Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00188)

In message <v01530501af71ce8f6eaf@[206.184.204.246]>, Thoa Tran
<thoa@withoutwalls.com> writes
>As far as that Crowley dude, I don't really have an opinion on him.  I was
>repeating what I was told.  I have no hesitation reading any of his
>writings, and I have read some of his writings.  Some accounts of him was
>that he's actually quite normal but hedonistic, and was reacting to
>hypocrisy that he witnessed in his childhood.  Thus, all those talk of
>satanism may just be his way of just stirring up the prim and proper
>bloods.  I have no doubt that some of his followers took him literally and
>may have done awful stuff.


You about summed it up right.  He certainly practiced sex-magic.  It's a
matter of debate whther he did it for the sex first or the magic first.
He was also, in many people's opinion, a great literary practical joker.
My own view on his writings is that his ~Book of Thoth~ (on the tarot)
was his best work.

Alan
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