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- From: joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller)
- Subject: Re: Pentagrams
- In-Reply-To: anzlovar@wl.com's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:24:55 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:49:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.162455.7996@wl.com> anzlovar@wl.com (Bob Anzlovar)
- writes:
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- > The pagan movement got rolling more during that time, but its origins go
- > a little further back than that (but I'm not one of those who say it
- > goes back for generations). Much of the pagan movement goes back to
- > Gerald Gardner (I think that's his first name) & there are those who
- > contend he stole much of his material from Crowley.
-
- he didn't steal it. he hired crowley to write up some rituals etc for him.
- some of "gardner's" rituals contain passages in enochian, which are in
- crowley's unmistakable 'self-pronouncing' spelling (ie, the enochian word
- 'vorsg' (properly pronounced, approximately, "vorsg") is spelled 'vaoresaji'
- or something similar. this, by the way, is taken from s. l. mcgregor-mathers
- guidelines to pronouncing enochian). crowley was rather penurious in his later
- years.
-
- > In the last two issues of _Green Egg_, there're a couple articles which
- > put forth the thesis that _Stranger in a Strange Land_ is really about
- > Thelema, but doing so without pushing the hot-buttons that most folks
- > have about Crowley. (Altho Crowley *is* mentioned once in the book.)
-
- that's pretty obvious to anyone with even a slight aquaintance with both.
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- josh
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