So long to Jack Vance- a writer who I am always intending to read more of. I’m sure there will be many evenings spent on one of your far planets or fantastic isles.
Amen to that.
“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.” - Maske:Thaery
Yet I am still unsatisfied! I demand that he shall be developed towards the solution of his problem, and perceive that the contradictory thesis is equally true: that the most trivial, vain and fatuous events, if rightly understood, are sublime; that the slough of despond is but an optical illusion created by the shadow of the snow-pure summits of success.
I have been accused of exaggerated enthusiasm for Cabell. The more stupid and mean-minded have even explained my ardour by my appreciation of the compliment which Mr Cabell paid me by using my Gnostic Mass as the material for Chapter XXII of his Jurgen. The suggestion is utter rubbish; though, at the same time, I admit cordially that no other form of appreciation of my work would have pleased me half so well.
I regard his epic of such supreme importance to mankind as an exposition of the nature of the universe that I have not only sent him a copy of The Book of the Law in the hope that he may find in it the way out of his Buddhistic demonstration that “everything is sorrow” but followed it up by letter after letter urging him to use it, for his work cannot attain perfection until it culminates in a positive conclusion.”
Aleister Crowley in The Confessions
I feel like the woman who found the lost coin. I have searched periodically for this quote on and off since I first read it. It took me forever to realize that it was in his autobiography and not in The Equinox reviews! Anyways, one of my favorite commentaries!
(via theflyinginn)
My profound thanks to The Flying Inn, who unearthed this marvellous quote linking Aleister Crowley and James Branch Cabell - two gentlemen who feature quite highly in my personal pantheon. Oh, and be sure to check out theflyinginn generally, because it’s chock-full of arcane subjects of compelling interest.
Dissections
Something to warm the eyes and spirit on a cold March day.
Алиса 1387 - Soviet analog mono synth
Looking at this beautiful photograph, I can almost hear the soundtrack to a lost Andrei Tarkovsky adaptation of an unpublished Arkady and Boris Strugatsky novel.
Freedom Fighters #9, August 1977, cover by Rich Buckler and Jack Abel
Nice to see this lot make an appearance on my Tumblr dashboard - I’ve been fairly obsessed with the Freedom Fighters since I was a lad. Quite enjoying the modern incarnations of the characters scripted by Jimmy Gray and Justin Palmiotti, too.
Ness Point UFO Crash
Tzaddi Is Not The Star
It is, in fact, The Emperor, according to a revelation received by Aleister Crowley from the entity Aiwass. Here’s a short tune to listen to, then, whilst pondering the finer points of esoteric tarot correspondences.
Image by Jessica Mullen http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamullen/
poictesme’s picks #10
Jupiter ft. Aleister Crowley’s Call of the First Aether (Enochian 1910)
Frater Perdurabo in dub, courtesy of US producer Jupiter. Angelic, in every sense.
My Bloody Valentine - New Album Out Now!
22 years in the making, m b v is finally here…
Blimey! What a year for music this is turning into. First David Bowie, then MBV - it’s like Godot finally turning up at the end of Act II. Who’s next to turn in a long-delayed album, I wonder?
DC Super Stars #11, January 1977, cover by Gray Morrow
!SCIMOCYLEVOL
Here’s a picture of Zatanna to cheer and inspire on an otherwise cheerless, uninspiring Wednesday. Thank you, comicbookcovers, for this little bit of Tumblr dashboard magic!
