![]() ![]() My name’s Nate Waggoner and I write for a website called The Tusk. Beyond that, I’ll let the interview speak for itself. He also gets pretty abstract and confusing at times, and he expresses some views that are definitely not my own– or at least I think he expresses them? He gets a lot more clear when he starts talking about Paul Williams ripping him off. There’s clearly a certain kind of genius at work. In this interview, he makes puns and allusions constantly and flows from one topic to another in the same wild way that he does in his best songs. ![]() He wrote the lovely “ Fill Your Heart,” which David Bowie covered on his album Hunky Dory, and which likely inspired the album’s airy, gentle tone. I first found out about Biff Rose a few years ago when my friend opened for him at a house show in Richmond, VA. Perhaps this song is almost a parody of the tenants of the Book of the Law, as if the idea is far too easy to be true.An Interview with Biff Rose, Truly Weird Part of Music History By the time his next album came out, he had turned back to Christianity. It is obvious during this album he was studying the philosophies of Thelema, but never completely subscribed to them. That he takes it to an extreme, verbally and vocally, does imply irony. To have religion, one must have worship, and Thelemites bow to no one.) (Thelema is not a religion, it is a philosophy. Crowley always referred to people who have accepted the concepts of Thelema as "Free" people, no longer slaves to the chains of physical reality and organized religion. It's interesting that "Free" is always capitalized, and I think it illustrates my point. Of course, the only way to reach the astral realm, and the ultimate goal of Thelema itself (which I won't go into here), is to eliminate the Ego, thus "Forget your Mind." Were we able to see our environment without our filtering systems, we would be able to see that all physical reality and time is simply an illusion covering the truth of the astral realm. The whole idea of the past being only in your mind is a Thelemic concept rooted in the idea that all physical reality, and all time, is simply a construct by our minds to process our environment. ![]() By Love, he means the awareness of the self and all others as complete individual entities with the potential to become gods, and the awareness that as such, individuals are free to do whatever they must in order to further their Will (goal in life, to oversimplify), so long as it doesn't affect anyone else's Will. Love is the Law, Love under Will." The "Love" he speaks of is the same Crowley described, which isn't love as we think of it. There is only one rule in Thelema: "Do what thou Wilt shall be the Whole of the Law. This song is esentially a quick version of the first part of Book of the Law. He even has several Thelemically inspired pictures within the album liner (Egyptian stuff EVERYWHERE, sitting in metitative poses, etc). It's all over this album, especially "Quicksand", the song right before this one (which isn't actually depressing at all if you read it right, but I'll mention that over on that song). I must disagree with both of you, though I do agree this song is ironic to a certain extent.ĭuring this period of his life, Bowie was experimenting with Thelema and the teachings of Alistair Crowley.
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