Crowley- Violator of others' Wills?
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You do know the the first thing Crowley did at the abbey was, Ban all newspapers, Ie control the media.
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Unlike a fascist state though, one was perfectly free to leave the Abbey of Thelema should they wish to. Even if a fascist state allowed it, it's much less convenient to relocate from one's nation of citizenship, than it is to relocate from a house.
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and the Beatles like the hippies did NOTHING Thelemic, the spread the liberal nihlist doctrines that Nietzsche spoke out against the slave ideals of the "Last Man", even though Crowley promoted drug use, this was his greatest mistake, he lived at a time when drugs were not understood, and while sure one can test one's metal by using a drug, understanding it's effects on one's mind, finding it is actually harmful to one's health and well being, and ending the practice, the beatles and other hippies taught that drug use was in itself liberating making you a better person because you were a "degenerate elitist", not like those square who actually have their heads on straight. Further they followed that nut case the Maharishi with his bullshit that was co-opted later by the Natural law party and such utter crap as "What the bleep do we know". They were in the same category as these members of Theosophy that set up Krishnamurti as their prophet, the Maharishi was the same sort of "Negroid messiah" and not at all a model one should hold up as Thelemic.
Thelema is about virtue, values of strength and honour, like that of Aristotle, to discover which of the types of men you are and to live that type of life appropriate to the which star you are, not to allow yourself total liscence to do anything and everything to excess and fall into degenerate addictions, poor health, decadence and cut one self off from reality testing under the notion, "I believe whatever I WILL to"
Life is not focused on self and stirring up feelings in yourself, it is to go forth and manifest in the world and to actual fulfil your function, the wind blows, the fire burns, the dog barks, the woods man cuts, the painter paints, the states man directs, and the children play. There is a place for everything and each thing is happiest when it is acting according to it's function and in it's proper place, where it mutually supports and is supported by others who are acting in their proper place. That is True Liberty.
When you fall into decadence and never discern your true function and choose to drink and be merry rather than to fulfil it, when you act like the grasshopper who parties all summer, come winter you will die in the cold, and the hard working ants, with their caste system who know their function and have dedication, store up food all summer and survive the winter. The Grasshopper people like Christians and liberals think not for the morrow, and feel that others, the rich or the government will reward their decadence with charity when they fall on hard times. That slave morality is everything thelema is against. The Beatles were champions of that.
"Professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play"
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I think you should do a comic book, with the Beatles as Black Brothers, thwarting the good cause of a proto-fascist "thelemic" ubermenschen hierarchy caste-based utopia. I would get stoned and watch the animated adaptation.
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ChoRingozon....
How did the Fab Four (a band I was never that keen on...) get into this? As a point of fact, let's note that except for George, they all renounced the Maharishi after their visit to Rishikesh.
Let it be that White Album, bound and loathing
So with thy all, thou hast no right but to listen to the Zep;
For pure Jimmy, unuassuaged of minor chords, delivered from the lust of Top 20 hits,
Is every way perfect.EM
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I used the Beatles as an example of appearance of conventionalism, as a metaphor of change and attraction. But sure, if y'all can't get on the metaphor train, I can dig it.
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Takamba, 93,
Thinking back on it, the Beatles were key in the "second wave" of what burst out in late 1966/early 1967, and their conversion or near-conversion to eastern Mysticism did legitimize the counter-cultural explosion for some people. In doing so, they also possibly wrecked it. Social historians will chew over that for decades, depending where they are on the approve/disapprove spectrum in regards to it all. But ripples from that wave kept rolling for a few years before ebbing and leaving those who had truly tuned in and dropped out of the norm to gel things as they could, and explore further.
Anything that called or calls people to question their own mental and social status quo serves a purpose. The Aeon sometimes advances in leaps, and at times bit by bit, person by person, meme by meme.
93 93/93,
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Yeah the Beatles and Hippies were, and I know Froclown agrees with me on this, absolutely instrumental in advancing the Aeon, and a general Thelemic mileu, along. Big bucket of win for those Fab Four that graced their album cover with Crowley's face.
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The Beetles suck, they always did. Tepid, bubblegum, something your mother would like...
They wished they could be the Stones. Ancient history now, but just so we are clear on this most important point: the Beetles suck, they always did.
Love and Will
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@RobertAllen said
"The Beetles suck, they always did. Tepid, bubblegum, something your mother would like...
They wished they could be the Stones. Ancient history now, but just so we are clear on this most important point: the Beetles suck, they always did.
Love and Will"
You aren't digging deep enough, but you're entitled to your opinion