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To: alt.satanism From: Michael.Aquino@125-430.wmeonlin.sacbbx.com (Michael Aquino) Subject: RE: Temple Of Set - the view in Sweden Date: 10 Jun 94 17:30:11 -0800 moo> Just recently I read a swedish-book called Det Okanda (transl: The moo> Unknown) by Hakan Arlebrand, and found this in the chapter concerning moo> satanism. moo> The most influential groups which has developed from the satanic church moo> is The Temple of Set, which honour the egyptian god Set as a prototype moo> for the biblical Satan. The leader of the sect, Michael Aquino, is one moo> in the row of present-day magicians that represents themselves as the moo> succesor of Aleister Crowley. In difference of Lavey, Aquino counts moo> with that the spiritalpowers the moo> satanist turns to is real and not only psychological projections. In moo> the 1975 Aquino broke up with Lavey and founded The Temple Of Set. Set moo> is according Michael Aquino identical with the entity which to Aleister moo> Crowley dictated The moo> Book Of The Law. Aquino has as a medium of Set written The Book Of Coming moo> Forth moo> By Night. According to Michael Aquino Set proclaim that the age of moo> Satan began 1966. moo> Within The Temple Of Set there different orders, which all practise black moo> magic. The Temples most inner order is called The Order Of The Trapezoid. moo> This Order is trying to fulfill the germanic magical traditions and moo> binds it to moo> the occult use which was practised within parts of the SS during the moo> Third Reich. In autumn 1984 Michael Aquino visited the orderns-castle moo> Wewelsburg in Germany, where SS earlier gathered for secret rituals. In moo> the castles northern tower, called Walhalla, did Aquino preform moo> black-magic rituals. moo> / There is just one reference noted ; Drury - The Occult moo> Experience;Magic in the New Age. New York Publishing Group Inc 1989. A great many inaccuracies here, which I daresay would amuse Nevill Drury as much as the Temple of Set. [Drury's _The Occult Experience_, though now somewhat dated, is a thoughtful survey of worldwide occultism in the early 1980s. The videotape version is memorable for a sequence of the late Alex Saunders ("king of the witches") accidentally setting his jockstrap on fire while performing a fire-dance as a reincarnated Aztec. [He manages to put it out gracefully.]] Michael Aquino did not "break up with LaVey"; Anton LaVey formally broke up with Satan in 1975, thereby rendering the Church of Satan inauthentic. Hence Michael Aquino and the rest of the functioning international Satanic Priesthood and Regional Agents of the Church resigned en masse to found the Temple of Set. While it is true that because of Crowley's fame & notoriety, many contemporary occultists like to invoke his name and/or claim succession from him, his relevance to the Temple of Set is essentially as a historical philosopher and magician. We do recognize his magical philosophy collectively as the "AEon of Horus", just as that of the authentic 1966-75 Church of Satan as the "Age of Satan" and the 1975-present Temple of Set the "AEon of Set". These terms have esoteric implications as well, but for the most part are easily applied in their exoteric sense. _The Book of Coming Forth by Night_ is a working of Greater Black Magic, on the North Soltice 1975, in which the Prince of Darkness withdrew his Mandate from the Church of Satan and consecrated the Temple of Set as its successor. The Order of the Trapezoid is not "the most inner Order" of the Temple of Set. It is the oldest, dating back to the earliest days of the Church of Satan. However all of the Temple's Orders are of equal standing. Moreover, while Nazi occult research is indeed one of the Order of the Trapezoid's fields of interest, it has a great many more, as have been researched and published over the years in its _Runes_ newsletter and other Order documents. -- : Fidonet: Michael Aquino 1:125/430 .. speaking for only myself. : Internet: Michael.Aquino@125-430.wmeonlin.sacbbx.com
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