It all comes back to Al

[haptalaon]

Every few months tumblr will try and cancel the Beast, which is...

I don't think it's good that young people are growing and trying to flourish in an atmosphere where they are constantly on the alert for moral cooties, I think it's very scarring. It's not exactly that I think it doesn't matter: it's good to be socially aware and try to build forward, and to know our own history. But one can be forthright about problems under one guise, and still use it in others - especially for the dead.

In the case of Aleister Crowley, I find it especially irking because so much - so much of modern magic - is his, & it leads to an uncomfy situation where someone will very earnestly be cancelling Crowley with their right hand while using his art with their left. The dead aren't owed respect or reverence, nor is something better for being traditional or old. But beyond a point, you have to know where you came from, & there's no value in tabooing it wholesale either.

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I'm having a very difficult month. I'm trying to stave off the terrors by getting the spirits section of my website together, which like all website work is kinda thankless, but future me loves having it. It's too hot and too horrible to do much else but shelter behind the stone.

As part of that, I've put up a new layout of Liber Astarte - Crowley's lil book on how to do divine reverence, which I come back to constantly. & like a lot of Crowley, it's a book where I've had ideas and then come back and discovered he had them first. (In this case, it was using love songs for divinities.) & of course, its the origin point for so many altar-building practices you'll already know and which are commonplace across the Pagan movement. I'm also making an ebook version to download, so it's easier for me to have to hand.

Thank you to venerable Sacred Texts for keeping this all available.