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Absinthe, Crowley, Freedom and Paths

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MageSteff
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Absinthe, Crowley, Freedom and Paths

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Magesteff (9:21:03 PM): tap tap Absinthe the Great?
turingprinciple (9:21:26 PM): Someone told me that Bruce Abbott met a fortune teller named Absinthe.
Magesteff (9:21:59 PM): yes. I think I may have mentioned it. Did other people mention it?
turingprinciple (9:22:07 PM): Wormwood, used medicinally since the Middle Ages, primarily to exterminate tapeworm infestations while leaving the human host uninjured and even rejuvenated by the experience, is the basis for absinthe. At the end of the 18th century the herb developed a recreational vogue. Humans discovered they could get high off it. The drink made from it was referred to in France as "La F�e Verte", or The Green Fairy. The drink was referred to in France as "La F�e Verte", or The Green Fairy.
Magesteff (9:22:39 PM): wormwood = The Green Fairy

Absinthe (definition from http://www.luminist.org/Archives/Crowley/absinthe.htm)
The word is from the Greek apsinthion. It means "undrinkable" or, according to some authorities, "undelightful." In either case, strange paradox! No: for the wormwood draught itself were bitter beyond human endurance; it must be aromatized and mellowed with other herbs.

Laz: Aleister Crowley was one of this century's most profound students of Magick, Qabalah and Yoga psychology. Shall we see if one of those works as a key?

Turing Principle has also been asking "are you free?"
In chat with Ursulla TP said "that is my sad fate," "I am destined..." and as I said has been asking me "are you free?" and has also said There are many paths - which I took to be a "bot" response rather than an operator chooseing it, but now, I am not so sure.

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"Every man and every woman is a star." That is to say, every human being is intrinsically an independent individual with his own proper character and proper motion.
All such phenomena or "point-events" are equally "illusion"; Nothing is always Nothing; but the projection of Nothing on this screen of the phenomenal does not only explain, but constitutes, the Universe. It is the only system which reconciles all the contradictions inherent in Thought, and in Experience; for in it "Reality" is "Illusion", "Free-will" is "Destiny", the "Self" is the "Not-Self"; and so for every puzzle of Philosophy.

Crowley Wrote "The Green Goodess" at the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans.

http://cocktails.about.com/library/blaa042298b.htm

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Do you know that French sonnet "La legende de l'absinthe?"
Apollon, qui pleurait le trepas d'Hyacinthe,
Ne voulait pas ceder la victoire a la mort.
II fallait que son ame, adepte de l'essor,
Trouvat pour la beaute une alchemie plus sainte.
Donc de sa main celeste il epuise, il ereinte
Les dons les plus subtile de la divine Flore.
Leurs corps brises souspirent une exhalaison d'or
Dont il nous recueillait la goutte de l'Absinthe!

Aux cavernes blotties, aux palais petillants,
Par un, par deux, buvez ce breuvage d'aimant!
Car c'est un sortilege, un propos de dictame,
Ce vin d'opale pale avortit la misere,
Ourre de la beaute l'intime sanctuaire
-- Ensorcelle mon coeur, extasie mort ame!"
Steph from Top Friends Cocktail Club has generously translated this.
The Absinthe Legend
Apollon, who was weeping for the death of Hyacinthe,
Didn't want to give up the victory for the death.
His soul, adept of the soaring,
Had to find for the beauty a holier alchemy.
Thus with his celestial hand he drains, he exhausts
The most subtle gifts of the divine Flora
Their broken bodies sigh a golden exhalation
Of which he was catching for us the drop of --Absinthe!

To the curled up caves, to the sparkling palaces,
By one, by two, drink this lover's beverage !
For this is a spell, a balm's matter
This pale opal wine aborts misery,
Hems with the beauty the intimate sanctuary
-- Bewitches my heart, ecstasies my soul !

http://www.luminist.org/Archives/Crowley/absinthe.htm

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In western Mysticism, once more we learn that the middle grade initiation is called Hodos Camelioniis, the Path of the Chameleon. There is here evidently an allusion to this same mystery. We also learn that the middle stage in Alchemy is when the liquor becomes opalescent.

In chat with Ursulla TP said "that is my sad fate" "I am destined" and as I said has been asking me "are you free?" and has also said There are many paths - which I took to be a "bot" response rather than an operator chooseing it, but now, I am not so sure.

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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:28 pm

Varin
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Re: Absinthe, Crowley, Freedom and Paths

Magesteff wrote:

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Laz: Aleister Crowley was one of this century's most profound students of Magick, Qabalah and Yoga psychology. Shall we see if one of those works as a key?

I tried these today. Along with kabalah, kabbalah, qabbalah and every other spelling variation I could find that is in use. In response to kabbalah, TP said she is still formulating her reply.

The major theme of my conversation with her today has been whether or not I need direction...

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14527#14527[/quote]

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