A Walk Around Britain

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

To realize freedom, the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement without bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness. Watch, but don’t stop and interpret, “I am free” – then you’re living in a memory of something that has gone. To understand and live now, everything of yesterday must die.

Knock on the table, in the pattern 3, 5, 3.

Say: “Do what thou wilt shall be the Whole of the Law.”
Reply: “What is thy Will?”
“It is my will to eat and drink”
“To what end?”
“That my body may be fortified thereby.”
“To what end?”
“That I may accomplish the Great Work.”
“Love is the Law, Love under Will.”

Knock once more.

“Fall to…”

Per monstra ad astra – the Gods have placed the Monster on the path to the Idea.

Pluuia defit, causa Christiani sunt – It’s raining again, it must be the Christians’ fault.

“Hi, it’s me.

Look, I don’t know how to tell you this best. The fact is, it has started. It is begun.

You won’t hear about it for weeks in the papers, if I know how they work. But it has definitely started. Look around – you’ll see the cracks appearing – just look around, and feel inside yourself too.

Get out now. Get out, with what you need, right now. Tell your loved ones, and take them with you. There is no more time here. It has begun.

From a friend.”

Some of our earliest history is written on papyrus, in ink made of shells and veg oils.

Capitalism is justified by global awareness of unavailable commodities – “get a job, get a pineapple”

Cotton made Martin Luther King an American.

Potatoes made JFK an American.

The doctrine of signs – that each plants bears a mark of the use to which it can be put.

For Male Virility – satyrion root, lupin, carrot, Orchis Mas (Long Purples)

Powdered periwinkles, houseleeks, and a dried powdered earthworm, eaten for love.

Roots of asparagus saturis, boiled in wine.

White dead nettle fried in butter

Words of the Reading #1

Floccinaucinihilipilification – the action or habit of estimating something as worthless

Gynotikolobomassophile – one who likes to nibble a woman’s earlobes

Ultracrepidarianism – the giving of opinions outside of one’s knowledge

Idiogamy – to be sexually potent with some, but impotent with others

Uxoravalence – to be potent with many women, but not one’s wife

Aposiopesis – to leave a statement incomplete, in order to imply a threat (and if you don’t understand…)

Cisvestitism – to only wear clothing of ones own gender.

Exoteric – ordinary/simple/obvious – as opposed to esoteric, meaning hidden/secret/inner

Hamartia – the tragic flaw – that gaping weakness that’s going to kill you.

Tachyphagia –eating very quickly

Tychism – To believe chance/luck to be the sole agent of action in the universe.

Univocalics – poems with one vowel

Pangrams – one sentence with every letter of the alphabet:
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs;
How quickly daft jumping zebras vex

Palindromes – sentences that say the same forwards as backwards:
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
A man, a plan, a canal, panama
Step on no pets

S   A   T   O   R
A   R   E   P   O
T   E   N   E   T
O   P   E   R   A
R   O  T   A   S

trans.: “The creator, to whom I appeal for help ,controls all our endeavors and all the changes of fortune that befall us”

We found this in ‘The Museum of Witchcraft’, Boscastle.

He who meddles with the mane of a wolf
Without a club in his hand,
He must naturally have a brave disposition
Under his cloak.