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[Ron Meiners]

Awesome quote!  Certainly the occult component points to that whole era,
and IMHO the "genuine" "spiritual" component of that world, I think, has
the same outline as the path(s) in GR.  Also, IMHO the genre starts with
The Golden Ass and Satyricon, and the goddess cults... though that is
basically saying the same thing, backwards (ie., that in some sense, these
two expositions are attempts to convey roughly the same information in
different formats).

Must look into this text- sounds quite interesting.  Quite possibly, from
what I've read of other Golden Dawn doings, entertaining as well.

rm



At 10:33 AM 1/14/00 -0600, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
>
> [whispered]: "... i do not even know their earthly names, and i have very 
> seldom seen them in their physical bodies ...
> they used to meet me physically at a time and place fixed in advance. for
my 
> part, i believe they are human beings living on this earth, but possessed
by 
> terrible and superhuman powers ...
> my physical encounters with them have shown me how difficult it is for a 
> mortal, however 'advanced', to support their presence ...
> i do not mean that during my rare meetings with them i experienced the same 
> feeling of intense physical depression that accompanies the loss of
magnetism. 
> on the contrary, i felt i was in contact with a force so terrible that i
can 
> only compare it to the shock one would receive from being near a flash of 
> lightning during a great thunder-storm, experiencing at the same time great 
> difficulty in breathing ...
> the nervous prostration i spoke of was accompanied by cold sweats and
bleeding 
> from the nose, mouth and sometimes the ears." 
>
> (samuel liddell macgregor mathers, quoted by kenneth grant) - kfl  
>