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Badgerconda
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I've been watching this one off and on since the beginning, I haven't read every post, but I figured someone should point it out in case it hadn't been already; numbers that start with 555 (after the area code) are pretty much always non-working numbers. they don't give them to residents because any time you want to say a full phone number in a movie or a TV show, generally, you use a 555-number, and they're kind of reserved for this. So it seems pretty unlikely that the 555- has any significance aside from making it a not-real phone number.

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atrament
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@spielpuppe : nah, I can't put it clearly but honnestly it lack mystic charge somehow Smile

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spielpuppe
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@atrament: understood Smile

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:30 am
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S.Venator
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spielpuppe wrote:
I' m reading over the whole Thread as well as our current hints again and again... but no real brilliant idea yet.

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"We have a test built into the new application form"
"What test?"
"The potential initiates build a sigil directly into the test form. There is also a mantra, which is an anagram for one of the first orders (I guess "Zelator" is the solution for this anagram??). A real initiate should be able to
[can't understand the speaker from this point on]...



How about that...
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Well, can´t help, I think WE have been recruited and we´re some counterpart to the blue orbs, whatever they are. We´ve been tricked by Goldman and Vincent. They started experiments with the synaptic connector but lost control. And now our rising magick power will be needed to fight something strange (someone mentioned Chtulhu before). Maybe we`re just cannon fodder...


And more text..., sorry!
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Thelema College again.

In the center of the seal is the tree of live, a motif in many mythologies, theologies and even science. The unicursal hexagram can be seen as a direct hint on Alistair Crowley („The Great Beast"), Thelema, and Magick. Surprise, surprise, the university is called Thelema College. But as we´ve seen before, there is more behind the seal:

So far, hidden URLs were coded with the Tarot, used in Crowley´s elemental magick (swords, coins or disks, wands, cups) and it was necessary to identify the code to get the next magickal grade. Thelema-Magick is strictly structured, and so is the seal. We can expect more URLs and photos behind it. But the code is more complex, than I initially expected.

Here are some relations I found in the german end english wikipedia,
f.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(classical_element) etc:

(-tarot/grade/element/planet)

-cups/practicus/water/mercury
-disks/zelator/earth/???
-swords/theoricus/air/moon
-moon/philosophus/fire/venus

Why are zelator AND theoricus hidden behind the swords? Why jupiter behind the disks? I first thought of jupiter as ruler of change (as are mentioned uranus, saturn and the moon), but that is a more astrological view. In elemental magick there are rulers named as Tharsis, Kerub, Aral, Seraph. (@atrament: so, maybe you´re right, and jupiter was just a fluke Sad )

Any ideas?


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spielpuppe
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More ressources from Wikipedia that may help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn
Have especially a look at the part 'Structure and Grades' that shows a picture of the Rosy Cross of the Golden Dawn.

An excerpt:

First Order

* Introduction—Neophyte 0=0
* Zelator 1=10
* Theoricus 2=9
* Practicus 3=8
* Philosophus 4=7

Second Order

* Intermediate—Portal Grade
* Adeptus Minor 5=6
* Adeptus Major 6=5
* Adeptus Exemptus 7=4

Third Order

* Magister Templi 8=3
* Magus 9=2
* Ipsissimus 10=1

The paired numbers attached to the Grades relate to positions on the Tree of Life. The Neophyte Grade of "0=0" indicates no position on the Tree. In the other pairs, the first numeral is the number of steps up from the bottom (Malkuth), and the second numeral is the number of steps down from the top (Kether).

The First Order Grades were related to the four elements of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire, respectively. The Aspirant to a Grade received instruction on the metaphysical meaning of each of these Elements and had to pass a written examination and demonstrate certain skills to receive admission to that Grade.

The Portal Grade was the initiation ritual for admittance to the Second Order. The Circle of existing Adepts from the Second Order had to consent to allow an Aspirant to join the Second Order.

The Second Order was not, properly, part of the "Golden Dawn", but a separate Order in its own right, known as the R.R. et A.C. The Second Order directed the teachings of the First Order and was the governing force behind the First Order.

After passing the Portal, the Aspirant was instructed in the techniques of practical magic. When another examination was passed, and the other Adepts consented, the Aspirant attained the Grade of Adeptus Minor (5=6). There were also four sub-Grades of instruction for the Adeptus Minor, again relating to the four Outer Order grades.

A member of the Second Order had the power and authority to initiate aspirants to the First Order, though usually not without the permission of the Chiefs of his or her Lodge.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordo_Templi_Orientis
...also may help.



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TachikomaUnit
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i think...but maybe i'm wrong. The circle symbol is something connected with Horus, i don't really know, but see the deck of our hero Alistair Crowley http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3326041530_fcca0cce34.jpg see the 6th, card center bottom in the card, i tried also shields/praticus but doesn't work, Anyway horus has a kind of disk on the head and also a found that 44 = Sacred number of Horus in the link that is posted before http://davidcherubim.net/documents/gematria.htm i don't know if i'm in the right way...maybe it's only in my mind :p[/code]

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spielpuppe
Boot

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There is a new video in the newssection of

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Goldman&Dawn:

http://www.goldmananddawn.com/news.html
direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJO6iD_OvRw


from the video:

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01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11
12 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10
04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 01 | 02

(added the zeros just to make the coloumns even...)

- select any three of these 12 3-number-sequences (Lauries video shows only 11 sequences in the three lines?)
- within each of the three number combinations: multiply two numbers together and then divide by the third
- round your results up to two decimal places
- repeat this fo the other two combinations

example:

5*1 / 2 = 2.50
4*8 / 5 = 6.40
9*12 / 8 = 13.50

- with your three results write down the letters of the alphabet that correspond with each number in your results

example:
2.50 6.40 13.50
B E F G AC E

- eliminate repeat letters

2.50 6.40 13.50
B E F G AC

- you now have a letter sequence from which you design your power sigil :

BEFGAC


more 'magick':

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I ve created a small excelsheet that calculates all off the decimal numbers that are possible. Also wrote down the corresponding letters. Now we just have to find all combinations of three:

<a></a>

The excelsheet can be downloaded here:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-2435519/magick.xls.html

Doesn't Laurie have a cute smile? Smile


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atrament
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Great, thank you spielpuppe. As soon as I can, I'll try to get a deep look to these !

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spielpuppe
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@atrament: Thanks! Hope to hear your feedback soon.

What I ve asked myself after watching that video:
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- Does Laurie only want us to create a new sigil (each one of us) following her rules?
- Or do all of these sigil-combinations also code new URLs e.g. (maybe not for whathappenedtosarah.com but for goldmananddawn.com)? I m more and more the opinion that Goldman&Dawn as well as ThelemaCollege are one and the same organization (look at the logo of Thelema college with its sunrays in the background - the same that are shown in the G&D logo).


An addition to the Excel sheet/graphic above:
I guess the 11 number combinations in the video are simply a mistake, Laurie means 12 number combinations - so please everyone that downloads the excelsheet: add the missing 12th number combination (12-11-3). Sorry for my mistake.

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ellocia
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http://www.whathappenedtosarah.com/IIIV/
pause at 2:46 on the webinar1. It looks like they put the power of the sigils inside of Vincent.

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spielpuppe
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Nice find ellocia.
(The URL is also posted on the startpage in the meantime.)

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So the Mr. Tambourin Man Lyrics could maybe have been just a placeholder??


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atrament
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Well, Thelema college is clearly teaming up and uses our sigils and efforts to build a strong magick input into V Dimichaela.

We indeed are the army of these generals, though we do not know if they actually are on our side !


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Spoiler tag is for puzzle solve (for people who want to try to solve the puzzle themselves) or plot points (for people who haven't watched a show/movie or read a book).

Spec, suggestions, ideas, or character posts from ingame websites should just be quoted.

A post with nothing but spoiler tag defeats the purpose. Cause we have no idea what is under the spoiler so we have to scroll over it.

If you feel the need to spoiler something, please explain what you have under the spoiler so the others know if they want to look or not. But 9 times out of 10 you don't need to spoiler.

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phantomaz
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I've set up a section in italian language on my site for this game!!!
If somebody speaks italian and wants to partecipate from there:

What happened to Sarah? on Questo non e' un gioco

Thanks, and sorry for the spam X)
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spielpuppe
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Did anyone of you already have some time to think about the G&D Webinar Video and the Excelsheet I ve created following Lauries rules?

I d love to hear your opinion.

Greetings
spielpuppe

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