rhondda: im actually kind of touched by what you wrote, and i can identify with it deeply. im sure youve done an excellent job with your sons. but then its the kind of thing that each person must learn or not on their own. i know for me it was (and/or continues to be) an enormously challenging and rewarding task to remove my projections from other people, be they anima or otherwise. i’m really glad to hear that some portion of that shines through in my work.

rhondda Says: “You need a goat not a woman.However, I would hesitate with that as I really think animals need their own kind.” => The logic is a bit shaky, but if you have any hopes, sorry to disappoint you, I am not the Beast with cleft foot.

And now, goodnight guys. Lets move on. SATAN NEEDS SAVING

Basically, it means that once we’ve trained hard and gotten all geared up, we’ve now got to soften the edge. We’ve got to encounter the goddess. We’ve got to embrace an ideology of love, or respect or goodness, or whatever you want to call it. Even if our skills are indomitable, without “love” we will become an unfeeling machine, we will become too convinced of our own abilities, arrogant.

those types of games are all well and good for blowing off steam and realizing what’s what, i think. but there’s more going on here than just that. if you’d like to be a part of it, i warmly invite you to stick around.

PS. what the hell is with all your weird numbering systems? QQD1XV995? it doesn’t make any sense. just say what you want to say

Well, rhondda, you could be of asssistence there. Why don’t you volonteer a good blow-job for jp. He seems only familiar with assholes and dickheads.

>> OIQ3: “What is it you want?”
>> DDC3: What a funny, desperate question for Occult Investigator!

what a lame, arrogant response from the kind of intellectually itinerant asshole whose raison d’etre seems to be some kind of contrarian sophistry. going back over his responses, they’re actually devoid of any kind of content. reminds me of the pseudo-zen dickheads i used to know in college who thought that by being contrary they were expressing some kind of enlightenment, when they were just being . . . well, dickheads.

Very witty, Arizona, you are obviously not of them (sheepish acolytes, I mean)

Well, you might want to check out Georges Bataille. He was an early surrealist who later became known as the “theoretician of eroticism” and the “philosopher of evil”. Very dense, idiosyncratic, literary “frenchified” style. He analyzed religion from a perspective of absolute or “base” materialism. He definitely had that creepy Nietzchean will-to-power thing going on:

“French essayist, philosophical theorist, novelist, often called the “metaphysician of evil.” Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potentialities of obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion.”

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bataille.htm

It’s often left out of art books that surrealism began as an early, ill-fated attempt to unite aesthetics with politics and harness the powers of the unconscious in the service of revolutionary social change. Louis Aragon spearheaded the attempt to integrate surrealism with communism. He eventually went to Moscow, broke with the surrealists, renounced his early phantasmagorial “modern mythic” anti-novels, and devoted his efforts to writing doctrinally pure social-realist novels. Rene Daumal, another early surrealist, ended up hanging out with Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, and eventually went to India. As for Bataille, well let’s just say he was plenty weird. I don’t know that you’ll find a way forward in looking back at the surrealists, but there’s definitely some lessons and cautionary tales there.

I’ve read one of her novels “The Goat-Foot God” and found it interesting but not rivetting. There is a decent article on her at sacred-texts.com:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos474.htm

You did not seriously think that all visitors of your site were sheepish acolytes of Occult Investigator, did you?

OIQ2: “why you’re even on my site at all” “challenge yourself to step outside … yourself”
DDC2: the two together are not separate enough in the text to disguise a freudian slip, a barely hidden wish

OIQ3: “What is it you want?”
DDC3: What a funny, desperate question for Occult Investigator!

i personally think this is an excellent thing to do, to challenge yourself to step outside yourself like this. but i do feel inclined, like the hermetic angel of the threshold to ask you:

“What is it you want?”

OIQ2:”you will be the one casting him there with your own fear - which is the only way he gains power, in my opinion”
DDC2: Thank goodness you are wise enough to call it an “opinion”. My opinion is, is you start (step 1) thinking of “clearing out the weeds” (sounds familiar?) of obscurantism (no Angels, no Devils); then the world seems pretty empty and barren, so (step 2) you start invoking Angels (if you are a Doctor John Dee, whose brain got soft from too much studying) or evoking them (if you are a rascal like Dee’s helper Edward Kelley); then (step 3) angel do despond, only trouble is the sort of angel who respond to this sort of “Angelic Hermeticism” are the scrapped ones; and then (step 4) you start finding yourself in real trouble.

My dear OI, there is no point being a “Joseph Campbell Prize” winner, if in the end you find yourself indulging in books of “Ritual Magic” (or magick, if you want to give it a dash of Aleister Crowley)

Legenda

OI: Occult Investigator (Tim Boucher)
DD: Debunker’s Debunker (Mario Stratta)
Qn: Quotation from OI
Cn: Comment from DD

i think thats precisely what fortune is saying about. and i think it agrees with your faust reference. in your language, you could maybe recast this as: satan comes to you saying he will fulfill your wishes. then you tell satan that your only wish is that he be redeemed. is that a bad thing?

further, i think if you go around looking to fit satan into everything, and trace his unseen presence in all outlines, then you WILL find him there, because you will be the one casting him there with your own fear - which is the only way he gains power, in my opinion

Come on folks, don’t you recognise the lore? This is Mephistopheles who is asking Dr. Faustus (according to Christopher Marlowe) or Dr. Faust (according to J. W. von Goethe), who asks his pupil what is he wants. No, it is not Knowledge, Illumination, you name it . It is, as usual Gold and Guns and Girls!

Wake up!

“And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.”
(2 Corinthians 11:14)

As I was reading her last night, I dug out my Charles Williams novels. He strikes me as being in her tradition, as well as of her time. If you haven’t read him, you might want to. The weakest book, I think, is Shadows of Ecstasy, but any of the other six would make a good beginning.

“Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.” - Andre Breton

In general the surrealists were all about “unleashing” the unconscious. But even among the surrealists, there were materialists (Georges Bataille, Louis Aragon) and spiritualists (Rene Daumal).