Re: What are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:24 pm
Soon i will be reading "Ars Diabolica", a book i have waited over a month. It will be my most prized possession.
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I'm interested to hear more of your opinion of the book when you get further on it. It is a unfamiliar tome for me.
Judging by the first volume alone, the book offers interesting perspectives and elucidations on the Secret Doctrine and theosophical ideas in general. Although I am a bit bummed, because due to a massive misprint my copy is missing at least a couple of dozen pages and the only .pdf-file I can find online is of the abridged edition. Interestingly, the issue of missing a good chunk of a book due to a misprint also plagues my copy of Bailey's A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
Maybe we can proceed with SD together and do Secret Teachings as the next Phanes reading circle? I have that one on my list as well. Hahahahaha I realize that Hall is a massive work, and judging by our SD pace may take years to go through, but I think it will be less energetically heavy than SD. What say you?Smaragd wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 7:01 pm
I'm trying to find time to go back to the Secret Doctrine, and after that I think I'll grab the Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. Uncommonly I have a thirst to make more vast, rather than specialized excursion to the world of knowledge. Something has cracked inside me and sees more value in more general points of view than before. It is not necessarily a sole quest for vain trivia to lost oneself in; seeing the bigger picture again may also have many functions that neatly keeps the whole together.
I wholeheartedly recommend archive.org for finding old books. There are ~35 million books in their archives. You can register for free and then borrow the books in virtual format. Here's The Esoteric Tradition, which seems like quite an early print so hopefully it fits your needs to cover those missing pages.Asuradūta wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:32 am Although I am a bit bummed, because due to a massive misprint my copy is missing at least a couple of dozen pages and the only .pdf-file I can find online is of the abridged edition. Interestingly, the issue of missing a good chunk of a book due to a misprint also plagues my copy of Bailey's A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
As I wrote in our PM exchange, I'm 100% with you on the first one. I think I'll have to check the content of Halls book if it makes sense to burden ourselves with such a large tome again and if a reading circle seems fruitful approach to the nature of the book. I'm more on my toes on these kinds of things after taking upon ourselves the weight of SD, which is in general best as a kind of dictionary, although it is recommendable to read through it atleast once or twice. I have often thought and written about occult topics and found it immensely helpful to use the Secret Doctrine Index book to find what Blavatsky said about the topics in SD to mirror the two points of view. Reading circles on dictionary type of books is hell. Secret Teachings of All Ages could be a good book to read on a bus or somewhere with small bites and not stress about it, although I will have to take a closer look before saying anything too definitive.Polyhymnia wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 6:00 pm Maybe we can proceed with SD together and do Secret Teachings as the next Phanes reading circle? I have that one on my list as well. Hahahahaha I realize that Hall is a massive work, and judging by our SD pace may take years to go through, but I think it will be less energetically heavy than SD. What say you?
Sadly it was but the first volume, but I thank you for the resource, brother. But I should have looked closer though, found the .pdf-file of the second volume by doing some very light digging on the website of the Point Loma Theosophical Society.Smaragd wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 12:51 amI wholeheartedly recommend archive.org for finding old books. There are ~35 million books in their archives. You can register for free and then borrow the books in virtual format. Here's The Esoteric Tradition, which seems like quite an early print so hopefully it fits your needs to cover those missing pages.Asuradūta wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:32 am Although I am a bit bummed, because due to a massive misprint my copy is missing at least a couple of dozen pages and the only .pdf-file I can find online is of the abridged edition. Interestingly, the issue of missing a good chunk of a book due to a misprint also plagues my copy of Bailey's A Treatise on Cosmic Fire