Re: "Young men in the USA and not women." Well during the old Abrahadabra Forums which had 10K members and a ridiculous 16 million hits per month and was sort of this...broad...occult forum, a sandbox, with some sections on Mutational Alchemy, as the admin/project advisor I would run analysis on who was reading what and who was "getting it" so to speak. Mutational Alchemy is not for everyone, but it does appear that about 98% of our most attentive audience was men between the ages of 25 and 45, specifically INTJ or INTP personality types. Because we're aiming at 100-300 years from now for the continued development of Mutational Alchemy it made the most sense to appeal to that audience which can live for another 50 years. I can live about another 60 years. It's a practical consideration - and the rate of women on the forum was less than 1% - I could count them on my hand. Depressing stats but there it is. There are some things we can adjust and some things we cannot. In Mutational Alchemy there is some leeway for interpretation but not much. I know what the problem is with the women. I just can't fix it. This affects some of our considerations but nothing beyond where to advertise and what to focus on artistically.
Re: James Hurtaak There is a diagram by James Hurtak in another book, it's super small and it's the only one our former forum members could find in nearly a year of discussion back in 2008. I do not know a single thing about him and he never returned my letters asking about the diagram.
Here is a copy (this one is only $500) and I am told it is in here, but I can't check personally
http://www.amazon.com/Sephiroth-Enoch-Teachings-Fifth-Study/dp/B001JBIDAS
I can't begin to thank you enough for finding those diagrams Barleywine. Now no one can say we're just making this up entirely, obviously even Crowley thought it was worth examining at least partially. I couldn't ask for a better source, my god blessed heavenly father! The pedigree of the Hidden Diamond is critically important to my work in compiling Mutational Alchemy and to the discussion on it, and it has been a very frustrating experience trying to build a historical record for it. It says it's in an edition of 777 by Neptune Press. Why would it be left out in later editions? That makes me so angry. I have a copy of 777 right here and it is not in it. That is so bizarre.
You may think that what we are doing is mere experimentation, but it is not. There will always be exactly 16 paths not one more not one less. I used to create systems out of thin air, and interpret things as I pleased, and did all of the things a chaos magician might do when they are very young. But none of it compared to the power inherent in the lineage of the great minds of the occult. When proper attention is given to the alchemy of syncreticism and the art is respected, you get something quite unlike flinging dookum at at an ookin wall so to speak.
If and when one can accept m1thr0s's model of the tree being in the star, Abrahadabra (and not the other way around as Crowley put it) and then you accept the hidden diamond as a hidden property of the tree of life, not only crossing but maintaining Da'ath and carrying the property of the 16 paired binary pentagrammal structures (the Court cards) then you are left with a BRIDGE to the STAR. Note there are also FIVE unicursal hexagrams to go along with those 16 pentagrammal structures when you have the Hidden Diamond in its entirety. m1thr0s has given you the proofs all you have to do is look at them.
I ordered a 1st edition of the Neptune Press 777 for the archives. We are both deliriously happy. Nearly TEN years of searching and hardly anything out there, and it was in 777 all along.
I can't help but feel there is another book out there earlier - with all the scattered nature of Crowley's books and the thefts that occurred. Crowley doesn't reveal his sources in a lot of his writings, even where those claims are very bold.
