Ezra Pound: Axiomata (1921)

I

1. The intimate essence of the universe is not of the same nature as our own consciousness.
2. Our own consciousness is incapable of having produced the universe.
3. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
4. The universe exists. By exists we mean normally: is perceptible to our consciousness or deducible by human reason from data perceptible to our consciousness.
5. Concerning the intimate essence of the universe we are utterly ignorant. We have no proof that this God, Theos, is one, or is many, or is divisible or indivisible, or is an ordered hierarchy culminating, or not culminating, in a unity.
6. Not only is our consciousness, or any concentration or coagulation of such consciousness or consciousnesses, incapable of having produced the universe, it is incapable of accounting for how said universe has been and is.
7. Dogma is bluff based upon ignorance.
8. There is benevolent and malevolent dogma. Benevolent dogma is an attempt to “save the world” by instigating it to accept certain propositions. Malevolent dogma is an attempt to gain control over others by persuading them to accept certain propositions.
   There is also nolent,¹ un-volent² dogma, a sort of automatic reaction in the mind of the dogmatiser, who may have come to disaster by following certain propositions, and who, from this, becomes crampedly convinced that contrary propositions are true.
9. Belief is a cramp, a paralysis, an atrophy of the mind in certain positions.

II

1. It is as foolish to try to contain the Theos in consciousness as to try to manage electricity according to the physics of water. It is as non-workable as to think not only of our consciousness managing electricity according to the physics of water, but as to think of the water understanding the physics of electricity.
2. All systems of philosophy fail when they attempt to set down axioms of the Theos in terms of consciousness and of logic; similiter³ by the same figure that electricity escapes the physics of water.
3. The selection of monotheism, polytheism, pluralism, dual, trinitarian god or gods, or hierarchies, is pure matter of individual temperament (in free minds), and of tradition in environment of discipular,⁴ bound minds.
4. Historically the organisation of religions has usually been for some ulterior purpose, exploitation, control of the masses, etc.

III

1. This is not to deny that the consciousness may be affected by the Theos (remembering that we ascribe to this Theos neither singular nor plural number).
2. The Theos may affect and may have affected the consciousness of individuals, but the consciousness, is incapable of knowing why this occurs, or even in what manner it occurs, or whether it be the Theos; though the consciousness may experience pleasant and possibly unpleasant sensations, or sensations partaking neither of pleasure or its opposite. Hence mysticism. If the consciousness receives or has received such effects from the Theos, or from something not the Theos yet which the consciousness has been incapable of understanding or classifying either as Theos or a-Theos, it is incapable of reducing these sensations to coherent sequence of cause and effect. The effects remain, so far as the consciousness is concerned, in the domain of experience, not differing intellectually from the taste of a lemon or the fragrance of violets or the aroma of dunghills, or the feel of a stone or of tree-bark, or any other direct perception. As the consciousness observes the results of the senses, it observes also the mirage of the senses, or what may be a mirage of the senses, or an affect from the Theos, the non-comprehensible.
3. This is not to deny any of the visions or auditions or sensations of the mystics, Dante’s rose or Theresa’s walnut; but it is to affirm the propositions in Section I.

IV

1. The consciousness may be aware of the effects of the unknown and of the non-knowable on the consciousness, but this does not affect the proposition that our consciousness is utterly ignorant of the nature of the intimate essence. For instance: a man may be hit by a bullet and not know its composition, nor the cause of its having been fired, nor its direction, nor that it is a bullet. He may die almost instantly, knowing only the sensation of shock. Thus consciousness may perfectly well register certain results, as sensation, without comprehending their nature (see I, 1). He may even die of a long-considered disease without comprehending its bacillus.⁵
2. The thought here becomes clouded, and we see the tendency of logic to move in a circle. Confusion between a possibly discoverable bacillus and a non-knowable Theos. Concerning the ultimate nature of the bacillus, however, no knowledge exists; but the consciousness may learn to deal with superficial effects of the bacillus, as with the directing of bullets. confusion enters argument the moment one calls in analogy. We return to clarity of Section I (1-9).
3. The introduction of analogy has not affected our proposition that the “intimate essence” exists. It has muddied our conception of the non-knowability of the intimate essence.
   
   [Speculation.—Religions have introduced analogy? Philosophies have attempted sometimes to do without it. This does not prove that religions have muddied all our concepts. There is no end to the variants one may draw out of the logical trick-hat.]

V

1. It is, however, impossible to prove whether the Theos be one or many.
2. The greatest tyrannies have arisen from the dogma that the Theos is one, or that there is a unity above various strata of Theos which imposes its will upon the sub-strata, and thence upon human individuals.
3. Certain beauties of fancy and of concept have arisen both from the proposition of many gods and from that of one god, or of an orderly arrangement of the Theos.
4. A choice of these fancies of the Theos is a matter of taste; as the preference of Durer or Velasquez, or the Moscophorus, or Amenhotep’s effigy, or the marbles of Phidias.
5. Religion usually holds that the Theos can be, by its patent system, exploited.
6. It is not known whether the Theos may be or may not be exploited.
7. Most religions offer a system or a few tips for exploiting the Theos.
8. Men often enjoy the feeling that they are performing this exploitation, or that they are on good terms with the Theos.
9. There is no harm in this, so long as they do not incommode anyone else.
10. The reason why they should not incommode anyone else is not demonstrable; it belongs to that part of the concepts of consciousness which we call common decency.
11. We do not quite know how we have come by these concepts of common decency, but one supposes it is our heritage from superior individuals of the past; that it is the treasure of tradition. Savages and professed believers in religion do not possess this concept of common decency. They usually wish to interfere with us, and to get us to believe something “for our good”.
12. A belief is, as we have said, a cramp, and thence progressively a paralysis or atrophy of the mind in a given position.

Note

This terse statement of his philosophy was Pound’s farewell to London. Having made it, he went to Paris, and then to Rapallo.

First published in The New Age, Vol. XXVIII, No. 11, 13 January, 1921, pp. 125-6.
Proofread and annotated by Fergus Cullen (2016-7).
Further proofreading and annotation by Nexist Xenda’ths.
Source: https://philosophylibrary.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/axiomata-ezra-pound-1921/ (2018 August 21)

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1: Nōlent: third-person plural future active indicative of nolō. Nōlō: I am unwilling, I wish not, I want not, I refuse. 

2: Volent: exercising volition 

3: Similiter: a reply by which the pleader in a common law pleading concurs with the other party in requesting trial by jury. (I think it is saying that both agree they are not bound by the laws which bind the other). 

4: Discipular: of, relating to, or befitting a disciple. 

5: Bacillus: (generally) all cylindrical or rodlike bacteria.

All footnotes are Nexist Xenda'ths. If I had to look it up to make sure I understood the word/context, I added a footnote. Also, Blogger hated the hyperlinked footnotes, so they were removed.

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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Armitage III

The Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law

This essay came about from a discussion on another forum. It dates from about a year and a half ago. Some Edits have been made to (hopefully) clarify the text.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself. (AL: Comment)

In the Tunis Comment, which is often used by the OTO and other self-identified Thelemites to stifle/avoid open discussion on what it means to be a Thelemite, we are instructed to look to Crowley’s writings. It strikes me as strange that his full commentaries are not in print. We were promised them back in the 1990s, but they have not materialized.

While the commentaries, which I understand to be abridged, are available online, the only published commentaries are out of print. This includes the “new” version of The Law is for All (1996) [Priced 26 May 2018 at $118 used]. The gold standard for commentaries has always been the Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law (1974). This book has been out of print for some time. I almost had a heart attack when I realized that replacing it would cost about a $1000  [Priced 26 May 2018 at $765 used].

This book contains the Old and New Commentaries interspersed with the verses, and the Djeridensis Comment at the end. The old and new comments are differently edited than those of the original Law is for All (1983) [26 May Only $75 used]. Reading them all is probably the best option available to us. I will continue to wish for a complete, faithful edition of Crowley’s commentary, preferably with footnotes explaining any references, people, or places alluded to by the text.

Anyway, the commentary is important. It elaborates on the metaphysics underpinning the new Æon as understood by Crowley--who is enjoined in the text to do this. Accepting the Law means accepting the spiritual authority of Crowley as the prophet of the new Æon, and this text tells you what that means.

The text must be read carefully and repeatedly. There are many things that will upset modern readers, entrenched as they are in the modern worldview. Then again, I am very amused by how long passages of the most objectionable type (e.g. on women) are then followed by a “but we of Thelema reverse all of this”.

While writing this, I noticed that The Hermetic Library has a Magical & Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law section under Liber AL vel Legis. I do not know if this is an actual transcription of the book or merely the old and new comments combined. I also spied the Djeridensis Comment, but the formatting of Chapter I is odd (it is in two columns in the book). (While checking to see if it is a faithful reproduction, I found that it is incomplete) [Note: As of 26 May 2018, it seems to be complete].

Further reading can be found at the bottom of The Hermetic Library’s Liber AL vel Legis page (Additional Reading is at the bottom).

#thelema #liberal #crowley #outofprintbookspissmeoff

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

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Ending:

Coil

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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

Music: Foetus - Lilith

Includes a montage of images and a few informational slides.

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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Seasons Greetings! Music: Blood Axis - Bearer of 1000 Eyes / Lord of Ages

The Reason for the Season.

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

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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

Opening:
Kai Engel
Chant Of Night Blades
Deathless: The Renaissance
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Google is violating copyrights & doesn't care

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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.

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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.

VLOG

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.

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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?

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de Naglowska: Open Letter to Pius XI & Initiatic Eroticism

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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.

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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

Pedophilia (Response)

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

On 27 July 2017, I uploaded what I thought was an amusing anecdote of a discussion I had with my third son regarding the pro-pedophilia site, Heart Progress. Despite what I consider to be the horrific nature of the site and its agenda — i.e., the normalization of sexual relations between adults and pre-pubescent children, I tried to keep it light in tone and focused more on my child’s reactions and our discussion. My third son is 17, and I have an open topic policy with all of my children. If they have heard about it, it needs to be discussed so that misinformation does not grow and fester.
The video touches upon the difference between Pedophilia, Hebephilia, and Ephebophilia (the interest in pre-pubescent, young teen, and older teens). It also discussed the history of the normalization of Pedophilia, particularly pederasty, via the person of Hakim Bey and the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
The only responses to date are from Pedophile Apologists.
Now I have no way to know (& really no inclination to find out) if the responses are from one or more people. Since the anonymous postings are trivial, I have just rolled them into the same discussion.
It all started with some anonymous poster stating that “Pedosexuality is natural, its OK, and we shouldn't be ashamed of it.”
I wrote back that animals often engage in unsavory practices, google did not give me any hits to support intercourse with sexually immature members of the species, and that yes, if shame is necessary to keep one from hurting children, then one should feel shame.
I am going to interject here with some definitions. The vague terms were refined later in the thread, but one could interpret the exchange as my moving the goalposts. From the beginning, I meant intercourse to mean “penetrative sexual intercourse” and “sexually immature” as pre-pubescent. Fortunately, my “opponents” are as poor in reasoning and logic as they are fact deficient, so they did not capitalize on the vagueness to perform any equivocation, nor to accuse me of moving the goalposts. However, I do hope that some of the people listening are better versed in reasoning than the posters to this thread.
Anyway, this is where Otis Jenkins jumped in. I will admit that I did not recognize “Frans de waal” as a name. He claimed that the Bonobos were our closest relatives and that they were wanton pedophiles. After I demanded a citation, he gave me an article with page numbers and a claim that he had read the article. I then procured the article (and some others) and found three things. One, the page citation was the whole article, it matched the Wikipedia article citation, and the article did not support his assertion of penetrative sex with pre-pubescent members of their species. We will discuss the article later.
When I told him this and demanded a real citation (i.e. page) he responded with a video whose description (in Italian) indicated sex with a youth. When I pointed this out to him he told me it was obvious that it was a child. He then responded with another video showing a mother and child, where the mother rubbed the girl’s genitals to soothe it to sleep. Evidently, this was supposed to prove that the first video actually depicted a pre-pubescent since “they were the same size”. He got pissy when I pointed out that neither actually counted as proof and that I was not an expert on bonobos such that I could visibly identify age and sexual maturity.
After a weeks worth of exchanges, of which I have taken screen shots so even if he deletes his comments I have a record, he still hasn’t provided me with the actual citation from the article which he claims supports his position. He has also called me a Nazi repeatedly for disagreeing with him. Obviously, such a charge has duly chastised me and I am torn with agony. He has also failed to respond to my question of whether one should engage in other behaviors such as not giving food to women unless they put out, or whether one should kill the children of women who refuse to have sex with oneself.
You can read the thread for yourself, if you so choose. As these things go, it isn’t all that long.
As a result of this thread, I’ve learned far more about the bonobos that I could reasonably have wanted. They are perpetually caught in the 70s-80s hedonistic lifestyle. They do not seem to pair bond, and will engage in sex for any reason from boredom to food to apologize — and sometimes even for the purpose of procreating.
The article we will discuss is 1990 paper by Frans B.M. de Waal titled “Sociosexual Behavior Used for Tension Regulation in All Age and Sex Combinations Among Bonobos.” It was published in the book Pedophilia, pp.378-393.
The first thing to notice about the article is its age. This does not invalidate the research, but it does beg the question of what more recent research indicates — and why more recent research is not used to bolster the pro-pedophiliacs arguments. From the limited research I did on the topic, I found nothing to contradict de Waal’s findings, but I must stress that the amount of research I did was not at the level of what I would have engaged had I been writing a paper for instructor or peer review.
Next, It should be noted that this study was done on captive bonobos and might not be indicative of wild bonobo behavior. Again, other papers seem to indicate that the behavior is similar, but the fact of their captivity should be born in mind. After all, the Wolf hierarchy study received much criticism for this when people tried to discredit the the resulting idea of Alpha-Beta-Gamma-Omega roles (& which partially succeeded in collapsing the hierarchy to merely two levels, Alpha-Beta).
First off, it should be noted that in the entire 16 pages of the article, it does not support the assertion of penetrative sexual intercourse with pre-pubescent members of the species. In fact, while the article does indicate sexual play, it never involved penetration, and it was always initiated by the child. Essentially, the child would rub her genitals on the other members. I quote from page 382: “Mounts with the female infant never resulted in intromission or ejaculation”. Also from 382: “sociosexual contacts of adults and adolescents with the infant were initiated by the infant herself”.
Now while the article on bonobos does not support pedophilia, it does make a strong case for the normalization of prostitution. On page 387: “The interaction [food sharing] could even take place as an exchange, e.g., a female presents to a male who is holding a large bundle of branches and leaves and takes the entire bundle out of his hands immediately following sexual intercourse.” If we follow the bonobo way of life, women don’t get dinner until the men get the nookie.
Now Otis posited that bonobos were the “closest”, but in reality, that divergence was some 8 million years ago, as was that with the chimpanzees. Both can be accurately called humans closest relatives. However, both show different mating strategies and sexual “mores” (for want of a better term). You can read about that on page 387-389.
Now Otis seemed to be arguing that since bonobos were closely related to humans, we should emulate their behaviors. This is just stupid. First there is the logical fallacy of analogy going on here — or perhaps identity would be more accurate. Essentially, to say that because A is like B whatever qualities A has must also be present in B is wrong. This can only be the case if A=B and B=A. That is, if Humans are Bonobos and Bonobos are Humans. Since this is false, Otis’ argument fails logically.
However, let us look more deeply. Humans have a civilization and culture. We (arguably) have the ability to reason. We also have a greater intellect. Humans also have a longer maturation process. A Bonobo goes from infant to puberty in 6 years. Rather than forming family units through pair-bonding, they exist in a looser collective reminiscent of a free-love commune.
Humans are not suited for a social structure such as the bonobo displays. This can be seen in the wreckage of the 1960s were free love communes imploded. Simply put, if you want to live as a bonobo, you should go live with the bonobos. I will admit to an abstract curiosity as to how the bonobos would react if a pedophile actually penetrated one of their children. I am also curious as to how the pedophile would react to all of the necessary adult sexual interaction of both hetro & homosexual nature. Poor little pedophile would have to have sex with adults too.
Also, let us not pretend that “love” is a part of this. Love is a poetic description of the pair bonding process. There is no love in the sexual activity of the bonobos. One could argue that there is no love in any animal sexual activity, even those who pair bond, but that gets into a more philosophical realm.
So yeah, to anyone trying to normalize pedophilia: You need medical assistance before you harm a child and need to be removed from society. Your naturalist arguments do not appear to be correct. Evidence cited in favor of nurturing sexual relations with adults and pre-pubescent children fails to support your position.
Even were such evidence to be found, you would still need to demonstrate that such examples are applicable to a different species. Even among humans, the fact that Joe robbed a store does not mean that you should be allowed to rob a store. In a similar fashion, just because the simpler brain structures of one of our  primate relative that diverged from our common ancestor 8 million years ago (& not all of our primate relatives) allow some sexual play with immature members of their species, this does not indicate that it is proper or natural for human beings to engage in such play.
Hopefully, this will wrap up this rather stupid and disgusting exchange.
Truth is found in the Rubble of FalsehoodLove is the law, love under will
This is a video response to the rather inane thread by Otis Jenkins, who seems to be an advocate for having sex with children. If this is a mis-characterization, Otis, please let me know.
For legal reasons, please do not interpret this as a call to harass Otis for his views.
Original Video
Citations:
de Waal, Frans B.M. Sociosexual Behavior Used for Tension Regulation in All Age and Sex Combinations Among Bonobos.  (1990)
Primate Factsheet: Bonobos

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