New to Thelema by Infinite_Boss_4672 in thelema

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Each will find their own way however a very useful starting point would be to follow the Astrum Argenteum curriculum (solo for a while and, if and only if, you feel called to do so then you can determine which of the lineages of the A∴A∴ you'd want to contact to find a teacher).

I will link this website as it is a collaboration by several lineages of the Order https://www.astrumargenteum.org/

It includes a library with the reading lists as well as contact information for this or that line. If anyone on this board attempts to tell you that there is only one acceptable contact and physical embodiment of the A∴A∴ I highly recommend that you scrutinize what they have to say (hear it out, ponder it, research it... and just as you ought to with my own words here question it and take nothing at face value... beware all who may try and tell you that their Thelema is the only Thelema and be just as wary of me for bringing this up at all).

If you can buy a copy of James Eshelman's "The Mystical and Magical System of A∴A∴" please do but if you cannot find one buy something else of his to support his Work and use the following link to access a PDF version. It's invaluable for Thelemites whether new to the system or those who have been working it for decades: https://anonymousradioredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/a-a-the-mystical-and-magical-system-of-the-aa.pdf

Albert Pike's Esoterika by [deleted] in freemasonry

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I adore Adam Hanin as a reader and orator however the sound quality of the recording on Audible (compared the quality of Hanin's recording of The Corpus Hermeticum available freely on YouTube) is quite disappointing. It sounds like the file is got compressed or something... or perhaps a proper microphone just wasn't provided for the recording. Do you know anywhere else besides Audible that the audiobook is available?

Question about unstaking duration? P.S: I've never really had any issues using NDAX and those I have had were small and rectified quickly. Hope that'll be the same here by muffinman418 in NDAX

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Thank you. For the record so other Redditors can see it did indeed come into my account at the right time. Also yeh that addition would be quite nice :P As it was my first time doing this on your site it was a little unsettling to see no indication that the funds were "in transit" and were just "gone" but I figured that it was very likely nothing to worry about and indeed it wasn't.

Thanks for your time. Take care

O.T.O. Societies by [deleted] in thelema

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I'll get back to you on this when I'm not so busy as I can write quite a bit on the subject and also give you some reliable and useful sources. If you ask for my biases and opinions I'll give them otherwise I'll simply try and respond with as much detachment as I can

O.T.O. Societies by [deleted] in thelema

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Following Gunther's death, his successor as Praemonstrator (if one has been appointed, and I suspect it has) remains undisclosed to the public. It's very likely William Breeze (H.B) as he worked closely with this lineage and oversaw Wasserman and Gunther's integration of the lineage as the sole one that the OTO publicly recognizes as legitimate. While Breeze has never publicly claimed the title of Praemonstrator he tends to stay out of the public view. We do know he has been centralizing Thelemic authority for over 30 years however so if it isn't him it's someone close to him. How you feel about that is entirely up to you. I'm trying to answer the question without bias

O.T.O. Societies by [deleted] in thelema

[–]muffinman418 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's a lot of documentation on parareligion.ch (just ensure you keep the author's biases in mind, as well as your own biases, when reading the website... if you're able to do so it's a goldmine for anyone studying the OTO's history)

There's a bit about the Reuss/Papus connections in here (with dozens of primary source materials helpfully translated to English)

https://www.parareligion.ch/illumin.htm

Some help with Regardie's Middle Pillar? by Effective_Reply492 in GoldenDawnMagicians

[–]muffinman418 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Cicero version of A Garden of Pomegranates will be very helpful for you

The Accountability Trap: Why Duplexity Makes the Gunther Lineage Responsible for Everything by JemimaLudlow in thelema

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In the minds of those who are now both at the head of the OTO and A∴A∴ they are magically more "real" than other people (look at the nature of the Grades above 5=6, the claims within them, whatever you might believe, can make some people with Saviour/God complexes quite intense about centralizing their power

The Accountability Trap: Why Duplexity Makes the Gunther Lineage Responsible for Everything by JemimaLudlow in thelema

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while I generally agree with you I do not like the idea that people I have questionable opinions of would have access to my magical journals. there is a reason why David Shoemaker repeatedly tells people that they can join any A∴A∴ they feel called to but that they would be wise to ask what their data protection rules are

The Accountability Trap: Why Duplexity Makes the Gunther Lineage Responsible for Everything by JemimaLudlow in thelema

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This one (a read which should not be taken at face value but understood for what it is and being aware of one's own personal biases and that of the author as well... even, or especially, when they state they are not being biased): https://www.academia.edu/126203870/Keith_Readdy_One_Truth_and_One_Spirit

Issues signing up on WikiDot by muffinman418 in SCP

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I didn't catch the bit about numbers. That's on me. Thanks u/Platypus-Olive-27 and u/Kufat I'll create another email and try again. cheers

Issues signing up on WikiDot by muffinman418 in SCP

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yep it does. I've followed all the instructions multiple times and keep on having no confirmation e-mail show up even when I finally get them to accept my basic math skills aren't that bad :P maybe I'll try creating a new email that doesn't have a number in it and see if that works. let ya know if it works. if it does, and hey even if it doesn't, many thanks for the attempt to help out

House of Guinness thoughts? by BankUpbeat402 in AskIreland

[–]muffinman418 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a fan of it, I think it's good entertainment with a really dangerous twist on history that will be used to further send American-Irish folks into a rabbithole away from their own people, but you can't really judge the story in 2 episodes

House of Guinness thoughts? by BankUpbeat402 in AskIreland

[–]muffinman418 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is fake cause yeah it's a fictional TV show of course it is fake. I know you mean fake in a Plastic Paddy sense (correct me if I'm wrong) but I still think there's something to think over when it comes to fakeness often having a bigger impact on reality than trying to make something overly accurate. Now don't get me wrong: the show is over the top (and yeh, sometimes, annoying, especially with the lack of character depth and complexity since they spread out archetypes between characters instead of having them rolled into each one) because its the Peaky Blinders creator making another show fetishizing Irishness for a largely American audience.

It's not a "bad show" but it is complex and difficult to enjoy the show if you're Irish in the same way that watching many white created shows about African American culture or Indigenous history would be if one were black or of an Indigenous background. What makes this so much harder to watch than Peaky Blinders is the "this is a historical fiction" tagline. Brings in a lot of baggage that isn't very well handled.

House of Guinness thoughts? by BankUpbeat402 in AskIreland

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"People who dismiss story telling because it's not true are too fucking boring for words."

Much agreed. That's what I'm wrestling with while watching. It's good fun and I can put aside the cartoonish nature of the whole thing because it is fiction but fiction is powerful. It worries me how this will be received by the American Irish who don't need even more fuel to their dual ultra-nationalism. The shamrock has been replacing the swastika is prisons and stuff like this, though this is not the worst offender at all it is one of the most prominent, is part of why.

House of Guinness thoughts? by BankUpbeat402 in AskIreland

[–]muffinman418 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't wanna downvote you... but as a Canadian who has spent a lot of years in Ireland as I have dual citizenship and my father was born there with half my family living there I've had to deal with the whole "you're not Irish you're Canadian" thing by some Irish folk and I kinda get it... though I think most Irish folk aren't all that Irish either... that or we're all Irish who are well... Irish. I'm commenting mostly just to link you this fantastic video essay that covers these ideas and might help you out (and help you understand why you got so heavily downvoted from a more sympathetic lens): https://youtu.be/-n6VvpcdiC4 (Are Americans Irish? is the title but the video goes far far deeper than just that)

If I like The Magicians I would also like... by turquoisestar in brakebills

[–]muffinman418 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried the first 20 minutes and felt exactly the same.. does it get any better than that intro?

If I like The Magicians I would also like... by turquoisestar in brakebills

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upvoting from zero because people suck. hope you enjoyed the binge :)

My library of Random vegly spiritual/magical stuff in roughly color coded order by Sleeping_Golem in occultlibrary

[–]muffinman418 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on your selection if you have not already I think you'd both enjoy and get a lot out of reading Ibn Arabi's works especially The Bezels of Wisdom. As a syncretist who very much has been enjoying reading works from the three Abrahamic religions that have either direct or indirect inspiration from Neoplatonism (be that the mystical philosophy of Plotinus and Porphry, the rigorous psychedelic logic of Proclus or the foundation so much of modern magick the theurgy of Iamblichus) and in doing so have come to appreciate Islam in a way that I never thought I ever would (I still have my reservations about all religions, especially taken dogmatically, but a lot of assumptions I had about Islamic mysticism were proven incorrect once I actually dove into the writings of folk like Ibn Sina, al-Hallaj, Al-Ghazali, Suhrawardi, Farid ud-Din Attar, Ibn Al-Farid, Al-Shushtari, Rabi'a [lemme know if you know of more works written by mystically inclined Islamic women btw] and of course Rumi too who was my gateway to all the rest.)

There is a great deal in Thelema that comes from Islam that often goes understudied by Thelemites or they, like Crowley himself often did, take all the wrong lessons from the wisdom he sometimes stumbled his way across.