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Allen Greenfield's avatar

I think in general, you have nailed it. Seems to me that Crowley, if the fruits of his labour (i.e. his followers since 1947) are any indication, was a failure, except, perhaps, in his heretics, like Grant, Bill Webb, Jim Leas, Louis Culling and a handful of others, all outlaws

to the very institutions Crowley 'invented". (Actually, they were more a product of Reuss and Randolph/ Mathers and Wesrcott and Woodman, but don't te;ll; anybody')

Contrast this will Phil Dick who was an original thinker that, in a very real sense, has defined the consciousness of the present age, or Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (daughter of the Anarchist thinker John Godwin and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft), and mistress/wife of the poet P.B. Shelley, who anticipated the crisis of modernity by a century, and an inspiration for much of modern horror-pathos. And Lovecraft, a dark poet of the evil down underneath the polite lie, inspirational in a variety of ways, and reflective of others.

And Hellier. I don't know what set the Newkirks and company on their path, but, clearly, their influence on what field research is all about, and what initiation is (Hellier has initiated far more people than any so-called 'occult organizations') by initiating themselves and much of their audience in a 21st Century manner not bound up in the long dead past.

Onward, through the gates of the si;ver key to worlds undreamed of.

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Soror Pandaemonium's avatar

Damn, Pera. You smart!

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