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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.satanism From: boboroshi@satanservice.org (SOD of CoE) Subject: CoS's View of Crowley Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:50:09 GMT 50000218 IVom Hail Shiva! "ShivaGirl": > ...what does the COS think about the studies and works of Aleister > Crowley? likely they regard him as a kind of poor uncle. here's some of what Anton LaVey had to say about LaVey in "The Satanic Bible": As far as Satanism was concerned, the closest outward signs of this were the neo-Pagan rites conducted by MacGregor Mathers' Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and Aleister Crowley's later Order of the Silver Star (A.'. A.'. -- Argentium Astrum) and Order of Oriental Templars (O.T.O.), [AUTHOR'S NOTE: "Ordo Templi Orientis," Crowley's take-off on the German sect of the same name, originally founded in 1902, and practicing some of the principles set forth in this volume.] which paranoically denied any association with Satanism, despite Crowley's self-imposed image of the beast of revelation. Aside from some rather charming poetry and a smattering of magical bric-a-brac, when not climbing mountains Crowley spent most ofhis time as a poseur par excellence and worked overtime to be wicked. Like his contemporary, Rev. (?) Montague Summers, Crowley obviously spent a large part of his life with his tongue jammed firmly into his cheek, but his followers, today, are somehow able to read esoteric meaning into his every word. --------------------------------------------- "The Satanic Bible", Anton LaVey, Avon, 1969; p. 103. ________________________________________ probably more is known today by the CoS about Crowley and his organizations than is evidenced by LaVey's writing here. for example, they might know that Ordo Templi Orientis actually translates to 'Order of the Temple of the East' and that the AA doesn't have group rituals (not to mention Neopagan rites). I have noticed (being a member of the order) that the officials of the OTO do distance publically themselves and the organization they are representing from Satanism, sometimes making outrageous statements despite the fact that Crowley went so far as to invoke Satan in rites like "Liber Samekh" (cf. "Book Four" Appendix IV) and identify Satan as his Holy Guardian Angel (the Knowledge and Conversation of which constituted, for him, the only noble objective of any magical enterprise, all others being "black magic"). LaVey's rip-off of Crowley's Enochian Calls in "The Satanic Bible" indicates that he thought quite a bit of Crowley's appeal to occultists and wanted to use this for his own benefit. Beyond this, I suspect that LaVeyans would probably in many cases describe what Crowley was doing "mysticism" and have little to do with it. I know it varies from CoSatanist to CoSatanist. boboroshi Satanic Outreach Director Church of Euthanasia
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