Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00762)

At 05:27 PM 5/12/96 -0400, you wrote:

>
>	Although the above quote could have been written
>by a theosophist, it was taken from Aleister Crowley's Liber O.
>Even AC recognized the real dangers of psychism, and provided
>suitable warnings.
>
>	Jerry S.
>	Member, TI
>
>
>Jerry:

Yes the above could have been written by a theosophist, but Aleister
Crowley, while not a Theosophist that I know of, was certainly the next best
thing. Growing our of his relationship with MacGregor Mathers (who had been
a theosophist) and his experience in The Golden Dawn which has to be
accepted as an outgrowth of the Esoteric Section, as it was when Blavatsky
lived, Crowley and all the other Golden Dawn Folk were kind of Theosophists
by default.

Crowley himself fell victim to all the dangers he spoke of, which I feel are
far more prevalent in ceremonial Magic than in plain psych ism, but then he
had two problems, he was extremely neurotic as a response to his persecution
by the sexual majority, and he indulged far too much in Heroin and cocaine
which will cause anyone to "fall victim" to the negative side of  (in his
case) Magick.

His persecution, first a Oxford and then by the Golden Dawn cost the world a
major adept.

alexis