I just read a post in which a Thelemite made the statement of "We are not equal." It was used in the context that some people are better than others
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Picking and Choosingkeith418August 14 2004, 19:44:33 UTC
I don't think I'm "picking and choosing" - actually I'm trying to see what the root of is of the choices we make when we read AC and what we think is important and what we feel isn't. Why are his statements, for example, regarding Nietzsche "blipped over"? Isn't there, perhaps, a "sweeping judgment" going on there? I think many people in the community believe that they can dismiss a lot of what AC wrote regarding equality and Nietzsche and I think that kind of "picking and choosing" may be an error.
"No sweeping judgments" seems like a, well, "sweeping judgment." "No judgments" is, in fact, a judgment. There is, I believe, an inescapable logic to these kinds of problems that Crowley saw. If we miss it, we miss an important part of his message, if not a critical one.
Read Chapter 48 of Magick Without Tears - if you haven't already. Is he right there or wrong? If he is right - then what is he right about, exactly,and how is he right? If he's wrong, why and how is he, exactly, wrong? I think this is an bigger, and more far reaching, set of issues, in its implications down the line, then many are prepared for.
"No sweeping judgments" seems like a, well, "sweeping judgment." "No judgments" is, in fact, a judgment. There is, I believe, an inescapable logic to these kinds of problems that Crowley saw. If we miss it, we miss an important part of his message, if not a critical one.
Read Chapter 48 of Magick Without Tears - if you haven't already. Is he right there or wrong? If he is right - then what is he right about, exactly,and how is he right? If he's wrong, why and how is he, exactly, wrong? I think this is an bigger, and more far reaching, set of issues, in its implications down the line, then many are prepared for.
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