When asked to explain why the new Age of Aquarius is so horrible, rather than being replete with sweetness-and-light and all that good stuff, New Agers "explain" that it's still the Age of Pisces, that the Vernal Coleur (the point in the sky occupied by the Sun at the first moment of Spring) has not yet advanced all the way back through Pisces to ( Read more... )

In various stories among the Lovecraftian Mythos literature, there is mention of "the idiot music" of a flute comprising two and only two notes, played over and over in various permutations and combinations. Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos and/or Mighty Messenger of the Great Old Ones, dwells in a cavern at the center of the world, attended by ( Read more... )

Somewhere in Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law, written in Cairo, Egypt on April 8-10, 1904, it admonishes the reader to "take strange drugs" (Ibid., Book 2, verse 22). It occurs to me that the devoted Thelemite can save him/herself a lot of money, not to mention being able to avoid getting busted for possession and/or use of various banned ( Read more... )

The Book of the Law, Chapter 3, verses 51-55: ( Read more... )

These days I tend to assume all coincidences guilty until proven innocent by virtue of Qaballah. ( Read more... )

Concerning Aleister Crowley and Stephen King:( Read more... )