Zalthos
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Greetings.
I have been browsing this forum for a little while now and have some questions I didn't see asked in the threads of my interest.
My interest in "occult"/esoteric works began with Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung and The Book of Pleasure by Austin Osman Spare. I have been reading the works of Crowley for a little over 2 years now and in this time have made it my goal to collect and study every sacred text from every religion/mythology with sacred texts.
I also enjoy the works of Joseph Campbell and Manly Palmer Hall. I would like to one day obtain a Master's in Comparative Religion, but this is not a priority for me.
I am primarily a musician. I am sure you will learn more about me as I spend more time here.
I look forward to interacting with all of you and having my questions answered, once I ask them.
Love is the law, love under will.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
@kuniggety said
"Carl Jung certainly had some interesting ideas in his writings. I think I've read more derivative works of his rather than his actual works. Welcome to the forums!"
Thanks for the warm welcome. Jung inspired me to feel comfortable and at ease with my own priorities as a human being more than anything else at the time. His autobiography will always serve as a milestone for me in this respect. I've still yet to delve much further than a shallow familiarity with most of his work. In addition to the autobiography, I do have The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung and The Masculine and the Feminine, which is more or less a compilation of excerpts on the subject sourced from his entire body of work. I'd love to have the two-volume set of Visions. I am also most interested in The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead by Stephan A. Hoeller.
If anyone is interested, you can listen to some of my songs here.
Love is the law, love under will.
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93,
I found it fascinating to compare the Book of the Law with Jung's Septem Sermones. The Sermons holds back from sacrificing the Self, where Liber L bids us abandon all. But Jung, I'd suggest, is a very good guide for most of us, since he can help us understand the early stages of strange ideas and energies rising from within us. Also, he's usually more useful in his more popular writings than his technical ones, which sometimes get stuck in a rather narrow place.
Welcome aboard,
93 93/93,
Edward