dimanche 28 novembre 2021

The Books - Playall (full DVD)

Tango, Zbigniew Rybczynski(1981)

abus de bien


qui redoute d'être abusé-e devrait veiller à ne pas s'abuser soi-même
Ceux qui ne sont pas conscients de marcher dans l’obscurité ne chercheront jamais la lumière (Bruce Lee)
Quand je serai vivant, je veux être méduse! Comme Dieu!
« … parce qu’il y a – nous voici au nœud de la question – une idée directrice que tout le monde partage – sincèrement ou insincèrement -, l’idée que la pauvreté est le plus grand malheur du monde, et que donc, à la culture des classes pauvres doit se substituer la culture des classes dominantes … C’est je crois, l’erreur historique de notre modernité »
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lettres Luthériennes

Olivier GREIF - Sonate de Requiem Op 283 - Pascal AMOYEL et Emmanuelle B...

samedi 27 novembre 2021

The Systematics - What We Did In The Afternoons

R.I.P. Clément Rosset, 1939-2018


 « Je suis au bord d’un bras de mer qui me sépare d’une côte située au large. Survient quelqu’un qui me dit : « D’ici une heure ou deux, une barque viendra vous prendre pour vous transporter là-bas ». J’acquiesce mais me demande pourquoi je dois aller là-bas, où je n’ai rien à faire. Il est vrai que je n’ai rien à faire ici non plus.

Au-delà de l’allusion claire au fleuve des morts et à son nocher Caron, le plus pénible est ici le sentiment, persistant après le réveil, que je ne sais ni ce qu’il y a là-bas, ni ce qu’il y a ici, ni qui m’a parlé, ni qui je suis. Il ne reste qu’à continuer à ne rien faire, comme L’innommable de Beckett. »  

la suite

philosophe ?

The Sound - I Can't Escape Myself (HQ)

Adrian Borland

vendredi 26 novembre 2021

ici ou là

antoine o'body 

Protatome

l'élément hyper-proto-méta-sub-atomique, encore appelé protatome,

se compose de dix tourbillons énergétiques dont trois, les principaux, sont épais et lumineux,

et dont sept sont secondaires.

Besant et Leadbeater mettent cette structure en parallèle avec les sephiroth



26 novembre

« Je ne me considère pas comme un intellectuel, c’est-à-dire comme quelqu’un qui donne son avis sur toutes les choses à longueur de jour et de nuit. J’ai des préférences personnelles en ceci, en cela, mais ce que je pense et ce que j’essaie de faire, tout en m’adressant, pour reprendre un mot de Nietzsche, « à tous et à personne », ne peut que rester souterrain et exercer, si ça doit jamais l’exercer, un pouvoir invisible plutôt que visible. D’ailleurs, pour le dire en une formule, ce n’est pas l’homme qui pense, c’est la pensée qui pense l’homme. Tout enfants, mon frère et moi avions une gouvernante allemande qui nous mettait au lit, et chaque soir, en éteignant la lumière, elle disait : « encore un jour qui ne reviendra jamais. » Ça nous plongeait dans une sorte d’étonnement : comment un jour peut-il ne pas revenir, je devais avoir quatre, cinq ans à l’époque, et j’ai toujours encore cette impression du jour qui ne revient pas, et un pressentiment qu’avec le temps, il y avait problème. Qu’est-ce que c’était hier, qu’est-ce que c’était aujourd’hui ? Qu’est-ce que ça sera demain ? »

Kostas Axelos

" Il n'y a ni bon ni mauvais usage de la liberté d'expression, il n'en existe qu'un usage insuffisant. " L'affirmation de Raoul Vaneigem donne le ton de cet essai qu'il consacre à la liberté la plus fondamentale de l'être humain.

Pouvons-nous sortir de la forteresse « immunologique » de l’humanisme ? Car, à concevoir l’homme comme une exception au sein du règne animal, l’humanisme fabrique « un impératif de transformation fondé sur un déni de la nature » et donc travaille à sa destruction, emportant à terme l’homme lui-même. Neyrat ne se contente pas de critiquer l’humanisme des Modernes – à commencer par celui d’Érasme. Il teste également les discours philosophiques « antihumanistes » de Heidegger, Althusser et Lévi-Strauss ou « post-humanistes » de Sloterdijk, Stiegler ou Serres. Et il pointe dans la plupart des cas un attachement encore « humaniste » à l’idée d’exception, donc de privilège humain, fût-il fondé sur un défaut ou un accident évolutif. C’est ainsi qu’il met en chantier un « anti-humanisme relationnel » qui englobe le lointain ancêtre Toumaï, le cyborg de Blade Runner comme le singe Washoe s’exprimant en langue des signes : si « l’être-labyrinthe à forme humaine » est un être indéterminé, sans origine ni fin, l’erreur est de vouloir abolir cette indétermination en misant sur un progrès autodestructeur. À l’inverse, l’« héroïsme » consisterait à faire place à ce « rien » qui pourtant nous fonde. Une réflexion radicale, donc, et à réserver aux amateurs… de labyrinthe !

Une recension de Philippe Nassif, publié le 22 octobre 2015




 

Velly Joonas ‎- Stopp, Seisku Aeg! (FULL 7", soul, Estonia, USSR, 1980-1...

David Chesworth ‎– The Bits That Move Together

vinyle australien acheté à la vente d'IFP chez Mollet-Vieville en 1984..

Laurent Pernice - Bout Portant

tant mieux si ça craque!

jeudi 25 novembre 2021

Dashiell Hedayat

 

un texte de Xavier Béal
paru dans ATEM 9 - avril 1977






Nick Drake's dead


 

NIKOLA TESLA’S LAST MESSAGE TO HIS MOTHER DJUKA

 A la fin de sa vie, Nikola Tesla était pauvre, très pauvre, il vivait dans une petite chambre d’hôtel de New-York. Devenu végétarien, il consommait uniquement du lait, du pain, du miel et du jus de légumes. Tesla a passé ses derniers jours seul, entouré de pigeons, l'animal qu'il appréciait le plus, en passant des nuits blanches à travailler sur ses problèmes mathématiques.

La dernière photo de Nikola Tesla - 1er janvier 1943


NIKOLA TESLA’S LAST MESSAGE TO HIS MOTHER DJUKA


Wednesday, November 18...

My dear mother, I feel sad and dreary when I think of you. I don't know how, but I feel that you are not well.I wish I could be beside you now mother, to bring you a glass of water. All these years that I had spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humiliation. This morning I woke up early, just before the dawn, because I had heard something that I have been hearing through my dreams for quite some time now. I heard this voice that sang some beautiful chant, lament or even prayer in Moorish. When I came to my senses I realized that this voice came from everywhere and it was impossible to determine whether it was from within. I am afraid of loosing my mind. I cannot confide this to Doctor Lionel because I don't trust him anymore. I heard that he visited Mr. Edison two weeks ago...

Thursday, November 19...

Again my thoughts are of you, Mother, and again I feel that same restlessness and sorrow. I will write to the Patent office to speed up the realization of my public experiment for one week. I have to go back home, to my homeland, to You. I know now for sure that you are not well because once again I have heard that lamenting voice, but this time I was wide awake. I still haven't lost my sense.


Friday, November 20...

I didn't write to the Patent office, one of their agents came and I told him about my intentions in person. He said he was sorry, but the dates could not be changed because all the congressmen have already determined them. I went down to the Waterfalls and told the boys to prepare the turbines and wait for my call tomorrow.

I have decided to provide the mankind with the gift it deserves and to retourn to Europe, to You, Mother. Governments here are the same as the ones back home. I have realized now, at the very end, that the mankind depends on governments and the individual cannot change the world on himself. But that strange voice still bothers me. I know it is connected to You, my experiment, with something transcendental...


Saturday, November 21...

Dear Mother, I leave for Yugoslavia tomorrow. Miss Nora went to the Port and bought me the ticket for Lisbon. From there I will go by train to Zurich, and then straight home. It will take me approximately ten days, no more than two weeks, to get home.

Today I have entered the Congressional office building and at the middle of the congressional session asked for couple of minutes of their time. They weren't very happy about it but they let me. I asked for the telephone to call the laboratory at Niagara falls. The boys over there activated the turbines and the Congress hall was lit up with my power, ten times stronger than the regular one, as I promised it would. I didn't care about their reactions at all. I instantly left the hall, because I didn't do all this for them , but for the mankind. In that very moment, when I was looking at the lightning bulb to shine with ''my'' wireless electricity, I realized that I wasn't the maker of all this.

I felt that someone or something was carrying it from Niagara falls to the Congress hall and that the law I thought I ''invented'' actually always existed. I was just the vessel blessed with inspiration to formulate and explain it to the mankind.


Instead of triumph and happiness, some empty sorrow emerged. I realized that I had missed something big in my life. As If I had left something unrecognized completely. Some formula was within the grasp of my understanding and I have failed or didn't want to clarify it. That has to be connected to that Moorish lament, I am sure of it now...


Sunday, November 22...

This letter will never get to you, Mother. I don't know why I write it to you when you cannot read it...rest in peace Mother and please forgive me for choosing paths that had lead me away from you. I cannot even be there for your funeral. I read the telegram that informed me of your death and despise people who weren't ready to understand two years ago that electricity can be transferred without wires. Now, they have seen it but they won't use it for centuries to come because someone burned my downtown laboratory to the ground, with all of my formulas and writings in it. They suspect of Mr. Edison.

I became so indifferent, I cannot even recognize myself. I would maybe feel sad before but not any more because I am now sure that someone is keeping ''my'' patents under control, that ''my'' discovery isn't ''mine'' at all and finally, that mankind was not ready for it. I know that someone is overseeing everything and has a plan of their own, which is probably why I am indifferent.


My ship for Lisbon leaves at 11 o'clock. The car is waiting outside.

I will lay this letter on your grave, when I arrive at our village's graveyard. I believe in something that I have never believed at. I believe that I am still a part of you, and that my life is not over for good. I now feel sorry for avoiding Turks because they sang similar laments I heard before dawns. I now realize that they knew about this things a lot more than I ever did.

All those years spent in science were in vain. Please mother, pray for me over there if you can, sing the Moorish lament for the lost soul of your poor ignorant son...


IMPORTANT: The authenticity of this letter has never been confirmed...

mercredi 24 novembre 2021

Trans Values Access


Seven Scenes from the Painting 'Exhuming the First American Mastodon' by...

Youth with no name cuts out of the frame with an axe
Those who extol a bone on a scroll turn their backs
Sanction his escape

Attached to his toe, shackles below the surface hold
A neophyte fast who ogles aghast a bone of gold
Emblazoned with his name

Three green umbrellas are shown in all
These denote degrees by which a fall
(a fall from grace) may be measured
As virtual, potential or as actual
The first has been dropped
The second picked up but not untied;
The third has been spread high overhead to hide the sky

Nourished by the two syringes shown
The wheel "Nomenclator" (better known)
To the world as the High Priestess) names (i.e. defines)
Her victims forever

John Masten has hung so long from a rung he now depends
On it as much as from it for such a vantage lends
Itself to one who proudly claims
To be amphibious though actually allergic to
The two predicaments to which his ladder leads

démocratie

« 
Le drapeau va au paysage immonde, et notre patois étouffe le tambour.

« 
Aux centres nous alimenterons la plus cynique prostitution. 
Nous massacrerons les révoltes logiques.

« 
Aux pays poivrés et détrempés ! — au service des plus monstrueuses exploitations industrielles ou militaires.

« 
Au revoir ici, n'importe où. 
Conscrits du bon vouloir, nous aurons la philosophie féroce ; ignorants pour la science, roués pour le confort ; la crevaison pour le monde qui va. 
C'est la vraie marche. 
En avant, route ! »


Arthur Rimbaud

 


il y a 130 ans

mardi 23 novembre 2021

23 novembre

 être conscient, c’est construire du sens

les yeux
de la tête

CarminAtem

 œuvre originale de Pascale Murtin, datant du printemps ou de l'été 1998 (non daté, non signé), représentant Antoine Lengo au moment où il va exposer, en la présence apaisante de François Hiffler, sa plus récente découverte sur l’un des secrets les mieux gardés de l’univers. 

La scène se passe dans un restaurant indien, à proximité de la Ménagerie de Verre, à Paris. 

L’œuvre originale, offerte à AL par l’auteure dans un cadre en plastique transparent (probablement acquis dans un Toutà10francs de banlieue) recelait ce que, sans doute, PM souhaitait de meilleur..

Qu'elle en soit encore une fois ici remerciée.






step across

lionel-naccache-quand-nous-sommes-conscients-nous-n-arretons-pas-de-fictionnaliser



lundi 22 novembre 2021

lourde aube oiseuse

marée mutique 
mélancolie sous-jaillissante
fruit moisi d'états indéfinis
charge des nerfs en déport
adieux infinis à tout ce qui finit
sans cesse

suivre

et poursuivre

oncléo

Armand Robin



 

22 novembre

 Certains préfèrent les deux premiers albums,d'autres ne jurent que par Third,de grands malades préfèrent la période jazz-rock!!!!Mais les vrais snobs préfèrent les démos avec Daevid Allen, avant le premier LP'!!!Ce Jet-Propelled Photograhs est un vrai bonheur!!! Bon les 7 premiers Lp's sont bien aussi hein?!?!


le problème le plus récurent qu'on rencontre en fréquentant les humains, c'est qu'ils sont persuadés, pour la plupart, de savoir distinguer le réel de l'illusion, des chimères… enfin, pour moi, c'est un problème, pas une solution


Un ami est quelqu'un avec qui vous pouvez compter quand il se sent trop faible pour faire quoi que ce soit pour lui-même. 

D.A.F. de Sade (hyper approx…)



Homère composa l'Odyssée; aussitôt accordé un délai infini avec des circonstances et des changements infinis, l'impossible était de ne pas composer, au moins une fois, l'Odyssée. Personne n'est quelqu'un, un seul homme immortel est tous les hommes... Je suis Dieu, je suis héros, je suis philosophe, je suis démon et je suis le monde, ce qui est une manière fatigante de dire que je ne suis pas. 

(L'immortel in L'Aleph, Gallimard)


Et maintenant, pour avoir été pendant longtemps en route, nous autres Argonautes de l’idéal, plus courageusement que de raison, et nonobstant maints naufrages et dommages, jouissant d’une santé meilleure qu’on ne voudrait nous le permettre, d’une santé redoutable, à toute épreuve - maintenant il nous semble qu’à titre de récompense, nous soyons en vue d’une terre inexplorée dont nul encore n’a délimité les frontières, d’un au-delà de toutes les terres, de tous les recoins jusqu’alors connu de l’idéal, d’un monde d’une telle surabondance de choses belles, étranges, problématiques, effrayantes et divines que notre curiosité autant que notre soif de possession s’en trouvent mises hors d’elles-mêmes - oh, tant et si bien que rien désormais ne saurait plus nous rassasier ! Après de pareilles perspectives, avec pareille faim ardente dans la conscience et le savoir, comment pouvoir encore nous contenter de l’homme actuel ? Ce qui est suffisamment grave, mais inévitable, c’est que nous ayons du mal à prêter sérieusement attention à ses buts et à ses espérances les plus dignes, que peut-être nous ne puissions pas même y prêter attention. Un autre idéal marche devant nous, un idéal singulièrement séduisant, plein de risques, auquel nous ne voudrions encourager personne, parce que nous ne voyons personne à qui nous puissions délibérément en conférer le droit : l’idéal d’un esprit qui de façon naïve, c’est-à-dire involontaire et par une sorte d’abondance et de puissance exubérante, s’amuse de tout ce qui jusqu’à présent passait pour sacré, bon, intangible, divin : pour qui les choses suprêmes où le peuple trouve à juste titre ses critères de valeur ne signifieraient autre chose que danger, déchéance, abaissement, ou tout au moins relâche, aveuglement, et parfois oubli de soi-même ; l’idéal d’un bien-être et d’une bienveillance, à la fois surhumain, qui paraîtra assez souvent inhumain, par exemple lorsqu’il se montrera à l’égard de tout le sérieux de la terre qui a prévalu jusqu’alors à l’égard de toute sorte de solennité dans le geste, la parole, le ton, le regard, la morale, comme la parodie la plus concrète et la plus involontaire de ces derniers - idéal à partir duquel, malgré tout, le grand sérieux s’annoncerait peut-être réellement, le point d’interrogation essentiel serait enfin posé, tandis que le destin de l’âme change, que l’aiguille avance sur le cadran, que la tragédie commence...

Friedrich Nietzsche, La grande santé, extrait.



Avertissement :

"Je ne parle qu'à des gens capables de m'entendre."

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade


Lorsqu'on veut changer les mœurs et les manières, il ne faut pas les changer par les lois.

Montesquieu



lundi 25 octobre 2021

lundi 4 octobre 2021

sourire a mort


                  en Français, un problème                                    in English, a solution


conclusion : Hail Dashiell Hedayat !!!

vendredi 1 octobre 2021

lundi 27 septembre 2021

le temps n'est rien

 Baubo indienne : Lajja-Gauri, temple chalukya de Naganath, Karnataka (Inde), vers 650 après JC
Musée Archéologique de Badami

Albrecht Dürer

convoitise : Sts. Genevieve & Apollonia
Lukas Cranach

Pieter Bruegel l'Ancien, Le Triomphe de la Mort



The 23 Phenomenon
By Robert Anton Wilson
May 2007
I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.
Burroughs began collecting odd 23s after this gruesome synchronicity, and after 1965 I also began collecting them. Many of my weird 23s were incorporated into the trilogy Illuminatus! which I wrote in collaboration with Robert J Shea in 1969–1971. I will mention only a few of them here, to give a flavour to those benighted souls who haven’t read Illuminatus! yet:
In conception, Mom and Dad each contribute 23 chromosomes to the fœtus. DNA, the carrier of the genetic information, has bonding irregularities every 23rd Angstrom. Aleister Crowley, in his Cabalistic Dictionary, defines 23 as the number of “life” or “a thread”, hauntingly suggestive of the DNA life-script. On the other hand, 23 has many links with termination: in telegraphers’ code, 23 means “bust” or “break the line”, and Hexagram 23 in I Ching means “breaking apart”. Sidney Carton is the 23rd man guillotined in the old stage productions of A Tale of Two Cities. (A few lexicographers believe this is the origin of the mysterious slang expression “23 Skiddoo!”.)
Some people are clusters of bloody synchronicities in 23. Burroughs discovered that the bootlegger “Dutch Schultz” (real name: Arthur Flegenheimer) had Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll assassinated on 23rd Street in New York when Coll was 23 years old. Schultz himself was assassinated on 23 October. Looking further into the Dutch Schultz case, I found that Charlie Workman, the man convicted of shooting Schultz, served 23 years of a life sentence and was then paroled.
Prof. Hans Seisel of the University of Chicago passed the following along to Arthur Koestler, who published it in The Challenge of Chance. Seisel’s grandparents had a 23 in their address, his mother had 23 both as a street number and apartment number, Seisel himself once had 23 as both his home address and his law office address, etc. While visiting Monte Carlo, Seisel’s mother read a novel, Die Liebe der Jeannie Ney, in which the heroine wins a great deal by betting on 23 at roulette. Mother tried betting on 23 and it came up on the second try.
Adolf Hitler was initiated into the Vril Society (which many consider a front for the Illuminati) in 1923. The Morgan Bank (which is regarded as the financial backer of the Illuminati by the John Birch Society) is at 23 Wall Street in Manhattan. When Illuminatus! was turned into a play, it premiered in Liverpool on 23 November (which is also Harpo Marx’s birthday). Ken Campbell, producer of Illuminatus!, later found, on page 223 of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, a weird dream about Liverpool, which Campbell says describes the street intersection of the theatre where Illuminatus! opened (Jung, of course, was the first psychologist to study weird coincidences of this sort and to name them synchronicities). Campbell also claims that Hitler lived briefly in Liverpool when he was 23 years old, but I haven’t found the reference for that.
Recently, I was invited to join an expedition to the Bermuda Triangle. I declined because of other commitments, but “the crew that never rests” (Sir Walter Scott’s name for the Intelligence – or idiocies – who keep pestering us with this kind of phenomenon) refused to let me off the hook that easily. A few days after the expedition left, I turned on the television and caught an advertisement for the new film, Airport 77. The advertisement began with an actor shouting “Flight 23 is down in the Bermuda Triangle!”
A week later, Charles Berlitz, author of The Bermuda Triangle, claimed he had found a submerged pyramid “twice the size of the pyramids of Cheops” in the waters down there. You will find that monstrous edifice described in Illuminatus!, and it is specifically said to be “twice the size of the pyramid of Cheops” – but Shea and I thought we were writing fiction when we composed that passage in 1971. In 1977, Berlitz claims it is real.
I now have almost as many weird 23s in my files as Fort once had records of rains of fish, and people are always sending me new ones.
Euclid’s Geometry begins with 23 axioms.
As soon as I became seriously intrigued by collecting weird 23s, one of my best friends died – on 23 December.
My two oldest daughters were born on 23 August and 23 February respectively.
According to Omar Garrison’s Tantra: The Yoga of Sex, in addition to the well-known 28-day female sex cycle, there is also a male sex cycle of 23 days.
Burroughs, who tends to look at the dark side of things, sees 23 chiefly as the death number. In this connection, it is interesting that the 23rd Psalm is standard reading at funerals.
Heathcote Williams, editor of The Fanatic, met Burroughs when he (Williams) was 23 years old and living at an address with a 23 in it. When Burroughs told him, gloomily, “23 is the death number”, Williams was impressed; but he was more impressed when he discovered for the first time that the building across the street from his house was a morgue.
Bonnie and Clyde, the most popular bank-robbers of the 1930s, lived out most American underground myths quite consciously, and were shot to death by the Texas Rangers on 23 May, 1934. Their initials, B and C, have the Cabalistic values of 2–3.
W, the 23rd letter of the English alphabet, pops up continually in these matters. The physicist who collaborated with Carl Jung on the theory of synchronicity was Wolfgang Pauli. William Burroughs first called the 23 mystery to my attention. Dutch Schultz’s assassin was Charlie Workman. Adam Weishaupt and / or George Washington, the two (or one) chief source of 18th-century Illuminism, also come to mind. Will Shakespeare was born and died on 23 April.
(I have found some interesting 46s – 46 is 2 x 23 – but mostly regard them as irrelevant. Nonetheless, the 46th Psalm has a most peculiar structure. The 46th word from the beginning is shake and the 46th word from the end, counting back, is spear.)
Through various leads, I have become increasingly interested in Sir Francis Bacon as a possibly ringleader of the 17th-century Illuminati (Some evidence for this can be found in Francis Yates’s excellent The Rosicrucian Enlightenment). Bacon, in accord with custom, was allowed to pick the day for his own elevation to knighthood by Elizabeth I. He picked 23 July.
Dr John Lilly refers to “the crew that never rests” as Cosmic Coincidence Control Center and warns that they pay special attention to those who pay attention to them. I conclude this account with the most mind-boggling 23s to have intersected my own life.
On 23 July 1973, I had the impression that I was being contacted by some sort of advanced intellect from the system of the double star Sirius. I have had odd psychic experiences of that sort for many years, and I always record them carefully, but refuse to take any of them literally, until or unless supporting evidence of an objective nature turns up. This particular experience, however, was especially staggering, both intellectually and emotionally, so I spent the rest of the day at the nearest large library researching Sirius. I found, among other things, that 23 July is very closely associated with that star.
On 23 July, ancient Egyptian priests began a series of rituals to Sirius, continuing until 8 September. Since Sirius is known as the “Dog Star”, being in the constellation Canis Major, the period 23 July – 8 September became known as “the dog days”.
My psychic “Contact” experience continued, off and on, for nearly two years, until October 1974, after which I forcibly terminated it by sheer stubborn willpower (I was getting tired of wondering whether I was specially selected for a Great Mission of interstellar import, or was just going crazy).
After two years of philosophic mulling on the subject (late 1974 – early 1976), I finally decided to tune in one more time to the Sirius–Earth transmissions, and try to produce something objective. On 23 July 1976, using a battery of yogic and shamanic techniques, I opened myself to another blast of Cosmic Wisdom and told the Transmitters that I wanted something objective this time around.
The next week, Time magazine published a full-page review of Robert KG Temple’s The Sirius Mystery, which claims that contact between Earth and Sirius occurred around 4500 BC in the Near East. The 23 July festivals in Egypt were part of Temple’s evidence, but I was more amused and impressed by his middle initials, K.G., since Kallisti Gold is the brand of very expensive marijuana smoked by the hero of Illuminatus!.
The same week as that issue of Time, i.e. still one week after my 23rd experiment, Rolling Stone published a full-page advertisement for a German Rock group called Ramses. One of the group was named Winifred, which is the name of one of the four German Rock musicians in Illuminatus!, and the advertisement included a large pyramid with an eye atop it, the symbol of the Illuminati.
Coincidence? Synchronicity? Higher Intelligence? Higher Idiocy?
Of course, the eye on the pyramid was a favourite symbol of Aleister Crowley, who called himself Epopt of the Illuminati, and subtitled his magazine, The Equinox, “A Review of Scientific Illuminism”. And 2/3 equals .66666666 etc. – Crowley’s magick number repeated endlessly. Readers of this piece might find it amusing to skim through The Magical Revival and Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God, two books by Kenneth Grant, a former student of Crowley’s (and note the initials K.G. again!). You will find numerous references, cloudy and occult, linking Crowley in some unspecified way with Sirius.
The actor who played Padre Pederastia in the National Theatre production of Illuminatus! informed me that he once met Crowley on a train. “Mere coincidence”, if you prefer. But the second night of the National Theatre run, the actors cajoled me into doing a walk-on as an extra in the Black Mass scene. And, dear brothers and sisters, that is how I found myself, stark naked, on the stage of the National Theatre, bawling Crowley’s slogan “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law”, under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen.
As a fortean, I am, of course, an ontological agnostic and I never believe anything literally. But I will never cease to wonder how much of this was programmed by Uncle Aleister before I was ever born, and I’m sure that last bit, my one moment on the stage of the National Theatre, was entirely Crowley’s work.
If you look up Crowley’s Confessions, you’ll find that he began the study of magick in 1898, at the age of 23.

Caroline Dommen:tant qu'on peut bouquiner tranquille...
une société équitable est une société qui donne à chaque individu l'accès à tout.