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Aiwass said:10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/index.htm
http://hermetic.com/crowley/index.html
http://lib.oto-usa.org/libri/liber0220.html
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Aiwass said:10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing.
It's also interesting to note that one year before the dictation of Liber Legis he wrote the essay, "The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic", where he attempted to explain away goetic evocation as merely the stimulation of certain brain cells. He also tells us elsewhere that the period up to 1904 saw him devote himself to the cult of absolute reason. What better time could there be to pull the rug out from underneath his feet?similia said:I find it really interesting that at the time of the dictation of the BoL Crowley had virtually given up on the practice of ceremonial magick and was focused on Buddhism.
It probably wouldn't have gone very far. But I see it more as a process (and not one unique to him either). He had to go off in the wrong direction to make his own conversion as thorough as possible.similia said:If not for the BoL I wonder what his magical career would have become.
Yeah ... it was like he was stuck at Binah ... which can happen as one can think all is understood, he needed to get widom as well ...Aeon418 said:The next few verses, including this one, are a bit of a slap in Crowley's face. At the time of the dictation Crowley's spiritual world view was essentially Buddhist. He accepted the Budhha's affimation that all was transitory and afflicted with sorrow. He also agreed with Buddhist dogma about the absence of a central self.
No, not even close. But in another sense it's spot on. 8=3 didn't come until 1906, and even then Crowley felt that he didn't deserve it.ravenest said:How does this 'pan' out with his M.T. intitiation do the dates line up at all?