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Hello there, and I am Vonixa Tiresia. I am mostly known (at least as of late) as the author behind a few essays discussing the O9A. I am a former adherent of the O9A, having renounced it almost two years ago now, though I should be clear that even when I was an adherent I was never a nazi. For what it's worth, I am also a transsexual.
My interests have since changed and expanded, and I am currently practising a rather eclectic blend of Orphic polytheism, Chaos Magick, and Decadence. Especially the latter, and the connections between the fin de siècle and modern occultism are underappreciated I believe, given Crowley's own beginnings with Decadent poetry (e.g his infamous "White Stains" collection). Given it's rather lacking quality though, perhaps unsurprising because of the gauche title of the collection, it seems most modern Thelemites have abandoned Crowley's earlier days in favour of his other workings.
Still though, to me, the overlap between Decadence's l'art pour l'art sentimentalities, some of the Decadent's own occult tendencies (see also Là-Bas by Huysmans, or Les Sataniques by Félicien Rops), and the "All Art is Magick" assertion by figures like Crowley (q.v Magick in Theory and Practice), it seems rather bizarre that a tradition focusing on art itself as a magickal act doesn't seem to have sprung up. There is a lot of co-existence between the two, Osman Spare, Burroughs, and even the tendencies of Rimbaud, but little formalisation and definitely no movement, organised or otherwise.
Regardless, this post is dragging on at this point. It'll be fun to talk to others around here, and I hope to see some of you around.
ZLD, C.2364
My interests have since changed and expanded, and I am currently practising a rather eclectic blend of Orphic polytheism, Chaos Magick, and Decadence. Especially the latter, and the connections between the fin de siècle and modern occultism are underappreciated I believe, given Crowley's own beginnings with Decadent poetry (e.g his infamous "White Stains" collection). Given it's rather lacking quality though, perhaps unsurprising because of the gauche title of the collection, it seems most modern Thelemites have abandoned Crowley's earlier days in favour of his other workings.
Still though, to me, the overlap between Decadence's l'art pour l'art sentimentalities, some of the Decadent's own occult tendencies (see also Là-Bas by Huysmans, or Les Sataniques by Félicien Rops), and the "All Art is Magick" assertion by figures like Crowley (q.v Magick in Theory and Practice), it seems rather bizarre that a tradition focusing on art itself as a magickal act doesn't seem to have sprung up. There is a lot of co-existence between the two, Osman Spare, Burroughs, and even the tendencies of Rimbaud, but little formalisation and definitely no movement, organised or otherwise.
Regardless, this post is dragging on at this point. It'll be fun to talk to others around here, and I hope to see some of you around.
ZLD, C.2364
