Path: Supernews!supernews.com!daver!amdahl.com!amd!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.dn.net!news.webt.com!slemay@webt.com From: Robert and Sabrina Caine Newsgroups: alt.tarot,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick Subject: Re: Crowley, evil Date: 20 May 97 21:12:27 +0600 Organization: Lector services Lines: 44 Message-ID: <338213BB.MD-0.181.caine@lector.com> References: <5lpu9s$p6t@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sl30.webt.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: MicroDot-II/AmigaOS 0.181 Xref: Supernews alt.tarot:20201 alt.magick.tyagi:12333 alt.magick:102464 Dear Peggy, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On 19 May 1997 16:14:52 GMT, MARGARET MARY-THERESA BROWN, SUNY BUFFALO wrote: > In article <5lmcfi$63d$1@nadine.teleport.com>, tschuler@teleport.com (Tom Schuler) writes: > >In article <5li3tk$fvj@kudo20.kudonet.com>, tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) wrote: > >>>Crowley's Fool wears horns. > >> > >>this *does* have Satanic overtones, agreed. > > > >Horns on the head are an interesting symbol. Satan is not the only horned > >fellow. The wearing of horns is a sign of one who has been cuckolded. Made > >to play the fool? Pan also has a nice set of horns and I recall some Catholic > >iconography in which Moses was depicted as horned after having spoken to > >Yahweh on the mountaintop. I wonder if horns and halos have anything in > >common? > > Maybe so... > > There is a certain type of BVM that shows Mary standing on a cloud, > sometimes supported by horns alone, sometimes my horns and 2 cupids. > I take this to be reminiscent of they egyptian goddess Hathor, who > in a later stage was confused with Isis. > > > > > - Peggy - > If you check out the old testament you will find that Hebrew altars are frequently described as having horns, they used to be a symbol for power in that faith. Love is the law, love under will. -- Robert F. Caine Propriator, Lector Services Copyediting, Indexing and Research http://www.lector.com