Mogg said:
> "I'm not carrying a candle for Le Vey - far from it -
> indeed i've written a gentle polemic against him in my book (Tankhem).
But > i'm not sure i buy into your psychologising of the man - but even so -
he is > IMO responsible for the rebirth of some important ideas in modern
magick -> even on the level of the 'nature of evil'.
> I think you should state what's wrong with his ideas rather than the man."
I have used some of LaVey's remarks in formal talks to various groups of
Pagans, quoting him without at first revealing the source, and to a large
extent when you remove the association, wiccans and the like often find his
general talk on morality to be not so far from theirs.... and then i drop in
the identity, and feathers become ruffled : )
as an occult-morals philosopher ALV is useful (even if he is recycling and
precis-ing the work of others, discuss....)
dave e
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