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- amorehilaritas Said: Whilst Hilary and Obama began their campaign for the US presidency. The writer and psychonaut R U Sirius proposed an Open Source Party shoul run for the US election. In his proposal he outlines some great ideas which include (my favourite) an Open Source monetary system which would encourage alternative currency. Here’s a link:www.10zenmonkeys.com
On March 16, 2008 at 10:52 pm srsd Said: Thank you Frater,We have just seen your post about the Open Source Party policy and monetary “system”:-)
We were just to today discussing another site’s use of the phrase “Open Source”: -
http://www.yoism.org [Sr SD and Fr VeL]
- Amorehilaritas: I admire and whole heartedly support the recent protests against the Church of Scientology by a group calling itself “Anonymous.” They have no hierarchical leadership and to me they seem instead to use the open source model of organisation.
Whilst our recent Zelator initiations a group sympathetic to the aims of Anonymous protested outside the Machester “org” of the Church of Scientology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHjATHT0Qo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYkq-BMZ-LQ&feature=related
I love it how they wear the mask of V from “V for Vendetta”
4. On March 2008, 26 at 10.50, Fr VEL said: Keep in mind Open Source is not for revenge but for ahimsa, which is non-violent philosophy of Enlightenment as Bodhicitta (Bodhisattva). With this intention, I invite everyone who reads to have a prayer and dedicate his/her own magical work to Tibet and Birmania (Nyanmar) monks & people. May the benefit of this practice…
About Scientology is well know its relation with O.T.O.
[The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," author John Daniel, Vol. 1, pp. 429-430.]
After internal dissension, elements of the Golden Dawn more or less merged into the Ordo Templi Orientis. Aleister Crowley won permission to head a British OTO branch, and the teachings of the OTO entered the United States with Crowley in 1916, during World War I in Europe.
Later, during World War II, Crowley helped establish an OTO lodge in Pasadena, California, and OTO branches subsequently sprouted in a number of U.S. cities, including New York and Houston. In effect, a loose network was formed and already functioning via occult shops and bookstores, newsletters, ads in the underground press and other methods.
THE O.T.O. AND THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY ["Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1, pp. 433-434.] After Crowley’s death, Freemason L. Ron Hubbard acquired the O.T.O. leadership in America. Robert Anton Wilson, co-author with Timothy Leary of “Neuropolitics” in 1977, explains that “Hubbard’s system is derived largely from Aleister Crowley…. Hubbard was a member of Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis in the 19402; and Hubbard later (…) invented a system which seems, to those of us who know both, very similar to the system taught by Crowley in the O.T.O.
Hubbard was initiated into the O.T.O. in 1944 by Aleister Crowley himself. After Crowley’s death, the O.T.O. was headquartered for a time in Hubbard’s Church of Scientology. In 1992 “The Auditor,” the journal of Scientology, reports that there are 146 Scientology centers worldwide, with 54 of them in the United States and Canada alone.
Time Magazine, May 6, 1991, reports “700 centers in 65 countries (…) This greater number includes Scientology affiliates, many of which are front organizations. Time lists them, along with their frightening implications. Sterling Management Systems (SMS), formed in 1983, recruits dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists and veterinarians, guaranteeing them increased income if they attend seminars and take courses that typically cost $10,000. SMS’s true aim is to hook these professionals for Scientology, who in turn will recruit their patients.
The book quoted seems to be very interesting. To read the index (very complex and deep), see Europa Magica.
“Keep in mind Open Source is not for revenge but for ahimsa” Speak for yourself Frater. In my opinion violence can be liberating experience. To me the Aeon of Horus is all about the revenge of the child against its father’s murder. Violence is a means to an end, a way to self transformation and growth. I’m not an expert at etymology but I’ve always wondered about the root of the word “violence”.
BTW The way the Church of Scientology has acted of the years is rather dubious in my opinion. Hubbard ripped of Jack Parsons back in the day. From what I’ve read of Scientology it bears little resemblance to Thelema.
These words are forged in a Geburah light.
History (and peoples) needs for Geburah when everything is becoming untolerable.
In the Mystical Qabalah, this is something like the former king of Edom, or the Shevirath ha-Hekalim.
Violence is something terrible.
My grandfather died in II world war. I don’t love violence, even if I recognize it as a dimension or the Tree of Life. Fear.
I an psychological dimension, I feel I’m near to the Oedipus Aegyptiacus: the killer of the Father maybe could be his own son.
Aniway, here I state my fully respect for different opinion, especially about a Fr. may express.
Oedipus Aegyptiacus seems an interesting book. I’ll have to look it up. Another good book/film is Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. In Fight Club the main protaganist has a massive Oedipus complex.
“If you’re male and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?” (Fight Club 1996, Palahniuk, C. Vintage books, 2005, chapter 18, page 141)