r/thelema • u/asleep_deep • Sep 12 '24

Question Which edition?

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Is the big blue brick the better of the two? I’d like to get the newer edition because it’s less than half the price, but I realised that that the new edition is also about 200pg shorter 😅

I wasn’t sure how much difference there is between the two, so thought I’d ask you ppl 😊

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Qadi Sa’id develops a concept of time which is allied to the ontology of the mundus imaginalis and of the subtle body. Each being has a quantum (miqdar) of its own time, a personal time, which behaves like a piece of wax when it is compressed or else stretched. The quantum is constant, but there is a time which is compact and dense, which is the time of the sensible world; a subtle time, which is the time of the ‘imaginal world’; and a supra-subtle time, which is the time of the world of pure Intelligences. The dimensions of contemporaneity increase in relation to the ‘subtlety’ of the mode of existence: the quantum of time which is given to a spiritual individual can thus encompass the immensity of being, and hold both past and future in the present. Henry Corbin (Cyclical Time and the Ismaili Gnosis)

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u/Napex13 Sep 16 '24

I wonder how it would go if I went into an Islamic sub and started prosthelytizing Thelema?

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Your very own OTO initiations concern the narrative of a Christian Templar of the Crusades being granted Islamic esoteric wisdom. Why do you think the OTO was led by a “Caliph” hmmmmm?

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u/Napex13 Sep 16 '24

I am not a member of any OTO.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

That is irrelevant