Guest guest Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Hi, I was poking around the Jack Parsons website mentioned in post 5428. One of the pages you can click on is " Additional Links " . Some of them are old and are no longer working. So I'd take the title or author and Google around a bit. I found this: http://pturing.firehead.org/occult/grok/thelema.htm A short quote - " The premise of this article is that Heinlein wrote Stranger (In A Strange Land) as an allegorical recapitulation of Thelema. (The word Thelema is Greek for " Great Will " and refers to the body of philosophy and magickal practices codified by the late Aleister Crowley and continued by many.) This article details Heinlein's magickal interests, his relationships with the most famous of Crowley's American disciples, and his many coded references to Thelema in Stranger and other written works. Moreover, we will establish that Heinlein wrote Stranger with the intent of initiating a Thelemic 'whole systems transition' in human thought and expression. This means that Stranger cannot be regarded merely as the work of a master storyteller, the product of a literary genius. Rather, Stranger is much better understood as a consciously wrought, carefully considered and brilliantly successful casting -- a talismanic spell in itself, still dynamic, with its direct purpose being to spark human evolution along Thelemic lines. This is our hypothesis. " Interesting hypothesis indeed. Have fun, if you dare... -Mark Holt- P.S. Here's something else: http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_twoedged.htm A few chapters of a scarce and expensive book... Have even more fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 I read that, or something like it, and bought the book. I gave up after about 20% out of shear boredom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 Hi Philip, , " chestpuk " <philip.chesters wrote: > > I read that, or something like it, and bought the book. I gave up > after about 20% out of shear boredom. Read which book? Stranger In a Strange Land? Yeah, I first read it when I was 12 (that would have been back in '67) years old and about three times after that. I doubt it could hold my interest now. What books do I read now? Let's see, what's open by my bed... " Huna Magic Plus " John Bainbridge " No B.S. wealth Attraction For Entrepreneurs " Dan Kennedy " Ecoshamism " James Endredy " Whispering Winds Of Change " Stewart Wilde " Energy Secrets " Alla Svirinskaya " Think Logically, Live Intuitively " J.R. Madaus " Exploring Auras " Susan Shumsky " Frogs into Princes " Richard Bandler and John Grinder " The Promise of Energy Psychology " David Feinstein, Donna Eden and Gary Craig " Hands Of Light " Barbara Brennan " The Findhorn Garden " The Findhorn Community " Time for a change " Richard Bandler ....In no particular order... Wait! There's more... But I won't get into those now... But you may get the drift. I rarely read for the " Pleasure " of letting other people create worlds in my mind. I tend to read instead to learn. So that I can create my own worlds. That's Worlds. Plural... All the best, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Theres some books I don't know on that list. I'll look into them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Thanks Mark, that's interesting. I wonder how much of Scientology comes from Thelema and Jack Parsons. Hubbard tooks Parsons money, wife and boat. Figure he wouldn't stop there.... Helen On Mar 30, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Mark Holt wrote: > Hi, > > I was poking around the Jack Parsons website mentioned in post 5428. > > One of the pages you can click on is " Additional Links " . > > Some of them are old and are no longer working. > > So I'd take the title or author and Google around a bit. > > I found this: > > http://pturing.firehead.org/occult/grok/thelema.htm > > A short quote - > " The premise of this article is that Heinlein wrote Stranger (In A > Strange Land) as an allegorical recapitulation of Thelema. (The word > Thelema is Greek for " Great Will " and refers to the body of philosophy > and magickal practices codified by the late Aleister Crowley and > continued by many.) This article details Heinlein's magickal > interests, his relationships with the most famous of Crowley's > American disciples, and his many coded references to Thelema in > Stranger and other written works. Moreover, we will establish that > Heinlein wrote Stranger with the intent of initiating a Thelemic > 'whole systems transition' in human thought and expression. This means > that Stranger cannot be regarded merely as the work of a master > storyteller, the product of a literary genius. Rather, Stranger is > much better understood as a consciously wrought, carefully considered > and brilliantly successful casting -- a talismanic spell in itself, > still dynamic, with its direct purpose being to spark human evolution > along Thelemic lines. This is our hypothesis. " > > Interesting hypothesis indeed. > > Have fun, if you dare... > > -Mark Holt- > > P.S. Here's something else: > > http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_twoedged.htm > > A few chapters of a scarce and expensive book... > > Have even more fun. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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