Month: April 2013
In On Writing, Stephen King recommends writing your book with a specific people in mind, his Constant Reader. Not to market the book, but to write it for the people you hope will understand and enjoy it..
I wrote this book for me, my wife, and my friend Steve. I also wrote it for you, all the people on tumblr I find fascinating and enlightening. All the people who I would love to meet with, and drink coffee, and talk.
This is for you. I really think you’ll enjoy it. Thank you for the inspiration.
Please reblog if you plan on reading My Babylon.
Two more days!
Wearing a hijab isn’t inherently liberating – but neither is baring one’s breasts. What is liberating is being able to choose either of these things. It’s pretty ludicrous to think that oppression is somehow proportional to how covered or uncovered someone’s body is. Both sides of this argument present a shallow understanding of women’s empowerment, which only drowns out the substantive challenges facing all women – issues that cannot be encapsulated in a debate about a piece of fabric.
Sara Yasin, Is the Hijab Worth Fighting Over?
(via rcabbasi)
2102 : when the choice (to do either) goes away, that’s where we have a problem.
in short, let’s stop yelling and have an actual conversation. and if we could get things to the point where I could wear a knee length skirt in Cairo without wolf-whistles, that’d be great, thanks…
(via portraitofasmile)
Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer. The tradition, influenced by Gnosticism, usually reveres Lucifer not as the Devil, but as a liberator or guiding spirit (often associated with the Greek Prometheus) or even the true god as opposed to Jehovah.
Luciferianism is identified by some people as an auxiliary of Satanism, due to the popular identification of Lucifer with Satan. Some Luciferians accept this identification or consider Lucifer the light bearer aspect of Satan. Others reject it, arguing that Lucifer is a more positive ideal than Satan.
BAPHOMET
Symbol of the satanic goat. BAPHOMET is portrayed as a half-human, half-goat figure, or a goat head. The origin of the name BAPHOMET is unclear. It may be a corruption of Mahomet or Muhammad. The English occult historian Montague Summers suggested it was a combination of the Greek words, baphe and metis, or “absorption of knowledge.” BAPHOMET has also been called the Goat of Mendes, The Black Goat, and the Judas Goat.
In the Middle Ages, BAPHOMET was believed to be an idol, represented by a human skull, a stuffed human head, or a metal or wooden human head with curly black hair. The idol was said to be worshipped by the Order of the Knights Templar as their source of fertility and wealth. The best-known representation of BAPHOMET is a drawing by the 19th-century French magician Eliphas Levi, called “The Baphomet of Mendes.” Levi combined elements of the tarot devil card and the he-goat worshipped in antiquity in Mendes, Egypt, which was said to fornicate with its women followers-as the church claimed the Devil did with witches.
The Church of Satan, founded in 1966 in San Francisco, adopted a rendition of BAPHOMET to symbolize Satanism. The symbol is goat’s head drawn within an inverted pentacle, enclosed in a double circle. In the outer circle, Hebraic figures at each point in the pentagram spell out LEVIATHAN, a huge water serpent demon associated with the Devil.
Ave Babalon
93 I mean, I’ve seen four different interpretations of the IO PAN paean. I’ve seen a few different approaches to giving the NOX signs, too, with the Star Ruby. It’s a favorite argument at the Oasis. 93 93/93
Thank you for your kind words about the podcast. Not the entire ritual, but this version of the IO Pan paean is the one I appreciate the most: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT4-Mal4GA8. I’ve seen the frater in this version do it live, and he really brings Pan to the party in a dramatic and moving way.