Pulling Onions Again
“When the sun hat fits, it’s ugly.
The sun does not shine equally on all yards.
Plants favor sunshine, we thrive in the shade.
Leaves are sunlight, bound by water, shaped by invisible rules.
Ripening grapes in the summer sun - reason enough to plod ahead.
There are many keys to happiness; but, most often, the door is just wide open.
Our choices should maximize, not minimize, the options for choices by others.”
- Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions
Lately, I’ve been reading about Aleister Crowley:
“The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of Rituals of Thelema.” By Lon Milo DuQuette. San Francisco, Weiser Books, 1993, 2003. Notes, bibliography, 261 pages. ISBN: 1578632994.
“Portable Darkness: An Aleister Crowley Reader.” Edited by Scott Michaelson. Solar Books, 2007.
“Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” Book of the Law, I, 18.
“I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life; upon death: peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” Book of the Law, I, 58.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a very influential English poet, occultist, hedonist and Magician.