"Perdurabo" was great. How was that Agent 666 book? I've been curious about it for some time. I love Crowley from an anthropological pov, not as a diehard Thelemite. Dude was so not a pukka.
I'll be frank, I haven't even got through Perdurabo yet, much less Agent 666. Mostly I'm dipping into them for analogous feelings and incidents in the life of Giordano Bruno.
Can't say I share the enthusiasm for Crowley even as a curiosity - he strikes me as a bored rich dilettante who was so much less interesting than he claimed to be - which is why I see him as a John Dee analogue. (Not that Dee was a rich heir to anything or a dilettante, but simply he didn't have the power or charisma his admirers claim, which is what's similar in Crowley).
Definitely recommend for you a watch of A Dark Song, I think it'd be right up your alley.
Yeah, Crowley is interesting to me only as someone who must have had his scruples surgically removed. He flung a bunch of spaghetti against the wall and his modern-day acolytes have seen to it all sticking.
I'm with you on magic not being my cup of tea. Maybe I'm to skeptical, but rituals do nothing for me.
Being a visual person, I find Paul Foster Case's stuff to be right up my alley. Throw that in with some Vedanta and Buddhism, hit 'puree', and it’s a shake that fills my spiritual tummy up with nary a belch.
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"Perdurabo" was great. How was that Agent 666 book? I've been curious about it for some time. I love Crowley from an anthropological pov, not as a diehard Thelemite. Dude was so not a pukka.
I'll be frank, I haven't even got through Perdurabo yet, much less Agent 666. Mostly I'm dipping into them for analogous feelings and incidents in the life of Giordano Bruno.
Can't say I share the enthusiasm for Crowley even as a curiosity - he strikes me as a bored rich dilettante who was so much less interesting than he claimed to be - which is why I see him as a John Dee analogue. (Not that Dee was a rich heir to anything or a dilettante, but simply he didn't have the power or charisma his admirers claim, which is what's similar in Crowley).
Definitely recommend for you a watch of A Dark Song, I think it'd be right up your alley.
Yeah, Crowley is interesting to me only as someone who must have had his scruples surgically removed. He flung a bunch of spaghetti against the wall and his modern-day acolytes have seen to it all sticking.
I'm with you on magic not being my cup of tea. Maybe I'm to skeptical, but rituals do nothing for me.
Being a visual person, I find Paul Foster Case's stuff to be right up my alley. Throw that in with some Vedanta and Buddhism, hit 'puree', and it’s a shake that fills my spiritual tummy up with nary a belch.