BOC: 777 was: Re: BOC, tBS: (Imaginos) Overture, sevens...

[Jon Browne]

In message <32B33AD9.29C7 at columbia-center.org>, Dan Clore
<clore at COLUMBIA-CENTER.ORG> writes
>I just mean trying to perform the magick as experiments based on
>scientific method, attempting to make controls for different factors,
>and suchlike.  Of course many people practise magick.  (I'd guess the
>number in the tens of thousands just for those directly influenced by
>Crowley.)  What they don't seem to do (or at least don't publish) is
>keep what Crowley called a "magick record" -- "I did such-and-such under
>such-and-such conditions, and such-and-such resulted.  Then I tried
>such-and-so under the same conditions, with this difference in the
>results."  If a large number of those who practise magick kept these and
>published them, comparison should easily show what works -- or if it was
>all just chance that someone got good results doing something one way
>rather than another.  Like sports figures who develop little rituals
>because they happen to have had a good game after they did some
>particular thing.
>--
>Dan Clore
>
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>Welcome to the Waughters . . .

I see what you mean. Hmm, well, a few people spring to mind. Isreal
Regardie, Hyatt and Guest for example. Robert Anton Wilson has published
one or two simple enough "how-to's" as well. It would have never occured
to me to publish something like that principally because the results
would be not just personal but infinatly subjective too. Having said
that, there are published accounts such as these and people chose to
disregard them for the same reason they disregarded Uncle Alistair in
the first place. But I would have thought with a little research, you'd
find hundreds of such accounts. But really, at the end of the day, for
it to have any meaning, you have to walk the walk. You can't do it from
an armchair, and I've often been told intellectualising on the subject
only makes it harder. It doesn't _work_ like that!

BTW I've got a *.wav of Crowley doing a spot of Enochian prayer if you'd
like to hear HMV!

--
Jon Browne