Sandman's ParaReality Radio Forum

[nowyat]

Did you ever hear anymore about this guest? I have to go see if his book on bringing out your inner vampire is still for sale. Maybe I can get it cheap used now. I am still puzzled over the origin of his first name. The second is, of course, from Lovecraft, but I was reading about Alister Crowley and his top assistant was named Frater D.A.. (Crowley was all circus tent and no lions, if you'll pardon the expression, but I am committed to reading one of his books.) But on further reading, in formal magic there are many people called Frater, so it is either a title, or a name. If you can ever reveal to me the origin of "Frater" I will be most interested and pleased. (This guest didn't exactly spill many beans, but I now assume he was a member of the "A..A..", a secret magic organization. It's actually A, then a triangle of periods, and repeat. I think I'll start reading about these more esoteric cults.

[nowyat]

I was fooling around on the internet and found a new book to read. It's called Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale by Edward Bullwer-Lytton. Frater Nyarlathotep was too modernist for my limited brain and social skills, but this, written in 1842, should be good.

""Zanoni" is a book about two immortals and their lives during immortality. One being is the cold, calm, heartless, void of all passion; more intellect than man. The other is his pupil, Zanoni, the eternal youth with absolute power and knowledge, and all the capacity to love and be loved and because of that love, despair. Due to his love for his wife and child, he is compelled to remove himself from his exalted position and take on the mortal position as a human. However his teacher, Mejnour, is left behind to live immortal, alone. "

Bulwer-Lytton claimed he met, in a bookstore, a member of the Rosy Cross, who gave him a cypher manuscript which enabled him to write the novel...

I get a lot of good book leads from your shows. Since you went to Waverly I've almost worked my way through Sir Walter Scott, who, incidentally, was an extremely nice man. Right now I'm reading "The Black Dwarf" by him. (Edward Bullwer-Lytton, in the other hand, was a jerk, but I read him anyway...)