Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
svaha "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
The website for Chorozon is http://choronzon.org/ Their newest stuff is electronic. I like it better then this metal number, but be warned, the music is only for those that appreciate seriously dark psychedelic!
"My religion is not deceiving myself." Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss." The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Equanimity is the ground. Love is the moisture. Compassion is the seed. Bodhicitta is the result.
-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
gregkavarnos wrote:Well, if we are going to get all satanistic then try this one on for size!
I don't know very much about Aleister Crowley, but I don't see a reason to call him a "satanist", unless you also call all buddhist satanists, because they are outside of Church and because they believe in reincarnation, like Aleister Crowley also believed. http://en.wikpedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
svaha "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
Aemilius wrote: I don't know very much about Aleister Crowley, but I don't see a reason to call him a "satanist", unless you also call all buddhist satanists, because they are outside of Church and because they believe in reincarnation, like Aleister Crowley also believed. http://en.wikpedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
Satanism is not just the television horror show variety reaction against the Christian church. Satanism can also be a form of neo-paganism. The image of satan that the Christian church utilises is a corruption of the Ancient Hellenic god Pan.
Here's a litle film by Kenneth Anger starring Jimmy Page and inspired by your friend Crowley.
"My religion is not deceiving myself." Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss." The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
One who sees the Dharma, sees the Buddha śālistamba sūtra
na pudgalo na ca skandhā buddho jñānamanāsravam
sadāśāntiṁ vibhāvitvā gacchāmi śaraṇaṁ hyaham
Neither a person nor the aggregates, the Buddha, is knowledge free from [evil] outflows
Clearly perceiving [him] to be eternally serene, I go for refuge [in him] saddharma-laṅkāvatāra-sūtra
gregkavarnos wrote: inspired by your friend Crowley.
Sorry, we never met, I was born seven years after Crowley died, and I still know very little about him. I had not known (before reading the wikipedia biography) that he was a capable mountain climber. Climbing K2 or Kanchenjunga is certainly demanding, Crowley must have been physically fit, strong and healthy!
svaha "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.