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I used to believe also that ones needs to follow completely Crowley's line of thought in order to use his deck but I changed my mind on that.
Ah ! .... you escaped 'the demon'
I used to believe also that ones needs to follow completely Crowley's line of thought in order to use his deck but I changed my mind on that.
By no means is that necessary. However, why use the Thoth if one is not in agreement with Crowley? Why not use a deck which follows more closely your own line of thought? Just curious.
Ha! He called that 'The Demon Crowley' and according to him, it will come after you if you slavishly try to copy him instead of applying what he taught individually to yourself
The noisy prattler !
He did strongly believe that he had an important message for the world: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will." His Tarot was designed to reflect this. (Of course, this doesn't mean that one should do whatever whim comes to mind, but rather that one should establish contact with the Higher Self, aka the Holy Guardian Angel, and learn thereby what one's true will actually is.)
For once, the Corvus is correct.
Crow-ley detested the notion of blind followers and preferred people to experience for themselves what he was talking about.