Numerology and the New Aeon
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93,
I know very little about numerology, but I do know that there are various techniques for converting your birth date into a birth number that supposedly may help to reveal something about your inner nature.
I'm just wondering if anyone knows if Crowley or anyone else attempted to invent a new system of date-based numerology in light of the new Thelemic calendar.
On a more general note - how do people feel about the new calendar? Just out of curiosity. In addition to the two tiered yearly system, Frater Hoor came up with a full calendar to replace years, days, months, everything which can be found here,
www.themagickalreview.org/essays/calendar.ph
In general, do people think this is a waste of time, or do you wish we could replace the old civil calendar with the new one?
Love=Law
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@ThatNarrowFellow said
"In general, do people think this is a waste of time, or do you wish we could replace the old civil calendar with the new one?"
I enjoy all kinds of calendric fun, but I always come back to Crowley's Djeridensis comment on the Book of the Law, II:42-43 (the "feast every day" and "feast every night" lines). A commemorative calendar can grow and grow to the point where every moment is inflamed with reminders of our path, such that we stop discriminating between "sacred days" and "profane days." All time is holy!
But the stops along the journey to that point are fun, too. For an overview of secular calendar reform, wikipedia ain't too bad. I'm a fan of the ancient Romans, so I kind of enjoy the clunky, idiosyncratic aspects of the calendar we inherited from them.
For the devotional aspects of Thelema, I needn't point you to Jim's Thelemic Tephilah (just see the Meditation of the Day sub-forum here). Richard Kaczynski has an alternate version, which I'm pretty sure I posted about here (but couldn't find with Google just now). For the EGC, Matthew Rogers put up a list of Gnostic Saints days, and Asad al-Haqq created a much lengthier version.
And all this without even mentioning astrology!
Steve