Ben wrote (snipped)(prefixed by >) with my comments prefixed by stars **
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Legal Entity OTO
> The differences will seem massively important to some of the participants
> and be a matter of strong feelings.
** indeed, and i am delighted to see that this area of discussion is being
handled with great maturity and grace
>I can think of a couple of instances where people claiming academic status
>have thought they could judge that certain autonomic OTOs were spurious but
>I would be wary of this approach.
** absolutely, this is why i studiously avoided studying the OTOs in my
research into Crowley and concentrated instead on people, some of whom
inhabit one or other order
>I suspect other academics would suggest it better to try to understand and
>appreciate the different kinds of OTO endeavours.
** ditto- yet i feel that a truly accurate academic approach would require
the researcher to have insider knowledge (and i suspect several grades of
experience) of both the Caliphate and Typhonian strands (plus any other OTOs
around and available to the researcher), which might involve huge ethical
problems; mostly oath-related
dave e
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