If Mr. Beast wants my allegiance he, at minimum, needs to proclaim a Scarlet Woman.

Between the 1909 Holy books and the commentary typescript I'd be inclined toward "awaking" in the absence of compelling information otherwise in the holograph.

Just as another note about "awaking", the original privately distributed 1909 edition of the Holy Books also has it as "awaking" but again that may not mean much because it was a rush job that has errors as well.

the commentary that follows after it clearly and explicitly talks about the reading as "grey" and an interpretation of that. Whoever verified the transcriptions as "great" looked at the text of the verse, but not the commentary that fixes the verse.

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The typescript in OS L4 of the Yorke collection has this rendered as "awaking!". This is not the only time an error may be slipped into this typescript tho, so not conclusive. A similar story happens with grey/great city in Ch V, this has great but should be grey because

After he travelled to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) around 1900 for health reasons - he had chronic asthma - he was attracted to Buddhism. Believing Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar) was purer than in Ceylon, he opted for ordination there in 1902.

Bennett rejected Christianity early in his life and turned to late-nineteenth-century occultism and esoteric new religious movements, namely Theosophy and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His involvement in the latter led to a friendship with Aleister Crowley.

This is something that kills me about the second hand market. There are working practitioners who would be thrilled to get a couple generations of use from a text if they weren’t held as art assets by people incapable of using them.

Don’t get me wrong I collect some of these texts myself but I USE them. I don’t really buy the idea of a book holding important sentimental value for you if you’ve literally never once interacted with it, unless it was a loved one’s final package to you or smth.

I'm now seeing a line in Plotinus where — having said that the mode and place of the gods is filled with beauty — he then writes (referring to the One as the Good):

"That which is beyond this we call the nature of the Good, which holds beauty as a screen before it." (1.6.9)

My backlog is nuts, mate.

This is the way.

Still curious about who acting Imperator is over with the Gunther camp. Could be an easy show of relevance if someone issued those. I won’t hold my breath tho.