Crowley

[jd]

http://www.mt.net/~watcher/crowleyhubbard.html

a lot of Dianetics comes from Book of Lies

and here's an avowed Crowley-Antonite:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3039306070586717772&q=label%3Adisinformation

I think that I enjoyed Anton / Crowley until I realized that a good
number of people took them seriously, and Quantum Physics / Cosmic
Trigger made me think that Wilson / Crowley took themselves seriously,
too.

On 8/11/06, The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com> wrote:
> JD writes,
>
> > that Crowley was primarily a dingbat (and I've read Book of Lies) and
> > not much else... from Crowley spawned Scientology (If you're confused
> > I could supply a link), anyways, and I apologize if anyone on the list
> > is a Scientologist, but that shit is messed up and you should be aware
> > of it.
>
> Wow! Man -- Crowley was a lot more than a dingbat. I would recommend the
> "Book of Lies" to you, but clearly you don't regard it the same way I do --
> a sublime work of poetic mystery, suffused with humor.
>
> http://www.meta-religion.com/Esoterism/Thelemae/the_book_of_lies.htm
>
> I'm not going to say that Crowley was an awesome dude -- he was a
> manipulative egomaniac who destroyed a few lives and always had one foot in
> the world of the carnival barker. But he also wrote some pretty interesting
> things, and his life and work are worth studying.
>
> And -- as much as I am amused by Scientology, I really don't think you can
> blame Crowley for it! That's a further stretch than blaming Brian Eno for
> New Age music, or De La Soul for the prevalence of skits on rap albums.
>
> --Quail
>
> 45: CHINESE MUSIC
>
> "Explain this happening!"
>
> "It must have a 'natural' cause."
>
> "It must have a 'supernatural' cause."
>
> Let these two asses be set to grind corn.
>
> May, might, must, should, probably, may be, we may safely assume, ought, it
> is hardly questionable, almost certainly -- poor hacks! let them be turned
> out to grass! Proof is only possible in mathematics, and mathematics is only
> a matter of arbitrary conventions.
>
> And yet doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a
> nagging wife. "White is white" is the lash of the overseer: "white is black"
> is the watchword of the slave. The Master takes no heed.
>
> The Chinese cannot help thinking that the octave has 5 notes. The more
> necessary anything appears to my mind, the more certain it is that I only
> assert a limitation.
>
> I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and
> danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.
>
>      --Crowley, "Book of Lies"
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