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December 29 2008 -Monday

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PART THREE - THE ORB AND THE PARANORMAL

[Note - This and the immediate previous two entries on this LJ can most profitably be read together, this one last. TAG]

I never tire of orb investigations, especially the good ones by competent investigators like

Lori McDonald (http://www.alienufoart.com/ZExampl…) Investigative orb work is,

essentially, parapsychology. This is to be distinguished from magical conjuration of the

spheres, or orbs, or spirit-forms, which is magick. As an investigator, I investigate the

orb in detail (I am a former elected member of the British Society of Psychical Research).

But as a magician, I am interested in the *invocation of the orb* and, as we have seen, have

been known to draw it to myself, as previously illustrated, given an appropriate location. ( Collapse )
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A DEEPER STUDY OF THE ORB PHENOMENON

Having discussed my own summoning of the orbs inside the long-sealed room at the ancient

Castle of St. Mark in Florida in relation to the general phenomenon of "orb cases" in modern

ghost lore, I wanted to establish that the phenomenon of orb-type apparitions is anything

but new, and is hardly confined to so-called "spirit photography". Indeed, historically and

even today, the orb and scepter are the symbols of power and rulership, and a comparison to

the "saucer shape" in UFO cases is difficult to deny.


As many readers are aware, I have also photographed a classical apparition (see my splash

page on my web site at http://www.mindspring.com/~hellfir…), investigated without

conventional explanation by two generations of Eastman Kodak investigators, including our

friend and coworker, Col. Choron. Below is depicted another classical ghost photograph,

often considered authentic (whatever this might mean). ( Collapse )
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A TIMELY REMINDER PART ONE - THE HISTORY TO DATE







The ugly history of racist policing in America

Updated by on August 19, 2014, 7:40 a.m. ET @DLind dara@vox.com

NY policeman not indicted in chokehold death; U.S. Justice sets probe

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By Barbara Goldberg and Sebastien Malo

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer who killed an unarmed black man with a chokehold sparked outrage and protests on Wednesday, and the U.S. Justice Department said it would investigate the incident.

Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, was illegally selling cigarettes on July 17 when police officers tackled him and put him in a chokehold. Police said he had been resisting arrest. The city's medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.

The deadly encounter on Staten Island, New York City's smallest borough, was captured on video, which quickly spread over the Internet and fueled debate about how U.S. police use force, particularly against minorities.

Last week, a grand jury in Missouri decided not to indict a white police officer in another racially charged killing of a black man. The decision in that case sparked a spasm of violence in Ferguson, Missouri, with businesses burned and looted.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Brown's civil rights were violated through excessive force.

On Wednesday, about two dozen demonstrators lay down in Grand Central Terminal's main hall in Midtown Manhattan in a silent protest as the evening rush hour began. In Times Square, about 200 people gathered, chanting "No indictment is denial. We want a public trial."

On Staten Island, near the site where Garner was apprehended, some demonstrators defiantly crushed cigarettes in front of reporters and passersby - a reference to the reason that police gave for approaching Garner in the first place.

President Barack Obama, while not directly commenting on the case, said the grand jury decision spoke to "the concern on the part of too many minority communities that law enforcement is not working with them and dealing with them in a fair way.

"We are not going to let up until we see a strengthening of trust and strengthening of accountability that exists between our communities and our law enforcement," he said.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking at a press conference on Staten Island, said he had spoken to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta Lynch - whom Obama has nominated to replace Holder as attorney general.

"They made clear that the investigation initiated by the U.S. attorney would now move forward and would be done expeditiously, and would be done with a clear sense of independence and that it would be a thorough investigation," de Blasio said.

The district attorney for Staten Island, Daniel Donovan, announced the grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who placed Garner in a chokehold.

"It is never my intention to harm anyone and I feel very bad about the death of Mr. Garner," Pantaleo said in a statement released by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association union.

Benjamin Carr, the stepfather of Garner, said he was distraught over the verdict. "The justice system didn't do what it was supposed to do," he said at the site where Garner was apprehended by police and a makeshift memorial to his honor now stands.

Tempers flared at the site as about a dozen protesters expressed their anger at the grand jury's decision.

Daniel Skelton, a black 40-year-old banker, spoke loudly as he expressed his outrage steps away from Garner's memorial. "A black man's life just don't matter in this country," he said.

POLICE PROSECUTIONS RARE

It is rare for either federal or state prosecutors to charge a U.S. police officer for excessive force, even when a death results.

The U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts have over decades ruled that police officers should have wide latitude to use violence to defend themselves and to take suspects into custody.

“There are a lot of cases where police officers don’t get indicted for what looks like extreme situations,” said Aaron Mysliwiec, president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “Many jurors and judges tend to believe police officers more than your average witness.”

In ruling Garner's death a homicide, the city medical examiner said police officers killed him by compressing his neck and chest. His health problems, including asthma and obesity, were contributing factors, the medical examiner said.

The video of Garner's arrest shows him arguing with police officers, saying, "Please leave me alone," and later, "Don't touch me," before a group of four officers tackled him to the ground. He then began to plead with them, saying repeatedly, "I can't breathe." Police said later that Garner had been resisting arrest.

Donovan said he had applied for a court order to authorize the release of "specific information in connection with the Garner grand jury investigation." The grand jury, like all in New York, had 23 members. At least 12 grand jurors must agree to bring an indictment.

De Blasio called for people to react peacefully to the grand jury decision, saying that is "only thing that has ever worked." The grand jury decision poses the biggest challenge for the mayor since coming into office in January.

Shortly before the grand jury announcement, the New York City police launched a pilot program to equip officers with body cameras. The video camera program was ordered by a federal court judge who ruled last year that police had unfairly stopped and frisked black and Latino New Yorkers. It aims to make officers more careful and accountable about using force, de Blasio told reporters, while reducing complaints and lawsuits.

(Additional reporting by Frank McGurty, Jonathan Allen, Mica Rosenberg, Dan Bases, David Ingram and Ellen Wulfhorst in New York; Roberta Rampton in Washington; Writing by Scott Malone and Ross Colvin; Editing by Leslie Adler)






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The shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri, policeman Darren Wilson has revealed deep anger and frustration among residents of the St. Louis suburb. But Brown's death, and the protests that have followed it, didn't happen in a vacuum.

Vox spoke with historian Heather Ann Thompson,a professor at Temple University who writes extensively on 20th-century urban politics and criminal justice and worked on the recent National Research Council report on mass incarceration, to talk about the tense and often hostile history between African Americans and the police in America.

Dara Lind: What does history teach us about what's going on in Ferguson?

Heather Ann Thompson: There are some locally important things about this, and there are some nationally important things. There's been a lot of attention to the fact that St. Louis did not riot during the 1960s, for example. But St. Louis has always had this very tortured racial history. In July of 1917, there was one of the most brutal riots against African Americans there — scores and scores of white folks attacking blacks simply for being employed in wartime industries. There were indiscriminate attacks and, in effect, lynchings: beatings, hangings of black residents.

So the fact that St. Louis didn't erupt in the '60s is almost an anomaly or an outlying story. Because St. Louis does have very tense race relations between whites and blacks, and also between the police and the black community.

Nationally, it suggests that we haven't learned nearly enough from our history. Not just 1917, and all the riots that happened in 1919, and 1921 — but, much more specifically, from the ‘60s. Because of course, this is exactly the same issue that generated most of the rebellions of the 1960s. In 1964, exactly 50 years ago, [unrest in] Philadelphia, Rochester, and Harlem were all touched off by the killing of young African Americans. That's what touches off Harlem. It's the beating of a young black man that touches off Rochester in '64. It's the rumor that a pregnant woman has been killed by the police in Philadelphia in '64. So in some sense, my reaction to this is: of course. Because until you fundamentally deal with this issue of police accountability in the black community and fair policing in the black community, this is always a possibility.

DL: This continuity from the white attacks on black citizens after World War I, to the rioting of disenfranchised African Americans in the 1960s, is interesting. Is there a relationship between those two and between the violence of private white citizens and violence of police?

HT: On the surface they seem unrelated: you've got racist white citizens who are attacking blacks in the streets, and then years or decades later, you have the police acting violently in the black community.

In response to all those riots in the 1910s and 1920s, civil rights commissions were set up in cities, and there was pressure on both local and federal governments to address white vigilantism and white rioting against blacks. And while it was not particularly effective, it certainly had this censuring quality to it. And then what historians would agree happened is that, in so many cities, the police became the proxy for what the white community wants.

So one of the answers is that police became the front line of the white community — or, at least, the most racially conservative white community. It's the police that are called out, for example, when blacks try to integrate white neighborhoods. It's the police that become that body that defends whites in their homes.

Fifty years ago this summer, protests in Rochester brought out aggressive police response. (William Lovelace/Hulton)

DL: How did this play out after the unrest that you mentioned?

HT: We start the war on crime in 1965, which, of course, is very much in response to these urban rebellions. Because politicians decide that protests against things like police brutality are exactly the same thing as crime — that this is disorderly. This is criminal.

And so, police are specifically charged with keeping order and with stopping crime, which has now become synonymous with black behavior in the streets. The police, again, become that entity that polices black boundaries. And I will tell you that one of the most striking things about the media coverage of Ferguson is that they are absolutely doing what they did in the 1960s in terms of the reporting: "This is all about the looters, this is all about black violence."

DL: It certainly seems that even before any looting actually happened in Ferguson, police were anticipating that kind of thing.

HT: Any time that there is urban rebellion, the way that it is spun has everything to do with whether it's granted legitimacy. Notably, when there was rioting in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, and you saw the police with fire hoses and police dogs, it was very easy for white Northerners, particularly the press, to report that for exactly what it was — which was police violence on black citizens who were protesting. Everyone's very clear about that. Sheriff Bull Connor is a racist, the police are racist, and that is why it is violent.

But the minute that these protests moved northward, the racial narrative was much more uncomfortable. "Why in the world would blacks be protesting against us good-hearted white folks in the North? And how dare they?" And what it means is that they were demanding too much, and that they were in fact just looking for trouble. So that narrative of who gets to be a legitimate protester shifts dramatically once protests move northward. It's all about violence, troublemaking, looting, and so forth.

Northerners sympathized with protesters in Birmingham, but in Rochester they sent in the army. (William Lovelace/Hulton Archive)

DL: What's the response to a narrative like that?

HT: Even in the 1960s, you've got the white and black liberals who are saying, "Calm down, calm down, go home, stop this. Be peaceful." And the white community, white politicians are desperate for these black politicians to have that kind of legitimacy: "Please go out and entice people to calm down!"

Until black life is valued to the same extent white life is by members of law enforcement and by the criminal-justice community, there will be this question of legitimacy of the police and their actions, particularly among black folks who are routinely stopped. And then, people get angry. And then, people do start throwing rocks and bottles. But make no mistake about it: they don't have rubber bullets. It's never a fair fight.

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[I just found this entry from July 4th, 2005. AHG] [Reinspected July 4 2023 AHG]

Fish Story

Well, our friend Allen Herd, the only other person I know who spells "Allen" properly, he of the collection of roadside attractions that would make Ripley cry, asked me if I would make a quick trip to Fiji, and bag him one of the famous mermaids. I boarded the P.T. Barnum, crossed the Pacific, encountered fierce islanders and one very tall Arabic guy with a long staff and beard named Benjamin Laudnum, or something like that, who said he was on the local basketball team, and off I went to Snipeiji, a tiny out-island of Fiji, where the mermaids and merrie men swim in the shallows.

With the general philosophy of Americans abroad, I smiled, shot one, had it mumified, stuffed and sent to Mr. Herd's remote home in the States, and hurried back. Above is a candid picture of the fiji mermaid and the gun I done her in with. [pic removed at some remote time]

Back in the Deep South, I made the journey out to Allen's place, where Father John snapped this of me, looking much too much like Timothy Green Beckley for comfort (but it was daytime, I tell you) and the fiji mermaid I bagged. [The one Allen Herd has is a different one, image lost in the cloud-AHG]


Not his mermaid, but A mermaid, or a "mermaid".

If you find this story fishy, I will empathise with you.

Quotations of interest - make of them what thou wilt.

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
Author: Sir John Harrington
Source: Of Treason--Epigrams (bk. IV, ep. V)

"But the affairs of the ancient Roman people, whether prosperous or adverse, have been recorded by writers of renown. Nor were there wanting authors of distinguished genius to have composed the history of the times of Augustus, till by the spirit of flattery, which became prevalent, they were deterred."
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

"I was reminded of nothing so much as my dad in a fez, headed out for a night with the boys. Dad was a Thirty-second Degree Freemason and a member of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. It's hard to imagine a worse case of cultural misunderstanding than the cultures of Egypt and Arabia represented by Dad on a midget motorcycle in the Fourth of July parade. Or maybe Dad knew more than I thought. During the late nineteenth century Egypt's King Tawfiq was a member of a Masonic lodge, as were many of Egypt's reform minded liberal elite..."
P.J. O'Rourke
Peace Kills-America's Fun New Imperialism

"Increase of numbers in the Order; ambition for active, life office; the building of a great Temple that shall cost nearly a million of dollars, and involve the Order hopelessly in debt for generations to come, more likely means discord, dishonor and ruin...We may mass numbers and build temples...only to find them empty sepulchres, given over to ruin and desolation."
J.D. Buck 33o
The Thirty-third and Last Degree, 1907


"Businesses are well aware that innovation and risk taking are fundamental to success. In reality, however, 'zero-error principles' and conventional incentive systems encourage only the tried and tested.
'The rhetoric of innovation' - the favourite buzz phrase at the moment is the claim to be a 'learning organisation' - is all too often nullified by a culture of fear and unease in the context of change. Mistakes and failures are often handled insensitively so that error terror stifles creativity."
Brian Bloch

"Mediums
THEY shall arise in the States,
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness;
They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos;
They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive;
They shall be complete women and men their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear;
They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city;
They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses;
Strong and sweet shall their tongues be poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives they shall be makers and finders;
Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels;
Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey’d in gospels
Trees, animals, waters, shall be convey’d,
Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey’d."
Walt Whitman

"Take care that you are not made into a Caesar, that you are not dyed with this dye; for such things happen..." Marcus Aurelius

"When the road is long the people are weary; if their strength has been used up in travel, then they are work out while their opponents are fresh, so they are sure to be attacked.
"Struggling for an advantage fifty miles away will thwart the forward leadership, and as a rule only fifty percent of the soldiers make it.
"Struggle for an advantage thirty miles away, and two out of three get there.
"So an army perishes if it has no equipment, it perishes if it has no food, it perishes if it has no money.
"These things are necessary--you cannot fight to win with an unequipped army." Sun Tzu "The Art of War"


AN ORACLE

Finally, for this Fourth of July weekend, I invoked an oracle concerning the Oriental Templars and its leadership. I leave interpretation to your own interpretation. The first Hexagram, Feng (Fullness) was unstable, with line five in motion, moving to Hexagram 49, Ko (Revolution):

"Clarity within-movement without...a period of advanced civilization. However, the fact that development has reached a peak suggests that this extraordinary condition of abundance cannot be maintained permanently... Clarity within makes it possible to investigate the facts exactly, and shock without ensures a strict and precise carrying out of punishments...The ruler is modest and therefore open to the counsel of able persons. Thus he surrounds himself by persons who suggest to him the lines of action. This brings blessing, fame, and good fortune to him and all the people.

"This leads to 'moltings' in political life, the great revolutions connected with changes of government...Political revolutions are extremely grave matters... They should be undertaken only under stress of direct necessity, when there is no other way out...Times change, and with them their demands...

"When it is said in the Judgment 'The king attains abundance. Be not sad. Be like the sun at midday.' the reference is to this...the king's place...A well must be cleaned out from time to time or it will become clogged with mud. Therefore the hexagram Ching, THE WELL, which means a permanent setup, is followed by the4 hexagram of REVOLUTION, showing the need of changes in long-established institutions, in order they keep them from stagnating..."
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My father and his brothers and sisters probably lived right upstairs, in the fashion of the times, from this wild and rollicking saloon, which my grandfather, Alfred Greenfeld, established in the 1890s. The saloon continued at the "Corner of Chestnut & Low" until the last years before Prohibition, when it (and the family) moved into the home of my Uncle's William's (Dr. William Greenfeld, M.D.) more uptown digs, until Prohibition had its way with the bar.  My father never spoke to me about any of this, except that his dad owned a bar in Baltimore.  I first heard that the famed Jazz Composer Eubie Blake had immortalized my grandfather's saloon from my late cousin Alfred Greenfeld, himself a colorful character, retired Marine and CIA spook.  How *colorful* the Saloon was I only recently discovered, courtesy of "The Storm is Passing Over - From the Church to Baltimore's Best Bordellos".  (https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/pd…) Interestingly, my Dad, Albert Greenfield, who came South during the Great Depression, was a non-drinker and both my parents avoided bars like the plague.

NOTES ON EUBIE BLAKE AND MY GRANDFATHER’S SHADY SALOON

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David Greenfeld, Alfred Greenfeld (R) and, in back, Matilda Greenfeld


David Greenfeld, Alfred Greenfeld (R) and, in back, Matilda Greenfeld




















NOTES ON EUBIE BLAKE AND MY GRANDFATHER’S SHADY SALOON

The saloon continued at the “Corner of Chestnut & Low” until the last years before Prohibition, when it (and the family) moved into the home of my Uncle’s William’s (Dr. William Greenfeld, M.D.) more uptown digs, until Prohibition had its way with the bar.  My father never spoke to me about any of this, except that his dad owned a bar in Baltimore.  I first heard that the famed Jazz Composer Eubie Blake had immortalized my grandfather’s saloon from my late cousin Alfred Greenfeld, himself a colorful character, retired Marine and CIA spook.  How *colorful* the Saloon was I only recently discovered, courtesy of “The Storm is Passing Over – From the Church to Baltimore’s Best Bordellos”.  (https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/pd…) Interestingly, my Dad, Albert Greenfield, who came South during the Great Depression, was a non-drinker and both my parents avoided bars like the plague.


“In 1902 Eubie Blake was with the traveling show “In Old Kentucky”. Later that same year, Blake made his return to nightclub playing in Alfred Greenfeld’s Saloon in Baltimore MD, where he composed his next rag, Corner of Chestnut and Low, the address of Greenfeld’s club.”

“Baltimore’s Eubie Blake was one of the most prominent ragtime musicians on the East Coast in the early 20th century, and was known for a unique style of piano-playing that eventually became the basis for stride, a style perfected during World War I in Harlem. Blake was the most well-known figure in the local scene, and helped make Baltimore one of the ragtime centers of the East Coast, along with Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.[27] He then joined a medicine show, performing throughout Maryland and Pennsylvania before moving to New York in 1902 to play at the Academy of Music there. Returning to Baltimore, Blake played at The Saloon, a venue owned by Alfred Greenfield patronized by “colorful characters and ‘working’ girls”; The Saloon was the basis for his well-known “Corner of Chestnut and Low”. He then played at Annie Gilly’s sporting house, another rough establishment, before becoming well-known enough to play throughout the city and win a number of national piano concerts.”

“After playing melodian and buck dancing in a medicine show through the Maryland and Pennsylvania countryside, Blake did a stint in a plantation-style review at New York’s Academy of Music in 1902. He returned to Baltimore to play piano at Alfred Greenfield’s Saloon, an establishment haunted by colorful characters and “working” girls. He immortalized the place in his “Corner of Chestnut and Low.”

“After Greenfields, he played for Annie Gilly’s sporting house at 317 East Street where the patrons carried knives and brass knuckles. Blake became a star attraction at cafes and clubs and a perennial winner in national piano playing contests. For a while he teamed up with Preston Jackson and his group. “

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From KIA MAGICK Contacting the KIA Egregore with Ouija board!

[This reminds me of an experiment I did at Eulis Lodge many years ago reported in "The Magick of Michael Bertiaux" In that experiment, we used D&D dice rather than a Ouija Board, but the premise, IMHO, is the same.  Allen G.]

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Contacting the KIA Egregore with Ouija board!

It was the October full moon as we opened the 2013 KIA retreat, and it seemed like a good night to talk to the KIA Egregore. In the past we’ve done this via a computer program that randomly combines sentences provided by various KIA agents. But that program is currently broken, and besides, this time we decided to opt for something a bit more Victoriana: an English Qabalah ouija board.

After opening the rite with a KIA IAO Centring ritual, we sat around the board and began our first experiments with the board. The atmosphere was relaxed and at first we had to try out a few different items as a planchette, ultimately settling upon an upturned glass tealight holder.

Even then it seemed reluctant to move from ‘Hello’, once it had moved there, so we stopped for a break and practised some glossolalia to shift conscious awareness away from the rational part our minds.

What follows is an account of the conversation with the spirit that followed.  In italics are the questions we spoke aloud to the spirit, in bold are its messages to us. Some of these messages need to be deciphered using English Qabalah. We will make a post about those later. The board has spaces for Hello, Bye, Yes and No, in addition to the letters of the English alphabet.

Hello KIA.

Hello.

Q1. Do you have any questions for us?

1

What is it?

WVQZ

Is this for the cipher?

(pause)

L

Do you want us to work this out later on?

R

No

At this point the planchette became  unresponsive. We decided to move the next prepared question and rotate the scribe.

Q2 What is the message of KIA?

NZ0

Nothing?

VONCHRHPLPNJGTSNOX

KIA, are you having a laugh with us?

Yes.

Do you want us to move on to the next question?

Yes.

Again we changed scribe as we moved on to the next question. We did this between each numbered question.

Q3. Where should we go from here?

TIWCZ

Is the TIW part a reference to the Norse god?

The planchette was stuck again, we moved it back to the centre.

Z (pause) RVR

Do you want to move to the next question?

No.

Do you want to finish?

A

Tyrannosaurus?

CP4

That sounds interesting!

No.

Maybe we should move to the next question?

Yes.

Q4. Are you happy with the direction we are going in?

Planchette moved near the Yes.

It’s not quite on it.

Yes. (suddenly moved onto it more clearly.)

SEVAVTI

Save something?

Yes.

HES

He’s?

Yes.

ON (pause) U

He’s on you?

Yes.

HAND

He’s on your hand?

Yes.

Who are you?

NAYX

Yes.

OLD

Old One?

Yes.

Nyarlathotep?

Yes.

F (pause) OAKYPLPL

People?

Yes.

Polish People?

6

Planchette stops moving again.

Do you have anything more to say?

Yes. But planchette doesn’t move again.

Shall we move onto next question?

Yes.

Q5. Do you want something to drink?

No.

Should we have asked that at the start?

0 VASIWCXL

No.

Should we ask next question?

Yes.

Q6. What is your time cycle?

92c1K

K = 1000?

Yes.

Did K come after C?

Yes.

Is it 1192? (92 + C + 1K)

No.

Is it 1209? (9+2c+1K)

Yes.

Years?

Yes.

Is it Solar years?

No.

Is it years of some other star system?

Yes.

Is it Sirius?

No.

Is it Orion?

Yes.

Is it in Orion’s belt?

Yes.

Central star?

Yes.

OAN

Oannes?

Yes.

Oannes is normally from Sirius.

No.

Did you mean aeons?

No.

JO

Joshua?

No.

John?

Yes.

EJRHEU

Jehovah?

No.

F

JFK?

No.

Stop suggesting stupid things?

Yes.

C

Is this all one sequence?

Yes. (Which makes ‘EJRHEU F C’)

Is this a cipher?

Yes.

Do you have any other message?

5

Yes.

HACA

Hekate?

Yes.

ZNRLE (pause)

YPNEDZ

End of message?

No.

WGWRYVU

Gaps for separate ciphers?

Yes.

ONRUUPMZNRWE

Yes.

End of message?

Bye.

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KIA Egregore group sigil charging.

On Sunday evening, towards the close of the retreat weekend, we started creating a mass sigil, to be charged by the KIA egregore. As preparation I had created a pencil outline of a kind of KIA logo that combines elements of current, previous and possible future KIA logos. These elements include a shatkona, a vesica pisces containing an eye, Austin Spares glyph for Kia, and Michael Moorcock’s sigil of chaos. I did so on a large A2 sized sheet of cartridge paper which I taped to a wooden board. I provided black, red, blue and green marker pens of two different thicknesses for agents to draw their sigils.

I had invited those not able to attend to submit sigils online, in a post on Crowleymas, (Oct 12th). I made sure that external submissions were included in the final design.  As we sat and talked, we took turns adding to the sigil, each of us making several visits and adding more each time. As we went to bed on Sunday night, the sigil remained unfinished, so we left out and continued on Monday morning over a casual breakfast.

This was the result:

kia-egregore-sigil

You can help charge it using whatever method of sigil charging suits you. Probably staring at it for a short while will do the trick…

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Minimalist Proto Manifesto [What I thought then]--I'm 20 years wiser now

WHAT KIND OF ORDER?

I have discussed this matter in response to some righteously true and long-time order members on my friends list, but everyone here doesn’t necessarily see that, and I thought I’d briefly go into where I stand and why. I joined late, at nearly forty, well over ten years into a formal magical career, but having joined no other organized body of manifestation. This was over twenty years ago, and it was, by anyone’s account, a very different body of manifestation in 1982.

For one thing, it was effectively decentralized, almost feudal in its structure. The local body master set the tone and was likely to be the only ranking OTO member you knew, and “ranking” at that time could be a III* with a Camp Charter and a primary charter to initiate. The EGC was a connected but distinct body of manifestation, and seemed for a time headed towards becoming more so. If you didn’t live in New York or San Francisco, the ambiance of the body was largely determined by the lbm. In the case of Eulis Camp, which was my affiliation, it was *very* ‘Masonic’ and mystical, intellectual and rather nakedly sexual in its tone. I liked it, but hung out doing EGC work for years before taking initiation. I had doubts about the “top heavy” structure of the organization, and still do. I saw it as a fraternal and spiritual body of manifestation, and still tend to.

Disclaimer: I go by the book. I have spoken out here and there on things I feel deeply about (mostly face to face with the high leadership), but have never had anything more than secondary advisory input into policy. I have stood by policies that I profoundly disagree with because I had sworn to do so, but also because of where I am coming from on all this.

Call me a “minimalist”. I have absolutely, positively no affinity for the “small tent, highly intellectual, extremely authoritarian and structured” opposition that has formed around D.J., Keith, and my friend John C. I call this school “The Dogs of Reason” and reason is a good tool, but a poor master in matters spiritual and fraternal, and in that sense I consider it a lie. I also feel they are so bitter in their demeanor that they will get nowhere, which is good. On the other hand, I have absolutely no sympathy with the nihilistic, superstitious non members and failed members who have created a mythical order with a fundamentalist core and a bunch of would-be gurus—what I call the “shadow order”. On the third hand (this is a magical body, so we have lots of hands), I am not in sympathy with the paper-pushing, pocket-protector wearing , rule-and-paperwork expanding, legalistic and respectability-hungering element that seems to enjoy great sympathy at the top of the top heavy structure; I designate this the “Thelemo-Rotary Club” and I fear this above all, because that’s where I see things headed. I never set out to be a Methodist or Elk or Moose Club member, and they all do this jingle better than we ever could, in any case. It’s the death of fraternity, I think, and the death of spirituality in the long run for sure.

What is an order minimalist? Unlike my good friend James, I see great advantages to a “big tent” in which all kinds of people of various races, religious backgrounds, political views and lifestyles can feel comfortable, if for no other reason than the human resource pool and material means this provides. I would exclude no interested party so long as they observe the Peace of the Temple. In fact, I would advocate a rotational high administrative leadership, and more emphasis on service than authority at the highest levels, and more emphasis on making people comfortable from day one with the order.

To me the order is this, and only this: (A) The Initiation Rituals – and whatever the individual derives from these. (B) The Gnostic Mass and related life-passage rituals, and (C) whatever minimum structure – administrative, financial and regulatory – necessary to carry out (A) and (B) with joy and beauty, with liberal room for a variety of artistic interpretations. That’s it. I also have said I accept the implicit in all this of a social structure – optional and informal, that acts as a kind of support group in a growth-oriented initiatory system. But, that’s informal, and should be viewed as such.

At some point I will give a list, if there is interest, in the decisions of consequence that have been made since I affiliated which I consider to be wrong-headed in one direction or another.

Reminder: Those things I am sworn to do, I do. I would frankly like more input into fundamental policy, but for reasons best not gone into here, don’t expect this to ever happen to me directly. Those who hear policy from me hear it as policy, and I represent the decisions of authority as I have agreed to do. There are many policies I disagree with, profoundly. None of them existed when I was first approached to build the EGC for Eulis Camp in 1982. But the initiations are profound, the Mass is beautiful, and I have met a few really wonderful men and women I am proud to call brothers, sisters, lovers and friends. That’s why I’m here, why I do my job, and that’s why I’m saying what I’ve just said.

Oh. If you want to know what I REALLY think, go to the only true on line manifestation of the inner order at

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Illumination Expo 2011




Illumination Expo 2011 is a series of events being hosted by local Free Illuminists to celebrate art, music and illumination.


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To begin we are hosting a musical performance by Amodali featuring tracks from her new project Liber Incarnadine. Amodali is traveling from the UK. Previous projects include Six Comm/Mother Destruction. This new project brings together many threads of Amodali’s work and research into the relationships between sonics/language/sexuality and magick.

Event: Amodali – Liber Incarnadine
Date: Wednesday, September 14th
Time: 8 pm to 9 pm
Location: Spring4th Center, Annex Location
Entry Fee: $10 (this event only)

VENUE INFO FOR LIBER INCARNADINE EVENT

The address for Spring4th Center, Annex Location is:

728 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30308

For more info about Spring4th Center, visit
www.spring4th.com

Illumination Expo 2011 continues on September 23rd and 24th with two days of art, music, presentations and workshops.

Event: Arts, Music and Illumination
Date: Friday and Saturday, September 23rd and 24th.
Time: 6 pm to 1 am on Fri., September 23rd. 3 pm to 1 am on Sat., September 24th
Location: Atlanta Freethought Hall
Entry Fee: $15 (for a two day pass)

VENUE INFO FOR ARTS, MUSIC AND ILLUMINATION

The Address for Atlanta Freethought Hall is:

4775 N. Church Lane SE,
Smyrna, GA 30080

For more info about Atlanta Freethought Hall, visit:
www.atlantafreethought.org

TICKET OPTIONS:

There are three ticket options with associated pricing as follows:

1) $20 – the discounted price for an All Events Pass. Includes entry to all events (September 14th, 23rd and 24th).

2) $15 – includes entry to Arts, Music and Illumination only (September 23rd and 24th).

3) $10 – includes entry to Liber Incarnadine only (September 14th).

ARTIST INFO FOR ARTS, MUSIC AND ILLUMINATION EVENT

Art and Photography by:

Tau Roger
Caleb Storms
Darian Parker
Max Grimm
J.M. VonKotterhausen
Tau Osania

Presentations by:

Pixie Bruner
Caleb Storms
T Allen Greenfield
Tau Naamah
Michael Crowley
Howard Pendragon Phillips
Bill Zenn

Spoken Word, Poetry and Selected Readings by:

Max Grimm
Alice Renard
Pixie Bruner
Michael Crowley
T Allen Greenfield
Bill Zenn

Music by:

DJ Light
Sid Reflux
DJ Carma
Andrew Van Baümer


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