Excellent, and I feel sure you'll find that your effort and the time taken will be rewarding.
I will certainly be interested in reading your completed commentary.
AFAIK, Myatt's commentary is one of the most comprehensive, scholarly, and accessible, ones published to date. The most...
Yes indeed. It has certainly become common, especially among the 'modern satanist' crowd, to judge or make assumptions concerning the Order of Nine Angles according to criteria such as the following: (i) on the basis of a rather mundane mis-understanding of some causal, and/or dialectically...
Yes, there are - at least in my universe - many. For if one studies the literature, ancient and modern, and in the original languages, regarding 'wisdom', it is evident that various people at various times understood and understand what we in the English-speaking world now describe by the term...
Yes indeed, which was one of the intentions behind publishing such material. The O9A was/is being heretical, adversarial, and presented/presents a different version of modern 'satanism' to that of LaVey and Aquino and others. Anton Long said as much way back in a letter to Diane Vera dated 28th...
Ignoratio elenchi (yet again) because you ignored or failed to appreciate, as J77 pointed out, that 'essence' and 'wisdom' are, in respect of O9A esotericism, not equivalent to the 'essence' and 'wisdom' determined (or more correctly posited) by Christian hermeneutics.
I wonder if, before...
Part Four - Conclusions
Given (i) this is a general LHP internet forum, and given (ii) the relative obscurity of the subject matter, and relatively obscure even to many if not most students of modern esotericism, and given (iii) the fact that the comments posted so far, and extensive as they...
Part Three
9. Mead - "The Revelation of the Pleroma - At this point in the treatise, the sequence of the narrative is broken by a second vision and is only resumed later. The breaking of the main narrative may be regarded as a necessary digression rather than as an interpolation of foreign...
Part Two
7. Mead - "The three most primal stages thus seem to be symbolized by Fire, the Watery Substance, and Darkness [...] The Light was the Child of the supreme Trinity - the First Man, the Second Man, and the Holy Spirit or First Woman. This Light is what the Jewish and Christian...
Herewith the first part of some preliminary comments of mine. As you will see, I agree with some of your comments, while disagreeing (or slightly disagreeing) with other comments of yours.
Note that: (1) I have used Mead's book rather than the extracts you give because the book places Mead's...
Thank you, most interesting, and I am in process of formulating a reply, although given that I am now taking my 'annual leave' it may be a few days or longer before my reply is ready to be posted here.
Excellent. I also am not qualified nor knowledgeable enough to expound upon philological matters in relation to that Greek text, given that my own field of expertise, while necessary and important to the functioning of modern Western societies and certainly more lucrative in terms of 'filthy...
Certainly we might discuss the matter, although I assume the discussion will be about ancient Hellenic hermeticism and modern occult philosophies embodying some aspects of such ancient hermeticism, rather than about philology.
I fled him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled him, down the arches of the years;
I fled him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from him, and under running laughter.
No, you haven't.
Wrong. Because that very specific question I asked you here was not asked on the 600 club because the admission by Kris (which forms part of the question) came after those postings on the 600club.
Perhaps you can now make up yet another silly excuse for not - directly and...
Perhaps, and in respect of a previous post of mine, if you 'combine and connect' and make an intuitive leap of the kind expected of those who have been practicing occultists for x number of years, then you would appreciate such a presentation and why it's not suspicious.
The post I refer to is...
Actually, they're not 'petty' and they're not accusations but useful 'personality indicators' (detected characteristics) and a record of things he said or claimed. That you believe they are accusations is interesting.
But if that's how you see those indications - in your desire to defend him -...
So, in your opinion, the following examples don't reveal anything about him at all:
1. Accusing every O9A person who sparred with him here or elsewhere - or who mentioned him - of being Anton Long in disguise.
2. Writing a post containing his own very mundane ritual of initiation and which...
Here are some, possibly interesting, things that Kris, you, and perhaps some others who have commented upon this on-going saga, might consider as possibly relevant to, or possibly not relevant to, that saga and the above comments of yours.
1. "I have believed since I began my journey with ONA...
Words deleted after he did more research using primary sources. Which is why you and you 'temple' weren't included in the published book.
FYI, that's how scholars work - honestly revising drafts when further research using primary sources is undertaken.
Which comment may well be revised...
There you go again, failing to answer, yet again, the one simple question that gets to the heart of the matter.
Why don't you just answer the question instead of continuing to commit the fallacy of ignoratio elenchi?
And I see someone who refuses - for some reason - to answer a simple...