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Claas Hoffmann (* September 12 1967 in Stade) is a German book author, Musician, Antroposophist and Thelemite.
Claas Hoffmann | |
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| Born | Claas Hoffmann 9 December 1967 Stade, Germany |
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Claas Hoffmann (* September 12 1967 in Stade) is a German book author, Musician, Antroposophist and Thelemite.
According to his own statements, after graduating from the Realschule Horneburg in 1984, he spent a year at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences for Graphics and Design. In 1990, he studied at Emerson College as part of a "foundation year". Until 1996, he worked on the lightship LV13, which belonged to his father Wulf Hoffmann, [1] in the conversion to a restaurant. After that, he worked there in the catering industry. In 1996 he trained as a multimedia producer in Buxtehude. From 1999 to 2002 Hoffmann studied Visual Arts & Sculpture Course at Emerson College in England. From 2003 to 2006 he lived in different social groups, like Damanhur or Tamera. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as an art therapist at the Eisenhüttenstadt Municipal Hospital and at the Beeskow Psychiatric Day Clinic. In the meantime, in 2009, he underwent further training as an art therapist and relaxation therapist at the IEK (Deutsches Institut für Entspannungstechniken und Kommunikation Bildungsgesellschaft mbH). 2009 - 2010 he worked with the State Opera for the Caritas with children. [2] Hoffmann was from 2010 as an educator in the Kita "Lillabo Hus" in Berlin-Friedenau and in the "Schülerclub Lichtpunkt" in Berlin-Lichtenberg. In 2012, he worked as a creativity educator at the BIP creativity elementary school Kaulsdorf Nord. In 2013 he trained as a hypnotherapist and in 2014 as a sound and music therapist. In 2016, he trained in Neurological Music Therapy at the Robert F. Unkefer Academy for Neurologic Music Therapy and in 2018 as a nature therapist at the IEK in Blankenburg.
As a singer, drummer and lyricist he performed in several bands. Since 2003 he is singer, lyricist and composer of the songs of the band Time and Space Society and performed with them at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig in the last years. [3] [4]
Hoffmann is an art therapist and lecturer at the IEK (Deutsches Institut für Entspannungstechniken und Kommunikation Bildungsgesellschaft mbH). [5]
Hoffmann lives with his wife, their two children and his son in a patchwork family in Berlin.
Thelema is an esoteric and occult social or spiritual philosophy and religious movement developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an English writer, mystic, and ceremonial magician. The word thelema is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun θέλημα, "will", from the verb θέλω (thélō): "to will, wish, want or purpose".
Liber AL vel Legis, commonly known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. Aleister Crowley claimed it was dictated to him by a preternatural being calling himself Aiwass. Rose Edith Kelly, Crowley's wife, wrote two phrases in the manuscript. The three chapters of the book are spoken by the Egyptian gods Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
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The Thoth Tarot is a divinatory tarot deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris according to instructions from Aleister Crowley. Crowley referred to this deck as The Book of Thoth, and also wrote a 1944 book of that title intended for use with the deck.
True Will is a term found within the mystical system of Thelema, an occult society founded in 1904 with Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law. It is defined either as a person's grand destiny in life or as a moment-to-moment path of action that operates in perfect harmony with Nature. True Will does not spring from conscious intent, but from the interplay between the deepest Self and the entire Universe. Thelemites in touch with their True Will are said to have eliminated or bypassed their false desires, conflicts, and habits, and accessed their connection with the divine. Theoretically, at this point, the Thelemite acts in alignment with Nature, just as a stream flows downhill, with neither resistance nor "lust of result". Crowley's ideas on the subject partly originated with the teachings of Eliphas Levi, whose magical books emphasize the magician finding their magical identity – his or her 'true self', which Levi referred to as the "True Will".
Sex magic is any type of sexual activity used in magical, ritualistic or otherwise religious and spiritual pursuits. One practice of sex magic is using sexual arousal or orgasm with visualization of a desired result. A premise posited by sex magicians is the concept that sexual energy is a potent force that can be harnessed to transcend one's normally perceived reality.
Abrahadabra is a word that first publicly appeared in The Book of the Law (1904), the central sacred text of Thelema. Its author, Aleister Crowley, described it as "the Word of the Aeon, which signifieth The Great Work accomplished." This is in reference to his belief that the writing of Liber Legis heralded a new Aeon for mankind that was ruled by the god Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Abrahadabra is, therefore, the "magical formula" of this new age. It is not to be confused with the Word of the Law of the Aeon, which is Thelema, meaning "Will".
William Breeze, also known by his neo-Gnostic bishop title of Tau Silenus is an American author and publisher on magick and philosophy. He is the Sovereign Patriarch, or supreme governing cleric, of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.), the liturgical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), of which he is the current Outer Head of the Order (OHO), also known as Frater Superior, as well as caliph, the order's international leader. In this capacity he is a leading editor of the occult works of Aleister Crowley, the founder of the philosophy and religion of Thelema, who is regarded as its prophet.
Babalon is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley. The spelling of the name as 'Babalon' was revealed to Crowley in The Vision and the Voice. Her name and imagery feature prominently in Crowley's Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni.
Aiwass is the name given to a voice that English occultist Aleister Crowley reported to have heard on April 8, 9, and 10 in 1904. Crowley reported that this voice, which he considered originated with a non-corporeal intelligence, dictated The Book of the Law to him. That word means Eihwaz.
Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i, also known as Ankh-af-na-khonsu, was a priest of the Egyptian god Mentu who lived in Thebes during the 25th and 26th dynasty. He was the son of Bes-en-Mut I and Ta-neshet. Among practitioners of the modern religion of Thelema, he is best known under the name of Ankh-af-na-khonsu, and as the dedicant of the Stele of Revealing, a wooden offering stela made to ensure his continued existence in the Netherworld now located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 is widely considered to be the magnum opus of 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley, the founder of Thelema. It is a lengthy treatise on Magick, his system of Western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including Eastern Yoga, Hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like Eliphas Levi and Helena Blavatsky, and his own original contributions. It consists of four parts: Mysticism, Magick, Magick in Theory and Practice, and ΘΕΛΗΜΑ—the Law. It also includes numerous appendices presenting many rituals and explicatory papers.
Karl Johannes Germer, also known as Frater Saturnus, was a German occultist and the United States representative and later a successor of author and occultist Aleister Crowley as the Outer Head of the Order (OHO) of Ordo Templi Orientis from 1947 until his death in 1962. He was born in Elberfeld, Germany and died in West Point, California.
The Blue Equinox, officially known as The Equinox: Volume III, Number I, is a book written by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, the founder of Thelema. First published in 1919, it details the principles and aims of the secret society O.T.O. and its ally the A∴A∴, both of which were under Crowley's control at the time. It includes such topics as The Law of Liberty, The Gnostic Mass, and Crowley's "Hymn to Pan".
English Qaballa (EQ) refers to a system of mysticism related to English Qabalah that interprets the letters of the English alphabet via an assigned set of values developed by James Lees in 1976. Like most of the systems developed since the death of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), it was created with the intent of gaining a better understanding of the mysteries elaborated in his inspired works, especially those in Liber AL vel Legis, the Book of the Law. According to Jake Stratton-Kent, "the English Qaballa is a qabalah and not a system of numerology. A qabalah is specifically related to three factors: one, a language; two, a 'holy' text or texts; three, mathematical laws at work in these two."
Therion is a deity found in the mystical system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law. Therion's female counterpart is Babalon, another Thelemic deity. Therion, as a Thelemic personage, evolved from that of "The Beast" from the Book of Revelation, whom Crowley identified himself with since childhood, because his mother called him that name. Indeed, throughout his life he occasionally referred to himself as “Master Therion” or sometimes “The Beast 666”. He wrote:
Before I touched my teens, I was already aware that I was THE BEAST whose number is 666. I did not understand in the least what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity.
English Qabalah refers to several different systems of mysticism related to Hermetic Qabalah that interpret the letters of the Roman script or English alphabet via an assigned set of numerological significances. The spelling "English Qaballa", on the other hand, refers specifically to a system developed by James Lees in 1976.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs is a German political scientist who has written extensively on the Stasi and related aspects of the German Democratic Republic's history.
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