Hi Mogg,
>> I guess the Gnostic mass is also (in part) the model for Great Rite/Third
>> Degree??<<
Absolutely. I think they (being Wiccans - of what sort I don't really know,
I only own Janet and Stweart Farrar's books with the 3 degree scripts in
them) even used to use a *very* similar text to parts of the Mass, and it
was later changed somewhat - although I'm so *not* up on Wicca its all a
blur to me now. Although if you try and bring any sort of discussion about
Crowley/Wicca up on Wiccan email lists they just get hellishly mad - maybe
its because I'm not a Wiccan. I like Allen T. Greenfield's idea that Jack
Parson's "Babalon Working" may have been mysteriously responsbile for the
explosion (pardon the Parsons-related pun) in popularity of Wicca - who are
the Lady and the Horned God, if not Babalon and Therion anyway?.... (ready
to duck angry email flames)... But of course, in occultism, you can make
*anything* look like its a result of a magickal working...
>>Can you remember what TL says about all that?<<
Yeah, I'll look it up.
~Caroline.
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