From thelema93-l-owner@bitsy.hollyfeld.org Thu Aug 15 11:45:20 1996 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id LAA17360 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:45:20 -0700 Received: from bitsy.hollyfeld.org (bitsy.hollyfeld.org [38.240.235.1]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id LAA05548 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:43:05 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) id NAA11717 for thelema93-l-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:56:58 -0400 Received: from deliverator.io.com (deliverator.io.com [199.170.88.17]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA11713 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:56:45 -0400 Received: from pentagon.io.com (patrik@pentagon.io.com [199.170.88.5]) by deliverator.io.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA25263 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:25:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (patrik@localhost) by pentagon.io.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA16067 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:25:52 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: pentagon.io.com: patrik owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:25:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Patrick Crumhorn To: thelema93-l@bitsy.hollyfeld.org Subject: Re: Satanic Thelema? (was Just some quote) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-thelema93-l@bitsy.hollyfeld.org Precedence: bulk reply-to: thelema93-l@bitsy.hollyfeld.org Status: RO 93. On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 dsevans@clark.net wrote: > So how do you or anyone else reconcile Nuit's command to worship the > unity with Hadit and Ra Hoor Khuit's "satanic" attitude. Well, that's one of the Mysteries of Liber AL that each individual must figure out for themselves. ;-) My somewhat less-facile answer at the moment would be that each chapter of Liber AL is dictated from a different plane or point-of-view. It is indeed difficult to reconcile the tone of Chapter I with the punitive rage of Chapter III, unless perhaps they are intended to represent different magickal formulae, for use in different situations / levels of initiation / planes of consciousness. There is probably a level of perception in which the apparent disparities of viewpoint in Liber AL do indeed become reconciled, but this level of perception may or may not be a desirable "goal" to pursue. After all, a vast knowledge of the varieties of epidermal bacteria may be useful to a scientist, but that "point-of-view" could spoil the enjoyment of lovemaking if resorted to in an inappropriate context. ;-) In short, a versatile Mage is free to use any and all formulae, depending which one best suits hir Will in any particular circumstance. 93 93/93 nogah Patrick Crumhorn patrik@io.com http://www.io.com/~patrik * "I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in * * cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way * * obstructed interstate commerce." J. Edgar Hoover *