Astrum Argenteum
@argenteumastrum.bsky.social
Just another temporal pylon for a sempiternal impulse.
Bluesky's first A∴A∴ account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E2%88%B4A%E2%88%B4
DM for Probation queries.
Bluesky's first A∴A∴ account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E2%88%B4A%E2%88%B4
DM for Probation queries.
Pinned
I try not to promulgate in any overt manner, but just to be clear we are taking Students and/or Probationers, should you find yourself interested in the material of Thelema in general, or what we post about here in particular. DMs are always open.
Lemme look at the commentary which isn't precisely reliable given what I have in typescript but sometimes context helps clarify why certain reads perpetuate.
I did have to reconcile one discrepancies between several available version (I:1, is it "awaking" or "awakening"? The former is correct, but you'll find the later popping in a lot places it shouldn't--www.astrumargenteum.org's pdf of L 65 gets it wrong.)
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Lemme look at the commentary which isn't precisely reliable given what I have in typescript but sometimes context helps clarify why certain reads perpetuate.
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For this month's episode of Magus we're chatting about the magical life of a genuine icon of esoterica and the occult, Doctor John Dee! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
For this month's episode of Magus we're chatting about the magical life of a genuine icon of esoterica and the occult, Doctor John Dee! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
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Monumental: This is the first biography of Allan Bennett, one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism (and Thelema) in the UK.
#occultsky #thelema
#occultsky #thelema
The Life of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya
Amazon.com: The Life of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: 9781781797983: Crow, John L., Harris, Elizabeth J.: Books
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Monumental: This is the first biography of Allan Bennett, one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism (and Thelema) in the UK.
#occultsky #thelema
#occultsky #thelema
Monumental: This is the first biography of Allan Bennett, one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism (and Thelema) in the UK.
#occultsky #thelema
#occultsky #thelema
The Life of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya
Amazon.com: The Life of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: 9781781797983: Crow, John L., Harris, Elizabeth J.: Books
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Monumental: This is the first biography of Allan Bennett, one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism (and Thelema) in the UK.
#occultsky #thelema
#occultsky #thelema
Just saw a collector (derogatory) on another site mention they have a very rare edition from 30 years back still in its shipping box. When asked by another party if it was available, they said it wasn’t for sale.
Uh, quick question. If it’s not for sale, why in the fuck is it unopened??
Uh, quick question. If it’s not for sale, why in the fuck is it unopened??
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just saw a collector (derogatory) on another site mention they have a very rare edition from 30 years back still in its shipping box. When asked by another party if it was available, they said it wasn’t for sale.
Uh, quick question. If it’s not for sale, why in the fuck is it unopened??
Uh, quick question. If it’s not for sale, why in the fuck is it unopened??
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I'm now seeing a line in Plotinus where — having said that the mode and place of the gods is filled with beauty — he then writes (referring to the One as the Good):
"That which is beyond this we call the nature of the Good, which holds beauty as a screen before it." (1.6.9)
"That which is beyond this we call the nature of the Good, which holds beauty as a screen before it." (1.6.9)
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm now seeing a line in Plotinus where — having said that the mode and place of the gods is filled with beauty — he then writes (referring to the One as the Good):
"That which is beyond this we call the nature of the Good, which holds beauty as a screen before it." (1.6.9)
"That which is beyond this we call the nature of the Good, which holds beauty as a screen before it." (1.6.9)
Peak pandemic facilitated the completion of a lot of Tantra translation & commentary which means this one flew under my radar. Gonna have to give it a spin.
www.psupress.org/books/titles...
www.psupress.org/books/titles...
Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy By Marla Segol
In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story ...
www.psupress.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Peak pandemic facilitated the completion of a lot of Tantra translation & commentary which means this one flew under my radar. Gonna have to give it a spin.
www.psupress.org/books/titles...
www.psupress.org/books/titles...
I read Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson when I was like 14 and I’ve been living the world presented there ever since.
Quite unintentionally, I might add.
Quite unintentionally, I might add.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I read Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson when I was like 14 and I’ve been living the world presented there ever since.
Quite unintentionally, I might add.
Quite unintentionally, I might add.
The Yijing and Philosophy from Leibniz to Derrida by Eric S Nelson in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2011:
philarchive.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Yijing and Philosophy from Leibniz to Derrida by Eric S Nelson in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2011:
Just @ me next time.
i need to stop buying books so i can buy a house to put the books
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just @ me next time.
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I want to talk about this because others noted weirdness and I just got word of more info from those closer to the center of the drama. Truth matters and here is no exception.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I want to talk about this because others noted weirdness and I just got word of more info from those closer to the center of the drama. Truth matters and here is no exception.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
I want to talk about this because others noted weirdness and I just got word of more info from those closer to the center of the drama. Truth matters and here is no exception.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I want to talk about this because others noted weirdness and I just got word of more info from those closer to the center of the drama. Truth matters and here is no exception.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
This is a hoax/hitpiece run by a dipshit named Harris who is very well known in the community for his antics.
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Love this @warburginstitute.bsky.social !
The Warburg makes its late night debut
‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ took an unexpected turn with Florence Welch’s recent shout-out to Aby Warburg’s unique book classification system
apollo-magazine.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Love this @warburginstitute.bsky.social !
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Whole bunch of weird shit just got a physiological pathway...
techxplore.com/news/2025-11...
techxplore.com/news/2025-11...
Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sen...
techxplore.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Whole bunch of weird shit just got a physiological pathway...
techxplore.com/news/2025-11...
techxplore.com/news/2025-11...
I challenge everyone doing this shit to show me one (1) searchable/cite-able example of the man or anyone in his immediate circle having familiarity with literally any esoteric concept in the whole of the “western” tradition.
They just won't stop.
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I challenge everyone doing this shit to show me one (1) searchable/cite-able example of the man or anyone in his immediate circle having familiarity with literally any esoteric concept in the whole of the “western” tradition.
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You have my assurance that I’ll never do something as debased as ask for cash in exchange for instruction.
I ask for something far more insidious and transgressive: That you fucking read and implement the goddamn reading.
I ask for something far more insidious and transgressive: That you fucking read and implement the goddamn reading.
Pay-for-A∴A∴ courses by ThelemaBros are the Spotify of magical orders. Send skeet.
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
You have my assurance that I’ll never do something as debased as ask for cash in exchange for instruction.
I ask for something far more insidious and transgressive: That you fucking read and implement the goddamn reading.
I ask for something far more insidious and transgressive: That you fucking read and implement the goddamn reading.
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I love the way outsiders talk about sex magick in Thelema like it's a bad thing. Jack Parsons yanked it on a bunch of talismans? Hell yeah he did. We believe the conscious mind is blotted out in the moment of orgasm? Sounds like you've never had one.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I love the way outsiders talk about sex magick in Thelema like it's a bad thing. Jack Parsons yanked it on a bunch of talismans? Hell yeah he did. We believe the conscious mind is blotted out in the moment of orgasm? Sounds like you've never had one.
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From making witch-bottles to sitting in historic ruins listening to spooky stories, 9th November is a date for your diary if you're in Herts - @herts.ac.uk & @beinghumanfest.bsky.social have teamed up to create a full programme of fun #Folklore family events. Come and join us!
October 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
From making witch-bottles to sitting in historic ruins listening to spooky stories, 9th November is a date for your diary if you're in Herts - @herts.ac.uk & @beinghumanfest.bsky.social have teamed up to create a full programme of fun #Folklore family events. Come and join us!
The axle of the wheel AND the cube in the circle? In this economy?
The obeah AND the wanga? In this economy?
"Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach." -Liber Al I:37
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The axle of the wheel AND the cube in the circle? In this economy?
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Over the decades I've seen a lot of commentary on the links between Thelema and Tantra, even if asynchronous, of varying degrees of quality. To do something worthwhile is going to take open discussion of the upper degree OTO grade papers and the ability to cite the Tantras chapter & verse.
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Over the decades I've seen a lot of commentary on the links between Thelema and Tantra, even if asynchronous, of varying degrees of quality. To do something worthwhile is going to take open discussion of the upper degree OTO grade papers and the ability to cite the Tantras chapter & verse.