Lon Milo DuQuette (1948-), AKA Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, American writer and occultist best known as an author who applies humor in the field of Western Hermeticism. Since 1975 he has been a National and International governing officer of Ordo Templi Orientis, one of the most influential (and controversial) magical societies of the 20th Century. Since 1994 he has been the O.T.O.'s United States Deputy Grand Master an ...

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Dee began to allude to his search for knowledge through the angels in 1581 when he mentioned in his personal diary that God had sent "good angels" to communicate directly with his prophets. As evidenced by his book collection, he had more than a casual interest in angels; he specifically sought out all past conversations between man and angels with a passion. He had a number of texts by Ficino, Agrippa, and Johannes Trithemius as well as the more common biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. He studied the similarities of the angelic convers ...

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Enochian, Enochian - Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Enochian Tradition, Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script, Enochian - Agrippa's Angelic Alphabets, Enochian - Pantheus's Enoch, Enochian - Influence of Ethiopian upon Enochian, Enochian - Linguistic Analysis of Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Modern Enochian Derivations

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Enochian is an occult language popularised by John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 16th Century. Dee and Kelley claimed that it was revealed to them by angels, though most contemporary practitioners of magick consider it a constructed language. The name "Enochian" is a reference to the Book of Enoch, a pseudepigraphal text and a major source of Judeo-Christian angelology. Enochian - Dee's Enochian. Dee began to allude to his search for knowledge through the angels in 1581 when he mentioned in his person ...

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• Enochian - Dee's Enochian
• Enochian - Enochian Tradition
• Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script
• Enochian - Agrippa's Angelic Alphabets
• Enochian - Pantheus's Enoch
• Enochian - Influence of Ethiopian upon Enochian
• Enochian - Linguistic Analysis of Dee's Enochian
• Enochian - Modern Enochian Derivations

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Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (12 October 1875 - 1 December 1947) was an occultist, mystic, sexual revolutionary, and drug user (especially heroin). Aleister Crowley - Biography. Edward Alexander Crowley was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, between 11:00pm and 12 midnight on 12 October 1875. His father, Edward Crowley, once maintained a lucrative family brewery business and was retired at the time of Aleister's birth. His mother, Emily Bertha Bishop, drew ...

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• Aleister Crowley - Biography
• Aleister Crowley - Chess
• Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering
• Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality
• Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration
• Aleister Crowley - Thelema
• Aleister Crowley - Writings
• Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours
• Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) (Order of the Temple of the East, or the Order of Oriental Templars) is an international fraternal and religious organization. For its teachings and principles of organization, it has accepted the Law of Thelema, which is expressed as “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law.” Thelemites believe that this Law was established with the writing of the Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley in 1904 in Cairo, Egypt. Its structure is similar to that of Freemasonry, with a series of graded initi ...

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• Ordo Templi Orientis - Philosophy of O.T.O.
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Initiation
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Structure
• Ordo Templi Orientis - International
• Ordo Templi Orientis - National
• Ordo Templi Orientis - The Gnostic Catholic Church
• Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. bodies
• Ordo Templi Orientis - History
• Ordo Templi Orientis - The beginnings
• Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. and Aleister Crowley
• Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. after Crowley
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Schisms in the Thelemic community
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Teachings
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Opposing views

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The library holdings and common languages of those who claimed to discover angelic language must be taken into account in order to best interpret the origins of their languages, and to understand the differences as they evolved. These men were voracious book collectors, all, and without doubt had collected at least script samples from most languages. Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script. The beginning of the angelic script tradition begins with the first iteration of the script from Trithemius's Stega ...

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Enochian, Enochian - Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Enochian Tradition, Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script, Enochian - Agrippa's Angelic Alphabets, Enochian - Pantheus's Enoch, Enochian - Influence of Ethiopian upon Enochian, Enochian - Linguistic Analysis of Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Modern Enochian Derivations

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The influence of the Ethiopian language upon John Dee's angelic language as first postulated by Dr. Donald Laycock seems to overlook this tradition of distillation of tradition. Dee was familiar with all of the above mentioned alphabets with the possible exception of Ge'ez. Dee owned the mentioned works by Trithemius, Agrippa and Pantheus, and was very familiar with them. He constantly mentioned Trithemius in his diaries of angelic conversations, was familiar with the work of Agrippa, and there is an obvious evolution from Agrippa's tables a ...

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Enochian, Enochian - Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Enochian Tradition, Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script, Enochian - Agrippa's Angelic Alphabets, Enochian - Pantheus's Enoch, Enochian - Influence of Ethiopian upon Enochian, Enochian - Linguistic Analysis of Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Modern Enochian Derivations

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The language appears slightly inflected and has a word order close enough to English that it can usually be translated without changing the order. Inflections, under close scrutiny, appear to be random. Dee's Enochian has its own alphabet which can also be transliterated into the Latin alphabet. Several words have rather intimidating consonant clusters, which are pronounced by inserting a vowel; for example, "nazpsad" is pronounced "nazepesad". Other words c ...

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Enochian, Enochian - Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Enochian Tradition, Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script, Enochian - Agrippa's Angelic Alphabets, Enochian - Pantheus's Enoch, Enochian - Influence of Ethiopian upon Enochian, Enochian - Linguistic Analysis of Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Modern Enochian Derivations

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Enochian, and the magickal system that Dee and Kelley based on it, were incorporated by Aleister Crowley as part of his popular and influential system. It is also popular in Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, from which Crowley learned it, and in the Aurum Solis. Perhaps the most important student of Enochian at the turn of the 21st Century was the late Benjamin Rowe, also known as "Josh Norton", a self-taught ceremonial magician who wrote ma ...

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Enochian, Enochian - Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Enochian Tradition, Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script, Enochian - Agrippa's Angelic Alphabets, Enochian - Pantheus's Enoch, Enochian - Influence of Ethiopian upon Enochian, Enochian - Linguistic Analysis of Dee's Enochian, Enochian - Modern Enochian Derivations

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Edward Alexander Crowley was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, between 11:00pm and 12 midnight on 12 October 1875. His father, Edward Crowley, once maintained a lucrative family brewery business and was retired at the time of Aleister's birth. His mother, Emily Bertha Bishop, drew roots from a Devon and Somerset family. Aleister grew up in a staunch Plymouth Brethren household. His father, after retiring from his daily duties as a brewer, took up the practice of preaching at a fanatical pace. Daily Bible stud ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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Crowley learned to play chess at the age of six and first competed on the Eastbourne College chess team (where he was taking classes in 1892). He showed immediate competence, beating the adult champion in town and even editing a chess column for the local newspaper, the Eastbourne Gazette (Sutin, p.33), which he often used to criticize the Eastbourne team. He later joined the university chess club at Cambridge, where he beat the president in his freshman year and practiced two hours a day towards becoming a champion — "My one serious worldly ambition had been to become the champion of ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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In the summer of 1902, Oscar Eckenstein and Crowley undertook the first attempt to scale Chogo Ri (known in the west as K2), located in Pakistan. The Eckenstein-Crowley Expedition consisted of Eckenstein, Crowley, Guy Knowles, H. Pfannl, V. Wesseley, and Dr Jules Jacot-Guillarmod. During this trip he won a world record for his hardships on the Baltoro Glacier, sixty-eight straight days of glacial life. In May 1905, he was approached by Dr Jules Jacot-Guillarmod (1868 - 1925) to accompany him on the first expedition to Kanchenjunga, th ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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Crowley claimed to use a scientific method to study what people at the time called "spiritual" experiences, making "The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion" the catchphrase of his magazine The Equinox. By this he meant that mystical experiences should not be taken at face value, but critiqued and experimented with in order to arrive at their underlying religious meaning. In this he may be considered to foreshadow Dr. Timothy Leary, who at one point sought to apply the same method to psychedelic drug experiences. Yet like Leary's, Crowley's method has received little "scie ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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The religious or mystical system which Crowley founded, into which most of his nonfiction writings fall, he named Thelema. Thelema combines a radical form of philosophical libertarianism, akin in some ways to Nietzsche, with a mystical initiatory system derived in part from the Golden Dawn. Chief among the precepts of Thelema is the sovereignty of the individual will: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Crowley's idea of will, however, is not simply the individual's desires or wishes, but also incorporates ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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Within the subject of occultism Crowley wrote widely, penning commentaries on the Tarot (The Book of Thoth), yoga (Book Four), the Kabbalah (Sepher Sephiroth), astrology (The General Principles of Astrology), and numerous other subjects. He also wrote a Thelemic "translation" of the Tao Te Ching, based on earlier English translations since he knew little or no Chinese. Like the Golden Dawn mystics before him, Crowley evidently sought to comprehend the entire human religious and mystical experience in a sing ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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Crowley claimed to use a scientific method to study what people at the time called "spiritual" experiences, making "The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion" the catchphrase of his magazine The Equinox. By this he meant that mystical experiences should not be taken at face value, but critiqued and experimented with in order to arrive at their underlying religious meaning. In this he may be considered to foreshadow Dr. Timothy Leary, who at one point sought to apply the same method to psychedelic drug experiences. Yet like Leary's, Crowley's method has received little "sc ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science, magic, and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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The religious or mystical system which Crowley founded, into which most of his writings fall, he named Thelema. Thelema combines a radical form of philosophical libertarianism, akin in some ways to Nietzsche, with a mystical initiatory system derived in part from the Golden Dawn. Chief among the precepts of Thelema is the sovereignty of the individual will: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Crowley's idea of will, however, is not simply the individual's desires or wishes, but also incorporates a sense of ...

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Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley - Biography, Aleister Crowley - Chess, Aleister Crowley - Mountaineering, Aleister Crowley - Science magic and sexuality, Aleister Crowley - Women as inspiration, Aleister Crowley - Thelema, Aleister Crowley - Writings, Aleister Crowley - Miscellany and Rumours, Aleister Crowley - Crowley in popular culture

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O.T.O. was described by Crowley as the "first of the great Old Æon orders to accept The Book of the Law". O.T.O. was originally affiliated with European masonic organisations, although Crowley eventually cut all formal ties with Freemasonry—largely because of the integration of the Law of Thelema and the Order's equal acceptance of women. Although some masonic symbolism and language is in use, their context is no longer that of Freemasonry, but of Thelema and its tenets. "The Order offers esoteric instruction through dramatic ritual, guid ...

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Ordo Templi Orientis, Ordo Templi Orientis - Philosophy of O.T.O., Ordo Templi Orientis - Initiation, Ordo Templi Orientis - Structure, Ordo Templi Orientis - International, Ordo Templi Orientis - National, Ordo Templi Orientis - The Gnostic Catholic Church, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. bodies, Ordo Templi Orientis - History, Ordo Templi Orientis - The beginnings, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. and Aleister Crowley, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. after Crowley, Ordo Templi Orientis - Schisms in the Thelemic community, Ordo Templi Orientis - Teachings, Ordo Templi Orientis - Opposing views

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The governing bodies of O.T.O. include: International Headquarters Presided over by the Outer Head of the Order XII° (OHO—also known as Frater Superior) Supreme Council Revolutionaries The Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the IX° The Secret Areopagus of the Illuminati of the VIII° The Grand Tribunal of the VI° The National Grand Lodge Presided over by the National Grand Master X° Executive Council The Supreme Grand Counci ...

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Ordo Templi Orientis, Ordo Templi Orientis - Philosophy of O.T.O., Ordo Templi Orientis - Initiation, Ordo Templi Orientis - Structure, Ordo Templi Orientis - International, Ordo Templi Orientis - National, Ordo Templi Orientis - The Gnostic Catholic Church, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. bodies, Ordo Templi Orientis - History, Ordo Templi Orientis - The beginnings, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. and Aleister Crowley, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. after Crowley, Ordo Templi Orientis - Schisms in the Thelemic community, Ordo Templi Orientis - Teachings, Ordo Templi Orientis - Opposing views

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