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EsoZone approaching

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:37:59 GMT

For those of you who haven't bought tickets yet, I suggest you do so. This year's event looks to be bigger and better than last, including luminaries like Dennis McKenna, Antero Alli, Paul Laffoley, musical performances, and a lot more.

If that wasn't enough, "famous on the Internet" James Curcio will be there. Presenting an audio installation, as well as possibly a workshop. I am also working on lining up a special late-night treat for all of you- I'll make an announcement if it goes through.

Speakers at Esozone.

http://www.esozone.com

Scarlet Imprint Red Goddess LAUNCH PARTY

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:46:50 GMT

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

Book of the Law

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:06:21 GMT

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.

I've been reading the Book of the Law, and I'm seeing discrepancies between the type written version at the beginning, and the copy of the MS at the back.
Book 1:14 in the TS shows the first stanza of the obverse side of the Stele of Revealing. The MS shows 1 hard to make out line of script, that doesn't match. The 1994 copy of Book 4, the 1992 printing of the Book of the Law, and the OTO's official online copy all show the same thing.

It's my understanding the TS was not to have so much as a single letter changed from the MS. Does anyone have a hint why these don't match, and a better idea of what the MS actually shows?

Esozone 2007, "where were you when"

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:44 GMT

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.

Esozone 2007, "where were you when"

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:30 GMT

So

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:43:28 GMT

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.

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:04:10 GMT

Last Night's Dream

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:05:55 GMT

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?

November Events, Mons Abiegnus Oasis, SF, CA

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:24:19 GMT

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!

Sunday, November 4:
4:18PM
GNOSTIC MASS
Doors open at 4:00, Mass at 4:18 PM. Mass will be followed by a casual meet & greet with the Oasis Officers. Come and join us in the celebration of the Thelemic Gnosis, and meet members of our community.

Sunday, November 18:
11 AM
KUNDALINI YOGA
Presented by Brother Mark Shekoyan, PhD of Pranaworks
Kundalini Yoga theory and practice, covering core asana (postures), mudras (hand positions), pranayama (breath control), and mantras (sound based meditations) with specific effects to give students potent tools for self-transformation. Cost: $15

2:22PM
FOUNDATIONS OF PRACTICE
Presented by Brother Gregory Peters, Oasis Master
Join the Oasis Master for a four part series on foundational techniques of Thelemic magick.
Cost: $10

4:18PM
ENOCHIAN WORKING GROUP
The interactive, ongoing scrying series in the Enochian system continues. This time we explore
the 22nd Aethyr, known as LIN. All levels of experience are welcome and encouraged to attend. Cost: $10

INITIATIONS
Minerval Initiations into Ordo Templi Orientis will be conducted on
November 11. Any members in good standing that would like to assist or attend in support of the new members are most welcome.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Events are free of charge to O.T.O. members. Donations are always
welcome. All funds received go to continue the work of the O.T.O. in San
Francisco.

Please contact secretary@sf-oto.org to RSVP for any of these events, and
for details on location.

Love is the law, love under will.

Mons Abiegnus Oasis
Ordo Templi Orientis
http://sf-oto.org

Understanding Eastern Meditation

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:17:51 GMT

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?

Public Events in SF, CA, October! Mons Abiegnus Oasis

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:26:48 GMT

October Public Events...

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Mons Abiegnus Oasis O.T.O., San Francisco, CA
Welcomes you to our October events! (There's a lot going on around here!)

Sunday, October 7, 4:18PM
GNOSTIC MASS
Doors open at 4:00. Mass will be followed by a casual meet & greet with the Oasis Officers. Come and join us in the celebration of the Thelemic Gnosis,
and meet members of our community.

Sunday, October 14, 11 AM
KUNDALINI YOGA
Brother Mark Shekoyan, PhD of Pranaworks
Kundalini Yoga theory and practice, covering core asana (postures), mudras (hand positions), pranayama (breath control), and mantras (sound based meditations) with specific effects to give students potent tools for self-transformation. Cost: $15

Sunday, October 21, 2:22PM
FOUNDATIONS OF PRACTICE
Brother Gregory Peters, Oasis Master.
Join the Oasis Master for a four part series on foundational techniques
of Thelemic magick. Cost: $10

Sunday, October 21, 4:18PM
ENOCHIAN WORKING GROUP
Facilitated by Brother Gregory Peters. The interactive, ongoing scrying series in the Enochian system continues. This time we explore the 23rd Aethyr, known as TOR. All levels of experience are welcome and encouraged to attend. Cost: $10

Events are free of charge to O.T.O. members. Donations are always welcome. All funds received go to continue the work of the O.T.O. in San Francisco.

With our temple located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, most of our events are held in and around the city. We hold a monthly Gnostic Mass in our beautiful Theou Sophia Sanctuary on first Sundays; the public is welcome to attend. Our lodge facilities are conveniently located near the 24th St. BART station, with plenty of public transportation nearby and a private parking lot for drivers.

To attend either event, or for directions, please RSVP to: secretary@sf-oto.org
Visit our website for more information on events, O.T.O., membership, initiation, and links at Mons Abiegnus Oasis

Love is the Law, Love under Will.
Mons Abiegnus Oasis Ordo Templi Orientis

Ripple Debut

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:58:52 GMT

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.

Events in SF, CA Sunday 9/16, Mons Abiegnus Oasis

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:02:14 GMT

Gnostic Mass, SF, CA Sunday, Sept. 2

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:47:50 GMT

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.

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.

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.

Mass will be held monthly at the Mission Masonic Hall,
2668 Mission Street Enter on BARTLETT side (rear entrance) between 22nd & 23rd St.
Parking is available!
Two blocks away from 24th St. BART.

For more info and directions, visit: http://sf-oto.org/

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

Esozone 2007

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:39:38 GMT

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.)

august 19, SF, CA: Two Classes at Mons Abiegnus Oasis

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:57:05 GMT

93,

Sunday, August 19 in our beautiful San Francisco location... Please join us for two presentations:

BABALON The Red Goddess

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:30:00 GMT

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

SF, CA-- Gnostic Mass, Sunday August 15

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:08:04 GMT

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

July Events, Mons Abiegnus Oasis, SF, CA

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:51:04 GMT

93--Come combat the Dread Magickal Armchair with our interactive workshops! All are welcome.

The Black Dot

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:14:12 GMT

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."

Foucault’s Pendulum: Too Obscure To Piss Off The Pope.

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:24:27 GMT

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.)

Enochian Workshop, Sunday May 27, San Francisco

Thu, 24 May 2007 07:06:10 GMT

The G-Spot episode 5

Tue, 15 May 2007 04:37:22 GMT

This special episode is offered up in both video and audio iPod formats. This piece, titled Pan and Me serves as a rambling preamble to the soon to follow drunken constitution known as THE EGG. Not much can be said about THE EGG other than it has begun pre-production and that nothing else can be said about it. Follow Joseph Matheny into realms hitherto unknown as he explores the strange world of synchronicity, Santa Cruz and Pan.

http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=244

GLOR #18 (finally!)

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:24:17 GMT

http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_018/glor_issue18.htm

Ok, it’s been two years since we’ve published a GLOR. WTF have we been doing? Well, as you may or may not know, Greylodge has experience explosive growth over the last 2 years. We’ve had to upgrade servers several times to accommodate the ever increasing traffic (Feb. 07, we did 9.5 million visits), thanks to a myriad of mainstream media write- ups and insane link proliferation in the blogosphere we’ve had to build up to a Dual Intel 3.4 Xeon GHz CPU with its own dedicated 100 megabit connection.Woo. So, now that we’re settled and massive traffic seems to be manageable, Dr. Grey has taken it upon himself to redesign GreyLodge Occult Review, which is, after all along with sTarE, the roots of this crazy experiment. New look, new feel, new content, same feisty I-don’t-give-a-damn-teetering- on-the-edge-of-ruin attitude. heh

Myself, Herr Doktor, and several of our close co-conspirators have dug into our private reserves once again to present you with GLOR #18. This time it’s personal! Ok, just kidding about that last part, but I’m not kidding about this: This issue of GLOR is dedicated to our dearly departed friends Robert Anton Wilson and Alison Meeder. In fact, we are planning a special RAW memorial issue in the near future, as soon as we’re finished ripping and massaging some choice cuts of hitherto unseen RAW prime filet.

Until next time, happy networking!

Dr. Grey & PaleRider

Contained in GLOR #18:

FALLEN NATION: Babylon Burning
A psychedelic roadtrip across the highways of the modern collective unconscious. It's a world where just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you, where the things you dream about can come back to haunt you when you wake, and where the end of this world is just the beginning of another.

The Golden Dawn Audio Series
An unparalleled and unique opportunity to hear Dr. Regardie's own voice providing instructions on magical methods and the Golden Dawn. Make Sure you don't miss the EXTRA!
WAX, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
The bizarre fictional story of Jacob Maker, weapons-guidance designer and committed beekeeper. When the bees drill a hole in Jacob's head and insert a television whose supernatural images control his will, Jacob enters an hallucinatory alternative reality.

Ultraculture Journal
Ultraculture Journal One collects under one cover the most volatile and direct magickal writing currently available in the English language. It will change you at the cellular level. You have been forewarned.

Soviet/Russian Parallel Cinema
'What on earth is parallel cinema? Who is a part of this in the USSR? I will try to answer the questions simply and in a straight forward way. All Soviet citizens have the right to know about this new movement in cinema, so that after a difficult working day, he or she can entertain the proud thought: "We have parallel cinema..." And may fellow citizens have bright dreams, which are in fact the most democratic form of parallel cinema in the world.'

Derrida: Dissemination
'Who is it that is addressing you? Since it is not an author, a narrator, or a deus ex machina, it is an I that is both part of the spectacle and part of the audience, an I that, a bit like you, undergoes its own incessant violent reinscription within the arithmetical machinery. An I that functioning as a pure passageway for operations of substitution is not some singular and irreplaceable existence, some subject or life. But only rather moves between life and death, between reality and fiction. An I that is a mere function or phantom.'

Deleuze: Cinema 1 & 2
The broad sweep of Deleuze's two cinema books, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image , is to chart a fundamental shift from classical pre-WW2 cinema [movement-image] to post-WW2 cinema [time-image].

BANKSY X 3
- Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall
"Nearly a hundred pictures are featured here. Each and every one of them a pathetic cry for help" -The Guardian
- Existencilism
"Superficially his work looks deep but it's actually deeply superficial" -Evening Standard
- Wall and Piece
"There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover" -Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader
What an anthology. Over 400 pages packed with the likes of Kathy Acker, George Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, William Burroughs, John Cage, Gilles Deleuze, Bob Flanagan, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, J-F Lyotard, Ulrike Meinhof, Kate Millet, Cookie Mueller, David Rattray, Ann Rower, Assata Shakur, Michelle Tea, Lynne Tillman, Paul Virilia and many, many more. Twenty-five years of some of the finest writing to come out of America, France, and beyond.

Paul Virilio: The Vision Machine
"It is a war of images and sounds, rather than objects and things, in which winning is simply a matter of not losing sight of the opposition. The will to see all, to know all, at every moment, everywhere, the will to universalised illumination: a scientific permutation on the eye of God which would forever rule out the surprise, the accident, the irruption of the unforeseen."

The eXtreme eBook Collection
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Luigi Serafini - Codex Seraphinianus
...it is a highly idiosyncratic magnum opus by an Italian architect indulging his sense of fancy to the hilt. It consists of two volumes in a completely invented language (including the numbering system, which is itself rather esoteric), penned entirely by the author, accompanied by thousands of beautifully drawn colour pictures of the most fantastic scenes, machines, beasts, feasts, and so on. It purports to be a vast encyclopedia of a hypothetical land somewhat like the earth, with many creatures resembling people to various degrees, but many creatures of unheard-of bizarreness promenading throughout the countryside. Serafini has sections on physics, chemistry, mineralogy (including many drawings of elaborate gems), geography, botany, zoology, sociology, linguistics, technology, architecture, sports (of all sorts), clothing, and so on. The pictures have their own internal logic, but to our eyes they are filled with utter non sequiturs.

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