Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending August 20th, 2017.

On Thursday of last week I held the first Reader’s Theatre in voice chat. I was the only person to show up, so I read some selections to myself and the library cats. I did make a recording, which I’ll probably put up on the blog as a podcast and as a video up on the library’s YouTube channel. I definitely prove I didn’t rehearse, but, hey, that just means it was exactly what I said it would be!

I probably will do a few more, even if it’s just me doing them. But if it’s just me then there’s not much reason to do them in voice chat. Realistically, if it’s just me reading, then recording them directly, instead of through voice chat, would be better quality. Might as well try a few more anyway, either way, though.

Got ideas of what you’d want to attend or participate in as far as events over in voice chat? Also, if you are interested in hosting or being a guest for an event, interview, class, or soever in voice chat get in touch and let’s talk about getting things going!

I’ve been getting a few submissions for Magick, Music and Ritual 13! I still need more to make an album, so, you know, get on that or let others know! Also, there’s GIT COMMIT GLITCH, the Odd Order anthology too, for which I haven’t gotten any submissions yet.

Lots of new pages and work on old pages on the site, which is pretty much every week, really. You can always check the front page of the site which shows the most recent changes and new pages, or check out the Recent Changes special page for a full list.

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Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• “You have to contribute and make a difference. Being free of sin is not enough.” — Quote
• Raising Hell — Review
• “Father Vitus’s tale seemed too incredible to be true. Surely it was nothing more than the ravings of a few superstitious, uneducated villagers” — Quote
• Raising Hell — Review
• Greater Feast of Rodrigo de Borja — Calendar
• “It’s not enough to simply ‘love what you do’ and think you can find success by flying by the seat of your pants.” — Quote
• Rats and Gargoyles — Review
• “The guy is nuts. He sees omens in morning wood.” — Quote
• Revolt Against the Modern World — Review
• Marvel 1602 — Review
• “The difference between Cinderella’s story and mine is that there are no happy endings here. There is no Prince Charming, no magic pumpkin coach to spirit me away, no light at the end of the tunnel. There is only me, and I am royally shafted.” — Quote
• The Star Rover — Review
• “The prospect of finding the end of life at the beginning seemed contradictory at first; but then, she figured, it was so much better than finding it at the proper end.” — Quote
• The Cthulhu Cycle — Review
• “Do not tell me it is too late to be successful or happy. Do not tell me you are sick or broken in spirit, the spirit cannot be sick or broken, because it is of God.” — Quote

Some top pages at the library

• NOTOCON XI: 12 Aug 2017 e.v. — Orlando, Florida — Sabazius
• Liber DCLXVI O Mestre Therion: Uma Nota Biográfica — Aleister Crowley
• Enochian Temples — Benjamin Rowe
• Rituals and Spell Objectives and Design in Eight Magics — Chaos Magick
• The Logomachy of Zos — Austin Osman Spare

Some top posts on social media

• Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae sub figurâ VI – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Liber XLIV The Mass of the Phœnix – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Second Lecture – Yama – Eight Lectures on Yoga – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• The Eight Companies of Five and Their Sigils – In Operibus Sigillo Dei Aemeth – David Richard Jones – Hermetic Library
• Magick em Teoria e Prática – Livro 4 – Os Libri de Aleister Crowley – A Biblioteca Hermética – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “The universe is crazier than science fiction authors have dared to imagine”
• Goetia 5th
• “But as the decade wore on … He became enthralled with a religious cult in Bolivia”
• “a unique opportunity to collectively achieve a quantum leap in the evolution of consciousness”
• “Hence he stocked all his urine in his fridge to keep it safe from them”

Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending August 13th, 2017.

Be sure to mark your calendar for Reader’s Theatre on Aug 17th in voice chat at 7pm Pacific. Check out the post about it for more, but come with a selection you want to read and join in!

Also, thinking ahead and to start people thinking about it, are you interested in hosting or being a guest for an event, interview, class, or soever in voice chat? Get in touch and let’s talk about getting things going!

Over on the nascent email list, I appear to have passed my 93 subscriber goal. So … um, now I’ve got to actually do something with it. I’ve sent a couple emails to the list already, but I’ll start thinking about doing something regularly. Still not entirely sure what it will be. Why not head on over, subscribe to the list, and we’ll find out together!

Lots of new pages and work on old pages on the site, which is pretty much every week, really. You can always check the front page of the site which shows the most recent changes and new pages, or check out the Recent Changes special page for a full list.

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Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• Persian Letters — Review
• Feast of Hippolytus — Calendar
• “The tools here are most useful under pressure. First, because they stop us from only reacting. They bring focus. They help us resist the takeover of the lizard brain. They remind us what sets us apart: We think. Lastly, they’ve been tested in a variety of environments with a variety of people. With varying levels of complexity. Different situations, different people, different needs. Bottom line: They work.” — Quote
• Feast for the First Night of the Prophet and his Bride — Calendar
• Giants in Those Days — Review
• Feast of Heracles — Calendar
• Greater Feast of William Blake — Calendar
• “The reason should transcend every interest of the body and its desires; it should seek to know the universe through contemplation and abstraction, as it is to the mind, not just as man might perceive it through the senses alone.” — Quote
• City of Revelation — Review
• “Their numbers may fluctuate, members coming and going, but always they are this: The Glitter Squadron. And they are fabulous.” — Quote
• The Magicians — Review
• “The young men of France are studying alchemy, hoping to learn the secret of the transmutation of gold. If you will study your own spirit and its limitless powers, you will gain a greater secret than any alchemist ever held; a secret which shall give you whatever you desire.” — Quote
• Anarchy after Leftism — Review
• “The first step to winning a zero-sum game is to know it’s coming.” — Quote
• Shroud — Review
• “Unfortunately, to the majority of people the nature of self constitutes an iron curtain behind which they will not penetrate.” — Quote
• All Star Superman, Vol. 2 — Review
• “Somewhere the free spirit must take its stand and claim its God-given distinction. If life is to be at all worth while there must be some boundary within which the soul holds its own august and ultimate tribunal.” — Quote
• Astronomical Lughnasadh — Calendar

Some top pages at the library

• Liber LXI vel Causæ — Aleister Crowley
• Amphora — Aleister Crowley
• Fama Fraternitatis — Rosicrucianism
• Anarchism And Other Impediments To Anarchy — Bob Black
• The Book of the Antichrist — Jack Parsons

Some top posts on social media

• Greater Feast of William Blake, died August 12, 1827 at Westminster, United Kingdom.
• Liber XIII vel Graduum Montis Abiegni – Os Libri de Thelema – Os Libri de Aleister Crowley – A Biblioteca Hermética – Hermetic Library
• Feast of Heracles, August 12.
• Astronomical Lughnasadh, August 7
• Greater Feast of William Blake, died August 12, 1827 at Westminster, United Kingdom.

Some top posts on the BBS

• New edition of The Book of Thoth
• Write an article, review, or story for Odd Order
• The ‘Occult Macrohistory’ of Aleister Crowley
• “it must be moving faster than the speed of light”
• “at one point it’s strongly suggested that the ghost of Aleister Crowley is enjoying some alone time with internet pornography”

Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending August 6th, 2017.

I’ve updated the post where I describe the submissions process for writing an article, story, or review for the library blog. I updated the post to reflect more clearly what actual happens, as opposed to what I thought would happen at the time I wrote it originally. Also, I’ve added a new blurb about compensation, which was on the pitch form itself, but wasn’t clearly described in the post. Do consider reading through that and then heading over to pitch your idea for the library blog!

This week, I also announced a very similar open and rolling call for pitch ideas for submissions to Rigaroga’s Odd Order blog, created an online form for pitching ideas, and posted a nearly identical submissions process description to the Odd Order blog. If you’re into nerdish geekery, check that out and consider pitching an idea!

Over the last week, I’ve been informally hanging out on the Hrmtc Underground voice chat server in the mornings while I work on the site, for what I’ve been calling “office hours”. I’ve had a couple of conversations so far in text, but no one’s jumped into voice. Come on over and say howdy! Also, be sure to mark your calendar for Reader’s Theatre on Aug 17th in voice chat at 7pm Pacific.

Also, are you interested in hosting an event, interview, class, or soever in voice chat? Get in touch and let’s talk about getting that going!

Lots of new pages and work on old pages this week, which is pretty much every week for me, really. You can always check the front page of the site which shows the most recent changes and new pages, or check out the Recent Changes special page for a full list.

Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• Caravan of Dreams — Review
• Feast of Tahuti — Calendar
• The Alhambra — Review
• “We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.” — Quote
• The Laughing Philosopher — Review
• “Those fifty pound bundles were power and potential in its purest form. It was countless acts of compassion and charity, or a lifetime without work. The amount was highly symbolic.” — Quote
• Lectures on the Essence of Religion — Review
• “He had to be smarter. He had to use the magic with a little wisdom, instead of haphazardly.” — Quote
• Superman: Kryptonite — Review
• “the American version of representative government assures that such qualities of intellect and ethics as might equip a man to lead a powerful nation responsibly are precisely the qualities that would prevent him from subjecting himself to the debasing performances of vote begging and delegate swapping. It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.” — Quote
• The Gospel of Mary Magdalene — Review
• “The sky was hardly infinite: she could see its pendulous, titanic folds, its shifting patterns, black on black. And if each planet or star had its own buffeting, fretful, whimsical god, how could the waking world survive?” — Quote
• Feast of the Lion-Serpent — Calendar
• Ritual of Lughnasadh — Calendar
• “Don’t worry. You don’t have to do anything — we’ll ask the Internet for a bunch of cash.” — Quote
• The Place of Enchantment — Review
• Reader’s Theatre: Bawdy, Erotic & Obscene, Thu Aug 17, 7-9pm Pacific, in voice chat — Event

Some top pages at the library

• YET TIME TO TURN — Aleister Crowley
• Theory of the Tarot — Aleister Crowley
• The Perfect Sermon, or The Asclepius I — Sacred Texts
• Introduction to the Esoteric Doctrine — Édouard Schuré
• Feasts of the Cross-Quarters — T Polyphilus

Some top posts on social media

• Liber Gaias sub figurâ XCVI. A Handbook of Geomancy. – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Two earlier drafts of Liber V vel Reguli – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Liber II The Message of The Master Therion – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Feast of Tahuti, August 6
• Goetia – Classics of Magick – Norton’s Imperium – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “Drama series Strange Angel … follows the life of Jack Parsons”
• Problem Glyphs with Eliza Gauger, in Seattle, on 11 Aug
• New approaches to… (1)
• Ace of Space adds subscription option
• “too much exposition about supernatural theories and occultists like Aleister Crowley”

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending July 30th, 2017.

The big news for the week is that I’ve suddenly got a plethora of broadband options up here. Not only did the teleco that can’t figure out customer service manage to show up and do an install, but completely out of the blue I’ve got previously-unavailable LTE on my cell phone! Cell phone tethering with LTE is now an actual option, and it is almost equivalent to my new DSL; but, it turns out that there’s an even better DSL option possible. Turns out that since I’m, seriously, less than 100 feet from the DSLAM, I have an option that is significantly better. I’m currently at 20 down / 1 up, but the other option, if I can manage to get any customer service from someone other than the install tech, is 50 down / 6 up; which is good enough to possibly even start streaming again!

But, now that I’ve got reliable broadband, I’ve got options that weren’t available before. For one thing, I’ve been informally hanging out on the Hrmtc Underground voice chat server in the mornings while I work on the site. Come on over and check that out!

You may recall I’ve talked about what voice chat could develop into if people are interested in it. Now it’s possible to officially do regular “open office hours” while I work on the site. The idea was that I’d sit in voice chat while working on the site, which is most days, from early morning until afternoon. Other ideas possible now are to have call in talk shows or presentations, which I think would be fun. Voice chat is also a cool way we could do Reader’s Theatre. I could record any of those so there’d be an archive of them to post. Anyhow, there’s lots of ideas unique to voice chat, distinct from the site or blog or various and sundry social media accounts or BBS, that could happen, if there are people interested enough to make that a thing.

I realize I’ve not yet created an icon for the voice chat, other than the generic Hrmtc Underground mutant Abraxas. I’ll have to think about that!

So, yeah, head over. Create an account and let’s see what we can make happen!

My secret door project went SNAFU when I found out the bolts for the casters for the bottom of the bookshelf/door turned out to be too short.

So, completing that will have to wait until I’ve got new, longer bolts. Bummer, but it will still happen!

This coming week will be mostly above 100° at the library. When I saw that I rushed to pull the ancient non-functional AC and replaced it with an AC I had in storage. I’ve got it all installed in a temporary way for now.

It looks totally janky, but I used it yesterday and it worked pretty well with outside being around 90°. Hopefully, it will still work well when it gets above 100° and even, according to the latest forecast, over 110° on Thursday. The library cats and I will probably survive. Wish us luck!

Lots of new pages and work on old pages this week, which is pretty much every week for me, really. You can always check the front page of the site which shows the most recent changes and new pages, or check out the Recent Changes special page for a full list.

Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• “It is never easy, even when the world is most normal and peaceful, to mark off with sharp lines the area of individual freedom. No person ever lives unto himself or is sufficient to himself. He is inextricably woven into the tissue of the social group. His privileges, his responsibilities, his obligations are forever over-individual and come from beyond his narrow isolated life.” — Quote
• Illness as Metaphor — Review
• Greater Feast of William Wynn Westcott — Calendar
• “The Glitter Squadron’s record speaks for itself, General.” Bunny’s voice is level. She places the poster on his desk. “Cleaner than yours, I’ll dare say. And—” Bunny smirks, and points to the general’s medals—“our bling is better.” — Quote
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories — Review
• Greater Feast of Paschal Beverly Randolph — Calendar
• Extracurricular Activities — Review
• “You have mastered women and the world when no desire either to avoid or attain sways your loving or limits your freedom.” — Quote
• Great Wine Made Simple — Review
• “Commerce is weird,” Billy says. “I mean, think about it. People buy things.” “And I,” Anil says, “am buying you a drink. Put that goddamn banana away.” — Quote
• “My muscles flexed and movement was a joy, a dance. The wind was whispering against my face. I am wolf.” — Quote
• The Years of Rice and Salt — Review
• “Successful government employees survive by recognizing power and responding to it.” — Quote
• Richard Hittleman’s Yoga — Review
• Legionnaire — Review
• “If you want to push things toward The Way of Men and start the Interphase, create disappointment.” — Quote
• Rites of Passage — Review

Some top pages at the library

• Fama Fraternitatis — Rosicrucianism
• MUTUS LIBER, part I — Caduceus
• Ave CLVI — T Polyphilus
• Scorpio and the Love Dragon — Michael Osiris Snuffin
• Liber Porta Lucis sub figurâ X — Aleister Crowley

Some top posts on social media

• Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church – Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica – Hermetic Library
• What’s Crowley Got To Do With Thelema, Anyway? – Sam Webster – Hermetic Library
• Preface. – The Secret Doctrine – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – Hermetic Library
• The Crux of Rosicrucianism – Hermetic Library
• Fama Fraternitatis – The Crux of Rosicrucianism – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• The most Legendary LitRPG Giveaway of all time. Seriously
• “a collection of timeless, mystical wisdom—or a flexible framework that has endured by changing with the times”
• “Lyrically, he drew inspiration from Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon and Gnosticism”
• Narrative Machines
• “Commerce is weird,” Billy says. “I mean, think about it. People buy things.” “And I,” Anil says, “am buying you a drink. Put that goddamn banana away.”

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending July 23rd, 2017.

Lots of new pages and work on old pages this week, which is pretty much every week for me, really.

It’s been quite warm here at the library, so the cats and I have all been up really early to get work done before things begin to roast. This winter I closed off a main downstairs room to help channel heat, and haven’t opened that back up yet. I have decided to build a secret door from a bookshelf over the entrance so that I can keep it blocked off when necessary, but also get into it. Sure, okay, a regular door would work too, but … a bookshelf that is also secret door! How could I not? Anyhow, the point is that it’s cooler down there. And, it’s space I’ve not used for anything other than storage for months, that I should, maybe, sort (it’s actually all, but a for a couple, my books down there too, still packed up, so there’s that.). Plus, I know the library cats miss chasing each other down there for a bit of variety from chasing each other everywhere else.

I might, maybe, I really don’t know, be getting broadband installed this week? They’ve missed 2 other install appointments already without getting in contact at all, so I have no idea. At this point, I’m amusing myself with whether they’ll ever. It would be nice to ditch the craptastic unreliable and expensive satellite, but I’m now completely convinced that service from these other titans of customer service will be abysmal, if the install experience is any indication. Oh, well. I continue to do what I can with what I have until I have something different!

You can always check the front page of the site which shows the most recent changes and new pages, or check out the Recent Changes special page for a full list.

Also, hey, what’s going on over here?

Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• “A Gresham’s Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real” — Quote
• Ritual Book of Herbal Spells — Review
• “The chant shattered and repeated like the diabolic designs in the pagan mosaics that snared the eyes and mind—forms without images, the ghosts of flowers and fruit, the convolutions of the brain.” — Quote
• Rune Magic — Review
• “The past is the cosmopolitan’s mother country, the universal fatherland, an endless library.” — Quote
• Runic States — Review
• “The library fell silent from its usual magical chatter as if all the books waited with bated breath to see” — Quote
• Sacred Animals — Review
• “What I did was the radical thing.” — Quote
• Scream for Jeeves — Review
• “The act of writing also crosses borders indiscriminately.” — Quote
• Secret Texts — Review
• “Imagine a sacred wand that has the power to transform existential truths into celestial realities; picture a universal symbol that when gazed upon could raise human consciousness to a higher order of perception” — Quote
• Seidways — Review

Some top pages at the library

• Scorpio — Aleister Crowley
• Rituals and Spell Objectives and Design in Eight Magics — Chaos Magick
• Scenes of the Astral — William Walker Atkinson
• The Scarlet Sisterhood Commentary on Liber AL — Centres of Pestilence
• The Seal of God’s Truth — David Richard Jones

Some top posts on social media

• Humanity needs to go into a Dark Age for a few hundred years and think about what it’s done.
  Jack Donovan, The Way of Men

• The Happiest of the Poets – Ideas of Good and Evil – William Butler Yeats – Hermetic Library
• ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE FREE MASONRY. CHAPTER VII. RECAPITULATED PROOFS OF ANCIENT MASONRY. – THE ARCANE SCHOOLS – The Labours of John Yarker – Hermetic Library
• Liber Cadaveris. Ritual CXX. Of Passing through the Tuat. – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “scientists from Stanford and the University of California have found the first strong evidence for this type of particle, which they dub the ‘angel particle.’”
• “Timothy Leary’s notes on Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend”
• “The moral landmarks by which we were accustomed to get our bearings aren’t gone: they’re on fire.”
• “We probably misread a lot of it — but maybe that helped us as well.”
• “when two people hold a conversation, their brain waves synchronize”

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending July 16th, 2017.

Mostly working steadily each day on the site, as I do, this week. You can always check the front page of the site which shows the most recent changes and new pages, or check out the Recent Changes special page for a full list.

The library passed 14,000 followers on Twitter recently, so that’s pretty cool. As always, I’m glad for all the new and old followers following along.

Here’s the 14th hexagram from Aleister Crowley’s I Ching

Here’s a quote from Aleister Crowley’s The Cry of the 14th Aethyr

Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• “Lo I have slain dragons,” Chess muttered, leaning against the counter as she struggled with the temptation to open the book and lose herself in it. “And lo have I rescued maidens. But lo, oh lo, I can’t for the life of me conquer all the idiocy in the world.” — Quote
• Song of the Cosmos — Review
• “It felt good to have a sense of purpose. It had been a long stretch of whenever since she’d felt she was doing more than just getting through a day.” — Quote
• The Darkened Room — Review
• “what crimes does one crime suggest!” — Quote
• Modern Magick — Review
• “You think you owned it because you used it.” – Quote
• Modern Sex Magick — Review
• “During this stay on these higher planes, the soul communes with the higher phase of itself – the divine fragment of Spirit – and is strengthened and invigorated thereby.” — Quote
• Mumbo Jumbo — Review
• Greater Feast of Grady Louis McMurtry — Calendar
• “Like most modern magics, he thought bitterly, while it probably did something, it didn’t accomplish what it was supposed to.” — Quote
• Northern Magic — Review
• Feast of Bardesanes — Calendar
• “Taken together, it seems that Dee may be responsible for nothing less than our present world.” — Quote
• Our Name Is Melancholy — Review

Some top pages at the library

• Egyptian Magic — Florence Farr
• 93 Y’all — T Polyphilus
• An Exercise from the Vault of CRC — Mark Stavish
• Be Careful What You Ask For… — Michael Osiris Snuffin
• Aleister Crowley: Mystic and Mountain Climber — Aleister Crowley

Some top posts on social media

• The Cards of the Tarot – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Liber אנוך (Chanokh) sub figura LXXXIV – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Introduction – The Secret Doctrine – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – Hermetic Library
• William Blake and the Imagination – Ideas of Good and Evil – William Butler Yeats – Hermetic Library
• Preliminary Invocation – Goetia – Classics of Magick – Norton’s Imperium – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• The Timeless Tale of the Hero’s Journey
• The Never Dying Fire
• Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry
• The Wake World opera from Opera Philadelphia, Sept 18–Sept 25
• “They didn’t like magic. They were very suspicious of it. They tried to do everything they could to stamp it out.”

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending July 9th, 2017.

Lots of work, mostly focused on the site, this week. But, I’d mentioned previously the new options for pages in languages other than English, and I did a big push to add some Gérard Encausse materials in the original French and translated to English. I haven’t seen his work available online before, except there are some French language PDFs that appear some places, some of which seem to have disappeared.

I worked on transcribing and translating the first couple resources of many to come. You can check out the start of pages for Encausse’s French language Traité Méthodique de Science Occulte and the English translation Methodical Treatise on Occult Science. I’ve only gotten through the front matter, preface and introduction so far, but I think that will give you an idea of how awesome this could become.

I should note that I have what I think is a peculiar taste in translation. I am always bothered when translations use completely different words, with completely different roots, and scrambled structures from the originals. So, you will find that I’ve tried to stay very close to the feel of the original French language in my English rendition. I think it is great to be able to feel the same flow of language as the original author’s source material instead of something written as if the destination rendition was the author’s native language. Perhaps you’ll agree with me on how that feels better. Or not.

However, there’s so much work that can be done along these lines that there’s really no way I’ll make fast progress on these translation efforts. There’s room for many people that are interested in working on a language mirror, who can have a login to some or all of a language namespace to add mirrors of existing documents on the English site. Other documents, such as those that originate in the language, like these Encausse materials in French or Pessoa’s Mensagem (apparently the only work of his to appear originally?!) in Portuguese, but don’t yet appear in English, can be added and then translated into English as well.

Like I needed more work, right? And, let’s be completely honest: I’m punching way above my weight-class by attacking a project of transcribing French and then translating to English. I’m nowhere near even close to being fluent in French. But, fortune favours the bold, eh, wot? C’est vrai, non?

Well, there it is anyway, proof of concept for now, given how only the smallest bit of progress has been made, but still I think and feel it very awesome to be able to offer these materials at all, even if it takes forever to realize a full work transcribed and translated!

If you watch the recent changes on the front page or subscribe to the RSS, you’ll also have noticed some other completely new material as well as a lot of the ongoing updates and fixing import cruft that I’m up to full time already.

I keep burning the candle at both ends, adding new material and improving the old.

So much to do! But also so much progress! Huzzah!

Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• “Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.” — Quote
• Paganism Today — Review
• “all forms of serious art and knowledge—in other words, all forms of truth—are suspect and dangerous.” — Quote
• Painted Black — Review
• “Let the drink sit in your fridge for at least half an hour so the flavors can come to terms with what just happened to them.” — Quote
• People of the Earth — Review
• “Speak, old man—wouldst thou change thy condition?” — Quote
• Playful Magic — Review
• “Hoor hath a secret fourfold name: it is Do What Thou Wilt.” — Quote
• Polaria — Review
• “I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.” — Quote
• The Wine of Violence — Review
• Greater Feast of Swami Vivekananda — Calendar
• “A man don’t rent a silver mine. He buys it right out.” — Quote
• Bleeding Edge — Review

Some top pages at the library

• Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abigni sub figurâ CLVI — Aleister Crowley
• The Small Cards — Aleister Crowley
• Hod & Netzach — Colin Low’s Qabalah — Caduceus
• Aleister Crowley Freemason? Revisited — David Richard Jones
• The Astral World — William Walker Atkinson

Some top posts on social media

• An Open Letter to Those Who May Wish to Join the Order. Liber CI. – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• “No, Billy, Lucifer Morningstar is my true and given name.” “That’s rough,” Billy says. “Hippie parents?” “Not exactly.”
  Jeremy P Bushnell, The Weirdness

• The Fountain of Hyacinth. Liber XVIII. – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• The Silent Language. The Symbols of Hermetic Philosophy. – Caduceus Vol. 1, No. 1 – 1 – Articles – Caduceus: The Hermetic Quarterly – Hermetic Library
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• “a legendary tower inlaid with hundreds of skulls”
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