Abstruction?
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@Labyrinthus said
"He did not say. "make no argument", or "argument is futile".
He said, "I forbid argument".
Words have meaning.
Yet that will not stop those who don't want to see black and white from seeing gray and beige when matters of faith and emotional attachments are involved."
You are saying "he said." Well then, that seems to indicate to me that your take on Liber AL is that it is the work of Crowley, whereas others will take that it is a channeled work received through Crowley and so Crowley did not say anything in that book - he was told.
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Okay, I did not realize that any of his books were viewed that way. I am rather new to this site and Thelema.
(I was also opportunistically underscoring my earlier point on another thread about the common misunderstanding of the origin and true meaning of Papal infallibility).
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"You are saying "he said." Well then, that seems to indicate to me that your take on Liber AL is that it is the work of Crowley, whereas others will take that it is a channeled work received through Crowley and so Crowley did not say anything in that book - he was told."
I missed the discussion of the origins of papal infallibility.
Regardless of how you view the "inspiration" of the book, each passage needs to be interpreted in the light of which character is speaking and what aspect of Mind is speaking as a character. I just mention it in case your interest is piqued, Labyrinthus.
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@Labyrinthus said
"Okay, I did not realize that any of his books were viewed that way. I am rather new to this site and Thelema.
(I was also opportunistically underscoring my earlier point on another thread about the common misunderstanding of the origin and true meaning of Papal infallibility)."
That's okay then. I guess I can say you made reasonable assumptions. It might also help to know the various definitions given to the various classes of writings within the Thelemic cannon. Liber AL, among many other writings using the hand of Crowley, are listed as "Class A writings" and this is described as "books of which may be changed not so much as the style of a letter: that is, they represent the utterance of an Adept entirely beyond the criticism of even the Visible Head of the Organization. " This would suggest to us that these Class A texts are not actually the workings of a "human mind" per se, but "inspired" (or channeled) from higher sources, because the "Adept" whose words they are is "beyond...even the Visible Head [human person] of the Organization."
Just keep that in mind.
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"I missed the discussion of the origins of papal infallibility."
It was more of a comment than a discussion since no one replied. It was added a few posts after a post you had made on the 'aeon' thread. It was just before the part how I explained that Galileo was never thrown in prison or tortured by the Inquisition and how he was allowed to teach his theories freely till the day he died. (which no one replied to either... I wonder if I told the truth about how the Pope did NOT arrest and scatter the Knights Templar [King Phillipe Le Bel did] would anyone want to talk about that?)
re: infallibility
"*Do you understand that it in no way implies the inability to be in error?
Did you know that it is translated from the Latin which originally implied something more like 'indisputable' with a sense of finality. It was written in order to put and end to the endless arguing and infighting in the Vatican over matters of Doctrine. The Pope finally just picked one side and said, โthis is it, now stop arguing about itโIt in no way implies 'perfection' or the 'inability to be in error'. *"
Crowley's comment above reminded me of that.
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It is a rather rose-colored depiction of those events that you give, but on the surface, the history is correct. What's to discuss?
But, just to keep things on topic, this passage always gives me a bit of a knot. It plays in too well with my own imagined literal fulfillments of John's Revelation.
To me, it sounds like it says, "I'll make it easy to steal the thing I like to call the Abomination of Desolation. It'll be easy because security isn't very tight, and they don't keep good records. They probably won't even notice."
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"It is a rather rose-colored depiction of those events that you give, but on the surface, the history is correct. What's to discuss?"
Rose-colored? How so? It is simple recitation of historical fact if you ask me. ... a little politically incorrect maybe...which makes it all the more interesting to discuss.
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Dear All,
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Here is Crowley's old commentary to that verse:
"'Abstruction'. It was thought that this meant to combine abstraction and construction, i.e. the preparation of a replica, which was done.
Of course, the original is in "locked glass."How about that?
Yours,
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Love is the Law,
Love under Will.Ah, this discussion is interesting. I'd assumed it was latin derived (ab- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ab#Latin), though now I see more correlation also with ATU XVI (The Tower).
Reminds me of Alan Moore's discussion of Apocalypse from Mindscape(text here) which may also be related to the "fall" of the Tower of Babel (aka gate of god), ie the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the victorious city.
Also as 311 (loose interpretation of Ch3Vers11) may be ืฉืื in hebrew, meaning Record or Peak, as in Record Breaking. And if Gematrix is to be believed, has some seemingly interesting relations to the topic (cf. **(http://www.gematrix.org/?word=babel:3ifks4bm)).
Thanks for your Light, SisterBrothers.