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From: heidrick@well.com (Bill Heidrick)
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Subject: Re: JEverall: XIth Degree
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:17:52 GMT
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tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nigris (333)) wrote:


>Thanks for the intersting & informative post, Patrick. Grant seems to be of
>the opinion that Crowley/OTO assimilation of Tantric techniques acquired by
>Kellner was flawed because they didn't apprehend the true secrets of the
>Vama Marg(Tantric Left-Hand path). In Grant's book "Remembering Aleister
>Crowley" he refers to the superior knowledge in these areas of David
>Curwen, who nobody seems to have any information on. Did Curwen exist, or
>is he perhaps a figment of KG's somewhat hyperactive imagination?
>John Everall.

David Curwen was the IXth degree OTO member Crowley assigned to teach
Grant, after Grant went back to London following the end of the Blitz.
Curwen is mentioned in Crowley's Royal Court diaries.  Would that DC
had taught KG a little more about AC OTO than about alternative
Tantra. :-)

93 93/93
Bill