Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00149)

No I beleive Crowley wrote : Love is the Law Love under Will.

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> [mailto:owner-theos-talk@theosophy.com]On Behalf Of Eugene Carpenter
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> Subject: Re: Theos-World Aleister Crowley and Theosophy.
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> Yes.  Saint Augustine, in contrast, wrote, Love and then do what thy will.
> Love is the difference.
>
> Gene
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> -----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.
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> >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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