Ben
OK - starting to see where you coming from - yes there has been
clandestine resistance against the Caliphate -
and that is likely to continue and in the
long run maybe good things can come of this in terms of magical clarity -
its almost like the ordeal of the demon xyz. A test of who really has the
better magick or the most magical discernment, that kind of thing.
And IMO the message does get across to the new generation -
I've heard that you do get a better class of adept
in the non aligned Nu Aeon movement.
But noone can really be happy about having to go this way - not when you
think of how the vibrancy of
Thelemic publishing and ideas before the reawakening of the COTO in 1981 -
are [maybe] what's made the whole thing interesting enough for money
bags to move in.
It's happening a lot with various magick currents started in UK and
appropriated by others.
The COTOs publishing programme (according to their "press release") is
about re-editing old favourites -
and at the same time making sure that the old editions,
that so turned people on in the first place, are airbrushed out of the
picture.
"Cosy" is not the name I'd pick for that.
"Love and do what you will"
Mogg
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> Concerning the recent trademark debate I am not sure how much
> difference it will make. Of course occultism means hidden and the
> glamours of clandestine activity has always been a powerful factor in
> this field. To give an allied example. In 1991 the Caliphate OTO
> bought any claim to Crowley's copyrights that the British Official
> Receiver may have had. In 1999 a British court upheld their ownership
> of Crowley copyrights on the basis of this purchase. People do still
> publish Crowley without their permission in the UK. However, when they
> do so there is considerable invention as to who the publisher is,
> where the publisher is located and the date of publication. These
> exact same inventiveness was used when people published grimoires in
> the 18th Century!
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> With my best wishes
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> Ben
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