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that's nice.
it's good that you did a little bit of work on crowley. and to be clear, i don't really have an iron in this fire to the extent that i don't personally do the magick thing. but i have alot of friends who do in various ways.
so what i'll tell you is that you're pretty misinformed about the reality of groups like the o.t.o. first, they aren't cults. quite the opposite. they're more dominated by an anarchisant sensibility that way, so they're less coersive than are most christian sects on members. but it follows from the central dicta, you know? do what thou will shall be the whole of the law and all that. hardly makes sense to get all you will burn in the fires of hell unless you believe the way we tell you to based on that, now does it?
second there's little point in denying that it's entirely possible that people with varying types of damage can latch onto oto, just as it's entirely possible that people with damage can latch onto anything else.
the main reason i never bothered with oto practices is the emphasis on oaths in their rituals first, which presuppose a kind of belief that i simply dont have. most of the folk i know who are more religiously inclined, so are more likely to play along with those games, believe in a whole lot of entities which they say are fun to play with or enable different things or whatever.
my experience with these folk is that they're an interesting quirky bunch who are basically religious folk but who have decided for whatever reason that they want to be all "dark" about it. some a pretty sophisticated, some aren't. alot of them i know anyway like dressing up in curious outfits.
so i see no connection between oto or crowley even and the particular creepiness of individuals. i know creepy baptists. seriously. baptists that concerned me way way more than 99% of the people in the oto that i have met. go figure.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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