Join Sekhet-Maat Lodge in welcoming J. Daniel Gunther, teacher and student of the A∴ A∴, to Portland for a lecture on the formulae of the aeon of Horus. A book signing and soirée will follow the lecture. Register early and get a discount on the book! Portlanders who register will be able to pick up their copies directly from Sekhet-Maat as early as ( Read more... )

Since our dues program has proven so unpopular among both our local members (who consider it "burdensome") and the O.T.O. higher ups who choose not to mandate it for fear that all bodies will end up looking like cookie cutter versions of one another, this year Sekhet-Maat has opted to diversify our funding strategies. After thoroughly investigating ( Read more... )

This video makes me want to be a hoodlum in a way that A Clockwork Orange never did.

"Nietzsche's concept of force is therefore that of a force which is related to another force: in this form the force is called will. The will (will to power) is the differential element of force. A new conception of the philosophy of the will follows from this. For the will is not exercised on mysteriously on muscles and nerves, still less on " ( Read more... )

Now, this is morning in America.

In reading thykaaba's series covering how new religious movements grow and gain currency, he explores at length the model that posits that the formation of social ties -- not ideology -- serves as the raw material for group growth. It's only after social connection forms that individuals become indoctrinated according to the organizations core values ( Read more... )

In an article (thanks, shepjoe) sketching out Genesis P-Orridge's contributions to Western civilization, s/he recounts his first conversation with William S. Burroughs:

"He asked me, 'How do you short-circuit control?'" Gen remembered. "And we eventually realized that the program that's really in control is our DNA. It determines so many areas of life, ( Read more... )

The Consumption of the Word ( Read more... )

The renunciation of pleasure -- the vital force by which the atomicity of life shapes the world -- as a sacrament is one of the defining values of the age now slipping away from us. Our world continues to collapse back toward the infinitesimal, reorienting the notion of authority to the point of inversion until it is no longer something which is ( Read more... )

The Wand is erect, and must extend to Infinity.
The surface of the water is flat, and must extend to Infinity.
One is the line, the other the plane. -- ABA "The Cup"

The intersection of a plane with its normal is a point.


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