Duane Moore

Zos Speaks - A tribute to the artist Austin Osman Spare

A rare opportunity to view previously unseen artwork, prints of which will be available to purchase, a proportion of proceeds will go to the R.S.P.C.A.

Exhibition by 23 Enigma at Mono, Kings Court, Glasgow.

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Good news to see Spare exhibited outside of London for a change. I have a better feeling about this exhibition than I did with the Borough Satyr one in London which I didn’t attend and don’t feel I missed out on at all. The Artist, Occultist, Sensualist exhibition in 1999 arranged by John Bonner and Geraldine Beskin (also in London) I wouldn’t have missed for anything.

Download the Zos Speaks .pdf file.

or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer.

I’ve downloaded quite a few Podcasts relating to the occult but haven’t thought much of any of them. I recently did a google search for a satanic podcast and came across something which is nothing short of magick.

The content list for the first few shows:

Show #1:

First aired May 5, 2006. Repeated July 28, 2006. Got Questions Ministries tells us that our lord Satan can read our minds! John Robbins tells christians to beware of philosophy! HP Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”!

Show #2:

First aired May 12, 2006. Repeated August 4, 2006. Got Questions Ministries tells us why God allows evil men! A radio recording about the Scopes monkey trial! Bill O’Reilly freaks out! Dr. Robert Morey on malignant atheists! Anthony Burgess reading part of “A Clockwork Orange”!

Show #3:

First aired May 19, 2006. Repeated August 11, 2006. Got Questions Ministries talks about demonic activity in the world today! An Unshackled radio play about a guy who is saved from the occult by Jesus! Anton Szandor Lavey’s satanic mass! Art Bell interviews Father Malachi Martin about Satanism and exorcisms!

Show #4:

First aired May 26, 2006. Repeated September 29, 2006. L. Ron Hubbard on the Obscene Dog! David Duke accuses televangelists of working for the Antichrist! A brilliant interview of Charles Manson!

Show #5:

First aired June 2, 2006. Repeated October 6, 2006. Tom Leykis on Atheism! Chuck Missler on the return of the Nephilim! Art Bell interviewing Zecharia Sitchin!

Each show is around three hours long and I’ve recently been playing them on an iPod Shuffle through a Chord Cobra 2 3.5mm - phono interconnect through a Marantz PM17 KI Signature amplifier with Sonic Link Silver Aero speaker wire tri-wired to Epos ES22 speakers. They sound great!

Each show is also encoded at a high bit rate of 160 K a second so the quality is superb. Even though on average each show is 205 MB in size they are all well worth a listen.

Click the banner for more information:

Apo Pantos Kakodaimonos!

Procul, O Procul Este Profani!

Zazas Zazas Nasatanata Zazas!

SMIB

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With a new phone and a “pay as you go” SIM card I didn’t have GPRS settings so rang o2 customer care and asked for them to be sent out. The bloke I spoke to was well with it and sorted it out immediately. I should also mention that the phone didn’t ring long before I spoke to a human being, and they were extremely human.

I was asked a few security questions and what sort of phone I had. The bloke then said that he would send the settings out and that he would ring back later in the day so see if I had got on ok. Wow. It’s not often you get service like that. It’s not as if I use my phone a lot, I don’t.

The settings came through fine and I was able to download the ringtones that I wanted. I also got a call from the bloke at o2 to see whether everything was working properly. What a stunning service, I’m most impressed.

We don’t do customer service well here in the UK so this is worthy of note.

It’s been a somewhat strange week, but I knew it was going to be that way.

When I started planning the renovation of this house I decided that I would turn it into a Thelemic power-zone utilising the same current that Crowley worked with at The Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu. I was completely unaware of the implications of what I was planning, now that the project is nearing completion.

On Monday I knew that this week would be a turning point as I had the kitchen finished off (I haven’t had one in this house for seven months) and had guests for the afternoon. At least I now have somewhere to entertain them as the front room was where the kitchen was all in boxes. My actual kitchen itself spanned across my bedroom and the office with tins of baked beans and corned beef on the floor, not to mention plates and other kitchen utensils. All objects hardly conducive for invoking the 93 Current.

I now have a bedroom that is just that: a bedroom. It doesn’t have any other stuff in there. The front room is now back to normal, the kitchen is sorted and the bathroom is finished.

Having had this lot to deal with for seven months hasn’t given me much time for actually planning the “invocation following completion” but this happened automatically on Tuesday when I got the bedroom sorted. I had been reading Liber Lilith and was approaching the end but placed the book back in its slipcase and removed it from the bedroom. After a thorough hoovering and dusting I felt the current change in a big way. I knew there would be implications regarding this on all planes and wasn’t disappointed.

I also got a new phone this week, a Motorola SLVR, which I have named To Mega Telephone:

The background picture is, of course, To Mega Therion. One of the ringtones I have on this phone is Crowley’s One Sovereign for Woman.

I thoroughly agree with Kenneth Grant when he mentions the risen Kundalini and its manifestation in an external form. For more on this see Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God.

I’m also a lot happier with an altar back in the kitchen as it was kept in the cupboard under the stairs while everything was going on for the last seven months. Just something simple with Magick in Theory and Practice on the top.

I haven’t yet cleaned the dust off the altar in the front room and that is the next step. The grimoire on that altar is Liber AL.

I’m back to my old self and have tapped the current big style.

I have mixed feelings about MySpace, and for a number of reasons.

I get quite a large number of requests from people wanting to be my friend, most of which I wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire. I’m not interested in having friends who are in some suck-arse group who can’t get a recording contract even though they have thousands of friends. You can’t get a contract because you’re crap - face it. Even though you have comments from people saying how good your music is, let me tell you: it isn’t.

I don’t want friends who have nothing in common with me. I don’t want friends who just want to bump their friends figure up. Are you really that insecure as a human being that you need to boost your ego with cyber mates? Get over it.

I don’t want you as a friend if you’re an occult newbie and you want me as a teacher as I have better things to do with my time. Just because you’ve read a few books doesn’t mean that I want to take you under my wing. Heaven knows I get enough emails every week from people who want a part of me. I’m not a Psychologist and I have better things to do than sort out your fucked up life, what you have of one that is.

I don’t want you as a friend even if you’ve written an “occult” book and you hope to make a name for yourself. You’re more than likely just a copy and paste merchant with no real knowledge. Find something better to do with your time, like getting a life, and then write from experience. THAT may be worth reading.

I don’t want you as a friend if you can’t think for yourself. Just because you’re a member of the OTO doesn’t mean that I would entertain you. I’ve only ever met one member of the OTO in twenty years that I would give the time of day to, and they ended up getting expelled.

I do want you as a friend if you can think for yourself, know me personally or want to exchange ideas on a level playing field, i.e. you have actually picked up a wand and have used it.

I also give preferences to women because I love them, but don’t entertain them if they fit into any of the above negative criteria.

To quote Anton LaVey: What good are friends if they don’t do you any good?

My reply: They’re no good and I don’t want them.

Some things annoy me. Some things piss me off. Some things get my back up so much that I would willingly accept the job of executioner for people who abuse children. My prefered method of execution would be to strap the offender in a chair and to lower it into a hole in the ground. Then I would have paint stripper dripped onto them until all their flesh was burned away and they died in agony. Even this would be too good for them. One drop every fifteen seconds until the offender departed this mortal coil.

I’ve been surfing videos lately and have come across two in particular which have especially wound me up. The first is part of a documentary detailing experiments with LSD that took place at Millbrook under the “supervision” of “LSD High Priest” Timothy Leary.

While I strongly believe in the legalisation of all drugs I think it morally and socially wrong to give them to children, which is what happened at Millbrook. The child in the first short clip is clearly repeating the words of Leary himself and speaks them in the same manner that he did.

Admittedly, LSD was legal at the time but this is just plain wrong. Firearms are legal in the US but only a fool would hand a loaded pistol to a nine year old.

The second video is horrific and shows how fear is used to control. I’ve seen some grim and scary stuff on the ‘net, execution videos and all that, but nothing compares to the horror of this. Ken Bigley was a fucking idiot and deserved to be beheaded but no child deserves to have their innocence taken away from them or for them to be brainwashed with religious mythology and fantasy.

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In my opinion there is only one way to raise a child correctly and that is via the practical application of the philosophy of Thelema. Note I didn’t use the words “ritual” or “indoctrination”.

A child is like a river and a parent should allow a child to flow freely along its predetermined course. If the child shows an interest in music this should be encouraged, as should any other inclination which is a part of the childs True Will. To thwart a childs natural progress is a crime against both the child and society as a whole.

Liber OZ:

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I recently signed a petition to abolish “all faith schools and prohibit the teaching of creationism and other religious mythology in all UK schools.”

Faith schools remove the rights of children to choose their own religious, philosophical and ethical beliefs. They also sanction ethnic segregation and create tension and divisiveness within society. Schools should be places where children are given a free education, not centres for indoctrination. Creationism and other religious myths should not be taught as fact regardless of the funding status of a school. Abolishing faith schools will provide children with more freedom of choice and help to promote a fully multi-cultural, peaceful society.

Sign it here:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/faithschools/

These two came up for auction recently on eBay and the price was cheap. I did have a copy of Aha! but it was a Falcon Press paperback version and we departed company during the great book cull of ‘91.

Crowley, Aleister - Aha! With commentary by Israel Regardie. Sangreal Foundation, Inc., Dallas, 1969. First edition with introduction. Hardback. 78 pp.

Crowley, Aleister - Chicago May. First Impressions, Thame, 1993. First Impressions Series Volume Number 20. First facsimile edition. Hardback. 27 pp.

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I’ve never been a fan of Regardie and his Crowley commentaries as he never actually said anything worth reading. His Tree of Life I found useful when I began my quest and his Eye in the Triangle is excellent for a mystical look at Crowley before he crossed The Abyss, but that’s about it. He was far too ambiguous in his views really and had a life long love / hate relationship with “The Master”. Perhaps this is sour grapes as Crowley didn’t take him under his wing as he would have liked.

That said, I can’t help but admire the man who has a squeaky clean public image when in truth he had more wifes and mistresses than Crowley, had hash cookie parties and used to drop acid once a year! See Suster’s Crowley’s Apprentice for more information regarding this. I’ve never been a fan of Suster either, most of what I’ve read doing precious little for me but thought his novel The Scar excellent and should have been made into a film.

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Regardie, Israel - The Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. Preface by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D. New Falcon Publications, Tempe, 1997. Sixth printing. xxxi + 519 pp. Various plates.

Regardie, Israel - The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic. Samuel Weiser, Inc., Maine. Reprint. 284 pp. Colour and black & white plates and sigils.

Suster, Gerald - The Scar. Hamlyn Paperbacks, Feltham, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 219 pp.

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I’ve never understood the Robert Anton Wilson thing either.

February 27th is the official “Duane speaks ill of the dead” day!

Stay tuned for this time next year when I’ll have a go at John Symonds, Stewart Farrar and Gerald Gardner, among others.

Maybe it’s because I’m reading Liber Lilith, I don’t know, but I’m starting to hear things. I was woken yesterday morning at 4:45 by some woman shouting my name. All the doors in the house were locked and I was alone. The voice was that real that I thought there was somebody else in the house. On getting back to sleep again I was woken several hours later by the same thing.

I’ve had astral voices before but nothing to compare with this. On getting to sleep again I was woken for a third time with a female voice shouting “Hello?” in a questioning manner. I got out of bed again and went downstairs and checked that there was nobody there and that the doors were locked. There wasn’t and they were.

I have been reading Tyson’s Liber Lilith before going to sleep most nights, admittedly only a few pages a night, and in Steiger’s journal he does mention about the coming of the presence of Lilith but this is just plain odd. I have done no ritual work of any kind in a long time, neither have I done anything to call Lilith deliberately. There have been a few blog posts in relation to Lilith but this has been only a small part of what has been happening in my life at the moment and doesn’t really warrant much attention in the grand scheme of things.

One interesting thing I did read recently was that Lilith has both a light and a dark side, indeed this is true of all consciousness forms (I dislike the term Godform) and backs up my recent statement that all women are fucked in the head to some degree, i.e. dark and Qliphotic as well as bright and Sephirotic.

I spent the rest of the day half asleep which doesn’t do my health a lot of good as I have enough trouble sleeping and waking as it is. I haven’t slept properly in months anyway. If things carry on like this I’ll end up in a permanent twilight zone of consciousness and will be half spaced out which isn’t what I want.

I’ve stopped drinking coffee on an evening, indeed have cut down my caffeine intake drastically, have not touched alcohol in over a fortnight, haven’t had nicotine in my system in over a week and have been eating plenty of fruit and vegetables so I don’t know what’s going on. I did have a bit of a cold over the weekend but even this doesn’t warrant auditory hallucinations.

In relation to further research into Doris Gomez I received an email from Jamie who attached a copy of Gerald Yorkes handwriting so that I could compare it with the writing on the photograph of Doris Gomez so I could determine whether it was Yorke’s of Crowley’s handwriting, having already ruled out Ray Sherwin.

The result of this is still inconclusive. As an aside I might point out that the writing says “Doris on left” with an arrow pointing to the female on the left. This is the sort of thing Crowley would do, pointing out the obvious, but I’m still not certain.

I compared the word on from the photograph to several instances in the page of Yorke’s handwriting and couldn’t see any real comparision. Neither could I see any real comparisons when looking through the manuscript copy of Liber AL, hurriedly written though it was, whereas the writing on the photograph is more casual.

This set me thinking, and asking the question: how many times does the word on appear in Liber AL, how many instances of those two letters together?

Starting with chapter one:

1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.

and ending with:

66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.

there are 63 instances. In chapter two, 57. And in chapter three either 66 or 67 depending upon whether the final “post script” of

The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.

is counted or not.

63 + 57 + 66 (67) = 186 or 187

Neither of these numbers are mentioned in the two sections of Gematria, and Sepher Sephiroth yields very little regarding 186 except it being the number of Qoph, the back of the head and the seat of magickal power. See Kenneth Grant’s Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God for more information. 187 has references yet none of them resonated with me. My copy of Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia is inaccessable at the moment due to a house renovation.

(66, incidentally, is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 11 and is the mystic number of the Qliphoth and of the Great Work. Meaningful, but slightly out of context taken as a whole.)

When I start with Gematria I don’t stop until I find something of significance and 187 = 156 (Babalon) + 31 (AL).

From this I can conclude that 187 is the “secret” number of ON and that there is no fourth and “missing” chapter of Liber AL as erroneously supposed by Jack Parsons and others.

From Liber Samekh, Section D:

BABALON-BAL-BIN-ABAFT “Babalon! Thou Woman of Whoredom. Thou, Gate of the Great God ON! Thou Lady of the Understanding of the Ways!”

And:

ASAL-ON-AI “Hail Thou, the unstirred! Hail, sister and bride of ON, of the God that is all and is none, by the Power of Eleven!”

Section G:

AD-ON-A-I “My Lord! My secret self beyond self, Hadith, All Father! Hail, ON, thou Sun, thou Life of Man, thou Fivefold Sword of Flame! Thou Goat exalted upon Earth in Lust, thou Snake extended upon Earth in Life! Spirit most holy! Seed most Wise! Innocent Babe. Inviolate Maid! Begetter of Being! Soul of all Souls! Word of all Words, Come forth, most hidden Light!”

The comment upon which reads:

In Hebrew, ADNI, 65. The Gnostic Initiates transliterated it to imply their own secret formulae; we follow so excellent an example. ON is an Arcanum of Arcana; its significance is taught, gradually, in the O.T.O. Also AD is the paternal formula, Hadit; ON is its complement NUIT; the final Yod signifies “mine” etymologically and essentially the Mercurial (transmitted) hermaphroditic virginal seed - The Hermit of the Taro - The use of the name is therefore to invoke one’s own inmost secrecy, considered as the result of the conjunction of Nuit and Hadit. If the second A is included, its import is to affirm the operation of the Holy Ghost and the formulation of the Babe in the Egg, which precedes the appearance of the Hermit.

To sum up:

ON is an Arcanum of Arcana; its significance is taught, gradually, in the O.T.O.

Conclusion:

Rise up, awaken and align with the 93 Current.

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Sources (from my occult library):

Crowley, Aleister - 777 and other Qabalistic Writing of Aleister Crowley including Gematria & Sepher Sephiroth. Edited with an introduction by Israel Regardie. Samuel Weiser, New York, 1979. Fifth printing. Hardback. 10 + 50 + xxvii + 155 + 12 + 69 pp. Hardback.

Crowley, Aleister - Liber AL: The Book of the Law. AL (Liber Legis) The Book of the Law sub figura xxxi as delivered by 93 - Aiwass - 418 to Ankh-f-n-khonsu the Priest of the Princes who is 666. Heka Baka Books, London, 1984. 80th Anniversary Collector’s Edition. Paperback. 50 pp. This copy number 154.

Crowley, Aleister - Magick in Theory and Practice. Dover Publications, Inc, New York, 1976. Reprint. Paperback. xxvii + 436 pp. Plate of Crowley on cover.

Grant, Kenneth - Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God. Frederick Muller Limited, London, 1973. First edition. Hardback. 245 pp. Plates. Previously owned by Ray Sherwin.

Plus manuscript of Liber AL and web edition of Liber AL.