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Re: Surrealism

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steve ash <[log in to unmask]>

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Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]>

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Tue, 7 Feb 2006 02:46:50 +0000

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>Dear steven

>If you don't mind me saying i think you are arguing
in a very loaded 
way -
which tends, to me at least, to vitiate your more
interesting comments
- i don't want to start a flame war - just a
suggestion -
for example you write how 'you find it amusing that
charlatans like 
Gardiner
and
cranks like Le Vey can be mentioned in the same breath
>as genius like Spare, there's simply no >comparison
:)'

No flame war necessary, that was a purely personal
expression of annoyance and not in any way connected
to any appendent or preceeding arguements. Though it
seems to have served its purpose, as I doubt anyone
would have answered if I'd passes a bland commment.
:))) Now to the objective arguement then. 
 

>Which is just a way of saying you like austin spare
>but not gardiner or le vey -
>although i think maybe objectively, austin spare
>exhibited just as many 
>of the traits of the charlatan as the others (and
>indeed talents ).

I disagree, there's an objective comment amidst the
hyperbole. Although I'm quite willing to conceed
Gardiner was relatively sane and may have had genuine
psychic abilities, I don't think he had any authentic
connections to any genuine witchcraft traditions did
he. He made it all up in other words. Nothing
contentious in that I would have thought? If he had
admitted that I might have been more kindly towards
him and considered him an early chaos magician, which
he more or less was, albeit a dishonest one.

Spare was probabably a similar kind of person, but
apart from being a great artist, and the alleged
'father of chaos magic', he was also obviously in
touch with a genuine witchcraft tradition
of quite some antiquity, for those who have had any
contact with such. Though I agree he also made some of
it up, but that the technique of an authentic witch
isn't it?



>The charlatan and the magus personalities often are
>combined - and indeed
>that's also an characteristic of surrealism.

I quite agree. The Trickster is central to both Art
and Magic, particularly Witchcraft where the cunning
man is also the conning man. But even the magical
charlatanism of the Trickster is an art that draws on
several techniques. Its not really about reading a few
books and making up a hereditary tradition. :)

I do accept informed defences of Gardiner though....

As for le Vey I can't take him seriously as I do think
he was clinically mentally ill, though I admit I'm
being an armchair psychiatrist here :)))) He just
demonstrates too many neurotic systems to be taken
seriously as far as I'm concerned.


>Incidentally there is a rather voluminous study of
>COS and TOS written 
>by
>michael aquino and available for free download via
>his web page - can't 
>say
>i've finished reading it yet but it is certainly
>very detailed and
>informative although here too one has to beware of
>some bias.


Quite a bit of bias I would imagine.


>Nadia Choucha's essay certainly opened up the issue
>for me, although of course there is more to say.

Yes, it was an excellent introduction if you'd never
heard anything of the connection before. I've even
qouted from it I think!   

>BTW I was looking at alex sanders film 'legend of
>the witches' on DVD 
last
nite and that is areally interesting film - despite
the flaws, that 
group
really did IMO expore some of the more interesting
aspects of magick - 
check
>it out - also note that maya deren's film has just
>been released on DVD

Sanders was far more interesting than Gardiner with
out doubt. And Deren, well another genius.



'love and do what you will'

mogg


'will and do what you love'

steve ;)




	
	
		
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