tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post6507146430695680629..comments2024-03-28T22:15:25.617-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: Nature's God reading group, Chapter 10Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-44358406353066803712020-07-14T19:39:34.795-07:002020-07-14T19:39:34.795-07:00Wilson does a nice job of describing the Revolutio...Wilson does a nice job of describing the Revolutionary War and the siege of Yorktown, although I am not quite sure I believe the knock three times story or Washington smoking the herbs. The book does a good job of capturing the uncertainty of war. Certainly the British were surprised by the outcome, as much as Seamus was. Gregory does his usual good job of researching the facts behind the chapter and showing Wilson's research. <br /><br />Wilson was not a particularly nationalistic writer, so I'm struck by his sympathetic account of the American Revolution, rather unlike much of the rest of his work. Even if his account comes largely from the point of view of Irish nationalism, and is probably largely driven by a loathing for British imperialism. <br /><br />The account also reminds me of what a remarkable achievement it was for the Union army to save the Union and end slavery in the Civil War. To win, Gen. Washington and the colonials mainly had to avoid losing until the British had enough. The South, similarly, did not have to win the war. It only had to avoid losing for long enough to make the North give up, while the North had to actually conquer a large area of land. Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-63441033679744722942020-07-14T19:23:18.754-07:002020-07-14T19:23:18.754-07:00@Supergee Do you think "Historical Illuminatu...@Supergee Do you think "Historical Illuminatus!" begins to run a bit aground with the third book? I'm enjoying "Nature's God" but I'm not sure it's as good as the first two. Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-65480130387743486312020-07-14T08:50:04.724-07:002020-07-14T08:50:04.724-07:00@Oz- I think Hubbard did get into a little bit of ...@Oz- I think Hubbard did get into a little bit of legal trouble but Parsons dropped the matter because Sara Northrup threatened to go to the police over statutory rape. (He had started a sexual relationship while married to her older sister when Sara was 16/17.) The incident really dropped Parsons' standing in Crowley's eyes and Parson quit the OTO pretty soon after the case. He didn't get much of his money back. L. Ron went one to write Dianetics and make that sweet, sweet cash pretty soon after and Sara stayed with him. <br /><br />I think the "hurrikan" could be a reference to the storm that destroyed the Spanish Armada. Some writers have ascribed the miraculous tempest to Dr. John Dee's subtle magic. Rarebit Fiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09650603980195179414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-27286325101674834562020-07-13T21:32:44.660-07:002020-07-13T21:32:44.660-07:00p. 185: "Was he, like George Washington, anot...p. 185: "Was he, like George Washington, another bloody Freemason and involved in heathen magic of some sort?" RAW portrays Washington as a magician in his approach to winning the war.<br /><br />p. 205: Washington "seized a pickaxe, struck exactly three blows to begin the first trench, and then said, "You may proceed, gentlemen."<br />"and then said" = 70 = The Devil, male oppression or bondage<br />"You may proceed" = 130 = "Deliverance"<br /> "The Angel of Redemption"<br />"gentlemen" = gentle men = men delivered or redeemed from male oppression and bondage.<br /><br />The "hurrikan" that suddenly comes up on p. 208 that Seamus attributes to Washington's magic and leads to the end of the war appears based on a story concerning Crowley acolyte and inventor of rocket fuel, Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard. I'm curious as to the accuracy of this storm leading to the surrender.<br /><br />The story goes that Hubbard conned Parsons into investing all his savings in a company having to do with yachts. Hubbard absconded with his money and his wife. Parsons chased him to Florida only to get there shortly before Hubbard took off in a yacht leaving Parsons stranded on shore. Parsons conjured a spirit of Mars, coincidentally, a storm came up and drove Hubbard back to shore where he had to face the accusations. I don't recall exactly what happened, but despite the initial successful magic, Parsons ended up losing everything.<br /><br />p. 208: "And winds like the wrath of God." The Notarikon of the caps = 4 = Magick; of the whole sentence = 125 = 5 to the power of 3; 5 = Mars. Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-64511489008839754612020-07-13T20:50:07.668-07:002020-07-13T20:50:07.668-07:00p. 185: "FaithSeamus thought often, ..."...p. 185: "<i>Faith</i>Seamus thought often, ..." In previous comments I've mentioned RAW having gematria with a sense of optimism. Looking up those numbers, 102 and 110 reveals correspondences having to do with Faith. Faith seems different than belief. <br />"Seamus thought often" = 139. This number with 1 & 39 points back to 39 as it = "The Eternal is One"<br />39 also = "To abide, dwell."<br />One way to read this - abide, or dwell in Faith. A significant way to start this account of history as we see the Revolutionary Army go from barely keeping it together to victory.<br /><br />Gregory notes the coincidence of the recent dust cloud to the Dark Day recounted in the book. At the moment, it seems like we are in a war against a superior enemy and the "US Army" appears bare-assed, or bare-faced with both recurring shortages of PPE in some places and the problems a lot of people have of wearing a mask. Unfortunately, we have no George Washington leading a fight against the corona virus although the fight for the continued reality of the United States may be just as critically on the line as it was back then.Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-58080661146464471072020-07-13T18:56:39.342-07:002020-07-13T18:56:39.342-07:00Chapter 10 = Malkuth. The song,The World Turned U...Chapter 10 = Malkuth. The song,<i>The World Turned Upside Down</i> suggests the well-known qabalistic axiom, "Kether is in Malkuth as Malkuth is in Kether," though I may have reversed the order of the saying.<br /><br />The title, <i>The Pursuit of Wild Pigs</i> metaphorically alludes to a search for the 93 Current. Pig = 93. Crowley touches upon this symbolism in our trusty favorite, <i>The Book of Lies</i> in chapter 83 <i>The Blind Pig</i>. Pig without the letter "i" (eye, therefore blind) = PG = 83. Look up 83 in <i>777's</i> List of Primes. What it indicates, without the vision, the "eye" provided by the 93 Current indicates working blindly. The 93 Current = a multiplicity yet receives a concise sense of definition when we discover that the phrases, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law," and "Love is the law, love under will," get abbreviated by Thelemites as 93 for the first phrase, and 93 93/93 for the second.<br /><br />The Notarikon of the caps in the title = 175 = the Spirit of Venus. The Notarikon of the whole title = 245 = "Gall, bile" - a digestive juice needed by those ragged soldiers to eat wild pig. Also, it takes a lot of gall to fight a war mostly cold, starving and over-marched with your bare ass hanging out in the winds. We find other possibly relevant correspondences with 245 in <i>Sepher Sephiroth</i><br /><br />Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-31829496025617205592020-07-13T12:13:48.585-07:002020-07-13T12:13:48.585-07:00In my lifetime here have been three multivolume no...In my lifetime here have been three multivolume novels that I loved and waited eagerly for the next volume of, but they all ran aground at the end of the third volume. Alexei Panshin’s Anthony Villiers novels, like the Historical Illuminatus, promised a fourth volume on the last page of the third but never delivered. A.N. Wilson* gave us three volumes of the Lampitt Papers, then moved on to other projects and returned and closed the series off with two additional books that lost the first-person narrator and most of the charm.<br />*Too many Wilsons write. Along with Our Founder, there are A.N., Angus, August, Colin, Edward O., Edmund, F. Paul, G. Willow, and Robert Charles. It is just as well that John Anthony Burgess Wilson lopped off his first and last names for publication.supergeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-66755186692540545812020-07-13T10:59:40.925-07:002020-07-13T10:59:40.925-07:00Nice research! Sheldon Cooper tended to knock in a...Nice research! Sheldon Cooper tended to knock in a 3x3 pattern. Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com