This is the article that led me to believe that their maybe some potential
to this view point -
http://www.jwmt.org/v1n0/crowleybio.html
In particular these passages -
" Disaster struck the boy's life in his eleventh year. His father, his idol
and role model, Edward Crowley, died, on March 5, 1887, after a ten month
illness. Crowley tells us that, "from that month onward there is a change…a
new factor had arisen, and its name was death."[15]
This tragic turn of events had a drastic effect on young Crowley's life. He
lost his hero, his image of the ideal, the center of his universe. He also
lost the rest of his world. His mother moved to London to be near her
family, removing the boy from his home, and the circle of Brethren that
enfolded the child in a capsule of secure familiarity.[16]
The new man filling the role of male role model in the youth's life was his
mother's brother, Tom Bond Bishop. Rather than taking over the part of
benevolent mentor, guiding the boy into manhood through a firm belief system
reflected in modeling these high ideals, this uncle cruelly bullied "Alick",
hypocritically defying the strict Christian fundamentalism he professed to
embrace. [17] Regardie identifies this afflicted relationship with his uncle
as a key determinant, beginning the drastic change that the child's view of
Christianity would undergo.[18]
Regardie defends the young Crowley for this growing bitterness
sympathetically. "He was so emotionally traumatized in those formative years
that the psychologist might well wonder that he grew into any kind of
productive adult at all."[19]
His identity and self-esteem now faltering, "Alick" began having
difficulties at school.[20] Eventually, abuse at school, which included a
punishment of nothing to eat except bread and water while being made, day
after day, to march around the playground, took its toll, and "Alick's"
health began to fail.[21] He was eventually taken from that school, but
began a series or tutors and day and boarding schools, none of which were
satisfactory.[22]
These negative experiences in the fundamentalist schools also validated his
growing belief that Christians were cruel and merciless. Crowley faced
frequent beatings, constant humiliation and confrontation with bigotry,
paranoia, and irrationality in these fanatical institutions. With respect to
Crowley's educational environment, Regardie asserts, "morally and
physically, it must have been a diabolical engine of destruction and
corruption."[23] "
It would seem,Regardies, the eye in the triangle and Crowleys, Confessions
are the best place to start making this case, any other sources people could
offer ? perhaps.
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