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Lion of Light: Robert Anton Wilson On Aleister Crowley
Reading Group
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Welcome! Our corner of the Robert Anton Wilson community, based around Tom Jackson's RAWIllumination, is excited to announce a reading group for the recently published Lion of Light (from Hilaritas Press): it will be hosted here at Jechidah and led by Oz Fritz and Yours Truly.
Oz is a music producer/sound engineer and possesses a masterful knowledge of the lives and times of both Aleister Crowley and Robert Anton Wilson. He is also the best damn practical Qabalist I've ever run across, so I'm personally looking forward to whatever secrets and possible meanings he'll dig up going through the book. I can also vouch that Oz is a great person and happy to share his knowledge without pretense and with an open hand. Check out his blog.
I'm a Rabelaisian windbag and probably mad, but I've spent the majority of my life exploring the works of Crowley, Wilson et al. and trying to put them into practice. Not sure if it was the best decision I made, but it is; I know no other way. Besides, I've witnessed, after a manner, many splendors and phantasms that I wouldn't have otherwise.
Come with us to the borderlands of biography where the shades are at least as real as the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave; a hinterland of serpents, stars and garters...
Or come explore the conversation between two of the wittiest, most brilliant men to have wielded a pen, who transformed the lives of so many people...sometimes for better, sometimes for worse...with two guides who have been listening in to their dialogue with careful attention for years. Perhaps we'll be able to rend Isis' Veil and show some of the truths behind the scintillating obfuscation of occultism and reveal the depths of humor and humanity that lies beneath.
We'll officially begin on Labor Day (September 4th), but keep an eye on this space for updates in the days ahead.
In the meantime, I'd heartily recommend taking up the small practice of prayer in "Appendix Lamed" of The Illuminatus! Trilogy or Crowley's Liber Resh: practice is an essential part of understanding magic. While the resulting experiences are subjective, they do tend to deepen one's relationship with the beliefs and practices of our magical predecessors. I'm always happy to field questions and try to point in a direction!
Love is the law, love under will.
Yrs. &c.,
A.C.
