Post by I AM the Way on May 16, 2008 13:38:37 GMT -6
saw this at: www.ravenoir.com/
in the "Rare" section. click on the hardcover edition of Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution and you'll find the following...
In December of 1970, Michael Aquino, then a priest of the Church of Satan, sent a copy of The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution to Anton LaVey who wrote back to Aquino the following comments about the book:
"I received the Ouspensky volume and wish to thank you for your thoughtfulness in having it sent. It is a masterpiece, and you are to be commended for bringing it to my attention. I am going to make it required reading for all members and will state the same in next month's newsletter. Perhaps it might explain the Balance Factor to a few of our more egocentric members who constantly seek new power and wouldn't know what to do with it if they had it."
This little book has the ability to change the direction of one's life. Ouspensky describes how we must work simultaneously on knowledge and being to create an inner unity.
Ouspensky’s five lectures which make up The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution were not originally intended to be published. Reading them as a book gives practically no measure of the scale of time and study needed to realize, even partially, the ideas which are expressed or why Ouspensky expressed them in this short form.
In the forty or fifty years since the lectures were composed, analytical, introspective psychology has captured the interest of the masses. It has become a major course of study in colleges and in the so-called ‘free university’ movement and a dominant factor in discussions of education, art, sports and even in commerce, natural science and religion, particularly among the young. Along with this, the conquest of outer space has given an impetus to psychological and metaphysical fantasies of every sort. But psychology as self-knowledge of what a man may become, and what place he has the right to assume in the whole scheme of the universe, has remained a forgotten, almost a disappearing, science.
for those who haven't yet delved into this aspect of the Cult's esotericism, this might be of interest.
VS
in the "Rare" section. click on the hardcover edition of Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution and you'll find the following...
In December of 1970, Michael Aquino, then a priest of the Church of Satan, sent a copy of The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution to Anton LaVey who wrote back to Aquino the following comments about the book:
"I received the Ouspensky volume and wish to thank you for your thoughtfulness in having it sent. It is a masterpiece, and you are to be commended for bringing it to my attention. I am going to make it required reading for all members and will state the same in next month's newsletter. Perhaps it might explain the Balance Factor to a few of our more egocentric members who constantly seek new power and wouldn't know what to do with it if they had it."
This little book has the ability to change the direction of one's life. Ouspensky describes how we must work simultaneously on knowledge and being to create an inner unity.
Ouspensky’s five lectures which make up The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution were not originally intended to be published. Reading them as a book gives practically no measure of the scale of time and study needed to realize, even partially, the ideas which are expressed or why Ouspensky expressed them in this short form.
In the forty or fifty years since the lectures were composed, analytical, introspective psychology has captured the interest of the masses. It has become a major course of study in colleges and in the so-called ‘free university’ movement and a dominant factor in discussions of education, art, sports and even in commerce, natural science and religion, particularly among the young. Along with this, the conquest of outer space has given an impetus to psychological and metaphysical fantasies of every sort. But psychology as self-knowledge of what a man may become, and what place he has the right to assume in the whole scheme of the universe, has remained a forgotten, almost a disappearing, science.
for those who haven't yet delved into this aspect of the Cult's esotericism, this might be of interest.
VS