Path: Supernews70!Supernews73!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.wli.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news1.best.com!noos.hooked.net!206.80.6.11.MISMATCH!its.hooked.net!not-for-mail From: heidrick@well.com (Bill Heidrick) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Uncle Alcofribas Nasier Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:31:08 GMT Organization: Whole Earth Networks News Lines: 81 Message-ID: <6sec83$5p6$1@its.hooked.net> References: <1998083018363800.OAA27790@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: korea-152.ppp.hooked.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.71 Xref: Supernews70 alt.magick:162619 93, ainsoph@aol.com (AinSoph) wrote: >Who can Describe: TRINC/TRINU in fine detail? Crowley's use of it is very brief. From Heart of the Master: "The Two and Twenty Secret Instructions of the Master." ... " VII. The issue of the Vulture, Two-in-One, conveyed; this is the chariot of Power. TRINC: The last oracle!" From Magick without Tears: "CHAPTER XXIII IMPROVISING A TEMPLE" "And if the above remarks should embolden you to exclaim: "Perhaps a little drink would do me no great harm" I shall feel that I have deserved well of my country! "For --- see Liber Aleph, after Rabelais --- the Word of the Last Oracle is TRINC." From Confessions: Section 81: "The Urn is engraved with a word or symbol expressive of the nature of the being whose ash is therein. The Magus is thus, of course, not a person in any ordinary sense; he represents a certain nature or idea. To put it otherwise, we may say, the Magus is a word. He is the Logos of the Aeon which he brings to pass.<>" -oOo- The reference in Rabelais is to a planned visit by Pantagruel and Panurge to the Oracle (Bacbuc) of the Holy Bottle -- which begins with a discussion of the meaning of a bottle, whether full or empty, and the likelyhood that one's wife will be a sot or not. They reach the Oracle after sundry adventures, head off again and get back to the Oracle again toward the end of the book. After a good snort from the sacred flask, Panurge enlarges on the sacred word in a poem: "Trinc, trinc; by Bacchus let us tope, And tope again; for now I hope To see some brawny, juicy rump, And tickle't with my carnal stump. E'er long, my friends, I shall be wedded, Sure as my trap-stick has a red head; And my sweet wife shall hold the combat, Long as my baws can on her mum beat. O what a battle of a-- fighting Will there be! which I much delight in! What peleasing pains then shall I take To keep myself and spouse awake! All heart and juice, I'll up and ride, And make a duchess of my bride. Sing Io paean! loudly sing To Hymen, who all joys will bring. Well, friar John, I'll take my oath, This oracle is full of troth; Intelligible truth it bears, More certain than the sive and shears." -oOo- As to further significance, consider the Star Saphire. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick heidrick@well.com