Path: Supernews70!Supernews69!not-for-mail From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.pagan.magick,talk.religion.misc,alt.satanism Subject: PHume: Crowley and Blake Date: 20 Dec 1997 14:41:03 -0800 Organization: Access Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <67hhhv$dfb$1@shell.accesscom.com> Reply-To: paulhume@lan2wan.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 5924@205.226.156.10 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) Xref: Supernews70 alt.magick.tyagi:14508 alt.magick:120875 alt.pagan.magick:7027 talk.religion.misc:335876 alt.satanism:82959 [technical difficulties enforced delay -- slight edit for format] [from thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org: Paul Hume ] Not a lot out there about a Blake-Crowley connection. Crowley pays Blake the compliment of quotation without attribution a time or two, in Little Essays Towards Truth - though I may be doing Aleister an injustice, and he may not think to attribute the remark anymore than someone saying "to be or not to be" thinks it necessary to add, "That's by Shakespeare, you know." Crowley pays Blake a hefty compliment during WB's cameo in the vision in Moonchild, when Iliel beholds the great human souls who might incarnate in her child, were she not dedicated to the Lunar sphere. Blake is the last, and greatest, of them all. And in Genesis Libri Al, from Equinox of the Gods, Crowley pays Blake a (for Crowley) supreme compliment. In noting that Liber AL is not language he, Crowley, could have written, he goes on to say that of all known poets, only Blake could have written the whole piece as far as lyrical style goes. Poe and the translator of Ecclesiastes are the runners up in that comparison. Other than that, it is not surprising, perhaps, that the William Blake Oasis of the OTO thinks well of Blake, and that to my mind (and I am responsible for the Oasis' name, doubtless an indictable crime to the Blake purist, and possibly the Thelemic purist as well) the work of Blake says much that Lthe Holy Books do, usually in better poetry (g). The work of the two men shows different aspects of the Law of Liberty, and its manifestation to humanity, and we'd be poorer for the loss of either. Love, Paul ____________...oooOOO---thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org---OOOooo..._____________ To subscribe send: 'subscribe thelema93-l' to majordomo@hollyfeld.org To unsubscribe send: 'unsubscribe thelema93-l' to majordomo@hollyfeld.org http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven -- (emailed replies may be posted); http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi; 408/2-666-SLUG join the esoteric syncretism in alt.magick.tyagi; http://www.abyss.com/tokus