by Jay Michaelson From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 5, Issue 1, 66-83, Winter/Spring 2006. According to the second-century Alphabet of Ben Sira, the mystic who gives the text its name was conceived when the prophet Jeremiah’s daughter bathed in a mikva in which her father had ejaculated earlier that day. Ben Sira was thus a child of […]
Month: March 2015
Buddhist Influence on Aleister Crowley
by Dead Jellyfish From the Archives Ashé Journal #3.1, 2004. “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law, there is no Law beyond do what thou wilt.” In examining the doctrines and teachings of the majority of modern occult traditions one finds themes relating to Aleister Crowley recurring quite frequently. These schools of […]
Recollections of Srila Prabhupada in Hawaii, 1976
Letter from Syamasundara dasa From the Archives Ashé Journal #2.3, 2003. Please accept my best wishes, and most humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Where would any of us be had He not so mercifully come to the West? What would any Westerner know about Krishna, Vrindavan, the Maha […]
The Rise & Fall of Rajneeshpuram
by Sven Davisson From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 2, Issue 2, 2003. Seeing Red In Cattle Country The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known simply as Osho) was born Chandra Mohan in the village of Kuchwada in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on 11 December 1931. Due to the grace with which the young boy […]
The Exegetikos
by Shri Gurudev Mahendranath From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 2, Issue 4, 2003. The Lodestar and explicate of our way of life. The Laboratory and working notes as guidelines to Think. Being the terminal scribe scrawl of Shri Gurudev. The Nathas have or will find that most dynamic grouping come in fives or threes. Three […]