I don’t really have anything extra smart ass to say

Howdy everyone! Here’s a public summary of my activity this week ending February 10, 2023!

This week I worked pretty hard on a lot of content, including an entire issue in the JWMT archive, another whole raft of old newsletters their archive on the blog, news tales from Jürgen Hubert for this month, along with all the other weekly stuff; so, I don’t really have anything extra smart ass to say this week? I mean, lucky you? A reprieve! I got a lot done, so sorry, not sorry, I guess, right?

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

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Almanac

Here’s upcoming calendar and astronomical events, plus the daily Thelemic Tephilah practice for the coming week, February 10–17.

Calendar

Follow Calendar on the web and rss. And, if you have a current or upcoming event to share, add it to the Hermetic Library Calendar!

Here’s recurring calendar events in Hermeneuticon for this coming week.

• Greater Feast of John Frederick Charles Fuller, died February 10, 1966 at Falmouth, United Kingdom
• Greater Feast of Rose Edith Kelly, died February 11, 1932 at Middlesex, United Kingdom
• Greater Feast of Richard Wagner, died February 13, 1883 at Venice, Italy
• Feast of Valentinus on February 14, died c. 160 ce
• Greater Feast of Giordano Bruno, died February 17, 1600, at Campo de’ Fiori, Rome, Italy

Astronomical

• Third quarter moon, February 13

Thelemic Tephilah

Here’s reminders for Thelemic Tephilah daily practice for this upcoming week, from the Hermeneuticon page for the month.

• Thelemic Tephilah, February 10, (Silence)
• Thelemic Tephilah, February 11, INTERREGNUM Silence; or D of DO
• Thelemic Tephilah, February 12, INTERREGNUM Silence; or O of DO
• Thelemic Tephilah, February 13, INTERREGNUM Silence; or W of WHAT
• Thelemic Tephilah, February 14, INTERREGNUM Silence; or H of WHAT
• Thelemic Tephilah, February 15, INTERREGNUM Silence; or A of WHAT
• Thelemic Tephilah, February 16, INTERREGNUM Silence; or T of WHAT
• Thelemic Tephilah, February 17, INTERREGNUM Silence; or T of THOU

Zine

Follow Zine on the web and rss. And, if you something you’ve created to share, send it in to the Hermetic Library Zine!

I’ve slowed down posting to one item a week because I’m low on things. I more than filled the previous issue, but now I need more submissions for this current one, if it is to happen, as planned, on Aphelion 2023.

• Always there be ways and means from The Headflux Chronicles, Book 1, by Will Lorimer

Things to check out at Hermetic Library

• I added new tales from Jürgen Hubert for the month: The Wailing Woman, The Squinter in Schlebusch, and The Long Man in the Murder Alley at Hof.
• I added Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition vol 2 no 11, The Occult Revival of the 1700s, including Hopa and The Dead Man – Part I, child throwing Stone, Du Soleil et de la Lune, A Post-Modern Golden Dawn?, Angel Magick, Dee’s Rosie Crucian Secrets and the Byrom Collection, Editorial, and The Bird of Hermes.
• I added Foras and Knight of Swords entries in Hermeneuticon, including images from the AI/ML image generation experiments for the week.
• I updated the pages for Liber RV and Liber RU vel Spiritus sub figurâ CCVI, in Equinox and Libri respectively, to fix a bunch of stuff and also normalize the presentation of each for its section.
• I created new CONTRACT THYSELF INFINITE FORCE propaganda for the Ministry of Information.

And on the blog

All the quotes, reviews, &c. (But not OG, Events Calendar, Zine, &c.)

• I’ve added a bunch more older newsletters to the archive, including Hermetic Library Newsletter #103 (♬ Action cat, moving quick, lookin’ good ♬ passing through your neighborhood ♫), Hermetic Library Newsletter #102 (Don’t open it, Pandora! You’ll let the Internet out! Run!), Hermetic Library Newsletter #69 (Nice), Hermetic Library Newsletter #68 (Y’all do y’all, just as long as y’all honor your agreements with y’all self!), Hermetic Library Newsletter #3 (Magical Work in Oz), and Hermetic Library Newsletter #2 (How to order a pizza in Thelema).
• Entheogens and the Future of Religion—Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Entheogens and the Future of Religion ed Robert Forte, with Albert Hofmann, Terence McKenna, Ann and Alexander Shulgin, Thomas Riedlinger, Dale Pendell, and Rick Strassman, plus interviews with R Gordon Wasson and Jack Kornfield.
• Knight of Swords—Generated visuals for Knight of Swords from Thoth Tarot using MidJourney and Dall-E from a mix of parsed text description & card image prompts.
• An imaginary conviction that this or that thing is true, even if such conviction be based upon the strongest reasons of plausibility and probability, is no real knowledge or self-recognition of truth. The truth is really known to no man until it is realized in him; but when the light of truth arises as a living power within his soul, penetrating and illuminating his understanding, causing him to enter into full harmony and become one with the truth, he may then truly say, not only “I know the truth,” but like one of old, “I [in my personal state] am the Truth.” This, however, is not to be interpreted as if to mean that we should reject all theories or treat opinions of others with contempt. Theories are means by which to arrive at practice; they are like crutches used by children before they are able to walk. They are sometimes good for discarding errors; but a knowledge of theories is not identical with the recognition of truth.—Franz Hartmann, The Correlation of Spiritual Forces
• Kabbalah, Magic and the Great Work of Self-Transformation—J S Kupperman reviews Kabbalah, Magic and the Great Work of Self-Transformation: A Complete Course by Lyam Thomas Christopher, in the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition archive at A Post-Modern Golden Dawn?.
• Foras—Generated visuals for Foras from Goetia using MidJourney and Dall-E from a mix of parsed text description & seal image prompts.
• Galactic Empires: Volume Two—Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Galactic Empires: Volume Two ed Brian W Aldiss, with Poul Anderson, Roger D Aycock, James Blish, Fredric Brown, Algis Budrys, Avram Davidson, Gardner F Fox, Harry Harrison, John D Macdonald, Mack Reynolds, A E van Vogt, F L Wallace, trans Heinz Nagel, epilogue Olaf Stapledon, and cover by Karel Thole.
• My publisher told me that when I wasn’t there, Hilal played an imaginary violin, as if she were practicing. I know that chess players do the same, playing entire games in their head, without the need of a board. “Yes, she’s playing silent music for invisible beings. Perhaps they need it.”—Paulo Coelho, Aleph
• Weird Worlds—Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars: Weird Worlds by Marv Wolfman, John Byrne, Murphy Anderson, Gray Morrow, Sal Amendola, Joe Orlando, Howard Chaykin, & c.
• Concentrated on imaginary self for ten minutes, and then projected self into it with fearful force.—Aleister Crowley, The Temple of Solomon the King
• Astronomical Imbolc – Feb 4, 2023 at 2:43 UTC