E 3.0 Prelude to the 60-Item Perdurabo/TAARP Data Base

      F. Perdurabo refers to Frater Perdurabo. "Perdurabo" is the motto that Aleister Crowley took at some stage in his procession through the various grades of initiation in the Order of the Golden Dawn. "Perdurabo" means "I will endure".

      Aleister Crowley is to Magick/Mysticism as Albert Einstein is to physics, as William Shakespeare is to English literature, as Carl Jung is to psychology, etc. Crowley has written many books on Magick/Mysticism. Those of his works most pertinent to astrology are:

1. The Book of Thoth
2. The Complete Astrological Writings of Aleister Crowley
3. Astrology, Your Place in the Sun
4. Astrology, Your Place Among the Stars

Astrology, Your Place in the Sun and Astrology, Your Place Among the Stars are supposedly authored by Evangeline Adams, but anyone who has studied Crowley's works knows immediately that he is responsible for the very large majority of the material in these two books. Furthermore, the Ordo Templi Orientis has proof positive that Crowley is the real author of them. Adams, in effect, stole Crowley's work and published it under her own name. It is abundantly clear to anyone with an honest mind who has read her real writings (see Reference 1 and Reference 2), and seriously studied the mass of Crowley's writings knows that he is responsible for the two books in question.

      I claim that Crowley's works are absolutely essential study for anyone attempting a scientific inquiry into the validity of astrology. This is meant in the same sense that anyone interested in Einsteinian Relativity should study Einstein's works. The difference is that for Crowley very few people have even attempted to fathom his works and the few books various people have written to help mundane minds understand his work are basically worthless.

      In The Complete Astrological Writings of Aleister Crowley, Crowley sets out his concept of the astrological complex. Mr. Cecil Gwinn, my Magickal/Mystical mentor, who introduced me to Crowley about 25 years ago, introduced me in February 1995 to Recent Advances in Natal Astrology by G. Dean, A. Mather, et al (see Reference 48). This book introduced me to the work of Nelson. Addendum 1 comes directly from Recent Advances in Natal Astrology. While it is true that the teachings of classical astrology were very influential on Crowley's astrological research, I am not sure to what degree if any Nelson was influenced by astrology. Crowley died in 1946, subsequent to all or most of Nelson's work. What I find particularly interesting is:

1. Nelson seems to have found correlations between RF interference and specific features of the angular configurations of the bodies of the solar system. Most of his work was within a heliocentric framework, but some of it assumed a geocentric framework. He found that some of the aspect angles of classical astrology were among the angles manifesting between solar system bodies when RF interference tended to be higher than normal. Also of importance is the fact that he found more RF interference when more than two bodies were related together in what I have called a simple-connected complex (see Appendix B Section B 2.0). In this manner, Nelson delved into the concept of the "planetary complex".
2. Crowley places supreme importance upon his own concept of the "astrological complex" in terms of natal chart interpretation, and one of the primary elements of importance in his "astrological complex" concept deals with planetary aspects. To be sure, Crowley's concept of the "astrological complex" includes more than planetary aspects, but without a doubt the manifestation of planetary aspects is a necessary condition for the existence of an "astrological complex". Also, Crowley claims that people of exceptional character, whether it be scientific thinking ability, artistic ability, military leadership ability, or whatever, tend to have fewer complexes (usually no more than two) with planets aspecting in tighter orbs in their natal horoscopes than people of ordinary character.

      The astrophysicist Percy Seymour now enters the picture. In his book, The Scientific Basis of Astrology, he proposes that:

1. The human fetus has a very complex electrical network called the nervous system, which develops according to the genes it inherited from its parents.
2. This electrical network has global properties of characterization.
3. Within the context of a geocentric reference frame, the particular arrangement of the bodies of the solar system at any given moment plays a central role in the magnetic environment of every point on the surface of the earth.
4. When the magnetic environment of the fetus is such that it "matches" the global properties of characterization of the fetal electrical network, then resonance effects manifest which induce the fetus to leave the womb.

      Pursuant to the above comments about Nelson, Crowley, and Seymour, I propose the hypothesis that people of exceptional character tend to be born during periods when disturbances in the magnetic field near the place of birth are high and complex. If this hypothesis is correct, then since disturbances in RF signal reception are known to correlate with magnetic disturbances in the earth's magnetic field, it should not be surprising if Crowley's astrological research into the whys and wherefores of outstanding individuals should demonstrate close parallels with Nelson's RF interference research.

      I claim, therefore, that TAARP is currently involved in developing adaptive mechanisms that will prove useful in investigations addressing purely astrophysical phenomena and in investigations that are focused on scientific evaluations of the validity of astrology.