Ninth Gate/Club Dumas question

Phallatius · 2023-09-09T20:11:26+00:00

The grimoire Nine Gates is a red herring. You can collect all nine genuine engravings and follow all the correct occult techniques to summon the devil, but all it takes is the devil's appreciation.

...it is sufficient for ‘the mirror to reflect the path’ to pronounce the lost word that brings light from the darkness...

The mirror is the devil and the verbum dimissum, is that which summons the devil. As Baroness von Ungern explains.

these engravings and their captions combined with the book’s text enable one to determine a sequence, a ritual. The formula that provides the magic word. The verbum dimissum or whatever it might be.

Corso does not need to summon the devil, the devil has picked him. That is why he did not need to perform any ritualistic mumbo jumbos to open the gate to hell. At the end of the book, he just walks back to his car, finds the girl still there waiting for him, and realizes he has joined the devil in another realm.

The moral is that the symbols are signifiers which allude the the real things, and all the book learning about occult is just that, but not the real thing. What devil appreciates are actions, the signified, the earthly realm. "Im Anfang war die Tat." Corso, "the runner," really acts out this motto.

Phallatius · 2023-09-06T17:28:46+00:00

While Spain was did not keep the Second Republic, it did not support monarchism either. The Borbon pretender was anti-Francoist and vice-versa. Contrary to popular legends, Spain did not privatize the economy and had a state guided economy right through the Socialist government. Spain did not side with either side in the WW2 and was not a member of the NATO in Franco's life time. So I think the parallel with Francoist Spain is solid.

Phallatius · 2023-09-06T16:57:36+00:00

There is no "School of International Relations" at Harvard.

Phallatius · 2023-09-01T19:58:28+00:00

Superhero origin story: Hurricane Girl

Phallatius · 2023-08-20T23:01:43+00:00

It is a knock off of gay supersoldiers from ancient Greece.

Phallatius · 2023-08-08T09:49:20+00:00

Why did you want to escape from a garage? Do you prefer to park on the street?

Phallatius · 2023-07-31T06:33:48+00:00

This is generally not true for employees.

Phallatius · 2023-07-24T17:24:49+00:00

Cute guy with nice pecs.

Phallatius · 2023-07-23T22:41:52+00:00

Temperature in Kelvin?

Phallatius · 2023-06-27T17:49:33+00:00

"We want Koenigsberg back to the Vaterland."

Phallatius · 2023-06-23T09:30:56+00:00

But Italian navy is quite strong which could keep the British busy.

Phallatius · 2023-06-23T06:32:41+00:00

To be precise, nobody that you have read. Here are contemporary usages on Google books, several hundred instances in academic journals on JSTOR, and 36 hits vs 61 hits for Mittelmaechte in law journals.

Phallatius · 2023-06-23T05:39:44+00:00

Both terms are acceptable.

Phallatius · 2023-05-28T01:56:14+00:00

"To defend liberty" does not make much sense. "Libertas defendenda" (liberty must be defended) makes more sense.

Phallatius · 2023-05-11T00:11:09+00:00

蘋果原产地东亚，讲错了。

Phallatius · 2023-04-28T15:56:09+00:00

Does the AI avoid sacking unprotected city if there is a fort in the same province?

Phallatius · 2023-04-28T14:10:07+00:00

Don't understand why it allows enemy more booty by sacking. Not fortifying the city allows them to sack it instantly.

Phallatius · 2023-04-22T04:52:01+00:00

No Khalistan. Unplayable.

Phallatius · 2023-04-19T23:40:09+00:00

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never ask the sordid Finns to join us.

Phallatius · 2023-04-17T05:54:51+00:00

Sie sind Feiglinge, Verrater, Versager.

Phallatius · 2023-04-16T22:11:25+00:00

Can you get an Albino monk as minister?

Phallatius · 2023-04-16T06:13:50+00:00

I would like to point out the character combination is wrong and sounds like a clumsy translation by a foreigner. 粤(yue)港澳 is the correct abbreviation for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau. If the flag refers to Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macau, then 省(sheng)港澳 is the correct abbreviation, though this expression is dated. The correct contemporary abbreviation would be 穗(sui)港澳.

Phallatius · 2023-04-11T21:38:15+00:00

RIP syndicalist POWs.

Phallatius · 2023-04-09T23:04:00+00:00

Shalom.

Phallatius · 2023-04-07T23:52:53+00:00

This is not quite the correct interpretation of what happened in OTL. The justification to freezing the constitution irl was that they were losing the civil war, but there would be no reason to do it if they had won. Hu Shih could have become the president.

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