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    Maya93
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    I have never once read Crowley refer to Thelema as a "current." Does anyone know where the use of "93 Current" & "Thelemic Current" originated? Did it come from Kenneth Grant? Is it borrowed from Chaos Magick?

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    Jim Eshelman
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    It might be a post-Crowley term; I'd have to research. It dates at least from the late '60s and is a 60s-esque sort of word. It clearly predates Chaos Magick.

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    Maya93
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    Very 60s-esque! Thanks for your thoughts. If you come across anything, I'd love to know.

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    Jim Eshelman
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    When I was Master of Baphomet Lodge O.T.O., I used to say that we were the home of the "220 A.C. current" 👿

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    The earliest bit of literature I have encountered which uses the term 'current' in such context is Eliphas Levi's Transcendental Magic, specifically the chapter on Magical Equilibrium. I'm not sure when it came to be applied to '93 current', but is an apt term I suppose.

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    Jim Eshelman
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    The original question was about the phrase "93 current," not just the word "current."

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    Not sure if this will be helpfull or not but the law systems use the word current is the same as electrical current is taken from the Law of the Sea current... in this i'd read into the lines

    ""I spent the summer in a tent beyond Montauk at the extremity of Long Island. The Magical Retirement made it clear that the current was exhausted. I had finished my work in America and began to prepare my escape.""

    to mean the "flow" of magick possibly exhausted, ie producing little to nothing substantial...?shrugs normally words inter-relate in such ways

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