tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post1326720962213544856..comments2024-03-28T22:15:25.617-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: Week 57, Illuminatus! online reading groupCleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-85694462779073946992015-03-24T17:02:14.306-07:002015-03-24T17:02:14.306-07:00p. 595 - The peace symbol as an instrument of deat...p. 595 - The peace symbol as an instrument of death once again sees the authors putting up two opposite ideas that cancel. <br /><br />p.597 "Just go ahead" said Hagbard. "A powerful mantra."<br /><br />That does have the Kesey flavor, it also recalls Burroughs and Crowley with their "here to go" attitudes. It appears quite the powerful mantra when considering "a head" through qabala: head = resh = the Sun, a mantra that resonates well with RAW's last instruction. <br /><br />p. 599: paragraph 3 that starts with "Because they're under a protective biomystical field" and ends with "... it will call for nothing less than the appearance on the field of battle of the goddess Eris Herself to save the day." - I find quite interesting, relevant and a bit of a clever misdirection.<br /><br />last paragraph from p. 599, which Tom also quoted from, contains very sound magickal advice.<br /><br />p.601 paragraph that starts with Frank Sullivan seems isomorphic to the sacrificial ritual murder, the killing of the king myth that Frazer wrote about in The Golden Bough existing in many cultures as an archetype. This gets reinforced by the "WE'LL KILL THE OLD RED ROOSTER" that follows. This sacrificial ritual murder is what every aspirant Crossing the Abyss has to go through in order to get to the other side - to the sephiroth called Binah. The last sentence in the next paragraph relates to that: "Then you rejoin the rest of us in Ingolstadt. Understood!" Binah = Understanding. <br /><br />p. 603 the paragraph that starts with "Rebecca Goodman.." appears loaded with qabala.<br /><br />p.604 paragraph starting with "The living room..." - more alchemical/magick puns<br /><br />Knight's psychic read of Goodman's things that begins, "Trees in Central Park. Nudes of Rebecca, adoration in every line of the pencil..." also resembles an astral trip ( which it is for Knight). The beginning of this sequence, which I quoted, suggests a method for getting out there. Good example of Illuminatus! as an alchemical manual. Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-12721285036239668292015-03-23T11:29:47.472-07:002015-03-23T11:29:47.472-07:00More notes:
597--"Just go ahead," said ...More notes:<br /><br />597--"Just go ahead," said Hagbard. "A powerful mantra."--Hagbard as Kesey again? Further?<br /><br />599--Every truth is a truth only for one place and one time...Maybe Logic?<br /><br />600--When you're actually dealing with these figures, the only safe, pragmatic, and operational approach is to treat them as having a being, will, and a purpose entirely apart from the humans who evoke them. If the Sorcerers Apprentice had understood that, he wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble.<br /><br />600--Rhoda Chief modeled on Janis Joplin? chashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17923105949653410251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-2601587816058677662015-03-23T10:21:33.495-07:002015-03-23T10:21:33.495-07:00I'd say that Lady Velkor is Arlen Wilson just ...I'd say that Lady Velkor is Arlen Wilson just as surely as Joe Malik is RAW. Of course, in a holographic novel every character represents multiple mehums. chashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17923105949653410251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-27853110094751903912015-03-23T04:32:52.057-07:002015-03-23T04:32:52.057-07:00One of my favorite quotes in the whole book: "...One of my favorite quotes in the whole book: "If I call it love, I’ll sound sentimental.If I call it sex, I’ll sound cynical. I’ll call it pair bonding and sound scientific."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09185407812378193683noreply@blogger.com