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- From: dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell)
- Subject: Re: what i've heard from alien.
- References: <1993Jan12.181004.24385@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan17.232953.29142@selway.umt.edu> <mikef.0pev@amiganet.chi.il.us>
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- Organization: University of Illinois School of Music
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:36:02 GMT
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- In article <mikef.0pev@amiganet.chi.il.us> mikef@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mike Fleming) writes:
- >>well, on a mtv interveiw with alien jourgensen during the lolla' tour the
- >>name was explained to be either 'psalm, chapter or verse'. al also said
- >>that was unimportant. it's the 69 that matters. i'll talk to my classical
- >>mythology prof about a translation. he's the local expert on greek.
- >
- >I believe I've stated this before, but no one quite seems to catch it.
- >
- >Psalm 69 is a "Chapter" in Aleister Crowley's _Book Of Lies_. (Jourgenson,
- >apparently, is a real big mage/magik fan...in fact one of the songs on _The
- >Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste_ contains a chant which is supposed to summon
- >an angel apparently.... A friend of mine who is a mage/magik freak told me
- >this, so...)
- >
- >Anyway, the chapter "Psalm 69" in _The Book Of Lies_ is about oral sex rituals
- >(big surprise here). Apparently, Crowley believed that human sexual secretions
- >were a path to eternal life. I did read the first paragraph of the chapter,
- >and it was so inexplicably twisted that even I had to put the book down.
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- Ummm...excuse me? (pulls out his nice, hardbound copy of _The Book of Lies_)
- Chapters in _The Book of Lies_ are all short _verses_. They don't have
- paragraphs. Are you sure you're talking about _The Book of Lies_ by Aleister
- Crowley, or is the book you're consulting just lying to you? :)
- I'm not one to whole-hog defend Thelemic philosophy, but I do think
- if you're going to cite something, you oughta cite it correctly.
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- D.A.C. Crowell
- Computer Music Project/School of Music
- University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
- (dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu)
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