eureka!

[aethyrflux]

i realize that i should really just get around to learning calculus (one way or another), if i am ever to functionally utilize the concept of infinity... meanwhile, this is still fun, for the moment... but eventually, there must be a limit!

meanwhile, i think that i will continue in the “uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise

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[xephyr]

"Thus, the Book of the Law conceives of each conscious individual as a perfectly simple, and therefore indestructible, point of view in an infinity of possibilities all striving to return to their source and origin in Nothingness by gradually extending themselves over time to build up into their conscious sensorium an ever increasingly complex system of point-events, until they incorporate into themselves the totality of all that is, i.e., infinity."

Yeah. Sure. It all sounds great, until you try to diagram the sentence!

[aethyrflux]

yeah, maybe i should have put scare quotes around "surprisingly concise?"
also note that religioustolerance.org no longer uses that particular description in their current entry for thelema

[pturing]

"If he had presented this equation entirely as a metaphor I would be the first to applaud; as will become readily apparent below, I find this metaphor extremely fertile and satisfying."
yup. that's pretty much what I remember thinking when first reading about 0=2.

I'm a big fan of the thelema lodge archives.

[aethyrflux]

Thelema Lodge does indeed have some tasty morsels in their archives, and Bill Heidrick has certainly contributed to The Great Work in providing us with the Cross References for the Thelema Lodge Calendar!

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And i see that you are also hosting some information about infinity, in your occult library:

"To realize the infinity of self is to attain "freedom" which is the Hindoo word for 'salvation.'
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The inexorable law of science proves that the soul is individual and must have perfection within itself, the attainment of which means freedom, not salvation, and the realization of individual infinity. Nature! God! Religion! It is all one."

- from a series of lectures/sermons, at the Unitarian church last night, by Swami Vive Kananda, Hindoo philosopher and priest, speaking on "The Divinity of Man" reported in the Detroit Free Press, February 18, 1894