Lilith: Some Personal Reflections (Script)

Lilith

Personal Reflections

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

This is the base script for the videos which can be found at LBRY, Odysee, BitChute, and YouTube.

A Prayer to Lilith

Lady Lilith,
First Mother, Mother of Night
You who stood for what you thought was right.
You who uttered the words of magick before the races of man.
May I be as strong as you, may you be my aspiration and my root. May I dance with you in the eternal pleasures of Night.
May I have health and wealth and strength and joy and peace, and that fulfillment of Will and Love Under Will that is perpetual happiness.
AUGMN

This is a Prayer to Lilith which I wrote. It undergoes minor revisions periodically as my recitation changes. This was last revised on the 14th of July, 2020. It breaks down as follows.

• Lady Lilith,
• First Mother: Lilith was the first Wife of Adam. After fleeing him, she beget children via other spiritual entities (and through succubus style visits to Adam and his descendants).
• Mother of Night: She is Queen of Succubi/Incubi, Vampires, and other Creatures of the Night.
• You who stood for what you thought was right: She felt no need for subservience to Adam, so she refused. This destroyed her marriage.
• You who uttered the words of magick before the races of man.: She fled Adam by use of the Tetragrammaton (which she Spoke). Later she gave her daughter Qalmana to Cain (Qayin) to be his Wife, thus bringing us civilization.
• May I be as strong as you, may you be my aspiration and my root. May I dance with you in the eternal pleasures of Night.: Identification of the self with the divine, a reference to the Muladhara and Svanisthana chakras, and the reward as promised in Chapter I of AL as well as a rather obvious benefit of involving oneself with “sex demons”.
• May I have health and wealth and strength and joy and peace, and that fulfillment of Will and Love Under Will that is perpetual happiness: Lifted from Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass
• AUGMN: Thelemic Closure. Similar in purpose to Amen, but instead references the great recurrence/birth-death-rebirth cycle. It is built off the Sanskrit “OM” but spelled out so as to equal 93 in gematria.

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Lilith is the Mother of the Night, Queen of Succubi, Incubi and all other Denizens of the Night. She is wild, passionate and independent. When humanity feared the Night, she was cast in a negative light. Now that we have grown up (or at least reached puberty), we can see that the frightening shadows gather their power from our projected fears.

The Legend of Lilith

Lilith was once the wife of Sammael, who is incorrectly known as Lucifer. This marriage did not last long for She is a wild, passionate, and heroic soul, quite incompatible with the cold demeanor of Sammael. After leaving Sammael, She joined with Adam.

Her time with Adam did not go well. Adam would insist and rail upon Her. "I am your lord and master," claimed Adam. However, Lilith would say, "We are both equal, for we are both issued from the dust, and I will not be your slave." This went on, Adam claiming he was superior and Lilith stating that they were equal. Eventually, Lilith became tired of Adam's self-perceived superiority and flew away.

Adam decided that this was too much and beseeched three angels -- whose names were Senoi, Sansenoi, and Sammengelof, to fetch Lilith back to him. They caught Lilith above what is now known as the Red Sea, and a great battle took place.

During the battle they realized that Lilith's powers were too great for them to force Her into obedience, and they attempted to drown Her. She fought them off but, during the battle, drops of Her blood fell into the sea, thus giving the Red Sea its name.

When the angels returned to report their failure, Adam went to Yahweh and said, "Oh, Almighty Lord, the creature that was my wife has left me, claiming that since we both came from the dust, we were equal and she refused to be my servant."

So the Almighty in his wisdom, caused a sleep to fall upon Adam, and in his slumber removed a rib. This He fashioned into a woman. As She had come from man, She was a part of man and, thus, belonged to man.

This is pretty much a literal retelling of the story found in Angelo S. Rappoport's Ancient Israel - Myths & Legends (3 Volumes in one). I changed the bias to positive and took poetic license with the naming of the Red Sea (though that is where the battle took place).

Originally this was found in Liber Atri Matris, a book I wrote back when I was set on forming my own Magickal Order. It is Amazing what one will do when one doesn't know how much one doesn’t know.

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On Lilith

The following is also from Liber Atri Matris, circa 1994. It was meant to be a description for use in devotional practices. A kind of “This is what Lilith is and means to the Temple.” Some of it may still feel a bit dated, though I have done some editing to try and correct that.

Lilith has undergone some serious changes: Angel, Consort of the Devil, Consort of the First Man, Defier of Yahweh and Adam, Seducer of Men, Seducer of Women, Queen of Vampires, Queen of Demons, etc.

In recent years, she has been recognized as the first feminist and utilized as a role model for women searching for an archetype to lead them to freedom. Her existence as a pre-Hebraic goddess was thought proven by a translation of the prologue of "Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Underworld" and by an Assyrian or Sumerian relief depicting a taloned women with various symbols of godhood and royalty. The carving however is not labeled and it turns out that Dr. Kramer may have taken some liberties when translating the poem. Synchronicity did not care.

The thought that she might be a deity struck fertile soil. Books of various levels of scholarship and sympathy were penned. The possibility that she was of Sumerian/Hebrew origin[I.e., the Sumarian word for a female spirit is Lili, however the Hebrews recorded this divinity as Lilith.] became plausible as more evidence showed that the Hebrews either had Goddesses and other Gods in the original indigenous religion, or that they adopted foreign gods and goddesses to supplement their War God Yahweh.

Regardless of Her origins in antiquity, today we have a name of power, and that name is Lilith. In 1988 through 1989, I happened through a string of synchronicities that continuously brought the name Lilith to the forefront of my mind. In the Autumn of 1989, I went to the Beth Israel Synagogue in NW Portland at about 2am. There, on the walkway between the great double doors of the synagogue and what I assumed to be administrative buildings, I performed an impromptu Evocation of Lilith. The energy amassed during this rite, of which I planned nothing[Unfortunately, I wrote down nothing at that time either. It occurred to me that the first chronicle was written down 24 January 1999 in the rough draft for this section.], was phenomenal and culminated in Lilith revealing Herself to me as a missing archetype, a forgotten Goddess of a type which so confounded society that She and her kin were denied, obfuscated, or restricted, almost universally.

Lilith was denied Her status as a goddess, demoted to a mere demoness -- which in Hebrew cosmology is less than human. Hecate was obfuscated by dividing Her into three finite parts so as to inhibit Her as a unified whole. The list continues. Nearly all goddesses who represented the Warrior-Lover, the feminine All-Devourer, All-Begetter (Panphage, Pangenitor), the missing Baubolic Archetype were dismissed, as much as possible, in the interests of society, during the Osirian Æon (q.v., II.6). We are now in a new Æon, the pendulum has swung from the Æon of Isis (Hunter-Gatherer, "Matriarchy") through the Æon of Osiris (Hierarchical Structures, "Patriarchy"). Now, in the Æon of Horus, we need to harmonize these two extremes, the Baubolic and the Priapic, by recognizing that each is as important as the other and exalting them both as the divine source of All that Is.

Lilith has stated clearly that she exists for Her Children and that the myths of the previous Æon were attempts to deprive Her of Her beloved Children by those who live in fear of the dark. The chains that used to bind us are cracking.

Lilith is a lithe, beautiful woman with pale skin, black hair and blood-red lips. Her eyes are the black of a starless sky, a black that fills the entirety of the eye. She is the governess of the Moon and Mistress of Death. Her animals are the Cat, the Owl, the Serpent, and the Horse. She is wild, headstrong, and passionate. She feels little sympathy but is nearly consumed with empathy. She doesn't pretend to care, she either shares your pain or she sends you on your way. She is a loving mother, but she is not one to coddle. If you can handle it, don't bother asking for pity or aid. She is quite likely to make things so bad that you can no longer handle it, and then wait until the last minute to lend a helping hand. However, if you really do need Her help, She will assist you without reservation. She desires equals, not servants. She was appalled by Yahweh's treatment of us in the Garden of Eden and worked with Zagreus to free us from our gilded cage.

She loves those whom She respects. She governs all sexual activity and cares not who one sleeps with or how, so long as all consent and all feel pleasure. This is Her preferred sacrament. Any joining together in love or lust are giving worship to Lilith.

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More Discussion

Let’s wrap up with a few more notes in this brief introduction to Lilith.

When I started to become aware of Lilith, I was also assaulted with various other goddesses and characters of a similar stripe. While skimming through Jung (because every occultist should have at least a passing familiarity with Jung — if for no other reason than to call out others when they misuse him), I came across the concept of the Fourth aspect. We all know of the Maiden-Mother-Crone classification, from Wicca, if no where else. These correspond to the Virgin Youth, the Sexual Initiate Creating the Next Generation, and the Wisdom-bearer. These were tied to the Spring, the Summer, and the Autumn. However, there is a Goddess type that combines the Beauty of the Youth, the Sexual Initiation of the Mother, and the Wisdom (often Transgressive) of the Crone. This is the Fourth Aspect, the Virgin-Whore, the Mistress, and/or the Dark Mother. In Christianity this is represented by the Scarlet Woman/Babylon. This manifested in Thelema as Babalon. Elsewhere, we have various goddesses of magick, war, love, and destruction. Goddesses such as Kali, Astarte, Hecate, Morrigan, etc.

The fourth aspect is a synthesis of the other three. This is not to imply that the others are aspects of the fourth. Neither should any sense of superiority be attributed to this. Each aspect serves an important function in a functional society. Rather, if we made a triangle where each side was a base for another triangle, each triangle would be an aspect and the center of the triangles’ center would be the fourth aspect (qv. Illustration 1). Lilith in particular is a Dark Mother. She has sex with men to give birth to demons (it should be noted that demon is a classification of being, not a denotation of “evil”). She is powerful, seductive, and feminine. She is also outside the standard societal norms and thus represents a Tantric and Iconoclastic current (A male equivalent would be Dionysus or Odin/Loki). Like Babalon, all acts of pleasure are her sacred rites.

In the Thelemic Canon, Crowley makes repeated references to his beloved Laylah, night, who was his lover and Scarlet Woman. The imagery is strongly aligned to Lilith. Further, in The Vision and the Voice, in the third Aethyr (which corresponds to Binah, the great Mother and Initiate) Lilith is directly referenced. Readings of ZON should bear in mind the traditional equation of Lilith with Night Terrors, the Luciferian/Satanic Inversion of the symbolism of Revelations, the Alchemical transformation of Poison to Sustenance, and the traditional unfolding of revelation and understanding transforming that which is feared. The whole vision is filled with Tantric and Luciferian symbolism. It’s study is recommended.

“And Satan is worshipped by men under the name of Jesus; and Lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of Brahma; and Leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of Allah; and Belial is worshipped by men under the name of Buddha.” - ZON

Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood.

Love is the law, love under will.

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References

Liber XV Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ

ANCIENT ISREAL : Myths and Legends ; Three Volumes in One. RAPPOPORT, Angelo S.

Book of Lies (LAYLAH)

Vision and the Voice: Third Aethyr: ZON

Most of the links I am finding for Jung’s Fourth Aspect seem to be post-Jungian Feminist exclusionary jargon which is limited in utility for this topic.

Shaving With Two Razors: On Truth and the Apprehension of Truth

Introduction

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Truth is repeatedly referenced in Occult literature. The quest for Truth, the pursuit of Truth, or otherwise understanding Reality (or the Truth about Reality) is a common theme in Occultism. Wisdom is derived from the application of truth. Affecting desired change on a thing necessitates knowing the Truth of a thing. Scientific Illuminism attempts to understand Truth via the scientific method. Thelemites are Scientific Illuminists.

As Liber AL tells us, ”Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise.” (AL II:32). In other words, reality is fundamentally irrational, it is important to learn how to identify the Truth, in as much as we can grasp it, so as to avoid Delusion. The current of Mysticism is always present within Magick. A siren’s lure leading us to destruction through self-delusion (q.v. Dangers of Mysticism). The Magician acts, the Mystic receives.

What is Truth?

To begin we must ask, “What is Truth?” This is a rather difficult question. Certainty has oft led mankind astray. History is littered with various mistakes. As Chantel Delsol tells us in Icarus Fallen, modernity is the traumatized remnants of failed certainties of the past. Given that “unknown factor”, it is far easier to highlight the truth by shading out that which is not truth.

Innocence, another unprovable condition, is defined as the absence of guilt. Merriam-Webster tells us that Innocence is defined as (a) “freedom from legal guilt of a particular crime or offense” or (b) “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil : blamelessness”. This is why American courts have to prove guilt, rather than forcing the defendant to prove their innocence. In a sense, one could argue that innocence is the baseline and that guilt is the failure to meet that baseline.

In a similar manner, Truth is the absence of falsehood. This is a scientific way of pursuing Truth. One falsifies premises until one can no longer falsify a premise. That premise is then held as true until it is falsified. Further, one never ceases in their attempts to falsify a premise. As we are told in Terrier-Work, “Doubt all. Doubt even if thou doubtest all.” Only in this way do we persist in truth rather than falling into the pit of dogma as have other attempts at ascertaining the truth, both sacred and secular.

Obviously, one must know and understand the basic principles of logic (& its limitations). One should endeavor to be clear and concise with one’s speech and actions. However, there are some useful tools one can use in the search for truth. Some of the more helpful ones are the Scientific Method, Occam’s Razor, Hanlon’s Razor, and a knowledge of logical fallacies, both their use and misuse.

Tools for Finding the Truth

The Scientific Method is a constantly evolving doctrine. In reading Crowley, I feel that he was thinking of a more Humean version, however the modern version is more than enough to assist one in the pursuit of truth. I’ve linked a beginner’s description below. One thing to point out is the concept of the Null Hypothesis. The null hypothesis proves that your hypothesis is wrong. If I believe that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects, a simple example of a null hypothesis would be that objects fall at the same rate regardless of their mass. The use of a diary and the setting of concrete goals is integral to the Thelemic system so that an analysis of the record would confirm or deny our hypotheses. Another important concept is Falsifiability. There must be a way to say ’This is true’, or ‘this is false’. A statement such as “all is Buddha nature” is not falsifiable. Anything not falsifiable is logically irrelevant. 

It should be mentioned that not everything is testable. Given the factor infinite and unknown, this should not be surprising. However, the scientific method will let us properly identify and account for these. As they are untestable, we can just accept them provisionally until something better comes along. After all, the fact that I cannot prove the efficacy of logic (proving logic would be a self-referential fallacy) does not mean that I am unwilling to utilize logic and accept its validity on a provisional basis. The utility of a provisional axiom lay in whether the conclusions drawn from that axiom match with what is known, observable, and testable.

Now, in day to day life, there are some handy tools for determining the probable validity of any hypothesis or chain of events. The first of these is the more commonly known Occam’s Razor. Officially, it states “entities should not be multiplied without necessity”. More simply, “the simplest solution is most likely the right one”. Ensure that every item is necessary in your hypothesis. While it is possible that the plant was knocked off the shelf by trespassers sneaking into your home, it is more likely that the cat (who is already known to be present) did so.

The second is known as Hanlon’s Razor. For some reason, the occult community is rife with conspiracy theorists and shadowy secret cabals. To counter this, we have Hanlon’s Razor, which states “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. Large chunks of convoluted arguments can be dismissed by virtue of these two razors. Keep them sharp.

Finally, we get to Logical Fallacies. Knowing logical fallacies is a poor substitute for knowing logic, but it quickly becomes apparent that many people have done just that. Some fallacies to keep in mind are equivocation (especially in its Motte and Bailey form), Appeal to Authority (whether popular or elite), and ad hominem.

Equivocation is the switching of a term’s definition mid argument. An example I recall was on the word “accept”. While it was being used in the sense of “agree with”, someone switched it to mean “received”. They claimed that because Liber AL had been physically handed to them, they had “accepted” the Book of the Law. Another form of the equivocation fallacy is termed Motte and Bailey. This is used quite often in political discussions where people will push for some radical policy but pretend that the opposition is attacking the non-radical core. A current example would be someone questioning the need to stockpile a month of supplies being told that they are dismissing the seriousness of the corona virus.

The Appeal to Authority is where someone perceived as an authority basically says “because I said so”. Now, this appeal should not always be discounted. If a medical doctor gives his assessment on a medical condition within their field of authority, it should be considered seriously. This is actually a common form of its misuse, to discredit the knowledgeable because it does not pander to one’s prejudice. It should be noted that the “Authority” does not have to be a single person or thing. “Everyone agrees” postulates that “everyone” is an authority and that the claim is true for no other reason than that agreement. Likewise, referencing an elite group sets that group as an Authority. These last two variations are commonly misused. Just because “everyone agrees” or “the cool kids like it” does not mean that the claim is automatically false, either. Egalitarians like to dismiss inconvenient claims by pointing out their appeal to the snobs and elites do so by pointing out their appeal to the vulgar masses.

Next is ad hominem. Attacking the person rather than their arguments does nothing to discredit the validity of their arguments. Hakim Bey’s (support for) pedophilia does not discredit his commentary on Cop Culture. Neither does Marx’s inability to handle money discredit Communism. It probably explains their motivations, but the truth or falsity of the arguments stand on its own. Ad hominem is commonly misused by people over-identifying with their argument. This is especially a problem if you analyze their logic. Another misuse is due to insults. If someone says “My god, you are so stupid,” that is not an ad hominem. It is an insult. It is totally separate from the argument. If they provide nothing else, the proper response is “and?” or “that’s nice, can you actually address the argument.”

Conclusion

To lay this out as a train of thought : Innocence is the absence of guilt. Likewise, Truth is the absence of Falsehood. By learning to identify the false, the invalid, the lie, one is able to remove that falsehood. If one were to remove all falsehoods, what remains would be truth. Therefore, what one holds to be true must be tested and tried. Ultimate Reality is likely irrational, or at the very least, vast enough that we will never encompass it all. However, where we live is governed by the Ruach (or if you prefer, the Mind). Thus, Logic, Data, and Facts allow us to strike down the falsehoods. Like a sculptor chipping away at a block of granite, the true shape of reality will eventually be brought forth. Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood.

By ascertaining the Truth, we can then progress along the path of perfection. The path of perfection, or, as I think of it, the accomplishment of one’s will, is an ongoing process. By conceiving of one’s perfected self, one creates a goal. When one achieves this goal, the imperfections in one’s prior conception of the Perfect become readily apparent. Thus, one formulates a new conception of perfection and the process repeats. Perhaps, one will achieve an objective manifestation of perfection. Perhaps, we will become mired in Zeno’s paradox. Though I feel that overcoming this paradox is a suitable target for perfecting the self.

Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood.

Love is the law, love under will.

Citations, References, and For Further Information

AL II:32
M-W “Innocence” (04 APR 2020)
Book of Lies, ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΝΑ “Terrier-Work” p112
Six Steps of the Scientific Method (04 APR 2020)
Occam’s Razor (04 APR 2020)
Hanlon’s Razor (04 APR 2020)
Common logical fallacies (04 APR 2020)
Motte and Bailey (04 APR 2020)
Zeno’s paradox (04 APR 2020)

Review of '93: An Aleister Crowley Primer' by Jerry and Erica Cornelius

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Jerry Cornelius, IX* and head of the Grady McMurtry A∴A∴, with Erica M. Cornelius, has given us another work sharing their insights into Thelema, titled 93: An Aleister Crowley Primer (2019). Reminiscent of Crowley’s Magick Without Tears, it covers a wide range of material suitable to variable levels of experience and exposure to Thelema.

Generally speaking, I dislike “Beginner Books”. By calling itself a primer, 93 places itself in that category. However, this book is closer to what I want to see.

Let me start with what I dislike about the book. First, its presentation is lacking. The book itself is visually unimpressive. I got it at the same time as another book which was double stitched and had all the other bells and whistles that I have come to expect from a limited edition book. I realize that 93 was priced as a standard book (i.e., $31) so this is a quibble. However, my initial impression was not favorable.

Next is the font. The font on the cover and elsewhere in the book reminds me of the font I used in my Anarcho-punk zines in the 1980s. This also detracts, in my opinion, from the impact of the book. Even though I acknowledge that these are rather piddly concerns, I feel it makes the book look a bit sad and dated.

As always, I find the lack of an index to be disappointing. While it is less of a concern given the question and answer format of this book, an index would still be beneficial.

A final complaint, if you are going to put a word in over-sized font, make sure it is spelled correctly. I have been unable to find a definition for the word “Aherant”. I can only infer that it is a misspelling of the word “Adherent”, which is discussed in some detail earlier in the book. Perhaps I missed this word, “Aherant”, being defined elsewhere in the text, but I do not recall it, nor did I find it anywhere near the text in question. Having complained about this, I will no doubt introduce a glaring typographical error in this essay.

So, what do I like about the book? First off, it isn’t another beginner book where the author just gives us a simplified version of what Crowley wrote. DuQuette’s The Magick of Thelema is useful because it actually puts the god-names for the Hexagram ritual as a footnote to the Hexagram ritual. For some reason, Crowley did not. Useful, yes. Ground breaking, no. Even Shoemaker’s Living Thelema engages in some of this. That is not the case for 93. The book is a discussion of Thelemic thought, not a collection of recipes with the chef’s notes in the margins.

Being more akin to Magick Without Tears than Liber O, we get several questions with their answers. As it explicitly points out, this is from the Grady McMurtry school of the A∴A∴. Jerry has a rather fascinating history of his own in the Thelemic community. I will not claim I agree with him on everything, but I will give him a fair hearing. If I agreed with someone on everything, I would need to assume they were lying to me.

There are 116 questions (assuming I can still count), and six non-questions (including the preface et al). As I have been a Thelemite for three decades or so, I already had answers for some of the more basic questions — “What are the Secret Chiefs?” or “What is a Kaaba?” — though it is important to read these as one needs to know how the author is using the term. Various A∴A∴ lineages can have divergent meanings for the same terms. This doesn’t mean any of them are wrong, per se. It does mean that you can get tripped up when you assume they mean X but they actually mean Y.

I really enjoyed where they start discussing the Tunis commentary and various trends within the present day Thelemic community. They also discussed some of the flaws of the prophet. While I may not agree with all of their assessments, or the ramifications deriving from those assessments, it is refreshing to hear something a bit deeper than “he fails to meet up with the modern western moral values, so he is bad and wrong”. Objectively speaking, Crowley failed some of his charges as the prophet of the new aeon. Denying this will lead one into falsity and error.

So, all in all, this book is worth the money I spent on it. It is also worth the time I spent reading it — this being a more significant evaluation these days. I look forward to re-reading portions of this book and seeing if any other insights arise. I do plan on discussing a couple of portions of the book, so look forward to those videos.

Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood. 

Love is the law, love under will.


https://www.bitchute.com/video/n5k5gxEQ09wT/

Anime As Prophecy, the Case of Armitage III

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

I know many of you will be surprised by this, but someone on the Internet likes anime. Now there are several broad categories of anime. The broadest, of course is (1) “What I  Like”, and (2) Crap. However, that isn’t very useful for most discussions, so I will divide the “What I Like” category up a bit. I like anime that makes you think without being preachy. Anime that makes you think is further divided into two categories, Light and Dark. Light, thoughtful anime would include a large swathe of Studio Ghibli (notable exception is Grave of the Fireflies). The other category includes Akira, Ghost In the Shell, Jin-Roh, and Armitage III.

The thing about thoughtful anime is that it brings up questions that retain their relevance over time. The recurring idea of humanity’s relationship to nature, what does it mean to be human, etc, etc.

Armitage III Intro Clip

Armitage III was an OVA put out in 1995. Thankfully, a movie of hacked together scenes was dubbed and released to Americans. This is when I first saw it. This caused me to pick up The Complete Saga, which contains the Original OVA (far superior), the pieced together Poly-Matrix, and the sequel Dual-Matrix.

There are going to be some spoilers here, however, the anime is over two decades old. While I hope you will still watch it, most people won’t.

So, the set-up involves the Human Ross Syllibus and the Android Naomi Armitage. Whenever I see the name Naomi, I have to do a check to see if it's a reference to Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. In this case, it isn't, or at least I don't believe it is. Ross flees to Mars in hopes of dealing with various issues. His partner was killed by cyborgs (or androids) leaving him with a lingering prejudice against both. This is combined with his increasing reliance on various prosthetics as various body parts have a tendency to get blown up in his line of work. This is one of the questions asked by this movie, where is the line between human and non-human. Naomi is the titular character. She is a secret android of a previously unknown type, the Type III (or Thirds). There existence is revealed rather early in the series.

The type III is an android developed with the mental faculties of a human. Actually, from the examples in the Anime, they are actually better than most humans. Their bodies are (ala terminator) flesh and metal. The primary conflict of the series is that someone is killing off the type III androids. These androids had been embedded within society without anyone being the wiser. Those who knew the deceased were shocked to find out that they were androids.

As the story unfolds, we find that a shadowy cabal is doing the killing, Ross gets over his hangups. Armitage gets over hers (”If humans don’t want me, why did they create me?”). They fall in love and they change their names and go into hiding. This sets up things for the sequel.

The shadowy cabal is where it gets interesting. Mars, being a colony, was settled by (mostly) men. Earth had finally achieved the Feminist dream and Feminists were in control. This led to obvious friction between the two planets. Earth had the upper hand however, as without women, there would be no one to bear the next generation of Martians. Shades of "Mars Needs Women", perhaps. Thus the third was invented. Fully sentient gynoids capable of bearing children. It should be noted that they were not ‘enslaved’ nor ‘coerced’. Many were prominent in various artistic and social circles. It seems that none had found mates or produced children (though one of the murdered thirds was pregnant).

As happens with long term projects, things change before they come to fruition. The Martian government came to an accord with the Terran government. The requirement for this reconciliation was the elimination of the threat to the Terran Feminist, the III. The data dump of this is about midway through the fourth and final episode, in case you missed the foreshadowing in the prior three episodes.

Now, I really enjoy the Armitage III anime. As I said, I bought the DVD set. However, what really got me thinking about it was the various diatribes of Feminist anti-Sex Robot rhetoric. A simple Google search will find various opinions on Sexbots and their impact on feminism. MGTOW types view them as detrimental to (latter-stage) feminism, and, given their opposition, later-stage feminism seems to agree.

Now, it has long been recognized that sex is the primary weapon women have over men. It’s been true for centuries. It forms the premise of the Greek play Lysistrada, circa 411 BC. Frankly, men will put up with a lot if the end result is sex. A lot of selfish, self-destructive behavior has been tolerated purely because women decide who they will or will not have sex with. As is common with most socio-political activity, the extreme tends to mobilize the center. Even women who aren’t radical feminists like the idea of more power and authority, so they act in solidarity with the more extreme elements. This has led to an ever increasing set of laws and regulations designed to give more and more agency to women by regulating the one thing men really care about and which they cannot get from anyone else.

Enter the sexbot. Now I remember seeing Real Dolls in the mid/late-90s. I’ve also kept an eye on android research in East Asia. It is rather fascinating, and it was inevitable that these two things would meet. As long as it could be stigmatized as a pet project by low market males that confirms their undesirability, Sexbots could be ignored. However, dissatisfaction with the subjugation of men by women (often codified into law), certain movements (of varying levels of repute) have arisen that called into question whether the refusal to engage in the modern dating game was actually a signifier of low market value. Either way, it seems that, for many men, the limit of what they will put up with for decreasingly satisfying sexual activity has been reached.

"Sex is Boring" clip from Sid & Nancy

So yeah, I don’t really think that an Armitage III scenario will occur within my lifetime, and I doubt that androids capable of reproduction will occur, but I do think that, should the sexbot gain enough traction before the feminists can squash it, it will lead to a radical re-evaluation of male-female relationships. If all a woman offers is sex, sex which can be satisfactorily filled by sexbots, women will have to come up with something else in order to entice men. This may lead to a world where women revert to more traditional roles, or some new expression may be carved out. We may enter a world where high-value men have multiple high value women, and everyone else has sex robots to reduce tensions. Who knows?

To be fair I should probably mention the doomsday scenario. This is the current trend anyway, with sex often being an inadequate substitute for masturbation and the demands of Modernist society (which rates motherhood and children as undesirable) leading to lowered birth rates. There is a concern that sexbots (both male and female) will lead to a world were reproductive needs are sublimated and a viable population is no longer available, in which case, we would stop breeding and the human race will die out. I suppose the question here is how many people are really necessary for a viable population.

Second part of Armitage III intro clip

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Not really a citation, but this site came to my attention before recording this:
https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/

Armitage III

Sargon/Spencer/Styx Video and the Liberalist Movement (with unrelated montage of pretty women)

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

This was originally in my Video Blog notes, but since it grew too long, I split it out.

Over on Minds, I’ve been commenting on the Sargon/Spencer/Styx video.

• I knew Sargon was popular, but I never realized how much.
• Let me preface by stating that, while I watched Sargon’s commentary on his performance, and some other related videos, I did not watch the original video which clocks in at about 4 and a half hours..
• I made it to 20 minutes before I had to stop
• I should mention that Sargon was late, so I only really watched about five minutes with him in it.
• Styx, Spencer, and Tara were having a discussion that might have become interesting.
• Now I should point out that Spencer was hostile and rude.
• However, Sargon has made a name for himself by being rude.
• And if he can’t handle people being rude back, he should stop 
• However, Sargon pretty much lost it.
• He descended into emotionalism
• He kept trying to parrot his talking points even though they weren’t relevant
• In short, he acted just like your typical SJW.
• Now, I am subscribed to Sargon and I will watch some of his shorter videos.
• I don’t find his longer videos to be a good return on my investment.
• In the 80s/90s, I spent a fair amount of time in coffee shops in and around various campuses.
• We spent a lot of time high as a kite theorizing about things.
• I often feel like I am at a table next to some people doing this when I listen to Sargon.
• To put it another way, I don’t feel that Sargon has a very deep understanding of the material he espouses.
• He can easily overcome your typical SJW, leftist, or progressive.
• However, anyone who has studied history, philosophy, etc, etc will beat him as handily as he beats the SJWs
• This was demonstrated in the video where he debated Spencer.
• Spencer is by no means the most informed member of the alt-right.
• However, he is rather informed in his area. People who I know, who are rather knowledgeable and who are on the alt-right, criticize Spencer’s capabilities as a debater.
• Now let me preface that I cringed at the usage of the term “Rights “ being used for the state.
• While a state may have certain rights granted to it by other states
• What they were discussing was power, the states power over the individual for the express purpose of maintaining the society.
• While we can quibble over the coercive nature of the “Social Contract” for subsequent generations, the idea is that the state protects its citizens and its citizens give it power over them.
• When Sargon trotted out Locke’s definition of a society, he was quoting an ideal.
• I.e., it doesn’t exist and is (likely) impossible to implement in its pure form.
• We can hold an ideal as a yardstick for evaluating the acceptability of the practice
• However, we should not conflate the two.
• When Spencer, admittedly rudely, pointed out the irrelevance of the quote as an answer to the question
• Sargon lost it
• This, to me, indicates that Sargon has not thought about the issue and its ramifications
• He should have considered how what he desires, the ideal, differs from what is.
• He should have thought about why this discrepancy is and whether it needs to be rectified or not, and how he would go about rectifying it.

What saddens me the most about this is that I really wanted to know what the various people thought on the issue(s).

• What do Spencer, Styx, and Sargon mean when they use the term “Race Realism”.
• I know what I mean, but what do they mean?
• Likewise, the nuances of State, ethnic or otherwise, economics, etc
• The only way to correctly counter an error (if such errors exist) is to accurately define the error
• Otherwise we fall into the fallacy of straw man.

I don’t really want to get to deeply into the whole “Liberalist” thing, but

• I think that Sargon is seriously underestimating the amount of work required to run a group &/or movement.
• As much as you may dislike Spencer or Falarca, you have to admit they spend a lot of time running their groups.
• People who have little organizational experience often underestimate the amount of work required.
• Take it from someone who has started four groups, co-founded another, and been an officer in several others
• Just as a side note, I ended two of the four groups as I was (as I feel Sargon is) unprepared to manage them
• The other two were passed onto others & I believe they are also no more.
• I am no longer affiliated with the group I co-founded.
• Trust me, it will either get taken over by someone who knows what they are doing or collapse.
• If it gets taken over by someone else it will probably go in a direction Sargon does not desire
• I expect even more drama if this even gets off the ground.

I really wish there was a transcript of the debate, so I could read the whole thing rather than suffering through 4 plus hours.

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Citations and Notes

The Sargon/Spencer/Styx video

Sargon’s response video

Some articles on Counter Currents:

An Identitarian, a Civic Nationalist, & a Classical Liberal Walk into a Stream (the Third One Cucks)

The Skeptic War

Articles on Minds.Com

Sargon and the liberalist movement

The Problem with Sargon of Akkad and the Liberalists

Opening:

Kai Engel

Chant Of Night Blades

Deathless: The Renaissance

Download: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Deathless_The_Renaissance

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Ending:

Coil

The Hellbound Heart

Hellraiser Themes

https://www.discogs.com/Coil-Hellraiser-Themes/release/130646

What is Religion? [Video Script]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

Religion gets a bad rap, perhaps deservedly so. However, I find that most critiques are rather shallow. They focus on one aspect of a religion and act as if that one aspect is representative of the whole. Some of the better ones will focus on two of the aspects and compare them for inconsistencies.

Perhaps I should take a second to define religion as I use the term. Religion used to mean belief in god and the religious body devoted to that god (i.e., church, synagogue, mosque). As we came to understand non-European conceptions of spirituality, the term was broadened to include such things as Buddhism and Taoism.

Religion, as I tend to use it, is the conception of how the *I* perceives its relationship to the *not-I*. Typically, this has a supernatural component, as the not-I tends to take on an eternal quality. To put it another way, it is the conception of what is, what was, and what shall be, combined with the conception of the self’s relationship to what is, what was, and what shall be.

Technically speaking, this means that there are many secular religions. Humanism, Communism, Fascism, Atheism, etc. all posit a worldview (i.e., what was, is, and shall be) and the self’s relationship to that worldview.

So religion, the driving force for civilization (see my video “On Reality”). Religion is, at its core, the embodiment of a societies values, ideals, dreams, and aspirations. It provides guidance for what a given culture finds “good” and what it despises as “evil”. It dictates the roles and bounds of our interactions with other members of our culture and with the outsider.

However, religion, even within a given culture, is far from monolithic. Aside from differences in interpretations of myth and scripture, religion also differs by virtue of its practitioners. The three broad categories I find useful are Scriptural, Elite, and Folk. These three divisions map to the classic castes of Priest, Aristocrat, and Commoner. Note that some societies also have a merchant class, whose members align, religiously, with either the Folk or Elite customs (or are outsiders). Now these aren’t strictly delineated, and there is overlap. They are more akin to what Bourdieu describes as the interaction of habitus, fields, and doxa, which I view as analogous to a template.

When most people talk about a religion, other than their own, they tend to focus on the scriptural. The bible, the Tao Teh King, the Koran, the Torah, etc. They will often supplement this with commentary by the priesthood (or its equivalent), thus we get Augustine, Changtse, the Hadiths, and the Talmud. This is informative. It puts forth the official ideals held by that cultural group.

Pendant to the scriptural form of a religion, we have the elite interpretation. The elites used to be synonymous with the aristocracy, but in today’s modern world, this function is held by the affluent, educated class. Here we tend to find the esoteric, or occult, variations. Philosophy, other religions, and science are brought into, and incorporated into, the elites’ understanding of the scriptural religion. This is where the Hermetic disciplines grew and flourished.

In another branch from the scriptural form, we have the folk traditions. These are typically formed by what is now termed the working class, though of old they were the peasants and slaves. These practices are a combination of older religious traditions and outright superstitions. Sometimes the scriptural form is nothing more than a cloak for the continuation of the aboriginal practices, such as with the start of Santaria, or (more commonly) they are an incorporation of previous traditions that were too strong to be displaced (such as the Catholic Cult of the Saints). This is where your hedge-witch or kitchen-witch mythos arose.

Now a holistic understanding of a peoples’ culture must take into account all three aspects of a cultures’ religion. In the case of the Universalistic religions (e.g., Christianity, Islam, Buddhism) it becomes even more complicated. Christianity shares a common scripture, but the Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Calvinist derivatives (which are further subdivided) must take into account the various differentiations within each cultural group. The folk and elite customs of the Anglican Communion in Ethiopia are a far cry from those in the United States. With Buddhism, the differences are even more striking, as the different sects adopted different scriptures so that Nikāya and Mahayana Buddhism are barely related in the scriptural sense.

It should be pointed out that these three aspects are not isolated. They are in constant communion with each other. They inform and modify each other. Also, the priesthood, which is the guardian of the scriptural tradition, is often pulled from the other two groups, the thoughts and ideas of the elites and folk are constant influences on the interpretation of the scriptural tradition. Likewise, as the priesthood are the guides of the spiritual life of both the elites and folk, the scriptural interpretation is constantly being exposed to the other two groups. The village priest is quite likely to leave out a bowl of milk for the hobs, if not from belief then to express solidarity with his rural flock.

Essentially, what I am getting at is that Religion is a complex, multi-faceted phenomena. Most criticism, even when it manages to go beyond “Hur,hur, dey so stupid”, seldom takes in this complexity. In fact, they take this complexity and use it as if it supported their opposition. To say that some folk tradition is in conflict with a scriptural doctrine is about as logical as criticizing Buddhism as being false because Zen is at odds with Tibetian Buddhism.

To recap, Religion is the codification and inspiration for a culture’s values. It translates the metaphysics into a sensible form which instructs and informs the members of its culture. Depending on the circumstances of one’s position within said society, one’s relationship with the religious tradition will vary. The most useful major divisions of a religion are into its Scriptural, Elite, and Folk interpretations. These interpretations form a dynamic relationship constantly influencing and reinforcing each other. To decry the fact that a folk interpretation is at odds with an elite or scriptural one is as pointless as claiming that Priest A thinks X, but Priest B thinks Y, so obviously the whole religion is false. This is as silly as when the creationists argue that evolution is false because of the discrepancy between punctuated equilibrium and phyletic gradualism.

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171230 VLOG {Video & script]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

I recently read an interesting article titled

• The Theosophical Imagination by Wouter Hanegraaff, a scholar of the occult. When I say scholar, I mean he is a professor focusing on the topic, not some hack with a degree writing his personal paradigm. He is a professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam.
• This led to the need to read two other works:
• Manual of psychometry : the dawn of a new civilization by Joseph R. Buchanan
• The Soul of Things, Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries by William Denton and Elizabeth M. Foote Denton

I will admit I laughed at the Antifa getting hit by a truck. I did watch carefully to make sure it wasn’t my oldest child.

• Sadly, he seems to have fallen for the antifa bull

I meant to comment earlier, but I couldn’t work up a whole video on the topic. You may recall that a while ago a call went out in the occult community for a magic spell to be cast to inhibit Donald Trump. It was a crappily crafted spell, which I recall pointing out to the person who posted it to Medium. Further, they didn’t seem to realize that it was pure black magic. Black as in Evil. This is by the common definition, not the more nuanced and rarefied Thelemic context, but in the garden-variety white light and fuzzy bunny neopagan sense.

• Black magick (in the colloquial sense) is coercive magick, that which robs the person of volition or will.
• The NY Times has an article on the (apparent) resurgence of witchcraft, which discusses how the person featured held three sessions to hex Trump.
• Sadly, it is also reflective of the degradation that spirituality is undergoing whereby it is suborned to the political.
• Essentially, it is an opiate for the powerless to feel like they have power
• They adopt the atheistic worldview, so they view the political as the spiritual
• They don’t clearly articulate the goals so they can redefine the criteria for success
• They cast a spell for his destruction and count something like Moore’s defeat as a victory
• Stupid amateurs
• There is a similar problem with conflating Psychology and Spirituality
• Once a Democrat is back in power, the majority of new adherents to the occult will flitter away

I should probably mention my online presence.

• I am not on Facebook. I deleted my account a year ago and have found myself happier and with more free time to accomplish my goals.
• I am on Twitter, but I don’t follow it much. I do get emails when I am mentioned et al.
• I am on Gab. I check it more than Twitter, but not much more.
• I have a Minds profile, which I check in the morning before work and in the evening after work.
• I post transcripts for my videos and some other content at Blogspot
• Both Blogspot and Google+ are tied to my YouTube.
• I have accounts on SoundCloud and DeviantArt, but those are just to follow artists I like.

Openshot is working wonderfully for me.

• I actually enjoy making the videos.
• Things that frustrated me in other software are very easy.
• You may have noticed some softening of edges and the inclusion of samples from other videos.
• Most of the last Music video was my making sure that the text stills giving information on Lilith were present long enough to be read
• If they still flash by too quickly, let me know.
• Slicing scenes, adjusting timing and the like are incredibly easy.
• There are still some things I need to figure out, but working full-time and being a single father, I am rather pleased with my progress.

Buzzfeed put out an article on de Benoist. It is slanted as hell, but I so seldom see articles on him that I still want everyone to read it.

I really enjoyed TL;DR’s video on the Great Mouse Utopia. I was pointed to it by Crocoduck.

• While one should avoid the trap of confirmation bias and read too many parallels between the experiment and human society
• I was struck with the parallels between Modern Western Society and the Great Mouse Utiopia
• While the damaging effects of Utopia have been examined (albeit superficially) in various films, it is really brought home how the necessity for a fulfilling life necessitates some form of overcoming.
• The increasing alienation, unhappiness, narcissism, and violence we see in our society seems to be a reflection of the behavior seen in the Great Mouse Utopia
• Plus, as with the term “Monkeysphere”, I just like saying “Great Mouse Utopia”.
• I was also reminded of Fear’s song “Let’s Have a War”

I was going to make another video using Oingo Boingo’s “Violent Love” and a montage of angry feminists, but

• I’ve already used an Oingo Boingo song recently,
• And an Image search for “Angry Feminist” pulled up an inordinate amount of images of “Big Red”, and I felt it would slide from humor to bullying
• Plus, I really have no sexual desire for any of these women, so I didn’t want to get their hopes up… 

My next video, probably tomorrow, will be “What is Religion?”

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Notes:
Readings, Occult Action Against Trump, Online Presence, OpenShot Praise, Buzzfeed on de Benoist, The Great Mouse Utopia.

Montage: Selections of art from the Blog “70s Sci Fi Art”. Scenes from the film Wizards, as well as art works by Richard Powers and Frank Kelly Freas. (c) Copyrights belong to the respective copyright holders.

The Theosophical Imagination by Wouter Hanegraaff

Wouter Hanegraaff (Wikipedia entry)

Manual of psychometry : the dawn of a new civilization by Joseph R. Buchanan

The Soul of Things, Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries by William Denton and Elizabeth M. Foote Denton

Pro-Communist Antifa protester wiped out by truck at ‘March for Jesus’ in Portland

Season of the Witch

Online:
Twitter
Gab
Minds
Blogspot

Music: Foetus - Lilith

They Wanted To Be A Better Class Of White Nationalists. They Claimed This Man As Their Father. (de Benoist)

Crocoduck: Why I Champion the Open Society

TL;DR - What Was the Mouse Utopia?

Fear - Let’s Have a War

Oingo Boingo - Violent Love

Richard M. Powers

Frank Kelly Freas

Wizards

Antifa, it's ok to admit you don't know [Video Script]

— Initial Clip [Antifa doesn’t recognize flag]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

Antifa, I say this in all seriousness. It’s OK to just admit you don’t know something. Also, just because you don’t recognize something does not mean that it is automatically fascist, white supremacist, or nazi. Now, I admit that your perception of everything outside of what your finite mind knows as being white supremacist is indicative. However, I am not a psychotherapist.

When I first watched the news clip, that statement just struck me as wrong. Blue is not a common color for Nazis or White Supremacists. A quick Google search for “White Flag, blue square, red cross” brought up the proper entry.

—Image [Wikipedia]

Now some might claim that a religion founded by a Jew and of which the majority of adherents worldwide are not ethnically European (or Caucasian, or “white”) is inherently white supremacist, but that is just too stupid to be taken seriously.

Now I lived in Portland, Oregon for many years. Hawthorne Bridge is a rather busy thoroughfare and you aren’t supposed to cross it like that. Hell, cars aren’t even supposed to change lanes at that point. So, on the topic of stupidity…

— Second Clip [Hit by truck]

I may have mentioned, but I was a anarcho-punk in the 80s. Many things about antifa confuses me and makes me think that they are candy-assed wusses. We confronted Christians, Hicks, and Republicans all the time. However, we didn’t pretend otherwise. We hated Christians, so we harassed them. Likewise with the other groups. When the police came, we didn’t try to pretend that our virtue made us immune to the consequences. Their opposition merely confirmed our view that the system was corrupt.  They claim the system is corrupt (as it doesn’t conform to their worldview), but they act as if it isn’t. By their actions, they indicate that they know, subconsciously, that their words are a lie. I’ll try and work up a video on the difference between professed and actual values.

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VLOG (171223) - OpenShot, Audacity, Toxic Masculinity [Script]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

Welcome to my first standalone video blog. I used to embed these into my content, but I think that Zarathrustra’s Serpent made a good point about keeping the video focused on the topic. I’ll try and keep all of these disparate elements separate and post them in a semi-regular video blog post. So…

• I have switched my video editing software. I Was using Lightworks, which is an undeniably powerful program, but I found it less than intuitive.
• I work full time and am a single parent, I don’t have time to fight with the software.
• I am now using Openshot. It has the added benefit of being an open-source project
• While I use Windows 10, I am also a fan of Linux (Currently running the latest Ubuntu)
• Stallman was one of the few Commies who did good, imo.
• You may have noticed the prior video was very simple as I am still learning the software
• This one will probably be simple as well, but I hope to gradually add elements and complexity
• For the first time, as I was putting together the video from its pieces, I did not feel frustrated and at war with my video editor.
• Now my main concern is learning how to use Audacity
• I’ve watched some tutorials and I think the sound is better now.
• The sequence of steps involves abusing the hell out of the effects menu.
• Get the noise profile off of the first few seconds of silence & apply it to the whole clip
• Run the compressor effect. I use a setting of -12, though you may need to set it higher or lower.
• From the Equalizer, give it a bass boost, then a treble boost.
• I found it necessary to redo the noise reduction at this point.
• Set a limiter, settings of hard limiter from -2 to -5. I use -2.
• Finally run normalize.
• Let me know if it sounds better. My last video was done with this sequence.
• It makes me think of make-up, a lot of work for that natural feel.
• On the reading front, I took a break with some mind candy.
• I am currently reading Barb Hendee’s Mist-Torn series, but I am kind of stuck on the third book.
• I also plan on re-reading Liber ABA part I (the yoga and meditation portion of Magick)

For some reason, I’ve been seeing a lot of videos on Toxic Masculinity

• A Common theme has been the ideal of men repressing their emotions.
• This is in error. Men who show no emotions are not respected. They are actually feared as being broken.
• Men are expected to be in control of their emotions, to not let their emotions get the better of them.
• The reasons for this are many, but the primary beneficiary of this is women.
• Men control their emotions so they can provide support for women.
• The classic and stereotypical image of the hero holding & supporting the sobbing heroine captures this
• Being stoic allows the woman to reach catharsis by getting it out of their system.

I’ve started watching both Tim Pool and Styxhexenhammer666

• I’ve found that I don’t really like “cringe”
• Most of the reaction videos are little better than “You’re dumb (hehehe)”, so I don’t enjoy most of those.
• Tim Pool tends to be more topical than I normally like, but he does it well and the videos tend to clock in at around 15m
• Styxhexenhammer666 seems to have a focus similar to my channel’s, but he is way more prolific. He also seems to have let the Socio-political and Topical content dominate over the occulture. We will see.

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A seasonal prayer and ancient drama

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

About a decade and a half ago, I got into a spot of trouble for a seasonal prayer. I had posted it to a Thelemic Community Forum under a title like “Sol Invictus Benediction”. This being the solstice, I thought I would share it with you.

First we begin with the 

Dedication
For The Fatherland, cradle of civilization.
For the ancestors and their indomitable spirit
For the elders from whom we can learn much.
For our youth who represent the promise for tomorrow.
For our people, the original people.
For our struggle and in remembrance of those who have struggled on our behalf.
For Gott the principle of unity which should guide us in all that we do.
For the creator who provides all things great and small.

An Aside: “Gott” is German for “God” and has been chosen to symbolize the principle of striving for & maintaining unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

To this we add:

The Seven Principles:

1. Unity - to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
2. Self-Determination - to define ourselves, name ourselves, create ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
3. Collective Work and Responsibility - to build and maintain our community together and make fellow European-American's problems our problems and to solve them together.
4. Cooperative Economics - to build and maintain European-American stores, shops and other businesses together.
5. Purpose - to make our collective vocation the building of our European-American community to restore our traditional greatness.
6. Creativity - making the world around us clean and beautiful and better than we inherited it.
7. Faith - to believe in ourselves, our family, our communities and our leaders and to believe the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Now, before telling you the inspiration for this little piece, I will share what I recall of the drama.

I wrote it up and shared it to a Thelemic Community Forum. Initial reaction was slightly positive, with one girl saying how great it was. Then someone questioned some of the word choices. Then it was branded as racist. The girl who had waxed poetic quickly back-pedaled and condemned it.

This condemnation did not change when I revealed that it was the Kwanzaa dedication and their seven principles with only three changes.

1. I changed the word Motherland to Fatherland
2. I replaced the phrase “African-American” with “European-American”, and
3. I changed the African word “Umoja” to “Gott” while defining it in exactly the same way.

In fairness, the version I found at 123holiday.net does not use any racial language. Though the phrases can still be read in such a manner.

To be honest, I knew that I would get this reaction. Racist behavior is only deemed racist if a white person is doing it. Innocuous behavior is viewed as being racist if a white person does it.

When I first started publishing this kind of thing, I would take Christian screeds against pagans and invert the language. Mostly reversing the two phrases. The key was to keep as much intact as possible. The goal was to show hypocrisy. These works were applauded. Showing the “others” hypocrisy is always applauded. However, when I broadened the scope to include other sacred cows, the applause slowed. When I hit their sacred cows, they got out the pitchforks.

As it is said in Ecclesiastes 1:9 “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

May the Blessings of Gott be upon you this Season.

And remember, if you're at a social function and a benediction is said and the God invoked is not your own, it's a good idea to mutter, roll your eyes, and smirk, so your God will know that you're not taken in by some false God.

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Citations and Notes
Kwanzaa Dedication
Kwanzaa Principles

Ecclesiastes 1:9

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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

As you are probably aware, I use an intro and outro song. A different song for each. I have had no problems with my intro songs, but I keep having issues with my outro track. I don’t monetize my videos, so it is more the principle of the thing than anything else.

Currently, I am using Kai Engel’s Chant of the Night Blades from his Deathless: The Renaissance album as my introduction. However, I’ve been through a sequence of closing tracks. The first was a track by Ordo Equitum Solis titled Father of Incantations. (link below). Since that is copyrighted music, I decided to replace it. This is when I went to the Free Music Archive. That is where I found by current Introductory track. I selected Ami Deng’s track A Strange Community from her album Hukam for my ending. After repeated copyright claims, some of which were released, others which were not, I decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. Despite it being available for my use due to my being in compliance with the license, every video was being claimed on upload and not always released.

So, I searched again. This time I found a track by Koesz. It is titled The Charon from his The Entity EP. I used it while I was in Japan with no problems. However, despite it being under the Creative Commons License and my using that license as instructed, it was flagged. It was identified as being Trilio’s Deadly Shadow. Evidently, it is a collaboration with Koesz and Koesz seems to use some of the same material (mainly the haunting female vocals that I isolated for my ending track). However, it is not the same song. I disputed the claim, pointing out that (a) it wasn’t the song it was being identified as, and (b) I’ve never even heard of Trilio. The appeal was rejected.

I’ve been quite careful to make sure I was in compliance with copyright law and I am still being penalized. Frankly, it pisses me off. It also means that Google is violating Copyright law. They are breaking the copyright license of the Creative Commons, and falsely awarding a claim to a company that doesn’t deserve it. In this case, Triple Vision Record Distribution.

So yeah, I am looking for another ending track. Google’s algorithm is broken and flags tracks as being the wrong item. Then, they facilitate copyright violation by not honoring the Creative Commons license and awarding credit for a work to the wrong people. There is nothing that can be done, since the companies have no incentive to fix a system that brings them in more money (no matter how minuscule). Google has no incentive to fix it because the companies are happy and they make their money. Sure, I am protected from a lawsuit, but this kind of soft, non-legal persecution has no protection (at least of which I am aware). I am just a small channel with 200 subscribers.

I have no problems with people getting credit and reward for their work. I have problems with false charges and mis-attributions. Hell, I encourage monetization of my music videos. I want the artists to earn money and continue to make music I like. However, this is just bs.

Enjoy the excerpt from The Charon, it will probably be the last time you hear it on my videos.

Truth is found in the Rubble of Falsehood
Love is the law, love under will

SJWs, Alt-Right, & Priorities [Video Script]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

This video will compare and contrast the “alt-Left” and the “alt-Right” from a practical viewpoint.

By alt-left, I am lumping (perhaps unfairly) the SJWs, Anti-fa, and similar radical, leftists groups with communistic or neo-Marxist ideologies.

By alt-right, I am referring to the loose coalition of white nationalists, white supremacists, white separatists, neo-nazis, and similar groups.

I apologize for the delay. I had one script that I just didn’t feel was any good once I completed it, then I had a couple of bouts of illness. Then I kept revising this as new things popped onto my radar. Then I realized that it would never end. Then, but really these excuses are all somewhat lame. I will try to do better in the future.

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I am currently re-reading The Equinox.

• I  finished Volume I, issues 1 and 2.
• I admit to skipping the stuff on drugs, the fiction, and to glossing over the poetry.
• While I enjoy the poetry, I’ve read most of it several times already.
• Even though I have read the Libers multiple times, I am not glossing over those.
• Everyone should reread these periodically.

I am also preparing to systematically read the Complete Works of Plato.

• I’ve read some works, but in a more disjointed manner
• The Cooper edition was highly regarded, so I grabbed it.
• I plan on doing the same with Aristotle once I finish Plato.

I also grabbed the enhanced edition of Neverwinter Nights and spent most of Saturday playing it.

• However, it was a beta and I broke it, there is much sadness.

SJWs. the Alt-Right & Setting Priorities

For the sake of convenience, let’s create a continuum with the extremes on each side.

Again, for the sake of convenience, we will label one “alt-right” and lump into it the alt-right, fascists, white nationalists, nazis, etc.

On the other end we will put the label “alt-left” and place anti-fa, other ethnic nationalists, marxists such as BAMN, etc.

Let us fill the continuum with the fellow travelers, those sympathetic to each pole, but who refrain from overt activism.

I should point out that the activism doesn’t have to be violent, after all, most of the alt-righter’s do not descend to the violence of Nazi Skinheads or some such.

Where should you put yourself on the continuum?

Before answering that, I should present my own position. I get called a nazi by leftists and a commie by the right. To paraphrase the good Baron,

“In as much as the alt-right agrees with my position, I am, only to that degree, alt-right”.

Conversely, “In as much as the alt-left agrees with my position, I am, only to that degree, alt-left”.

My third son introduced me to a nice post-apocalyptic series by S.M.Stirling called “The Change”. I won’t give you a rundown of the series (link below), but an oft repeated refrain in the series is that “When a person comes to your land with a weapon & tries to inflict harm, they should not be surprised to lose their own life”.

In gauging the relative risks posed by each group, we need to consider both size and traction. While it seems to be true that the “right” is gaining in strength, it is also a fact that the “left” has dominated the Western world since the end of World War II, gaining a virtual hegemony in the 60s-70s. For a half century or more, the center has been steadily moving left. Antifa protests in the US gather numbers that seem to be in the hundreds, if not the thousands. The only numbers I can find for the alt-right indicates that they seem to be numbered in the tens, with Charlottesville actually gathering a couple hundred. If anyone has better numbers, please let me know.

So size-wise, it seems that the “alt-left” is far more numerous than the “alt-right”. What about traction? Whose ideas are presented sympathetically? Whose acts of violence are ignored or downplayed, and whose are fabricated or exaggerated? How does the media, or society in general, assuming there is a practical difference, present ten or so people of various ethnic heritages standing in a pagoda and calling for “Freedom of Speech”? How does it present the hundreds of black clad antifa and their fellow travelers surrounding them and trying to drown them out? I think it safe to say that, by any objective measure, the “alt-left” has far more traction in the US, and likely in Western Europe as well.

Now, for the sake of this argument let us just assume that both are violent and seek to rid the world of those who oppose them. The alt-left’s statement that “Liberals get the bullet, too” and the older neo-nazi slogan of “When you are swinging from a rope it doesn’t matter if you swing to the left or the right” convey the same attitude of ideological purity and democide.

Ask yourself which is the more immediate threat, the murderer in your house or the lynch mob on the other side of town? Modern society seems to have a real problem with false equivalence and prioritizing. It seems obvious to me that one must first deal with the murderer attempting to kill you who is right before you, rather than ignoring them because there is a lynch mob on the other side of town. Once threat ‘A’ is dealt with, you can deal with threat ‘B’.

Being as I subscribe to neither of the ideological positions typified by these poles of “alt-left” and “alt-right”, it would be safe to assume that I am on the “list” for both groups, when & if they are able to pursue democide in their crusade for ideological purity.

I would then have to ask, which list would I be on, the first list or the second list. If I were in a room with an antifa and a neo-nazi and they were aware of my lack of support for their cause, which would be more likely to kill me? Which one views me and my children as an affront to their cause? Given that the assault rate on bystanders for the alt-left is far higher than that of the alt-right, it is safe to assume that I am in more danger from the alt-left than the alt-right. 

Admittedly, I am not a black man with a white girlfriend, so each must make this decision for themselves. Just make sure that what you give up, what you sacrifice, is worth what you receive.

"The Idea and only the Idea can be the true Fatherland for them. Not the fact that they are of the same nationality, that they speak the same language, and that they are of the same blood, but the fact that they belong to the same idea, should be the deciding factor that unites or divides them." - Julius Evola

And wouldn’t you know, the NY Times just released an articles glorifying anti-fa. Amusing.

Another YouTuber, Matt Christiansen, released an interesting video on this topic, “Antifa Professor” Speaks at Berkeley, But Why Didn’t the Fascists Shut Him Down?

Thank you for listening to my thoughts on this matter. I should clarify that I am not calling for anyone to support either the alt-left or alt-right. This is meant as an aid to prioritize which group to oppose. As a Thelemite, I oppose all forms of collectivism, and, yes, I am aware of the irony of using a collective label for an individualistic system.

Evidently, one should exhort the listener to like and subscribe. I am bad at this, since I think it is self evident. So, if you liked this video, or any of my other videos, please click on the like button (which I assume does something besides giving me the warm fuzzies) and subscribe so you know when I post new content.

Truth is found in the Rubble of Falsehood

Love is the law, love under will

The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 1: The Review of Scientific Illuminism (The Equinox: The Review of Scientific Illuminism) (Volume 1)

Plato: Complete Works 

Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 1 

Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 2

NeverWinter Nights

S.M. Stirling books

What to Wear to Smash the State

“Antifa Professor” Speaks at Berkeley, But Why Didn’t the Fascists Shut Him Down?

Opening: Kai Engel Chant Of Night Blades Deathless: The Renaissance 

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Ending: Keosz The Charon ENTITY EP 

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de Naglowska: Open Letter to Pius XI & Initiatic Eroticism

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

This video will include two chapters of Maria de Naglowska’s Initiatic Eroticism.

• This book is a compilation of articles by de Naglowska from her paper “La Fleche” (The Arrow)
• I found her because she is said to be a source for Evola
• She also translated Randolph’s Sexual Magic.
• The only version of this work is from her translation
• According to Donald Traxler, the translator of her works, She added significantly to that work.
• Randolph is said to be one of the sources for Thelemic Sexual Magick.
• I have been reading Eulis! But it is hard going.
• When I read his statements of “I am a doctor” combined with he assertions that abortion is unnecessary because the woman can push out the zygote by biting her thumb and blowing, it causes me to lack confidence…
• Rather than reading it with an eye out for the false, I am now reading in hopes of gleaning something worthwhile.
• The first article  will be from Page 139, titled “Open Letter to Pius XI”
• The second will be from Page 146, titled “Initiatic Eroticism”
• Overall, I found the book interesting and well worth my while, despite its overt religious and mystical slant.

So, a quick Video Log update and then on to the meat of the video.

I Spent some time writing another grab bag, but I just wasn’t feeling it when I was done, so instead, I’ll just mention them here and link them below.

• First, there was the video “Why Do The Cult Of SJWs Hate Anti SJWs More Than Anyone [Super Collaboration Mirror]”
• Answers range, but I think that the primary reasons are ressentiment and the uncanny valley/cognitive dissonance
• The closer things are, the more likely we are to wonder if WE made a wrong turn in judgement
• Second, That Japanese Man Yuta has a channel where he goes out and interviews Japanese people on the street.
• The first video I want to highlight is “What Japanese Think of Feminism”
• Next would be the more recent “Do Japanese Want Multiculturalism in Japan?”
• Both are worthwhile, as are many other videos in his archive.
• Thirdly, I highly recommend Zarathrustra’s Serpent’s recent Video “Zarathrustra’s Whip”
• I think it summarizes quite clearly one of the points of intersection between Nietzsche and Thelema
• There is a reason why Nietzsche is esteemed as a prophet/forerunner of Thelema
• This helps explain why Nietzsche is in the list of Saints
• Fourth are some articles
• From the American Conservative, “Burning Man Staves Off Nihilism, If Only Temporarily”
• And from Medium, “Micro-Religions” which looks at current social movements critically.

And in recent news, yes, it IS OK to be white.
I don’t know why everyone hates albinos so much.

Readings:

• Page 139,  “Open Letter to Pius XI”
• Page 146,  “Initiatic Eroticism”

So, I think it is quite apparent that de Naglowska was tapped into the early stirrings of the 93rd Current, another antecedent of Thelema. From this one work, I see strong correlations between Naglowska and Crowley. This may change as I read the other works, but for now I find it very compelling. I hope you enjoyed these excerpts.

Truth is found in the Rubble of Falsehood
Love is the law, love under will

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Citations and references.
Why Do The Cult Of SJWs Hate Anti SJWs More Than Anyone [Super Collaboration Mirror]

What Japanese Think of Feminism (Interview)

Do Japanese Want Multiculturalism in Japan? (Interview)

Burning Man Staves Off Nihilism, If Only Temporarily

Micro-Religions

Zarathustra's Whip

Initiatic Eroticism and Other Occult Writings from La Fleche

Theism: A Thelemic Perspective

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
First, a Quick Update

• I apologize for the delay, I had a medical emergency
• Then work got hectic
• And now my parents are getting ready for their migration to Arizona. They are “snowbirds”.

Let’s start with some quick opinions and comments:

• Rest in Peace, Tom Petty.
• Also, Raymond Buckland is dead. The man responsible (imo) for turning Wicca from a Spiritual Tradition & Religion to merely a religion.
• Take a Knee is just like other forms of “Activism” such as Free The Nipple.
  • It doesn’t impact their lives, but allows them to feel morally superior.
  • And like I care what a bunch of guys in tight pants, who roll around on a field with other guys in tight pants, think.
  • Though to be honest, I don’t really care what the Legends Football League thinks either, though I do prefer seeing photos of the LFL over those of the NFL.
• I still think the original slogan was better: “No War, No KKK, No Fascist USA”
• I am amused that the Alternative for Deutschland party has a higher percentage of immigrant MPs than the “pro-immigration” party of Merkel.
  • It kind of shows how they think, unfettered immigration is great for the “lower classes”
  • Reading the article reminded me of how the most diverse presidential cabinet was that of the “Racist” Republican George “W” Bush.

On the reading front, I just finished reading Maria Naglowska’s Initiatic Eroticism.

• She is said to be a primary source for Evola’s works on sexuality and sexual magick.
• I am surprised I hadn’t heard of her before since she ran in Surrealist and Occult circles and I am familiar with several of the people with whom she was in contact.
• As I understand it, Randolph’s better know work Sexual Magic only exists in her “translation”, to which she seems to have added a third or more of the material. 
• The works are translated from the French and published by Inner Traditions.
• So far the works are easy to read and quite interesting.

So on with the video. Wherein I discuss Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theism within a Thelemic context. I’ll wrap up with my own personal opinions and experiences.
First some working definitions.
Theism is the belief in God, Gods, or some other type of spiritual beings.
Atheism is the belief that there is nothing more than the material, observable realm.
Agnosticism is the lack of belief in either position. Sadly, it is all too often used by non-committal Atheists to hedge their bets.
Certain spiritual beliefs are not normally considered theistic. Early Buddhism (Nikaya), some forms of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism , and Doctrinal Taoism, rather than folk Taoism, fall into this realm.
However, strictly speaking these are not Atheistic, since they postulate the existence of the non-material. The Western term religion has problems with spiritual traditions that fall outside the Abrahamic religions. Are traditions which tell one to honor the gods as metaphor or for social cohesion theistic? How about those that postulate something other than a King-Serf relationship?
These are some of the reasons why Crowley stated in Magick Without Tears: “Call it a new religion, …; but I confess that I fail to see what you will have gained by so doing, and I feel bound to add that you might easily cause a great deal of misunderstanding, and work a rather stupid kind of mischief”.
Spiritual Tradition is more cumbersome, but far less restrictive.
Thelema contains references to several gods and goddesses. Nuit, Hadit, Heru-Ra-Ha, Pan, Babalon, Therion, etc. are all referenced. The rituals we use refer to YHVH, Adonai, Ehieh (Asher Ehieh), and various angels, such as Aiwass, Gabriel, Raphiel, Michael, and Uriel. We can continue, the list is legion.
However, we must remember Crowley’s words in Liber O, where he states “It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them”.
Back to Magick Without Tears, we are told that Thelema is “an enthusiastic putting-together of a series of doctrines, no one of which must in any way clash with Science or Magick.” Thelema seems to postulate the “Gods” as an operational jargon. When I refer to “Yahweh” it conjures an energy/symbol/archetype/being defined by the Tetragrammaton, whose qualities are known and defined through various techniques — since it is a Hebrew term, these are mostly via Qabalistic methods.
We are skeptical, which means we doubt both the Theist and the Atheist. The proper Thelemic view would be agnosticism, neither denying nor believing in the existence of the Gods. Even the Creed of Liber XV: The Gnostic Catholic Mass can be read in a strictly atheistic manner. I plan on doing a video on the creed at a later date.
Properly speaking, Thelema tells us to find out on our own. Crowley, who had practiced Theravāda Buddhism prior to his revelation, came to feel “My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.” It should be noted that Theravāda is a form of Nikaya Buddhism.
Likewise, I progressed from a virulent anti-Christian atheism (thanks to my parents having been born again while I was a child) to where I am today, which is a theistic leaning agnostic. I have had direct, personal, revelatory experiences with gods, goddesses, and the divine. However, this is subjective. They are my experiences and I cannot prove them to anyone else, nor do I try. Anecdotal experience is not proof. Neither can I prove that my personal subjective experiences were not delusion or misinterpretation. However, I felt pretty silly referring to myself as an atheist after I had met god.
I have found that many atheists are as committed to swaying others to their belief system as fundamentalist Christians are.
The closest I have for “proof” of the divine are the Principle of Grandeur and the fact that the Whole is Greater than Its Parts. These are actually related which may or may not be obvious from their descriptions.
The first is an animistic viewpoint. In fact, it is a principle behind the Japanese Shinto tradition. In the land of infinite gods, anything that imbues a sense of awe or wonder is considered a god. The spirits of place can inhabit a valley, a river, a stone, or a tree. Anything that creates a response in the minds of the viewer is a god. Nor is it restricted to natural items. The beauty of a gothic cathedral, the ubiquitousness of the Compact Disk, these are also gods. Gods also go away when that which created them goes away. The CD god is weakening. When a river is paved over, it’s god is diminished (this was the origin of Haku in the anime Spirited Away). The death or diminishment of a god isn’t always simple. The negative impacts can be seen in Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke.
The second revolves around the simple fact that, for example, we know the composition of the Human body. However, if we take all of these elements and mix them together, we would not have a human. When we take various colors and apply them to canvas, a thing of beauty emerges. This isn’t a call for intelligent design per se, it in no way attempts to deny the reality of evolution. However, there is, as Liber AL: II:32 puts it, “a factor infinite & unknown”.
So, to put it simply, Thelema is skeptical of the claims put forth by both Atheism and Theism. However, we do hold that there is something “plus” to the material realm. Having said that, there are Thelemites who hold either position, but (for the most part) they seem to be rather conflicted in their opinions and specious in their arguments.
Again, I apologize for the break in schedule.
Truth is found in the Rubble of Falsehood
Love is the law, love under will
Citations & Notes
Germany's far-right AfD has more immigrant MPs than Merkel's conservatives
Legends Football League
Maria de NaglowskaInitiatic Eroticism 
Chapter XXXI: Religion–Is Thelema a "New Religion"?
Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae sub figurâ VI
Liber XV: Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ
Chapter XXX: Do you believe in God?
Haku
Princess Mononoke
Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX as Delivered By XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI