Abbadie - A Traves del Cerco - Babalon murdered, news at eleven

I just saw at one of my contacts' lj (I'll omit her name to spare her any flaming) that she posted about some acquaintance of hers with weird habits who idolizes Aleister Crowley, some sicko who wants to kill christians and live on drugs or some such thing.

Now, I know Crowley has a zillion of sick fans of that kind, morons who read his stuff literally and then want to use him as an excuse to ruin their own lives. Sad, sad.

Now that's just my point. These sorry people read Crowley LITERALLY. They don't stand a chance when it comes to understanding his writings, where NOTHING, not a SINGLE fucking thing, is straightforward. No wonder his Liber Legis disgust so many people. Crowley himself stated that he was repulsed by many things said in the book, but he of all people certainly understood that nothing is what it seems -just like in the theme song of a certain dumb Mexican TV talk show somebody just mentioned to me in perfect synchronicity.

What I find sad is that intelligent, knowledgeable people also misread Crowley, and take his received writings literally.

No, I am NOT a thelemite, never have been, never will be. But I can certainly relate to a lot of things in those weird, labyrinthic books. I think Crowley would have been a very interesting person to debate with. One of the few people I've heard about who would get certain things. I've heard some reconstructionist pagans call him eclectic, just like I've heard christians call him evil or disgusting. Sad, that none of them saw through the mocking veneer of mixed symbols and subtle letter shifts, as what he was - a revivalist of a very solid, very powerful magical current stemming from one of the oldest human cultures. He messed up, yes he did; and lots of times. He tried the wrong things again and again. But he also left a priceless legacy.

I see somebody call Liber Legis a "book of shit" and, damn it, I find it offensive. No book of philosophy and beliefs should be dealt with like that. Not the Bible. Not the Book of Tao. 

Not Liber Legis.

You were "visited" by the Liber Legis' entities and you killed them, you say. I say, you were probably visited by what you drew through the emotions caused by not understanding the book, by taking its words at face value.

You know, I heard awful things about santeria from my wiccan acquaintances way back when; they described the Loa as evil, "low-vibrational" beings... but I didn't stick with what I heard and with the creepy semblance they displayed,. I looked beyond it and found something quite close to the path of Cunning that I currently walk as a witch... something that maybe makes us spiritual cousins of a sort. Something that leads to the same crossroads, whether it be the Witch-Master or Attibon Legba awaiting there for us.

We should be beyond condemning what appears unsettling or sinister at first glance; we are all too often the subject of such condemning.

Think about it.

Región de Elfhame:: Hadit

Temperamento:: gloomy

La Voz del Viento:: The hum of Current 93 rushing past