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Why "Every man and every woman"?

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  • F FiatYod

    Every man and every woman is a star.

    Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
    Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
    Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
    ... Just kidding.

    But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
    I'd love to read your opinions.

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    seekinghga
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    @Corvinae said

    "
    I said I was a unicorn and that just crazy. How can a girl be a unicorn, unicorns are males."

    You are.

    "Its a wierd world."

    It is.

    "I am a star.
    I have within me two elements that are whole and pure and nobel. And that is the yoga of the self, the I and Thou dancing around the kitchen waiting for the toaster to pop up some rye so it came be buttered and peanut buttered."

    Poetry! 😄

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rCQNKsyoE

    [edit]

    @Takamba said

    "Hidden qabalah in it"

    @Takamba said

    "I brought peanuts."

    Seriously? You DO know what qabalah does to peanuts, yes?

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    • F FiatYod

      Every man and every woman is a star.

      Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
      Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
      Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
      ... Just kidding.

      But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
      I'd love to read your opinions.

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      Corvinae
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      #20

      Thanks for the pretty song...
      It reminded me of my early twenties when for some odd reason I was studying ancient English Tapestry art of Unicorns and reading the Book of Kells.

      Sigh....great fun that road was....learning all about celtic knot work and such....

      And then it seemed like everyone started getting tatoos of it and it became trendy.

      Unicorns dont do trendy
      We make trendy.

      I am thinking of studying etymology more in depth and tossing that around. Maybe bring our ghetto slang back to its PIE root.

      Im so sick of hearing
      Bae and bruh

      Or maybe I will study glaperastant and deonocforation and really wow the world.

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      • F FiatYod

        Every man and every woman is a star.

        Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
        Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
        Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
        ... Just kidding.

        But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
        I'd love to read your opinions.

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        Takamba
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        @seekinghga said

        "
        Seriously? You DO know what qabalah does to peanuts, yes?"

        I have no words.

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        • F FiatYod

          Every man and every woman is a star.

          Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
          Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
          Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
          ... Just kidding.

          But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
          I'd love to read your opinions.

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          seekinghga
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          @Takamba said

          "I have no words."

          Don't you remember the shiny tugboat? Paris? You, me, Hemmingway, with Gertrude Stein steering in the back... Don't you remember Carol? Ohhh.... drools

          @Corvinae said

          "Unicorns dont do trendy
          We make trendy."

          Duly noted! 😉

          "Or maybe I will study glaperastant and deonocforation and really wow the world."

          And in my own vocabulary, floccinaucinihilipilification never appears... Sesquipedalian... (seriously, j/k)

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          • F FiatYod

            Every man and every woman is a star.

            Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
            Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
            Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
            ... Just kidding.

            But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
            I'd love to read your opinions.

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            Corvinae
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            Never is a very long time.
            It never appears hmmmm......
            Well maybe its because your not focusing right.
            I was never able to see what was in those magic eye pictures.....and then....one day....I got so upset that I couldnt....and Takamba could.....I just believed and trusted and surrendered....and
            Bang
            I saw many images in the one.....

            So trust that if you keep looking and look with your heart and not just your eyes.....your thingambob will reveal itself.
            Never say never.....
            Which is just a silly thing to say and mathematically doesnt make sence.

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            • F FiatYod

              Every man and every woman is a star.

              Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
              Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
              Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
              ... Just kidding.

              But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
              I'd love to read your opinions.

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              seekinghga
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              #24

              @Corvinae said

              "Never is a very long time.
              It never appears hmmmm......
              Well maybe its because your not focusing right.
              I was never able to see what was in those magic eye pictures.....and then....one day....I got so upset that I couldnt....and Takamba could.....I just believed and trusted and surrendered....and
              Bang
              I saw many images in the one.....

              So trust that if you keep looking and look with your heart and not just your eyes.....your thingambob will reveal itself.
              Never say never.....
              Which is just a silly thing to say and mathematically doesnt make sence."

              Some people may think that Aleister Crowley was a feeble, drug-addled old man in the mid-1940s. He wasn't. But speaking through him...

              "This is where I want to have you, with us who are come thus far, in a state utterly detached from the Ego, so that you appear the plain Jane Wolfe 'doing your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you' and consequently unremarked—like a Rosicrucian, 'wearing the habit of the country in which you are traveling'—but trembling with interior illumination, so that the first relaxation of the constant conscious burden of Jane Wolfe, Soror Estai is automatically released, a pillar of Creative Light."

              • Magick Without Tears

              Are those the words of an enfeebled aged man? In my eyes I see the Magus of the Aeon of Horus exhorting one of his students to cross the Abyss. I am not an answer. You are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX39uHKAZHo

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              • F FiatYod

                Every man and every woman is a star.

                Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                ... Just kidding.

                But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                I'd love to read your opinions.

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                Corvinae
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                I found this little gem from a thread when I was digging about for info on my beloved Unicornness (which for a word should be promptly added to vocabulary lists IMHO).

                I think it has a great deal to say to explain the original question of this thread so I am adding it here for the benefit of inquiring hearts and minds.

                @Tinman said

                "I note this from Jim's commentary to Liber AL, 1:3. Every man and every woman is a star:

                "“Star” is here, apparently, Khabs. Each of us is, at our core, Khabs; but our lives, our veils etc., are Khabs am Pekht, “Light in extension.” (I have developed this more extensively for initiates of the Artisan Degree of Temple of Thelema.) This, as 451 (the Greek Konx Om Pax), is of course the central idea of the name A.'.A.'.. Knowledge of self, and of our way, and of the world, is encompassed in the phrase, “Light in extension,” and our ability to witness that L.V.X. “Khabs” is related to Kokav, Mercury, “star” (hence the eight words of this verse?). Every man and every woman is Kokav."
                "

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                • F FiatYod

                  Every man and every woman is a star.

                  Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                  Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                  Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                  ... Just kidding.

                  But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                  I'd love to read your opinions.

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                  Takamba
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                  #26

                  Yes U R
                  Baby, you're a star

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                  • F FiatYod

                    Every man and every woman is a star.

                    Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                    Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                    Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                    ... Just kidding.

                    But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                    I'd love to read your opinions.

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                    Corvinae
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                    Unicornness is a wonderful word.

                    You know me
                    Never satisfied
                    Till I find the answer

                    Its that Secretarial side of me.

                    I can dot i 's and cross t's

                    I had the most beautiful expierence with the snow falling this morning. It was dark out and the light fluffy snow was falling qite persistantly when I brought my dogs out. The soft light from my back porch mde each flake seem to glow as it fell. I tipped my head back and looked up to see what seemed like the whole cosmos of stars falling down upon me, kissing my face and eyes with a wet cold burst. It was like the scene in StarWars when they jump into light speed and all the stars going rushing past in a blur.
                    The flakes themselves were seemingly like long extensions of light reaching and reaching out light a million potential suns whirling by as I streamed through the vast expanse of the endless sky.
                    It was beautiful.
                    And then one big flake plopped into my eye and reminded me that I had better focus on my pups before they wander and that my tummy needed some toast.

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                    • F FiatYod

                      Every man and every woman is a star.

                      Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                      Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                      Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                      ... Just kidding.

                      But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                      I'd love to read your opinions.

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                      seekinghga
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                      @Corvinae said

                      "Unicornness is a wonderful word."

                      I'm adding that to my lexicon, sis. I don't give a fuck, I'll tell all of the grammarians and doubters off!

                      "I can dot i 's and cross t's "

                      Same. 😜

                      "I had the most beautiful expierence with the snow falling this morning. It was dark out and the light fluffy snow was falling qite persistantly when I brought my dogs out. The soft light from my back porch mde each flake seem to glow as it fell. I tipped my head back and looked up to see what seemed like the whole cosmos of stars falling down upon me, kissing my face and eyes with a wet cold burst. It was like the scene in StarWars when they jump into light speed and all the stars going rushing past in a blur.
                      The flakes themselves were seemingly like long extensions of light reaching and reaching out light a million potential suns whirling by as I streamed through the vast expanse of the endless sky.
                      It was beautiful.
                      And then one big flake plopped into my eye and reminded me that I had better focus on my pups before they wander and that my tummy needed some toast."

                      You should write that into verse. It certainly deserves it! Except for the "star wars" Lucas part... Nah, they sold it to Disney...

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                      • F FiatYod

                        Every man and every woman is a star.

                        Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                        Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                        Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                        ... Just kidding.

                        But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                        I'd love to read your opinions.

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                        Corvinae
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                        Here ya go
                        Just off the top of my head
                        Haha

                        Falling beams of light
                        Sprinkled from the sky
                        Little puffs of life
                        Twinkling in my eye

                        Falling faster lighter
                        Yet always ever clear
                        Flakes of snow beholden
                        Pulling the universe down near

                        Falling stars of laughter
                        Cascading to the ground
                        A million little glimpses
                        A massing all around

                        My eyes were filled with wonder
                        At the beauty of it all
                        A million little unicorns
                        Dancing down in freefall

                        One little flake of heaven
                        Different from all the rest
                        Came down with sweet kisses
                        And into my eye did bless

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                        • F FiatYod

                          Every man and every woman is a star.

                          Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                          Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                          Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                          ... Just kidding.

                          But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                          I'd love to read your opinions.

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                          seekinghga
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                          @Corvinae said

                          "Here ya go
                          Just off the top of my head
                          Haha

                          Falling beams of light
                          Sprinkled from the sky
                          Little puffs of life
                          Twinkling in my eye

                          Falling faster lighter
                          Yet always ever clear
                          Flakes of snow beholden
                          Pulling the universe down near

                          Falling stars of laughter
                          Cascading to the ground
                          A million little glimpses
                          A massing all around
                          www.youtube.com/watch?v=28d_A_NuJ7A
                          My eyes were filled with wonder
                          At the beauty of it all
                          A million little unicorns
                          Dancing down in freefall

                          One little flake of heaven
                          Different from all the rest
                          Came down with sweet kisses
                          And into my eye did bless"

                          Boffo!

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                          • F FiatYod

                            Every man and every woman is a star.

                            Since Liber AL is class A, it may be changed not so much as the style of a letter.
                            Do you think that phrasing it "Every man and every woman" holds any significance?
                            Was Nuit trying to warn us of the genderqueer?
                            ... Just kidding.

                            But why not "Every person is a star"? Why not "Every living being is a star"? Why not "Everything is a star"?
                            I'd love to read your opinions.

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                            Corvinae
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                            Gotta say bro....

                            Boffo was/is a new word for me!!

                            All that originaly came to mind
                            After I thought you were just making it up
                            Was the classic
                            youtu.be/0uuCNAwXGaQ

                            I am a strange bird
                            But that song does pop into my head under the weirdest circumstances.

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