Lam, entitled ’The Way’, was first published in 1919 as a frontispiece to his Commentary on Blavatsky’s The Voice of the Silence. However, nowhere else in Crowley’s work is there a mention of it until 1945, when a diary entry records Kenneth Grant’s interest. It is clear, however, that the portrait arose in connection with the Amalantrah Working of 1918-19, when Crowley lived in New York. Unfortunately, the Record of that Working which survives consists of the first six months only. Nevertheless, it is clear from a study of this surviving material that the portrait of Lam embodies the quintessence of the Working.
Lam Lore
According to O.T.O. chief Kenneth Grant:
• Lam is known to be a link between the star systems of Sirius and Andromeda.
• Lam is the gateway to the Void. Its number, 71, is that of "NoThing", an apparition.
• Lam, as a Great Old One, whose archetype is recognizable in accounts of UFO occupants.
• Lam has been invoked to fulfill the work set afoot by Aiwass; as a reflex of Aiwass.
• Lam as the transmitter to AL of the vibrations of LA via MA, the key to the Aeon of Maat.
• Lam is the occult energy beaming the vibrations of Maat and may proceed from that future aeon.
Lam links: bibliotecapleyades.net
Not so mysterious afterall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-readable_medium
Monday, 15 March 2010
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