Mar 17, 2021

Hermetic Library Newsletter - Issue #8 (Pardon me, but have you heard the good news about our Lord and Sea-viour Poseidon)

By John Bell the Librarian • Issue #8 • View online

Hope you survived the changing of the clocks, if that’s observed in your locale. Since every time keeping device I have automatically changes, and I never pay attention to it, I was caught a bit by surprise when I woke up, thought I’d slept in, and yet it was still oddly dark out. Spring forward fuckery I could do without, but, I mean, it’s really just an annoyance, I guess. But, it keeps sneaking up on me twice every year like … wait for it … clockwork.

For my part, this week I’ve posted, among other various things, about Pi Day, St Patrick’s Day / Moorish Tag Day (Let’s also, you know, pour one out for all the snakes and druids), a lost Walrus, a Mario pipe meme, made a huge push to update and improve the list of Technical Books of Thelema, got something in the mail from Fellow Walter C Cambra, and, finally, as always, worked on the website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

Π Day

Happy Pi Day!

“He brings out the pie-throwing Groucho Marxist in me.”

Getting Personal(istic) in Withered Anarchism

“An autocratic Adept is indeed a blessing to the disciple … because he can … prevent him from picking out the plums which please him from the Pie of Knowledge”

Chapter XXI Of Black Magic of the Main Types of the Operations of Magick Art and of the Powers of the Sphinx in Magick in Theory and Practice

“Occupied with my trouble, which modesty forbade me to reveal even to my parents, I wandered … in the park belonging to one of our local magnates… reputed in venereal circles as a grand trencher man at a mutton-pie.”

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

“If there was still any doubt of His identity it would be cleared up by the fact that it is the thumb, which is attributed to the element of Spirit, … which he sticks into the pie of the new dispensation.”

An Interlude in Mysticism, Book 4, Part II

Pardon me

Pardon me, but have you heard the good news about our Lord and Sea-viour Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, Holder of the Earth, dark-haired lord?!

Also, can you please be so kind as to direct me to the nearest public transport back to the Arctic?

Or, to the nearest friendly independent hostel that permits animals?

Independent.ie

@Independent_ie

First ever sighting of a walrus in Ireland after it is thought to have drifted across Atlantic after falling asleep on iceberg https://t.co/LKrJinW9un https://t.co/aieS7JEb0c

5:05 PM - 14 Mar 2021

The time has come for you to choose

What are these three pipes? Wrong answers only.

Salt, Sulfur, Mercury

Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Kuit

Get it? Got it. Good!

The Cum Pipe

“Glory and worship be to Thee,

Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!”

Liber XV O.T.O. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae

The Piss Pipe

“Spend spouting the tide

Of your sizzling piss

In my mouth; oh my Whore

Let it pour, let it pour!”

Leah Sublime

The Gay Pipe

“Boys tempt my lips to wanton use,

And show their tongues, and smile awry,

And wonder why I should refuse

To feel their buttocks on the sly,

And kiss their genitals, and cry:

‘Ah! Ganymede, grant me one night!’”

A Ballad of Passive Paederasty in White Stains

An Aleister Crowley for all seasons! Put that in your Mario pipes and smoke it …

Things at Hermetic Library to check out

Technical Libers of Thelema

Made a bunch of changes based on new information in the 2021 Italian edition of Magick. Liber ABA. Libro quattro. Parti I-III to the main index and relevant sub-indexes. This was a lot of work, and there’s still more to do!

A summary of the updates, via A new edition of Book Four Parts I-III (Liber ABA) (Italian): “The new edition contains new and revised notes, based upon the Lowry Magick in Theory and Practice typescript received via Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad). It bears most of the missing pieces of the Curriculum revision done when Achad was Cancellarius. Some important works got their official Curriculum listing, with new Libri numbers:

Liber 53. The Stone of the Philosophers.
Liber 297. The Goetia. Class B.
Liber 305. The Herb Dangerous.
Liber 397. Konx Om Pax.
Liber 441. Ameth.
Liber 550. Tannhaueser.
Liber 713. Time. Class B.

Other Libri get their official Class imprimatur such as:

Tao Teh Ching. Class B

Of massive note to OTO is that Liber XV, The Canon of the Gnostic Catholic Mass, is assigned an A∴A∴ publication in Class D.

Also of note, J. Daniel Gunther’s The Inward Journey Books I – III are all listed in Class B, while The Vision of the Pylons is in Class C.”

I also did a bunch of other updates as I was working through the page, making sure that everything was linked properly and so on, and added landing pages and portal images for all the new and some old books. Again, there’s always more to do, but that was a big project this week!

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HISTORY IS A GAME

Updated the Village HISTORY IS A GAME Propaganda Poster from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information for St Patrick’s Day / Moorish Tag Day.

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Over on the blog