Friday, November 24, 2006

Quote for the day

The Greek word for truth, aletheia, incorporates the word for "forgetting"; a-letheia might be translated as "unforgetting" or "remembering". This etymology is particularly significant in Plato's epistemology, which maintains that true knowledge can be achieved only through anamnesis, the soul's recollection of the Forms it has glimpsed during its circuit through heaven in metempsychosis. For Plato, knowledge of mere phenomena cannot attain the truth, as only the ideal Forms are truly real.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Ian Read interview, pt. II

This time the subject with the rune master of the Rune-Gild is about Runes & Divination. You can download the interview from here.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Jagshemash!

Seldom a trickster charachter so good as Borat surfaces in the general public nowadays. Usually such characters stay totally underground or local or national (Finns could think of Velipuolikuu here). I think that Borat is the best thing in the history of mainstream western comedy right after Monty Python and South Park. Borat is not only hilariously antinomian for most of the public, but he is also challengingly multi-dimensional for viewers with an eye on sociology, psychology, politics, and lesser black magic.
If you are not yet familiar with Borat, I think you should start seeing him in action on dating or etiquette. Or maybe you would prefer to sing karaoke to his national anthem. Or maybe for the starters you really should just go and see the movie.

Chenquieh!

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

No longer in eyes of Aletheia, pt. II

For those of you who have been asking from me to hear the song I have mentioned a number of times in my blog - here it is: Cantata Sangui has their song No longer in eyes of Aletheia freely available on their MySpace page. Enjoy.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Underground Tunnels at Google Video

I was noticed that Underground Tunnels-video (part of my Terra Hyperborea-CD) can be found from Google Video in addition to YouTube. If you are not yet familiar with the CD, you can find some samples from it (and a great Underground Tunnels-remix by Asmodeus X) from MySpace.

Monday, November 13, 2006

Previous Aletheia posts

I've created a category of Aletheia related posts right above the regular Blogger category of "previous posts" on this page. From there you can find the most clearly Aletheia related entries of this blog in a chronological order.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Writing and proofreading

I've spent lots of time in front a computer screen lately. If my last entry was about a man who wrote a classic work on the "wickedest man in the world", it seems that I have got a bit similar writing task into my hands too. More of that later, still during this year. I've been also doing some academic writing on the subject of the category of "heart" in Finnish language in general and in Finnish religious language in particular. More of that later, too.

Besides of writing my own texts it has been nice to proofread other's texts. I've been proofreading part of the coming Finnish translation of the Satanic Bible. I need to say that Paula Merensuo from Voimasana publishing has done a good job. It has been an honor to read the text in its current translated form. It has also offered a splendid possibility for a timetravel to those years when I was from 15 to 17 years old. I raise a mug of black coffee for that!

I've also done proofreading for Finnish culture magazine Virta. Among other things this distinguished magazine will feature in its next issue also my interview. Subjects touched upon in it deal with the nature of the paths, good and evil, magic, will, tradion and a cultural context in one's Work, religious experience, Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way, and so forth. The main theme of the interview can be summed into a concept of "essence". I also speak indirectly and directly about Aletheia throughout the interview. I think this is going to be one of the best interviews done with me and directed for the general public thus far. It is highly recommended reading for anyone interested.

Lastly, when it comes to Aletheia, the extra appendix included in the hardcover 3rd Finnish edition of my first book deals directly with that concept. The document is something that has been of profound influence in my pursuit of Aletheia - that is, Remembering the Self.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

In memory of John Symonds

John Symonds,

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Vasemman Käden Polku 3rd edition available

The third edition of Vasemman Käden Polku (The Left Hand Path) is now available from Voimasana. The edition is hardcover and includes extra foreword and an extra appendix.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Shopping

Sometimes I really enjoy consuming. Yesterday was one of those days. I bought the new Laibach CD. I also bought a human skull from the 17th century. It had been for about 300 hundred years under the floor of the Turku Cathedral before seeing the light of the day on 3rd of August, 1923 CE. Truly, shopping can be great.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Magic

There is only one kind of magic and it is 'doing'.
- G.I. Gurdjieff