Thelema Lodge
Ordo Templi Orientis
P.O.Box 2303
Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
August 1995 e.v. at Thelema Lodge
Announcements from
Lodge Members and Officers
attributed to Aleister Crowley
Roosevelt the god | |
Lies dead in a flower garden | |
Lenin in his tomb | |
Has been deified by the icon worshippers | |
And tomorrow | |
Is tomorrow | |
Is tomorrow | |
The Nike's on the hill | |
God's in his Heaven | |
All's well with the world | |
Both of these poems were originally published in The Grady Project #3 (Berkeley: Thelema Lodge, O.T.O., March 1988).
Derived from a lecture series in 1977 e.v. by Bill Heidrick
Copyright © Bill Heidrick
10. | Pick up a clump of moist earth and smell it. | |
32. | Listen carefully to a TV set for at least half an hour without once looking at it. | |
9. | Turn off the sound on a TV set and look carefully at the picture for at least half an hour. | |
31. | Call telephone information and ask for your own number and address -- even if you haven't got a phone. | |
30. | Read a children's story and write about it as if it were a news story. | |
8. | Make a detailed plan for tomorrow. | |
29. | Spend a half hour in a dark garden at midnight. | |
28. | Stand naked before a mirror and gaze into your reflected eyes. | |
27. | Copy a page from a book by hand and immediately burn the copy. | |
7. | Spend half an hour at noon in the same garden you used for # 29. | |
26. | Enter a room which has a closet. Sit there and slowly say one hundred times: "There is a monster lurking and waiting to grab me in that closet." Turn off all the lights, close your eyes and go into the closet. -- Try holding an ice cube while you say the words. | |
25. | Get some of your favorite food or drink. Wait until you are hungry or thirsty; then taste but do not eat or drink. After an hour you may eat or drink something else, but not your favorite that day. | |
24. | If you like meat, sit before some cooked meat; imagine the birth of the animal; then eat. -- If you don't eat meat, sit before a vegetarian meal; imagine someone in another country dying of starvation; eat the food. | |
6. | Rest today and think of the Sun that shines equally on all. | |
23. | Drink a glass of water and then wash the glass. | |
22. | Visit a courtroom while a trial is taking place. | |
5. | Imagine yourself on trial. | |
21. | Read a book by a prisoner who was later released. -- for example: Angela Davis, An Autobiography; the Biblical Book of Job; Mein Kampf by Hitler; the second volume of The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. | |
20. | Go to a public place like a subway station or a bus terminal. Figure out the routine of the place. Write a set of helpful instructions on how to use the services offered. | |
19. | Take some coins. Walk downtown. Put them in parking meters (if legal where you live ... otherwise, purchase a news paper from a vending machine and leave it unread on top of the machine.). | |
4. | Feed a wild animal or bird -- not a pet or a zoo animal, but a house mouse will do for the animal. | |
18. | Wear your best formal clothing. | |
17. | Read or write a love letter. | |
3. | Find a book (go to the library for it if necessary) that gives instructions for delivering a baby. Read it. 16. Show someone how to do something. | |
15. | Aside from knowledge and skill, what makes an expert different from an ordinary person? -- explain this to someone or write it as an essay. | |
14. | Talk seriously to a plant for at least fifteen minutes. Tape record this (borrow a recorder if necessary) and play it back. | |
2. | Write a description of a familiar object. Run around, jump, yell, dance to lively music, have someone tickle you. Immediately, sit down and write another description of the same object. | |
13. | Relax in a warm bath for a couple of hours. | |
12. | Try to imagine what is involved in supplying everyone in your city with food, power and water. | |
11. | Try to find out who is in charge. | |
1. | Delegate your authority today. |
by Soror Mary Magdalene / 974
i. | Touching the forehead say Unto Me, | |
ii. | Touching the breast say The Text, | |
iii. | Touching the right shoulder, say The Author, | |
iv. | Touching the left shoulder, say and The Reader. | |
v. | Clasping the hands upon the breast, say To The Pages, Amen. | |
vi. | Turning to the East, make the appropriate gesture of opening a book. Vibrate ANTI-Feminist! Visualise the "quilt making" (The Western Canon) Feminist critics melting away behind the force of the text. | |
vii. | Turning to the South, the same, but vibrate ANTI-Marxist! Visualise the rampaging crowds of aging Marxist critics melting away behind the force of the text. | |
viii. | Turning to the West, the same, but vibrate ANTI-Ethnocentric! Visualise the "rabblement" (The Western Canon) of Ethnocentric critics melting away behind the force of the text. | |
ix. | Turning to the North, the same, but vibrate ANTI-Deconstructers/New Historicists! (Whichever may be the most appropriate for the prevailing academic climate of the locality.) Visualise the Deconstructionist/New Historicist critics flinging themselves, lemming-like, over a cliff, due to the force of the text. | |
x. | Turning back to the east, and extending the arms on the form of a cross, say, | |
xi. | Before me, Shakespeare; | |
xii. | Behind me, Homer; | |
xiii. | On my right hand, Dante; | |
xiv. | On my left hand, Tolstoy. | |
xv. | For around me flames the Anxiety of Influence, | |
xvi. | But in my Column, I'm the Star. | |
xvii-- | ||
xxi. | Repeat (i) to (v), the Critic's Cross |
Brilliant globe of light inspire | |
Flaming sun drawing higher | |
Midday travels of thy bark | |
Golden pathways holy arc | |
O holy angels | |
Present before me | |
Enflame my heart | |
With passion and tears | |
Shower thy radiance | |
Upon the aeon crowning | |
In new light | |
93 Jermyn St. SW. 1 | Nov. 29 '43 e.v. | |
Care Frater Hymenaeus Alpha!
Fraternally, 666
Documents will be sent off to-morrow |
Bell Inn Aston Clinton Bucks | May 23 {'44} | |
Dear H.A. 93 Yours of May 20. I wrote you yesterday, and now you have changed your A.P.O. 93 93/93 Yours A.C. P.S. M.A.Sutherland 10 NORMAND Mansions {TC} W.14. wants his Lasher back. Please send it to him direct. So sorry I haven't been able to get you one yet. |
{Corrections to difficult readings above from Br. T.C.}
Netherwood The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex 1. 10. 45 | ||
Dear Grady,
Yours ever, {signed} Aleister
Lt. G.L.McMurtry, |
A.C.Y. asked about dangers in Goetic (and other operations):
Is it necessary to wait for the K&C of the HGA before undertaking Goetic operations?
What are some differences and similarities between Goetic, Enochian and Abramelin traditions?
P. expressed concern about visiting the Gnostic Mass, on grounds that she might explode in giggles. I tried to "help" by the following observation:
8/4/95 | Signs, Grips and Words 8:00PM Horus Temple (members only) | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/5/95 | Lammas Ritual at the Beach meet at OZ house 10:00AM sharp | |||
8/6/95 | Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/7/85 | LAMMAS, Sol 15 deg. Leo 5PM | |||
8/9/95 | Sirius Oasis Meeting 8PM Berkeley | Sirius Oasis | ||
8/10/95 | FULL MOON in Aquarius 11:16 AM | |||
8/12/95 | FEAST OF THE BEAST AND HIS BRIDE | |||
8/13/95 | Lodge luncheon meeting 12:30 | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/13/95 | Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/14/95 | "Samekh without Fears" ritual class Horus Temple 8:00 PM with Rr. L.C. | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/16/95 | Thelema Lodge Library night 8PM (call to attend) | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/20/95 | Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/21/95 | Section 2 reading group, 8PM at OZ Sir R. Burton`s 1,0001 Nights with Caitlin | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/23/95 | Magick in Theory and Practice 8:00PM in San Anselmo with Bill | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/25/95 | Astrological Cycles with Grace 7 PM, Berkeley. Call to attend. | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/26/95 | The Rite of Saturn. 9:30PM | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/27/95 | Gnostic Mass 8:00PM Horus Temple | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/28/95 | Thelema Lodge Library night 8PM (call to attend) | Thelema Ldg. | ||
8/30/95 | Liber XV Study Group w. Bp. T Dionysys 8:00PM | Thelema Ldg. |
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