|
|
 |
|
|
|
register |
bbs |
search |
rss |
faq |
about
|
|
|
meet up |
add to del.icio.us |
digg it
|
|
|
|
Article by Genesis P- Orridge (Psychic TV) on pract
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]:
File Areas --------------
ALCHEMY ... Alchemy: Where's that confounded Stone!
ARCHIVE ... Archives: Archived Message Bases From Days of Yore
BEAST ... Beast: The Books and Writings of Aleister Crowley
BULLETIN ... Bulletin: Newsletters from O.T.O. Camps and Lodges
CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
ENOCHIAN ... Enochian Magick in Theory & Practice
EQUINOX ... The Equinox: The Method of Science, The Aim of Religion
FECES ... Fundamental Feces: This shit stinks!
GNOSTIC ... Gnosticism in Theory & Practice
GRAPHIC ... Graphics Files
LIBRI ... Libri: The Books of the A.:A.:
MAGICK ... Magick in Theory & Practice
NEW ... New: Files recently uploaded to the 'Kathedral.
OCCULT ... Occult: Wiccan, Pagan, Neo-Pagan & New Age
OTO ... Ordo Templi Orientis material
PLANT ... Magickal Plants: Ethnobotanickal Alchemical Excursions
RECORDS ... Magickal Records & Workings of Contemporary Magicians
REQEST ... Special Request: Unarchived Text Files by Request
ROSI ... Rosicrucian and Esoteric Christianity
SATAN ... Satan: God's Lefthand Man
SET ... Set: The Temple of Set
More [Y,n,=]? y
TDAWN ... Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn
TEXT ... Text: Text files that do not fit anywhere else
THOTH ... Thoth: Qabalah, Tarot and various methods of divination
TOPY ... Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth
UTILITY ... Utility Programs: Message readers, archivers and software
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]: CTHULHU
The FILES Section
File area CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
FILE (57 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: f
Files: ['*'=new, <enter>=all, or type a partial filename]:
===========================
== Cthulhu Mythos Magick ==
== & writings of H.P.L. ==
===========================
RITE.ZIP 2646 06-24-91 ( 4) Rite of Communion with Cthulhu by
Tenebrous
SPIDER.ZIP 1762 06-24-91 ( 1) Glyph of the Spider Goddess by
Tenebrous
NAMELESS.ZIP 2800 06-24-91 ( 2) Rites of the Nameless Gods by Zebulon
C_RISING.ZIP 2943 07-03-91 ( 2) The Aeon of Cthulhu Rising by Tenebrous
9_ANGLES.ZIP 5004 02-17-92 ( 1) Ceremony of the Nine Angles by Michael
Aquino from _The Satanic Rituals_
CTHULHU.ZIP 40206 01-12-92 ( 1) A Bibliography of Cthulhu Mythos Tales
by Chris Jarocha-Ernst
FUTURIST.ZIP 564 03-05-92 ( 2) Futurist Art, a poem by H.P.L.
More [Y,n,t,=]? |n
File area CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
FILE (57 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: @z
Peeker v2.21 -- an XBBS Utility.
57 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] List
Enter search string ([Enter]=All): ===================
== Cthulhu Mythos Magick ==
== & writings of H.P.L. ==
===========================
RITE.ZIP 2646 06/24/91 ( 4) Rite of Communion with Cthulhu by Tenebrous
SPIDER.ZIP 1762 06/24/91 ( 1) Glyph of the Spider Goddess by Tenebrous
NAMELESS.ZIP 2800 06/24/91 ( 2) Rites of the Nameless Gods by Zebulon
C_RISING.ZIP 2943 07/03/91 ( 2) The Aeon of Cthulhu Rising by Tenebrous
9_ANGLES.ZIP 5004 02/17/92 ( 1) Ceremony of the Nine Angles by Michael Aqu
Satanic MISSING Rituals_
CTHULHU.ZIP 40206 01/12/92 ( 1) A Bibliography of Cthulhu Mythos Tales by -
Ernst MISSING
FUTURIST.ZIP 564 03/05/92 ( 2) Futurist Art, a poem by H.P.L.
57 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list: RITE.ZIP
Contents of RITE.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/DAGON/RITE.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
5392 Implode 2540 53% 06-24-91 13:24 f6baad55 --w RITE
------ ------ --- -------
5392 2540 53% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? RITE
Hang on, extracting file...
-=-=Reading: RITE=-=- Page #1
THE RITE OF THE COMMUNION OF CTHULHU
by Tenebrous
There are four participants in this Rite of Communion with Cthluhu, The
High Priest of the Great Old Ones. These are: the host of Cthulhu, the
Priest or Priestess, and the two worshippers.
The Temple of Cthulhu is to be sparsely lit, and incense of Neptune is
burned to infuse the air with an undersea atmosphere (evoking sunken
R'lyeh). No images or icons of the God should be present within the
Temple, for manifestation is to take place only through the Host.
No amulets or decorated robes are to be worn.
The following magickal weapons are utilised:
The Dagger, to trace the Elder Sign; the Chalice, to recieve the
Communion from the Host of Cthulhu, and to convey it to the Celebrants of
the Rite (prior to the commencement of the ritual, the chalice is filled
with salt water, the medium of transmission of the Communion, also
symbolising Great Cthulhu's watery grave); two ritual drums are also
employed, one by each worshipper.
The symmetrical Trapezoid of Invocation is drawn out in white or blue
chalk, its shortest edge to the West (R'lyeh). The Celebrant who is to
manifest the Host sits within the Trapezoid at this side, facing inward.
The Priest or Priestess sits within the Eastern side, facing the Host.
The Worshippers take their positions to the North and South, within the
points of the Trapezoid. Once silence has fallen the rite is begun.
Standing, the Priest or Priestess of Cthulhu performs the primary
banishment by tracing the Elder Sign (upright pentagram) towards the four
cardinal points, beginning to the West and proceeding in an anti-
clockwise rotation (the tracing of the Elder Sign begins upwards from the
bottom left-hand point). The following God-names of the Great Old Ones
are pronounced with the completion of each pentagram: to the West,
CTHULHU; to the South, YOG-SOTHOTH; to the East, HASTUR; and to the
North, SHUB-NIGGURATH.
The Priest or Priestess now resumes the seated position before the Host,
and makes the Call to Cthulhu:
``Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtan''
(In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.)
The Host and the Worshippers answer this call:
``Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn''
(Yes! Yes! Cthulhu dreams!)
The Priest or Priestess now begins to chant the Call to Cthulhu in its
shortened form, as a Mantra of Invocation:
``Cthulhu R'lyeh fhtagn''
(Cthulhu dreams in R'lyeh)
The two worshippers join with this Mantra, using their drums to counter-
point the chanting, thus forming a net of rhthymic sound to draw the
Presence of the Deity into the Trapezoid. The Host, however, is silent,
for he or she is to remain open to possession by the invoked God-force.
In order to encourage this possession, the Host should concentrate all
mental and physic energy into a visualisation of the image of Cthulhu,
and attempt to identify this image with their own body and mind. The
physical position to be adopted by the Host should therefore be that
traditionally associated with Cthulhu - that is, crouching or sitting,
legs apart, with hands resting on knees. The other celebrants should
likewise project their own visualisations of Cthulhu onto the figure of
the Host.
Once the presence of the Deity is felt within the Trapezoid (this may be
noted by a marked drop in temperature), the Priest/Priestess will begin
to direct its energies towards the Host, via magickal passes performed
with the left hand. This is to be undertaken in sympathy with the rythyms
of the Mantra - a powerful focal point is thus induced within the body of
the Host, forming both a strong attraction to the God-force invoked
within the Trapezoid, and a physical gateway for its manifestation.
At the moment of possession, the power and identity of the Great God
Cthulhu will be drawn into the body of the Host. At the last instance
before total possession, the Host calls forth the name of the God, and
the Temple falls silent. His power is radiated forth by the Priest/
Priestess, who holds out the Chalice to collect these negatively-charged
emanations (Dreams from R'lyeh).
When the Dreams of Cthulhu have passed from the Host (often leaving them
mentally and physically exhausted), the Priest/Priestess offers the
collected emanations for consumption (via the medium of the salt water),
firstly to the Host, then to the two Worshippers, and lastly partakes of
the Communion him/herself.
Following the giving of Communion, the Priest/Priestess repeats the
Banishment, retracting the Elder Sign at the cardinal points, and
repeating the respective God-names. Facing the West once more, he/she
declares the Rite of Communion of Cthulhu completed, and the Temple
closed. The participants may now leave the Trapezoid, infused with the
trans-Yuggothian energies of the Great God Cthulhu.
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) N
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) N
54 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] List
Enter search string ([Enter]=All): ===================
== Cthulhu Mythos Magick ==
== & writings of H.P.L. ==
===========================
RITE.ZIP 2646 06/24/91 ( 4) Rite of Communion with Cthulhu by Tenebrous
SPIDER.ZIP 1762 06/24/91 ( 1) Glyph of the Spider Goddess by Tenebrous
NAMELESS.ZIP 2800 06/24/91 ( 2) Rites of the Nameless Gods by Zebulon
C_RISING.ZIP 2943 07/03/91 ( 2) The Aeon of Cthulhu Rising by Tenebrous
9_ANGLES.ZIP 5004 02/17/92 ( 1) Ceremony of the Nine Angles by Michael Aqu
Satanic MISSING Rituals_
CTHULHU.ZIP 40206 01/12/92 ( 1) A Bibliography of Cthulhu Mythos Tales by -
Ernst MISSING
FUTURIST.ZIP 564 03/05/92 ( 2) Futurist Art, a poem by H.P.L.
54 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list: C_RISING.ZIP
Contents of C_RISING.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/DAGON/C_RISING.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
5396 Implode 2821 48% 07-03-91 13:52 fda72d2e --w C_RISING.TXT
------ ------ --- -------
5396 2821 48% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? C_RISING.TXT
Hang on, extracting file...
-=-=Reading: C_RISING.TXT=-=- Page #1
THE AEON OF CTHULHU RISING
By Tenebrous
``Nor is it to be thought ... that man is either the oldest
or the last of earth's masters, or than the common bulk of
life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old
Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we
know, but between them, they walk serene and primal,
undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate.
Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and
guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in
Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of
old, and when they shall break through again...''
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
(as from the `Necronomicon')
The century in which we live has witnessed the dawning of a New Aeon; or
rather, the return of energies and entities, across vast gulfs of time
and space, from primal eras which antedate by millenia the appearance of
humankind upon the Earth. In his pivotal Mythos tale, The Call of Cthulhu,
Lovecraft has adumbrated the first portents of this return, the outer
edges of whose pericosis with our own continuum is detected by the
incredibly subtle and sensitive `antennae' of poets, writers and artists -
more especially those already aligned to the concept of `outsideness'
through their own explorations of alien, exotic, bizarre and outre subject
matter. And indeed, it is through the work of such artists in actuality
that the first hints and descriptions of these forces and entities find
expression.
This `new Aeon' is currently known under a variety of names by differing
cults: the astrological `Age of Aquarius'; the Thelemic `Aeon of Horus',
inaugurated by the avatar Aiwaz, in 1904 e.v.; Frater Achad's `Aeon of
Maat', the Era of Truth and Justice; and so on. To that particular body of
magicians, artists, writers, and other visionaries of the Cthulhu Mythos
which constitutes The Esoteric Order of Dagon, the emerging era is
recognised as the Aeon of Cthulhu Rising, with reference to the prophetic
fictional work of H.P. Lovecraft, as outlined above. As his description of
the initial wave of Aeonic energy (which has such drastic effect on the
dreams of `sensitive' individuals around the world) coincides with the
rising of the island of R'lyeh on 28 February 1925 e.v., the E.O.D
numerate this event this event as Year One, A.C.
However, before the complete influx of these elder forces into our
present space-time continuum can be facillated, the secret and primal
gateways must be located, and opened, to allow access from `outside the
circles of time.' This gateway has been glyphed by Lovecraft as one of the
Great Old Ones themselves - ``the noxious Yog-Sothoth who froths as primal
slime in nuclear chaos beyond the nethermost outpost of space and time.''
As Guardian of the Gate, he is synonymous with Choronzon. The ``nethermost
outpost'', itself an opening or window to the dimensionality of the Great
Old Ones (Universe B), is the star Sothis, or Sirius.
In turn, the gateway of the New Aeonic forces (Yog_Sothoth) is identified
with the `non-Sephiroth', Daath, on the qabalistic Tree of Life. As
Kenneth Grant explains:
``It is now possible to see the continous flow and evolution
of Aeons occuring simultaenously and passing over into the
world of anti-matter. The Yog (or Yug .. an aeon or age ..)
of Sothoth is the counterpoint - as the Aeon of Set-Thoth,
or Daath - of its Twin, the Yug-Hoor, or Aeon of Horus.
Yog-Sothoth is the Gate through the aeons to the Star-
Source beyond Yuggoth, the Yug or Aeon of Goth.''
Outside the Circles of Time, p. 214
The knowledge and formula by which this gateway can be reopened can
therefore be only apprehended through the negative vortex of Daath. In the
case of Lovecraft himself, who in waking life vehemently denied the
verdical nature of the material with which he was dealing, the process of
appropriation was almost completely subconscious, occuring through the
medium of dream-experiences. As would be expected, the visitation of such
unhuman and ultracosmic revelations took the form of the most hideous
nightmares.
By the same token, those initiates of the E.O.D. who are working towards
the Opening of the Gate of Yog-Sothoth must be prepared to undertake this
most dangerous descent into the Abyss of Daath (the so-called `false
knowledge') in order to activate these formulae effectively. This process
involves the projection of a part of themselves into those spaces
`between', to which Lovecraft makes repeated reference, and which
constitute the existentiality of the Old Ones themselves. Is is here that
this `false knowlege' (glyphed as Lovecraft as the grimoire, Necronomicon)
can be found and retrieved, brought back through the vortex of Daath, and
finally given actual, concrete manifestation in the Outer.
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) N
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) N
51 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] List
Enter search string ([Enter]=All): ===================
== Cthulhu Mythos Magick ==
== & writings of H.P.L. ==
===========================
RITE.ZIP 2646 06/24/91 ( 4) Rite of Communion with Cthulhu by Tenebrous
SPIDER.ZIP 1762 06/24/91 ( 1) Glyph of the Spider Goddess by Tenebrous
NAMELESS.ZIP 2800 06/24/91 ( 2) Rites of the Nameless Gods by Zebulon
C_RISING.ZIP 2943 07/03/91 ( 2) The Aeon of Cthulhu Rising by Tenebrous
9_ANGLES.ZIP 5004 02/17/92 ( 1) Ceremony of the Nine Angles by Michael Aqu
Satanic MISSING Rituals_
CTHULHU.ZIP 40206 01/12/92 ( 1) A Bibliography of Cthulhu Mythos Tales by -
Ernst MISSING
FUTURIST.ZIP 564 03/05/92 ( 2) Futurist Art, a poem by H.P.L.
50 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Quit
File area CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
FILE (49 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: pa
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]: ?
File Areas --------------
ALCHEMY ... Alchemy: Where's that confounded Stone!
ARCHIVE ... Archives: Archived Message Bases From Days of Yore
BEAST ... Beast: The Books and Writings of Aleister Crowley
BULLETIN ... Bulletin: Newsletters from O.T.O. Camps and Lodges
CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
ENOCHIAN ... Enochian Magick in Theory & Practice
EQUINOX ... The Equinox: The Method of Science, The Aim of Religion
FECES ... Fundamental Feces: This shit stinks!
GNOSTIC ... Gnosticism in Theory & Practice
GRAPHIC ... Graphics Files
LIBRI ... Libri: The Books of the A.:A.:
MAGICK ... Magick in Theory & Practice
NEW ... New: Files recently uploaded to the 'Kathedral.
OCCULT ... Occult: Wiccan, Pagan, Neo-Pagan & New Age
OTO ... Ordo Templi Orientis material
PLANT ... Magickal Plants: Ethnobotanickal Alchemical Excursions
RECORDS ... Magickal Records & Workings of Contemporary Magicians
REQEST ... Special Request: Unarchived Text Files by Request
ROSI ... Rosicrucian and Esoteric Christianity
SATAN ... Satan: God's Lefthand Man
SET ... Set: The Temple of Set
More [Y,n,=]? y
TDAWN ... Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn
TEXT ... Text: Text files that do not fit anywhere else
THOTH ... Thoth: Qabalah, Tarot and various methods of divination
TOPY ... Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth
UTILITY ... Utility Programs: Message readers, archivers and software
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]:
The FILES Section
File area CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
FILE (48 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: a
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]: ?
File Areas --------------
ALCHEMY ... Alchemy: Where's that confounded Stone!
ARCHIVE ... Archives: Archived Message Bases From Days of Yore
BEAST ... Beast: The Books and Writings of Aleister Crowley
BULLETIN ... Bulletin: Newsletters from O.T.O. Camps and Lodges
CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
ENOCHIAN ... Enochian Magick in Theory & Practice
EQUINOX ... The Equinox: The Method of Science, The Aim of Religion
FECES ... Fundamental Feces: This shit stinks!
GNOSTIC ... Gnosticism in Theory & Practice
GRAPHIC ... Graphics Files
LIBRI ... Libri: The Books of the A.:A.:
MAGICK ... Magick in Theory & Practice
NEW ... New: Files recently uploaded to the 'Kathedral.
OCCULT ... Occult: Wiccan, Pagan, Neo-Pagan & New Age
OTO ... Ordo Templi Orientis material
PLANT ... Magickal Plants: Ethnobotanickal Alchemical Excursions
RECORDS ... Magickal Records & Workings of Contemporary Magicians
REQEST ... Special Request: Unarchived Text Files by Request
ROSI ... Rosicrucian and Esoteric Christianity
SATAN ... Satan: God's Lefthand Man
SET ... Set: The Temple of Set
More [Y,n,=]? n
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]: TOPY
The FILES Section
File area TOPY ... Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth
FILE (47 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: ~f
Files: ['*'=new, <enter>=all, or type a partial filename]:
+-------------------------+
| Temple ov Psychic Youth |
+-------------------------+
Writings of Genesis P-Orrdige
=============================
BEHAVE.ZIP 7859 01-12-92 ( 2) Behavioural Cut-Ups and Magick
FATE.ZIP 2032 01-12-92 ( 2) Thee Reversal ov Fate
GERMAN.ZIP 7860 01-12-92 ( 2) German Order
PSYCHIC.ZIP 12042 01-12-92 ( 2) Psychic TV
CROSS.ZIP 2956 01-12-92 ( 2) Stations ov thee Cross w/ Paula P-
Orrdige
THROTTLE.ZIP 15802 01-12-92 ( 3) Thee Throttle
WAR.ZIP 20986 01-12-92 ( 1) Nothing Short ov a Total War
General T.O.P.Y. Writings
=========================
GREYBOOK.ZIP offline ( 0) An Introduction to the Temple ov
Psychic Youth [removed from distribution at the
request of T.O.P.Y.]
More [Y,n,t,=]? xn
File area TOPY ... Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth
FILE (47 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: |z
Peeker v2.21 -- an XBBS Utility.
47 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list:
47 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list: BEHAVE.ZIP
Contents of BEHAVE.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/TOPY/BEHAVE.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
17589 Implode 7749 56% 01-12-92 14:28 72fab9bc --w BEHAVE
------ ------ --- -------
17589 7749 56% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? BEHAVE
Hang on, extracting file...
-=-=Reading: BEHAVE=-=- Page #1
BEHAVIOURAL CUT-UPS AND MAGICK
by Genisis P-Orridge
T.O.P.Y.
I. THEE KEY
My primary concerns in space and time: That situation which society informs
us is named "being alive", or on more intellectual days, "reality"; are Control
Human Behaviour, and an inkling that underlying everything is a web of
parallel causes and parallel effects upon which we can exert more
manipulative pressure than we are led to believe by the aforementioned
Society. Whilst is is true that we did not ask to be here, it is also true that
did not ask to not be here either. Birth and Death at this stage of evolution
appear to our everyday senses to be thee only certain points in this
maelstrom of "being alive". Thee word being is such a nice word, to be, to be
in, being, a state of mind and/or body, it is a rather coumforting and
seductive word. Yet like all words it has reverberations. Languages
interfacing, wars and migrations cross fertilising, needs to do more that
grunt, urges to express more than biological functins and pre-requisites.
History, that which travels thee macrocosm of space and time, lives inside
words like an ectoplasmic hermit crab in a stolen shell. Words in turn live
inside us too, like more hermit crabs, protecting themselves from discovery
of their secret, and words live outside us freeranging in our culture like
viruses waiting for an appropriate host. This function has be deeply
investigated by W.S. Burroughs in literature, and to a lesser extent through
tape and film, and collage works earlier in his career. However, looking back
with an overview in 1987, this first layer and its direct symbiotic
relationship with all interpretations of control and all thee interactions and
permutations it exposes satisfied him and occupied him enough. Brion Gysin,
"Thee Master", who largely introduced W.S.B. to this whole scenario, saw
further, saw thee other layers, was not satisfied. He studied languages,
western and eastern Etymology, had devastating knowledge of European
migrations and interactions going back as far as records allowed. He was
aware of thee process touched upon earlier. He observed first hand for 23
years thee threads of pulse and frequency generated through Moroccan
music. Where thee master musician has certain phrases and sequences of
sound that are thee equivalent of a spoken language and guide and instruct
thee players as thee music is performed. Music that therefore literally
"speaks" of primal roots and impulses of behaviour. That triggers endorphine
assisted alpha-wave neurological states that inspire and reveal thee fluidity
of occult physics. That all is light, which is nothing more than an idea, and
that light is, within that, infinite particles exploding and racing in every
direction simultaneously. A quaquaversatility. And that is thee nearest to a
key we might get. And from this Brion gave us paintings and drawings which
began with thee desert, with desert light. And then seemed at first glance to
becoum more abstract, myriad scratchings and markings swirling until he
showed you they were thee desert still, thee light itself, thee very particles
of sight. And they were thee desert dwellers, thee keepers of thee music,
thee speakers of frequency. Thee expressors of magick lore. Thee inhabitants
of Pan, drowning in unspoken rituals.
II. THEE DOOR
In relation to this event and its primary concerns, "Thee Door" is thee cut-up.
There is now a clear representation of thee system that concerns us.
Contrary to thee image we are presented with by those Feudal Overlords
that administer Control, our society is not yet part of thee 20th century in
terms of its comman structure and behavioural inhibitors. Thee great
majority of people are to all intents and puposes "serfs" and they exist on
thee minimum level of potentiality expansion at which they can function to
perpetuate thee status quo. No one conglomerate of businessmen, or
politicians, or masonic manipulators control Control. They do however
administer its needs. It's an obvious truism that most injustices in our
Society are protections of thee vested interests of a minority over thee
majority. For hundreds of years thee majority of thee population have been
bullied, conditioned, trained, suppressed and censored into subservience.
Into an unconscious yet massibely potent acceptance of thee impossibility of
an evolutionary change in human behaviour patterns, in thee impossibility
of aspiring to thee maximum growth and repossession of their own innate
potential. Control is thee web that traps us and injures our intuitive belief i
our selves. Thee word, literature, parallel this process. With a cut-up you can
break down thee expected, inherited values and assumptions and retrain
yourself to look at revealing possibilities. Describing "reality" more
accurately than any linear system. Our languages are linear. Life is not. At
any given moment we are recieving input to thee exteroceptors both in
obvious ways and less obvious ways. (i.e. Sound enters our body through all
its surfaces, via vibration and frequency, not just via thee ears). These input
contribute to motivation in thee cerebral cortex. Simultaneously to this
process memories are being compared to thee new information and thee
cerebral cortex then modifies it and adds it to a command for thee sub-
cortical regions. In those sub-cortical regions effectors carry out the
command response to thee stimuli. While these neurological functions are
taking place, thee body coumtinues its metabolic functions and actions semi-
automatically. Random events outside thee Individual's body are also being
registered and/or affecting thee Individual. Emotions are triggering and
interplaying in thee subconscious. Thee entire nature and state of that
Individual is in a state of flux. There is no fixed point, no definition, no fi
answer of specific formula. Thee closest to a possibility of describing thee
reality of things as opposed to the inherited linear materialistic model of
thee state of being alive has to be a kaleidoscopic, integrated, non-linear
method. It has to contain, at least implicitly, every possibility, every
impossibility, every conscious and unconscious thought, word and deed,
simultaneously. Thee Cut-up is a practical way-in to this. Life is quite simply
a stream of cut-ups on every level. Given thee discovery of a means to
describe and reveal reality, we can also identify Control. Control denies
intuition and instinct particularly, and dreams of all forms, randomness,
thought. All these and other behavioural and psychological perceptions
generate impulses in Individuals to say "Why?", "No" and refuse acceptance.
To believe more is possible than they have been (literally) LED to believe.
That they need accept nothing until they have analysed and evaluated its
value and applicableness to them.
III. THEE ROOM
A room means to have space to grow and develop. It is also a physical place,
and like all words it is a metaphor too. Thee room is where you are, and
where you want to be. To go into thee room is to choose to reclaim yourself.
Until people learn to respect themselves again, to care for themselves, to
treasure emotions and feelings. To have self-esteem and accept no one else's
suggestion of what it is possible for them to be, what skills they might have
and how far those skills can be pushed, to always make up your own mind
about what is right for you, what has value to you in every aspect of Life. To
re-learn as a new second-nature to make up your own mind and not be
directed, intimidated or accepting of any established system of values and
behaviour. Until all these processes are returned to an Individual's own
control and constantly reanalysed to check against laziness and habit for its
own sake there can be no possibility of evolution and expansio
n for thee
Individual and, through them, society. What is needed therefore, is a
practical, functional method that effectively deconditions, disinhibits, short-
circuits a society's behavioral taboos and control. A physical back-up to thee
process of always asking why. Accepting nothing as true. It was this quest
for a method that led me first towards performance art, within which
context E attempted to set myself tasks that forced me to locate barriers and
inhibitions related to pain and sexual thresholds, for example. Once
identified and measured, E was able to think about whether they were
actually useful to me, or were merely inherited. This regimen in turn
introduced me to new mental states akin to trance and yoga, and unexpected
blocks or embarassments that were illogical to me. Ritualisation fused with
impulse and instinct integrated with intuition, an open-minded examination
of my most deeply buried and normally inarticulated drives and desires and
an approach devoid of preconceptions that re-educated my idea of what E
was as an Individual, what my real boundaries were, and what it was
possible for me to become. What E had been bombarded with as my self-
image by Education, Religion, Society, thee Family and thee Media in their
various colluding forms, subtle and blatant, bore no relation to what E
experienced and perceived. There are always levels beneath thee level of
what we identify as a problem. Suddenly E realised that ritual, and various,
previously named, "occult" practices were in fact methods of short-circuiting
Control of thee Individual, destroying their coumpliance with what they are
trained to expect, want, or aspire to. They were a parallel method in thee
medium of Behaviour and self-reclamation to thee Cut-up in Writing, Film
and Video and Music. So cultural methods of de-control COULD just as
effectively be applied to ourselves. To more accurately describe both how we
are at one point in Time, and how we can re-define ourselves from that point
on. To be aware of all thee simultaneous factors that must be clearly and
honestly allowed free-play for us to work in a focussed accurate manner
towards a fully integrated character. That recognises and embraces every
aspect of its complex self, free of any self-delusion. That finds its own ratio
with a complete re-integration of thee conscious and subconscious mind of
sexuality, emotion, intelligence, knowledge, relationships, dreams and so on.
Not just a developing of so-called logical perceptions, butter a genuinely
realistic blending of thee illogical also. And recognises that nothing is fixed
that these ratios are forever changing and should be seen as directions.
IV. THEE PERSON
Thee person therefore could fight back. And a long-standing tradition of
Magick appeared thee most relevant area and structure within which to
research and express thee possibilities open to Individual and Collective re-
definition and evolution. As Burroughs said about Cut-ups, "How Random Is
Random?". Thee picture we get from cut-ups is more accurate than any
traditional description. What has always been presented as thee Irrational
becoums far more accurate and plausible than thee Rational explanation we
are endlessly urged and bullied to accept. Thee psychology of thee
unconscious explores thee background of thee so-called rational mind both
by disciplined investigation and hysterical dissociation of thought habits.
There is a strong implication that thee essence of Magick is psycho-
integrative. It re-invests thee Individual with an awareness of psycho-
genetic history, lets them face and re-evaluate their own responses and
perception of themselves. It allows them to be awake and fight subservience
and adherence to any and all preconceptions. Thee myths and symbols of
thee past were attempts to articulate intimations of what is possible. Thee
themes of mythology are not just archaic knowledge- they are living
actualities of human beings. They exist as signposts and facets of interlaced
themes that together make up human behaviousr, character, aspiration and
potential. To touch ourselves and respect ourselves against all thee odds is
crucial to survival and to appreciation and effective use of thee state of
being alive. Thee need is to find a way into thee deepest areas of thee
psyche and how it affects and triggers behaviour and response. To redevelop
an integrated relationship with our so-called primitive perceptions from
which we have been alienated by Society. Western Society has built a norm
where unthinkingly thee majority of people deny, ridicule, attack, abuse,
trivialise, experience fear of, suppress or consign to novelty any experiences
that provide evidence or intimations of their inherited system of
explanations being inadequate. Fact, whatever that is, is given credence over
dreams; acceptance by a group is paramount, deviation and rebellion
generate fear. Those with thee courage to openly declare independence and
hope are isolated and scorned. Fame is constantly projected as thee primary
motivation for ambition. Every level of our Society is riddled with thee
concept of competition, beating thee other person or side, this is reinforced
by Capitalism, by Sport, Success in Entertainment and all fields, by Religion
and by Politics. Compete, compete. Competition is a variant of aggression. By
using ritual, gradually getting a clearer map of every inter-connection of
one's conscious and unconscious mind and couming to terms with thee
revelation that flux and constant change with no anchors or reassuring
formulae and no guaranteed rewards or salvation one can liberate oneself
from all thee inherited constraints that nine times out of ten directly or
indirectly bolster thee status quo. It literally allows us to face ourselves an
face facts. It supplies recognition that within each Individual there are many
types and shades of consciousness with diverse intentions and values. By
investigating our blocks, inhibitions, real desires and motivations in
preconceived moments of Time set aside to explore thresholds of perception
and response to check exactly what one's limits are and decide if they are
one's REAL limits, or merely convenient or coumplacent, we can re-assemble
and discard as we wish.
V. THEE IDEA
To heal and re-integrate thee human character. To set off psychic
detonations that negate control. To re-evaluate and value phenomena that
appear to defy reason. To retrieve choice in all things. To avoid separation
and coumpartmentalism in every aspect and level of Life, internal and
external. To always attempt to express as truly as you can what you really
feel and think. To locate and identify one's skills and develop them. To be
aware of human frailties and futility whilst caring intensely. To push to thee
edge and struggle to always feel and express more. To despise all forms of
coumplacency. To carry through one's ideas 24 hours a day for a lifetime. To
accept nothing. To assume nothing. To encourage others to repossess
themselves and maximise their potential. To exchange and liberate
information. To understand and treasure thee preciousness of feelings,
emotions and sentiment. To rebuild thee parameters and possibilities of
relationships. To locate and choose without guilt or fear one's individual and
natural balance of sexuality. To change and not see change as contradiction
or inconsistency, butter actually how things are and should be. To see Time
as an unfixed and irreplaceable resource that one receives only a limited and
unpredictable amount of. That that Time must never be wasted or
squandered. To try to work towards knowing that you used every second
constructively. To seek self-improvement not self-gratification.
Control. Control needs Time (like a junkie needs junk). Time appears linear.
Cut-ups make time arbitrary, non-linear. They reveal, locate and negate
Control. Control hides in social structures like Politics, Religion, Education,
Mass Media. Control exists like a virus for its own sake. Cut-ups loosen
rational order, break preconceptions and expected response. They retrain
our perception and acceptance of what we are told is thee nature of reality.
They confound and short-circuit Control. All Control ultimately relies upon
manipulation of behaviour. In culture thee Cut-up is still a modification of, o
alternate, language. It can reveal, describe and measure Control. It can do
damage butter that is not enough. Magick as a method is a Cut-up Process
that goes further than description. It is infused with emotion, intuition,
instinct and impulse, and includes emotions and feelings. It operates actually
within thee same medium, "Behavior", as Control. It is therefore essential as
a system to challenge, emasculate and render impotent thee source of
Control itself.
Control Disintegrates. Magick integrates.
Thee idea is to apply thee cut-up principle of behavior.
Thee method is a contemporary, non-mystical interpretation of "Magick".
Thee aim is reclamation of self-determination, conscious and unconscious, to
the Individual.
Thee result is to neutralise and challenge thee essence of social control.
Genesis P-Orridge London 1987
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) N
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) N
44 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] List
Enter search string ([Enter]=All): IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
: Temple ov Psychic Youth :
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM<
Writings of Genesis P-Orrdige
=============================
BEHAVE.ZIP 7859 01/12/92 ( 2) Behavioural Cut-Ups and Magick
FATE.ZIP 2032 01/12/92 ( 2) Thee Reversal ov Fate
GERMAN.ZIP 7860 01/12/92 ( 2) German Order
PSYCHIC.ZIP 12042 01/12/92 ( 2) Psychic TV
CROSS.ZIP 2956 01/12/92 ( 2) Stations ov thee Cross w/ Paula P-Orrdige
THROTTLE.ZIP 15802 01/12/92 ( 3) Thee Throttle
WAR.ZIP 20986 01/12/92 ( 1) Nothing Short ov a Total War
General T.O.P.Y. Writings
=========================
GREYBOOK.ZIP MISSING ( 0) An Introduction to the Temple ov Psychic Youth [remf
rom MISSING distribution at the request of T.O.P.Y.]
TOPY_IS.ZIP 42590 01/23/92 ( 3) What is TOPY?
More? (Y-n)
43 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list: WAR.ZIP
Contents of WAR.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/TOPY/WAR.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
47561 Implode 20882 57% 01-12-92 14:40 45eb324d --w WAR
------ ------ --- -------
47561 20882 57% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? WAR
Hang on, extracting file...
-=-=Reading: WAR=-=- Page #1
NOTHING SHORT OV A TOTAL WAR (STANZA L).
by Genesis P-Orridge
T.O.P.Y.
...real total war has becoum information war, it is being fought now...
DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION
That's thee key to change, thee key to knowledge and thee key to
development on all levels really. It's a mistake to believe in ANY dogmatic
politics. Politics is just a facade. It happens to suit thee vested interests o
lot of different groups in society to encourage a belief that politics rules
countries and decides their destinies when, in fact, it doesn't at all. Certain
not in thee way people are led to believe. Politics is just a convenient
charade to allow people to feel secure. It makes them believe society is in
their own control. They vote for their leaders, therefore they MUST choose
them. Politics IS just a convenient charade to make people feel secure. To
feel that it's all run consciously, democratically, that they understand what i
happening. That there are different polititians, who have different dogmas
and they argue over these in public and then thee public choose who seems
most sensible and capable to take office at any given time. Don't believe that
at all.
E believe that there has been an endless process since very early tribal
times, through settlements and towns and industrialization to contemporary
times. This E call thee "control process" and it exists independently of any
individuals. This "control process" can be operated by almost any vested
interest group at any given time in history. This process does not take sides,
has no morality, no obligations, no character, no sense of urgency. Thee
"control process" is always present. "Control needs time like a junkie needs
junk" (W.S.B.) E disagree on that control transcends time and space. Control
eats people, eats history, eats ideals, eats hope. It goes on right throughout
time, whatever disguise it might have. E am very antagonistic to thee whole
concept/situation of ultimately being controlled by a process which nobody
wants, (given a degree of individual sanity). E don't like that idea at all. If
have any enemy at all, then thee "Control Process" is that enemy. It is vital
to short-circuit that "control process". It is a very invisible, subtle process
a sense it has becoum a part of each human being's metabolism. Thee only
real way this control process can be broken is simply through people
beginning to mature.
As the level of maturity of individuals increases, so does their ability to
think for themselves, to accept responsibilities, to make decisions. In a sense
to develop an atmosphere of reasonableness and logic. Most people don't
want to develop this for quite fair reasons: they don't want to get involved.
It's a hell of a big battle and you can't even be sure who is in charge. For al
they know, they might be doing exactly what they are already programmed
to do, in fact, because any "control process" needs antagonism, it needs
people fighting against it. Its biggest strength is it controls information.
Basically thee power in this world rests with thee people who have access to
thee most information and also control that information. Most of thee
paranoia concerned with politics is about what is REALLY going on, what is
secret, what we are not being told about. Diplomacy is about that really.
So, the enemy is thee "control process" and thee power of thee "control
process" isn't actually armies and police, it isn't power through force. That i
a secondary tactic, butter not thee crucial thing, thee real power is who's got
thee information. Thee weakness of whoever controls that information bank
at any given time is that, to store and use that information, systems have to
be developed for storing it and reproducing it. Those systems are very
expensive and cumbersome, requiring capital & equipment which can't be
utilized thee whole time. So, to cover costs and keep equipment running,
these systems have to be made available to thee rest of us to keep them
financially viable. That's why you get access to cable TV, to computer time,
to xerox, instant printing and cassette recorders, even thee mail, polaroids
too, and video. These are all spin-offs from business, conglomerates and
people at thee top who deal directly in control. They develop these systems
for their own reasons, butter they are so expensive they have to mass
produce them to finance them. So we all get easier and easier ways to
mulitply our ideas and information, it's a parallel progression.
Also, another of their weaknesses, those who control control, is that they
have a very one-directional view whereas we, thee outsiders, thee genetic
terrorists, or control agents, as we in T.G. call them (meaning NOT that we're
into control butter dealing with it), we have thee mutant ability to make
conceptual leaps.
Which is really what is said about creative people, or artists, or talented
criminals, that they can perceive things in a wide spectrum, from outside
they can analyse structures, play games with that knowledge and
manipulate it, throw it back. In inspired moments chuck spanners into
various works. So we get tools to increase thee efficiency of our mischief as a
spin-off from thee controllers. In return they get something from us. We are
always developing ideas which are non-linear and therefore outside their
scope butter which they can adopt and adapt. In a crisis, it is often and
outsider who sees a solution, invents a new gadget, effects a coumpromise.
So it's a two-way thing. Each side giving things to thee other as a direct
result of their intrinsic conflict. Ultimate irony and also organically cyclica
and sensible. Parasite feeding off host, host kept alive by immunity afforded
it by parasite. Thee "control process" develops machinery, equipment and
techniques which we can play with for our own ends. Butter by us playing
with them, inevitably, there is a spin-off philosophical and creative
progression, an analysis of experience which can the be taken back by thee
"control process" for its own ends. We need this system as a target, a
stimulus outside ourselves to fight against, and thee system needs a
rebellious questioning minority to develop new possiblilities from a
flexibility of view it can never posses by its very rigid nature.
It seems likely however, that very very slowly this minority is growing.
More people are breaking taboos, they have realised, through people telling
them, in leaflets, on TV, etc., in other words, through information being made
available, they have certain rights. That they can question things, they can
organise, they can set up their own structures. that is not to say necessarily
that all those things are per se right, butter it does seem symptomatic of a
larger breakdown of this "control process" than many people might suspect.
And it probably explains thee swing towards repressive ideas in politics to
cover a growing fear of usurpation by those presently in charge of thee
process and its information bank.
NOTES FROM A MAGICKAL DIARY 1967-87
The indifference ov satiation, thee knowledge ov indifference. Wise
indifference. Anxiety is a coummon term, one of thee mainstays of
psychiatry. It is defined as an emotion. It is not. It is a coumpound ov two
elements: awareness of ambiguity and a depressive reaction to this
awareness.
E am interested in thee extension and investigation ov culture, ov
mythologies, personal symbol systems, thus E chose to always work with a
group ov Individuals. Our works are poor traits that interconnect. Whatever
E do, am involved in, help thee expression ov, is, in a real way, a poor trait
ov myself, and a poor trait ov each Individual member ov thee group ov
Individuals who collaborated with me on that particular work/action also.
Yet there is a mystery involved. They exist, these poor traits, because E exist
they are collated and organised by me, and yet E do not create every part ov
them directly, they are the sum total ov all who participate. There is a chain
ov creation, rather than a chain ov coumand. It is this process and
parallelism that fascinates me, thee abrogation, or fragmentation ov specific
responsibility, and it seems in coum way linked with Charles Manson than I
often care, or dare, to admit in public. Perhaps it is merely a long-
engrammed trick to side-step total responsibility, in order to avoid a clear
case ov knowing it was me, or my act alone, that had failed. Certainly E
despise myself at many times for failing to achieve more. Yet, mystery again,
E desire achievement in order to share, to share coumpletely, and
demonstrate CARING, and thee ultimate achievement E seek is total
liberation ov thee human spirit and ALL its expressions, and total
destruction ov control and hypocrisy and all thee sick manifestations ov
inherited social values. E must fail by definition, and succeed by intention. E
guess we can only fail by failing to achieve thee goal we set ourselves, those
secrets that so few know. Who are we challenging in our imagination, who do
we wish to outdo?
Times change, people change with them and adopt thee processes, ideologies
and styles ov their time. Those people are RE-PERSONALISING their
expression ov themselves, their "art".
E do not believe that ANY art has intrinsic value. It is a result, it is not a
thing itself. It is expression and description, not experience, it is residue,
means. Magick is thee only medium that can be both. It was through thee
process ov art that E located Magick. Art became a diluted sham, too fixed in
thee superficial, coumsumerist ethics ov its era. E have consciously and
subconsciously substituted thee word Magick where E once placed thee word
Art, now E feel coumfortable, before E was always uncoumfortable,
suspicious, embarassed by the vacuous label my actions were presented
under.
It seems to me Magick is about movement and change, about Time passing.
Thee Medium ov Magick is Time itself, and thee Belief ov Magick is Action.
We risk our emotions to place our vision ov how thee world and life are into
a public arena. Our vision coums from observation ov our own experiences
and RE-COGNITION. We hope to discover that perhaps we are not alone, that
other people have felt or seen thee same. Magick is about thee process ov
telling thee truth, thee whole truth, and about not having any secrets.
Paradox- where does practical discretion becoum elitist secret? E think when
it is USED to project or hold power, or to attract, in itself, or to imply
authority for egotistical reasons. Therefore a contemporary and relevant
Magickal network must be about ACCESS, sharing ov techniques and
information, it must attack thee hoarding ov knowledge and give any useful
ideas and structures availability to all who ask. There are no secret teachers,
no "more responsible" or "entrusted" masters. Magick HAS to be for
everyone.
Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth is a family ov experiences. It is an eternal
search and struggle through false rules that we and others have set for
ourselves. To find peace ov mind does not mean a religious following and
isolation. This is a misleading view from thee society we now live within. It
is wrong to seek oneself in isolation when our world is proportionately city-
built, each coumglomerate full ov scared, lonely, rejected people. One must
live within thee environment ov thee Times and make THAT environment as
free as possible to as many people as possible.
This is thee trick, thee aim, thee revolver ov hope. To give people what they
already have, butter that has been buried by yera's ov varying human ideals
and standards.
All we ask is that people once more work with themselves, their feelings,
FEELINGS, and in doing so, becoum aware ov others and their feelings. We
are eaten like offal by rats, treated as stinking, redundant garbage, discarded
as outdated fuel resources as the ratios ov control adjust.
It is simple, yet difficult, in "reality", to touch oneself once more. Thee
simplest things are thee most difficult. Re-integration ov every aspect ov
one's conscious and subconscious mind, all feelings, aspirations, sexualities,
fears, insecurities, dreams, skills, strengths and emotional capabilities must
be located, focussed, examined, absorbed, and balanced. Our society, and now
by succumbing to coumpetition and to tribal rivalry onece more, our own
culture, have deliberately splintered and fragmented our personalities. We
are linear, fear ridicule, follow style and muscle ov every type, we forget we
do not wish to PARTICIPATE as frozen personalities.
We have TRACKING problems, we need to link directly and make
adjustments. We do not confront each other and ourselves enough. We are
not honest enough. From thee older generation there is buried guilt that they
failed to develop their dream, were side-tracked into habits, into superiority,
into stability. These expresses via drugs, via jobs, via New Age Babble. In
thee younger generation there is fear ov failure, fear ov ridicule by thee next
generation that coums out as cynical nihilism, like thee anarcho-hippies that
drench themselves in death and Anger, righteous justified and challenging
anger, yet still it ends camouflaging guilt at impotence and a feeling that
they too are succumbing to their own systems ov habits and peer group
values, opinions and status. Guilt in LOVE, Guilt in ANGER. Yet all fueled by
sincere motivation.
It is always so easy to feel radical and be merely deluded. Whatever you do
has to make sense to EVERYONE on EVERY STREET, or it means jack shit. It
has to do with thee realities of life around you. You can't rebuild your house,
butter you can redecorate your bedroom. You can be an example. You can
win a battle everyday. Thee LOVE, and the ANGRY brigade today at their
best both do just that. Butter too many swap action for habit. To wear black,
take smack and say you don't care does not PROVE you are radical, or aware.
To take acid, and be placid does not make you cosmic or there.
Each morning you awake, you experience morning sickness, MOURNING
sickness. Mourning thee death ov your belief in human nature, in evolution,
in love, in thee fuel ov action from anger. Love can be strong and ruthless, it
can generate strong action, obsessive behaviour against all odds, it can see
thee stupidity ov thee human race, yet embrace and encourage human
beings. Anger can be coumstructive, fueling positive, non-damaging, truly
control-confronting behaviour and celebration, and reinvest humans with
being.
Never do anything that is not instinctive. Never do anything forced upon
you. Never do anything for ulterior motives. BE ACTIVE, use ANGRY LOVE.
COLLABORATE.
Each action is a true action, pure and simple, there for every other person to
take and interpret as they wish. It is that interpretation that is thee
beginning ov their struggle.
It must be voluntary to exist at all. Caring is not weakness.
TURN ON (control) TUNE IN (to your Self) DROP OUT (ov control).
There has to be a CLEAR message. It has to be possible for anyone to identify
with it. It has to INSPIRE and EXCITE. It has to generate ACTION. It must
AIM HIGH. It must spread by, and operate via EXPANSION not subtraction. It
must INCLUDE not EXCLUDE. It must be capable ov instant and constant
change. It should have no limits on thee enemies it can tackle, or thee area
ov coumcern it will invade. It must therefore be rooted in people, what they
believe they are capable ov, what they believe is possible, their behavior
and their imagination. Real and full integration ov EVERY aspect ov being a
Human Being without recourse to mysticism, afterlife, outside entities or any
personalisation ov phenomena and interpretation ov phenomena.
Responsibility for EVERYTHING must be accepted by us, by all people(s)
without fear, without excuse. Thee surrender ov responsibility (for One Self)
has always been a key problem.
What we don't understand is simply what we don't understand.
What am E thinking about? Where am E really placed?
Thinking, why am E thinking? Looking, why am E looking?
An industrial problem for Magick: SAMENESS. Thee onward progression
toward uniformity, thee suppression ov Individuality, thee pressure ov
fashion, ov peer group, thee need to belong, to avoid loneliness. Incubated
inside mass media, mass production, mass consumption and mass culture.
Thee Cloning ov Radicalism. Psychedelic Grey.
WOLF=FLOW
Another problem: MYSTIFICATION and EXCLUSIVITY. In keeping a
monotonous culture and society under a Control process, one creates a facade
ov experts guarding knowledge/information and its dissemination. People at
large feel excluded. magick often falls prey to this fault too. People feel
excluded, that it is not for them, that only intellectuals, or well-read litera
with leisure time have thee time, right or correct credentials to be part ov it
Often they have been deliberately made to feel excluded and feel inferior,
unable to participate CORRECTLY, lacking in training or etiquette necessary
for true understanding. Well, bullshit! Correctness, good manners, etiquette,
spurious training are all traits ov an historic and effete aristocracy that
deserves only scorn. De-mystification is our duty, work and action our only
obligation.
We are supposed to be coumunicating. What we do, what we express are
simply that, they are produced for result, not praise, to touch not impress.
They should aim to be how people are, how they respond to where they live,
when they live, how they live, and their aspirations in all these respects.
Minus thee demands ov World, Market, Career it becoums - Magick.
Magick requires hesitancy and uncertainty in its special relationship with
reality and person
Magick is a search for definitions. A series ov statements, observations and
actions blended through intuitive ritual (real or imagined) to fix in more
concrete terms thee eternal, non-extant paradox ov Time.
"We all die". "Well spoken," said thee sage to thee wall, painting it white.
1967 spoke ov LOVE and it inspired, energised, felt fresh and relevant. And
it included anger at injustice, Vietnam, sexism, hypocrisy. 1987 speaks ov
ANGER and that too can be inspired, energised, feel fresh and relevant. It can
include love, ov humanity, stupid though it is, and ov sexuality and ov life
and colour. We suggest in our idealism through sin-icism. September marks
thee WINTER OV ANGRY LOVE. Thee perception and anger at all thee Wrongs
and thee awareness and refusal to stoop to society's level ov destruction.
Dreaming ov thee romance of loneliness and thee adventure of sex. Will it
ever be resolved? Our culture guarantees disappointment. It thrives on
disatisfaction. A phallus on a string drawing us onwards. Completion is like a
needle of junk. It thrills and dies. Pagan blood. Our concern as self-professed
and reconstructed heathens, Godless and proud, is to becoum INTEGRATED on
every level ov consciousness and ov character. No emotion spared. No end in
sight. We believe at thee time of orgasm, a hieroglyph symbolising a desire,
an awakeness, can be lodged in thee inner recess of thee brain, in what is
commonly dubbed thee sub conscious mind, butter which we call thee REAL-
CONSCIOUS MIND. This act then concentrates thee entire personality upon
achievement ov thee desire. All this coums from our brains, our brains
program us. There are no demons or gods. No mysteries. Observation and
action are thee key. We can internalise our program, transmit our desire, and
observe thee video of our thoughts on thee retina of thee mind. Thee sex
moves, it groans and there really is nothing left butter thee exploration of
our final lust.
Genesis P-Orridge, October 85.
Society murders every day, it murders childrens' imagination, it murders
wives' love for their husbands, it murders men's respect for women, it
murders people's hopes, dreams, joy in Life. Society mass-murders every
day, and society is thee vehicle for control, and control is administered by
thee rich and political, thee inheritors of feudal power.
[F]ind [E]nd [N]ext [M]ore [O]ver [S]top: [N] S
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) N
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) N
39 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] List
Enter search string ([Enter]=All): IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
: Temple ov Psychic Youth :
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM<
Writings of Genesis P-Orrdige
=============================
BEHAVE.ZIP 7859 01/12/92 ( 2) Behavioural Cut-Ups and Magick
FATE.ZIP 2032 01/12/92 ( 2) Thee Reversal ov Fate
GERMAN.ZIP 7860 01/12/92 ( 2) German Order
PSYCHIC.ZIP 12042 01/12/92 ( 2) Psychic TV
CROSS.ZIP 2956 01/12/92 ( 2) Stations ov thee Cross w/ Paula P-Orrdige
THROTTLE.ZIP 15802 01/12/92 ( 3) Thee Throttle
WAR.ZIP 20986 01/12/92 ( 1) Nothing Short ov a Total War
General T.O.P.Y. Writings
=========================
GREYBOOK.ZIP MISSING ( 0) An Introduction to the Temple ov Psychic Youth [remf
rom MISSING distribution at the request of T.O.P.Y.]
TOPY_IS.ZIP 42590 01/23/92 ( 3) What is TOPY?
More? (Y-n)
INIT.ZIP 2535 04/08/92 ( 2) A Redefinition ov Initiation, by Coyote 12
STATIONS.ZIP 4003 01/12/92 ( 2) Info Sheet from 'Stations ov thee Cross' P8
CCT1291.ZIP 12179 01/12/92 ( 3) T.O.P.Y. Closed Circuit Transmission (Dec Y
Sol MISSING
3COYOTE.ZIP 5481 01/12/92 ( 1) Child ov Chaos, Coyote: a Folkloric Triad m
an MISSING
IDLORDER.ZIP 4062 01/24/92 ( 1) IdEAL ORDER Psychic TV - Zappin' CBS eveni1
983! MISSING
FORGOT.ZIP 7808 04/08/92 ( 2) The Forgotten Ones of Magick, by Nema
PHYSEX.ZIP 4416 04/08/92 ( 3) The New Physex, by Coyote 12
TANTRIC.ZIP 3474 04/08/92 ( 5) Tantric Masturbation
MAGICK23.ZIP 1342 04/08/92 ( 3) Magick, by Coyote 23
SPECIES.ZIP 4394 06/13/92 ( 0) Thee New Species Comes ov Age: 60's going
R.U. MISSING Sirius
PTV_INT.ZIP 12083 06/13/92 ( 0) An Interview with Psychic TV by Sandy Charn
HERETOGO.ZIP 34290 06/13/92 ( 1) The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
CUT_UPS.ZIP 2374 06/13/92 ( 2) Cut-Ups Self-Explained by Brion Gysin
GENESIS.ZIP 25345 06/13/92 ( 1) Genesis P-Orridge by Charles Neal
More? (Y-n)
39 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list: TANTRIC.ZIP
Contents of TANTRIC.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/TOPY/TANTRIC.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
7087 Implode 3362 53% 01-01-98 01:02 c597d4a6 --w TANTRIC
------ ------ --- -------
7087 3362 53% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? TANTRIC
Hang on, extracting file...
-=-=Reading: TANTRIC=-=- Page #1
Tantric Masturbation by Brandy Williams
I prefer an outside locationQagainst the base of a friendly tree or on r
d lounge chair that works well.
My greatest success happens during my moontimeQwhen I am menstuating. t
Sealing: To seal means to close the chakras (the energy centers of the aura) a
my head, forehead, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, throat, between my breasts, solar p
lower closing for the night. I finish the seal by drawing a circle around myse
heart center. At the same time I visualize a blue light trailing from my fing
When I seal before masturbating or making love, I feel an increase of h
m and cherished, by myself or by my partner.
I also find that if I do not seal or protect myself during my moontime,e
hich my partner describes when he ejaculates frequently. I hear from a lot of
y; from my experience I do not find that statement to be true. Female bodies a
Breathing Rhythmically: I use a 6-3-6-3 pattern. I inhale for six heartbeats,
An easier and more common pattern is to inhale for four beats and exhale four
Whenever I do any kind of magic, I use this breath pattern, so for me in
ng meditation in general helps me clear my mind. Later, there will be a time t
he article IUm writing or what IUm making for dinner. IUm going to make love t
Autoerotic Stimulation: The first step in actually making self-love is to stim
r penis) by handQI rub my body against the surface IUm onQearth or sand or soft
quality of this touch is light, gentle and cherishing ... which doesnUt mean t
Heightened Pleasure: Just before I climax, I stop. I visualize a column of go
When I stop the physical stimulation just short of contraction, I get s
ightly, a brief cessation of thought, and perhaps one or two very small vaginal
nUt allow myself a full set of contractions, and he doesnUt allow himself ejacu
r language isnUt set up to discuss this.)
This (hopefully specific) description does not convey the pleasure of te
till fun.
When I start a session, I require some stimulation and time to climax (t
imax (with contraction). I become very physically quiet, limiting stimulation
Parenthically, my partner reports a very recent experience. HeUs gettil
intense than all-out orgasm. The ejaculate is a different color: clear, not w
is, at this point, an involuntary experience.
The advantage of being able to make love while retaining a more or lessi
e upset if you go over the edge, and where the learning can progress more quick
Visualization: The second stage of making love to myself is to generate imager
y mindUs eye, I see a column of gold or white light rising from my genitals, al
dths above. At the same time I feel an increase of internal heat where the col
Some people refer to this as Rrousing Kundalini.S They visualize the fs
he entire body shake uncontrollably, and to be dangerous to do without the guid
I experienced that kind of reaction once. It did frighten me. I stoppd
tion and thought, RWonderful! IUm doing something right.S So I think that wha
know any Tantric masters. Most writers, however, say to go out and find yours
Indian Tantric mythology talks about a dancer, Shiva, and his snake, Sh
rmed Ophion, the Snake, from the wind. They created the Universe also.
I use both images. The idea is to raise the Kundalini in my spine ( the
dy, genitals, and chest, licking the dancerUs face. I imagine how a snake woul
Alternatively, I see a being of light whose outlines dissolve in radiani
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) N
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) N
37 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] List
Enter search string ([Enter]=All): IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
: Temple ov Psychic Youth :
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM<
Writings of Genesis P-Orrdige
=============================
BEHAVE.ZIP 7859 01/12/92 ( 2) Behavioural Cut-Ups and Magick
FATE.ZIP 2032 01/12/92 ( 2) Thee Reversal ov Fate
GERMAN.ZIP 7860 01/12/92 ( 2) German Order
PSYCHIC.ZIP 12042 01/12/92 ( 2) Psychic TV
CROSS.ZIP 2956 01/12/92 ( 2) Stations ov thee Cross w/ Paula P-Orrdige
THROTTLE.ZIP 15802 01/12/92 ( 3) Thee Throttle
WAR.ZIP 20986 01/12/92 ( 1) Nothing Short ov a Total War
General T.O.P.Y. Writings
=========================
GREYBOOK.ZIP MISSING ( 0) An Introduction to the Temple ov Psychic Youth [remf
rom MISSING distribution at the request of T.O.P.Y.]
TOPY_IS.ZIP 42590 01/23/92 ( 3) What is TOPY?
More? (Y-n)
INIT.ZIP 2535 04/08/92 ( 2) A Redefinition ov Initiation, by Coyote 12
STATIONS.ZIP 4003 01/12/92 ( 2) Info Sheet from 'Stations ov thee Cross' P8
CCT1291.ZIP 12179 01/12/92 ( 3) T.O.P.Y. Closed Circuit Transmission (Dec Y
Sol MISSING
3COYOTE.ZIP 5481 01/12/92 ( 1) Child ov Chaos, Coyote: a Folkloric Triad m
an MISSING
IDLORDER.ZIP 4062 01/24/92 ( 1) IdEAL ORDER Psychic TV - Zappin' CBS eveni1
983! MISSING
FORGOT.ZIP 7808 04/08/92 ( 2) The Forgotten Ones of Magick, by Nema
PHYSEX.ZIP 4416 04/08/92 ( 3) The New Physex, by Coyote 12
TANTRIC.ZIP 3474 04/08/92 ( 5) Tantric Masturbation
MAGICK23.ZIP 1342 04/08/92 ( 3) Magick, by Coyote 23
SPECIES.ZIP 4394 06/13/92 ( 0) Thee New Species Comes ov Age: 60's going
R.U. MISSING Sirius
PTV_INT.ZIP 12083 06/13/92 ( 0) An Interview with Psychic TV by Sandy Charn
HERETOGO.ZIP 34290 06/13/92 ( 1) The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
CUT_UPS.ZIP 2374 06/13/92 ( 2) Cut-Ups Self-Explained by Brion Gysin
GENESIS.ZIP 25345 06/13/92 ( 1) Genesis P-Orridge by Charles Neal
More? (Y-n)
PSYCHIC2.ZIP 16100 06/13/92 ( 0) Psychic TV. Interview by Charles Neal take
lay MISSING 1987
INTRO.ZIP 20056 06/13/92 ( 1) An Introduction to the Temple ov Psychic Ye
w MISSING conducted by Tom Vague and John Travis in Sept. 1984
INTOPY.ZIP 4911 09/26/92 ( 0) Interview between AntoClocl Wise and T.O.P
from MISSING TOPYlondon bulletin, June 1991
T.O.P.Y. On-Line Transmission
=============================
TOPY1-00.ZIP 10633 01/12/92 ( 2) Dec 23, 1990
TOPY1-01.ZIP 7632 01/12/92 ( 2) Jan 23, 1991
TOPY1-02.ZIP 4091 01/12/92 ( 2) Feb 23, 1991
TOPY1-03.ZIP 6971 01/12/92 ( 2) Mar 23, 1991
TOPY1-04.ZIP 5775 01/12/92 ( 2) Apr 23, 1991
TOPY1-05.ZIP 5051 01/12/92 ( 2) May 23, 1991
TOPY1-06.ZIP 7082 01/12/92 ( 2) Jun 23, 1991
TOPY1-07.ZIP 8816 01/12/92 ( 2) Jul 23, 1991
TOPY1-09.ZIP 7710 01/12/92 ( 2) Sep 23, 1991
TOPY1-12.ZIP 4571 01/12/92 ( 2) Dec 23, 1991
More? (Y-n)
36 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list: HERETOGO.ZIP
Contents of HERETOGO.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/TOPY/HERETOGO.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
77715 Implode 34168 57% 06-12-92 21:37 2a581a7f --w HERETOGO.TXT
------ ------ --- -------
77715 34168 57% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? HERETOGO.ZIP
Hang on, extracting file...
Attempt failed.
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) Y
Contents of HERETOGO.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/TOPY/HERETOGO.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
77715 Implode 34168 57% 06-12-92 21:37 2a581a7f --w HERETOGO.TXT
------ ------ --- -------
77715 34168 57% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? HERETOGO.TXT
Hang on, extracting file...
-=-=Reading: HERETOGO.TXT=-=- Page #1
~ THE CUT-UP METHOD OF BRION GYSIN ~
At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from
nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out
of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. Andre Breton expelled
Tristan Tzara from the movement and grounded the cut-ups on the
Freudian couch.
In the summer of 1959 Brion Gysin painter and writer cut
newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at
random. "Minutes to Go" resulted from this initial cut-up experiment.
"Minutes to Go" contains unedited unchanged cut-ups emerging as
quite coherent and meaningful prose.
The cut-up method brings to writers the collage, which has been
used by painters for fifty years. And used by the moving and still
camera. In fact all street shots from movie or still cameras are by the
unpredicatble factors of passersby and juxtapositon cut-ups. And
photographers will tell you that often their best shots are accidents . .
. writers will tell you the same. The best writings seems to be done
almost by accident but writers until the cut-up method was made
explicit-all writing is in fact cut-ups; I will return to this point-had
no way to produce the accident of spontaneity. You cannot will
spontaneity. But you can introduce the unpredictable spontaneous
factor with a pair of scissors.
The method is simple. Here is one way to do it. Take a page. Like this
page. Now cut down the middle. You have four sections: 1 2 3 4 . . .
one two three four. Now rearrange the sections placing section four
with section one and section two with section three. And you have a
new page. Sometimes it says much the same thing. Sometimes
something quite different-cutting up political speeches is an
interesting excercise-in any case you will find that it says something
and something quite definite. Take any poet or writer you fancy.
Here, say, or poems you have read over many times. The words have
lost meaning and life through years of repetition. Now take the poem
and type out selected passages. Fill a page with excerpts. Now cut the
page. You have a new poem. As many poems as you like. As many
Shakespeare Rimbaud poems as you like. Tristan Tzara said: "Poetry
is for everyone." And Andre Breton called him a cop and expelled
him from the movement. Say it again: "Poetry is for everyone."
Poetry is a place and it is free to all cut up Rimbaud and you are in
Rimbaud's place. Here is a Rimbaud poem cut up.
"Visit of memories. Only your dance and your voice house. On the
suburban air improbable desertions . . . all harmonic pine for strife.
"The great skies are open. Candor of vapor and tent spitting blood
laugh and drunken penance.
"Promenade of wine perfume opens slow bottle.
"The great skies are open. Supreme bugle burning flesh children to
mist."
Cut-ups are for everyone. Anybody can make cut-upws. It is
experimental in the sense of bein something to do. Right here write
now. Not something to talk and argue about. Greek philosophers
assumed logically that an object twice as heavy as another object
would fall twice as fast. It did not occur to them to push the two
objects off the table and see how they fall. Shakespeare Rimbaud live
in their words. Cut the word lines and you will hear their voices. Cut-
ups often come through as code messages with special meaning for
the cutter. Table tapping? Perhaps. Certainly an improvement on the
usual deplorable performances of contacted poets through a medium.
Rimbaud announces himself, to be followed by some excruciatingly
bad poetry. Cut Rimbaud's words and you are assured of good poetry
at least if not personal appearance.
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard
overheard. What else? Use of scissors renders the process explicit
and subject to extension and variation. Clear classical prose can be
composed entirely of rearranged cut-ups. Cutting and rearranging a
page of written words introduces a new dimension into writing
enabling the writer to turn images in cinematic variation. Images
shift sense under the scissors smell images to sound sight to sound
sound to kinesthetic. This is where Rimbaud was going with his color
of vowels. And his "systematic derangement of the senses." The place
of mescaline hallucination: seeing colors tasting sounds smelling
forms.
The cut-ups can be applied to other fields than writing. Dr Neumann
in his Theory of Games and Economic behavior introduces the cut-up
method of random action into game and military strategy: assume
that the worst has happened and act accordingly. If your strategy is
at some point determined . . . by random factor your opponent will
gain no advantage from knowing your strategy since he cannot
predict the move. The cut-up method could be used to advantage in
processing scientific data. How many discoveries have been made by
accident? We cannot produce accidents to order. The cut-ups could
add new dimension to films. Cut gambling scene in with a thousand
gambling scenes all times and places. Cut back. Cut streets of the
world. Cut and rearrange the word and image in films. There is no
reason to accept a second-rate product when you can have the best.
And the best is there for all. "Poetry is for everyone . . .
Now here are the preceding two paragraphs cut into four sections
and rearranged:
ALL WRITING IS IN FACT CUT-UPS OF GAMES AND ECONOMIC
BEHAVIOR OVERHEARD? WHAT ELSE? ASSUME THAT THE WORST
HAS HAPPENED EXPLICIT AND SUBJECT TO STRATEGY IS AT SOME
POINT CLASSICAL PROSE. CUTTING AND REARRANGING FACTOR YOUR
OPPONENT WILL GAIN INTRODUCES A NEW DIMENSION YOUR
STRATEGY. HOW MANY DISCOVERIES SOUND TO KINESTHETIC? WE
CAN NOW PRODUCE ACCIDENT TO HIS COLOR OF VOWELS. AND NEW
DIMENSION TO FILMS CUT THE SENSES. THE PLACE OF SAND.
GAMBLING SCENES ALL TIMES COLORS TASTING SOUNDS SMELL
STREETS OF THE WORLD. WHEN YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST ALL:
"POETRY IS FOR EVERYONE" DR NEUMANN IN A COLLAGE OF WORDS
READ HEARD INTRODUCED THE CUT-UP SCISSORS RENDERS THE
POCESS GAME AND MILITARY STRATEGY. VARIATION CLEAR AND
ACT ACCORDINGLY. IF YOU POSED ENTIRELY OR REARRANGED CUT
DETERMINED BY RANDOM A PAGE OF WRITTEN WORDS NO
ADVANTAGE FROM KNOWING INTO WRITER PREDICT THE MOVE. THE
CUT VARIATION IMAGES SHIFT SENSE ADVANTAGE IN PROCESSING
TO SOUND SIGHT TO SOUND. HAVE BEEN MADE BY ACCIDENT IS
WHERE RIMBAUD WAS GOING WITH ORDER THE CUT-UPS COULD
"SYSTEMATIC DERANGEMENT" OF THE GAMBLING SCENE IN WITH A
TEA HALLUCINATION: SEEING AND PLACES. CUT BACK. CUT FORMS.
REARRANGE THE WORD AND IMAGE TO OTHER FIELDS THAN
WRITING. - William Burroughs
~ BRION GYSIN ~
A biography/appreciation by Terry Wilson . . .
BRION GYSIN
(19 January 1916- )
SELECTED BOOKS
Minutes to Go, with William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Sinclair
Belles (Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960; San Francisco: Beach Books,
1968);
The Exterminator, with William Burroughs (San Francisco: Auerhahn
Press/Dave Haselwood Books, 1960, 1967);
The Process, (New York: Doubleday, 1969; London: Jonathan Cape,
1970);
Oeuvre Croisee (The Third Mind), with William S. Burroughs (Paris:
Flammarion, 1976; New York: Viking Press, 1978; London: John
Calder, 1979).
Brion Gysin is regarded as one of the most influential and visionary
of living poets and painters. In 1958, a chance encounter with
William Burroughs on the Place St. Michel in Paris resulted in him
moving into the famous Beat Hotel at no. 9 rue Git le Coeur in the
Latin Quarter. He confided to Burroughs his inventions, the Cut-ups
and Permutations, and thus began the most important collaboration
in modern literature.
A naturalized US citizen of Swiss extraction, Gysin was born in
Taplow House, Taplow, Bucks, UK. After the loss of his father when
he was nine months old, his mother took him to New York to stay
with one of her sisters and then to Kansas City, Mo., to stay with
another. He finished high school at the age of fifteen in Edmonton,
Alberta, and ws sent for two years to the prestigious English public
school, Downside. While there, Gysin began publishing his poetry
before he went on to the Sorbonne. In Paris, he met everybody in the
literary and artistic worlds. When he was nineteen, he exhibited his
drawings with the Surrealist group, which included Picasso on that
occasion.
Gysin is an entirely self-taught painter who acquired an enviable
technique without putting foot in an art school or academy. At the
age of twenty-three he had his first one-man show in a prestigious
Paris gallery just off the Champs Elysees. It was a glittering social
and financial (even a critical) success, with an article in Poetry World
signed by Calas. But it was May, 1939. World War II caught Gysin in
Switzerland with an overnight bag. When he got to New York,
everybody asked: "How long you been back?"
~ HERE TO GO: PLANET R-101 ~
An excerpt from Here To Go: Planet R-101, by Terry Wilson
T: How did you get into tape recorders?
B: I heard of them at the end of World War II, before I went to
Morocco in 1950, but unfortunately I never got hold of good
machines to record even a part of the musical marvels I heard in
Morocco. I recorded the music in my own place, The 1001 Nights,
only when it was fading and even in later years I never was able to
lay my hands on truly worthwhile machines to record sounds that
will never be heard again, anywhere.
I took Brian Jones up to the mountain to record with Uhers, and
Ornette Coleman to spend $25,000 in a week to record next to
nothing on Nagras and Stellavox, but I have to admit that the most
adventurous sounds we ever made were done with old Reveres and
hundred dollar Japanese boxes we fucked around with, William and I
and Ian Sommerville. I got hold of the BBC facilities for the series of
sound poems I did with them in 1960, technically still the best,
naturally. I had originally been led to believe that I would have a
week and it turned out to be only three days that we had, so in a
very hurried way at the end I started cutting up a spoken text-I
think the illustration of how the Cut-ups work, "Cut-ups Self
Explained"-and put it several times through their electronic
equipment, and arrived at brand new words that had never been
said, by me or by anybody necessarily, onto the tape. William had
pushed things that far through the typewriter. I pushed them that
far through the tapeworld. But the experiment was withdrawn very
quickly there, I mean, it was . . . time was up and they were made
rather nervous by it, they were quite shocked by the results that
were coming back out of the speakers and were only too glad to
bring the experiment to an end. ["Well, what did they expect? A
chorus of angels with tips on the stock market?"-William Burroughs)
"The Permutated Poems of Brion Gysin" (as put through a computer
by Ian Sommerville) was broadcast by the BBC, produced by Douglas
Cleverdon. ("Achieving the second lowest rating of audience approval
registered by their poll of listeners"-BG) Some of the early cut-up
tape experiments are now available: Nothing Here Now But The
Recordings (1959-1980) LP (IR 0016) available on the Industrial
Records label from Rough Trade, 137 Blenheim Crescent, London
W11, England.]
What we did on our own was to play around with the very limited
technology and wattage we had in the old Beat Hotel, 40-watts a
room was all we were allowed. There is something to be said for
poverty, it makes you more inventive, it's more fun and you get
more mileage out of what you've got plus your own ingenuity. When
you handle the stuff yourself, you get the feel of it. William loved the
idea of getting his hands on his own words, branding them and
rustling anyone else's he wanted. It's a real treat for the ears, too, the
first time you hear it . . . made for dog whistles, after that. Hey Rube!
- the old carny circus cry for men working the sideshows when they
saw some ugly provincial customer coming up on them after they
had rooked him . . . Hey Rube! - a cry to alert all the carny men to a
possible rumble . . . Hey-ba ba-Rube-ba! - Salt Peanuts and the
rude sound coming back so insistent again and again that you know
the first bar of Bebop when you hear it. Right or wrong, Burroughs
was fascinated because he must have listened to plenty of bebop talk
from Kerouac, whom I never met. He must have been a fascinating
character, too bad to miss him like that, when I was thrown up
against all the rest of this Beat Generation. Maybe I was lucky. I
remember trying to avoid them all after Paul Bowles had written me:
"I can't understand their interest in drugs and madness." Then, I dug
that he meant just the contrary. Typical. He did also write me to get
closer to Burroughs whom I had cold-shouldered . . . until he got off
the junk in Paris.
T: Who produced the "Poem of Poems" through the tape recorder?
The text in The Third Mind is ambiguous.
B: I did. I made it to show Burroughs how, possibly, to use it. William
did not yet have a tape recorder. First, I had "accidentally" used
"pisspoor material,"fragments cut out of the press which I shored up
to make new and original texts, unexpectedly. Then, William had
used his own highly volatile material, his own inimitable texts which
he submitted to cuts, unkind cuts, of the sort that Gregory Corso felt
unacceptable to his own delicate "poesy." William was always the
toughest of the lot. Nothing ever fazed him. So I suggested to William
that we should use only the best, only the high-charged material:
King James' translation of the Song of Songs of Solomon, Eliot's
translation of Anabase by St. John Perse, Shakespeare's sugar'd
Sonnets and a few lines from The Doors of Perception by Aldous
Huxley about his mescaline experiences.
Very soon after that, Burroughs was busy punching to death a series
of cheap Japanese plastic tape recorders, to which he applied himself
with such force that he could punch one of them to death inside a
matter of weeks, days even. At the same time he was punching his
way through a number of equally cheap plastic typewriters, using
two very stiff forefingers . . . with enormous force. He could punch a
machine into oblivion. That period in the Beat Hotel is best illustrated
by that photo of William, wearing a suit and tie as always, sitting
back at this table in a very dingy room. On the wall hangs a nest of
three wire trays for correspndence which I gave him to sort out his
cut-up pages. Later, this proliferated into a maze of filing cases filling
a room with manuscripts cross-referenced in a way only Burroughs
could work his way through, more by magic dowsing than by any
logical system. how could there be any? This was a magic practice he
was up to, surprising the very springs of creative imagination at
their source. I remember him muttering that his manuscripts were
multiplying and reproducing themselves like virus at work. It was all
he could do to keep up with them. Those years sloughed off one
whole Burroughs archive whose catalogue alone is a volume of 350
pages. Since then several tons of Burroughs papers have been moved
to the Burroughs Communication Centre in Lawrence, Kansas. And he
is still at it.
T: The cut-up techniques made very explicit a preoccupation with
exorcism - William's texts became spells, for instance. How effective
are methods such as street playback of tapes for dispersing
parasites?
B: We-e-ell, you'd have to ask William about that, but I do seem to
remember at least two occasions on whyich he claimed success . . .
Uh, the first was in the Beat Hotel still, therefore about 1961 or '2,
and William decided (laughing) to "take care" of an old lady who sold
newspapers in a kiosk, and this kiosk was rather dramatically and
strategically placed at the end of the street leading out of the rue Git
le Coeur toward the Place Saint Michel, and, uh, you whent up a flight
of steps and then under an archway and as you came out you were
spang! in front of this little old French lady who looked as if she'd
been there since-at least since the French Revolution-when she had
been knitting at the foot of the guillotine, and she lived in a layer of
thickly matted, padded newspapers hanging around her piled very
sloppily, and, uh, she was of absolutely incredible malevolence, and
the only kiosk around there at that time that sold the Herald-
Tribune, so that William (chuckling) found that he was having to deal
with her every day, and every day she would find some new way to
aggravate him, some slight new improvement on her malevolent
insolence and her disagreeable lack of . . . uh (chuckling)
collaboration with William in the buying of his newspaper (laughter)
. . .
So . . one day the little old lady burnt up inside her kiosk. And we
came out to find that there was just the pile of ashes on the ground.
William was . . . slightly conscience-stricken, but nevertheless rather
satisfied with the result (laughter) as it proved the efficacity of his
methods, but a little taken aback, he didn't necessarily mean the old
lady to burn up inside there . . . And we often talked about this as we
sat in a cafe looking at the spot where the ashes still were, for many
months later . . . and to our great surprise and chagrin one day we
saw a very delighted Oriental boy-I think probably Vietnamese-
digging in these ashes with his hands and pulling out a whole hatful
of money, of slightly blackened coins but a considerable sum, and
(laughing) we would have been very glad to have it too - just hadn't
thought of digging in the thing, so I said: "William, I don't think your
operation was a complete success." And he said: "I am very glad that
that beautiful young Oriental boy made this happy find at the end of
the rainbow . . ."
T: She consummated her swell purpose . . .
B: (Laughing) Exactly . . . exactly . . . (chuckling)
Now the other case was some years later in London when he had
perfected the method and, uh, went about with at least one I think
sometimes two tape recorders, one in each hand, with prerecorded,
um-runes-what did you call them? You said William's things-
T: Spells.
B: Spells, okay, spells.
T: Like-
B: (chanting)
Lock them out and bar the door,
Lock them out for e-v-e-rmore.
Nook and cranny windo door
Seal them out for e-v-e-rmore
Lock them out and block the rout
Shut them scan them flack them out.
Lock is mine and door is mine
Three times three to make up nine . . .
Curse go back curse go back
Back with double pain and lack
Curse go back - back
Et cetera . . . yeah . . . pow . . . "Shift, cut, tangle word lines" . . . sure
.
Well, that was for the Virus Board, wasn't it, that he was gonna
destroy the Virus Board . . .
~ HERE TO GO: PLANET R-101 ~
An Excerpt from Here to Go: Planet R-101, Brion Gysin interviewed
by Terry Wilson (with original writing and an introduction by W.S.
Burroughs), available July 1982 from Re/Search Publications . . .
- Who Runs May Read
"May Massa Brahim leave this house as the smoke leaves this fire,
never to return . . ."
. . . Never went back to live, and I've only been back there even to
visit only very briefly . . .
And then it was back to Paris for a year or so, 1949-50, and then in
1950 I went to Morocco with Paul Bowles, who had taken, bought a
little house there, and I stayed there really, or felt that I was
domiciled there, uh, although I was really only a sort of terminal
tourist, from 1950 till 1973 . . .
"Magic, practiced more assiduously than hygiene in Morocco, through
ecstatic dancing to the music of the secret brotherhoods, is, there, a
form of psychic hygiene. You know your music when you hear it, one
day. You fall into line and dance until you pay the piper."
BG "CUT-UPS:
A Project for Disastrous Success"
in Brion Gysin Let The Mice In
B: Yeah . . . what a tale . . . what a tale . . . yeah, I met John Cooke in
Morocco uuummm but, uh . . . I don't know what to say about all
that, really . . .
T: He designed tarot cards . . . ?
B: Yeah . . .
T: A new set of tarot card . . .
B: Yeah, so he did. How did you even know that?
T: I saw them the other day.
B: Oh really? . . . No kidding? They're still around eh? Well well . . .
T: Is he still alive?
B: Yes, I imagine he's still alive, I think living in Mexico [John Cooke
died sometime after this was recorded.] . . . and he comes from one of
those very rich and powerful families who were the Five Founding
Families of Hawaii . . . who own the island, did own the island of
Molokai . . . and, uh, many people in his family have been interested
in mystic things, and he was particularly interested in magic all his
life . . . early connection with . . . what do they call it, kaluhas or
something, the Hawaiian shamanistic magic men? . . . Kahunas, yeah .
. .
T: Yeah. So tell me about Morocco . . . you got more and more
immersed into Islam, or, uh-
B: Not really, no, I never was much immersed truly into Islam, or I
would've become a Moslem, and probably still be there . . . uh, it was
most particularly the music that interested me. I went with Paul
Bowles, who was a composer long before he was a writer, and, uh, he
had perfect pitch, an unusual thing even among composers, and he
taught me how to use my ears a great deal during the years we'd
known each other in New York, but when he'd taken this house,
bought this house in Tangier, he suggested that I go and spend a
summer there living in the house and he was on his way to America,
he was just going to leave me in the house . . . but it turned out
rather differently . . . he was goin to New York to write the music for
his wife's play, Jane Bowles' In The Summerhouse, and he had
written a great deal of theatrical music for Broadway, all the
Tennessee Williams plays, all of the plays by Saroyan, and many
other productions of that time . . . and was a great expert on that . . .
but he also had very, very extraordinary ears, and, uh, he taught me
a lot of things, I owe him a tremendous amount, I owe him my years
in Morocco really because I wouldn't've gone there if he hadn't
suggested it at that particular time . . . I might have gone back to
Algeria, which isn't nearly as interesting a country, never was . . .
But, uh, in 1950 we went to a festival outside of Tangier on the
beach, on the Atlantic shore, at a spot which was previously a small
harbour, 2000 years ago in Phoenician times, and must've marked
one of the first landfalls that any boat coming out of the
Mediterranean via the Straits of Gibraltar would make as soon as the
boat entered the Atlantic, the first landfall would be at this little
place not very far from Cape Spartel . . . and, uh, the Phoenician habit
was always to establish a center of religion, I mean a thanks offering
for getting them safely over the dangerous sea, one supposes, and a
marking of the spot which eventually became a center of their
religious cult, presumably a college of priestesses . . . two or three
more landfalls further down the Atlantic coast is what used to be the
great harbour of Larache . . .
All these harbours are now silted up completely . . . Larache was the
site of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, where Hercules went to
get away from the demonic . . . the orgiastic priestesses, who were
guardians in a sacred grove surrounded by a serpent if you
remember, a dragon - well the dragon is the river, in each case there
are these winding rivers that go back up into the country; only one of
them still exists, the Lixos. Well the Lixos was presumably the
dragon in the mythological tale and there was an island in the
harbour, and this spot that we went to had been on the same
geographic and even religious plan, as it were, and the festival was
given there, which doesn't correspond to the Lunar Calendar but to
the Solar Calendar, and has to do with the harvest and actual cycle of
agricultural life of the people there . . . And I heard some music at
that festival about which I said: "I just want to hear that music for
the rest of my life. I wanna here it everyday all day." And, uh, there
were a great many other kinds of extraordinary music offered to one,
mostly of the Ecstatic Brotherhood who enter into trance, so that in
itself-it was the first time I'd seen large groups of people going into
trance-was enough to have kept my attention, but beyond and above
all of that somewhere I heard this funny little music, and I said "Ah!
That's my music! And I must find out where it comes from." So I
stayed and withing a year I found that it came from Jajouka . . .
(LOUD CRASHES, TAPE STOPS)
B: Your question . . . ?!
T: You found that your music was at Jajouka . . . The purpose of the
Rites of Jajouka is to preserve the balance of Male-Female forces, is
that correct?
B: Yes, in a very strange way I think it's a very pertinent question
that you ask. Uh, when I met them finally, it took about a year to
find them, and went up to the mountain village, I recognized very
quickly that what they were performing was the Roman Lupercal,
and the Roman Lupercalia was a race run from one part of Rome, a
cave under the Capitoline Hill, which Mussolini claimed to have
discovered, but is now generally conceded to be some 10 or 15
meters further down . . . and in this cave goats were killed and
skinned and a young man of a certain tribe was sown up in them,
and one of these young men was Mark Antony, and when in the
beginning of Julius Caesar, when they meet, he was actually running
this race of Lupercalia through Rome on the 15.March, the Ides of
March . . . and the point was to go out to the gates of Rome and
contact Pan, the God of the Forests, the little Goat God, who was
Sexuality itself, and to run back through the streets with the news
that Pan was still out there fucking as he flailed the women in the
crowds, which is why Julius Caesar asked him to be sure to hit
Calpurnia, because his wife Calpurnia was barren . . . Forget not in
thy haste, Antonius, to touch Calpurnia, for the Ancients say that in
this holy course the barren are rendered fruitful, or something like
that, are the lines from Shakespeare on the subject . . . Shakespeare
dug right away that's what it was, the point of the sexual balance of
nature which was in question . . . And up there on the mountain
another element is added, inasmuch as the women, who live apart
from the men, whose private lives are apart from the men's lives to a
point where even women's language isn't immediately understood by
men-women can say things to each other in front of men that men
don'ts understand, or care to be bothered with, it's just women's
nonsense, y'see . . . and they sing sort of secret little songs enticing
Bou Jeloud the Father of Skins, who is Pan, to come to the hills,
saying that . . . We will give you the prettiest girls in the village, we
will give you Crosseyed Aisha, we will give you Humpbacked- . . .
naming the names of the different types of undesirable non-beauties
in the village, like that, and, uh, Pan is supposed to be so dumb that
he falls for this, because he will fuck anything, and he comes up to
the village where he meets the Woman-Force of teh village who is
called Crazy Aisha-Aisha Homolka . . . well Aisha is of course an Arab
name, but it's derived from an earlier original, which would be
Asherat, the name of Astarte or any one of these Venus-type lady
sex-goddesses like that . . . And, uh, Bou Jeloud, the leader of the
festival, his role is to marry Aisha, but in actual fact women do not
dance in front of any but their own husbands, the women in Arab
life, all belly-dancing movies to the contrary, do not dance in public,
or never did, and most certainly don't in villages, ever dance where
they're seen by men any more than men dance in front of women . . .
so that Crazy Aisha is danced by little boys who are dressed as girls,
and because her spirit is so powerful-
(TAPE STOPS)
" . . . a faint breath of panic borne on the wind. Below the rough
palisade of giant blue cactus surrounding the village on its hilltop,
the music flows in streams to nourish and fructify the terraced fields
below.
"Inside the village the thatched houses crouch low in their gardens to
hide in the deep cactus-lined lanes. You come through their maze to
the broad village green where the pipers are piping; fifty raitas
banked against a crumbling wall blow sheet lightning to shatter the
sky. Fifty wild flutes blow up a storm in front of them, while a
platoon of small boys in long belted white robes and brown wool
turbans drum like young thunder. All the villagers, dressed in best
white, swirl in great circles and coils around one wildman in skins.
"Bou Jeloud leaps high in the air on the music, races after the women
again and again, lashing at them fiercely with his flails-'Forget not in
your speed, Antonius, to touch Calpurnia'-He is wild. He is mad.
Sowing panic. Lashing at anyone; striking real terror into the crowd.
Women scatter like white marabout birds all aflutter and settle on
one little hillock for safety, all huddled in one quivering lump. They
throw back their heads to the moon and scream with throats open to
the gullet, lolling their tongues around in their heads like the clapper
in a bell. Every mouth is wide open, frozen into an O. Head back and
hot narrow eyes brimming with dangerous baby.
"Bou Jeloud is after you. Running. Over-run. Laughter and someone is
crying. Wild dogs at your heels. Swirling around in one ring-a-rosy,
around and around and around. Go! Forever! Stop! Never! More and
No More and No! More! Pipes crack in your head. Ears popped away
at barrier sound and you deaf. Or dead! Swirling around in cold
moonlight, surrounded by wildmen or ghosts. Bou Jeloud is on you,
butting you, beating you, taking you, leaving you. Gone! The great
wind drops out of your head and you hear the heavenly music again.
You feel sorry and loving and tender to that poor animal
whimpering, grizzling, laughing and sobbing there beside you like
[F]ind [E]nd [N]ext [M]ore [O]ver [S]top: [N] E -=-=Scanning: HERETOGO.TXT=-=-1
-=-=Reading: HERETOGO.TXT=-=- Page #40
Maraini demanded an interview with the general and- here's this
Japanese general sitting with regimental sword in front of him like
that, and Maraini . . . took his sword, and cut off his own finger and
threw it into the man's face. And that had absolutely the desired
effect - it was the thing that really impressed the Japanese more
than anything else that he could have done. Everybody got more
food, and lives were saved by this gesture. So maybe it's partly that
true story that's been loaned to William as part of his legend. But
that didn't happen quite that way.
GEN: So you've lost a toe, and he's lost some finger-
BRION: Everybody loses a little something here and there on the way
through this rat race . . .
This excerpt is from a forthcoming book of interviews with Brion
Gysin, edited by Genesis P-Orridge, Genesis and Peter (Sleazy)
Christopherson asked the questions . . .
"Real total war has become information war, it is being fought now . .
. "
(END) [H]ome [P]rior [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) N
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) N
30 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Quit
File area TOPY ... Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth
FILE (29 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Sel`ect: a
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]: ?
File Areas --------------
ALCHEMY ... Alchemy: Where's that confounded Stone!
ARCHIVE ... Archives: Archived Message Bases From Days of Yore
BEAST ... Beast: The Books and Writings of Aleister Crowley
BULLETIN ... Bulletin: Newsletters from O.T.O. Camps and Lodges
CTHULHU ... Cthulhu: Wilbur Whateley' Corner
ENOCHIAN ... Enochian Magick in Theory & Practice
EQUINOX ... The Equinox: The Method of Science, The Aim of Religion
FECES ... Fundamental Feces: This shit stinks!
GNOSTIC ... Gnosticism in Theory & Practice
GRAPHIC ... Graphics Files
LIBRI ... Libri: The Books of the A.:A.:
MAGICK ... Magick in Theory & Practice
NEW ... New: Files recently uploaded to the 'Kathedral.
OCCULT ... Occult: Wiccan, Pagan, Neo-Pagan & New Age
OTO ... Ordo Templi Orientis material
PLANT ... Magickal Plants: Ethnobotanickal Alchemical Excursions
RECORDS ... Magickal Records & Workings of Contemporary Magicians
REQEST ... Special Request: Unarchived Text Files by Request
ROSI ... Rosicrucian and Esoteric Christianity
SATAN ... Satan: God's Lefthand Man
SET ... Set: The Temple of Set
More [Y,n,=]? n
File area [Area #, '['=Prior, ']'=Next, '?'=List]: BEAST
The FILES Section
File area BEAST ... Beast: The Books and Writings of Aleister Crowley
FILE (29 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: `f
Files: ['*'=new, <enter>=all, or type a partial filename]:
===================================
== The Writings of the Beast 666 ==
===================================
Book 4
------
*Liber IV, Parts 1 & 2
Based on the Sangreal edition of 1969
BOOK4.ZIP 111380 03-06-92 ( 1) Book 4
Magick in Theory and Practice
-----------------------------
* Liber IV, Part 3 *
Based on the Castle Books of New York edition.
In four parts:
MTP-1.ZIP 113167 12-20-91 ( 1) Magick in Theory & Practice, part 1
MTP-2.ZIP 114399 12-20-91 ( 1) Magick in Theory & Practice, part 2
MTP-3.ZIP 78978 12-20-91 ( 1) Magick in Theory & Practice, part 3
MTP-4.ZIP 71846 12-20-91 ( 1) Magick in Theory & Practice, part 4
More [Y,n,t,=]? xy
Magick Without Tears
--------------------
Complete and unabridged,
Edited with a foreward by Karl J. Germer, 1954
MWT-A.ZIP 86061 12-20-91 ( 0) Magick Without Tears, part 1
MWT-B.ZIP 87410 12-20-91 ( 0) Magick Without Tears, part 2
MWT-C.ZIP 95271 12-20-91 ( 0) Magick Without Tears, part 3
The Old & New Commentaries to Liber AL Vel Legis
------------------------------------------------
CM220CH1.ZIP 113260 03-11-91 ( 2) Liber AL Chapter I comment
CM220CH2.ZIP 80504 03-11-91 ( 2) Liber AL Chapter II comment
CM220CH3.ZIP 50017 03-11-91 ( 2) Liber AL Chapter III comment
The Rites of Eleusis
--------------------
The Rites of Eleusis as performed at Caxton
Hall Westminister in October and November
1910 by Miss Leila Waddell and Mr Aleister
More [Y,n,t,=]? |y
Crowley with distinguished assistance
SATURN.ZIP 7551 12-20-91 ( 3) The Rite of Saturn
JUPITER.ZIP 10680 12-20-91 ( 2) The Rite of Jupiter
MARS.ZIP 9068 12-20-91 ( 2) The Rites of Mars
SOL.ZIP 7327 12-20-91 ( 1) The Rites of Sol
VENUS.ZIP 5409 12-20-91 ( 2) The Rites of Venus
MERCURY.ZIP 6791 12-20-91 ( 2) The Rites of Mercury
LUNA.ZIP 6560 12-20-91 ( 2) The Rites of Luna
C_OF_GOD.ZIP 6509 04-08-92 ( 4) The City of God
LIES.ZIP 73236 03-27-92 ( 1) The Book of Lies
ZODIAC.ZIP 10766 03-22-92 ( 3) The Zodiac and The Tarot
BLOXAM.ZIP 92482 02-15-92 ( 1) Not the Life and Times of Sir Roger
Bloxam
DUTY.ZIP 6718 02-15-92 ( 1) Duty
CEFALU.ZIP 9783 11-14-90 ( 3) The Cephaloedium Working
BAGH.ZIP 86801 11-24-90 ( 1) The Bagh-i-muatter: The Scented Garden
of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz (XY Write)
BAGH-I.ZIP 52193 12-20-91 ( 1) The Bagh-i-muatter: The Scented Garden
of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz (ASCII)
More [Y,n,t,=]? @y
HEART.ZIP 18562 03-11-91 ( 2) The Heart of the Master
BARTZBEL.ZIP 8747 11-14-90 ( 2) An Evocation of Bartzabel the Spirit
of Mars
WRLDTRGY.ZIP 13047 03-11-91 ( 2) The Worlds Tragedy
HEART.ZIP 18562 03-11-91 ( 2) The Heart of the Master
ESSAYS.ZIP 53592 03-10-91 ( 0) Little Essays Towards Truth
L65-CMNT.ZIP 73389 03-10-91 ( 2) Commentary to Liber Cordis Cinca
Serpente
BLASPHEM.ZIP 6101 03-11-91 ( 2) Concerning `Blasphemy' in general &
the Rites of Eleusis in particular
AC_ISIS.ZIP 2192 03-11-91 ( 0) Invocation of the Holy Spirit (Isis).
From the papers of Frater Progradior. Ritual
used at Cephalu
DRUGS.ZIP 99238 03-10-91 ( 0) Pursuit of Happiness, published by New
Falcon Publications
GILLES.ZIP 10845 03-11-91 ( 0) Gilles de Rais: the Banned Lecture
MURDER-X.ZIP 2649 03-11-91 ( 0) The Murder in X Street
N_RHYMES.ZIP 5959 08-12-91 ( 0) _An Interlude_ from Book 4. A
qabalistic exegesis of popular nursery rhymes.
POSTCARD.ZIP 2439 03-11-91 ( 1) Postcard to Probationers from Equinox
I, # I
STCYBELE.ZIP 16818 03-11-91 ( 2) The Stone of Cybele from `Golden Twigs'
STELE.ZIP 3166 09-14-91 ( 1) Crowley concerning the Stele of
More [Y,n,t,=]? py
Revealing
SUGGEST.ZIP 9793 06-24-91 ( 2) A Suggestive Inquiry Into the Royal
Art!
TALISMAN.ZIP 3254 03-11-91 ( 0) The Book of the Spirit of The Living
God
IVNOTES.ZIP 2980 01-24-92 ( 1) Transcript of Crowley's handwritten
notes in his library edition of Book 4
AC_POEMS.ZIP 9824 03-11-91 ( 0) The Priestess of Panormita, Hymn to
Lucifer, Leah Sublime, Hymn to Pan, Pan to
Artemis, and Hail Mary.
ISISAMI.ZIP 921 01-24-92 ( 0) Isis Am I, from Tannhauser
APHRODIT.ZIP 1253 01-24-92 ( 0) Invocation of Aphrodite, from Orpheus
CURRENT.ZIP 1533 01-24-92 ( 0) Roll, Strong Current of Life, from
Orpheus
ANTHEM.ZIP 1778 03-05-92 ( 0) Anthem from The Ship
L_RITUAL.ZIP 7257 04-08-92 ( 2) The Last Ritual, includes introduction
to the 1989 facsimile edition
AFTER.ZIP 5209 04-09-92 ( 1) After the Fall, A Page from the Book
of the Recording Angel
IRISH.ZIP 7382 04-09-92 ( 1) The Decleration of Independence of the
Irish Republic
OUIJA.ZIP 1691 04-09-92 ( 0) The Ouija Board: A Note
RITES.ZIP 3511 04-09-92 ( 3) The Rites of Eleusis: Their Origin
More [Y,n,t,=]? @y
and Meaning
PANSIL.ZIP 8252 04-09-92 ( 1) Pansil
DELUSION.ZIP 6534 04-09-92 ( 2) The Great Drug Delusion, by a New York
Specialist
CRISIS.ZIP 8247 04-09-92 ( 2) The Crisis in Freemasonry
AGNOSTIC.ZIP 5916 05-22-92 ( 1) After Agnosticism
SHELLEY.ZIP 6592 04-25-92 ( 3) Percy Bysshe Shelley
File area BEAST ... Beast: The Books and Writings of Aleister Crowley
FILE (27 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: @z
Peeker v2.21 -- an XBBS Utility.
26 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Contents
File to list: CM220CH1.ZIP
Contents of CM220CH1.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/BEAST/CM220CH1.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
268379 Implode 113138 58% 05-10-90 20:14 fbc833d9 --w CM220CH1.ASC
------ ------ --- -------
268379 113138 58% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? CM220CHI.ASC
Hang on, extracting file...
Attempt failed.
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) Y
Contents of CM220CH1.ZIP Page #1
Searching ZIP: D:/FILE/BEAST/CM220CH1.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
268379 Implode 113138 58% 05-10-90 20:14 fbc833d9 --w CM220CH1.ASC
------ ------ --- -------
268379 113138 58% 1
(END) [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) Y
Name of file to view? CM220CH1.ASC
Hang on, extracting file...
-=-=Reading: CM220CH1.ASC=-=- Page #1
The Old and New Commentaries to Liber AL by Crowley, this file for Chapter I.
*************************************************************************
Most of the text below has been entered by Frater H.B., except for the t
of the New Comment omitted by L. Wilkenson in his abridgement.
This text of Liber 220 has been restored by comparison with an early sur
able at this time.
The Old Comment has been restored by BH, except for Chapter II, from the
her revision to Crowley's text. The New Comment to Chapter II also needs furth
Some verses of Liber AL have were not individually commented by Crowley
Crowley's footnotes have been moved up into the text and enclosed in dou
further correction to the original.
All other notes are enclosed in curly brackets, with attribution of orig
nterpolation of a gap in the TS. These gaps were intended to be filled by hand
e in a variety of hands, sometimes missing altogether. The accuracy of these i
*************************************************************************
L I B E R A L vel L E G I S
sub figura CCXX
as delivered by
(LXXVIII) XCIII unto DCLXVI
with a commentary by
T H E B E A S T
----
TO MEGA THERION 666
(Part I, comment to Chapter I)
Copyright © O.T.O.
*************************************************************************
Title:
In the first edition this Book is called L. L is the sacred letter in the H
the letter of Libra, Balance, and 'Justice' in the Taro. This title should pro
the Book, for these letters, and their number 31, form the Master Key to its My
In order that the ethical and philosophical comment should be "understanded
Appendix has not yet been recovered.} all considerations drawn from the numeri
t Appendix will be found an account of the character of this cipher, called "Qa
rbal form, and of the necessity of proving to the student that the Author of th
THE FIRST CHAPTER
-- o --
AL I,1: "Had! The manifestation of Nuit."
THE OLD COMMENT.
1. Compare II.1, the complement of this verse. In Nu is Had concealed; by Had
Angel. Also Hoor, who combines the force of the Sun with that of Mars. Adona
See the "Sepher Sephiroth" ,and "The Wake World" in "Know Om Pax" for furth
Note moreover, the sixty-five pages of the MS. of Liber Legis.
Or, counting NV 56, Had 10, we get 66, which is (1-11). Had is further the
THE NEW COMMENT.
The theogony of our Law is entirely scientific, Nuit is Matter, Hadit is Mot
se analogies.>> They are the Tao and Teh of Chinese Philosophy; or, to put it
these two infinities cannot exist apart. This extensive subject must be studi
and 1921, and "The Book of Wisdom or Folly". See also "The Soldier and the Hu
ust here mention that the Brother mentioned in connexion with the "Wizard Amala
s of the Sumerians. Taken in connexion with the AIWAZ identification, this is
It is also to be considered that Nu is connected with North, while Had is Sa
ce, as also is any other star. The word ABRAHADABRA is from Abrasax, Father Su
n of the Origin of the Social State in Man". Note "Sax" also as a Rock, or Sto
d in Naus, Ship, etc., and that whole symbolism of Hollow Space which is famili
na, and so on. But these identifications are all partial only, different facet
own Book.
AL I,2: "The unveiling of the company of heaven."
THE OLD COMMENT.
2. This book is a new revelation, or unveiling of the hold ones.
THE NEW COMMENT.
This explains the general theme of this revelation: gives the Dramatis Perso
It is cosmographically, the conception of the two Ultimate Ideas; Space, and
It will however appear later that these two ideas may be resolved into one,
tion' for Hadit, whose interplay with Nuit makes the Universe.
Time should perhaps be considered as a particular kind or dimension of Space
rs later, for receding from this view.>>
Further, this verse is to be taken with the next. The 'company of heaven' i
an!
Further, as Khabs (see verse 8) is "Star", there is a further meaning; this
AL I,3: "Every man and every woman is a star."
THE NEW COMMENT.
This thesis is fully treated in "The Book of Wisdom or Folly". Its main sta
th all other Gods.
From this the Law "Do what thou wilt" follows logically. One star influence
wever, a mystery of the planets, revolving about a star of whom they are parts;
Man is the Middle Kingdom. The Great Kingdom is Heaven, with each star as a
is regularly geometrical, each being 10 to the 22 times greater in size than i
See "The Book of the Great Auk" for the demonstration that each 'star' is th
potence, omniscience and omnipresence without ceasing to be itself; that its on
rue Nature is for awhile disguised, even from itself. Analogously, an atom of
Blood, not recognizable as "itself" the black amorphous solid, but recoverable
This theory is the only one which explains "why" the Absolute limited itself
he Origin of Evil; without denying Reality to "Evil", or insulting our daily ob
I here quote (with one or two elucidatory insertions) the original note orig
May 14, 1919, 6.30 p.m.
All elements must at one time have been separate -- that would be the case w
heat, and all the elements are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of eac
d with that memory, would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gaine
a thing (although originally an Infinite Perfection) could become something mo
eciding to go through this series of incarnations (god, that was a magnificent
y of Perfection which he has during these incarnations, because he knows he wil
Therefore you have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though d
g could create a world in which war, evil, "etc". exist. Evil is only an appea
. This is something the same as mystic monism, but the objection to that theor
If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. It is no objectio
ook for him, is not there. Theism is "obscurum per obscurius". A male star is
ant when we say that woman has no soul. It explains fully the difference betwe
{WEH NOTE: Although Crowley evidently felt that this characterization was true
ference inwards may actually have described the impression received by a male o
ibed as "circumference inward", "...no soul" and "female" at the time of recept
d qualify for "center outwards", "soul" and "male" in this sense. What Crowley
h an accident of culture as anything else.}
AL I,4: "Every number is infinite; there is no difference."
THE NEW COMMENT.
This is a great and holy mystery. Although each star has its own number, ea
e God. "The Centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere". The old defi
by the initiate; one must acquire certain high states of consciousness to appre
I have tried to put it simply in the note to the last verse. I may add that
se is seen as an astral Vision. It began as "Nothingness with Sparkles" in 191
ccasions. Each 'Star' is connected directly with every other star, and the Spa
Each man instinctively feels that he is the Centre of the Cosmos, and philoso
'petty' than the King, nor the earth than the Sun. Each simple elemental Self
s veiled himself too long from his own glory: he fears the abyss, the ageless A
It must be understood from the beginning that this book contains the keys of
hich it initiates. In this very early verse is already given a Master Key to m
hat the long-fast doors fly open at a touch.
Let use briefly examine the implications of this statement. It should not o
modern mathematicians like Poincare, but goes beyond them. It was necessary t
sessed of superior powers to any incarnated mind soever.
It may clarify the subject if we venture to paraphrase the text. The first
ly because of the accepted idea of a number as not being a thing in itself but
finitions involving this conception. For example, it is fundamental to admit t
on of the nature of number.
Mathematical ideas involve what is called a continuum, which is, superficial
nuum, the eye can distinguish between the lengths of one-inch stick and a two-i
and on inch, though the difference in each case is equally an inch. The inch
can distinguish either the one-inch or the two-inch stick from one of an inch
e extremes are distinguishable from each other but their mean from neither of t
o B, and B to C, yet C appears greater than A. Our reason tells us that this c
less for us to invent instruments which increase the accuracy of our observatio
e theoretical Hierarchy, we can always continue the process of division until w
e neither is distinguishable from B'.
On the above grounds, modern thinkers have endeavoured to create a distincti
ct in our organs of sense, which is responsible for the difficulty, shows that
ervation.
However, in the case of the mathematical continuum, its character is such th
ver, without interfering in any way with the regularity of the process, or crea
nuum, moreover, is not merely a question of series of integral numbers, but of
easurable in terms of that series. Such numbers are themselves parts of a cont
arily.
For example: the tangents of angles made by the separation of two lines from
tegral value is found at the angle of 45 degrees where it is unity.
It may be said that there is an infinite number of such series, each possess
e between zero and ninety may be multiplied sixty fold by taking the minute ins
the second to divide the minute. So on ad infinitum.
All these considerations depend upon the assumption that every number is no
e in no way contradictory of the orthodox view; but it adds to it in the most p
no special mention of the birth of Napoleon. This does not invalidate his res
, for the birth of Napoleon had more influence on the death-rate than another o
A short digression is necessary. There may be some who are still unaware of
but only with the relations between observed phenomena and the observer. The s
of approximation at the best. In the first place, it applies to earth. As mos
marked manner between the poles and the equator, and not only so, but it is aff
It is similarly inaccurate to speak of "repeating" an experiment. The exact
ver is not the same. When a man says that he is sitting still, he forgets that
It is possibly such considerations that led earlier thinkers to admit that t
he apparent ineluctability of her laws constitutes a guarantee of their coheren
s or Baccarat. When we say that "two straight lines cannot enclose a space", w
consequently, on that of the hypothesis that our minds bear witness to truth.
nd that no reason for believing him. It is useless to reply that mathematical
ing to persuade even the few people when we teach of the truth of the simplest
more recondite results of analysis. It is no reply to this criticism to say th
ing does not warp the mind?
But when we have brushed away these preliminary objections, we find that the
en our ideas. In the example chosen, we have five ideas; those of duality, of
meaningless until it is defined as corresponding in a certain manner to certai
ndefined words. To define it by a single word would evidently constitute a tau
We are thus forced to the conclusion that all investigation may be stigmatiz
DE, and C is FG. Not only does the process increase the number of our unknown
he definition of Z involves the term A. Not only is all argument confined with
It might be supposed that the above chain of reasoning made all conclusions
can rely on water boiling at 100 degrees Centigrade,<<In revising this comment
t which water boils! I have seen it boil at about 84 degrees C. on the Baltoro
quite forgotten the original conditions of Celsius.>> although, for mathematic
ly, the term water is an incomprehensible mystery.
To return to our so-called axiom; Two straight lines cannot enclose a space.
if we assume the definition of the various terms employed, is strictly relative
For Bolyai, Lobatschewsky, and Riemann have shown conclusively that a consiste
e sum of the interior angles of a triangle is either greater than or less than
tly consistent with itself, and we possess no means soever of deciding which of
I may illustrate this point by a simple analogy. We are accustomed to asser
nary, while we are mobile. But the fact might be equally well expressed by say
ion, for the course of the earth through space is not taken into account. We i
at the chair in which I am sitting has remained stationary for the last hour, I
ied it over one thousand miles, and the earth's course some seventy thousand mi
nt with regard to a series of assumption which we know perfectly well to be fal
It is commonly imagined, by those who have not examined the nature of the ev
bolic representations of Nature is the true one. They suppose that Euclidian G
ngle tell us that their sum is in fact equal to two right angles, just as Eucli
which we use for our measurements are themselves conceived of as in conformity
od about which they really known nothing but that its length is one-tenth of th
The fallacy should be obvious. The most ordinary reflection should make it
thread of quicksilver in a thermometer?", we can only reply that it depends on
nts of expansion due to heat of the two substances, glass and mercury.
Again, the divisions of the scale of the thermometer depend upon the tempera
ere, which varies (according to time and place) to the extent of over twenty pe
kind.
It will be said, however, that having defined a yard as the length of a cert
t least in a position to measure the length of other objects by comparison, dir
ut if it should occur that the length of things in general were halved or doubl
f determining even so simple a matter as to whether one of two events happens b
Let us take an instance. It is well known that the light of the sun require
no meaning soever. See A.A.Eddington, "Space, Time and Gravitation", 61.>> {WE
lute simultaneity is a natural complement to the denial of absolute motion ..."
m a mathematical standpoint, the same discrepancy theoretically exists, even if
consideration of these facts has show the impossibility of determining the fac
nd as vice versa. Lewis Carroll has an amusing parable to this effect in "Thro
osophical paradox. <<If I strike a billiard ball, and it moves, both my will an
twin effects of the eternal Universe. The moved arm and ball are part of a st
er. Thus, my Magical Work is only on of the cause-effects necessarily concomit
as a cause-effect of my original Will to move the ball, though necessarily prev
mpelled to perform Magick in order to make my Will to prevail; so that the caus
recede the other, See Book 4, Part III, for a full discussion. (Since writing
ed.)>>
We may now return to our text "Every number is infinite". The fact that eve
describe a picture as Number So-and-So in the catalogue. Every number is a thi
the conception of the nature of Number.>> possessing an infinite number of prop
Let us consider, for a moment, the numbers 8 and 9. 8 is the number of cube
squares measuring one inch each way in a square measuring three inches each way
By adding one to eight, we obtain nine, so that we might define unity as tha
expansion of three. But if we add unity to nine, unity appears as that which h
uring 5 by 2. Unity thus appears as in possession of two totally different pro
now it? Only by experiment can we discover the nature of its action on any giv
t uniformly transforms an odd number into an even one, and vice versa, but that
We can go further, and state that any number soever possesses this infinite
ve also how the manipulation of any two numbers can be arranged so that the res
ible with our original conception of numbers as a series of positive integers.
taposition of such apparently comprehensible and commonplace entities as intege
There is only one conclusion to be drawn from these various considerations.
e, a thing inexpressible, even if we could understand it.
In other words, a number is a soul, in the proper sense of the term, an uniq
We may not turn to the second phrase of the text: "there is no difference".
of all that has been said above. What have we done but insist upon the essenti
an arbitrary, being indeed rather a convenient way of regarding them for the pu
ber public vehicles or telephones without implication even of necessary sequenc
pressly chosen to avoid being entangled in considerations of any characteristic
when it is said that there is no difference between numbers (for in this sen
ference is the denial of identity in the first place, but the word is not prope
difference between a yard and a minute?" in practical life. We do ask the dif
that each number is unique and absolute. Its relations with other numbers are
ir semblances; and it is to the last degree important to realize that these sem
a thermoetric scale indicate heat. It is quite unphilosophical to say that 50
d by ourselves to describe physical states of a totally different order; and, w
in no way concerns it.
We use instruments of science to inform us of the nature of the various obje
y enable us to compare unfamiliar with familiar experiences. The use of an ins
we say that we see a thing, we only mean that our consciousness is modified by
ist in our eyes and not in the object perceived. So also, the fact that the su
to us of those numbers.
We have, therefore, no means soever of determining the difference between an
the infinity of every number, it seems not unlikely that the apparent differenc
attach to them to facilitate, as we think, our examination. We may also obser
as they are related to it, are its appanages. Each number is, therefore, the
r. The triangle ABC may look very different from the standpoints of A, B, and
The above interpretation of the text is of a revolutionary character, from t
the solution of these grave problems which have so long baffled the greatest mi
adiction. The attempt to discover the nature of things by a study of the relat
hes to deny the practical value of the limited investigations which have so lon
o recognize that their work was only significant within a certain order. It wi
hich the human reason is incompetent; for the nature of reason is such that it
en a subject and a predicate. Men will thus be led to the development of a fac
ich reason so vainly makes use.<<See "Eleusis", A. Crowley Collected Works, Vol
per tendency of the evolution of man. This Science will clarify, without super
ence has freed them from the bondage of matter.
This science is the proper and particular study of initiates, and its princi
ete revolution in human affairs, for it advances mankind in the most radical ma
istory of the planet.
AL I,5: "Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Childre
THE OLD COMMENT.
5. Nu, to unveil herself, needs a mortal intermediary, in the first instance.
It is to be supposed that ankh-f-n-khonsu, the warrior lord of Thebes, prie
THE NEW COMMENT.
Here Nuit appeals, simply and directly, recognizing the separate function of
its particular Orbit.
In addressing me as warrior lord of Thebes, it appears as if She perceived a
y of this Revelation. See Equinox I, VII, pp. 363-400a, for the account of thi
The unveiling is the Proclamation of the Truth previously explained, that th
t and absolute Unit. They differ as Carbon and Calcium differ, but each is a s
, and 'good' or 'evil' are merely terms descriptive of relations between destru
isease. Heat is 'bad' for ice-cream and 'good' for coffee. The indivisible es
ect them.
AL I,6: "Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!"
THE OLD COMMENT.
6. The recipient of this knowledge is to identify himself with Hadit, and th
THE NEW COMMENT.
Nuit formulates me as Hadit, especially in the three centres of consciousnes
These centres are those of Love, Life and language. Duality is the conditio
our minds only because those minds are conscious, and therefore think of "two"
nd.
Nuith selects three centres of Her Body to become "Two" with Hadit; for she
continuity for Life; and the silent rhythm of the Stars for Language. These t
AL I,7: "Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat."
THE OLD COMMENT.
7. Aiwass -- see Introduction. He is 78, Mezla, the "influence" from the Hi
Hoor-paar-Kraat -- see II, 8.
Aiwass is called the minister of Hoor-paar-Kraat, the God of Silence; for hi
THE NEW COMMENT.
Aiwass is the name given by Ouarda the Seer as that of the Intelligence Comm
Hoor-paar-Kraat or Harpocrates, the "Babe in the Egg of Blue", is not merely
The connexion is with the symbolism of the Dwarf in Mythology. He contains e
He is the First Letter of the Alphabet, Aleph, whose number is One, and his
ification of things) of Air.
Now as "One" or Aleph he represents the Male Principle, the First Cause, and
As Zero he represents the female Principle, the fertile Mother. (An old nam
re-Mother-Goddess). Fertile, for the 'Egg of Blue' is the Uterus, and in the M
inst the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed du
In his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "The Fool"; he is the 'Saviour
we see him as the "Great Fool" of Celtic legend, the "Pure Fool" of Act I of "P
But to be 'Saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus Parsifal acqui
e 'dreamer'; so he is also now the Green Man of spring festivals. But his 'fol
estess.
So we see him fully armed as Bacchus Diphues, male and female in one, bearin
orm is suggested in the Taro card, where 'The fool' is shown with a long wand a
h that of Harpocrates.
Almost identical symbols are those of the secret God of the Templars, the bi
n. (He is shown in this full form in the Tarot Trump XV, "the Devil".) Now Ze
As Air we find the "Wandering Fool" pure wanton Breath, yet creative. Wind
dess.
He is the Wandering Knight or Prince of Fairy Tales who marries the King's D
n Bough".
Thus one Europa, Semele and others claimed that Zeus -- Air<<Zeus obtained A
the Egyptian God of the Firmament. There is a great difficulty here, etymologi
h the South and Hadit, Ada, Set, Saturn, Adonai, Attis, Adonis; he is even the
th the opposite party of the North and Nuit, with the "John" slain with the Swo
Fire, with On, Oannes, Noah, and the like.
It seems as if this great division, which has wrought such appalling havoc u
task of this Book to reduce Theology to the interplay of the Dyad Nuith and Had
e's sake, for the chance of union.">> -- had enjoyed them in the form of a beas
, breath, or air -- in the shape of a dove.
But the "Small Person" of Hindu mysticism, the Dwarf insane yet crafty of ma
an Angel.
He is almost the "Unconscious" of Freud, unknown, unaccountable, the silent
It commands with absolute authority when it appears at all, despite conscious r
Aiwass is then, as this verse 7 states, the "minister" of this Hoor-paar-Kra
ser. A "minister" is one who performs a service, in this case evidently that o
and myself. This Book of the Law is the Voice of his Mother, His Father, and H
The Concealed Child becomes the Conquering Child, the armed Horus avenging hi
rth, if we have craft to loose him to the Light, spring lustily forward with hi
This is the Task of the Adept, to have the Knowledge and Conversation of His
Why is Aiwass thus spelt, when Aiwaz is the natural transliteration of OIVZ{
th Thelema, Agape, etc. by the number 93, but wished to express his nature by s
=10, F=6, A=1, S=200, S=200: total 418, the number of Abrahadabra, the Magical
rgin and the Bull, (See "Liber 418") protected on either side by the letter of
AL I,8: "The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs."
THE OLD COMMENT.
8. Here beings the text.
Khabs is the secret Light or L.V.X.; the Khu is the magical entity of a man.
I find later (Sun in Virgo, An VII) that Khabs means star. In which chase c
The doctrine here taught is that that Light is innermost, essential man. In
THE NEW COMMENT.
We are not to regard ourselves as base beings, without whose sphere is Light
the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by 'purifying' them.
xity of its folds makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principal
become 'evil'. (This will be understood better in the Light of "The Hermit of
t 'revelation' of Aiwass.
This 'star' or 'Inmost Light' is the original, individual, eternal essence.
e of which it can gain experience through self-consciousness, as explained in t
r its symbolic shape depends on the nature of its Star.
Why are we told that the Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs? Did
which we are Sparks, and to which we return when we 'attain'. That would indee
would throw us back on the dilemma of Manichaeism. The idea of incarnations "
previously, to suppose that the Perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) Imperf
n; but the above should suffice the average intelligence.)
AL I,9: "Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!"
THE OLD COMMENT.
9. That Khabs is declared to be the light of Nu. It being worshipped in the
THE NEW COMMENT.
We are to pay attention to this Inmost Light; then comes the answering Light
comprehensible to our uninitiated minds. It is the 'veils' mentioned previousl
We are not to worship the Khu, to fall in love with our Magical Image. To do
, and may soon prove false to itself. The Khu in each of us includes the Cosmo
ruth.
AL I,10: "Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the know
THE OLD COMMENT.
10. This is the rule of Thelema, that its adepts shall be invisible rulers.
THE NEW COMMENT.
The nature of magical power is quite incomprehensible to the vulgar. The pr
[F]ind [E]nd [N]ext [M]ore [O]ver [S]top: [N] E -=-=Scanning: CM220CH1.ASC=-=-1
-=-=Reading: CM220CH1.ASC=-=- Page #147
THE OLD COMMENT.
66. The end.
(END) [H]ome [P]rior [O]ver [S]top: [S] S
Would you like to re-list the archive's contents? (y-N) N
Would you like to view a file in the archive? (y-N) N
20 mins
[L]ist files [C]ontents [H]elp [A]NSI [Q]uit: [Q] Quit
File area BEAST ... Beast: The Books and Writings of Aleister Crowley
FILE (19 min):
A)rea change L)ocate a file F)ile titles V)iew text file
D)ownload (receive U)pload (send) S)tatistics C)ontents (archive
T)ag (queue) files N)ew files scan Z)ip file viewer M)ain menu
J)ump to msg. area G)oodbye (log off) ?)help
Select: `g
Disconnect [Y,n,?=help]? y
Leave a message to Nachash [y,N,?=help]? @n
Good-bye & thanks for calling!
Love is the law, love under will.
Bye Sir Real; thanks for calling. Please hang up now.
@~
NO CARRIER
ATZ
OK
ATH
OK
|
|
|
To the best of our knowledge, the text on this page may be freely reproduced and distributed.
If you have any questions about this, please check out our Copyright Policy.
totse.com certificate signatures
|
|
|
About | Advertise | Bad Ideas | Community | Contact Us | Copyright Policy | Drugs | Ego | Erotica
FAQ | Fringe | Link to totse.com | Search | Society | Submissions | Technology
|
|
|
|
|
|
