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Brendan831

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About Me

-Wanderer, who are you? I see you go your way without scorn, without love, with unfathomable eyes; moist and sad as a sounding-lead that has returned to the light unsated from every deep - what was it looking for down there? - with a breast that does not sigh, with a lip that hides its disgust, with a hand which now reaches out but slowly: who are you? what have you done? Repose here: this place is hospitable to everyone - refresh yourself! And whoever you may be: what would you like now? What will refresh you? You have only to name it: whatever I have I offer you! - "Refreshment? Refreshment? O inquisitive man, what are you saying! But please give me -" What? What? Say it - "One more mask! A second mask!"-Friedrich Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil" MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Thelema, The Ordo Templi Orientis, OTO, Aleister Crowley, Ceremonial Magick, Magick, Modern Paganism, Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Tantra, Goetia, Enochian, Astrology, Rock climbing, Martial Arts, Firearms, TFT, Movies, Screenplays, Comics, Occultism, Social Theory, Evola, Nietzsche, Robert Howard, Fritz Leiber, C.A.S., C.F. Russell

Music:

Tool, Killing Joke, Death in June, A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Boingo, Sandy Denny, NIN

Heroes:

Aleister Crowley, Julius Evola, Bruce Lee, Miyamoto Musashi, Erwin Rommel, 'Salah al Din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub, Buddha, Dionysus, Tahuti, Lao Tzu, Mohommed, Hermes Trismegistus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Chong Tzu, Suzuki, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Alan Watts, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Jelaluddin Rumi, Joseph Campbell, Homer, Aristophanes, Clark Ashton Smith

My Blog

Treasure Horde 1: Conan

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under ...
Posted by Brendan831 on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:56:00 PST

Lessons from Newbie Dilemma and LVX follies: Mea Culpa

Considering all the issues, drama and nonsense I mentioned in my last two posts (see LJ) - plus the innumerable other issues currently present in the OTO - why was I involved? Why did I stick around?F...
Posted by Brendan831 on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:55:00 PST

OTO in Business Way

Our expectations - what we consider normal - depend, to a large degree, on the environment we grew up in. My father worked a suit-and-tie job for about a year, when I was around 10, but otherwise was ...
Posted by Brendan831 on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:14:00 PST

First Catechism

The first principle, Immutable Fire, builds for itself a Fluid Body and impregnates this Body with a Seed. This Seed borrows from the Fluid Body certain Winds, or fluxes of current, from which it orga...
Posted by Brendan831 on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:13:00 PST

And now for reality

Like any kid who grew up reading myths, ancient and modern, I often cast my glance back to the real/unreal past and project myself into these worlds. Today I found myself in such a reverie as I drove ...
Posted by Brendan831 on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:05:00 PST

Selections From Introduction to Magic

This is an excerpt from Abraxas' "Knowledge of the Waters", an essay in Julius Evola's "Introduction To Magic"; some selections that I chose.The life of all beings, without exception, is ruled by a pr...
Posted by Brendan831 on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:21:00 PST

Brendan's homework Pt. II

This paper is an attempt to address a point which was brought up in reaction to Some Metaphysical Considerations in John Locke's Second Treatise of Government but actually, in its scope, expands on mu...
Posted by Brendan831 on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:29:00 PST

The Book of the 8 Guardians of the Mind

1. Yeah, the 11 give the mind form. They fructify it and breathe life upon it. 2. If the mind reaches up towards them they grant it strength3. If it reacheth towards the earth it moldeth the darkness ...
Posted by Brendan831 on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:00:00 PST

The Book of the 11 Primitives in the Mind

1. Know then that the mind is but vanity, which can only relate one thing to another, circuitous, without the capacity for truth.2. Know also that though the 11 most high are above the mind, as thou a...
Posted by Brendan831 on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:58:00 PST

Brendan's homework

This actually should have been posted a few weeks ago, since I am mirroring my LJ on this blog.  Sorry about that kids. Anyway, enjoy!It occurred to me, while reading John Locke's Second Treatise...
Posted by Brendan831 on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:35:00 PST