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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Stolen Child Tarot

Sunday, October 30, 2011

You may be interested in this project to develop a new tarot deck, the Stolen Child Tarot by Monica Knighton. The name of the deck is inspired by a William Butler Yeats poem, The Stolen Child: “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the [...]

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Experimental Tumbr for the Hermetic Library

Saturday, October 29, 2011

You may be interested in checking out a new experiment over at http://tumblr.hrmtc.com/. I’ve used several different tools to post content from the library, and this is another one that I flirted with a while ago, but then didn’t end up using. However, recently I started to try again. Each of the various ways I [...]

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The Flash vs. Gurdjieff

Saturday, October 29, 2011

In 1968, Alejandro Jodorowsky wrote, for a Spanish science-fiction magazine called Nueva Dimensión, “The Flash vs. Gurdjieff” which now appears translated to English at “Translation: The Flash vs. Gurdjieff by Alejandro Jodorowsky“. “The teacher, wanting the character to be conscious of his inner emptiness, proves that his existence, by being so “from the skin outwards,” [...]

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Help kickstart a new Lon Milo DuQuette music project

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Newly announced, Lon Milo DuQuette is trying to kickstart a professionally produced CD to preserve his music. The project goal is really quite modest, in fact, so you may want to pitch in and help make this happen.     “Although he is probably best known as a “living expert” on Eastern mysticism and Western [...]

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The recorded voice of William Butler Yeats

Thursday, October 27, 2011

There are several mp3 files of William Butler Yeats reading his own work recorded in the 1930s over at the website of PennSound, a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Here’s the earliest of the files, from 1931, of Yeats reading two stanzas from “Coole and Ballylee”:

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the moon is a spaceship at Forwindings in London, UK on Nov 19th

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Participant in the Hermetic Library audio pool the moon is a spaceship [also] has been working hard to prepare for his first live gig which will be at Forwindings at St. Leonard’s Church in London, UK on Nov 19th starting at 4pm. He says, “I’m playing with friends from Forwind Records, it’s a showcase of [...]

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inside the rainbow bridge

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

inside the rainbow bridge, originally uploaded by Jacqueline Elaine Gomez.   The Hermetic Library visual pool is a visual scavenger hunt for images of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Images of your ritual or ritual space, images of sigils or tools, showing off your own library or special volume from the restricted stacks, sacred spaces [...]

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The Book of Law of the Venerable Secret Order of the Eye

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

I noticed a post over at Slashdot, “Copiale Cipher Decoded“, about how the breaking of the Copiale Cipher has revealed the previously coded instruction documents for the ritual of an 18th century secret order “that apparently had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology.” Of course, for those interested in such things as secret orders, [...]

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Tree Altars

Monday, October 24, 2011

You may recall some of the Pisces Moon Altar images from the Hermetic Library visual pool a little while back. Jacqueline Elaine Gomez, who posted those images to the group, is working on a project under the auspices of Church of Anthrax to encourage others to create their own tree altars. You can check out [...]

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crescent moon

Monday, October 24, 2011

crescent moon, originally uploaded by Jacqueline Elaine Gomez.   The Hermetic Library visual pool is a visual scavenger hunt for images of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Images of your ritual or ritual space, images of sigils or tools, showing off your own library or special volume from the restricted stacks, sacred spaces and places, [...]

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They Live – Obey, Consume, This is your God

Monday, October 24, 2011
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Occupy Wall Street and the Poetry of Now-Time

Monday, October 24, 2011

Recent article “Occupy Wall Street and the Poetry of Now-Time” by Aaron Gell at the New York Observer links to CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM from T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism in Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy “In his 1985 cult anarchist treatise T.A.Z., Hakim Bey, aka the [...]

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occupancy

Thursday, October 20, 2011

“occupancy” is a recent post over at The Rosewater Chronicles which links to The “Temporary Autonomous Zone” from T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism in Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy “I’m still thinking. But, like a treasure hidden in plain sight, I do find it surprising that few commentators and [...]

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Calling of the Wild Inner

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

“Calling of the Wild Inner (Final Version)” is a track added by Gebeinhaus in the Hermetic Library audio pool.   The Hermetic Library audio pool is an experimental auditory scavenger hunt for sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists [...]

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I am not moving

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

  “Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry” – Julie Metz   This video was shot by the people, edited by Corey Ogilvie and is a juxtaposition of current events with historical and recent footage related to the Occupy movement, Occupy Wall Street and the American Autumn. You may also be interested in Hakim Bey and [...]

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The Devil Said Ok It’s A Deal

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

“The Devil Said Ok It’s A Deal” is a track added by davidbmetcalfe in the Hermetic Library audio pool.   The Hermetic Library audio pool is an experimental auditory scavenger hunt for sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists [...]

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Untitled

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Untitled, originally uploaded by Jacqueline Elaine Gomez.   The Hermetic Library visual pool is a visual scavenger hunt for images of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Images of your ritual or ritual space, images of sigils or tools, showing off your own library or special volume from the restricted stacks, sacred spaces and places, esoteric [...]

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Recent Colin Campbell post about the Grimoire of Aleister Crowley

Monday, October 17, 2011

Colin Campbell has posted over on his blog a review of the Grimoire of Aleister Crowley: Group Rituals in the Age of Thelema. “It’s not that I didn’t expect Grimoire of Aleister Crowley: Group Rituals in the Age of Thelema by Rodney Orpheus to be great, which it is, I’ve just never considered myself a [...]

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The Awakening in America

Monday, October 17, 2011

Recently in “Hakim Bey and the Occupy Wall Street movement” I linked to Ken Knabb’s Bureau of Public Secrets, and thought you might be interested in a new essay by Ken Knabb about the Occupy movement: “The Awakening in America“. “The ruling elite don’t know what’s hit them and have suddenly been thrown on the [...]

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Etidorhpa or the End of the Earth

Monday, October 17, 2011

You may be interested in John Uri Lloyd’s Etidorhpa or the End of the Earth recently added to Project Gutenberg. This is an interesting book. The title is Aphrodite spelled backwards. There’s a lot of speculation about spiritual themes and also themes of drug use in the work. You may be interested in checking out [...]

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