Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Coptic Spell: Spell for a Man to Obtain a Male Lover

Egypt, perhaps 6th century

{spell source}

These texts, dating from the first to the eleventh century, show a religious life quite different from that of the elite theologians who were writing at the same time. See for these texts - Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith, eds., Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic texts of Ritual Power, (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994)

One of the spells translated in this volume is for a man to obtain a male lover: evidence of a homosexual sub-culture, neither philosophic nor literary which we may believe existed at other times and places in the ancient world, but which has left little evidence.
. . .
This text contains a same-sex love spell commissioned by one Papalo to "bind" another man, Phello (this name literally means "the old man" or "the monk"), by means of a variety of powerful utterances (especially ROUS). Besides extending the scope of erotic binding spells in late antiquity, this spell also employs formulae common to several Coptic texts of ritual power.


+CELTATALBABAL [.]KARASHNEIFE[.]NNAS'KNEKIE, by the power of Yao Sabaoth, ROUS ROUS ROUS ROUS ROUS ROUS ROUS ROUS


(ring signs)

+++I adjure you by your powers and your amulets and
places where you dwell and your names, that just as I take you
a put you at the door and the pathway of Phello, son of Maure,
(so alos) you must take his heart and his mind; you must dominate
his entire body.

When he (tries to) stand, you must not allow him to stand
When he (tries to) sit, you must not allow him to sit
When he lies down to sleep, you must not allow him to sleep.
He must seek me from town to town, from city to city,
from field to filed, from region to region,
until he comes to me and subjects himself under my feet-
me, Papapolo son of Noe-
while his hand is full of all goodness,
until I satisfy with him the desire of my heart
and the demand of my soul,
with pleasant desire and love unending,
right now, right now, at once! Do my work

Notes:

The reference to "his hand full of all goodness" may be connected with the Hebrew use of "hand" for "penis".

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Abu Nuwas, the first & foremost Islamic gay poet



Abu Nuwas, "Father of Curls," so named for his long flowing hair that hung down to his shoulders, was the greatest Arab poet of his time, or as some claim, the greatest Arab poet of all time. His full name was Abu Nuwas al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami. Abu Nuwas’s mother, Golban (Rose) by name, was a Persian weaver, and his father, whom he never knew, a soldier from Damascus. The mother sold the young Abu Nuwas (b. 756) to Sa’ad al-Yashira, a Yemeni druggist, who took him from Ahvaz, the town of his birth (presently in south-western Iran) to his home in Basrah (presently in south-eastern Iraq), in those days a great seaport, and abode of the mythical Sinbad the Sailor.

In Basrah, the boy studied the Qur'an and grammar at mosque. His grace and beauty attracted the attention of his older cousin, the handsome blond poet Waliba ibn al-Hubab (d. 786). The druggist having granted the boy his freedom, Waliba became his lover and teacher, taking his student to live with him in Kufa. A couple of year later, the adolescent Abu Nuwas returned to Basrah to study under Khalaf al-Ahmar, a master or pre-Islamic poetry. He then spent a year among the Bedouin (desert nomads) to gain purity of language. But the young man, already a lover of the finer things in life, was not enamored of the primitive life of the ascetic nomads:


Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disapppointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel’s milk!
How can you set the bedu
Beside Kisra’s palace?
You, mad to expect repentance,
Tear your robe all you want;
I will never repent!

(Diwan, 11-12; after Kennedy, p. 223)

Abu Nuwas set aside older, traditional writing forms for drinking songs (khamriyyat) and witty, erotic lyrics on male love (mudhakkarat and mujuniyyat) that resonate with an authenticity born of experience, soon becoming famous, if not notorious. His love poems celebrate love for a beautiful boy, often embodied in the figure of the saqi, the Christian wine boy at the tavern. The theme was picked up time and again over the ensuing centuries by the best poets of Iran and Arabia, such as Omar al-Khayyam, Hafiz, and countless others who shared his tastes. [more]



An evil brew
This wineboy pours you:
water from rain
with wine entrained.

Wine of Paradise

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

power: four of disks (thoth)

Book of Thoth

The Four, Chesed, shows the establishment of the Universe in three dimensions, that is, below the Abyss. The generating idea is exhibited in its full material sense. The card is ruled by the Sun in Capricornus, the Sign in which he is reborn. The disks are very large and solid; the suggestion of the card is that of a fortress. This represents Law and Order, maintained by constant authority and vigilance. The disks themselves are square; revolution is very opposite to the card; and they contain the signs of the Four Elements. For all that, they revolve; defence is valid only when violently active. So far as it appears stationary, it is the "dead centre" of the engineer; and Capricornus is the point at which the Sun "turns again Northward". The background is of deep azure, flecked yellow, suggesting a moat; but beyond this is a pattern of green and indigo to represent the guarded fields whose security is assured by the fortress.

In the Yi King, Sol in Capricornus is represented by the Second Hexagram, Khwan, which is the Female Principle. Compare the English word Queen, Anglo-Saxon Cwen, old Mercian Kwoen. Cognate are Icelandic Kvan, Gothic Kwens, woman. The Indo-Germanic type is g (w)eni and the Sanskrit root GwEN. Note also Cwm, coombe, and agnate words, meaning an enclosed valley, usually with water running from it. Womb——possibly a softened form?

Compare also the innumerable words, derived from the root Cas [see note #2 below], Which imply an enclosed and fortified space. Case, castle, chest, cyst, chaste, incest and so on.

The primary radicle in all this class of words is the guttural. Observe the Hebrew attributions: Gimel, the moon; Cheth, Cancer, the house of the moon; Kaph, the Wheel; Qoph, the Moon, XVIII, Guttur, the throat. Sounds so made suggest the other throat; one is the channel of respiration and nutrition, the other of reproduction and elimination.


queen

1a. The wife or widow of a king. b. A woman sovereign. 2. Something having eminence or supremacy in a given domain and personified as a woman: Paris is regarded as the queen of cities. 3. abbr. Q Games a. The most powerful chess piece, able to move in any direction over any number of empty squares in a straight line. b. A playing card bearing the figure of a queen, ranking above the jack and below the king. 4. The fertile, fully developed female in a colony of social bees, ants, or termites. 5. A mature female cat, especially one kept for breeding purposes. 6. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To make (a woman) a queen. 2. Games To raise (a pawn) to queen in chess.

INTRANSITIVE VERB: Games To become a queen in chess.

IDIOM: queen it To act like a queen; domineer: queens it over the whole family.

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English quene, from Old English cewn. See gWen- in Appendix I.

WORD HISTORY: Queen and quean sound alike, are spelled almost identically, and both refer to women, but of wildly different kinds. Queen comes from Old English cewn, pronounced (kawn), “queen, wife of a king,” and comes from Germanic *kwen-iz, “woman, wife, queen.” Quean comes from Old English cwene, pronounced (kewn'a), “woman, female, female serf”; from the eleventh century on it was also used to mean “prostitute.” The Germanic source of cwene is *kwen-on–, “woman, wife.” Once established, the pejorative sense of quean drove out its neutral senses and especially in the 16th and 17th centuries it was used almost solely to refer to prostitutes. Around the same time, in many English dialects the pronunciation of queen and quean became identical, leading to the obsolescence of the latter term except in some regions. •The Germanic root for both words, *kwen–, “woman,” comes by Grimm's Law from the Indo-European root *gwen–, “woman,” which appears in at least two other English words borrowed from elsewhere in the Indo-European family. One is gynecology, from Greek gune, “woman.” Another, less obvious, one is banshee, “woman of the fairies,” the wailing female spirit attendant on a death, from Old Irish ben, “woman.”

[5:57 AM 9/18/2012]

{1} Updated all links to Wayback Machine.

{2} "derived from the root Gas" :: Gas changed to Cas [Book of Thoth, p. 214] & link also updated to root: kes-. FYI: Thread: Castle and chastity, what do they have in common - etymologically speaking?

{3} Image added, linking to Book of Thoth at Hermetic.com.


final notes: find larger version online to view full detail on this card [i found a good one here]. also check Egregore here & here & here & here (just to get started).



T’ien-t’ai states, "From the indigo, an even deeper blue." This passage means that something dyed repeatedly with indigo becomes even bluer than the indigo plant itself. For us the Lotus Sutra is the indigo plant, and the growing intensity of our practice is "an even deeper blue."Nichiren

Monday, January 03, 2005

blue & red: six vestal virgins

This is the Holy Hexagram.
Plunge from the height, O God, and interlock with Man!
Plunge from the height, O Man, and interlock with Beast!
The Red Triangle is the descending tongue of grace;
the Blue Triangle is the ascending tongue of prayer.

Djed Diagram
Vestal Signs
THE EM: Dor OS zol ma thil

850 = Blue; perfection ThKLTh; My perfect one. ("Not" written) [Cant. v. s.] Vide 857 ThMThY
857 = Pi; My twin-sister ["Is" written] ThAVMThY
111 = Red [Vide Gen. 25:25] ADMVNY; A thousand; Aleph ALP; AUM Aa'aM; Common holocaust; an ascent a'aVLH; Ruin, destruction, sudden death ASN
258 = The red light AVR ADVM; Hiram (King of Tyre) ChYRM; Mercy RChMY
341 = Sum of the 3 Mother Letters: AMSh; A red cow PRH ADVMH; Expansum; sepimentum; diaphragma PRSA; The Name (Ch.) ShMA
600 = Mirabilia, vel occulta sapientiae PLYAVTh ChKMH; Peniculamentum, fimbria peniculata TzYTzYTh; A knot, ligature QShR; Red ShRQ; Six; marble ShSh

This Tortoise is sixfold, the Holy Hexagram. [In nature the Tortoise has 6 members at angels of 60 Degrees]


{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Xi-Theta} = 633
633 = Light. [Spelt in full, when HB:V = VV] A:V:R:; [Gen. v. 2] ZKR VNQBH BRAM

THE WAY TO SUCCEED-AND THE WAY TO SUCK EGGS!
This is the Holy Hexagram.
Plunge from the height, O God, and interlock with
Man! Plunge from the height, O Man, and interlock with
Beast! The Red Triangle is the descending tongue of grace;
the Blue Triangle is the ascending tongue of
prayer This Interchange, the Double Gift of Tongues, the
Word of Double Power-ABRAHADABRA!-is
the sign of the GREAT WORK, for the GREAT
WORK is accomplished in Silence. And behold is
not that Word equal to Cheth, that is Cancer.
whose Sigil is {Cancer}?
This Work also eats up itself, accomplishes its own
end, nourishes the worker, leaves no seed, is per-
fect in itself.
Little children, love one another!


COMMENTARY ({Xi-Theta}) = 69
69 = A manger, stable; an enclosure ABVS; Myrtle HDS; L.A. Angel of Pisces VKBYLA

The key to the understanding of this chapter is given in the number and the title, the former being intelligible to all nations who employ Arabic figures, the latter only to experts in deciphering English puns. The chapter alludes to Levi's drawing of the Hexagram, and is a criticism of, or improvement upon, it. In the ordinary Hexagram, the Hexagram of nature, the red triangle is upwards, like fire, and the blue triangle downwards, like water. In the magical hexagram this is revered; the descending red triangle is that of Horus, a sign specially revealed by him personally, at the Equinox of the Gods. (It is the flame desending upon the altar, and licking up the burnt offering.) The blue triangle represents the aspiration, since blue is the colour of devotion, and the triangle, kinetically considered, is the symbol of directed force. In the first three paragraphs this formation of the hexagram is explained; it is a symbol of the mutual separation of the Holy Guardian Angel and his client. In the interlocking is indicated the completion of the work.



Paragraph 4 explains in slightly different language what we have said above, and the scriptural image of tongues is introduced. In paragraph 5 the symbolism of tongues is further developed. Abrahadabra is our primal example of an interlocked word. We assume that the reader has thoroughly studied that word in Liber D., etc. The sigil of Cancer links up this symbolism with the number of the chapter. The remaining paragraphs continue the Gallic symbolism.



INIR, Frater Achad

LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE
http://www.hermetic.com/osiris/analysisstarsapphire.htm
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib36.html

Sunday, January 02, 2005

angels, demons, rainbows

GON2 51 = Undercurrent, that is fucking cool. = [4638 - 4444 = 194] = ODIC FORCE
AQ 125 = CRIKEY = ASMODAI = BACK-BONE = BUNKER = DESERT
AQ 203 = SPE-C.I.A.L.I.S-T = APOCALYPSE
SPE-T? ===========> PEST
AQ 96 = PEST = DEMON = DURGA = HOLY = IBLIS = LIMBO =ZONE = AURT = JUNO = ELULA = ARDIS = ORLO
AQ 107 = C.I.A.L.I.S. = GENDER = AUMALE = PIREDA
The Cry of the 28th Aethyr
AQ 96 = OLAHO
AQ 107 = PIREDA
OLAHO VIRUDEN MAHORELA ZODIREDA! ON PIREDA EXENTASER; ARBA PIRE GAH GAHA GAHAL GAHALANA VO ABRA NA GAHA VELUCORSAPAX


OLAHO FOR THE SECOND TIME (Crowley)
VIRUDEN I HAVE BEAUTIFIED (Crowley)
MAHORELA DARK HEAVENS (Crowley)
ZODIREDA= inhabit
ON= made, built
PIREDA = HOLY
EXENTASER = MOTHER OF ALL
PIRE= holy, holy one, holy ones
GAH SPIRIT, THE SPIRITS
GAHA EXISTED; BABE OF THE ABYSS
GAHAL EXISTS
GAHALANA WILL EXIST
VO WHEREIN
NA ENOCHIAN LETTER H
NA= that
NA= ENAY lord of hosts, trinity (alias of the xtian "god")
GAHA EXISTED; BABE OF THE ABYSS
VELUCORSAPAX= enthroned

http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys5/28th.htm
With the aid of an Enochian dictionary a philologist friend has made the following rough translation: For the second time I have beautified those dark Heavens I inhabit

OLAHO VIRUDEN MAHORELA ZODIREDA! ON PIREDA EXENTASER; ARBA PIRE GAH GAHA GAHAL GAHALANA VO ABRA NA GAHA VELUCORSAPAX

for the second time i have beautified the dark heavens i inhabit. {ON} holy mother of all. {ARBA} the holy spirit, the babe of the abyss lives enthroned in the earth.

for the second time i have beautified the dark heavens i built and inhabit. holy mother of all. {ARBA: FOUR} the holy spirit: the babe of the abyss lives and exists enthroned within the earth.

451
The Essence of Man ATh HADM
Mortis MYThA
Angels of Tiphareth ShNANYM
The Abyss ThHVM

AMShTh


AQ 451 = "RAINBOW" - WORD OF THE ABYSS

Saturday, January 01, 2005

webstream

D26 LO JANUARY 1, 2005 - 3:14PM PST ATU XI LUST = PERHAPS, POSSIBLY; WOULD THAT!

Chance and the Lies We Live By will be led by Luke Rhinehart, author of The Dice Man and The Book of Dice, offering "a hands on course in dice living... intended to help free us from patterns which dam our lives." This course runs from March 7 - May 1, 2005.

... he remembers, in some cases perfectly accurately, how his father treated him, but he thinks he perceives events occurring in the present of which he imagines God, rays, little men, and so on are the agents. He knows what he most needs to know (in his unconscious), but does not know (consciously) he knows it. When he calls his experiences "miracles," he denies what he knows, denies he is denying anything, and denies there is anything to deny, and he denies those denials too. ....

aq 231 = XXXXXXX = ASTRO-OCEANIC = COORDINATOR = KIND OF CRAZY = SET THE VIDEO

PRECLUDES : To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent. ++ To exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity ++ Latin praecludere : prae-, pre- + claudere, to close
PRAECLUDERE

MORPHOLOGY: The branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms without consideration of function.

D26 33 = OMEGA=1 = ABOMENON = GENERAL PATTON = PREVISION OF THE END = WHOIS COMMAND

AQ 278 = HALTING PROBLEM = TRIANGULATION

GON2 54 = BABALON = CALL IT A GOOFY-HOAX = SHEMHAMEPHORESH = THE CASSINGTON SCHOLARSHIP = ALGORITHMIC INFORMATION THEORY

AQ 220 = FORMAL SHOCK
GON1 34 = PHILOSOPHY MINUS MATHEMATICS EQUALS ZERO = AXISNORTHANGER = HEART OF DARKNESS = SLEEP DEPRIVATION
AQ 404 = IT'S A GENERALISATION, OK! = UNCOMPUTABLE REALITY
D26 IG = STILL BLAME CHORONZON = UNCOMPUTABLE REALITY
AQ 512 = NONORGANIC LIFE FROM OUTSIDE = THE QWERTIAN BOOK OF NUMBERS
GON2 64 = THE DICE MAN = NONORGANIC LIFE FROM OUTSIDE

The meat of the article occurs under the heading "Perspectives," where Mott enumerates the characteristics of the deep dwellers (whose very existence might be read here as a generally introverted relationship with the Milieu). I won't recount the whole list, but summarize a little. Their inhumanity, immortality, secrecy, noxiousness makes it impossible for them to be dealt with directly. There is here an air of utter authority which cannot be petioned by any (conventional) means. Yet their possession of "superior technologies" and the coveting of these technologies (for survival in the face of their telepathic onslaught) makes necessary some kind of engagement, either violent or magical. Moreover, their telepathic mind control faculties provide the justification for engagement: they started it without lifting a finger. Their intercourse with surface dwellers, their interbreeding with "us" evince the trace memories of a former state of reciprocity, a memory which will not be erased by time or willful ignorance.

However, prior to Anaximenes, Aer was not a clearing machine but a blinding machine. Aer actually meant fog and darkness, not darkness as Tenebrae (from Sanskrit origin, tamas) (the darkness of shadow, the blinding space of shadow or the darkness that belongs to the underworld realm of death) but darkness as the greek omichle (the darkness of fog, mist, dust-clouds, the Mistmare). While Tenebrae belongs to death, Aer and omichle belong to war, the fog-of-war (those who play strategy-based videogames know the fog-of-war very well). During the War of Troy, the battlefield was darkened by Aer but after the legendary pray of Ajax to Zeus who begged: “Save us from Aer”, Zeus removed the Aer (the fog-of-war) from the battlefield to let them fight in the securing clarity of lightness. I have already discussed the fog-of-war here. Aer as the fog-of-war or the radical vision of warmachines is very relevant to Thistle’s brilliant comment on grid system of the panorama. Aer gives its wargasmic clarity merely as a kind of radical blindness. Moreover, Aer while is a vision-machine is also a cooling system for warmachines, engineering a meshwork (in a Deleuze-Guattarian term) which modifies the dynamism of Deleuze-Guattarian anomal, giving warmachines the unique

(Debug.): Primary Techno Noir - Kenji Siratori

PRIMARY TECHNO NOIR::SET UP::technojunkies' hunting for the grotesque WEB=insanity medium of the human body pill cruel emulator gene-dub of the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM to the ecstasy system of the acidHUMANIX infection archive genomics strategy circuit that jointed the mass of flesh-module::the data of a chemical=anthropoid super-genomewarable abolition world-codemaniacs murder game of the trash sensor drug embryo that biocaptures to the emotional replicant disillusionment-modules of the hyperreal HIV=scanners that dashes clone-dive her digital=vamp cold-blooded disease animals is ejected to neuromatic..."the nerve cells that were processed the data=mutant of her abolition world-codemaniacs emotional replicant that omits the brain universe of the hyperreal HIV=scanner form murder-gimmick of a chemical=anthropoid to biocapturism genomics battle to a hybrid cadaver mechanism nightmare-script@tera=of=the murder-protocol of the acidHUMANIX infection archive_body encoder that clone-dives dogs different of a trash sensor drug embryo vital-to the DNA bomb mass of flesh-module that was controlled technojunkies' rave on gene-dub hyperlinks the cadaver feti=streaming circuit of the rept

143 Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
143 I Have Placed MAPM Whom None Have Numbered But One (1) {Enochian Key: 4}
143 CONTINUITY [13x11]

GON1 77 = BEHOLD IT IS REVEALED
GON1 122 = ALIUS ALIA VIA AD ASTRA ASCENDIT
GON1 199 = BEHOLD IT IS REVEALED: ALIUS ALIA VIA AD ASTRA ASCENDIT
_________________________________________
GON1 77 = AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY AND SIX
GON1 122 - Which Knowest The Great Name Righteousness, And The Seal Of Honor {Enochian Key: 15}
GON1 199 = A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight {Proverbs 11:1}


AQ 157 = 11,583,800,000 bacteria = DAMOCLOID
AQ 253 = exo-rupture = DUST TO DUST = HEAVEN ON EARTH
AQ 331 = epidemiostrategic = AXIOMATIC SYSTEM = CORPSE OF SOLIDUS
AQ 128 = dry GAS = AI UNIT
AQ 313 = cryptogenic Now = WHAT IS THE POINT?
AQ 284 = POINT = PAZUZU
AQ 98 = XERO- = MAGICK
AQ 328 = HYDROPHILIC TIDES = WHERE'S IT ALL GOING?

D26 GA = DUST SORCERY = ATU XII HANGING MAN = HONEY-COLLECTOR = LORD OF THE RINGS = SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2004 AT 7:58:53 AM = V838 MONOCEROTIS

Pazuzu, the Sumero-Assyrian Demon of epidemics (mostly the southwestern desert wind) is an occultural operative of the xero-informatic Abomination or Dust (= 100 = NO GOD), and possibly the most awe-inspiring cultist of Tellurian Dustism in the ancient Mesopotamia for wind is truly the high acolyte of Dust as well as being the Dust Enforcer.

GON1 199 = BEHOLD IT IS REVEALED: ALIUS ALIA VIA AD ASTRA ASCENDIT
GON1 11 = EL(manifestation) = OCCULTISM = PATH
GON 210 = EL - BEHOLD IT IS REVEALED: ALIUS ALIA VIA AD ASTRA ASCENDIT
HAPPY YULE (= 111 + 99 = 210 = COUNTDOWN)
AQ 99 = YULE = ISLAM = MARAKA = NEEDLE = PISS = PORN = QABBALA = QWER- = SAUDI = THETA = YHVH
AQ 111 = HAPPY = ABYSS = NAPALM = OTHER = SODOM = WOMAN
AQ 210 = COUNTDOWN = ANTHROPOID = COSMODROME = EXPLOSION = EXQUISITE = VYSPAROV = NORTHANGER = QUITERENT
AQ 210 = COUNTDOWN = INITIATION = NORTHANGER = HAPPY QABBALA = QWER-WOMAN
AQ 337 = BEHOLD IT IS REVEALED = SPASTICS SOCIETY
AQ 499 = ALIUS ALIA VIA AD ASTRA ASCENDIT
AQ 836 = BEHOLD IT IS REVEALED: ALIUS ALIA VIA AD ASTRA ASCENDIT

The 30 Trials of Ix and the Angels follows Ix Pantheos from his awakening in a ruined castle through his travels to the moon, the sun, and beyond, carried along by the songs of thirty angels as they initiate him into the mysteries of consciousness and the nature of existence. The answer seemingly found and the journey apparently nearing its end, Ix then finds that he must suffer the destruction of his former self, and face a new struggle to hold onto all that was revealed to him. Born of a series of meditations performed by the author, and utilizing an eclectic mix of various world religious and occult philosophies, the story is a surreal journey into the depths of the mind, echoing Ix's own quest to redeem both himself and mankind.

D26 EL = WATCH AND WAIT = RPSTOVAL = TELEMPATHY
D26 KJ = THIS IS GRADY'S SECRET TEACHING
D26 NC = THERE IS A SECRET KING WITH THE ORDER = INITIATES OF THE NINTH DEGREE OF THE O.T.O.
D26 LA = THE WATCHWORD IS, WE ARE ALL KINGS
ELKJNCLA
ANJELCKL
JACK NELL

AQ 410 = COGNITIVE TRAJECTORY = ON THE REVOLVING LADDER

THE UNDERGROUND CITY (jules verne)
DEEP DWELLERS