Crowley as a Pynchon source? // GRGR 1,8 Pointsman and Spectro

[Michael Bailey]

 Kumpe3000 wrote:
> Hi,
> I came across this line in Crowley´s Liber AL, line 16:
>
> For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secred flame,
> and to her the stooping starlight.
>

I noticed an awesome lot of Tarot imagery, especially towards the end
of GR, but hadn't considered Pynchon as a Thelemite.  I've read a
moiety of Crowley, but confess that I do not understand the
application of that passage to GR.
For that matter, much of Liber AL is opaque to me.  I believe it is
supposed to be channeled material from a spiritual entity named
Aiwass, and to be the foundation of a new religion for a new Aeon. 
According to the precession of the equinoxes, the Piscean age is being
succeeded by an Aquarian age, something that Yeats also referred to,
and of course the musical "Hair"
---------

some notions
z) chess - if Pirate is a knight, how about Pointsman as a Bishop?  or
maybe as another knight, considering the balaclava (in which case,
Pudding as a Bishop?)

y) Fox - "run around the building without thinking of a fox and you
can cure anything" - like the "Arab with a Big Greasy Nose" reference
in 1,2, this is lost on me.  George Fox was a founder of the
Quakers....there's a Fox in Iraq now on the Christian Peacemaker
Team...Fox hunting is big among the upper classes (pursuit of the
uneatable by the unspeakable as Oscar Wilde called it)
Fox - connoting cleverness; also, fox is a wild canine whereas
Pointsman's dogs are domesticated canines...

x) Pointsman wants a Fox, a human subject, and specifically one of
Spectro's wards -- but what is the "bus station" passage about?  "You
have waited in these places into the early mornings, synced-in to the
on-whitening of the interior..." (V 50, 31-32) -- no I haven't, even
casting myself as Pointsman, he doesn't seem like a TOTAL pervert? 
this does seem like an opportunity to compare and contrast the "tender
ministries" of individual pederasts with the way institutions affect
the weak - how they both insinuate their volition onto their subjects.

But the hospital, and Spectro and Gwenhidwy are bound by a code of
ethics and animated by an idea that they can really help; where the
individual pederast, if I'm reading intelligently, does feel helpful,
but only momentarily ("...for the moment you really are selfless,
sexless...considering only how to shelter her, you are the Traveler's
Aid." V 51, 3-4)

I think that the bus station scenario jumps off from the notion of
Pointsman lusting after the children as experimental subjects - but
feeling more than intellectual interest ("Those drab undershorts of
his are full to bursting with need..." V 50, 19-20) - somehow equating
the sexual predator with the scientific predator.

And the sexual need of Pointsman's intellectual pursuit may be just as
much of a conditioned response as Slothrop's.

w) the writer as octopus, exuding clouds of ink...