The Temple of Set II by Michael A Aquino

Author:Michael A Aquino [Aquino, Michael A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497567573
Published: 2016-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

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F20A. The Philadelphia Experiment. New World Pictures/Thorn Video #TVA-2547, 1984. Michael Pare,

Nancy Allen. Executive Producer: John Carpenter. MA: “No one was more surprised than I to see Hollywood pick up

the Philadelphia Experiment as the subject for a science-not-so-fiction movie. Though advertised and represented

as sci-fi, PE reeks with references to the actual (?) event, with the U.S.S. Eldridge correctly named and even a

spoken reference to ‘Project Rainbow’ - the reputed code name for the actual PE. Portrayals of the PE occur only at

the very beginning and very end of the film; in the middle is a purely dramatic-license romance to give the movie

something to take up 2 hours with. [Don’t waste time with Philadelphia Experiment II.]”

F20B. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. 1919. Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt. MA: “The first and most famous of the

interwar German Expressionist films, containing highly-distorted representations of rooms, streets, and buildings.

The effect of these distorted sets upon the viewer is startling, illustrating the degree to which we depend upon our

instincts for normal/Euclidean geometry for our sense of order and mechanism in the cosmos.”

F20C. The Golem. 1920. Paul Wegener. MA: “Hans Poelzig, an Expressionist artist & architect who had

designed Berlin’s Grosses Schauspielhaus for Max Reinhardt in 1919, combined the non-Euclidean angles and

planes from Caligari with his own expertise in lighting to create sets that seemed to writhe and crawl with a life of

their own, so much so that the humans - and even the Golem - seem mere acessories to the more insidious drama of

the houses and streets of the Prague ghetto.”

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Category 21: The Future

Die Zukunft

as of February 26, 2003

An effective magician must be able to move within and influence the fourth dimension as well as

the first three. Such skill involves understanding and applying the principles which define and govern

past periods of focus within the time-continuum, together with both passive analysis and active

manipulation of the future. Time-Magic as employed by the Temple of Set may involve either Greater

Black Magic techniques [referred to as Erotic Crystallization Inertia (ECI) techniques by Anton LaVey;

see Runes #II-6] or Lesser Black Magic technology. The following selections include some of the more

sophisticated futurological thinking in conventional society - as well as a few experiments-gone-wrong

from The Outer Limits [“There is nothing wrong with your television set ...”]

21A. The Future by Gerald Leinwand (Ed.). NY: Pocket Books #671-80316-6-195, 1976. (TOS-2) MA: “An

anthology of selected readings concerning the future, selected by the Dean of the School of Education, City

University of New York. Included are articles and extracts by such futurologists as Asimov, Orwell, Huxley, Clarke,

Kahn, Reischauer, Toffler, and Skinner. Most of the contributions discuss developments of the near future which

can be interpolated more or less reliably, but there are some long-range speculative essays as well. A good

introductory work.”

21B. The Last Days by Anthony Hunter. London: Anthony Blond Ltd, 1958. (COS-3) AL: “A fairly scarce work

from England which explains the workings of the prophets of doom who prey upon their followers’ fears that the

world will end, tidal waves, earthquakes, etc.”

21C. Mankind at the Turning-Point by Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel.

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