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Re: Crowley and Spiritualism

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Alison Butler <[log in to unmask]>

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Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:14:45 -0300

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Hi Dan,

Thanks for this - quite useful - and thanks again to all who have/are contributing to this topic of discussion.

Best,
Alison

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From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daniel Harms [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Crowley and Spiritualism

I also found this:

http://lib.oto-usa.org/crowley/essays/black-magic.html

Running a Google search as follows should also turn up more references to get you started:

site:hermetic.com Crowley spiritualism

Sincerely,

Dan Harms
Bibliographer and Instructional Services Librarian
SUNY Cortland Memorial Library
(607)-753-4042

From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Spiro
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 2:21 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Crowley and Spiritualism

You may have a point there Dave, something no doubt to do with an Ancient Egyptian burial rite of plugging up black holes. Speaking of the Theosophical Society, in his last article before he died AC wrote that, "To acquire a friendly feeling for a system, to render it rapidly familiar, it is prudent to introduce the Star to which the persons of the drama are attached. It is hardly one's first, or even one's hundredth guess, that the Victorian worthy in the case of Jack the Ripper was no less a person than Helena Petrovna Blavatsky."

----- Original Message -----
From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
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Sent: Sunday, 25 September 2011 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Crowley and Spiritualism

I'd add _to the general thread_  that AC may have hated mediums but if there was a chance of penetrating the chequebook or bodily orifices of a potential pupil he would quite probably have claimed to be Blavaatsky.s lovechild if not dressed up as her in order to speed the process. Need to read between his lines and read some pupils diaries etc

Dave e
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-----Original Message-----
From:        Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Sender:      Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date:        Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:03:19
To: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Reply-To:    Society for The Academic Study of Magic              <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Crowley and Spiritualism

David Mattichak doth schreibble :
<SNIPS>
> No spiritist, once he is wholly enmeshed in sentimentality and Freudian fear phantasms,
> is capable of concentrated thought, of persistent will, or of moral
> character. Devoid of every spark of the divine light which was his birthright, a prey
> before death to the ghastly tenants of the grave, the wretch, like the mesmerized
> and living corpse of Poe's Monsieur Valdemar, is a "nearly liquid mass of
> loathsome, of detestable putrescence."
>
> The student of this Holy Magick is most earnestly warned against frequenting
> their seances, or even admitting them to his presence.
> They are contagious as Syphilis, and more deadly and disgusting. Unless your
> aura is strong enough to inhibit any manifestation of the loathly larvae that have
> taken up their habitation in them, shun them as you need not mere lepers! It
> occurs in certain rare cases that a very unusual degree of personal purity combined
> with integrity and force of character provides even the ignorant with a certain
> natural defence, and attracts into his aura only intelligent and beneficent entities.
> Such persons may perhaps practise spiritualism without obvious bad results, and
> even with good results, within limits. But such exceptions in no wise invalidate the
> general rule, or in any way serve as argument against the magical theory outlined
> above with such mild suasion.

It seems to me that, in Crowley's case, this is
more in the way of "Do as I say, not as I do."

He didn't use 'mediums', true; he employed 'seers'
(his wife, Rose, among them), and the ill effects
of such employment / abuse have been detailed by
many authors over the years, including Crowley
himself.

Cors in Manu Domine,


~ Khem Caigan
<[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>

"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."

*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman

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