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Scarlet Imprint Red Goddess LAUNCH PARTY [Jun. 14th, 2008|03:46 pm]

scarletimprint
Dear Friends,

You are cordially invited to the Launch party for The Red Goddess at midday on the Summer Solstice Saturday June 21 at Atlantis Bookshop in London, England.

Please be prompt as from there we will be proceeding to the British Museum for a ritual reading at the John Dee exhibit.
We are deliberately evoking BABALON on this date at this time in this location.

We will then be returning to Atlantis for champagne cocktails and spirited discussion.

To reserve your place please call 020 7405 2120 or email info@theatlantisbookshop.com

We look forward to seeing you there.

If you cannot make it, do a raise a glass to Her at the Solstice.

In Nomine Babalon

Scarlet Imprint x

We have also attached the public press release below for The Red Goddess, if you belong to any online groups or are the webmaster of a news site, please feel free to post. We very much appreciate your support.

Dear Friends,

Scarlet Imprint are delighted to announce the publication of: The Red Goddess for midday Summer Solstice June 21.

This title is now available for you to order.

The Red Goddess is an octavo book of 260pp, printed throughout in red and black ink, and with four luscious plates.
The standard edition is strikingly bound in white book cloth, scarlet endpapers, and embossed with the seven pointed star of BABALON. Each and every book is perfumed and consecrated.

It is being prepared in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of seven hundred and seventy-seven copies.
A copy can be yours for thirty-seven English pounds plus postage.

In addition, 49 devotee copies of The Red Goddess are being quarter bound in black moroccan goat and finished in scarlet silk with hand marbled endpapers. These fine books will be bound by Brian Settle. Each one a work of art and rare beauty in a world of mass production. We will only sell these direct to individuals who contact us and explain why they wish to own a copy, a necessary step given the speculators who seek to profit from our work.
These are magickal books, for a magickal purpose, and that is their value.
We do accept installments, as we want our books to reach the right people.

The devotee copies will each cost an hundred and fifty six English pounds plus secure delivery.

The Red Goddess is an ecstatic journey through the unheard history of BABALON, from Revelations back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magickal current.
This is an explicit and challenging vision of a very modern Goddess coming into power. This is more than a history, it is a passionate account of living magick and the transcendent power of Love.

The epic sweep of the text takes us from Babylon to Jerusalem to Rome, and onwards to Apocalypse.
It looks at the angelic work of renaissance mage John Dee.
It lays bare the excesses of Aleister Crowley, and unlocks the secrets of Waratah Blossoms.
It explains the immolation of the Californian antichrist-superstar Jack Parsons and his relationship with Scientology founder L.Ron Hubbard.

This is the missing history of the Holy Whore.

Thirteen essays conclude the book on subjects including: roses, mirror magick, BDSM, aphrodisiac drugs, the information age, love vs lust, and the meaning of apocalypse.

Intelligent and balanced reviews for the previous edition from both readers and people of standing in the occult community can be found at www.scarletimprint.com

Those working with Ishtar, Inanna, Lilith, Kali, Sekhmet, Bast, Freya, Pomba Gira, Erzulie, witchcraft, Tantra, sacred sex and ritual transgression will find much here to intrigue, inspire and challenge them.

The Red Goddess is suitable for anyone with blood in their veins, regardless of tradition, background or experience.

It is a Love story.

To secure your copy please credit our paypal account for £37 plus postage scarletimprint@gmail.com

Postage rates are:
UK First Class £4
Europe £6
Worldwide £10

If you do not have a paypal account and wish to pay by cheque (uk residents only), please email us and we will forward you our postal address.
If you need our IBAN and SWIFT numbers for an international bank transfer again, email us and we will provide you with them.

Full details can be found at www.scarletimprint.com

This is an important book for these times.

In Nomine Babalon

Scarlet Imprint x

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Book of the Law [Mar. 21st, 2008|02:52 am]
uncle_sydney
This may not be the place for this, but I'm hoping if not, I can get a few hints what the right place would be.
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Esozone 2007, "where were you when" [Mar. 12th, 2008|06:41 am]

agent139




Key64 retrospective.

Here's the Alterati.com article I wrote about the event after arriving back to Philly. (It includes some additional video content.)

All signs say EsoZone 2008 is happening. It'll be interesting to see how it grows.
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Esozone 2007, "where were you when" [Mar. 12th, 2008|06:41 am]

agent139




Key64 retrospective.

Here's the Alterati.com article I wrote about the event after arriving back to Philly. (It includes some additional video content.)

All signs say EsoZone 2008 is happening. It'll be interesting to see how it grow.
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So [Nov. 20th, 2007|06:43 pm]

aktiophi
Did Howard the Mad Prophet collapse on stage because the Hacketts who program the CCA (falsely called) pardoned him and relinquished their copyright on his image, or did the CCA kill him?

One wonders if it's at all possible for me to convey, illustrate, and terminate the last thread, for all of you, binding us to the reality of their illusions.

Can you shut off the tube, and be at one with the tube? Can you fuse with the image? Can you let go of the fear of being entirely alone?

Others' entanglements in the Hacketts' illusions keep us unenlightened. And everyone whose feet touches the Earth is infected by varying degrees.

Want power unimaginable? Want immortality? Want legacy? Want Empire?

Separate yourself from the weak and the Hacketts' illusions. Be alone. Conquer yourself which is the tube.

Eyes open, centered, beyond emotion though fully relaxed in an upright position without back support, train not to blink.

How many times do you carry the cross? 6 times.

Be a Hackett, you're called.
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aktiophi
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Last Night's Dream [Nov. 18th, 2007|12:02 pm]

aktiophi
I heard a still, metallic, multi-harmonic feminine voice quip to me:

"Cancer Waters: for fucking and sucking."

LOL

But really, are we going to work to save this ship or what?
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November Events, Mons Abiegnus Oasis, SF, CA [Oct. 27th, 2007|10:24 am]

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

Mons Abiegnus Oasis will be presenting the following public events in November at our beautiful lodge in San Francisco's Mission District. After the Halloween death celebrations, come on in and enjoy a little life, a little snack, and good company of creative people. Yes, you can dress up if you really can't stop Halloweening. All are welcome!
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Understanding Eastern Meditation [Oct. 7th, 2007|12:17 am]

aktiophi

Depending on which account one considers most accurate, it’s been argued Patanjali wrote the Yoga Sutra as a response to Siddharta Gautama's philosophy of Buddhism. The latter is a deviation from the Samkhya philosophy, the oldest Hindu orthodox religion derived from the Indo-Iranian Vedic civilization; the former, a clarification of it. Before Buddhism spread to China Daoism of Laozi was in every way similar to the Samkhya philosophy save a few minor details in meditative practice, which they adapted from Mongolian shamans. Tibetan Buddhists incorporated Mongolian shamanism into their edicts as well. Suffice it to say these three primary Eastern monoliths of thought differ in only mild ways. They may label their meditative states of consciousness by numerous names, but each state of consciousness is the same, with the exception of Nirvana. The most descript among the philosophies is the Samkhya as expounded by Patanjali. As such I’ll use its linguistic variants; and hopefully successfully show how dualistic Monotheistic religions beginning with Zoroastrianism, borrowed, perhaps for solely political reasons, from the Samkhya.

The premise is that there is a superimposition of two distinct, separate and absolute eternities: Consciousness and Matter; Purusha and Prakriti respectively. Matter through the three Gunas Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, comprise the perceived physical Universe. Matter by Western esotericism is Soul. Tamas is life existing without spiritual contemplation; Rajas is the origination of emotional afflictions; Sattva is source of mental afflictions; and Matter is central to the physiological, and not the spiritual, condition.

The stages of contemplation are really few in classification. At first one contemplates in the stages of Samprajnata Samadhi, which is the harmonization and negation of emotional and mental afflictions in one’s present incarnation [klesha-vrtti and citta-vrtti]. The result is realization of Soul, the symbolic Christ. By Samyama eventually one realizes the Oversoul, as detailed by Ralph Waldo Emerson; or Asamprajnata Samadhi. Here is where Western civilization’s orthodoxy ends.

If Samyama is adhered to within Asamprajnata Samadhi a phenomenon takes places that evidences through an onslaught of memories of the æons of incarnations one’s had. The realizing such brings to the surface a terrestrial individuality that is at once superior to and also responsible for numerous incarnations. The Iranian Sufis call this the Pure Inner Man, or Phos. In Judæic religios it’s called I AM, or Eheieh. By modern occultic convention due to the fusion of solely Western religions and philosophies falsely label the experience and the state as The Holy Guardian Angel.

There are two states of consciousness that preside over Phos; that if not realized continues the cycle of reincarnation. Much fear has been propagated, starting with the certain sects of Jewish orthodoxy adopting Babylonian pagan pantheonism, of the passage that integrates Phos with omnipresent and omniscient consciousness. They’ld have you believe that extinction of the spiritual identity is only found beyond Asamprajnata Samahdi. With the New Testament of the Bible only pointing to Samprajnata Samadhi for those not privy to Samyama or the symbolic meaning of the Crucifixion, Islam was founded not in a way dissimilar than that of Patanjali expanded the Samkhya philosophy. Sufism treats Gnostic and Eastern philosophies fairly.

The passage Kabbalists call Da’at; Sufis call the Black Light, or nir-e siyah; Eastern philosophies call Void and the Egyptians call the Abyss is the sole cohesive force that unites two eternal infinities. As Phos the experience is wholly narcissistic and linear. One may feel as if connected to the entire Universe but it is in no way different in perspective than if we were to assume that realization in our physical forms without meditation. By Samyama and after the passage through the Abyss one realizes that they are the very strata that created Matter. However in Dharma Megha Samadhi Matter isn’t entirely extracted from Consciousness. By Samyama Nirivikalpa Samadhi shows Truth in eternal omnipresent reality in all time-frame dimensions and omniscience: The Ancient of Most Ancient Teachers. If Nirvikalpa Samadhi isn’t realized in one incarnation reincarnating is inevitable, and one begins, if they are lucky to begin again, from the very first step on the path of spiritual freedom.

The Western Truth of raping Matter and Hearts of Knowledge is a lie and called siddhi indulgence to a Raja Yogi.

Siddharta Gautama called the state beyond Nirvikalpa Samadhi Nirvana. Others call it God. Everyone sane calls it spiritual extinction.

Tell me: How do governments benefit by you not realizing your utmost spiritual potential?

Every man, woman and child can be free and free from being governed. That’s the threat. That’s where your programmed fear of loss of individual free-will and economic concerns originate; that, and being manipulated by your peers not to realize your supreme and sovereign existence because they are too cowardly, or ignorant in their own studies, to realize it in themselves.

What of Magick in the highest planes? Do you not think if realizing that one IS the strata that created Matter one can't mold Matter to one's Will?
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Public Events in SF, CA, October! Mons Abiegnus Oasis [Sep. 29th, 2007|11:26 am]

dbananza
October Public Events...

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Ripple Debut [Sep. 21st, 2007|01:58 pm]

agent139





Ari, Nate, and Ray Carney interview Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Mr Bungle, and Mimicry Records. This is part one of a two part interview. (For part two, check back tomorrow.)

Listen now.
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Events in SF, CA Sunday 9/16, Mons Abiegnus Oasis [Sep. 7th, 2007|10:01 am]

dbananza
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Gnostic Mass, SF, CA Sunday, Sept. 2 [Aug. 29th, 2007|09:47 am]

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

Mons Abiegnus Oasis will be celebrating Liber XV, the liturgy of the Gnostic Mass as written by Saint Edward Alexander Crowley, on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 4:18 P.M.Read more... )
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Esozone 2007 [Aug. 18th, 2007|05:39 am]

agent139






First-hand report of the recently completed Esozone 2007 occultural event in Portland, which featured the likes of Paul Laffoley, The Foolish People, Freeman, the Viking Youth, and many others. Includes video and audio from the event.

(Alterati article.)
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august 19, SF, CA: Two Classes at Mons Abiegnus Oasis [Aug. 11th, 2007|10:56 am]

dbananza
93,

Sunday, August 19 in our beautiful San Francisco location... Please join us for two presentations:
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BABALON The Red Goddess [Jul. 11th, 2007|10:25 am]

scarletimprint

Scarlet Imprint announces the publication of:

The Red Goddess by Peter Grey on 07/07/07

A strictly limited talismanic publication in an edition of an hundred and fifty and six copies.
All copies are hardback slip cased and 156pp, professionally printed, bound, consecrated, numbered, signed and sealed.

The contents and conclusions of this book have never been published elsewhere.


The Red Goddess
takes you through a tale of sex, drugs and violence.

This is an ecstatic journey through the unheard history of BABALON from Revelations, back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magickal current.

This is an explicit and challenging vision of a very modern goddess coming into power.
This is more than a history, it is a passionate account of living magick and the transcendent power of Love.

The Red Goddess answers the fundamental questions:
 

Who is BABALON?
Why should we care?
Where did She come from and where is She going?

Does Revelations have anything to tell us?
Is there a hidden western tradition of sacred sex?

The epic sweep of the text takes us from Babylon to Jerusalem to Rome, and onwards to Apocalypse.
It looks at the angelic work of renaissance mage John Dee. 
It delivers a devastating exegisis on the excesses of Aleister Crowley, and unlocks the secrets of Waratah Blossoms.
It explains the immolation of the Californian antichrist-superstar Jack Parsons and his relationship with Scientology founder L.Ron Hubbard.

There is also a full supporting cast of Solomon, Simon Magus, St John the Divine, Earl Bothwell, the Templars, Mary, the Magdalene and countless others.

This is the missing history of the Holy Whore.

Thirteen essays conclude the book on subjects including: roses, mirror magick, BDSM, aphrodisiac drugs,  the information age, love vs lust, and the meaning of apocalypse.

Those working with Ishtar, Inanna, Lilith, Kali, Sekhmet, Bast, Freya, Pomba Gira, Erzulie, witchcraft, tibetan tantra, sacred sex and transgression will find much here to intrigue and inspire them.

The Red Goddess is suitable for anyone with blood in their veins, regardless of tradition, background or experience. 

It is a Love story.

Full information at www.scarletimprint.com

In Nomine Babalon

Alkistis Dimech x

Editrix

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SF, CA-- Gnostic Mass, Sunday August 15 [Jul. 11th, 2007|12:07 am]

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

Mons Abiegnus Oasis will be celebrating Liber XV, the liturgy of the
Gnostic Mass as written by Saint Edward Alexander Crowley, on Sunday,
August 5th 2007 at Noon.

The Gnostic Mass is the central celebration of the O.T.O., both public and
private. Join with us as we perform this sacred rite, and partake of the
Eucharist of Light, Life, Love and Liberty.

Before the Mass we will be performing Baptism into Ecclesia Gnostica
Catholica, the liturgical arm of the O.T.O. The ceremony of Baptism is
open to anyone over the age of 11 (minors will require permission from
their parents or legal guardian).

All members of the Order, as well as the public, are invited to attend.
Please contact secretary@sf-oto.org to let us know you will be coming and
for details on location. Please specify if you wish to receive Baptism,
and further details will be provided.

The Gnostic Mass:
http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/gnostic_mass.htm

Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica:
http://oto-usa.org/egc.html

Love is the law, love under will.

Mons Abiegnus Oasis
Ordo Templi Orientis
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
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July Events, Mons Abiegnus Oasis, SF, CA [Jun. 25th, 2007|02:50 pm]

dbananza
93--Come combat the Dread Magickal Armchair with our interactive workshops! All are welcome. Read more... )
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The Black Dot [Jun. 11th, 2007|01:13 am]

agent139
http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=589

"Alterati editor-in-chief James tipped me off to a book he saw in a crazy book store tucked away in an obscure corner of Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market. Beside the Aleister Crowley and Eliphas Levi tomes and David Icke DVDs was a book about a magickal approach to hip hop. After some digging The Matrix of Hip Hop website and the Hip Hop Decoded: From its Ancient Origin to its Modern Day Matrix book was unearthed.

The author – Harlem based The Black Dot – outlays a trippy occult Hip Hop cosmology, probably best expressed in the video The Five Bloodlines of Hip Hop, where we learn how our ancestors (well, maybe not mine …) came to earth through five elemental gateways, how the Golden Age was destroyed by parasitic mutants, the transformation of the elemental archetypes of communication (Hieroglyphics, Drummer, Oracle, and Dancer into Graffiti, DJ, Emcee, and B-Boy), the unifying power of the etheric pineal gland, how the ancestral bloodlines were reactivated by hip hop in 1973, how the mutants tried to use gangster rap to thwart the reactivation and the hip hop zero point singularity of 2012 where the planet will vibrate to throbbing higher dimensional beats and rhymes."
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Foucault’s Pendulum: Too Obscure To Piss Off The Pope. [Jun. 5th, 2007|05:22 am]

agent139





Despite the glut of ridiculous controversy that surrounded the rather mediocre Da Vinci Code - which to date has included the outrage of an “Albino rights” group and the ruffled feathers of the “mythical” Opus Dei - a great deal of the information at the heart of that story is (loosely) based on fact.

Given quotes from Vatican officials, such as Monsignor Robert Sarno, “…I just think it has been given a lot more truth value and faith value than it has … it just reads as an entertaining value,” perhaps their gripe is that their Holy scripture is much the same.

The Da Vinci Code is not the first book to cover these subjects; it may, however, be the most watered down and trivialized. In a world where everything must be accurately summarized in a paragraph, it is no wonder that it became a mass market hit.

For that reason, I wanted to point your attention instead towards Umberto Ecco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, a book which was both a little too dense and a little too early to catch the recognition it deserved.

Full article on Alterati.com (includes excerpt of Audio Book by Tim Curry.)
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