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In a message dated 99-11-16 18:02:45 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Nevertheless it is extremely
>difficult to find any author anywhere who will admit to Crowley�s involvement
>with Hitler, despite the fact that Crowley himself confessed, or more
>accurately bragged, about it to his associates.
Phooey. I still accept as accurate what I was told by author Ellic Howe
--trustee of the archives of the Golden Dawn, who scoured the archives of
pre-WWII German secret societies looking for magickal connections to Nazism--
when I asked him that $64 million question way back in 1973. No direct
connection between Crowley and Hitler --
only flimsy circumstantial links at two or three removes, through the Thule
society and the like (as well documented by other historians of the occult).
Howe had looked for a connection and never found one, and he was certainly
aware of what Crowley may or may not have said to his associates. (Crowley,
of course, typically lied like hell about EVERYTHING, and it wouldn't be
unusual if he even claimed having TAUGHT Hitler ...)
Even as little as any contact between the OTO more broadly and the Fuehrer
can't be documented: Unless I'm mistaken, the OTO was one of the occult
groups Hitler had in fact persecuted, along with the German Freemasons.
Koenig's website can provide the
best information on that subject. Some Nazi wannabees in the group, but no
smoking
gun. On the other hand, Peter Levenda and others indicate that Crowley, in
his role as "pro-Nazi" agent provocateur for British Intelligence, certainly
WANTED to strut his stuff
to impress the Fuehrer. Apparently he only made it as far as one or two men
who may had the ear of Hitler to some degree or another -- but who never got
him an audience.
Only in the small circle of those who (often pathetically) actually looked up
to Crowley
was The Great Beast taken seriously. His collected works are a wonder of
shameless
self-promotion, and readers, alas, are too easily conned into accepting at
face value and as "real" the hyperbolic PR he concocted about himself and his
"magical experiences,"
when in fact much was deliberate FICTION -- as he himself sometimes admitted
with a wink and a cynical smirk. If Aleister Crowley learned anything in the
Golden Dawn, it was that "New Agers" were capable of believing almost
ANYTHING, so long as it was "glamorous" and offered his audience or
subordinates some sense of being "superior," participating in something
"grand" -- especially when it gave them license to be "bad."
IMHO, the facts of AC's life show only that he had an instinct for exploiting
others for
his own "lower astral" needs, by the trick of "blinding them with (occult)
science," and as time went on, he got progressively cruder, more dissolute
and more self-destructive.
"Do what thou wilt" and Thelema, after all, were first borrowed by him from
Rabelais -- from that author's satires (e.g., "Gargantua and Pantagruel")
with BATHOS (not pathos)
caricaturing the self-indulgence of men driven "beyond all bounds" by base
appetites.
Such Swiftian comedy, poking fun at narcissistic libidinal fantasy ("thelema"
in Greek means the same as "libido" in Latin), became for Crowley a reality
ending in tragedy.
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