Long Time No See, 93!

Do check out the other Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society groups on other networks! Sorry to have been gone so long, but for a few months we had computer issues. Now Tegwedd has a new computer and Stephen has his laptop back. We also have cell phones that go on the Internet, but Tegwedd prefers to use her computer.

It’s very appropriate that this is number 11 because it was Uncle Al’s favorite number. He had 3 more favorite numbers, 93, 56 (which adds up to 11), and 156, the number of the Goddess Babalon. Tegwedd likes the number 11 because it occurs in so many places in her life, in her height (5’6”), in the last 2 digits of the year she was born (47), in her Social Security number, and when she lived with Fat Boy, the number of the mobile home space was 47. Eleven and 22 are master numbers. Babalon is her favorite Thelemic Goddess, and at one time, she and a friend started the Daughters of Babalon because she was born nine months after the Babalon Working by Jack Parsons.

When Tegwedd passed her 4th and PI degrees (Perfect Initiate or Prince/ss of Jerusalem) which is all about the death of the ego, she realized that her ego wasn’t about to die. It was too strong. Those around her who claimed that their egos had been killed or annihilated were either bsing or fooling themselves. So she made a decision. Since her ego wasn’t about to just curl up and die the way that a good little ego should, maybe she could make use of it. So she made it into a tool. She would use her ego to make sure she did the best job she could of whatever she turned her mind to. Something just occurred to her as she is writing this; the true meaning of a song by the Police in the 80s, “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” Part of the lyric goes ”I will turn your face to alabaster when you realize your servant is your master.” Sting is singing this, not to his teacher of arcane knowledge, as we at first thought, but to his ego. The song is about making your ego your servant, not letting it be your master.

We want to do Crowleymas in some form on October 12th, either in person, for those of you who are local, or online for those of you who are not. Stephen started the practice of celebrating Crowleymas 38 years ago in 1973 when the Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society was started as a physical real life group in Berkeley. There was great food, a large attendance, and live music. Tegwedd joined the group in 1974. It was at a Crowleymas party that she met the late not-so-great Grady McMurtry, and took an almost instant dislike to him. She thought he was a disgusting old drunk. He was way too handsy for her taste, and treated his Scarlet Woman, her friend Shirin in a most shameful manner. If she had known then what she knows now about Thelemite men, and how they treat their women, she would never have joined either the group or the OTO.

We have got to get to house and grounds shipshape for the inspection sometime this month, so chances are we’ll both be able to be on our computers in October so we can have a virtual Crowleymas, anyway, even if no one is here to help us celebrate it in real life. Sorry to cut this short, but neither of us can think of any more to say. But hey! You guys can post too, you know. It doesn’t have to be just us two. , .

Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.

All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.

Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.

We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.