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Other Illuminatus Books [message #117491] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:10 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: @RUTGERS.ARPA,@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA:Lippard.Multi cs@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 12:28:10 EST
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From: "James J. Lippard" 

My copy of "Cosmic Trigger:  The Final Secret of the Illuminati" is
labeled as "S/F", but it is written as a nonfiction book about Robert
Anton Wilson's observations about "space migration, extraterrestrial
visitation, UFO contact, meditation, witchcraft, shamanic revelation,
Immortalists, and hallucinatory drugs".

"Masks of the Illuminati" is more similar to the Illuminatus!  trilogy.
It is about a man named Sir John Babcock who, with the help of an
"unknown physics professor, Albert Einstein" and a "wild and obscure
Irishman, James Joyce" come up against the "ancient, terrible order" of
Aleister Crowley.
Re: Other Illuminatus Books [message #117498 is a reply to message #117491] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 18:45:39 EST
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I strongly recommend Robert Anton Wilson's fiction, such as Illuminatus!,
Masks of the Illuminati, and Schrodinger's Cat.  I strongly
counter-recommend his non-fiction except insofar as it pertains to the
interesting (though unproven) neurological models of Dr. Leary.  Wilson is
incredibly gullible, believing in (for example) Uri Geller's psychic powers
and intervention in Earth history by aliens from Sirius.  He also has an
extremely inflated view of himself: for example, he claims that a few weeks'
depression after his daughter's murder is equivalent to having passed the
supreme ordeal of "crossing the Abyss" in Western Magick.  He is a dabbler,
not an expert, when it comes to Magick, and as such his views on the subject
must be viewed with extreme skepticism.
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.
Re: Other Illuminatus Books [message #117589 is a reply to message #117491] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:22 Go to previous message
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 18:14:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 18:14:28 1985
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In article <261@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:

>	...		Wilson is
>incredibly gullible, believing in (for example) Uri Geller's psychic powers
>and intervention in Earth history by aliens from Sirius.  
	Or else he simply has fooled you with a better "willing suspension
	of disbelief" than you expect.

>	He also has an
>	...		He is a dabbler,
>not an expert, when it comes to Magick, and as such his views on the subject
>must be viewed with extreme skepticism.
	which is more or less the view suggested by Crowley on his own
	stuff.  What the hell, his views make at least as much sense as
	Billy Graham's.

	By the way, my direct path to you has ceased to work, I think.  If
	you can figure a new path (assuming you actually see this), let me
	know.
>-=-
>Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
>ARPA:	Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K	uucp:	seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim
>CompuServe:	74176,1360	audio:	shout "Hey, Tim!"
>
>"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
>but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
>Liber AL, II:9.


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		Opinions stated here are my own and are unrelated.

				Charlie Martin
				(...mcnc!duke!crm)

		"I am not a number, I'm a free variable!"
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