Osirus, FW, Crowley, Heinlein

[Glenn Scheper]

1.

Mummeries of Resurrection   The Cycle of Osiris in Finnegans Wake Mark L. Troy 
Uppsala 1976 Doctoral dissertation at the University of Uppsala 1976
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_005/mummeries.htm

After reaching his kingdom, Osiris took on the title of First of the Westerners
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_005/mummeries.htm

The presently accepted transcription of the name Osiris is Wsir, | 13 which is 
pronounced like one of the minor variations listed by Budge, "User"
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_005/mummeries.htm

So, the customer IS king!

A fave fact.

contains the tale of TM, the old god who, in FW is a type of HCE; here he falls 
into a tomb, a tumulus. Additionally, Mr. Atherton has rightly observed (Books, 
p. 133) that the word "tumulum" contains a clear reference to the primal 
mud-heap upon which TM as the creator-god, after masturbating into his mouth, 
spat out the first beings. Thus, the "tumulum" is both the mound of creation, 
and the tumulus tomb of burial. The two meanings are inclusive and simultaneous: 
the waked dead in the mound carrying the potential of new, first life.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_005/mummeries.htm

"For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and 
hints and misses in prints"
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_005/mummeries.htm

i.e., Papyrus as pubic hair -> lasses in print (skirts).

At 11:30 pm, almost at opening of the mouth ceremony, two fingers of a hand
appeared upper left over my computer, flicking, and a voice: "And with me
around." and I thought, another evening dies by text.


2.

The premise of this article is that Heinlein wrote Stranger as an allegorical 
recapitulation of Thelema.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

OTO: the nest:
The Order is organized (mostly) around 'lodges' where members often share 
living, learning and ritual space.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

Parsons was also a dedicated Thelemic magician involved with the OTO from late 
in the '30s, eventually becoming magister templi of the famous Los Angeles-based 
Agape Lodge.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

Parsons died the day before Midsummer in 1952 following an explosion at his 
home. The official explanation for the tragedy is oddly poetic and ironic -- he 
dropped a vial of fulminate of mercury.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

The Babalon Working was initiated to answer the previously mentioned prophecy of 
Liber Legis, the prophecy of Crowley's magickal heir, of which it said: "The 
child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.
  "Expect him not from the East, not from the West; for from no expected house 
cometh that child."
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

Throughout history, it has always been the coded or allegorical works that have 
truly inspired whole systems transition in contemporary thought and expression.
...
These works have four characteristics in common. First, they contain or 
reference obviously coded, allegorical, or metaphorical meanings which have 
greater dimension than the work or medium itself. Second, their finished 
structures represent radical departures from contemporary expressive norms. 
Third, their finished structures are built with a missing key -- that is, the 
work evokes questions and provide hints to answers but stubbornly fails to 
provide the answers themselves, leaving the audience with the challenge to get 
up and seek the answers on their own or to go back to sleep. This leads to the 
fourth characteristic, that the act of cognition regarding the work evokes 
radical evolution in thought and expression. There is a fifth thread 
(Discordians sigh) which is harder to establish as universally that links these 
coded and allegorical works to an evolving current of philosophical expression 
that has always interwoven mainstream culture while rarely taking its own 
identifiable form. This current has been labelled hermetic, alchemical, 
Rosicrucian, magickal, occult, Templar, et cetera and while dialectics occur, as 
well as idiosyncratic or contemporary modes, there is a clear, demonstrable line 
of intellectual (and ontological) heredity among these forms.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

If you [Lew] are who we think you are...

In the early 1910s, the leader of the OTO accosted Aleister Crowley saying that 
he had published the great secret of the Templars in his text, The Book of Lies. 
He immediately conferred the 9th degree and accordant responsibilities on 
Crowley, provided some magickal training, eventually made him head of the 
English Order and finally willed the world-wide Order to him.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

Finally, the social life in secret Thelemic communities often centers around 
food, work and deep play with no wasted time, exactly as portrayed in the nest. 
Heinlein paints an exceptionally accurate picture of an eminently healthy, 
vibrant people and their pleasant comings and goings, shared mealtimes, and 
oddly synchronized spontaneity.
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

Any P-grokable quaternion?

For I am BABALON, and she my daughter, unique, and there shall be no other women 
like her. 38. In My Name shall she have all power, and all men and excellent 
things, and kings and captains and the secret ones at her command. 39. The first 
servants are chosen in secret, by my force in her - a captain, a lawyer, an 
agitator, a rebel - I shall provide."
  -- http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_002/stranger.htm

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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