Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!wn11feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc03.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E22484B.7C81B543@slip.net> From: "Fr. A.o.C." Organization: Temple of the Quintupal Triplicity X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.magick.order,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.thelema,alt.pagan.magick Subject: Re: The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (LONG response to 333) References: <3D9BFF4B.26D0DF5F@address.com> <3DA64F4F.C1EC119B@address.com> <3E223074.6D020E17@slip.net> <3e2343a6.30453568@trialnews.peoplepc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.233.48.58 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc03 1042434125 12.233.48.58 (Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:02:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:02:05 GMT Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:02:05 GMT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:332036 alt.magick.order:7068 alt.magick.tyagi:35679 alt.pagan.magick:35460 Thank you, Frater. Let me point out that your book on the Ciphers is the reference we use when working on our redacted rituals. (You bumped Darcy K. from that exalted position!) Your insights in the footnotes, as well as the chapters of history and analysis, have been a highly valuable resource for us, and we recommend your book highly. - Fr. A.o.C. Gnome d Plume wrote: > ****Care Frater: > > I'm not going to repost all of this but I do want to say that it was > one of the best , most informative and insightful posts we've had on > this NG in quite a while--even though I don't completely agree with > you on the minimal importance of Osiris, either in the background of > the G.D. or the Western Tradition in general. The Osirian concept was > spiritually in advance of Moses at a much earlier date, and the direct > precursor of the Christ myth and the Hiram Abiff legend. The R.R. et > A.C.'s candidate crucifixion is not an exercise in Christianity. > Christians cannot become Christ, they can only be Christ-like. R.R. et > A.C. resurrection symbolism is essentially Osirian. No matter! Your > awareness of the key importance of the Cypher Manuscript as the > foundation of modern Western Magick is certainly correct. Keep up the > Great Work. And for those who would like to study the original G.D. > Cyphers, we just completed the third printing of *Secrets of the > Golden Dawn Cypher Manuscript*. Check it out at: > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965488128/qid%3D1042433127/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-9248619-6336619 > > Good Magick! > > Gnome d Plume > http://members.aol.com/CHSOTA/productions.html