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The A.’.A.’. is explicitly apolitical and not about getting involved in current affairs and endorsing this or that candidate or political world view. But it has to be said that one’s politics and social attitudes very much reflect one’s spiritual state.

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Dreamed I was explaining to a little girl that the Sola Busca was not for divination but describes the rites of Saturn, and that child immolation is a sacrifice of the future to preserve the past. On awakening I realised that this was conservative spirit taken to its logical conclusion.

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Key to any sort of magickal success is a radical taking of responsibility for one’s own life. That includes the shitty parts and wven the parts which are objectively the fault of others. It requires the absolute refusal to play the victim, even if victimised.

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Over the years, doing my own practice and seeing dozens of others begin the path, find a niche and stay there or else give up entirely, I’ve come to realise that most of us don’t actually want real illumination. What we want is to be confirmed in our prejudices.

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If a person needs to tell you that they’re a powerful magician then most likely they’re not.

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Coming back to playing fiddle after a few years of only mandolin, I realise that the scrapes and squeaks that I used to try to avoid are actually what makes the music, what gives it bite and personality.

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone who thinks LLM’s are sentient should have their own sentience assessed.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Knowledge and Conversation isn’t usually dramatic, in fact I’d distrust dramatic accounts as a rule. Rather, it’s a gradual realignment with the flow of life so that instead of fighting it you flow with it, like a navigator on a river rather than mere flotsam.

Note to A.’.A.’. aspirants. If you go on social media complaining about how awful the Order is and how shit its members must be for not getting back to you instantly despite your obvious greatness, there’s a good chance they’re going to see it.

Just saw a guy at the train station with a big placard, roughly translated as: “war and vaccines are both the fault of rich people”. I’m not sure what to make of it to be honest.

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So who is actually reliable when it comes to Saturnine cults, Pre-Mithraic religion and other murky stuff without taking liberties with facts and going off the conspiracy theory deep end?

I’m not strictly against cultural borrowing where appropriate and respectful of the material. But simply lifting things we like the look of and pasting them into a collage without considering what they actually mean and calling it spirituality shows infidelity to truth.

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I wouldn’t call the Autumn equinox Mabon for the same reason I wouldn’t wear a feather headdress and do a war dance.

Where did the idea that the autumn equinox is called Mabon come from? It’s almost as if the pagan community largely doesn’t study its own mythology.

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the things I find tarot most useful for is putting the obvious into plain imagery and sneaking them past the guardians of the subconscious into the daylight of awareness.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Adeptus Minor (without) grade is the spiritual equivalent of learning to ride a bicycle, in that internal and external forces are balanced so that forward momentum becomes possible.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scientific Illuminism: forget “climbing the mystic mountain to meet your angel”, the path starts with putting aside preconceived ideas about life and about ourselves, and adopting a ‘see what works’ attitude.

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While I’m as attached to my phone as anyone, the number of people driving around blatantly scrolling instragram or whatever around here is reaching stupid levels.

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘The student must make his own qaballah’ isn’t an invitation to do whatever feels good, but an injunction to really discover and become a native speaker of the language of your own soul. This is why divination is studied from 1=10, yet not tested until 3=8 where the student completes his qaballah.

Erica Johnson AKA Erica M Cornelius @erica-johnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Christopher's most recent Substack post may especially help those preparing to do the Pyramidos ritual. That said, I found a lot to ponder in it about my path as a whole. I hope you find inspiration in it. #occult #thelema #magick @lpd217.substack.com

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On Liber DCLXXI vel Pyramidos & Liber TROA

An essay detailing the differences between Pyramidos and ThROA, as well as an investigation into the qabalistic significance of the number 671.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

While I described the Payan as ‘kind’, the Vieville is undoubtedly more humorous and pragmatic. Not so much esoteric and mystical and practical and grounded in action and agency.

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It’s true that nobody can initiate you, and yet others can help clear the way and set the scene for initiation.

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I’m really starting to enjoy the oddities of the Jacques Vieville 1650. Card 16 through 18 in particular are much more action based and less abstract.

I clear sign of a social media based social life in the tendency to view people in extremes; for or against, one of us or one of them, good or evil. The only spirituality that can thrive in these conditions is a sort of techno-Gnosticism.

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Do you believe in the Secret Chiefs? You’d better do, you are one!

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have to say that in some ways LLMs are actually extremely useful. They can spot errors in my code much quicker and don’t passive aggressively gatekeep like stack exchange members.

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I’ve always been fond of Saturn, he’s in conjunction with the sun in my birth chart as part of a grand cross. But exploring saturnine subjects soon opens a floodgate of black cube Annunaki type information that I wasn’t suspecting.

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Having a few weeks away from formal practice now makes me realise just how much of it is performative. Not for others, but for myself, telling myself that I’m “this kind of person”.

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It made me face the reality, I’m not a monk, I don’t have time to sit all day facing a wall, my quiet morning reading and drinking coffee is of more value to me right now than half an hour of zazen.

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I was also part of an online zen community that required members to write ‘sat today’ on any forum post, creating a sense of obligation. This helped turn zazen into just another chore, helping me see I for what it was, just another thing to do to maintain a sense of myself.

Shohaku Okamura said “You don’t have to be a good boy”, and when I think about it there was a good deal of “be a good boy” driving my meditation practice, especially after I’d given up the idea of getting something out of it. I continued because I felt I should, not because I really wanted to.

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About six weeks ago, after more than 25 years of daily morning meditation, I just stopped. I have to say it feels great not to have to sit facing the wall every morning.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One reason the fool is unnumbered in is because in a sense, wherever we think we are in life we’re always fools. This is true both esoterically and exoterically.

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Imagine having money, power and influence that most of us can barely imagine, and the best thing you can think to do with it is start wars and cause destructive. The lack of imagination itself is a crime against humanity.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Apparently it’s hypocritical to use the internet if you are against the massive increase in data centres. As if being against deforestation means you can’t read a newspaper. Some people’s thinking is painfully simplistic.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the dangers of working in bamboo forests in autumn: Giant Joroguma spiders.

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Apparently employment of foreign specialists in Japan has decreased due to AI doing the work, but at the same time we’re getting emails around my company saying don’t you dare use AI to write your papers…..

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The problem with internet based conversations is that they always boils down to ‘I agree, let’s be friends’ or ‘I disagree, I’ll shout at you until you agree or stop replying’. There’s little room for ‘let’s just eat cake and chill out’.

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can somebody explain to me what decolonising the Tarot means?

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Learning about the Sola Busca tarot and half wishing I hadn’t. Sort of the spiritual equivalent of spelunking.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Asceticism is not so much about denying the senses, but about not being taken in by them.

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Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The more I read about the historical and pre-Golden Dawn/Crowley understanding and attributions of the Tarot the more I realise I’ve essentially been indoctrinated into an ahistorical concoction, albeit an internally harmonious one.

Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Another way of looking at it is, that stepping into the abyss is simply stepping out from the self-created image of myself into who I actually am, which is nobody in particular. The ‘terror of the abyss’ is really the terror of giving up one’s props.