It is not without good reason that the symbolic use of a form of immutable biological characteristics within a teaching such as Magia can cause suspicion or even alarm for those with marginal identities.
Hi Alan. Your writing encourages me to consider what I understand which is "right", by which I mean is consonant whilst not degrading that knowing. At this moment in time this statement couldn't be any more pertinent: "The knee-jerk reaction is therefore to change any symbolism that can be interpreted in a tyrannical fashion; but this is merely to commit the same error, making oneself a literalist." I had reached such a conclusion myself already but the value in this context is understanding how such culturally default actions might degrade the fragile and subtle relations I am hoping to grow. Here you ask me to understand the *opposite* of that hope and how it comes about, illustrating why I find so much conflict in that progress both from within and without. I just thought it would be a service to you to explain that this is salutary and timely. Thank you.
"(indeed, it was Crowley’s sexual abuse at the hands of a well-known and respectable priest that fed his hatred of Christian hypocrisy on the subject)." Please could you provide me with a source for this as it would serve a point of research I am making. I have tried searching for details of this online but have come up short of the perpetrators Name. Thank You.
pg. XX, Preface. Crowley, A. The World's Tragedy, Falcon Press, 1985.
Fred Robinson, Crowley's tutor and brother of the Very Reverend Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster. Attempted sodomy of a minor in his own mother's house.
The Preface is recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand the horrors of his childhood.
Hi Alan. Your writing encourages me to consider what I understand which is "right", by which I mean is consonant whilst not degrading that knowing. At this moment in time this statement couldn't be any more pertinent: "The knee-jerk reaction is therefore to change any symbolism that can be interpreted in a tyrannical fashion; but this is merely to commit the same error, making oneself a literalist." I had reached such a conclusion myself already but the value in this context is understanding how such culturally default actions might degrade the fragile and subtle relations I am hoping to grow. Here you ask me to understand the *opposite* of that hope and how it comes about, illustrating why I find so much conflict in that progress both from within and without. I just thought it would be a service to you to explain that this is salutary and timely. Thank you.
Nice comment, thank you!
"(indeed, it was Crowley’s sexual abuse at the hands of a well-known and respectable priest that fed his hatred of Christian hypocrisy on the subject)." Please could you provide me with a source for this as it would serve a point of research I am making. I have tried searching for details of this online but have come up short of the perpetrators Name. Thank You.
pg. XX, Preface. Crowley, A. The World's Tragedy, Falcon Press, 1985.
Fred Robinson, Crowley's tutor and brother of the Very Reverend Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster. Attempted sodomy of a minor in his own mother's house.
The Preface is recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand the horrors of his childhood.
Thank You.