New Pope

Pope Sylvester II or Silvester II (c. 946 – 12 May 1003) was the head of the Catholic Church from 2 April 999 to his death in 1003. Born Gerbert d’Aurillac (Gerbert of Aurillac), he was a prolific scholar and teacher. He endorsed and promoted study of Arab/Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy, reintroducing to Europe the abacus and armillary sphere, which had been lost to Europe since the end of the Greco-Roman era. He is said to be the first to introduce in Europe the decimal numeral system using the Arabic numerals after his studies at the University of al-Karaouine in Morocco. He was the first French Pope.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_II

A new study has provided the first comprehensive insight into how snake venom evolved into the sophisticated cocktail of different proteins it is today.
It turns out that snakes’ venom glands have co-opted many proteins that originally played more mundane roles elsewhere in their bodies. This constant innovation was needed to help them stay ahead of the animals they eat, which tend to develop resistance to particular venoms over time.
-http://phys.org/news/2013-12-rapid-evolution-cobra-venom.html

Up until now, our Western magickal community has looked into the faces our gods of light, but not into the faces of our gods of darkness. What is this darkness? Simply put, it is our inability to see what we have thrust aside. The darkness is our own.
-MISHLEN LINDEN, Typhonian Teratomas-The Shadows of the Abyss

Hunger artists or starvation artists were performers, common in Europe and America in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, who starved themselves for extended periods of time, for the amusement of paying audiences. The phenomenon first appeared in the 17th century and saw its heyday in the 1880s. Hunger artists were almost always male, traveled from city to city and performed widely advertised fasts of up to 40 days.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_artist

The Burmese python’s ability to ramp up its metabolism and enlarge its organs to swallow and digest prey whole can be traced to unusually rapid evolution and specialized adaptations of its genes and the way they work, an international team of biologists says in a new paper.
-http://phys.org/news/2013-12-secrets-extreme-burmese-python-genome.html#ms

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was known by his enemies as “the wickedest man in the world” and by himself as “the Beast 666”. A bisexual, recreational drug user and self-styled prophet, he shaved his head bald, filed his incisors into points and invented a new religion, which he called Thelema, the libertinist tenets of which had been revealed to him by “preternatural intelligences” in 1904. He transcribed their message into his sacred text The Book Of The Law , and subsequently appointed himself Outer Head of the Order of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), a movement thought to have begun in Germany towards the end of the 19th century which Crowley remodelled around his new religion.
-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8427675/Kenneth-Grant.html

In every group of people there’s the gaffeur, the one who asks the wrong question at the wrong moment. And that was how the insidious question emerged: “And Jesus, then? He was a Jew. Yet he dies young, has no interest in money and thinks only about the Kingdom of Heaven….”
-UMBERTO ECO, The Prague Cemetary

In my opinion somebody like Anton Szandor LaVey would be much better as a pope for ordinary sinners, because there is no hypocrisy and he’s not too extreme or dangerous like for example Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, if we think real satanists.

LaVey is immediately totally sensual and this wordly when Catholic Church has great amount superstitions, which nobody can prove.

But for religious purposes certain type of living is necessary. Here I would personally choose primarily Trappists and Jesuits, but also Opus Dei would be good in certain conditions as a religious ‘invisibility cloak.’

What comes to being liberal that’s something which is extremely rare.

HOWDY

Ps. There is quite much misinformation about l’Abbé Boullan available. For example in the video below even the portrait is wrong, because person there is Jean Bricaud. For Eugène Vintras picture is right. Sorry for my broken English.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd7yqfmNEKE