Questions about Aleister Crowley that inrigue me

Rosanne

ravenest said:
Hmmm, personally I could never see how heroin would help asthma. Doesnt asthma require one to try to breath more and Heroin slow down the respiration? I had asthma when young ... the immediate need is to get more air and breaths in and out (lack of oxygen ... not hyperventilation) not to slow the breathing.
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How right you are. That is why adreneline was so effective as was the old cure of Stramononium.(Datura)

In my opinion there is an obvious dynamic and lesson here ... I think it is foolish to totally exuse or totally blame ... a bit of both ... but from all this we can totally learn.
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Crowley was not alone, in heroin use. He was one of thousands at the time.
The law 1926 made the requirement for a medicinal reason, important for both the doctor and the patient. If you were to read the poetry of two of my great uncles, who were registered users- it is spiritual and wonderful, but their lives became messy. Was it the 1st world war or addictive personalities that started them on an opium track- who knows??It does not detract from their poetry. They also had "asthma" to get their supply legally.
There was a sort of shame associated with opiate use, whereas smoking reefers was seen as Bohemian and somewhat cool, and that 'helped asthma' too!

If you think that passage in in the Book of the Law means you will be able to take addictive drugs and they will not harm you then you have Crowley's expereinces to read about and balance your opinion.
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Good advice, and for me done and dusted.
~Rosanne
 

perdurabofan

Crowley youtube video

I just watched the Crowley video on my cell phone.
There was a little white dot flickering and going back
and fourth at the bottom left side of the screen. I'm
not a Manchurian Candidate for Anti-Aleister forces
now, am I? :)
 

Rosanne

perdurabofan said:
I'm
not a Manchurian Candidate for Anti-Aleister forces
now, am I? :)
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I am told that group uses a Crowley APP. for their nefarious triggers.
Where you behaving normally before the white dot?
 

JDS

Opiates open the bronchial passages. They still prescribe morphine for COPD.
 

perdurabofan

Reply to Rosanne

Rosanne said:
I am told that group uses a Crowley APP. for their nefarious triggers.
Where you behaving normally before the white dot?
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I'm sure they would see me as abnormal. I view all accusations
against Crowley as noise, distractions, diversions etc.
My only interest is what kind of an occultist was he? IMO,
a brillant one! Again, IMO, that is clear just from the Book of
Thoth.
 

Zephyros

perdurabofan said:
I'm sure they would see me as abnormal. I view all accusations
against Crowley as noise, distractions, diversions etc.
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I don't know if I would take it that far. The man is inseparable from his doctrines, for better or worse. A healthy critical mind is sometimes essential not only to avoid demonization, but also to avoid worship.
 

perdurabofan

Reply to Rosanne

Rosanne said:
I am told that group uses a Crowley APP. for their nefarious triggers.
Where you behaving normally before the white dot?
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I'm sure they would see me as abnormal. I view all accusations
against Crowley as noise, distractions, diversions etc.
My only interest is what kind of an occultist was he? IMO,
a brillant one! Again, IMO, that is clear just from the Book of
Thoth.
 

perdurabofan

perdurabofan said:
I'm sure they would see me as abnormal. I view all accusations
against Crowley as noise, distractions, diversions etc.
My only interest is what kind of an occultist was he? IMO,
a brillant one! Again, IMO, that is clear just from the Book of
Thoth.
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Sorry about that. I was checking the thread and managed
to re-post by mistake.
 

ravenest

"And in the cry of millions; "Master!"
looms the echo of disaster."

by .... guess who ???
 
Is that a good Thoth deck? Lovers - Andromeda