A question for my Thelemite friends
Monday, April 19th, 2004 08:02 amWhile I'm pleased that one of my students decided to write his essay on Crowley, I'm pretty sure that he didn't, in fact, write it. Googling hasn't turned up anything, which looks like he he is one of those old-fashioned students who actually copies from a book rather than the web? Do the following passages ring any bells?
Living in a way that was outrageous to the people of his day, he crops up as one of the most striking bridges between the old culture and the new, one whose place is not fully recognized in the life of his own generation, yet whose influence is long reaching, out of the heyday of the imperial era into modern mass society, the post imperial pop age.
The path of dishonor is the way to search out the deeper questions of value and the worth of life; it is that of the religious reformer. The Christ chose dishonor, and was prepared to sacrifice millions of people in the name of God, which was his name for his mission. The Crowley's dishonorable acts were not meanness; they are witnesses to his sense of destiny.I kind of like "The Crowley" - you could get a film out of that: "The Passion of the Crowley".