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April 30, 2005
APRIL 2005 ISSUE
Publisher: Andrew A. Anissi
Writers:
Aleister Crowley
Andrew A. Anissi
Jeff Zimbalist
Ambrose Bierce
Robert Chambers
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HOUSEHOLD GODS
A Comedy By Aleister Crowley
[Privately Printed in 1912]
TO LEILA WADDELL
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SCENE
THE HEARTH OF CRASSUS;
AFTERWARDS THE LAWNS, THE WOODS, THE LAKE, THE ISLE.
CHARACTERS
CRASSUS, a barbarian from Britain.
ADELA, his wife, a noble Roman lady.
ALICIA, a servant in the house.
A STATUE OF PAN.
A FAUN.
HOUSEHOLD GODS
THE SCENE is at the hearth of CRASSUS, where is a little
bronze altar dedicated to the Lares and Penates. A pale
flame rises from the burning sandal-wood, on which CRASSUS
throws benzoin and musk. He is standing in deep dejection.
CRASSUS.
Smoke without fire!
No thrill of tongues licks up
The offerings in the cup.
Dead falls desire.
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April 29, 2005
FILM :: FAVELA RISING
Saturday April 29, @4pm
Stuyvesant High School
(1,2,3,9, to chambers st.....just walk west on
chambers and you'll be there!)
Director's Statement: Jeff Zimbalist
My close friend and co-filmmaker Matt Mochary called me on the phone from a shantytown in Brazil. He told me to pack my bags because he’d found the story we’d been searching for. A week earlier, I’d sat with Matt at a Mexican bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and expressed my wish for more nonfiction stories in the news, television, and theaters about communities that succeed, that overcome great adversity, that unite and reach and achieve. In short – communities that work.
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April 28, 2005
R E S 1 0 E V E N T N Y C
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April 25, 2005
Cold Hands @ Bembe
Monday, April 25th
9:30, FREE
Special guest DJ, Radeus will be joining us this
coming Monday.
Plus the regulars: Ahmad Saeed, Scottie B, and
Tommy Moye spinning chill and upbeat music with
live vocals by Bora Yoon and Jess Lee. Who knows
who else might show up...
Bembe
81 South 6th (by Berry)
Directions: L train to Bedford or JMZ to Marcy
www.bembe.us
See ya!
Ahmad
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Some Thoughts on Assata and Race Issues, by Andrew Anissi
BOOK - Assata: The Autobiography, by Assata Shakur
I think the problem with Assata’s autobiography, in helping to understand the issues discussed yesterday at the Booklub, is that it is an autobiography, and that it gives a vivid and clear image that constitutes only half of the story. Surmising the possible causes and aspects of racism in terms of logical justifications is easy for us to do arbitrarily, but what we really need is an autobiography of one of the racist New Jersey State Troopers alongside Assata’s.
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April 22, 2005
Local Magazine Launch Party on Friday Night
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Open Studio Event on Friday
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April 19, 2005
Advancement: Civilzation and the Individual
Advancement: Civilization and the Individual
by Andrew A. Anissi
First Published: Mensa Bulletin Online, Nov./Dec. 2001 Issue
We look into the barbarian savagery of the peoples of the past and we gloat. Our world has changed. Our civilizations have changed. Our societies have changed. But what always remains the same is human behavior as determined by intellect.
In The Mensa Bulletin 460, Harold Williamson claimed that only recently was the capacity for abstract thought added to the mix. Does this mean Pythagoras didn’t have this capacity? Siddhartha Gautama could not think abstractly? What about the Phoenicians who built modern ships and sailed around the Horn of Africa in 600 BC? Surely Lao Tzu’s Taosism required abstract thought, as well as Aristotle’s physics and Pliny’s medicine. Today’s intellects do not outsmart those of the past.
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April 18, 2005
MY FAVORITE MURDER, by Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
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Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I
was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In
charging the jury, the judge of the Court of Acquittal remarked that
it was one of the most ghastly crimes that he had ever been called
upon to explain away.
At this, my attorney rose and said:
"May it please your Honor, crimes are ghastly or agreeable only by
comparison. If you were familiar with the details of my client's
previous murder of his uncle you would discern in his later offense
(if offense it may be called) something in the nature of tender
forbearance and filial consideration for the feelings of the victim.
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April 14, 2005
FILM REVIEW: Palindromes
Review by: Andrew A. Anissi
In his first three features, Happiness, Storytelling, and Welcome to the Dollhouse, director Todd Solondz has taught us to love rape, child rape, masturbating telephone stalkers, and other wacky and fun activities. Solondz's fourth feature film, Palindromes, is just as hilariously disturbing as a Solondz fan could hope for.
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April 13, 2005
Administrative Update
Winged Earth has moved into publication. The format will consist of rolling entries to be published throughout each month, and archived month to month. Monthly Archives will indicate the "issue" of the magazine, but content can also be browsed by categories (e.g. one interested in fiction may click on the fiction links and see the complete list of stories published by Winged Earth).
If you are interested in being published by Winged Earth Magazine, please send an e-mail message here.
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Liber I: Liber B vel Magi sub Figura I
Liber I
Number 1
Class A
Liber B
vel Magi
sub Figura I
These are texts relating to the philosophy of Thelema, many of them written by the occultist Aleister Crowley who founded the organization A.'. A.'. (Argentium Astrum -- the Silver Star) as well as others by members of the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis -- Order of the Eastern Temple) (founded by Theodor Reuss and Karl Kellner in 1895). These two organizations work together to promote Thelema.
The 'Class' is a OTO-assigned indication of the relative importance of the document. Some of the texts listed here are not available in electronic form for one reason or another; their descriptions have been left in the table for completeness.
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April 11, 2005
The Yellow Sign
by Robert Chambers
Original Publication: 1895 in the compilation, The King in Yellow
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"Let the red dawn surmise
What we shall do,
When this blue starlight dies
And all is through."
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There are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should
certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of
autumn foliage? Why should the Mass of Sainte Cecile bend my thoughts
wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin
silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o'clock
that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where
sunlight filtered through spring foliage and Sylvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly, over a small green lizard, murmuring: "To think that this also is a little ward of God!"
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ALBUM REVIEW: Secret Chiefs 3 - First Grand Constitution and Bylaws
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Yes, the Secret Chiefs 3 are an "experimental rock" band according to allmusic.com, and that was also my first guess at a genre for these guys, but what does that mean? In the case of First Grand Constitution and Bylaws - I haven't yet listened to their other albums - I would say the Secret Chiefs 3 play an odd, but pleasingly envigorating and unique fusion of punk rock and classical music, with a theme of ritual and mysticism. The vocals are from Faith No More's Mike Patton, but many of the tracks have no vocals, and this seems to be a secret side project from an unknown world of art waiting to be discovered.
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April 07, 2005
the Return of Magic
by Andrew A. Anissi
What if we were once something great? What if we were divine? What if everything we think we know about the advancement of the human race and civilization is backwards? What if evolution is happening in reverse, and we are slowly becoming animals? What if all of our technology and possessions make us feel as though we are advancing when in reality our characters and who we really are is fading away and disappearing? What if our hopes and dreams become replaced by an endless quest for capital, to be used for the sole purpose of feeding our base, animal gluttony, and indulging nothing but what our lowest, physical attributes tell us to pursue? What if there was once something more, that we were once something more, and that something was taken away from us? What if, as Nietzsche believed, the pursuit of comfort has long ago replaced the pursuit of reaching towards towards our potentials and rising above ourselves?
Is it true that we were born as wretched, disgusting sinners, and that our lives must be devoted to apologizing, or is it true that we were born with the potential to be something great? Is it true that we should be sorrowful and embarassed for daring to think of ourselves as something great, or should we actually try to become something better than ourselves and to reach for our maximum potential? Is good art that makes us temporarily feel something special the only thing left to remind us of what we once were and what we could be?
I will not live for the sole purpose of self-indulgence, of submission to cynicism and fear of those who have fallen to despair and plan on taking the rest with them. I will awaken the Vril, and bring magic back into the world. There is no other purpose to my existence that means anything, but to rise above myself and become Nietzsche's superman.
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April 02, 2005
Sizdah-Bedar
Iranians have a tradition of spending the day outdoors on the 13th of month Farvardin. Sizdah Bedar (sizdah means thirteen) which in English translates to "getting rid of thirteen". From the ancient times, Iranian peoples have enjoyed this day, although it is also the day that marks the end of the Aryan New Year celebrations.
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