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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick From: tim@toad.com (Tim Maroney) Subject: Re: Maatian Current, Grant, et al Date: 29 Dec 95 20:58:43 GMT ># Initiates in Seattle have recently channeled a new ># English Gematria:"The Maatian Atu", numerologically verifying of the ># work of Soror Nema & Kenneth Grant. tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (ny'rl'toth'p) writes: >Please explain briefly how this was 'verified' (more gematric claptrap?) >and of what this 'English Gematria' consists. > >Is it just me or does Kenneth Grant's writing (I've perused now about >6 of his works in photocopy or original) need serious reworking to be >made easily apprehendable? He keeps moving from detailed gematric >analysis to theoretical exposition (that he thinks this gematria >supports), then back again. Hasn't he figured out that it would be >wiser, when possible, to footnote the number-games? Does he write >like this on purpose? I share your concern. Kenneth Grant is something of an inspired lunatic. He has many fascinating ideas, many of which are utter nonsense, but many others of which are extremely thought-provoking. I have no argument with this approach -- we takes our seeds where we can get 'em. What makes him almost unreadable is his constant self-indulgent lapse in gematric trance states on paper. Who really cares that Nyarlathotep adds to 435, which is the number of the word Gwoop in the ancient Sinaic palimpests, indicating a cylinder or scroll, which in the Outer Mongolian Tantra is engraved with a snake whose name is Fribble, whose name adds to 3,582, which is the Ophidic Current spelled out in Native American pictoglyphs? Does all this really contribute something? I feel like saying, "Yes, Kenneth, I'm glad you're having such a good time, Kenneth, but weren't you supposed to be writing a book about something?" He seems so proud of himself it would be a shame to be mean, but one wishes there were some way of bringing the discussion back on topic. -- Tim Maroney. Please CC all public responses to tim@toad.com.
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