intent. This book is an introduction fo the development and use of will. The book has an essentially pragmatic ‘new’
psychological basis. The nature of will is discussed, to include desire, decisiveness, and action. The active will (or
volition) is the aim of the book’s exercises, which are useful for concentration and visualization development.
Atkinson’s will description almost goes as far as GBM, and is certainly useful in LBM concepts, in that the
imagination creates patterns or mental molds which the will subsequently causes to manifest. Recognizing and
countering negative marks of the will are also discussed.”
19AB. Luck by Nicholas Rescher. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995. (TOS-1) DW: “This book is an enlargement
of Rescher’s 1989 Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association on the topic of ‘luck’. This is a
very readable 30-year study of the effects, benefits, and perceptions of randomness in human life. A great cross-read
to #6I.”
19AC. The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex by W. Adam Mandelbaum. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000 (ISBN 0-312-20955-X). (TOS-3) MA: “A methodical and thoughtful survey of
psychological and quasi-parapsychological warfare techniques and experiments during the past 5,000 years. The
only weak point of the book is a little too much ‘wishful thinking’ on the subject of ‘remote viewing’, though it can be
argued that Mandelbaum is essentially just reporting on what was a long, expensive, and profoundly stupid snipe-
hunt by the U.S. government. One section of the ‘Cast of Characters’ chapter deals with ‘one of the darker denizens
in the history of the military-occult complex’, Lt. Colonel Michael Aquino. It’s always nice to be appreciated.”
19AD. MindWar by Michael A. Aquino. San Francisco: Barony of Rachane, 2013, 2nd Edition 2016. (TS-4)
MA: “This book introduces, defines, and prescribes the application of ‘MindWar’, a non-killing, non-destructive
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replacement for traditional ‘physical war’ as a means for addressing and constructively resolving international or
supranational stress situations. This is accomplished with extensively-evolved Special Operatios branches of the
U.S. Army, using exoteric versions of principles whose esoteric counterparts the Temple of Set would include under
the heading of Lesser Black Magic. MindWar may be ordered in both printed and Kindle versions from:”
http://www.amazon.com/Michael-A.-Aquino/e/B01GEWRIMU
19AE. MindStar by Michael A. Aquino. San Francisco: Barony of Rachane, 2016. (TS-3) MA: MindStar
explores the mystery of the human soul: what it is, how it can be detected, and how it may be creatively and
productively activated. Included is a historical survey of misapprehensions, misuses, and outright rejections of this
central, crucial metaphysical core of human existence. The soul, or ‘MindStar’ as redefined herein, is the key to
individual conscious immortality. My companion book MindWar details the ‘thought architecture’ which is subject
to natural and artificial manipulation: subconscious/pattern and conscious/algorithmic thinking. MindStar
addresses metaphysical, conceptual thought, which is independent of such influence.”
http://www.amazon.com/Michael-A.-Aquino/e/B01GEWRIMU
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F19A. Forbidden Planet. MGM, 1956. (12-1035). Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Robby.
(LVT-2) MA: “In the middle of the 50s, MGM reared back and produced this first big-budget ‘intellectual’ space
opera, drawing from Freudian theories of the ego & id, salted with a bit of Shakespeare’s Tempest, and peppered
with the most charming robot since Gort. The design of the spaceship and even the casual uniforms of the crew were
all forerunners of the original Star Trek television series. The plot centered around an ancient, highly-civilized race
(the Krel), who had succeeded in expanding their mental powers almost to infinity. They were destroyed, however,
by the id-monsters of their subconscious minds - a process which Walter Pidgeon, as a human scientist, comes all to
close to repeating.” J. Lewis VI°: “Forbidden Planet has deliberate parallels with Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The
island is transformed into a planet, the magician Prospero is a scientist living alone on the planet with his daughter,
and Ariel has taken on a metallic shell as Robby the Robot. The story is entertaining in its own right; those familiar
with The Tempest will find it even more so. For the Setian the greatest lessons in it are those of the power of the
mind. Evolution does not cast away those parts of ourselves we now have under control. It takes the darker parts
along on the journey and accentuates their power should they be loosened. The Initiate heading for eternity should
give Forbidden Planet an evening of his time.”
F19B. Altered States. 1980. (19-1170) William Hurt, Blair Brown, Charles Haid. Director: Ken Russell. MA:
“Adapted from the novel by Paddy Chayefsky, which in turn was loosely modeled on real-life experiments and
experiences recorded by John Lilly in #19N. A wild and weird trip through the ‘final frontiers’ of the mind, by
humans not quite ready to venture there yet. Hurt/Lilly resolves, he proclaims in a crowded bar, to identify and
define the human soul ... ‘and I’m going to find the fucker!’ He eventually does.”
F19C. Doctor Who. (LVT-3) J. Lewis VI°: “The question of man’s abnormal mental evolution is one that has
puzzled him since the time he began to realize his difference. The question is addressed by the Temple of Set in
‘Genesis III’, in the papers of the Priesthood of Set and the Book of Leviathan. It has also appeared in science-
fiction. Doctor Who has shown three such ventures into the question:”
F19C1. The Dæmons. “Jon Pertwee’s Doctor entered into The Dæmons to give viewers an action-filled show
with a little something for everyone. An ancient barrow, the Devil’s Hump, found near the quaint village of Devil’s
End, is being opened by an archæologist. [The gossip center of the village is the pub known as the ‘Cloven Hoof’,
appropriately enough.] This Doctor Who story had witchcraft, hypnosis, a Satanic cult headed by Mr. Magister [the
Master masquerading as the new rector], the gadgetry of which Pertwee is so fond to this day, and a gigantic
creature with cloven hooves, horns, fangs, and the whole nine yards. This dæmon, Azal, stayed behind in 100,000
BCE as a representative of his race, awaiting the day man would become sufficiently advanced to awaken him and
allow the dæmon to judge whether mankind had responded to the subtle nudges given him by the dæmons and
therefore was fit to rule his planet with the dæmons’ scientific knowledge; or whether the race should be wiped out
as a failure. The strategy of the two Time Lords is fascinating to watch. After all, for what purpose did Set instill the
Black Flame in man? I doubt he would close his experiment by dropping the entire human race in the rubbish bin as
Azal decides to do. No need to; mankind is quite capable of wiping itself and its planet out of existence without the
aid of aliens. The Dæmons was released in black and white and is still visually stunning. The rumor among Doctor
Who enthusiasts is that there is a color version of the show out there somewhere, last known to be at some
undisclosed location in Canada.”
F19C2. Image of the Fendahl. “‘Like one who on a lonely road doth walk in fear and dread, and having turned
once, turns no more his
head because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread.’ That charming little
piece of poetry by Coleridge formed the beginning of the Fendahl script, a science-fiction/horror story commencing
with the murder of a hiker by an unknown monster in a dark wood and proceeding to a study being done on an
ancient human skull unearthed in Kenya in 1984 CE, an inverse pentagram making up a congenital anomaly in its
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makeup. The secrets of the skull unfold as the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela discover it to be a link with the
Fendahl, an æons-old force which lives through absorbing life and is therefore the personification of death. The
suggestion in the story is that the Fendahl bred a certain genius in man to enable him to eventually grow so
sophisticated as to open the gates for the force. This is another of the shows complete with it all: witchcraft, one of
the explanations of ESP, an evil cult at work in the midst of it all, and the Doctor working to save mankind as those
he seeks to help go out of their way in their attempts to kill him. Image of the Fendahl is a story which deviates from
the reasons we suspect man to have the Gift of the Black Flame, but it does explore via fiction the darker
alternatives.”
F19C3. The City of Death. “The explosion of a Jagaroth spaceship on the prehistoric planet Earth of
400,000,000 BCE splinters its pilot, Scaroth, into identical selves who are scattered throughout time. Each self is in
contact with the others, and each strives to push the advancement of mankind up to a point at which, like the other
two parallel shows, the alien can benefit from the upward leaps. In the case of Scaroth, the goal is to finally bring
about men of intelligence sufficient to create a time machine which will allow him to return to the original disaster
and halt it. The Doctor (Tom Baker) stops the Jagaroth pilot, but only just in the nick of time; had he succeeded in
reversing his original mistake, man would never have evolved from the primeval soup affected by the radiation
released on the ship’s explosion. In The City of Death, Image of the Fendahl, and The Dæmons, there was a
common theme: An outside intelligence altered the genetic makeup of that which would become man, and for a
definite reason. Only Azal is clinical about the task and so comes closest to Set’s own plans. The obligatory threat to
mankind would have left viewers with an uneasy feeling of incompleteness in its absence.”
F19D. Meetings with Remarkable Men. British, 1979. (53-7173) Peter Brook, Director. Terence Stamp, Athol
Fugard, Dragan Macksimovic. DW: “Based on Gurdjieff’s memoirs of the same name (NY: E.P. Dutton, 1969), this
deals with G.’s trek through Asia and Africa in search of Truth. It reveals many things and is worth repeated
viewings. Of special note is the concept of resonance in the scene of the singing contest, and the old Persian
metaphor of ‘going to Egypt’, which means working through mastery of this world as one’s first test. A good video
for Pylon Movie Night in conjunction with #19B.”
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Category 20: The Four (?) Dimensions
Die vier (?) Dimensionen
as of February 26, 2003
The philosophy of measurement is a fascinating field. How can and should we estimate, assign,
and evaluate boundaries, categories, and phenomena both within and without? “Freedom,” said
Winston Smith in 1984, “is the freedom to say that 2+2=4” ... whereupon the magician O’Brien
convinced him that 2+2=5. The point is that only one who can define measurement is truly free; the
Masons illustrate this by defining “God” as the “great architect” or “Geometer” of the Universe.
20A. The World of Measurements by H. Arthur Klein. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1974. (TOS-3) MA: “A 735-page
‘encyclopaedia of measurements’, so beautifully written that it is as intriguing and entertaining as a good novel. But
there is technical material here too, so expect to do some hard thinking as you read. Major sections on measurement
philosophy, time, mass, light, thermodynamics, radiation, electronics, pressures, densities, waves, fields, and
nuclear disintegrations - to name but a few. As Mr. Spock would say: ‘Fascinating!’”
20B. The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972. (TOS-3) MA: “This
magnificent little book covers almost every possible aspect of time - relative, absolute, linear, circular, and
otherwise. Again it is highly readable; one need not have a Ph.D. in Physics to understand its arguments and
explanations. 189 pages.”
20C. The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979 [periodically updated; look for
most recent edition]. [Deutschland: Kulturfahrplan, Werner Stein, Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung, München, 1976]
(TOS-3) MA: “This giant book consists of a single, continuous chart [by page] correlating mankind’s achievements
in history/politics, literature/theater, religion, philosophy & learning, visual arts, music, science/technology/
growth, and daily life from 5000 BCE to the present. Superbly comprehensive and an invaluable aid in
understanding the conditions of civilization surrounding key stages in human historical development. [For a
fascinating tour of some key interrelationships in human progress, you might enjoy James Burke’s Connections
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978), the book version of the BBC television series of the same name. The title refers
to the often obscure and intricate processes by which some important modern technology began several centuries
ago as a number of scattered, seemingly unimportant discoveries.]” Roland Winkhart IV°: “Grun scheint ‘nur’ der
Herausgeber der USA-Ausgabe zu sein (Anm.)”
20D. Man and Time by J.B. Priestley. NY: Crescent Books, 1964. (COS-3) AL: “A beautifully done book which
explains many sound theories of space and time. Very usable information.”
20E. Body Time by Gay Gaer Luce. NY: Bantam Books #553-07455-150, 1971. [Deutschland: Körperrythmen,
Hoffman & Campe, Hamburg, 1973 (WU: o. Signatur, nur im Lesesaal)] (TOS-3) MA: “A most thorough and
readable book explaining the time-cycles of various features and functions of the human body. Virtually
indispensable for advanced operations of Lesser and Greater Black Magic, whose effectiveness often hinges on the
physical state of being of both the magician and the subject. Included is an exhaustive bibliography on each major
topic treated.”
20F. Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker. NY: Bantam New Age
Books #0-553-23433-1, 1982. [Deutschland: WU: 32/10-092] (TOS-4) MA: “From the author’s preface: ‘This book
discusses every kind of infinity: potential and actual, mathematical & physical, theological & mundane.’ It does
exactly that. Rucker is a Professor of Mathematics, so can deal with the very heavyweight mathematical concepts
and formulæ involved in this subject. Fortunately for the non-mathemagician, he also has the gift of explaining
[most] things in non-math-jargon. Even so, you’re in for some very heavy thinking if you tackle this book. It starts
out fairly conversationally, but before you know it you’re floundering around in: temporal & spatial infinities,
Pythagoreanism, Cantorism, transfinite numbers (from Omega to Epsilon-Zero & Alephs), infinitesimals & surreal
numbers, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, robot consciousness, set theory, transfinite cardinals, etc. Just to
irritate you, each chapter concludes with a selection of prob
lems and paradoxes illustrating the aspects of infinity
covered therein. For example: ‘If infinitely many planets exist, then every possible planet would have to exist,
including a planet exactly like Earth except with unicorns. Is this necessarily true?’ See what I mean?”
20G. Other Worlds: Space, Superspace, and the Quantum Universe by Paul Davies. NY: Simon & Schuster
#0-671-42232-4, 1980. (TOS-4) MA: “One of the most lucid and [comparatively] non-technical explanations of
quantum mechanics. Davies discusses subatomic & superspace, mind/ matter, the nature of reality, waves &
particles, holes & tunnels in space, Möbius strip phenomena, etc. Davies is Professor of Natural Philosophy at the
University of Adelaide, South Australia. The book makes two assumptions that I personally find questionable: the
‘Big Bang’ and Einstein’s theories of relativity. Nevertheless there is a lot of analysis here that does not hinge on
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these two sacred cows, and in any case it is virtually impossible to find an otherwise-first-rate physics text that
doesn’t bow and scrape before them. [Word has it that scientists of 1522, who knew the Earth is flat, assumed that
Magellan made it all the way around by crawling across the bottom.]”
20H. The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility by William L. Moore & Charles Berlitz. NY: Fawcett
Crest Books, 1980. [Deutschland: Das Philadelphia Experiment, Zsolnay Verlag, A-Wien, 1979] (TOS-3) (TRP-3)
MA: “One day in October 1943, so the story goes, the destroyer U.S.S. Eldridge vanished into a green fog, appeared
for a few seconds at Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared at Philadelphia - the result of an ‘experiment gone
wrong’ in ship-invisibility by the U.S. Navy. The poor old Navy has spent forty years denying that anything like the
so-called ‘Philadelphia Experiment’ ever happened, but unfortunately there is a growing accumulation of evidence
that something took place - perhaps not visual invisibility or dimensional transportation, but something more
along the line of an effort to mask the radar/electronic ‘footprint’ of the vessel through the generation of powerful
magnetic fields. If, as #17F and #19I/J maintain, the human body and mind are seriously affected by
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