Saturday, April 27, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Ordo Templi Orientis
Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) (Order of the Temple of the East or Order of Oriental Templars) is an international fraternal and religious organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century. English author and occultist Aleister Crowley has become the best-known member of the order.
Originally it was intended to be modelled after and associated with Freemasonry,[1] but under the leadership of Aleister Crowley, O.T.O. was reorganized around the Law of Thelema as its central religious principle. This Law—expressed as “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"[2] and "Love is the law, love under will”[3]—was promulgated in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law.
Similar to many secret societies, O.T.O. membership is based on an initiatory system with a series of degree ceremonies that use ritual drama to establish fraternal bonds and impart spiritual and philosophical teachings.
O.T.O. also includes the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC) or Gnostic Catholic Church, which is the ecclesiastical arm of the Order. Its central rite, which is public, is called Liber XV, or the Gnostic Mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordo_Templi_Orientis
Originally it was intended to be modelled after and associated with Freemasonry,[1] but under the leadership of Aleister Crowley, O.T.O. was reorganized around the Law of Thelema as its central religious principle. This Law—expressed as “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"[2] and "Love is the law, love under will”[3]—was promulgated in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law.
Similar to many secret societies, O.T.O. membership is based on an initiatory system with a series of degree ceremonies that use ritual drama to establish fraternal bonds and impart spiritual and philosophical teachings.
O.T.O. also includes the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC) or Gnostic Catholic Church, which is the ecclesiastical arm of the Order. Its central rite, which is public, is called Liber XV, or the Gnostic Mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordo_Templi_Orientis
Sunday, April 21, 2013
The world that only formerly-blind people can see
What happens when people first really look at the world? Generally, we
don’t know. They’re far too young to tell us what’s going on in their
mind. By the time children are old enough to articulate what they see,
they don’t remember what the world looked like in their first few weeks
of life. There are special occasions, though, when full-grown adults
can see for the first time. For the most part, they see a complete
confusion. Often, that does a lot of emotional damage...
http://io9.com/the-world-that-only-formerly-blind-people-can-see-476400679
http://io9.com/the-world-that-only-formerly-blind-people-can-see-476400679
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