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August 2017

August 10, 2017

All the Prophets Say

All the prophets say we are deluded. We think we understand our selves, our minds,...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

On the Structure of Infinite Intelligence

As far as I know, Thomas Aquinas was to first to begin thinking about this...

July 19, 2017

As If the Earth Were Hollow

As Professors James and Lewis said, each For a different reason, we humans always Get...

July 13, 2017

Announcing: The Road of Excess: Part I, To the Goddess.

The Road of Excess, as the first installment of my autobiography, covers up to 1968....

May 2017

May 30, 2017

A Dissertation on the Problem of Free Will

Suppose the Lady made us that we may love Her. Suppose She already loves us...

May 23, 2017

The Word Creates the Thing It Names

Not ex nihilo, out of nothingness, For nothingness does not exist. The word selects what...

May 19, 2017

Nihil Humanum

[ I should note that this is from 1997, at the worst of my illness.]...

May 18, 2017

Faith

In the holy of holies The boy from the hearth Has already drunk the juice...

May 17, 2017

Baptism

As his right arm supports me, I hold his left arm with both hands. Gently...

May 10, 2017

The Allegory of the Diamond

But this is not about pyramids,hexagons, the hardness of diamonds, it is about understanding the...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

Be just as we face corruption

Toynbee’s paradigm, that the collapse of a civilization begins when the creative minority is replaced...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

Are You Living in a State of Delusion?

George Gurdjieff, among others, pointed out that the vast majority of humans live in a...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

On Metamethodology in Religious Studies: For John Morehead

John, I very much appreciate your calm and well-informed response to my earlier blog entitled...

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Diana, Bathing

Soon after my abrupt and spectacular expulsion from being a Catholic at age 14, I...

July 11, 2016

The Gospels Are Inherently Anti-Semitic. Deal With It.

Mark was a literary genius. He invented the “gospel” as a new literary genre. That...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

A Major Step Toward Justice: Have the courage to tell people their beliefs are immoral

I am here entering the URL for the article. My essay is beneath it.

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Deducing the Nature of the Gods, Part II

Interestingly, the problem of good and evil exhibits the same structure as the problem of...

February 28, 2016

Deducing the Nature of the Gods, Part I

A dialog about whether the Gods are infinite or not sometimes begins with “Gerald Gardner...

February 27, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part IV

Returning to the issue of partitioning DHs from NDHs. A concept similar to Gurdjieff’s Partition...

February 25, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part III

Returning to the question of how the Divine can protect us without damaging our free...

February 23, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part II

The eccentric Russian philosopher George Gurdjieff, thinking about the contentious interface between “science” and “religion,”...

February 22, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part I

The subgenre of philosophy called epistemology is concerned with what we know—or think we know—and...

February 14, 2016

Sam Wagar’s The Uses of Ecstasy is a masterpiece

It is easily one of the ten most important books ever written about the Craft...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

Finally, after 45 years of working on the raw materials, and twenty of thinking of...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

About Fragments as Materials for Art

Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage, which I have now released through the...

November 13, 2015

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

It’s done. After 45 years of working on the materials that went into it, it’s...

September 2015

September 06, 2015

Announcing: The Books of the Sacred Marriage, with an explanation

It has been quite a while since I posted on here. I've been busy writing,...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Please Join the Aidan Kelly Book Club: Help Me Get My Books Written

My previous post on Patreon, proposing a journal to be called Mythopoiesis, was putting the...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

The Second Letter of Diana

This is a discrete unit from my ongoing Books of the Sacred Marriage. Should I...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

My Gnostic, Heretical Books Are Available on Amazon

Being far more focused on completing the five (at least) current books I am working...

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