Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00135)

In a message dated 06/13/00 8:37:29 PM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>ernesto wrote:
>> Do any of you know if in this list has been previously discussed 
>> Aleister Crowley's teachings in relation with Theosophy?  Do any of you
>> know what he opined about HPB's teachers? Or the Mahatmas' opinion about
>> himm, if any?
>
>   Aleister Crowley claims that a Master gave secrets to the Golden Dawn,
>and there was a LOT of cross-membership between the groups. The basic
>difference between Crowley and Blavatsky, in my opinion, is the
>importance of the practice of magic (or magick, as Crowley spelled it,
>to differentiate it from stage magic). Blavatsky felt that magic comes
>with evolution, Crowley believed that evolution came through the
>practice of magic. Otherwise, Crowley's Thelema (Divine Will) was very
>close to Theosophy. Note, "Do what thou wilt, let that be the whole of
>the Law" refers to what Crowley calls "Divine Will"; in other words, if
>one follows one's true Will (Atma-Budhi), then one can only do the
>correct thing.

Unfortunately, Crowley's views and teachings of Magick was the reason why 
Hitler chose the Brothers of the Golden Dawn as his occult model for his 
"black magick" and the ritual mystical practices of his Shutz Staffel (SS), 
rather than HPB's theosophical teachings (even though they probably helped 
feed his "Aryan Race" concepts, as well as giving him the symbols of Nazism). 
 The upshot was that members of the Golden Dawn group in Germany were taken 
into the Nazi Party and became some of Hitler's inner circle, while members 
of the TS were placed in concentration camps, and some executed.  Heinrich 
Himmler was one of those Brothers of the Golden Dawn who helped organize the 
SS -- which used Crowley's concept of "Magick as the Mother of evolution," 
and "Do what thou wilt" as a justification of the heartless management of the 
concentration camps, and the extermination of the Jews and other so called 
"inferior races," that the SS supervised.  Its for these reasons why, in a 
previous post, I implied that in my opinion, Aliester Crowley was cut in the 
relatively similar, self centered and egotistical mind mold as L. Ron Hubbard 
-- and Hitler.

LHM  

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