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ciphers or read unknown languages; to an occultist this would be the most obvious andpotentially fruitful place to start. Certainly I myself have definitely gained glimpsesafter visualising the Seal of Asmoday over the mysterious folios. When I have spent toolong poring over the Voynich ms., building up over merged days of sustained study withtoo little sleep, so utterly absorbed that in the end only my computer knows what day itis, I have noticed myself slipping into reading passages with perfect fluency only tohave the letters cover themselves over again with a thick dust of mystery. What I havejust read vanishes even from consciousness, all that remains is a difficult memory of theintensity with which the manuscript can interact with the mind, inducing a kind ofacademic glossolalia that yields up shifting sands of meaning that slips through yourfingers and away. Am I reading what’s there, or just lost in a stream of consciousnessthat has somehow been sparked by some chance resemblance on the page, and this flowof usually vivid imagery in my mind is simply overlaying the mechanical act of appearingto read words and sentences but which still remain unintelligible. Any clearunderstanding from an altered state of consciousness is rarely clear with the return ofrationality, and the task of disentangling valid insights from distortions of the senses inthe end seems much like sorting the wheat from the chaff only to discover in retrospectthat you have merely sorted the chaff into two piles by the most labour-intensive method.The Voynich ms. is a scholar’s koan.And as Robert Firth pointed out, there is another and far simpler reason why themanuscript is devoid of corrections without needing to posit the writer’s extremefamiliarity with the language: because “there is no meaning to correct, merely lucrativegibberish to be generated as rapidly as possible.” By “lucrative” I assume Firth is referringto the fact that Rudolf II is supposed to have paid 600 gold ducats for it.On a tangential point, Zen in the Art of Calligraphy has some interesting electronmicroscope photographs comparing the calligraphy of acknowledged Japanese masterswith their forgers, the masters’ ink particles were regularly ordered and vibrant, full ofbokki, whereas those of the fakes were lacklustre and disordered. Having practisedChinese calligraphic techniques and never attained a great standard in it, I was surprisedon looking at my own English handwriting in ordinary blue biro under a 20× dissectingmicroscope that what I regarded as my usual scrawl looked extraordinarily beautiful,possessing many of the finer features of good Chinese calligraphy that were simply notapparent to me as written. This is a good example of wuwei, “not doing”, in art. WhatI had formally been attempting to transfer from my hand to the paper, but could rarelyachieve to my satisfaction with Chinese characters—because I was trying too hard—was in the end done best quite spontaneously without intention and without even myconscious knowledge in ordinary dashed-off handwriting. And once I realised this I98
noticed the quality of line that I had been looking to achieve had already appeared inpaintings and drawings without me being fully aware of it, and was visible withoutmagnification once I could recognise what I was looking for in a different form than Ihad expected. As with martial arts and Zen, progress with practice is always forthcoming,but not always apparent in the areas one looks for it and expects it to be.[Ed’s note—Scans from the Voynich ms. can be viewed at the Beinecke Library website(search on “Voynich 408”): http://highway49.library.yale.edu/photonegatives/]99
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ContentsEditorial .................
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EditorialThe cult of Chaos conjoine
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After corresponding for a while Amo
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KAOS-BABALON 156 gematriaIt is wort
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naturally been leading. I felt it w
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that. He said it all.” For me, id
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In a note on the 12 th Æthyr in Th
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this represents deliberate obfuscat
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its attendant orders. Modern occult
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there occurs the word bábâlond, w
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article originally published in Red
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I am shadowed with the Circle of th
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Isaiah 34:14 picks up the story). G
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that within us which remains open t
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In Arabic, there is apparently even
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and I was myself involved in a Ma
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“Laughing stock” danger ofworsh
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the ritual, it was an occult bookse
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Grant has even uncovered a document
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more information has come to light
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Grant. Does Spare imply in The Focu
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My basic criticism is that most of
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Page 57 and 58: Yes, that’s true about compressin
Page 59 and 60: HH: Holy shit, that is one of the b
Page 61 and 62: Joel Biroco: No leap because no tho
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Page 72 and 73: suggests that without Jean Brayton
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Page 79 and 80: CorrespondenceControl of Choronzon
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Page 83 and 84: It was written in a New York apartm
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Page 91 and 92: Tyson is a little clueless regardin
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Page 97: Deception is the keynote of the who
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Page 103 and 104: “You’re insane Boris!”—Bori
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Page 119 and 120: CorrespondenceHow did Crowley know
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Page 123 and 124: politics of that age. Personally, I
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Page 133 and 134: As for why 333, merely being half o
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Page 145 and 146: There is no mention of the demonic
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come out of Craft Masonry demanding
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I can fully understand the negative
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Lodge for slackness in executing th
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Spicing this delirious broth, chara
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introduced to yet another member of
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world of Magic. From his advocacy o
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suffused with a greater potential,
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a cheap trick when faced by blank w
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scholars to have been the time of t
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Jack Parsons & BabalonSex and Rocke
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as he states in The Book of Babalon
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been with me since, though she goes
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In the aftermath of the 1946 Babalo
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earth at this moment, although I do
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decades. After his death Marjorie C
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People must be made to realise that
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Parsons removed without permission
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Professor Steczynski’sApocalypseA
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The Moon and Serpent GrandEgyptian
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in fetching ringlets, Alexander sei
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Possessing the only incarnated god
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3. We understand the Moon to be Sel
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Zobop passportsby Joel BirocoI saw
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