IJYNX- Blair Blake
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I have a copy of IJYNX, by the writer of the toolband.com website, and I have been puzzled as to how to decipher or maybe "look" at the book in the correct way, and since I know I'm not the only one who listens to TOOL, and I know that I can't possibly be the only one on the forum with the book in my possession, I thought I might ask for someones take on the subject-specifically of this so called "nightside symbolism" and where to learn more on this, or more importantly who do I contact? I would like to try to get into the Typhonian OTO, but that seems easier said than done......
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You have likely already visited this link:
(http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/staley.htm)
It is to P.R. Koenig's site all about the Typonian O.T.O.. There's actually a wealth of information there including an address for contacting the Typhonian O.T.O.. I have actually read some of IJynx and found he poetry to be pretty cool, full of vivid imagery and while I had read something about it's relation to the "Nightside" the poems that I read didn't seem to resonate too much with what I'd read of Nightside magick.
All that I've read of nightside magick are Kenneth Grants books. Ol' KG has the reputation around these parts as being slightly cuckoo for co-co puffs and rightly so in my opinion, his books tend to make pretty broad assumptions that for the most part are not accepted by muc h of the Thelemoc community, at least from what I have seen. Still, there are a hell of a read if you can get your hands on copies of them.
More recently Jason Louv's Ultraculture Journal One has a brief essay upon his experience with nightside magick. Personally, I've never found the whole Nightside bit to be very appetizing but I guess it takes all kinds.
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Well, what is intriguing to me is something that I read in Mary Anne Atwoods "A suggestive inquiry" where in I think the first chapter is written a passage that says something to the effect of "therein also contains my Luna, which exceeds all light." or something similar, which leads me to believe that the nightside, while not exactly popular with the masses, does contain what Crowley said was "greater sublimity than any other" and perhaps its just KG's way to write with the use of "blinds" to fool the ignorant, and since KG's Commentary on IJYNX was that of praise, I thought that there may be something there to discover.
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Personally.... love me some Tool.
But I've never heard of the IJYNX book you're talking about. My head's been other places. I'm including this for others who may be interested, and I'm planning on taking a look at it soon, myself.
www.amazon.co.uk/Ijynx-Blair-MacKenzie-Blake/dp/0975720031
Until then...
peace.
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@Law said
"I have a copy of IJYNX, by the writer of the toolband.com website, and I have been puzzled as to how to decipher or maybe "look" at the book in the correct way, and since I know I'm not the only one who listens to TOOL, and I know that I can't possibly be the only one on the forum with the book in my possession, I thought I might ask for someones take on the subject-specifically of this so called "nightside symbolism" and where to learn more on this, or more importantly who do I contact? I would like to try to get into the Typhonian OTO, but that seems easier said than done......
"It is a manual for using sex magick & death simulation techniques to stimulate endrogenous production of dimethlytryptamine.
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"It is a manual for using sex magick & death simulation techniques to stimulate endrogenous production of dimethlytryptamine"
Okay, I am interested to know how it is that you have come to that conclusion, and what exaclty is a death simulation? I remember something about Blake saying he came up with a way to produce vibrations that would shake the crystals offf the pineal gland, but nothing else was said........
what I guess i am wondering, is how this information is encoded, iit is qabalah is it not?