I was told that Joel Biroco and author Alan Moore once got into an argument over dinner about which was the true reigning magus of their age. After a tense stand-off, Alan was apparently forced to concede.
This is highly amusing. One of the Western Masters lives in England, has done so since the birth of either of them, and will continue to do so after both of them have died. He gets my vote.
Really? Who might that be and in what tradition is he a Master?
I heard the story from Joel, who thought it uproariously funny. He demanded to know Alan's Word, if indeed he was the reigning Magus as claimed. Alan had to admit that he didn't have one, while Biroco did, and that was that. I even wrote a Qabalistic exegesis of Joel's Word, which I think we published.
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Date: 2012-10-30 11:55 am (UTC)Somehow, though, I suspect that this is some sort of cultural reference that's gone right over my head.
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Date: 2012-10-30 12:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-11-01 05:24 pm (UTC)I heard the story from Joel, who thought it uproariously funny. He demanded to know Alan's Word, if indeed he was the reigning Magus as claimed. Alan had to admit that he didn't have one, while Biroco did, and that was that. I even wrote a Qabalistic exegesis of Joel's Word, which I think we published.