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“I don’t myself see any evidence that scientism is on the wane; anyone who thinks it is should read Bryan Appleyard’s Understanding the Present (Google Books). Appleyard is not a religious man himself; for twenty years he was science and philosophy columnist for the London Times. Even so, he sees science as colonizing the entire world, including its religions. It’s the new colonialism. Taking off from...

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1886: In the early morning, eleven-year-old Aleister Crowley experimented with his cat, “Mrs. Hagar”, to “see if really did have nine lives.” He poisoned it, choked it, used chloroform on it, burned it and threw it out the window, among other things. Crowley was proud of the fact that he proved the superstition untrue. (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley) Do you have favoured anecdotes, links, or media related to the...

Ma’at (Egyptian Goddess of justice, order and morality) & Isis (Egyptian Goddess of fertility, renewal and patron of magic) “Knowing that I was at the Prieuré he [Crowley] asked me if I would get him an invitation there. But I did not wish to be responsible for introducing such a man. However, to my surprise, he appeared there a few days later and was given tea in the salon. The children were there and he said to one...

Flag: interdisciple Finally watched this the other day. I think they under-played the relevance of The Book of the Law in his life. No mention of Achad = lame. Flux 64 and others have done a superior job of covering the possible Bush/Crowley lineage. I wonder what Kenneth Grant had to say about...

In mystic traditions death is almost always viewed as a passing from one plane to another – two sides of the same coin. Most mystic traditions subscribe to a preservation model like reincarnation, but some are intentionally ambiguous. ...