-The show on New Years Eve is now all ages but will still have the bar, so no one has an excuse not to go. 3201 3rd St. San Francisco California. $3 at 8 PM WOO
-Purple Mercy has begun to craft new arrangements which will be recorded in early spring 2010. It goes.
-Sebastian is the all-time champion of ro-sham-bo against Paul Woods.
Hail Eris,
Golden Apple Corps
Monday, December 28, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Communication # 5
Plant Your Seeds, and Let Them Bloom: Points Toward Growth
1. It is absolutely imperative that the bonds of form, as they stand, are dissolved, reduced to materia prima, and cultivated to spring forth, blossoming commensurate to the times.
2. It is inexpedient and unfruitful to deny the temporal conditions at hand. It is as if the socio-political possibilities of the mid 20th century (the 1960s) are being given a second chance from Providence, as if the impetus of love has not yet given up on humanity. Dionysius is reawakening, and only those willing to accept the wine will become intoxicated and sing loud into the night.
3. It’s time to move. A quantum leap is occurring ad evolution, and adaptation must be committed. Truth, beauty, and justice (science, art, and morality respectively) must be sublimated and cultivated into love and freedom.
4. It is not simply enough to commit ideas to posterity via language and formulation. The seeds must and have been planted in order to grow. Growth is dynamic thus must be made manifest in time and space, as these conditions are commensurate to the demands at hand.
5. Combine idea with art in real time; this is the method of drama and poetry. Music is a sonic adaptation thereof and the means which could work best for us of the GAPPPM.
6. The time of germination is quickly coming to chrysalis; LET IT BLOOM! in every sense of the word. Justice is a means to Freedom, and Freedom is the circuit of Love. Love and Freedom are the maxim of dynamism, thusly being the most expedient. Freedom is the only means of evolution toward, and by, Love.
7. What does this look like immediately? A return to approach of guerilla ontology; it is not enough to theorize. Dramatic demonstrations of Love and Freedom through song, dance, melody, rhythm, tempo, ecstasy, joy, complete intoxication (with or without organic agents); these are the true conditions and symptoms of the Love and Freedom, the only possible causes and effects of Evolution. LET IT BLOOM.
8. Practically speaking, the streets must be taken in expression of the need for these conditions to be recognized (as the are, and have always been o/recurring). Human society grows in power by refinement. Human society must be in turn smelted and tempered again and again until the irrelevant death throes of resentiment (staticism, neophobia, conservativism, inertness) are transmuted.
9. This process grows forth, and is most easily understood/recognized/identified primarily in art, thusly art is the most expedient path toward evolution of consciousness. This impetus need not be curbed by the Heads or the Fists, therefore confrontation is not necessary; for the current will consume opposition in its under-toe, as even opposition is a break from form. “The artists are the antennae of the race.”-Ezra Pound.
10. THUSLY: Art toward Freedom toward Love is the evolutionary outflow of dynamic Dionysian influence, and ought to embraced, as it can only envelope by the marvelous current with which it flows. Only by these means can a positive, artistic, loving, freedom faring revolution be achieved. Violence and brute opposition are inexpedient and negative; note, positive as wealth, negative as illth. That is not to say the forms and boundaries will not be dissolved and destroyed; they will be engulfed and transmuted by Water and Fire accordingly, as the principles stand. Carrying forth as such can only be a be a vehicle for evolution and an impediment of decadence and stagnation.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Heavy Hills live footage from the Church in Santa Cruz
The Heavy Hills with clips from "Black Hole Rising", "The Scarlet Woman", and "Non Serviam" in full. 11.22.2009. Thanks to Matt for filming.
LIBER 49
1. Yea, it is I, BABALON.
2. And this is my book, that is the fourth chapter of the Book of the Law, He completing the Name, for I am out of NUIT by HORUS, the incestuous sister of RA-HOOR-KHUIT.
3. It is BABALON. TIME IS. Ye fools.
4. Thou hast called me, oh accursed and beloved fool.
5-8. (Missing and presumed lost. Ed.)
9. Now know that I, BABALON, would take flesh and come among men.
10. I will come as a penelous (sic) flame, as a devious song, a trumpet in judgement halls, a banner before armies.
11. And gather my children unto me, for THE TIME is at hand.
12. And this is the way of my incarnation. Heed!
13. Thou shalt offer all thou art and all thou hast at my altar, witholding nothing. And thou shalt be smitten full sore and thereafter thou shalt be outcast and accursed, a lonely wanderer in abominable places.
14. Ye Dare. I have asked of none other, nor have they asked. Else is vain. But thou hast willed it.
15. Know then that thus I came to thee before, thou a great Lord, and I a maid enrapt. Ah blind folly.
16. And thereafter madness, all in vain. Thus it has been, multi- form. How thou hast burned beyond.
17. I shall come again, in the form thou knowest. Now it shall be thy blood.
18. The altar is aright, and the robe.
19. The perfume is sandal, and the cloth green and gold. There is my cup, our book, and thy dagger.
20. There is a flame.
21. The sigil of devotion. Be it consecrated, be it true, be it daily affirmed. I am not scorned. Thy love is to me. Procure a disk of copper, in diameter three inches paint thereon the field blue the star gold of me, BABALON.
22. It shall be my talisman. Consecrate with the supreme rituals of the word and the cup.
23. My calls as thou knowest. All love songs are of me. Also seek me in the Seventh Aire.
24. This for a time appointed. Seek not the end, I shall instruct thee in my way. But be true. Would it be hard if I were thy lover, and before thee? But I am thy lover and I am with thee.
25. I shall provide a vessel, when or whence I say not. Seek her not, call her not. Let her declare. Ask nothing. Keep silence. There shall be ordeals.
26. My vessel must be perfect. This is the way of her perfection.
27. The working is of nine moons.
28. The Astarte working, with music and feasting, with wine and all arts of love.
29. Let her be dedicated, consecrated, blood to blood, heart to heart, mind to mind, single in will, none without the circle, all to me.
30. And she shall wander in the witchwood under the Night of Pan, and know the mysteries of the Goat and the Serpent, and of the children that are hidden away.
31. I will provide the place and the material basis, thou the tears and blood.
32. Is it difficult, between matter and spirit? For me it is ecstacy and agony untellable. But I am with thee. I have large strength, have thou likewise.
33. Thou shalt prepare my book for her instruction, also thou shalt teach that she may have captains and adepts in her service. Yea, thou shalt take the black pilgrimage, but it will not be thou that returnest.
34. Let her prepare her work according to my voice in her heart, with thy book as guide, and none other instructing.
35. And let her be in all things wise, and sure, and excellent.
36. But let her think on this: my way is not in the solemn ways, or in the reasoned ways, but in the wild free way of the eagle, and the devious way of the serpent, and the oblique way of the factor unknown and unnumbered.
37. For I am BABALON, and she my daughter, unique, and there shall be no other women like her.
38. In My Name shall she have all power, and all men and excel- lent things, and kings and captains and the secret ones at her command.
39. The first servants are chosen in secret, by my force in her--a captain, a lawyer, an agitator, a rebel--I shall provide.
40. Call me, my daughter, and I shall come to thee. Thou shalt be full of my force and fire, my passion and power shall surround and inspire thee; my voice in thee shall judge nations.
41. None shall resist thee, whom I lovest. Though they call thee harlot and whore, shameless, false, evil, these words shall be blood in their mouths, and dust thereafter.
42. But my children will know thee and love thee, and this will make them free.
43. All is in thy hands, all power, all hope, all future.
44. One came as a man, and was weak and failed.
45. One came as a woman, and was foolish, and failed.
46. But thou art beyond man and woman, my star is in thee, and thou shalt avail.
47. Even now thy hour strikes upon the clock of my FATHER. For He prepared a banquet and a Bridal Bed. I was that Bride, appointed from the beginning, as it was written T.O.P.A.N.
48. Now is the hour of birth at hand. Now shall my adept be crucified in the Basilisk abode. 49. Thy tears, thy sweat, thy blood, thy semen, thy love, thy faith shall provide. Ah, I shall drain thee like the cup that is of me, BABALON.
50. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the first veil to speak with thee, through the stars shake.
51. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the second veil, while God and Jesus be smitten with the sword of HORUS.
52. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the third veil, and the shapes of hell shall be turned again to loveliness.
53. For thy sake shall I stride through the flames of Hell, though my tongue be bitten through.
54. Let me behold thee naked and lusting after me, calling upon my name.
55. Let me receive all thy manhood within my Cup, climax upon climax, joy upon joy.
56. Yea, we shall conquer death and Hell together.
57. And the earth is mine.
58. Thou shalt (make the?) Black Pilgrimage.
59. Yea it is even I BABALON and I SHALL BE FREE. Thou fool, be thou also free of sentimentality. Am I thy village queen and thou a sophomore, that thou shouldst have thy nose in my buttocks?
60. It is I, BABALON, ye fools, MY TIME is come, and this my book that my adept prepares is the book of BABALON.
61. Yea, my adept, the Black Pilgrimage. Thou shalt be accursed, and this is the nature of the curse. Thou shalt publish the secret matter of the adepts thou knowest, witholding no word of it, in an appendix to this my Book. So they shall cry fool, liar, sot, traducer, betrayer. Thou art not glad thou meddled with magick?
62. There is no other way, dear fool, it is the eleventh hour.
63. The seal of my Brother is upon the earth, and His Avatar is before you. There is threshing of wheat and a trampling of grapes that shall not cease until the truth be known unto the least of men.
64. But you who do not accept, you who see beyond, reach out your hands my children and reap the world in the hour of your harvest.
65. Gather together in the covens as of old, whose number is eleven, that is also my number. Gather together in public, in song and dance and festival. Gather together in secret, be naked and shameless and rejoice in my name.
66. Work your spells by the mode of my book, practicing secretly, inducing the supreme spell.
67. The work of the image, and the potion and the charm, the work of the spider and the snake, and the little ones that go in the dark, this is your work.
68. Who loves not hates, who hates fears, let him taste fear.
69. This is the way of it, star, star. Burning bright, moon, witch moon.
70. You the secret, the outcast, the accursed and despised, even you that gathered privily of old in my rites under the moon.
71. You the free, the wild, the untamed, that walk now alone and forlorn.
72. Behold, my Brother cracks the world like a nut for your eating.
73. Yea, my Father has made a house for you, and my Mother has prepared a Bridal Bed. My Brother has confounded your enemies.
74. I am the Bride appointed. Come ye to the nuptials--come ye now!
75. My joy is the joy of eternity, and my laughter is the drunken laughter of a harlot in the house of ecstasy.
76. All you loves are sacred, pledge them all to me.
77. Set my star upon your banners and go forward in joy and victory. None shall deny you, and none shall stand before you, because of the Sword of my Brother. Invoke me, call upon me, call me in your convocations and rituals, call upon me in your loves and battles in my name BABALON, wherein is all power given!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Step outside and breath deep. The birds are chirping it's 3 AM. Smell the sharp cold evening air. Look to the west. The heavy hills sprawling vast, covered in amorous glistening fields, glowing stoned in the moonlight with electricity all around. Tumbling down the valley into the dark grove, the sages charging headlong into the night. Be my bomb come off it alright? A cobra snake loose in the evening, lapping at the heart, lungs and spatial interior. Paint stars on your ceiling body and blow it to pieces. Take a step into the other world that's happening all around, that good ol' invisible landscape you ain't never seen before. Just drop it, there ain't no life in no screen, and you ain't Narcissus. We are alive but sleeping, walking, nightmares riddled with dreams. Waterfalls of imagination coming from our eyes and pouring out of our mouths and ears, every orifice bursting forth with light purple blue green orange yellow black white GO GO GO! And what else can you do but move?
NEW YEARS EVE SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA
SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE
PURPLE MERCY
HEAVY HILLS
TBA
MORE INFO SOON STAY TUNED IN
NEW YEARS EVE SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA
SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE
PURPLE MERCY
HEAVY HILLS
TBA
MORE INFO SOON STAY TUNED IN
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
'WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy. Pick someone at random and convince them they're the heir to an enormous, useless & amazing fortune--say 5000 square miles of Antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an orphanage in Bombay, or a collection of alchemical mass. Later they will come to realize that for a few moments they believed in something extraordinary, & will perhaps be driven as a result to seek out some more intense mode of existence.'
-from 'Temorary Autonomous Zone' by Hakim Bey
-from 'Temorary Autonomous Zone' by Hakim Bey
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Communication #2
Hello All,
In the times forthcoming, this shall be the official expression of the Golden Apple Purple Panther Party Movent, and shall report earnestly all things we deem relevent.
PURPLE MERCY will be playing at the Submission Art Gallery on Friday November 26th with Jealous Again, Sabertooth Zombie, Grace Alley, and Tiger Uppercut. This is also a benefit show for 924 Gilman st., so come help out.
HEAVY HILLS will be playing at Amnesia in San Francisco on Thursday December 3rd with Glitter Wizard, Sequin Trails, and Outlaw.
We will also be playing on January 16th at the Guayaki Yerba Mate bar in Sebastopol CA with That Ghost, Outlaw, and more tba.
Stay tuned for more happenings..
In the mean time, a bit of cosmic libertarian philosophy from the mystic rocket scientist John Whiteside Parsons; an essay entitled 'Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword'
It has been said, with justification, that the Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it means. A document so fundamental as a Bill of Rights cannot be jeopardized by arbitrary interpretations. It should need no interpretations. It must apply equally to the national state, the federated states, counties, municipalities, official agencies and the private citizen within their province. It must apply in such a way that the individual or minority needs no recourse to elaborate, lengthy and costly proceedings in order to protect these rights. It is the duty of the state to provide this recourse to all alike.
Freedom cannot be subject to arbitrary interpretation and misinterpretation. It must plainly include freedom from persecution on moral, political, economic, racial, social or religious grounds. No man, no group and no nation has the right to any man's individual freedom. No matter how pure the motive, how great the emergency, how high the principle, such action is tyranny and is never justified.
The question is, are we able to face the consequences of democracy? It is not sufficient that freedom be assured by purely negative means. Freedom is meaningless where its expression is controlled by powerful groups such as the press, the radio, the motion picture industry, churches, politicians and capitalists. Freedom must be insured.
It can only be insured by the allegiance to the principle that man has certain inalienable rights; among which are the rights:
To live his private life, insofar as it concerns only himself, as he sees fit.
To eat and drink, to dress, live and travel as, where and he will.
To express himself; to speak, write, print, experiment and otherwise create as he desires.
To work as he chooses, when he chooses and where he chooses at a reasonable and commensurate wage.
To purchase his food, shelter, deical and social needs and all other services and commodities necessary to his existence and self expression at a reasonable and commensurate price.
To have a decent environment and upbringing during his childhood until he reaches a responsible majority.
To love as he desires, where, how and with whom he chooses, in accordance only with the desires of himself and of his partner.
To the positive opportunity to enjoy these rights as he sees fit, without obstruction on the one hand or compulsion on the other.
Finally, in order to protect his person, his property and his rights, he should have the right to kill an aggressor if necessary. This is the purpose of the right to keep and bear arms.
These rights must be counterbalanced by certain responsibilities. The liberal accepting them must guarantee these rights to all others at all times, regardless of his personal feelings or interests. He must work to establish and protect them, live in a manner commensurate with them and be prepared to defend them with his life. He must refuse allegiance to any state or organization which denies these rights and he should aid and encourage all who, without qualification or equivocation, endorse them. He must refuse to compromise these principles on any issue or for any reason. Nothing short of such a commitment will assure the survival of liberty, or democracy of society itself. Liberalism is not only a code for individuals and their state, it is the only possible basis for a future international civilization. However, these principles will be only rhetoric unless they are revered and protected by those to whom they apply. They must be interpreted and applied with understanding and sympathy, with humor and tolerance. Pretentiousness, sentimentality or hysterics are not needed in their application or their defense. Insufferable demagogues of "high principle" are sufficiently numerous as it is.
It must also be understood that we cannot force man's rights upon him. Man has a right to be a slave if he so desires. If he does not assert and defend his rights he deserves slavery. The person who is tyrannized by his family, his peers, by public opinion or slave morality, providing he is free to leave their influence or to challenge it, is worthy of his condition. His protestations are those of the hypocrite.
Freedom, like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal drives. He must learn to control and discipline the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self deception, fear and inhibition. These are the crude ores of his being.
He must smelt these ores in the fire of life; forge his own sword, temper it and sharpen it against the hard abrasive of experience. Only then is he fit to bear arms in the larger battle. There is no substitute for courage and the victory is to the high hearted. He will have nothing to do with asceticism or the excesses of weakness. Self expression will be his watchword, a self expression tempered keen and strong. First he must know how to rule himself. Only then can he cope with the economic pressures which are employed by institutions and corporations or the political pressures employed by demagogues.
He may then find himself in a difficult predicament. If he calls himself a liberal, he discovers that he is supposedly committed to a policy of accommodation with the Russian Government. If he opposes a pro-Soviet policy he is welcome to the camp of the Catholic Church and the Manufacturer's Association. If he eschews both camps, he is condemned for lack of principle. If he should support the rights of the workingman or minority and racial groups, he is a Red. If at the same time he believes in Constitutional Government and individual rights, he is also a Fascist.
Many liberals are familiar with this situation but few seem to have deduced the conclusion. The difficulty lies in the confusion of the rights of the individual in relation to the responsibilities of the state. It is a sad comment on our mentality that the social reformer subscribes to total regimentation while the alleged individualist propagandizes for total irresponsibility. The rights of the individual can be clearly defined. His responsibilities vis-a-vis the responsibilities of the state can be clearly defined. The individual's rights end where the next man's begin. It is the function of the state to ensure equal rights to all. But, in the absence of a social devotion to the true principles of liberalism, positivists have usurped its name and even its phrases in order to propagandize for their various totalitarianisms. This process has been aided by that faction of pseudo-liberalism which believes that all opinion contrary to its own must be suppressed.
As I write, allegedly liberal groups are agitating for the denial of public forums to those they call fascist. Americanism societies are striving for the suppression of communist or "red" literature and speech. Religious groups, backed by a publicity conscious press, are constantly campaigning for the prohibition of art and literature which, as if by divine prerogative, they term "indecent", immoral or dangerous.
It would seem that all these organizations are devoted to one common purpose, the suppression of freedom. Their sincerity is no excuse. History is a bloody testament that sincerity can achieve atrocities which cynicism could hardly conceive of. Each of these groups is engaged in a frantic struggle to sell out, betray or destroy the freedom which was their birthright and which alone assured their present existence.
Freedom is a two-edged sword. He who believes that the absolute rightness of his belief is an authority to suppress the rights and opinions of his fellows cannot be a liberal. Liberalism cannot exist where it violates its own principles. It cannot exist where the emergency monger or the utopia salesman can obtain a suspension of rights, whether temporary or permanent. Liberty cannot be suppressed in order to defend liberalism.
If we are to achieve a democracy, the rights of individuals and the responsibilities of states must be openly defined and ardently defended. It is inconceivable that men who fought and died in a war against totalitarianism did not know what they fought for. It seems a fantastic joke that the institutions they believed in and defended have turned, like a nightmare, into home-grown tyrannies. A generation went down in blood and agony to make the world "safe" but the evil that makes the world "unsafe" still goes undefeated, plotting new sacrifices of misery and blood. The guilt lies not entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If a people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny. It is made possible by his people and not otherwise.
Much of our modern thought is characterized by pretenses and evasions, by appeals to ultimate authorities which are non- liberal, superstitious and reactionary. Often we are not aware of these thought processes. We accept ideas, authorities, catch- phrases and conditions without troubling to think or investigate and yet these things may conceal terrible traps. We accept them as right because they have a surface-level agreement with the things in which we believe. We welcome the man who is for liberalism, against communism, without troubling to inquire what else he is for or against. In our blindness we leave ourselves open to exploitation, regimentation and war.
Tumultuous developments in science and society demand a new clarity of thought, a reexamination and a restatement of principles. It is not sufficient that a principle is sacred because it is time-worn. It must be examined, tried and tested in the crucible of our present needs.
In our law, in our social and international relations, we are guilty of a myriad of barbarisms and superstitions. These injustices continue and proliferate because we have become used to them. We have lost our freedom through tolerance and inertia.
The principle we have developed herein is simple: the liberty of the individual is the foundation of civilization. No true civilization is possible without this liberty and no state, national or international, is stable in its absence. The proper relation between individual liberty on the one hand and social responsibility on the other is the balance which will assure a stable society. The only other road to social equilibrium demands the total annihilation of individuality. There is not further evasion of nature's immemorial ultimatum: change or perish but the choice of change is ours.
for more, http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_001/freedomsword.htm
peace love and freedom to all,
Sebastian of the GAPPPM
In the times forthcoming, this shall be the official expression of the Golden Apple Purple Panther Party Movent, and shall report earnestly all things we deem relevent.
PURPLE MERCY will be playing at the Submission Art Gallery on Friday November 26th with Jealous Again, Sabertooth Zombie, Grace Alley, and Tiger Uppercut. This is also a benefit show for 924 Gilman st., so come help out.
HEAVY HILLS will be playing at Amnesia in San Francisco on Thursday December 3rd with Glitter Wizard, Sequin Trails, and Outlaw.
We will also be playing on January 16th at the Guayaki Yerba Mate bar in Sebastopol CA with That Ghost, Outlaw, and more tba.
Stay tuned for more happenings..
In the mean time, a bit of cosmic libertarian philosophy from the mystic rocket scientist John Whiteside Parsons; an essay entitled 'Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword'
It has been said, with justification, that the Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it means. A document so fundamental as a Bill of Rights cannot be jeopardized by arbitrary interpretations. It should need no interpretations. It must apply equally to the national state, the federated states, counties, municipalities, official agencies and the private citizen within their province. It must apply in such a way that the individual or minority needs no recourse to elaborate, lengthy and costly proceedings in order to protect these rights. It is the duty of the state to provide this recourse to all alike.
Freedom cannot be subject to arbitrary interpretation and misinterpretation. It must plainly include freedom from persecution on moral, political, economic, racial, social or religious grounds. No man, no group and no nation has the right to any man's individual freedom. No matter how pure the motive, how great the emergency, how high the principle, such action is tyranny and is never justified.
The question is, are we able to face the consequences of democracy? It is not sufficient that freedom be assured by purely negative means. Freedom is meaningless where its expression is controlled by powerful groups such as the press, the radio, the motion picture industry, churches, politicians and capitalists. Freedom must be insured.
It can only be insured by the allegiance to the principle that man has certain inalienable rights; among which are the rights:
To live his private life, insofar as it concerns only himself, as he sees fit.
To eat and drink, to dress, live and travel as, where and he will.
To express himself; to speak, write, print, experiment and otherwise create as he desires.
To work as he chooses, when he chooses and where he chooses at a reasonable and commensurate wage.
To purchase his food, shelter, deical and social needs and all other services and commodities necessary to his existence and self expression at a reasonable and commensurate price.
To have a decent environment and upbringing during his childhood until he reaches a responsible majority.
To love as he desires, where, how and with whom he chooses, in accordance only with the desires of himself and of his partner.
To the positive opportunity to enjoy these rights as he sees fit, without obstruction on the one hand or compulsion on the other.
Finally, in order to protect his person, his property and his rights, he should have the right to kill an aggressor if necessary. This is the purpose of the right to keep and bear arms.
These rights must be counterbalanced by certain responsibilities. The liberal accepting them must guarantee these rights to all others at all times, regardless of his personal feelings or interests. He must work to establish and protect them, live in a manner commensurate with them and be prepared to defend them with his life. He must refuse allegiance to any state or organization which denies these rights and he should aid and encourage all who, without qualification or equivocation, endorse them. He must refuse to compromise these principles on any issue or for any reason. Nothing short of such a commitment will assure the survival of liberty, or democracy of society itself. Liberalism is not only a code for individuals and their state, it is the only possible basis for a future international civilization. However, these principles will be only rhetoric unless they are revered and protected by those to whom they apply. They must be interpreted and applied with understanding and sympathy, with humor and tolerance. Pretentiousness, sentimentality or hysterics are not needed in their application or their defense. Insufferable demagogues of "high principle" are sufficiently numerous as it is.
It must also be understood that we cannot force man's rights upon him. Man has a right to be a slave if he so desires. If he does not assert and defend his rights he deserves slavery. The person who is tyrannized by his family, his peers, by public opinion or slave morality, providing he is free to leave their influence or to challenge it, is worthy of his condition. His protestations are those of the hypocrite.
Freedom, like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal drives. He must learn to control and discipline the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self deception, fear and inhibition. These are the crude ores of his being.
He must smelt these ores in the fire of life; forge his own sword, temper it and sharpen it against the hard abrasive of experience. Only then is he fit to bear arms in the larger battle. There is no substitute for courage and the victory is to the high hearted. He will have nothing to do with asceticism or the excesses of weakness. Self expression will be his watchword, a self expression tempered keen and strong. First he must know how to rule himself. Only then can he cope with the economic pressures which are employed by institutions and corporations or the political pressures employed by demagogues.
He may then find himself in a difficult predicament. If he calls himself a liberal, he discovers that he is supposedly committed to a policy of accommodation with the Russian Government. If he opposes a pro-Soviet policy he is welcome to the camp of the Catholic Church and the Manufacturer's Association. If he eschews both camps, he is condemned for lack of principle. If he should support the rights of the workingman or minority and racial groups, he is a Red. If at the same time he believes in Constitutional Government and individual rights, he is also a Fascist.
Many liberals are familiar with this situation but few seem to have deduced the conclusion. The difficulty lies in the confusion of the rights of the individual in relation to the responsibilities of the state. It is a sad comment on our mentality that the social reformer subscribes to total regimentation while the alleged individualist propagandizes for total irresponsibility. The rights of the individual can be clearly defined. His responsibilities vis-a-vis the responsibilities of the state can be clearly defined. The individual's rights end where the next man's begin. It is the function of the state to ensure equal rights to all. But, in the absence of a social devotion to the true principles of liberalism, positivists have usurped its name and even its phrases in order to propagandize for their various totalitarianisms. This process has been aided by that faction of pseudo-liberalism which believes that all opinion contrary to its own must be suppressed.
As I write, allegedly liberal groups are agitating for the denial of public forums to those they call fascist. Americanism societies are striving for the suppression of communist or "red" literature and speech. Religious groups, backed by a publicity conscious press, are constantly campaigning for the prohibition of art and literature which, as if by divine prerogative, they term "indecent", immoral or dangerous.
It would seem that all these organizations are devoted to one common purpose, the suppression of freedom. Their sincerity is no excuse. History is a bloody testament that sincerity can achieve atrocities which cynicism could hardly conceive of. Each of these groups is engaged in a frantic struggle to sell out, betray or destroy the freedom which was their birthright and which alone assured their present existence.
Freedom is a two-edged sword. He who believes that the absolute rightness of his belief is an authority to suppress the rights and opinions of his fellows cannot be a liberal. Liberalism cannot exist where it violates its own principles. It cannot exist where the emergency monger or the utopia salesman can obtain a suspension of rights, whether temporary or permanent. Liberty cannot be suppressed in order to defend liberalism.
If we are to achieve a democracy, the rights of individuals and the responsibilities of states must be openly defined and ardently defended. It is inconceivable that men who fought and died in a war against totalitarianism did not know what they fought for. It seems a fantastic joke that the institutions they believed in and defended have turned, like a nightmare, into home-grown tyrannies. A generation went down in blood and agony to make the world "safe" but the evil that makes the world "unsafe" still goes undefeated, plotting new sacrifices of misery and blood. The guilt lies not entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If a people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny. It is made possible by his people and not otherwise.
Much of our modern thought is characterized by pretenses and evasions, by appeals to ultimate authorities which are non- liberal, superstitious and reactionary. Often we are not aware of these thought processes. We accept ideas, authorities, catch- phrases and conditions without troubling to think or investigate and yet these things may conceal terrible traps. We accept them as right because they have a surface-level agreement with the things in which we believe. We welcome the man who is for liberalism, against communism, without troubling to inquire what else he is for or against. In our blindness we leave ourselves open to exploitation, regimentation and war.
Tumultuous developments in science and society demand a new clarity of thought, a reexamination and a restatement of principles. It is not sufficient that a principle is sacred because it is time-worn. It must be examined, tried and tested in the crucible of our present needs.
In our law, in our social and international relations, we are guilty of a myriad of barbarisms and superstitions. These injustices continue and proliferate because we have become used to them. We have lost our freedom through tolerance and inertia.
The principle we have developed herein is simple: the liberty of the individual is the foundation of civilization. No true civilization is possible without this liberty and no state, national or international, is stable in its absence. The proper relation between individual liberty on the one hand and social responsibility on the other is the balance which will assure a stable society. The only other road to social equilibrium demands the total annihilation of individuality. There is not further evasion of nature's immemorial ultimatum: change or perish but the choice of change is ours.
for more, http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_001/freedomsword.htm
peace love and freedom to all,
Sebastian of the GAPPPM
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Grande Proclamation of The GAPPPM
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THE GOLDEN APPLE PURPLE PANTHER PARTY MOVEMENT was born the 36th in the Season of CONFUSION, thus in homage to the PATRON SAINT SRI SYADASTI, as an endeavor at LOUD, NON-EUCLIDIAN POLITICS via MUSIC, THE WRITTEN (AND UNWRITTEN) WORD, DOPE, ART, A FLAXROOTS PRESS GANG, and whatever else we damn well please. To join the party, contact the C.S.M.d.C. or bury a box with fifty dollars in your backyard with the SACRED CHAO engraved in gold on the bottom (it will be picked up by an underground agent). HAIL ERIS!
The 5 DIRECTIONS OF THE GOLDEN APPLE PANTHER PARTY MOVEMENT OF SCIENCE
1.Sink the City (and Surrounding Territories) by any means necessary, for the betterment of our Brothers and Sisters, including rock n roll, dope, long hair, fucking in the streets, the doctrines of Poetic Terorrism (see The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey), and all other expressions of Autonomy. There are no rules anywhere. The Goddess Prevails. HAIL ERIS!
2.True free trade and exchange of energy and materials – including housing, food, clothing, music, medical care, dope, information, education, and anything else we damn well please.
3.The Abolition of the Police Force – do we really need these Grey Faced creeps with guns to feel safe, Brothers and Sisters? I've never been terrorised by any one of you without a badge and a gun. Off the Pigs and the money will be reinvested into education for all!
4.The Abolition of all useless and inexpedient laws – what laws do nothing but prohibit one from carrying about logically and lucidly? Most of them. Sink the Law and carry on unheeded.
5.The Freedom of All Sentient Beings – IF “Every Man and Every Woman is a Star”, “The physical parallel still holds. Ina galaxy each star has its own magnitude, characteristics, and direction, and the celestial harmony is best maintained by its attending to its own business. Nothing could be more subversive of that harmony than if a number of stars set up in a uniform standard of conduct insisted on everyone aiming at the same goal, going at the same pace, and so on. Even a single star, by refusing to do its own will, by restricting itself in any way, would immediately produce disorder.”-Aleister Crowley
-“Non Serviam-I shall not Serve (OR I shall not Transgress[depending on yr school]).”-Lucifer to Jehova
-“Do Your Thing”- the Comte Sebastian Moon de Cagliostro.
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