Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cox.net!news-xfer.cox.net!p01!fed1read04.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F2A8813.5060004@cox.SPAMnet> From: thomas_blood Reply-To: nospamaethyr-augoeides@cox.SPAMnet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: The Notorious Crowley References: <20030801011306.21622.00000775@mb-m07.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 75 Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 08:32:35 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.5.64.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: fed1read04 1059751957 68.5.64.11 (Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:32:37 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:32:37 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:353347 Kteis7 wrote: >>From: 333 yronwode.com@nagasiva >>Date: 31/07/2003 2:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time >>Message-id: > > > differ, and which are not worth airing again> > >>a more intelligent and well-rounded approach to occultism >>and the tarot may be found in the works of A.E. Waite, >>whom Crowley simultaneously envied and hated. many of >>Crowley's cultists have taken after the Beast in trying >>to criticize Waite for his long-windedness and extensive >>vocabulary, for which Crowley is also sometimes known. difference between ac and aew's 'long-windedness' or 'extensive vocablulary': crowley's use of big or little known english words, is purposefully archaic in style, or serving some other dictate(s) of style. waite has diarrhea of the mouth on the other hand, and any style that he could be said to possess, is so mf'ing dry as to be negligible. unless you like sandpaper. a typical passage from crowley: > Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual >toleration of sub-contraries, > but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of > intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman >who hath > arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding. The savage >who cannot > conceive of the number six, the orthodox mathematician who cannot >conceive of the > fourth dimension, the philosopher who cannot conceive of the >Absolute--all these are > one; all must be impregnated with the Divine Essence of the Phallic >Yod of > Macroprosopus, and give birth to their idea. True (we may agree with >Balzac), the > Absolute recedes; we never grasp it; but in the travelling there is >joy. Am I no better > than a staphylococcus because my ideas still crowd in chains? besides the philisophic/ qabablistic lingo (e.g. Macroprosopus), and one word at the end (i address this below) there is not a single word a well-educated person would not know. that one 'big' word (alluded to above) is : 'staphylococcus.' this is a science word, so those well-versed in science should know it's definition. everyone else would not know probably, but be well able to guess at its meaning from the context in which the word is placed. from the context, it is clear that this word means 'some small thing/ creature.' indeed, when you look up this word, you find that 'staphylococcus' is a type of bacteria. > > > Others criticize Waite for his claims to knowledge he did not possess, and his > attempts to convert the GD into yet another christian masonic group. > The Tarot deck is a fine accomplishment, yet the accompanying book is not the > most lucid on the subject. > > It is perthaps ironic that in both cases the last resting place of the mortal > remains of both individuals is equally uncertain. thomas_blood