The 93 Current - Updates

Timeline

Carsten — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:21:44 +0100

A basic, straight forward Aleister Crowley timeline taken from LAShTAL's Encyclopedia Thelemica.

Hermetic.com

Carsten — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:31:33 +0100

A collection of texts and sites relating to Hermeticism in a broad sense. Includes works of Sam Webster, Bill Heidrick, Bejamin Rowe, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare and many, many others. By far the best collection and an absolutely must read. Content:

The Libri of Aleister Crowley, Sam Webster: Initiate of the Mysteries, Corpus Stavish, The Magick and Mysticism of Bill Heidrick, The Enochian World of Benjamin Rowe, Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy, Austin Osman Spare, T Polyphilus: Vigorous Food & Divine Madness, The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius, Norton's Imperium - Enochian Magick, The Works of Frater Osiris, Casa del Campo, Forms Papyri Graecae Magicae, The Sacred Texts, Received Wisdom, An Enochian Miscellany, A Collection of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, and Gnostic Mass Materials, Commentaries on Liber Al ...

Grady McMurty Photo Archive

Carsten — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:32:06 +0100

Direct URL: Grady McMurty Photo Archive

This small archive of photos showing McMurty has been put together by Jerry Cornelius.

Aleister Crowley's "The Tango Song" performed live by Marc Almond and OTHON 01 Nov 2009ev

Carsten — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:07:22 +0100

I just felt like sharing this small video I recorded at yesterdays Marc Almond show at the Roundhouse in Camden, London. "The Tango Song" was written by Aleister Crowley with music by Bernard Page; based on the sketch called "The Tango" published in Equinox Vol I, No 9 in March 1913. Pay special attention to 2:30 ;-) "What is money to the bliss Of the honey of a kiss? What are rank and fame and fashion To the ecstasy of passion? "Chorus." Give me dancing! Give me wine! Bright eyes glancing --- Yours in mine! Kisses sucking Up my breath --- Give me passion!

Arcane Advisors

Carsten — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:18:28 +0100

Direct URL: Arcane Advisors

The Arcane Archives contain literally hundreds of documents and there is also some really interesting analytical artwork on the Tree of Light. Just to list a few areas and authors, you will find there:
Egyptian Myth Hermetic Kabbalah Alchemy John Dee Rosicrucian Tarot Aleister Crowley Occult Fiction Yoga Helena P. Blavatsky Theosophy Eliphas Levi Paschal Beverly Randolph Golden Dawn W.W. Westcott S.L. MacGregor Mathers A.E. Waite William Butler Yeats Dion Fortune J.F.C. Fuller Frater Achad Austin Osman Spare Benjamin Rowe Witchcraft

The Thelemite Test

Carsten — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:57:55 +0100

Direct URL: The Thelemite Test

Old, but I still find it hilarious and good fun.

The Ape of Thoth

Carsten — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:54:11 +0100

Direct URL: The Ape of Thoth

The 'Ape of Thoth' is a general-purpose text search engine whose database consists of Thelemic Holy Books and other verse-based works by Aleister Crowley. The search methods provide instant access to the documents or just particular verses or a full-text search.

I may work on a revival of the site again.

Carsten — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:25:49 +0100

93, Thanks for visiting 'The 93 Current' website. Some may remember this site as a hopefully useful source of information on all the different thelemic currents out there. Well, until I stopped updating the site about 5 years ago and took it off-line some months ago. I commented on the various reasons in the past. For the moment let it be known that I am currently thinking about a revival of the site and am working on a concept and the required technical details. If I will actually kick off this project again, I can already tell you that it will be kinda small. Core item of the site will be the URL collection again, like it used to be. I have no intention whatsoever to turn this into a larger project in competion with the great quality websites like LAShTAL.com. Anyway, for now there is nothing more to say and alot of work to be done, so stay tuned. I don't expect a launch until later in 2008 e.v. Cheers, 93 93/93 Carsten

Order of Thelemic Knights

Carsten — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:50:16 +0100

Direct URL: Order of Thelemic Knights

Gerald del Campo founded this order which tries to combine (idealistic) virtues of a knight with the thelemic/gnostic tradition with a strong emphasis on a code of conduct, charitable work.

Progress Update

Carsten — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:57:36 +0100

93 Folks, the server is configured. I have an idea on how to implement the url database and now it's just about digging through my bookmarks and putting the links onto the side one by one. I'll probably work on the layout and content for a few more weeks before I open it up to the public, but you can already spread the message that 'The 93 Current' will definitely come back soon. Until then I recommend to buy a copy of Richard T Cole's Thelema Revisited. I myself missed to order the hardcover in time, but the softback is very good as well and while stock lasts you also get guided tour on CD-ROM. 93 93/93 Carsten

Further Updates / Changes

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:18:43 +0100

Just a quick note that I move forward with adding new categories and links. As I go along I may have to update entries a few times, move things around a bit and I'm still not fully happy with the layout of the site. Long story short, apologies if the current work messes up the RSS feed a bit and that there still is not alot of content on this site with less than 50 links to mostly sites every knows anyway. Please bear with me for now. Once I have added a decent numbers of sites and feeds, I will announce the official relaunch of the site. Cheers, Carsten

Technicians of the Sacred

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:44:19 +0100

Direct URL: Technicians of the Sacred

Official website for Michael Bertiaux / Courtney Willis, La Couleuvre Noire, Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua, Monastery of the Seven Rays, Technicians of the Sacred. Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua is a gnostic-magical order founded in 1921 in Haiti by Lucien-Francois Jean-Maine in the tradition of gnostic voudon, a synthesis of western hermetic tradition with Haitian magic. The Monastery of the Seven Rays works within the OTOA and both are linked to the Ecclesia Gnostica Spiritualis. La Couleuvre Noire (founded in 1922) is an independent, but linked order dedicated to the practice of advanced techniques of gnostic voudon.

The head or so-called Hierophant of the O.T.O.A. & L.C.N. is Tau Ogdoade-Orfeo IV - Michael Bertiaux, patriarch of the Ecclesia Gnostica Spiritualis. Today O.T.O.A. and L.C.N. work under the care of Sovereign Grand Master Absolute (SGMA) Courtney Willis and Sovereign Grand Master (SGM) David Beth.

The Stélé is still ok ;-)

Carsten — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:37:20 +0100

Just wanted to share a picture with you that I took last Saturday, 28th Feb 2009 e.v. in Cairo. As you can see, the stélé (Translation) is still in great condition. For the few of you, who may not know it yet, it is located in room 22 of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. That particular room has funerary objects from the valley of the kings, including a good dozen or so different stelae of which the Stélé of Revealing really stands out in terms of beauty, size and condition of the colours. "Get the stélé of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple - and that temple is already aright disposed - & it shall be your Kiblah for ever." - AL, III:10

A.'.A.'. - OuterCol - Outer College

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:15:40 +0100

Direct URL: A.'.A.'. - OuterCol - Outer College

This is the A.'A.'. accepted by and "linked" with the OTO in the sense of membership overlap and contact information publication. In the past this was often stated to be a lineage through Soror Grimaud (Helen Parsons Smith), though I technically it is actually ironically a Motta via J. Daniel Gunther lineage. Clarification would be welcome.

Student Reading List, link to the Equinox, The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Tannhäuser, Time, Sword of Song, Eleusis), Shiva Sanhita, Hatha Yoga, The Spiritual Guide of Miguel de Molinos (offsite) , Student Task and Oath

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Archive

Carsten — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:47:17 +0100

Direct URL: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Archive

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas has the huge collection of original Crowley manuscripts, letters, and related documents in the world that is open to research.

Journal of Thelemic Studies

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:44:40 +0100

Direct URL: Journal of Thelemic Studies

According to IAO131 the "first academic, non-partisan journal dedicated to Thelema, the psycho-spiritual religious tradition of Aleister Crowley". At the time of this entry there have been three editions so far, but already an impressive list of authors and the website also hosts a small forum and a news sections as well as the Thelema Talk, basically virtual interviews with some Thelemites that got some attention on YouTube.

The Magickal Review

Carsten — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:47:41 +0200

Direct URL: The Magickal Review - Enochian Materials

Very nicely produced website with a good selection of quality Enochian texts and scans from the original manuscripts and other writings. You can also download the font there.

Typhonian OTO

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:45:33 +0100

Direct URL: Typhonian OTO

"Typhonian" Ordo Templi Orientis - this is not an official TOTO site, but a subsite of P.R. Koenig's OTO Phenomenon site (see my comment on the OTO subsite). Nevertheless it contains various texts by TOTO (Michael Staley, Simon Hinton & others). TOTO was founded, re-activated or however you prefer to put it by Kenneth Grant, who claimed since 1962 e.v. to be OHO (Outer Head of Order) of OTO, but was expelled by Karl Germer, Crowley's successor, in 1955 e.v. On this site you will also find a disputed document, said to be written by Crowley, making Kenneth Grant OHO of OTO along with Michael Staley's official response to this document and some of their account of OTO history, e.g. the point that Germer might have claimed to have expelled Grant, but by his own refusal to accept the OHO position, had no authority to do so. This is however surprising as Grant seems to have accepted and referred to Germer's authority before.

Regardless of this and the court decision in the UK Trademark Case it is an undisputed fact that Grant and the others transformed this order into something very different from the Crowley OTO with their higher focus on the Typhonian tradition, extra terrestial intelligence, LAM, Horus/Maat Double Current and darker aspects of the occult existence. Far less focus on group rituals or ceremonial initiations replaced by some small set of grade work and effectively self initiation that together with Grant's books surely is of interest to some.

Getting started ...

Carsten — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:19:40 +0100

Ok, the days are getting shorter and it's getting cold outside, so no more excuse for not finally moving ahead with the revival of this website. I'm still sorting out some technical details, but already started to add the first links to the collection. With my professional life being insanely busy, it will surely take me another few weeks, before you will find a reasonable number of links, so I would recommend to come back early january, but feel free to already have a look around. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

An Enochian Miscellany

Carsten — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:51:36 +0100

Direct URL: An Enochian Miscellany

Nice collection of writings from people line Ben Rowe, David Jones, incl selections from the Thelema Lodge Calendar from the late 1980s. Thelema Lodge, OTO had a group called "The Center for Enochian Studies" led by David Jones. Hosted on the excellent hermetic.com archive.

AA Thelema

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:26:33 +0100

Direct URL: AA Thelema

Another A.'.A.'. lineage via Motta and then Ray Eales. The site contains some of the basic documents such as 'One Star in Sight' and the documents from the syllabus.

Colin Low's Hermetic Kabbalah Page

Carsten — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:35:57 +0100

Direct URL: Colin Low's Hermetic Kabbalah Page

Colin's page, started in the early/mid 90's, is still one the leading resources on Hermetic Kabbalah with many, many texts from prolific writers such as Bill Heidrick, Don Karr, Jeff Spiegel and others as well as last but certainly not least his own writings. To highlight just a few gems from the content, it hosts an excellent FAQ from the usenet days, an excellent collection of links, his Notes on Kabbalah document and so much more that it's impossible to list everything here. Despite the name it alsao covers basic information on the more traditional jewish Kabbalah.

Warburg Institute Archive

Carsten — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:49:14 +0100

Direct URL: Warburg Institute Archive

The Warburg Institute owns a huge Aleister Crowley collection, many or actually most of the items originally collected by Gerald Yorke. The links takes you directly to the search results.

Aleister Crowley and Freemasonry

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:22:00 +0100

Direct URL: Aleister Crowley and Freemasonry

Interesting article at the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon website about Aleister Crowley's contacts with Freemasonry. New to me was that this seems to admit Crowley was initiated into Craft Freemasonry in Anglo-Saxon Lodge No. 343, recognized, as of 1964, under the jurisdiction of the Grande Loge Nationale Française in Paris as No. 103, which was not recognised by the United Grand Lodge of England as a regular masonic body at the time.

The article also contains some information on Crowley 33° in AASR as well as probably better known contact to John Yarker, who bestowed on Crowley, by post, the degrees of 33°, 90° and 95°; respectively, the Ancient and Accepted, Memphis and Mizraim. the articles closes with the known comment that the UK Grand Lodge does NOT accept Crowley as ever been a member of the Craft.

The site also hosts another short biography put together by Martin P. Starr, the latter connection probably explains the sympathetic attitude towards Crowley.

Amado Crowley

Carsten — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:21:53 +0100

Direct URL: Amado Crowley

Claims to be illegitimate son of Aleister Crowley and even more suprisingly to have been trained by his father. The site contains a free download of his Liber Alba, effectively an FAQ.