Liber AL Line for the day
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93 and good morning to you all,
This was just a passing thought but how cool would it be to have a line from Liber AL posted on the home page of this forum for everyone to view and contemplate throughout the day. I am sure there are many people out there that already taking the initiative to do this on their own, but I think it would most certainly be something everyone could appreciate. Just a passing thought I wanted to share with you all.93 93/93
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Thanks for the suggestion, Ra.
First: Have you seen this thread? heruraha.net/viewtopic.php?t=70 It's not exactly what you were suggesting, but was created years ago as a model for meditatively working through the primary Thelemic "scriptures" over the course of the year. (For this part of the year, it's presently working through Liber LXV - currently the Fire chapter.)
Second: Unfortunately, your exact suggestion would require that somebody would manually make this change once every 24 hours. Given everything else that has to be done, that might be difficult (for me, anyway), and I'm compulsive enough that I'd agonize a little over starting it and then screwing up here and there.
Three: If people jumped in and actually did this, it could be pretty cool! So I'm going to give it a try (we can always stop!). I'm going to start a Meditation of the Day sub-forum in a few minutes, picking up in the current stream of the Tephilah assignments. I'll do my best to post one a day. Everybody that wants to can meditate on the verses of the day and post their results and discussion. If a meditation has no posts after 2 days, I'll delete it.
I actually hope this takes off and becomes popular! It could be pretty cool if it does.
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Thanks for doing this Jim, it's a great idea. Also gives people a reason to come to the site EVERYDAY!
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93
I like the idea too.
If one of us was a programmer, then we wouldn't have to change it daily, as it would change with the date. But, that person is not me.
93, 93/93
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Jim's Thelemic Tephilah is a great year-long devotional practice. I just wanted to note that there's another (partial) one out there that takes advantage of a neat calendric coincidence. Somewhere in Richard Kaczynski's blog (richard-kaczyn.livejournal.com), he noted that there are exactly 220 days between August 12 (the feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride) and the following March 20 (the Supreme Ritual). I think he also posted a calendar with the 220 verses of Liber Legis listed on each of those days.
This works only for non-leap years (i.e., it doesn't apply to the first instance of these feasts in 1903-1904!), but one could think of several creative choices to make for that extra day once every four years.
Interestingly, the anniversary of Crowley's death (Dec. 1) corresponds to "There is death for the dogs." New Year's Day corresponds to the II:76 cipher.
Anyway, that's just one possibility.
Another idea that springs to mind is to just start going with a 220 day repetitive cycle. At some point it should re-align itself with the calendar, but it would drift through the year. Approximately, five 220-day periods fit into about three years (both are about 1100 days... which is a fun number...)
Steve