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That's a major at the college I went to.

You might drop an email to Sean McCloud who's on the faculty at UNC Charlotte and specializes in fringe & new US religions.

Theosophy, especially those elements of it subsumed into Spiritualism, was certainly more popular and widespread in the US heartland than Crowley. At least prior to sometime around the 1970s. A language of 'bodies of light,' astral stuff, angels, etc. all would have been present.

All of this can be found in Theosophy, which was part of the larger context Crowley inhabited. It is not unique to Crowley at all, and any academic who has studied English religion in the Victorian and Edwardian periods could tell you that.

All the diagonal lines in the building on the left from the windows, shutters and down to the curb and street. That with the lone subject and lighting are arresting.

"An Essay on Witchcraft"
Ink and kraft card

#asemic #asemicwriting #asemicart #sigilmagick

LOVE this one.

I see that your journals read like mine...

Austin Spare saw the true self, Self, as an absence:

"What is there to believe, but in Self? And Self is the negation of completeness as reality." - The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love)

The aim of the magick is to be present in this absence.

"app for silly sentences" 😆

What the hell.... This reads like he half-remembered an overheard conversation.

Thelema journals? Do those still exist?

This. And also every video game or anime character named for some religious or mythological figure can GTFO.

See also: Apollo Lykeios (Λύκειος), especially as covered in Daniel Gershom's 1992 monograph 'Apollo the Wolf-God.'

Belonging Without Blood: Ancestry, Indigeneity, and the Work of Pagan Practice — Photophrenic In contemporary occult and esoteric spaces, claims of blood, lineage, and indigeneity have become increasingly common, and increasingly careless. There is a persistent temptation to ground spiritual l...

Concise and well-articulated thoughts on the common claim that ancestry in a (European) place equates to cultural ownership or authority.

(Obviously this is more complex in more recent colonial contexts.)

www.photophrenic.com/a-voice-in-t...

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are no tyrant no king and pronounced tlah ooleeskawleeyah tlah ooguhweeyoohee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

I can smell this photo...

Yay! Hope that helps.

I think @sardonicus.eu just deactivated his account 😞. Going to miss his photography selections and acerbic wit.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I'd "like & subscribe" to anyone who would go a whole video pronouncing Freud as "Frood" with a straight face. Bonus points if they pronounce the J in Jung like it is in "jug."

Damn. That's a good essay. Manages to articulate all together things I've seen in pieces elsewhere.

Nice Selectric. Looks well-loved.

There are things that everyone in philosophy agrees are true?

Beautiful.

Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips: maybe it was the voice of the rain crying, a cracked bell, or a torn heart. Something from far off: it seemed deep and secret to me, hidden by the earth, a shout muffled by huge autumns, by the moist half-open darkness of the leaves. Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent. - Pablo Neruda

Oh this is so real 😭

If that got enough exposure, it could disrupt contemporary Salem's tourist economy and wreck any number of horribly cringe modern witches' identities. (Which would be kind of great.)

Respectability has also played a large role in racism, both historically and in the present.