From Aleister Crowley's Book Four:
The operations of Magick Art are difficult to classify, as they merge into each other, owing to the essential unity of their method and result. We may mention:
1. Operations such as evocation, in which a live spirit is brought from dead matter.
2. Consecrations of talismans in which a live spirit is bound into "dead" matter and vivifies the same.
3. Works of divination, in which a live spirit is made to control operations of the hand or brain of the Magician. Such works are accordingly most dangerous, to be used only be advanced Magicians, and then with great care.
4. Works of fascination, such as operations of invisibility, and transformations of the apparent form of the person or thing concerned. This consists almost altogether in distracting the attention, or disturbing the judgment, of the person whom it is wished to deceive. There are, however, "real" transformations of the Adept himself which are very useful. See The Book of the Dead for methods. The assumption of God-forms can be carried to the point of actual transformation.
5. Works of Love and Hate, which are also performed (as a rule) by a fascination. These works are too easy, and rarely useful. They have a nasty trick of recoiling on the Magician.
6. Works of destruction, which may be done in many different ways. One may fascinate and bend to one's Will a person who has of his own right the power to destroy. One may employ spirits or talismans. The more powerful Magicians of the last few centuries have employed books. [...]
7. Works of creation and dissolution, and the higher invocations.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Love Spell
from William S. Burroughs' The Ticket That Exploded:
The young monk led Bradly to a cubicle-On a stone table was a tape recorder-The monk switched on the recorder and sounds of lovemaking filled the room-The monk took off his robe and stood naked with an erection-He danced around the table caressing a shadowy figure out of the air above the recorder-A tentative shape flickering in and out of focus to the sound track-The figure floated free of the recorder and followed the monk to a pallet on the floor-He went through a pantomime of pleading with the phantom who sat on the bed with legs crossed and arms folded-Finally the phantom nodded reluctant consent and the monk twisted through a parody of lovemaking as the tape speeded up: "Oh darling i love you oh oh deeper oh oh fuck the shit out of me oh darling do it again"-Bradly rolled on the floor, a vibrating air hammer of laughter shaking flesh from the bones-Scalding urine spurted from his penis-The Other Half swirled in the air above him screaming, face contorted in suffocation as he laughed the sex words from throat gristle in bloody crystal blobs-His bones were shaking, vibrated to neon-Waves of laughter through his rectum and prostate and testicles giggling out spurts of semen as he rolled with his knees up to his chin-All the tunes and sound effects of "Love" spit from the recorder permutating sex whine of a sick picture planet: Do you love me?- ...
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Cruising in the Library
Document in progress.
Acker, Kathy, Great Expectations
Baring-Gould, Sabine, The Book of Werewolves
Bersani, Leo, Caravaggio’s Secret
Bordowitz, Gregg, The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous
Bronson, AA, Negative Thoughts
Burroughs, William S., Cities of the Red Night
Burroughs, William S., Exterminator!
Burroughs, William S., The Last Words of Dutch Schulz
Burroughs, William S., The Place of Dead Roads
Burroughs, William S., Port of Saints
Burroughs, William S., Queer
Burroughs, William S., The Western Lands
Burroughs, William S., The Wild Boys
Colum, Padraic, Nordic Gods and Heroes
Cooper, Dennis, Closer
Acker, Kathy, Great Expectations
Baring-Gould, Sabine, The Book of Werewolves
Bersani, Leo, Caravaggio’s Secret
Bordowitz, Gregg, The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous
Bronson, AA, Negative Thoughts
Burroughs, William S., Cities of the Red Night
Burroughs, William S., Exterminator!
Burroughs, William S., The Last Words of Dutch Schulz
Burroughs, William S., The Place of Dead Roads
Burroughs, William S., Port of Saints
Burroughs, William S., Queer
Burroughs, William S., The Western Lands
Burroughs, William S., The Wild Boys
Colum, Padraic, Nordic Gods and Heroes
Cooper, Dennis, Closer
Cooper, Dennis, Frisk
Cooper, Dennis, God Jr.
Cooper, Dennis, Guide
Cooper, Dennis, My Loose Thread
Cooper, Dennis, The Sluts
Cooper, Dennis, My Loose Thread
Cooper, Dennis, The Sluts
Cooper, Dennis, Try
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, The Norse Myths
D’Aulaires, Ingri and Edgar Parin, Book of Greek Myths
D’Aulaires, Ingri and Edgar Parin, Book of Norse Myths
Delany, Samuel R., Dhalgren
Delany, Samuel R., Hogg
Genet, Jean, Querelle
Guerin, Daniel, The Brown Plague
Guibert, Herve, Blindsight
Guibert, Herve, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri, Multitude
Hine, Phil, Condensed Chaos
Home, Stuart, Slow Death
Jaffe, Harold, Jesus Coyote
Klein, Naomi, No Logo
Louv, Jason (Editor), Generation Hex
Metzger, Richard (Editor), Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult
Otten, Charlotte F. (Editor), A Lycanthropy Reader
Pinera, Virgilio, Rene's Flesh
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, The Norse Myths
D’Aulaires, Ingri and Edgar Parin, Book of Greek Myths
D’Aulaires, Ingri and Edgar Parin, Book of Norse Myths
Delany, Samuel R., Dhalgren
Delany, Samuel R., Hogg
Genet, Jean, Querelle
Guerin, Daniel, The Brown Plague
Guibert, Herve, Blindsight
Guibert, Herve, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri, Multitude
Hine, Phil, Condensed Chaos
Home, Stuart, Slow Death
Jaffe, Harold, Jesus Coyote
Klein, Naomi, No Logo
Louv, Jason (Editor), Generation Hex
Metzger, Richard (Editor), Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult
Otten, Charlotte F. (Editor), A Lycanthropy Reader
Pinera, Virgilio, Rene's Flesh
Retort, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Ricco, John Paul, The Logic of the Lure
Spender, Stephen, The Temple
Treleaven, Scott, The Salivation Army Black Book
Wojnarowicz, David, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Ricco, John Paul, The Logic of the Lure
Spender, Stephen, The Temple
Treleaven, Scott, The Salivation Army Black Book
Wojnarowicz, David, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
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