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 The issue's date also clarifies inconsistent dating on later web descriptions of the journal. The surviving first issue establishes publication in 1973; a description beginning the run in 1976 should not displace that primary evidence. The issue's date also clarifies inconsistent dating on later web descriptions of the journal. The surviving first issue establishes publication in 1973; a description beginning the run in 1976 should not displace that primary evidence.
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 +Seckler tells the reader that her presentation contains more than a reprint:
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 +> I have also added later instructions by Crowley which are not in any of these books.
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 +— Phyllis Seckler, //In the Continuum I:1//.(([[https://thelema.org/downloads/ITCvol1.zip|In the Continuum I:1]], letter dated 20 March 1973, p. 1; the preceding references include The Equinox, Magick in Theory and Practice and books by Regardie.))
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 +This is her attribution of the additional instructions. It identifies the issue as a witness to a transmitted version of the ritual, while leaving the history of each addition to be established from further evidence. Her method combines quotations, comments and additions within one exposition. Readers comparing the journal with //Liber O// should therefore mark those layers instead of assuming that everything on the page appeared in Crowley’s earlier printed text.
  
 ===== A specific alteration to the Qabalistic Cross ===== ===== A specific alteration to the Qabalistic Cross =====
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 This is more than a list of correspondences. It is an explanation of how a representation changes when the observer becomes its imagined subject. Alongside the Aiwass addition, it shows Seckler treating the ritual as something whose words, spatial relations and underlying assumptions needed to be explained to students, rather than merely reproduced from an earlier page. This is more than a list of correspondences. It is an explanation of how a representation changes when the observer becomes its imagined subject. Alongside the Aiwass addition, it shows Seckler treating the ritual as something whose words, spatial relations and underlying assumptions needed to be explained to students, rather than merely reproduced from an earlier page.
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 +Her explanation addresses a practical difficulty in reading a body diagram:
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 +> Let me here emphasize that you are the Tree of Life and that you see a mirror image of it on the printed page.
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 +— Phyllis Seckler, //In the Continuum I:1//.(([[https://thelema.org/downloads/ITCvol1.zip|In the Continuum I:1]], letter dated 20 March 1973, p. 3.))
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 +The next sentences ask the reader to imagine backing into the Tree and place Severity on the practitioner’s right. The change of viewpoint is the point of the instruction: right and left must be assigned to the person performing the gesture, not casually inferred from a facing picture. This example shows Seckler teaching through a reader’s likely misunderstanding and a physical comparison, as well as through the transmission of ritual words.
  
 ===== Essays, poetry and recorded voice ===== ===== Essays, poetry and recorded voice =====
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 See [[thelemic_organisations|Thelemic organisations]], [[a_a_argenteum_astrum|A∴A∴]] and [[research_bibliography|the research bibliography]]. See [[thelemic_organisations|Thelemic organisations]], [[a_a_argenteum_astrum|A∴A∴]] and [[research_bibliography|the research bibliography]].
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 +===== Video: a personal account of Seckler’s legacy =====
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 +Catherine Berry discusses Phyllis Seckler's magical legacy in this Blazing Star Oasis lecture, recorded on 27 October 2020. The channel identifies the presentation as a personal perspective, reflecting Seckler's importance to the speaker as a guide. It provides testimony about teaching and influence to place beside the article's documentary account of Seckler's institutional, editorial and artistic work.
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 +{{ youtube>-nmUtTDagCU?full |The Magical Legacy Of Phyllis Seckler}}
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 +**The Magical Legacy Of Phyllis Seckler** — [[https://www.youtube.com/@BlazingStarOTO|Blazing Star O.T.O.]]; 1:34:10. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nmUtTDagCU|Watch on YouTube]].
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