Overthrowing The Old Gods

Author : Don Webb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620551905

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New commentaries on Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law reveal how it is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths • Examines each line of the Book of the Law in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, Gurdjieff’s teachings, and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought • Explores Crowley’s identification with the First Beast of Revelations as well as his adoption of the Loki archetype for becoming a vessel of love for all humanity • Recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation • Includes commentary on the Book of the Law by Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996 Received by Aleister Crowley in April 1904 in Cairo, Egypt, the Book of the Law is the most provocative record of magical working in several hundred years, affecting not only organizations directly associated with Crowley such as the Ordo Templi Orientis but also modern Wicca, Chaos Magic, and the Temple of Set. Boldly defying Crowley’s warning not to comment on the Book of the Law, Ipsissimus Don Webb provides in-depth interpretation from both Black and White Magical perspectives, including commentary from Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996. Webb examines each line of the Book in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, existentialism, and competing occult systems such as the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought. Discarding the common image of Crowley formulated in a spiritually unsophisticated time when the devotee of the Left-Hand Path was dismissed as a selfish evil doer, Webb unveils a new side of Crowley based on his adoption of the Loki archetype and his aim to become a vessel of love for all humanity. In so doing, he shows how the Book of the Law is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths and reveals how Crowley’s magical path of mastery over the self and Cosmos overthrew the gods of old religion, which had kept humanity asleep to dream the nightmare of history. Providing in-depth analysis of Crowley’s sources and his self-identification with the First Beast of Revelation from a profound esoteric perspective, Webb takes his views out of the Golden Dawn matrix within which he received the Book of the Law and radically recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation.

Author : Don Webb
Publisher : Inner Traditions
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1620551896

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New commentaries on Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law reveal how it is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths • Examines each line of the Book of the Law in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, Gurdjieff’s teachings, and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought • Explores Crowley’s identification with the First Beast of Revelation as well as his adoption of the Loki archetype for becoming a vessel of love for all humanity • Recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation • Includes commentary on the Book of the Law by Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996 Received by Aleister Crowley in April 1904 in Cairo, Egypt, the Book of the Law is the most provocative record of magical working in several hundred years, affecting not only organizations directly associated with Crowley such as the Ordo Templi Orientis but also modern Wicca, Chaos Magic, and the Temple of Set. Boldly defying Crowley’s warning not to comment on the Book of the Law, Ipsissimus Don Webb provides in-depth interpretation from both Black and White Magical perspectives, including commentary from Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996. Webb examines each line of the Book in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, existentialism, and competing occult systems such as the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought. Discarding the common image of Crowley formulated in a spiritually unsophisticated time when the devotee of the Left-Hand Path was dismissed as a selfish evil doer, Webb unveils a new side of Crowley based on his adoption of the Loki archetype and his aim to become a vessel of love for all humanity. In so doing, he shows how the Book of the Law is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths and reveals how Crowley’s magical path of mastery over the self and Cosmos overthrew the gods of old religion, which had kept humanity asleep to dream the nightmare of history. Providing in-depth analysis of Crowley’s sources and his self-identification with the First Beast of Revelation from a profound esoteric perspective, Webb takes his views out of the Golden Dawn matrix within which he received the Book of the Law and radically recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation.

Author : Philip J. Kain
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739126946

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Nietzsche and the Horror of Existence by Philip J. Kain Pdf

Nietzsche believed in the horror of existence: a world filled with meaningless sufferingA suffering for no reason at all. He also believed in eternal recurrence, the view that that our lives will repeat infinitely, and that in each life every detail will be exactly the same. Furthermore, it was not enough for Nietzsche that eternal recurrence simply be acceptedA he demanded that it be loved. Thus the philosopher who introduces eternal recurrence is the very same philosopher who also believes in the horror of existence. In this groundbreaking study, Philip Kain develops an insightful account of Nietzsche's strange and paradoxical view that a life of pain and suffering is perhaps the only life it really makes sense to want to live again.

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350141544

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All Men Must Die by Carolyne Larrington Pdf

'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian. And die they do – in prodigious numbers; in imaginatively varied and gruesome ways; and often in terror within the viciously unpredictable world that is HBO's sensational evocation of Game of Thrones. Epic in scope and in imaginative breadth, the stories that are brought to life tell of the dramatic rise and fall of nations, the brutal sweeping away of old orders and the advent of new autarchs in the eternal quest for dominion. Yet, as this book reveals, many potent and intimate narratives of love and passion can be found within these grand landscapes of heroism, honour and death. They focus on strong relationships between women and family, as well as among the anti-heroes, the 'cripples, bastards and broken things'. In this vital follow-up to Winter Is Coming (2015), acclaimed medievalist Carolyne Larrington explores themes of power, blood-kin, lust and sex in order to draw entirely fresh meanings out of the show of the century.

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503635302

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The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on close readings of Susan Taubes's writings, including her correspondence with Jacob Taubes, scholarly essays, literary compositions, and poems, Elliot R. Wolfson plumbs the depths of the tragic sensibility that shaped her worldview, hovering between the poles of nihilism and hope. By placing Susan Taubes in dialogue with a host of other seminal thinkers, Wolfson illumines how she presciently explored the hypernomian status of Jewish ritual and belief after the Holocaust; the theopolitical challenges of Zionism and the dangers of ethnonationalism; the antitheological theology and gnostic repercussions of Heideggerian thought; the mystical atheism and apophaticism of tragedy in Simone Weil; and the understanding of poetry as the means to face the faceless and to confront the silence of death in the temporal overcoming of time through time. Wolfson delves into the abyss that molded Susan Taubes's mytheological thinking, making a powerful case for the continued relevance of her work to the study of philosophy and religion today.

Author : Nina Varela
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316706797

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Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela Pdf

A thrilling fantasy adventure from acclaimed author Nina Varela that explores friendship and queer identity, perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series! When Juniper Harvey’s family moves to the middle of nowhere in Florida, her entire life is uprooted. As if that's not bad enough, she keeps having dreams about an ancient-looking temple, a terrifying attack, and a mysterious girl who turns into an ivory statue. One night after a disastrous school dance, Juniper draws a portrait of the girl from her dreams and thinks, I wish you were here. The next morning, she wakes up to find the girl in her room… pointing a sword at her throat! The unexpected visitor reveals herself as Galatea, a princess from a magical other world. One problem—her crown is missing, and she needs it in order to return home. Now, it’s up to Juniper to help find the crown, all while navigating a helpless crush on her new companion. And things go from bad to worse when a sinister force starts chasing after the crown too. Packed with adventure and driven by a pitch-perfect voice, this middle grade debut from Nina Varela is about one tween forging new friendships, fighting nightmarish monsters, and importantly, figuring out who she is and who she ultimately wishes to be.

Author : Helmut Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429806193

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The Religions of Tibet by Helmut Hoffmann Pdf

This book, first published in 1961, examines the old Tibetan Bon religion, the development of Buddhism in India and Tibet, and covers the religious struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries. It also describes the rise of the Lamaist sects and the priest state of the Dalai Lamas, and taken as a whole is a study of the development of the character of Tibet itself.

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788732178

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Old Gods, New Enigmas by Mike Davis Pdf

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493735

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The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn Pdf

Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).

Author : Michael Broers
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571273447

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Napoleon by Michael Broers Pdf

This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of the new version of his Correspondence compiled by the Fondation Napoléon in Paris to replace the sanitized compilation made under the Second French Empire as a propaganda exercise by his nephew, Napoleon III. All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. Michael Broers' biography draws on the thoughts of Napoleon himself as his incomparable life unfolded. It reveals a man of intense emotion, but also of iron self-discipline; of acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Tracing his life from its dangerous Corsican roots, through his rejection of his early identity, and the dangerous military encounters of his early career, it tells the story of the sheer determination, ruthlessness and careful calculation that won him the precarious mastery of Europe by 1807. After the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland, France was the dominant land power on the continent. Here is the first life in which Napoleon speaks in his own voice, but not always as he wanted the world to hear him.

Author : Frank Yerby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:810724841

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The Old Gods Laugh by Frank Yerby Pdf

Author : Ben R. Finney,James D. Houston
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780876545942

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Surfing by Ben R. Finney,James D. Houston Pdf

Surfing traces the history of the sport from its beginnings in ancient Hawaii through the mid 1960s. This revised edition of the 1966 classic features extensive illustrations, a new introduction, and articles by Mark Twain and Jack London recounting their observations on surfing. The book also explores the development of the surfboard and follows surfing's timeline from the earliest legends to the accomplishments of modern surfing heroes.

Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760287

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy by Martin Revermann Pdf

This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Theosophy is deeper Monism than Secularism, and more philosophical by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Pdf

Our age is as greedy to set up new idols, as it is to overthrow the old gods; as ready to give lavish hospitality to new ideas, as to kick out most unceremoniously theories that now seem to them effete. Facts are eagerly sought after by all, from the solemn conclaves of Science who seem to hang the destinies of the human race, down to a hack on the warpath after sensational news. The Theosophical Society is neither sectarian nor a religious body, but simply a nucleus of men and women devoted to the search after truth, whencesoever it may come. No member is obliged to be in full sympathy with all three objects of our Society; suffice that he should be in sympathy with one of the three, and be willing not to oppose the other two, to render him eligible to membership. Theosophy teaches a far stricter and more far-reaching Monism than does Secularism, and it is far more philosophical. We firmly believe that the elevating and strengthening influence of the doctrines of Reincarnation and Karma, i.e., of Hope and Responsibility, will solve many a social problem that seeks elsewhere in vain for a solution. Our Society is the only body absolutely free from intolerance, dogmatism, and prejudice, and the only one which opens its arms to all, imposing on none its own special beliefs — which are strictly limited to a small inner group within it, called the Esoteric Section.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858046270058

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The Penn Monthly by Anonim Pdf