Hermetic Library Newsletter - Issue #44 (♪ Baphomet ♬ was his name-o ♫)
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This week I've got Thanksgiving, TINAHLAA-3, Donner's black Friday carnival party, transgender, fire
Hermetic Library Newsletter - Issue #44 (♪ Baphomet ♬ was his name-o ♫)
By John Bell the Librarian • Issue #94 • View online
This week I’ve got Thanksgiving, TINAHLAA-3, Donner’s black Friday carnival party, transgender, fire safety, old time religion at the French farm house, mandrake root, loose teeth, Otto Gross, reminders, updates, quotes, reviews, mail call, and more!
And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!
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Donner's black Friday carnival party
Um, so, according to an ad in my timeline, it’s a black Friday farewell to meat party over at the Donner’s. Welp. I think I know how this ends. Imma suggest you not go, especially if it snows. Unless you’re into that sort of thing, in which case, please never come to my house.
I’d say something more pithy about this, but I fear I’d just embarrass myself by putting a foot in my mouth.
This might be a bite of obscure history for some, but that just means I’ll have extra for Döner kebabs later when they thaw out, and they won’t even know what hit them on The Arm’s Gone Trail.
I don’t know if definitely-queer old Uncle Al ever would have identified as transgender, but he did wear a kilt, so he at least crossdressed. Also, you know, ♪ Baphomet ♬ was his name-o ♫
Baphomet & Baphomet
Moreover, are you a Thelemite? Then, remember, you’re in a system in which everyone is eventually transgender …
The best solution is to anoint your mullein with vodka and add more herbs and burn your entire house down as an offering to Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Reject fire safety, embrace arson. https://t.co/REjUpWErb3
In a bid to solve France’s dire shortage of farmers, an unorthodox new agricultural business is looking to attract a diverse group of tech-savvy young people to carry farming into the future.
The Viennese magician Joseffy created a talking skull. It was made of copper and had real human teeth. It would be placed on a table where its jaw could move and answer questions by clicking its teeth. The skull could also turn its ‘head’. #WyrdWednesdayhttps://t.co/Ity3QYMbHW
Special props if you can guess who this is. Hint: he started an erotic Nietzschean liberation & quasi religious movement using psychoanalytic methods. https://t.co/ehFXsoFs4V
So, I’m not sure if I’d heard about this person before, but they seem contemporary and relevant to a lot of the stuff at Hermetic Library, and, hey, turns out they may also be problematic, which is kinda par for the course.
Vincent Cassel’s portrayal of Dr. Otto Gross in the film, The Dangerous Method, is very powerful. However, it doesn’t say much about the real Otto Gross - who, despite his many flaws, managed to combine interests in Stirner, Nietzsche, Freud, Kropotkin, ‘sexual revolution’, feminism and the German Communist Party (in its early more left-communist phase). He was also an important influence on Jung, Kafka and Berlin Dada. Here is an interesting article by Gottfried Heuer, and a classic article by Gross himself describing the revolutionary potential of psychoanalysis, years before Reich, Marcuse, Fromm or Laing:
Only I’m not sure that image is actually Otto Gross? I find it to be a crop from an image labelled some places as Otto Gross but others as D H Lawrence.
But, imma stub Otto Gross in the Hermeneuticon, as one does, for future expansion.
Seeking submissions for Zine #5, the next issue, hopefully releasing for Perihelion in January, 2021. Yikes! That’s not so far away now! I don’t have nearly enough stuff! Help! Send things!
An irregular hodgepodge of links gathered together … Omnium Gatherum for November 22, 2021
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