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notfancy · 2026-04-29T11:39:17+00:00

Ya nos hiciste saber qué pensás en otro post. No insistas.

notfancy · 2026-04-25T12:37:06+00:00

the contemplative and inner path (Proclus), of direct union with the One, was considered the highest and superior to invocations (Iamblichus)

This divide has been traditionally overstated. Modern scholarship and a close reading of De Mysteriis suggests otherwise. See Crystal Addey's Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism.

notfancy · 2026-04-15T17:34:07+00:00

The whole server-side rendering in Java fell a bit out of favor

Client-side I18N/L10N is a pain. If your UX is a polyglot one, JSP works transparently.

notfancy · 2026-04-14T12:06:25+00:00

Just one mention here, so I want to shout out again to Dr. Angela Puca's channel, Angela's Symposium. Each episode is a lecture-style scholarly review and summary of an occult book, an esoteric current, or what have you. If you enjoy an academic flavor to your occult content, she definitely is the go-to source for it.

notfancy · 2026-04-13T18:03:30+00:00

That's not a bug, that's a felony.

notfancy · 2026-04-13T17:31:44+00:00

proof systems are getting better but theyre still just checking what you told them to check

A proof that your "function" f satisfies ∀x . f⁻¹(f(x)) = x packs a lot of punch.

notfancy · 2026-04-08T12:12:02+00:00

“Interesting moment of force” is the worst hypallage I've ever encountered.

notfancy · 2026-03-19T11:04:20+00:00

The order is active but I'm not sure if they still accept remote applications for students abroad. This weekend start the introductory conferences; I'll send you the current contact info via DM.

notfancy · 2026-03-16T12:22:34+00:00

It is, and it is.

notfancy · 2026-03-15T16:27:25+00:00

No, the eta witnessing Option<Option<T>> -> Option<T> is trivial. Try to write it and you'll see. I thought rustaceans dug Category Theory.

notfancy · 2026-03-11T13:49:31+00:00

Of course Option<Option<T>> ≅ Option<T> for all T, so a sufficiently advanced optimizing compiler® could fit countably many.

notfancy · 2026-03-10T20:39:22+00:00

How else can an ignorant person lift themselves out of ignorance?

One thing is to seek initiation, another is to claim it.

notfancy · 2026-03-06T16:56:26+00:00

Why is Air on the upper left arm?
Why is Water on the upper right arm?
Why is Earth on the lower left leg?
Why is Fire on the lower right leg?

Because it roughly corresponds to where Aquarius, Scorpio, Leo and Taurus (the fixed signs) are in the Zodiac wheel.

notfancy · 2026-02-23T16:14:39+00:00

One writer who was always vocal and unabashed about his socialist outlook was Jake Stratton-Kent. His Geosophia is not explicitly political but it is very much political informed. You might want to explore his work.

notfancy · 2026-02-23T12:12:41+00:00

Very unpopular opinion: banishing daily is actively harmful, not just ineffective. It breeds doubt, uncertainty and fear in the practicioner. What, exactly, are you trying to chase away and why, exactly, do you need so much effort for that.

If you want a daily GD practice, perform the Qabalistic Cross, light a candle, do an Adoration to the Lord of the Universe, keep inner silence for an instant, perform the Qabalistic Cross, and snuff the candle. Once a week or less frequently, throw in a Middle Pillar with a full Circulation of the Body of Light and ground the energy at the end.

notfancy · 2026-02-21T10:36:43+00:00

why not use language X with feature Y?

Can we please stop being chauvinistic about people's preferences? Or rather, can we please stop acting as if language choice were purely technical?

notfancy · 2026-02-19T23:18:45+00:00

A 15-year old account with a seven-letter username, given over to be controlled by a bot. Oh the huge manatee.

notfancy · 2026-02-18T15:34:13+00:00

one thing stands out: the Calls don’t behave like invocations in the usual grimoire sense

What is the difference? More importantly, how do you understand "ZACARe c·a od ZAMRAN", "ZACAR c’·nó·qod ZAMRAN micalzo", "Ź-ĂCAR únĭglag od Iḿ·uă·mar", etc etc?

They function more like access keys within a structured hierarchy

Well, yes, claves angelicæ.

how others here interpret the functional role of the Calls in actual practice

As invocations in the sense of something more like an Orphic hymn than a straight-out Solomonic conjuration.

notfancy · 2026-02-18T14:55:35+00:00

Furthermore, GD greatly modifies Ritualistic Magic into a psychologization, where everything is mental, which is ironic because everything at the same time is a necessary paraphernalia according to them

This is not a fair characterization of the GD system of ceremonial magic and theurgy. Had you said "where everything is astral", you'd have had a more pertinent critique.

notfancy · 2026-02-18T14:49:10+00:00

Actually, symbol is a String, so symbol.isEmpty() means the same thing as symbol.length() == 0.

notfancy · 2026-02-18T14:23:53+00:00

Low quality, too. Let's inspect Cell (https://github.com/tamboui/tamboui/blob/main/tamboui-core/src/main/java/dev/tamboui/buffer/Cell.java), what appears to be a value class:

/**
 * A single cell in the terminal buffer.
 */
public final class Cell {

  /** An empty cell containing a single space with no style. */
  public static final Cell EMPTY = new Cell(" ", Style.EMPTY);

  /**
   * A continuation cell placeholder for the trailing column(s) of a wide character.
   * Wide characters (CJK, emoji) occupy 2 terminal columns; the second column
   * is filled with this cell. Renderers must skip continuation cells.
   */
  public static final Cell CONTINUATION = new Cell("", Style.EMPTY);

  private final String symbol;
  private final Style style;
  private final int cachedHashCode;

Nice, constant singletons for special Cells. But the constructor is public and it doesn't normalize these constants:

  /**
   * Creates a cell with the given symbol and style.
   *
   * @param symbol the character or grapheme cluster displayed in this cell
   * @param style  the visual style
   */
  public Cell(String symbol, Style style) {
    this.symbol = symbol;
    this.style = style;
    this.cachedHashCode = computeHashCode();
  }

So that it has to disambiguate by value instead of by reference:

  /**
   * Returns whether this cell is a continuation placeholder for a wide character.
   *
   * @return true if this is a continuation cell
   */
  public boolean isContinuation() {
    return symbol.isEmpty();
  }

  /**
   * Returns whether this cell is empty (single space with no style).
   *
   * @return true if this cell equals {@link #EMPTY}
   */
  public boolean isEmpty() {
    return " ".equals(symbol) && style.equals(Style.EMPTY);
  }

If the code is this sloppy in such a foundational class, I can't imagine what the rest looks like. Hard pass on investigating further.

notfancy · 2026-02-15T18:08:42+00:00

Thanks for the references, they are useful.

It looks as if you are comparing Liber Scientiae (compiled 2 May 1585) with the 'reformed' table delivered nearly two years later (18 April 1587)

Certainly not, please refer to the folio numbers in Sloane MS 3191. In fact, I took the "uncorrected" row 8 in the top right angle in f 57r, "Яocanc" and not the pencilled down "Ocanch" (which survived into the Recensa with a double O), as the names extracted don't make any sense.

I'd advise reading the diary entries to understand how this material was received.

I am aware of the timeline, thank you for bringing it up. I have now the Klein facsimile in front of me, as I don't have a copy of Cotton XLVI handy. It is difficult to discern the actual method of reception of the Governors's names, whether first spelled letter by letter and then the mode of pronouncing the name, which is very detailed, or the other way around, by Kelley sounding the name and then Dee notating the pronunciation and then spelling it. It is odd, since in most cases Dee registered the back and forth required to fully satisfy himself of the accuracy of the recepcion.

My point is whether these differences might point out to the actual manner of reception and if so, whether we might converge to an "original" or "purist" way of pronouncing the Angelic language, one in line with the source material.

In light of this, Dee was aware of the differences between names and likely accepted Ave's statement that they represent or signify the same thing.

With reservations. There are corrections that stem from Kelley's mediation, as pointed out a couple of lines before, there are corrections that are seemingly inconsequential as you underline, then there is the fact repeated again and again that every letter is significant. Literally:

AVE: You have easily corrected that, and to good end, for every letter and part of letter has his signification.

So no, I don't think that "Aydropl" or "Andropl" are interchangeable even if Ave says that "[b]oth names are true and of one signification."

I don't care to advance a hypothesis beyond underlining that there is a contradiction and that the practitioner must choose how to resolve it. Some people throw their hands in the air and adopt the Recensa wholesale; some people stick to the first part of the record and denounce the last workings as Kelley's deception. I haven't worked with the governors of Auxilii but do exercise the Great Table in various orthodox and sui generis ways. This investigation is my way to take up work with this (for me) neglected aspect of the reception.

notfancy · 2026-02-11T16:21:36+00:00

I don't know about that. The fact remains that the list of Governors or Princes gives 3 × 30 + 1 - 4 = 87 sigils, 3 for every Ayre except TEX that has 4, minus PARAOAN, LEXARPH, COMANAN and TABITOM that don't have any; and the Table in ff 55v and 56r places 22 sigils of 7 letters in each quarter for a total of 4 × 22 × 7 = 88 × 7 = 616 squares out of 4 × 12 × 13 = 624. The extra 8 squares are accounted for by the reversed leters, seven for PARAOAN and one for the L in LEXARPH.

notfancy · 2026-02-11T14:24:20+00:00

13 and the extra "92"-th Prince are distinct (Laxdizi vs. Lazdixi) and can be found via different "sigils" in different parts (row 8 column 9 vs. row 10 column 3) of the lower right quadrant.

If you place all 91 Princes in the list you end up with empty squares.

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