ATDTDA (33) - p. 921-2 - anarchism

[braam van bruggen]

yes I think you're right about his war career.
I was thinking along the lines of  "Do what thou wilt"
as entailing individual moral responsibility, although certainly
some accounts of Crowley don't exactly reflect that...
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: RE: ATDTDA (33) - p. 921-2 - anarchism


> braam van bruggen wrote:
>> Also, some people thought anarchism was about individual moral
>> responsibility.
>>  We take responsibility back from the state. There is a very serious
>> connection
>>  here to Aleister Crowley....
> 
> not the first person I would have thought of in that connection...
> Proudhon, Malatesta, Spooner, Rothbard, Tucker
> ...Robert Anton Wilson, maybe...
> 
> In AtD, robin's pointed out, Nookshaft may embody some of Crowley's
> characteristics,
> and Nookshaft is bound up with the British Empire at least via Crouchmas.
> Crowley, it's thought, both spied and wrote propaganda for the British
> spy machine in WWI, so wasn't exactly hostile to the State per se.
> 
> However, his plans for Thelema and OTO indicate that he was picturing
> an international Organization (like the Chums?)
> to which individuals could belong, subsist in,
> donate significant moneys and property to, and to which they would
> be perhaps more loyal to & involved with, than any nation-state...
> so in that respect, I find grounds for agreement with your statement.
> 
> Is that what you are referring to?
>