Aleister Crowley and the OTO

[scarletharlot]

I do believe I will continue to talk about this subject.

I will remark that I read, (some time ago, when i was still welcome there ) a post on a certain site on a certain topic, where I used to express certain views, and certain people took exception to them and so certain measures were taken...but, it is certain, I digress.

The poster expressed a desire to sic "Thelemapedia" on me (or I on them, I can't remember which).

Of course I immediately had to go and check the site out and see if it was worth bothering with. I also had certain questions about a certain member with certain views...but, again, it is certain that I digress once more I was not at all surprised to discover that all effort on this site had ceased and there was not sign it would resume any time in the near future, or indeed, at any time in the future period.

So, since there seems to be so little interest in the topic by its own exponents, as I said earlier, I have decided to continue to discuss freely my experiences, both inner and outer with the org. known as "OTO" and by extension, with Aleister Crowley, who did in fact reach out of the past to initiate me, exactly as was promised me would happen in the hope that by so doing, people will recognize a familiar dynamic in their own lives, and be thereby awakened to the greater possibilities, in these the last days of the 'Aeon of the Child".

For Everyone's Information: All secrets can be and are revealed at the end of an Aeon, because new ones are preparing to take their place. and it can do no more harm to speak openly of them.

[scarletharlot]

It is an interesting fact that in the notorious Ninth Degree ritual of the OTO, Crowley makes a reference to "the Lance that he has been entrusted with"; clearly the legends surrounding a 'sacred Lance' have some substance to them after all!

Thus by implication, there would also have to be a "Grail" extant somewhere, since the one only exists by virtue of the other: "One without the other is incomplete".

Thus my question is: if a "Sacred Lance" actually exists and is being held somewhere in the possesion of some Lodge or other, then who is it that has the keeping of the Grail?

[scarletharlot]

The thing that is the most laughable about the Ninth Degree is that it asserts that the "phallus' is "supreme". It is not surprising at all that Crowley and his ilk would tend to think so, being that the women of his day were sadly lacking in any sort of education and were not encouraged in any way to 'think" (not that it would have done them any too much good, and in any case, not that much has changed since then!), and in any case he was very much a product of his upbringing as an upper-crust Englishman, who were absolutely convinced they were the "acme" of humanity!

In fact when one brings thought to bear upon the subject of 'the phallus" (in the very way Crowley insists that we must) we see immediately that 'the phallus' is merely the "delivery boy", and in no way should be regarded as 'supreme" in any way, since its sole function is to DELIVER the life principle [inherent in semen] to its destination!

If anything, it is the TESTICLES that should be regarded as 'supreme' since the "life principle" that 'initiates incarnation' is actually produced in these organs-and the phallus is merely the "delivery boy"! And, these organs are analogous to the female OVARIES, which ALSO contribute their meed to the process of incarnation, and without which, nothing can happen!

Thus to proclaim "the phallus" as 'supreme" is absurd and UNTRUE in the extreme. A man without a phallus can still father children, so why bestow on it all this alleged "supremacy"? And without a woman (to get stuck with the greater part of the work, naturally) all that alleged 'supremacy' immediately comes to naught!

The Shiva Lingam, contrary to popular belief, consists of BOTH male AND female principles UNITED TOGETHER. The "banalinga" must sport the red spotches of Shakti (the feminine principle) to be considered worthy of worship. The sculptured Shiva Lingam features a "phallic" object- but that "phallus" is set into the oft-overlooked pear-shaped yoni base; thus it is the UNION of male and female that carries the power and NOT simply ONE or the OTHER of them!

I would certainly like to know if any WOMEN ever made it to this much-vaunted OTO "Ninth Degree" (I sincerely DOUBT IT) and if any ever did, I would give much to know what they had to SAY about it!

[scarletharlot]

Having read magick in Theory and Practice several times, it is becoming easier and easier to see the "holes" in many of Crowley's theories and methods. It is also becoming easier to draw certain conclusions about him.

At one point he spoke of inflicting a 'sending of cats' on a "vampire"; another time he spoke of "slaying a Circe who was enchanting brethren" by "drawing an astral Tau with an astral dagger on her door", and as a result, "she shot herself within 48 hours".

Given Crowley's penchant for talking about himself in the 'third person", it must be assumed that he himself was the "slayer of the Circe", who he claimed was an "advanced planetary demon". I would be interested to read the accounts of the people who knew him on his later years and see if they recall any such incidents surrounding his life.


The "sending of cats" remark is interesting because the great adept Dion Fortune gave at least two accounts of what was certinly such a thing in her book "Psychic Self-Defense"; she described a two-week period where loud, large, and very smelly black cats suddenly appeared in great numbers around her house, and another incident where "a tabby cat twice the size of a tiger" came down the inside staircase of her house towards her and then vanished into thin air.

At one point the cats are making their presence known for weeks on end, nonstop a huge number of black cats appeared on the rooftops "as far as the eye could see"and started howling and yowling; she took up her magickal tools "and did an exorcism right them and there" and all the cats disappeared.
Since it was well known that she was on bad terms with Moina Mathers, it is possible that Moina was responsible for the "sending" and not Crowley. (The adept that D.F. reports having had an astral conflict with in the book, and who she states as having been connected with the woman who was later found dead and "covered with scratches", was in fact Moina Mathers.) I say it was most likely Moina Mathers because I do not believe that DF had any actual contact with Crowley until the last years of her life, althought she certainly knew who he was; the "bad guy" Hugo Astley, in her novel "the Winged Bull" was apparently based on A.C..

Dion Fortune did have some contact with Moina Mathers early on in her career, but then the Mathers group et al "hit the skids' and they had a falling out... Crowley probably learned the 'sending of cats' spell from M.M.

[scarletharlot]

Having recently read "Magick In Theory And Practice" a couple of times (yes you read that correctly; I am something of a savant when it comes to reading; I can read a book like MITAP in a day or two if nothing is doing; in less than a week if there's a lot going on) I noted Crowely's lengthy explanation of the syllables 'AUMGN".

To make a long story short, Crowley entered into one of his Qabalistic digressions to explain this curious inclusion at the commencement of the Gnostic Mass. But the explanation of these mysterious syllables is much simpler than that.

The Gnostic Mass is essentially a Rite of "Western Tantra". In India, all Tantric ritual worship commences with that of Ganesha, the elephant-headed Deity who is said to be the scribe who took down at the dictation of the Rishi Veda Vyasa, the story that became the Mahabharata (The Indian equivalent of the "Iliad and Odyssey"), using a stylus made from His own broken-off tusk, because not even an iron stylus was equal to the task.

Ganesha is worshipped first because of a boon that His Mother Parvati, the Great Goddess, also known as "Shakti", requested from her husband, Shiva, the Lord of the Universe, that Her self-created Son, restored to life, would be worshipped before all other Gods.

The story of Ganesha reads rather like the story of the primordial Sophia and Ialdabaoth, except that Ganesha is not a petty tyrant, but is wise and discerning as the Lord of Malkuth, and is the Remover of Obstacles. In the form of the primordial OM (AUM) Hie is invoked at the start of absolutely everything.

The syllable "Om" (or "AUM") represents Ganesha, being the primordial sound that preceded all things.

The two letters GN form the 'seed syllable" associated with Ganesha. This is not secret knowledge by any means. It is known that Crowley studied Eastern religions in some depth; he even met Vivekananda at one point.

So it is unlikely that AC did not have some knowledge of the particular significance of these syllables; my theory is that he possibly invented this explanation, knowing no one would admit to not knowing what he was talking about, to get people to use this mantra without having to contend with their prejudice against using "heathen" magickal formulas!