Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00147)

Yes.  Saint Augustine, in contrast, wrote, Love and then do what thy will.
Love is the difference.

Gene



-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
To: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Aleister Crowley and Theosophy.


>LeonMaurer@aol.com wrote:
>> 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.
>
> A) Crowley had long since left the Golden Dawn when Hitler came around.
>
> B) The Nazi's twisted the Golden Dawn beliefs just as much as they
>twisted the Theosophical beliefs. The difference was that there was a
>non-Nazi Theosophical Society, but there was no Golden Dawn (Crowley
>having had gone to the OTO by then). Aleister Crowley, in fact, was the
>one who came up with the two-finger "V" symbol to act as a counterpart
>to the swastika.
>
> C) Crowley wasn't anywhere near as bad as the press painted him. He DID
>have a quick mind, a sharp wit and a nasty temper, which gained him a
>lot of enemies. He also cloaked his writings in a veneer of evil, so
>that those who just skimmed would not understand what he wrote, and
>those looking for evil would not be able to use it. He was also openly
>bisexual in a society where it was scandalous to be openly sexual.
>
> Bart Lidofsky
>
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