Who is Erwin Hessle?
Dicon wrote:
OK who was/is Erwin Hessle? Please.
Chade wrote:
He’s a magician, a philosopher, an adventurer, an ale drinker, a web
master, a seducer, a secret chef, a singer of songs, a heckler of
poets, a lover of women, a bare knuckle fighter, an alt.magick reg and
a Welshman too. Although not necessarily in that order, at least not
every day.
As good a summary as any, I suppose.
14 Comments on “Who is Erwin Hessle?”
93 Erwin,
An egoist who posts aggrandizements of himself when he ironically claims to be 8=3.
That which is Erwin Hessle (at least those qualities naemd) can only reach to about 7=4 if not 4=7… all in the Ruach.
No?
210 & 65,
IAO131
An egoist who posts aggrandizements of himself when he ironically claims to be 8=3.
So it would seem, eh?
That which is Erwin Hessle (at least those qualities naemd) can only reach to about 7=4 if not 4=7… all in the Ruach.
No?
“No” is correct.
It would seem. A master of the temple would agree with this statement equally:
Who/what is Erwin?
He’s not a magician, not a philosopher, not an adventurer, not an ale drinker, not a web master, not a seducer, not a secret chef, not a singer of songs, not a heckler of poets, not a lover of women, not a bare knuckle fighter, not an alt.magick reg and not a Welshman too. Although not necessarily in that order, at least not every day.
Aside from that, they would probably not post something to their blog which has nothing to do with anything except self-aggrandizement because 1 out of 200 people actually complimented you for once….
But oh well.
A master of the temple would agree with this statement equally:
Sure, why not? “As good a summary as any.”
Aside from that, they would probably not post something to their blog which has nothing to do with anything except self-aggrandizement because 1 out of 200 people actually complimented you for once…
The only reasonable statement you can make about what Masters of the Temple “would probably not” do is that they “would probably not” conform to your expectations of what you think they “would probably not” do. How many Masters of the Temple do you know, for instance, to be able to make this kind of claim?
If you are interested in saving time, there’s been a long line of people over the last 11 or so years waiting in line to tell me all kinds of crap about what a Master of the Temple “probably would not” do, some of them very smart people, and none of them had it right, either. At some point (or not) you’re just going to have to accept the fact that your fanciful, wistful imaginings of an 8=3 and an actual real live 8=3 are two very different animals. That’s just the way of the world.
It’s a meaningless distinction. Since the 8=3 has disidentified with the very thought of an individual “I”, the ability of someone without that realization to understand the actions of a MoT are severely limited. Understanding in this context is actually referring to the ability to predict the actions of a MoT successfully, or in retrospect to divine the probable decisions leading to those actions. However, while still caught in a conceptual framework that enshrines the concept of personal self, most individuals, even occultists, simply do not possess the necessary underlying understanding to do so.
If Irwin happens to be an 8=3, it is for him to know. Other 8=3 adepts (or equivalents) may not understand Erwin’s actions either, but will instead simply decline to analyze his actions until they catch up with him. Adepts can understand whether the one they are speaking to shares the amazingly simple yet never understood fact that the self is just a movement of mind.
Brian,What you’ve offered is not a criitcism. It’s merely an expression of disagreement. When you provide reasons for your disagreement other than tradition, then it will be productive criitcism. Your response highlights why I’m such a fan of IAO131: he’s grounding the work in products of critical dialog and healthy skepticism instead of vague feelings, inclinations, and tradition.We have few tools that help us discern truth with any accuracy. IAO131 s work is based on the repeated use of these tools. I wish that wasn’t so controversial in the magic community.Just my two cents as well. Thanks for taking the time.
Hello, Erwin,
I find your texts very interesting and exciting to read. I would be interested to know if they have German ancestors? Her name is typically German. And probably from the federal state of Baden-Würtenberg (Swabia/Schwaben). And, if so, do they also speak German?
93 greetings from germany
Aaron
Aaron – as far as I know, I have no German ancestors from recent centuries.
still alive? just checking
Still alive.
Well, I’m very glad you’re still alive! Would you mind scribbling some lines on the great corona fiasco? The thinking of one such as yourself would be most welcome. Also, I’d like to ask if any of your thinking generally has changed in the last 10 years? What have you discovered that’s “new”? Do you still think there’s nothing much new for science to discover, for example. I remember you one said it was like peeling back the layers of an onion, discovering more and more in the vein of what we already knew, but in greater granularity, and that one say we’d get bored of the endeavour(i paraphrase, but you said something like that.) And, what (if anything) do you think about the Phoenicians? Very mysterious people! All the best, you’re a bit of a mystery yourself, by the way! I still read your texts.
I don’t have much to say on the corona business, unfortunately. As pandemics go, it’s historically very much on the mild side. I do think the absurd overreaction has probably put public trust in science back about 50 years, both because some scientists pleaded with everyone to trust them and “listen to the science” when there wasn’t any reliable science, and so that was their credibility gone up in smoke, and because some other scientists and politicians succumbed to the temptation to confuse science with public policy. But since both of these things were already happening to an extent with all the climate scaremongering anyway, it’s not all that surprising or noteworthy, so.
I can’t say my thinking has changed all that much over the last 10 years. As least as far as the subject matter of this blog goes, I’m still in fundamental agreement with what I’ve stated here previously.
As for science, I think to an extent we already are seeing people getting bored of it, with all this postmodernist nonsense that seems to pass for science these days, and if we expand that to general education it gets even worse. It seems that vocal elements within these sections are very much on an anti-intellectual bent lately, and are preferring ideology to knowledge. But, again, it’s not like we haven’t seen these kinds of trends come and go in the past, and academia has been varying shades of left wing for many decades now, so I suspect these wider trends will bubble up for a bit longer and then something else will grab the public attention. As far as actual discoveries go, if someone were to succeed in making a practical, desktop quantum computer then that would be something to pay attention to, but I’m not holding my breath for that. I do remember listening to something from Roger Penrose not all that long ago arguing that since photons don’t experience time then the universe at its heat death is actually mathematically identical to a singularity due to the absence of clocks and therefore of distance, which is a little mind-bending, so there are people out there having original thoughts, still.
I don’t have much to add about the Phoenicians, although I certainly agree they’re mysterious.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The calendar widget on your site seems to be broken… screen shot at:
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Love is the law, love under will.
> The calendar widget on your site seems to be broken…
Yeah, I noticed that, I think there’s a few other things broken, too. Something to do with PHP versions, apparently. Unfortunately, I can’t promise any quick fixes on the technology front right now.