Collections of Madness: Amateur Experiments in Genius
by Asil Nottarts
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Author: Asil NottartsContributor: Jane Smith
Contributor: Nod Nihill2
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-31
ISBN: 0595341276
Number of pages: 136
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Book Reviews of Collections of Madness: Amateur Experiments in Genius
Book Review: A Flawed Mirror in which we see ourselves
Summary: 4 Stars
I wrote the Nod portion of this & I am not sorry if it offends. None of this work was written for you---any of you-it was written by us & it is true to us today even though we are more mature & have grown as people-people who wrote as free therapy & because of which we are all more happy now-then we were then. It is a flawed work because we are all flawed people-it's pretentious but most poetry is-it's bad poetry-but so what-there's sooo much of that out there. & I for one have given it up-I prefer storytelling which in my eyes is more honest. I'm working with full blown blasphemy here-blasphemy in the service of Love. Anyone who studies religions understands that these are not to be taken literally but as metaphors for how to live. I feel that it is up to people to redeem their religions by taking them deeper to their core. The blasphemy here is only to the literal-what some Jews call the Outer Garment-the surface. The core of these religions remain a source of real joy-despite the human tendency to turn them into vehicles of hate. Really this Psycho-Mythological satire is positive in that it is a call to find your own meaning & not to look outward but inward. In the End...Do What Thou Wilt is the Whole of the Law. Love is the Law-Love under Will.
As the Golden Dawn says:
"Boast not thyself above thy brother if he hath fallen, for how knowest thou that thou couldst have withstood the same temptation. Slander not, and revile not. If thou canst not praise, do not condemn. When thou seest another in trouble and humiliation, even though he be thy enemy, remember the time of thine own humiliation when thou didst kneel before the door of the Tomb, clothed in the Robe of Mourning, with the Chain of Affliction about thy neck, and thy hands bound behind thy back, and rejoice not at his fall. And in thine intercourse with the members of our Order, let thy hand given unto another be a sincere and genuine pledge of fraternity. Respect his or her secrets and feelings as thou wouldst respect thine own. Bear with one another and forgive one another."
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