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From: "Damanākāra" <Damanākāra@xiqual.com>
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Subject: Re: Crowley - Yoga
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 08:20:26 -0700
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sy. wrote in message <359e6510.83363611@hermes.is.co.za>...

>In India he studied Shaivite Yoga with P. Ramanthan (later Sri
>Parananda) the then Solicitor-General of Ceylon.  In Southern India he
>studied Vedanta and Raja Yoga with "the Mahatma Jnana Guru Yogi
>Sabhapaty Swami."  It seems that the system's of Yoga Crowley studied
>are essentially those derived from Patanjali.

Thanks for finding this out.  It does give me something more to go on.

>Also I have seen reference to Crowley  equating Bablon (the scarlet
>woman) and the Great Beast to the union of Shiva and Shakti.  I really
>don't know enough to comment on this.

Hadit/Nuit makes sense...  Hadit is close enough to certain aspects of
Shiva, especially in terms of contraction, and Nuit/Shakti works just fine
as well.

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