Greetings,
This website - http://jkthoth.blogspot.com/ - contain an interesting
allegation that Crowley mistranslated the stele of revealing to suit his
own ends...
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
Caroline Tully wrote:
> Hi again Mogg,
>
> >>I think Crowley lived in a golden age for Egyptology - the language
> was revealing its secrets.<<
>
> Yes, but its interesting that, as I said before, when he had the text of
> the "Stele of Revealing" translated he applied it to a Hermetic end, in
> that he could have just taken it as an interesting bit of info about
> this Theban priest - the text was there identifying this priest,
> Egyptology was scientific enough that he could have got good advice on
> what a funerary stela actually was for from museum curators and other
> archaeologists who must have been about, who the priest was, all mundane
> stuff about a not-very-prominent Egyptian priest. But he - because it
> was display number 666 - felt that it was intended for him, that it was
> important, fated... and he utilised it as a tool in his claims that the
> Secret Chiefs had now chosen him, over Mathers, as the "contactee",
> indeed, the "prophet". Speaking of which... in his tests of Rose
> regarding whether her revelations made any sense, I personally don't
> think his tests were very good ones, he was testing a Hermetic situation
> with a Hermetic test - its bound to come up with the result you want,
> isn't it? But then again... her leading him to the display 666 was
> interesting, if that is really what happened, wasn't someone saying here
> a while ago that we only have Crowley's record of what occured? But... I
> guess it is all part of the legendary mythology of a great magus... like
> Appolonius of Tyana... Alexander of Abnouteichus... and others I can't
> think of right now.
>
> ~Caroline.
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