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Tim Maroney has died
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Fr. A.o.C.
2003-07-04 00:05:50 UTC
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A great light in the magickal community has gone out.

Tim Maroney, author, occult scholar and seminal contributor to the
alt.magick forums, died last night. Early reports indicate a heart
attack as the cause of death.

Tim was a most excellent human being, one that I had the great pleasure
of arguing heatedly with on many occasions, here and on other forums.
After years, when we finally met face-to-face, we became good friends,
though our fine, highly intelligent debates never ceased to amaze and
enlighten us both.

His many friends and colleagues, in the SF Bay Area and elsewhere, will
miss his wisdom and humor greatly.

Goodbye, my friend.

"Unto them from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be
granted the accomplishment of their true Wills; whether they will
absorption in the Infinite, or to be united with their chosen and
preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve
the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet, or another, or in
any Star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the
accomplishment of their Wills; yea, the accomplishment of their Wills.
AUMGN. AUMGN. AUMGN."

- Fr. A.o.C.


I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I hasten now to my setting.
I shall fall, like a bright exhalation in the evening
And no man see me more.

-- William Shakespeare
nagasiva
2003-07-04 05:06:17 UTC
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R.I.P. -- V.I. Maroney
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the flower of infernal majesty,
content with unseemly demise,
contributes unto the furthest depth
reflections of love in our eyes.

a chariot from beyond our ken,
carries another yet unto the grave,
the Greater Feast of Thelemite run
for a King, Prince, Knight and Knave.

fireballs true in a heatstorm near,
Tim the Wizard let sparks to fly,
his flash in the pan a clever one,
giving wink to a smile, sweet and wry.

thank you O Wizard, for passing,
memories fond and dear now do fade,
the fragments of you now remaining
become nature's wit-sharpening blade.

nagasiva
catherine yronwode
2003-07-15 23:35:01 UTC
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How sad!
Yes, but far sadder is the fact that his death brought
fewer than five messages. I find it disturbing.
You know, that bothered me too. However, it seems that many
of his friends from the old days are now involved in
livejournal communications and no longer stoop to the
unmoderated USENET. Also, in the Thelema-93 elist his
aggressive qualities became a topic of discussion and that
led me to understand that some folks took his form of
debating as an assault. Even at his memorial gnostic mass,
many spoke of encountering him as a rough, combative person
online and then becoming his good friend -- but only after
meeting him in person.

Plans are afoot to bring out a collection of his writings,
by the way. His partner Kat will no doubt keep his web site,
http://www.maroney.org , going.

cat yronwode
mika
2003-07-16 18:29:29 UTC
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Post by catherine yronwode
How sad!
Yes, but far sadder is the fact that his death brought
fewer than five messages. I find it disturbing.
You know, that bothered me too.
Some people prefer to honor the dead privately.

The announcement was appreciated though.
catherine yronwode
2003-07-20 19:49:43 UTC
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Most of us chose to comment and discuss, if we did so online, on
Livejournal.com, where Tim and many (if not most) of his friends in
the online world have accounts.
Alt.magick is largely a rubbish heap these days and has been for
more than five years now. Almost everyone has moved on to more
productive things since the days when we all hung out here every day.
Alt.magick is the sum of those who post. As is Livejournal.

We each have opinions.

Our opinions differ.

Truthfully, with no malice, your manner of expression,
whether or not you intended it to come across that way,
reminded me of a status-conscious yuppie pontificating on
which cafes are fashionable and which cafes are passe, which
neighborhoods are sliding into ghettohood and which are
being gentrified.

You can stop slumming anytime now, Al.

cat yronwode

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