Interactive TLC Content for 1998 e.v.
Interactive TLC Content for 1998 e.v.
TLC January 1998 e. v.
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- Initiations this month at the Lodge. Procedures for application and fees explained.
- Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
- Gnostic Masses at the Lodge this month. How to participate.
- 'S Rioghal Mo Dhream -- Section Two
- James Grant's The Adventures of Rob Roy to be read and discussed. Not the same as Scott's Rob Roy. Influence of the Grant book on both Crowley and Mathers. Brief bio of James Grant.
- Listen for the N.O.X.
- General announcement of NOX meetings this month.
- The Vanity Fair Haiku Contest -- Crowley Classics
- The Vanity Fair Haiku Contest by Kwaw Li Ya (Aleister Crowley>
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The Hokku - A New Verse Form And a Prize Contest for
- Ambitious American Poets by Kwaw Li Ya
- of the University of Pekin (Aleister Crowley)
- The Prize Winners of the Hokku Contest Their Poetry
- and an Analysis of It by the Eminent Chinese Poet Kwaw Li Ya (Aleister Crowley)
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The Hokku Winners A Few Comments by the Judge of the Contest
- by Kwaw Li Ya (Aleister Crowley)
- Too Many Cooks -- Primary Sources
- Karl Germer's notes from a letter sent to him by an Agape Lodge member, detailing difficulties at the Lodge. Mentions Roy Leffingwell (author of the letter), Karl J. Germer, Max Schneider, Jack Parsons, Jane Wolfe, W.T.Smith and Jean Schneider (aka Jean Schivonen)
- LTR (notes on): Roy Leffingwell to Karl Germer, Sept. 8, 1943.
- Affirmation of the Centurion by Grady McMurtry -- from the Grady Project
- Undated poem from the 1950's.
- An Introduction to Qabalah, Part XXXV -- Hidden Paths by Bill Heidrick
- The sixteen unmarked paths of the Tree of Life introduced and discussed. Diagrams showing all paths, including the sixteen, and offering a basis for Tarot and other associations.
- From the Outbasket by Bill Heidrick
- Golden Dawn blinds. Sources for the Golden Dawn Tree of Life and other things in the Sepher Yetzirah and A.Kircher's Oedipus Aegiptiacus. Crowley's 8th Aethyr instructions, the Shin of Shin ritual and the fifty gates. The "Man-Sheppard" from the Poimandres, Corpus Hermeticum, Holy Guardian Angel, Gnosticism, Codex Brucianus and Nag Hamaddi. Pranayama and Asana.
- Reminder and Clarification from the Treasurer General of OTO International
- Explanation of procedures under the newly changed dues rates. Handlng of credits and assessments.
- List of events for January 1998 e.v.
TLC February 1998 e. v.
- Mid-Winter Festival of Brigid
- Announcement of Brigid ritual and feast.
- Gnostic Catholic Church
- Gnostic Masses this month at the Lodge. Character of the eucharist. Number of cakes of Light consumed last year.
- Deer, Mare, Elephant: Hare, Bull, Horse -- Section Two
- Discussion of Sir Richard Burton's Kama Shastra Society translations of the Kama Sutra, Ananga-Ranga, The Perfumed Garden and similar texts. Influence on Crowley, both regarding his Bagh-i-Muattar and "The Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth". Further information on Burton's tranlations.
- Take Your N.O.X.
- Topic this month: "Is Thelema the only religion to declare forthrightly for hedonism". Notes on a previous NOX discussion of the roles and responsibilities of current Lodge officers.
- Minussa ei ole mitään mikä
- Visit from OTO in Finland. A Finnish translation of the Gnostic Mass has been completed and a translation of Liber AL is in progress.
- Concerning Young Love by the Reverend P. D. Carey (Aleister Crowley) -- Crowley Classics
- Annotated introductory essay from the Bagh-i-Muattar, investigating human sexual methods both in a mystical and practical ways, with a touch of humor. In the style of Burton's translations.
- [untitled poem from U.S. Army basic training] by Grady McMurtry -- from the Grady Project
- "Here we have a close up view". Undated poem.
- Remembering Anton LaVey
- Memorial and remembrance of Anton LaVey on the occasion of his death, by Nikolai Guliaeff. Church of Satan publications and experiences.
- An Introduction to Qabalah, Part XXXVI -- Toward a Dynamic Application by Bill Heidrick
- The need to balance the Sephirot.
- List of events for February 1998 e.v.
TLC March 1998 e. v.
- Vernal Equinox: Year of the Lovers
- Announcement of Vernal Equinox ritual this month.
- Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
- Gnosti Masses this month. The community character of the Masses. Training for the roles in the mass is available and encouraged.
- M M M
- Initiations this month. Guidelines for applicants.
- The Lance and the Veil -- Section Two
- Readings from James Branch Cabell: Jurgen and other stories. How Cabell became acquainted with Crowley's writings. Adaptation of the Gnostic Mass in Jurgen.
- Ritual Workshop Series
- Anouncement of a new ritual working group with Cynthia.
- Opportunity N.O.X.
- College of Hard N.O.X. topic this month: "Is the militant imagery of Thelema a literal call for warfare?"
- Some Thoughts on Leadership from the Tao Teh Ching
- Quotations from Lao-Tze appropriate to the guidance of one who leads a lodge of OTO.
- Delenda est Britannia by Aleister Crowley -- Crowley Classics
- Characterizes Britain as a piratical island nation and calls for the destruction of its sovereignty.
- [untitled: target practice] by Grady McMurtry -- from the Grady Project
- "Deep within the pits we sit". Undated poem from the 1940's.
- An Introduction to Qabalah, Part XXXVII -- Personality and the Sephirot by Bill Heidrick
- Simplified characters of the Sephirot. "Shadow" Trees discussed as tendencies to view matters with an over-all character appropriate to just one Sephira. Differences in such things according to the columns on the Tree. The effect of such a bias for each of the Sephirot.
- Germer in the '40s: -- Primary Sources
- Karl Germer leaves German incarceration and migrates to the USA.
LTR A. Crowley to K. Germer, 23rd March, 194{1-?} -
Crowley greets Germer, on the latter's release from a Nazi concentration camp.
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Thoth Tarot paintings finished.
- DOC A.Crowley to K. Germer, April 1941
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Germer, cited as {OTO} Grand Master General of the Free German-Speaking Peoples,
- is made Crowley's chief representative in the USA.
- LTR K. Germer to A. Crowley, 10th July, 1942
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Germer describes business plans and asks if Crowley would be willing to come to the USA.
- La Galoise publication. Subscriptions from Agape Lodge Members mentioned.
- From the Outbasket by Bill Heidrick
- Chakras, the Child Eternal, gender on the Tree of Life, the Path of the Serpent on unusual Trees of Life.
- List of events for March 1998 e.v.
TLC April 1998 e. v.
- Feast of Liber AL
- The story of Rose's marriage to Crowley, continued into the reception of Liber AL. This month's commemoration of the three days of Liber AL.
- O.T.O. Initiations
- Initiations at the Lodge this month. Advice regarding sponsorship.
- College of Hard Talks
- Topics of discussion this month announced as "humor" and "What kinds of shared social ethic might be considered
most compatible with Thelema?"
- Seminar on Liber 777
- Announcement of a series on Liber 777, by Bill Heidrick. The origin and nature of the work briefly remarked.
- Suggestive Literature Circle -- Section Two
- Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. Importance of the John Payne unexpurgated translation. Brief bio. of Boccaccio. Crowley's interest.
- "Putting Back the Devil into Hell", Payne's translation of the tenth tale of the third day from the Decameron.
- The Needs of the Navy by Aleister Crowley -- Crowley Classics
- From Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden, passions and cheating between the gent's of the sea. The H.M.S. Osiris, setting for the story, was the ship which carried Aleister and Rose Crowley home from Egypt.
- (on giving the OD your GO,as written) By Grady McMurtry -- from the Grady Project
- Undated Poem
- Why there were so few: -- Primary Sources
- LTR A Crowley to J. Wolfe, 4th May, 1943
- Crowley denounces the Agape Oriflamme angrily and in great detail,
- ordering that it cease publication. Incidental mention of Jack Parsons,
- Helen Parsons Smith, Karl Germer and several of the smaller Crowley works.
- From the Outbasket by Bill Heidrick
- OTO annual demographics for February, 1998.
- List of events for April 1998 e.v.
TLC May 1998 e. v.
- The Bonfires of Baal?
- Beltane festival announced. Origin and distortion of the name of this Celtic cross-quarter holiday.
- Gnostic Catholic Church
- Gnostic Masses at the Lodge this month. "Concerning the Cup or Graal of Our Lady Babalon" -- quoted from Magick in Theory and Practice
- That Ob-N.O.X.ious College
- A quotation from the Daoist "Classic of Complete Emptiness". Topic this month: "Initiation".
- 777 Seminar in Marin
- Bill Heidrick continues a class on Liber 777. Brief comment on the basis of the Liber in the pattern of the Tree of Life.
- Poets and Priests -- Section Two
- Readings from the British "metaphysical poets": John Donne, George
Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, and Robert Herrick. Brief bios of each.
- Slouching Toward Eleusis
- Announcement of the Rites of Eleusis this month.
- The "Rosicrucian" Scandal by Leo Vincey [Aleister Crowley], part I -- Crowley Classics
- Crowley's constructed dialogue, using some actual transcripted remarks from the 1910-11 suit brought by Mathers to stop "Temple of Solomon the King" in the Equinox from publication of the Golden Dawn rituals. This fictional account blends that case with another in which G.C.Jones sued a publisher for defamation.
- Saddle Saga by Grady McMurtry -- from the Grady Project
- Undated Poem.
- Big Change at Agape: -- Primary Sources
- Roy Leffingwell (who succeeded Jack Parsons as lodge master) reports on the state of Agape Lodge to Karl Germer.
- LTR R. Leffingwell to K. Germer, 25th March, 1946
- Health problems improving. Difficulty finding a studio for Sascha Germer's voice
- teaching. The inside history of the Lodge, detailing problems with sexual seductions
- and casual finances. Most of the active members ofthe Lodge are mentioned with
- capsule apprasals. Improvements agreed upon.
- An Introduction to Qabalah, Part XXXVIII -- Mercurial Tree by Bill Heidrick
- Examination of the significance of the Golden Dawn diagram merging the symbol for Astrological Mercury and the Tree of Life. General considerations of such composites.
- Poem by Kalyx
- Dated Spring Equinox '98.
- From the Outbasket by Bill Heidrick
- Da'at on the Tree, visions and the passage of the Abyss.
- List of events for May 1998 e.v.
TLC June 1998 e. v.
TLC July 1998 e. v.
- Rites of Eleusis
- The Rites of Eleusis schedule for Thelema Lodge. Note on history of the Rites in the SF Bay Area.
- Mysteria Mystica Maxima
- Initiations this month at Thelema Lodge. Nature of initiation.
- Adventures of the Secret Saints --- Section Two
- Matteo Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and La Chanson de Roland,. The Paladins and Charlemagne's court.
- "New Wave Chick" Ritual Group?
- The Ritual Workshop this month. Account of a previous meeting.
- Who N.O.X. This Time?
- NOX meetings this month.
- It's Finnegan!
- A group reading of Finnegan's Wake is taking place at the Frederick apartments.
- The Star-Spangled Banner by Aleister Crowley -- Crowley Classics
- Subtitled: "An Explanation of Why With the Best Will in the World We Cannot Sing Our National Hymn" -- Description of the origins of the tune behind the song and a related observations.
- Stymied Poet by Grady McMurtry -- from the Grady Project
- Undated poem.
- An Introduction to Qabalah, Part XL -- Imbalance in Interaction of Sephirot by Bill Heidrick
- Effects of misplaced emphasis and involuntary descent down the tree. Personality problems analyzed with examples.
- The Esoteric Truman Show or, 1998: The Year Gnosticism Broke
- Movie Review by Michael Sanborn, with analysis of the mystical aspects of the film. Quotes from related writings.
- Tracks and Tribulations, K.G.: -- Primary sources
- Papers served on Karl Germer, in translation, from his divorce in absentia in Germany. The case brought against him attacked his work for Crowley as an occasion for his abandoning the marriage. Germer came to suspect that complaints by his former wife brought these matters to the attention of the Nazis.
- Notice to Members, Official Bodies and Initiators, from OTO International -- From the Outbasket
- The new dues indexing system announced and explained. Members resident in different countries will pay different annual dues rates for the same degrees, based on economic data for the their home countries.
- List of events for July 1998 e.v.
TLC August 1998 e. v.
TLC September 1998 e. v.
- Equinoctial Greetings of Autumn
- Equinox ritual, Gnostic Masses and initiations at the Lodge this month.
- StiBeTTChePhMeFShiSS
- Rites of Eleusis this month.
- K.M.A.D.N.O.X.?
- NOX topics for the month include a mystery subject and the identification of Baphomet. Brief discussion of Baphomet.
- Fish Liver Smoke in the Marriage Bed -- Section Two
- The apocryphal Book of Tobit. Angelology and other aspects of this text.
- Banishing Ritual Seminar in Marin
- Bill Heidrick class on the Lesser Pentagram Banishment. Some notes on the ritual.
- The Beast Takes a Ticket, Part One: Aleister Crowley at the Cinema -- Crowley Classics
- What's Wrong with the Movies? by Aleister Crowley
- Vanity Fair's Prize Movie Scenario Winner of the Thousand-Dollar Reward
- for the Worst Short Film Story, by Aleister Crowley
- Illustrated with Crowley's drawings
- Three Poems by Grady McMurtry -- From the Grady Project
- Minimalist poems:
- All-Father, undated. Atu XV, The Devil (Pan)
- "Roan". untitled, undated.
- The Black Skies of Athanor, Nov. 6, 1962. Atu XVII, The Star
- Similarities in Difference: A Key to Yeats's System by Nick Serra
- Yeats's magical system and his sources. Although concentrating on A Vision this excellent study also explores other Yeats' works, examines G
D materials and discusses Crowley works.
- List of events for September 1998 e.v.
TLC October 1998 e. v.
- Brother Satyr, Scourge Forth
- The Rights of Eleusis conclude this month, with a new version of "the Rite of Earth".
- Thelemic Birthday Boys
- Annual celebration of the birthdays of Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons and Grady McMurtry.
- Gnostic Catholic Church
- Gnostic Masses this month.
- M M M
- Initiations at the Lodge this month. Application requirements.
- A N.O.X. Is As Good As A Boost
- NOX topics this month: Gilbert Murray's lecture, "The Stoic Philosophy", "Is Thelema a form of Satanism?", "Is Satanism Thelemic?", and "Was Aleister Crowley himself a Satanist?" Bio of Murray and notes on Stoicism.
- Sidonia the Sorceress -- Section Two
- Wilhelm Meinhold's Sidonia the Sorceress to be read and discussed. Bio of Meinhold, his other works and unusual history of Die Bernsteinhexe (The Amber Witch). Crowley's interest. Oscar Wilde the son of Meinhold's translator.
- Enochian Structures
- Readings from Vision and Voice scheduled.
- Finnegan at the Frederick
- Finnegan's Wake readings continue.
- The Beast Takes a Ticket, Part Two: Aleister Crowley at the Cinema -- Crowley Classics
- Au Theatre du Grand Guignol. Le System du Docteur Goudron et du Professeur Plume
- by Aleister Crowley
- The Opium Dream by Aleister Crowley
- Two Poems from Army Training by Grady McMurtry -- From the Grady Project
- "Once on an inspection morn" -- Untitled and Undated.
- "We have often heard it said," -- Untitled and Undated
- An Introduction to Qabalah, Part XLII -- Difficulties above the Abyss. by Bill Heidrick
- Basic life difficulties and the Supernals. How lower sephirot interact with the supernals in the human personality.
- Karl Germer's Charters: -- Primary Sources
- DOC A. Crowley to K. Germer, Taurus, 1941.
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Thelemic styled and sealed appointment of Germer (cited as "Grand Master General
- of the Free German-Speaking Peoples") as Crowley's chief representative (legate)
- in the USA.
- DOC A. Crowley to K. Germer, 10th December, 1942.
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Authorizes Germer as Crowley's business agent, particularly in regard to publishing
- of "L'Etiucelle" ("La Gauloise")
- DOC A. Crowley to K. Germer, 9th October, 1933.
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Authorizes Germer to act as agent.
- DOC A. Crowley to K. Germer, 18th July, 1941.
- Effective power of attorney to Germer, mainly for contracts and publishing.
- Includes a blanket authority over OTO and A A.
- From the Outbasket by Bill Heidrick
- Advice on Goetic workings.
- List of events for October 1998 e.v.
TLC November 1998 e. v.
TLC December 1998 e. v.
- Solstice Greetings: Dark Triumph of Set
- Events of the month: Solstice ritual, Geminids meteor shower watch, Vision and Voice readings.
- Principles, Paradigms, and Practices of Evocation with Nathan Bjorge
- Seminar on evocation of spirits announced. Details of the three meetings, with some source information.
- It N.O.X. for Thee
- Topics this month: proselytism in Thelema and death,
- Mysteries of Lieber Albert -- Section Two
- Robert Anton Wilson's Masks of the Illuminati. Overview of the treatment of Crowley in this and other books.
- Ouranous Collective
- Announcement of meetings this month.
- Fourth Degree Examination
- Procedures and considerations for initiation to IVth.
- Our Correspondent Reports: DuQuette Gives Gnostic Mass Seminar in Portland
- Nathan W. Bjorge reviews Lon DuQuette's discussion of the Mass. Differences and traditions in the performance of the Mass.
- What You Should Know About The Vision and the Voice by Michael Sanborn
- Appreciation of Liber 418, with discussion of content.
- Thien Tao or, The Synagogue of Satan: An Intimate Study by Kwaw Li Ya (Aleister Crowley) concluded -- Crowley Classics
- Some instructions in the Tao, set in a humorous parody of contemporary Japan.
- Fort Mason by Grady McMurtry -- From the Grady Project
- Poem dated 4th September, 1941.
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- List of events for December 1998 e.v.