Jamie Gregory's Hinter-Land

FORTUNA MAJOR

Light, light pre-dawn shadow cast by silhouetted sentinels of stone,
A breeze awakens the waving grasses on moorland, ancient alone.
Your boat is ready bird-headed god the mighty serpent has lost again,
Your subjects blow out their lamps in the kingdom over which you reign.

A force most grave holds us in our daily orbit as fragile as a raindrop,
Each one held in place mid-air falls for an eternity and yet it will stop.
But whilst this time-frozen motion lasts a harmony exists among us,
Refracting rainbow coloured shards that cut the bonds to our smallness.

A Prince of Marvels appears like the splendour of the sun thru cloud,
In manifold colours, an agent of change in sun bleached desert proud
Bedouin you are master of your own destiny! Counting the days thus,
Your nomadic journey wanders sidereal,
To eclipse the soul Nigerian.

FORTUNA MINOR

Dashed from the lips of day the mead of life falls from sight,
A quiet prevails and high spirits adjourn for night.
The drunkard totters home like the turtle to his shell,
It is dark on earth but Sol illuminates hell.

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Keeping on the theme of Thelema and Aleister Crowley below we have pictures of 124 Victoria Street London SW1. The office/temple of AC when in 1909 he started publishing 'The Equinox' the official journal of his magickal order the A.A.

He had the flat on the top floor 'up five flights of stairs' his friends would complain.

It was also from here that he started, with his group, giving public performances of - The Rites of Eleusis; which later transferred to the Conway Hall.

Maybe there should be a 'blue plaque' there to mark the spot of one of London's colourful characters. Or perhaps the Thelemic current 93, has already make its own sign.

Number 124 Victoria street is very close to Bressenden Place and in the photo below you can see it on the left hand side. Look at the new building 'thrown up' on the opposite corner of Bressenden Pl. and Victoria Street.

A bird of prey?

Could it be a hawk perhaps? The symbol of the Aeon of Horus which Crowley claimed he was helping to usher in?

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For those thelemites and those in the know, the following graffitti is located on the wall of QEQM Wing of St. Mary's Hospital on South Wharf Road London W2.

This well known phrase created by Aleister Crowley is not complete; who knows the rest? As usual no prizes for guessing correctly but if you know please leave a post.

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Happy reading!

Well, I know its a bit late for 6/6/06 and all that! However couldn't miss this opportunity to photoblog the latest offering from:

Currently poking its head out of the Royal Academy forecourt in Piccadilly London.

Mr Hirst, who is now working on a skull encrusted with jewels he hopes to retail at £15M, brought us pickled fish and cattle and 'suffers' epithets such as 'bad boy of BritArt'.

So this is Madonna and child:

No! not that one the Mother of God you philistines!!

It's big, it's supposed to be bronze (however I've been told it isn't really?!), but isn't it a bit derivative? I mean we had the German doctor last year with his plastic peeled bodies and Channel 4 autopsy - remember all that? Isn't this taking strip-tease a bit too far?

Now tell me to climb back in my dungarees but don't you find this a bit exploitative of women, let alone the 'Blessed Virgin'???

My friends tell me the foetus is 'cute', I'm sorry but I don't remember the little holy pictures of the Baby Jesus including a gallon of amniotic fluid.

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To commemorate the death anniversary of the artist & sorcerer Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956), I have put together this little video. It introduces one of the techniques central to his work - atavistic resurgence.

I hope to compile another video of places in London where Spare lived or exhibited his work later in the year. In the meantime my thanks to David Tibet for permission to use Current 93's 'Faust' as the soundtrack.

For further information on AOS please visit www.fulgur.org

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Such a lovely day today! Had a wander up Kilburn High Road around the bridge strengthening scheme and monster crane and saw some murals. The first batch are from Kilburn Station the last above a Burger King just of the High Road - faded grandeur!

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POPULUS

There are patterns that live not in time,
But in nebulae and ammonite the same,
Manifest an harmonious chime,
In forms do play an archetypal game.

The many manifest the One,
Each seed that dies brings shoots anew,
Like old Osiris in his tomb,
Brings forth the corn to show.

What spirit makes English reserve?
Or the Spangled Banner loud?
And gives the soldier battle nerve?
And makes the German proud?

This spirit that makes the many unite,
That builds pyramids and Nation states,
Brings order too and men to fight,
And gives presidents and shopkeepers place.

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