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Originally posted by greatlakes
From what I understand, these are the copyright owners of all of A. Crowleys works. They are known as OTO and have about 3000 members all over the world. They are like a masonic fraternity or a religious one...
And Pan by noon and Bacchus by night
Fleeter of foot than the fleet-foot kid,
Follows with dancing and fills with delight
The M?nad and the Bassarid;
And soft as lips that laugh and hide
The laughing leaves of the trees divide,
And screen from seeing and leave in sight
The god pursuing, the maiden hid.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Mmmm.. no, they are not really all that much like Masonry, just because Crowley was one. They are not associated with us, just with Crowley's teachings.
Originally posted by Karilla
One of the rites in the book was how to become invisible, with the aid of the head of a hanged man, preferably well rotted. Beans are placed in the eyes nose cavity, etc. and then a complicated ritual is performed, after which the beans, when placed in one's own mouth, are supposed to make you invisible. Another was to make naked virgins appear in your bedroom. So yes, he was definitely a black magician. I seem to recall that there was a rite for summoning the devil!
Originally posted by Rockpuck
*shrugs* .. why is he always associated with Masonry then.
That is not from any of Crowley's work
The Dover edition (1976) begins by eliminating "Do what thou wilt ..." and instead adds "Magick in Theory and Practice" on page i. This edition redesigns the main title page on page iii and eliminates the triangular symbol under the authors name. Like the Castle edition it also eliminates the full title page for The Hymn to Pan, followed by a blank page and thus the poem begins on page v. The full title page for the Introduction and the blank page as found in the
Subscriber's edition are also eliminated in this edition. However, like the Castle edition the original page depicting the Signs of the Degrees found in Volume One of the original printing (of the four) is now added in on pg.viii. The Intro itself also begins on page ix. The Contents are also abridged to one page, pg.xxvii.