To put it very simply (and at the risk of oversimplifying), one might say
that whereas the Church of Satan is very hedonistic (hence materialistic:
"indulgence instead of abstinence"), and the Temple of Set is very
idealistic (hence dualistic: "LHP = separation; RHP = union"), the Storm is
much more non-dualistic. As such, I have found the Storm's understanding of
the vamacara (and of Seth) much more in keeping with what the historical
sources tell us than LaVey or Aquino's "interpretations" (which very often
show ignorance of the traditions whose names they claim).
~ Aaron
At 09:23 PM 2/04/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Caroline et al
>
>'I don't know that Church of Satan would be classified in with TOS as
>"Sethian", and what is VOS?'
>
>
>Understood - but in the sense that TOS & VOS (Voice of the Storm*)
> seem IM0 to be developments from it (ie. Zeena Lavey [ Anton's daughter]
>was putative High Priestess of TOS, is now co head with Nikolas Shrek of
>VOS) and indeed there seems to be an ideological thread running though the
>three groups over time)??
>VOS has now absorbed more eastern influences from Tantrism and perhaps
>even the kind of thing you read in Robert Svoboda's 'Aghori: at the left
>hand of god'
>
>*'Voice of the Storm': Storm being a suitable archetype for the god Seth -
>
>
>
>ama et quod fac vis
>
>mogg
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