I love animals, but my love isn't blind. I like to look my love in the eye. One of the many, barely questioned, ideas about the animal kingdom is that those that inhabit it are somehow morally different than us in fundamental ways. Sure there's violence, but that's just the food chain. It's different than what we do. Human beings, scum that we are ( Read more... )

This distinction is so fundamental to Thelema that it almost seems redundant to write about, but in the preparations for my next lecture (look out! spoilers!) I have been revisiting this question. First of all, the term "lone wolf" is somewhat of a misnomer. Wolves travel in packs. They are individuals working together, which is quite different ( Read more... )

In a previous post I talked about the way that Foucault describes the idea of sacred distance was being transferred from the lepers to the mentally ill in “Madness and Civilization.” I said that “Mental-illness is a big business, and has been well integrated into a culture in which a diagnosis can easily become an important aspect of their social ( Read more... )

Gemetria is a system of ascribing relations between words and concepts by reducing those words to pure number and exploring the relations between words and names that add to the same number. One can also look at relations between various numbers and come to new understandings about the concepts they are associated with. Gemetria, for me, has ( Read more... )

It strikes me that, in spite of the fact that I consider it an essential preliminary, I have never really written in detail about the relationship between physical pain and moral failure as it relates to the practice of Liber Jugorum. However we choose to perform this exercise, with a rubber band, a straight razor, or a lit cigarette, it will ( Read more... )

“Communism counted on and hastened the disappearance of religions, but in contemporary democracies religions are disappearing on their own. Communism may have decreed that politics would ultimately disappear, but in today’s world civic life is denigrated by those who stay away from the polls. Communism did everything it could to break down ( Read more... )

David Hume was an influential thinker whose influence on the philosophical basis of ( Read more... )

At first glance, this is a simple symbolic illustration of what the angels have said explicitly several times already: that Dee and Kelley are as one flesh, two halves of a single whole. I think that, when we look at the context in which it occurs, there is a little more to this story than is immediately obvious.

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Qin Shi Huang is known as the First Emperor of China. He succeeded in unifying the warring states of that country into a single Empire. It will surprise no one to hear that this was done by force, at the expense of history. There were great technical advantages to this situation. Before the unification, these states were writing in numerous ( Read more... )

Before I write a post explaining the results of my Enochian work between the Equinox and the Solstice (which was, ‘coincidentally,’ how long it lasted, I actually planned for it would to be over in four or five weeks but things didn’t turn out that way) it seems appropriate to explain my methods, so that these are absolutely clear. In the course ( Read more... )