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Why "Every man and every woman"?

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  • F FiatYod

    Every man and every woman is a star.

    Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
    Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
    Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
    ... Just kidding.

    But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
    I'd love to read your opinions.

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    seekinghga
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    @Takamba said

    "I have no words."

    Don't you remember the shiny tugboat? Paris? You, me, Hemmingway, with Gertrude Stein steering in the back... Don't you remember Carol? Ohhh.... drools

    @Corvinae said

    "Unicorns dont do trendy
    We make trendy."

    Duly noted! 😉

    "Or maybe I will study glaperastant and deonocforation and really wow the world."

    And in my own vocabulary, floccinaucinihilipilification never appears... Sesquipedalian... (seriously, j/k)

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    • F FiatYod

      Every man and every woman is a star.

      Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
      Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
      Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
      ... Just kidding.

      But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
      I'd love to read your opinions.

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      Corvinae
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      Never is a very long time.
      It never appears hmmmm......
      Well maybe its because your not focusing right.
      I was never able to see what was in those magic eye pictures.....and then....one day....I got so upset that I couldnt....and Takamba could.....I just believed and trusted and surrendered....and
      Bang
      I saw many images in the one.....

      So trust that if you keep looking and look with your heart and not just your eyes.....your thingambob will reveal itself.
      Never say never.....
      Which is just a silly thing to say and mathematically doesnt make sence.

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      • F FiatYod

        Every man and every woman is a star.

        Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
        Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
        Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
        ... Just kidding.

        But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
        I'd love to read your opinions.

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        seekinghga
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        @Corvinae said

        "Never is a very long time.
        It never appears hmmmm......
        Well maybe its because your not focusing right.
        I was never able to see what was in those magic eye pictures.....and then....one day....I got so upset that I couldnt....and Takamba could.....I just believed and trusted and surrendered....and
        Bang
        I saw many images in the one.....

        So trust that if you keep looking and look with your heart and not just your eyes.....your thingambob will reveal itself.
        Never say never.....
        Which is just a silly thing to say and mathematically doesnt make sence."

        Some people may think that Aleister Crowley was a feeble, drug-addled old man in the mid-1940s. He wasn't. But speaking through him...

        "This is where I want to have you, with us who are come thus far, in a state utterly detached from the Ego, so that you appear the plain Jane Wolfe 'doing your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you' and consequently unremarked—like a Rosicrucian, 'wearing the habit of the country in which you are traveling'—but trembling with interior illumination, so that the first relaxation of the constant conscious burden of Jane Wolfe, Soror Estai is automatically released, a pillar of Creative Light."

        • Magick Without Tears

        Are those the words of an enfeebled aged man? In my eyes I see the Magus of the Aeon of Horus exhorting one of his students to cross the Abyss. I am not an answer. You are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX39uHKAZHo

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        • F FiatYod

          Every man and every woman is a star.

          Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
          Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
          Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
          ... Just kidding.

          But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
          I'd love to read your opinions.

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          Corvinae
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          I found this little gem from a thread when I was digging about for info on my beloved Unicornness (which for a word should be promptly added to vocabulary lists IMHO).

          I think it has a great deal to say to explain the original question of this thread so I am adding it here for the benefit of inquiring hearts and minds.

          @Tinman said

          "I note this from Jim's commentary to Liber AL, 1:3. Every man and every woman is a star:

          "“Star” is here, apparently, Khabs. Each of us is, at our core, Khabs; but our lives, our veils etc., are Khabs am Pekht, “Light in extension.” (I have developed this more extensively for initiates of the Artisan Degree of Temple of Thelema.) This, as 451 (the Greek Konx Om Pax), is of course the central idea of the name A.'.A.'.. Knowledge of self, and of our way, and of the world, is encompassed in the phrase, “Light in extension,” and our ability to witness that L.V.X. “Khabs” is related to Kokav, Mercury, “star” (hence the eight words of this verse?). Every man and every woman is Kokav."
          "

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          • F FiatYod

            Every man and every woman is a star.

            Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
            Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
            Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
            ... Just kidding.

            But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
            I'd love to read your opinions.

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            Takamba
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            Yes U R
            Baby, you're a star

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            • F FiatYod

              Every man and every woman is a star.

              Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
              Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
              Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
              ... Just kidding.

              But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
              I'd love to read your opinions.

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              Corvinae
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              Unicornness is a wonderful word.

              You know me
              Never satisfied
              Till I find the answer

              Its that Secretarial side of me.

              I can dot i 's and cross t's

              I had the most beautiful expierence with the snow falling this morning. It was dark out and the light fluffy snow was falling qite persistantly when I brought my dogs out. The soft light from my back porch mde each flake seem to glow as it fell. I tipped my head back and looked up to see what seemed like the whole cosmos of stars falling down upon me, kissing my face and eyes with a wet cold burst. It was like the scene in StarWars when they jump into light speed and all the stars going rushing past in a blur.
              The flakes themselves were seemingly like long extensions of light reaching and reaching out light a million potential suns whirling by as I streamed through the vast expanse of the endless sky.
              It was beautiful.
              And then one big flake plopped into my eye and reminded me that I had better focus on my pups before they wander and that my tummy needed some toast.

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              • F FiatYod

                Every man and every woman is a star.

                Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                ... Just kidding.

                But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                I'd love to read your opinions.

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                seekinghga
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                @Corvinae said

                "Unicornness is a wonderful word."

                I'm adding that to my lexicon, sis. I don't give a fuck, I'll tell all of the grammarians and doubters off!

                "I can dot i 's and cross t's "

                Same. 😜

                "I had the most beautiful expierence with the snow falling this morning. It was dark out and the light fluffy snow was falling qite persistantly when I brought my dogs out. The soft light from my back porch mde each flake seem to glow as it fell. I tipped my head back and looked up to see what seemed like the whole cosmos of stars falling down upon me, kissing my face and eyes with a wet cold burst. It was like the scene in StarWars when they jump into light speed and all the stars going rushing past in a blur.
                The flakes themselves were seemingly like long extensions of light reaching and reaching out light a million potential suns whirling by as I streamed through the vast expanse of the endless sky.
                It was beautiful.
                And then one big flake plopped into my eye and reminded me that I had better focus on my pups before they wander and that my tummy needed some toast."

                You should write that into verse. It certainly deserves it! Except for the "star wars" Lucas part... Nah, they sold it to Disney...

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                • F FiatYod

                  Every man and every woman is a star.

                  Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                  Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                  Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                  ... Just kidding.

                  But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                  I'd love to read your opinions.

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                  Corvinae
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                  Here ya go
                  Just off the top of my head
                  Haha

                  Falling beams of light
                  Sprinkled from the sky
                  Little puffs of life
                  Twinkling in my eye

                  Falling faster lighter
                  Yet always ever clear
                  Flakes of snow beholden
                  Pulling the universe down near

                  Falling stars of laughter
                  Cascading to the ground
                  A million little glimpses
                  A massing all around

                  My eyes were filled with wonder
                  At the beauty of it all
                  A million little unicorns
                  Dancing down in freefall

                  One little flake of heaven
                  Different from all the rest
                  Came down with sweet kisses
                  And into my eye did bless

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                  • F FiatYod

                    Every man and every woman is a star.

                    Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                    Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                    Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                    ... Just kidding.

                    But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                    I'd love to read your opinions.

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                    seekinghga
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                    @Corvinae said

                    "Here ya go
                    Just off the top of my head
                    Haha

                    Falling beams of light
                    Sprinkled from the sky
                    Little puffs of life
                    Twinkling in my eye

                    Falling faster lighter
                    Yet always ever clear
                    Flakes of snow beholden
                    Pulling the universe down near

                    Falling stars of laughter
                    Cascading to the ground
                    A million little glimpses
                    A massing all around
                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=28d_A_NuJ7A
                    My eyes were filled with wonder
                    At the beauty of it all
                    A million little unicorns
                    Dancing down in freefall

                    One little flake of heaven
                    Different from all the rest
                    Came down with sweet kisses
                    And into my eye did bless"

                    Boffo!

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                    • F FiatYod

                      Every man and every woman is a star.

                      Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                      Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                      Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                      ... Just kidding.

                      But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                      I'd love to read your opinions.

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                      Corvinae
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                      Gotta say bro....

                      Boffo was/is a new word for me!!

                      All that originaly came to mind
                      After I thought you were just making it up
                      Was the classic
                      youtu.be/0uuCNAwXGaQ

                      I am a strange bird
                      But that song does pop into my head under the weirdest circumstances.

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