Sam
Authorship of liber al, depends on who is judging,
if it ever came to court as a copyright issue I suspect they would rule
Crowley is the author and therefore the copyright holder
is due payment? I often wondered whether the current copyright holders
enforce copyright on this text and indeed some of the other channeled
writing.
Money has a way of "clarifying" philosophy?
There is a phrase Barry Kemps uses when interpreting Egyptian monuments
from archaeology "that one can be wrong but in an Egyptian way".
Being charitable one could say that some of Crowley's khemetic schemas
are not authentic but might still be in the spirit of the Egyptian
magical-religion?
Caroline - i was thinking Crowley could have looked up some of these
gods names in existing dictionaries - which is quite within his expertise -
he could indeed have chatted to Budge or I thought maybe he might have
looked at Heinriche Brugsche or the Birch Lexicon and absorbed the
spelling from there.
I'll try and check that if i remember next time i'm in the Griffith,
Brugsch was as you know an amazing scholar, so indeed was Budge although
he tried to make
his mark on far too many texts and this has undermined his legacy.
That's the current view, that he tried to ignore better ideas on the
language in favour of his own theories.
senebty
mogg
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