TeaDidikai
Interesting. I could never bring myself to say such about Crowley. Most of his stuff reads as a rehashed embittered version of the stuff that came out of the GD with bits of the Spiritualist movement and the like tossed in for good reference.
I mean, even looking through The Book of The Law, we're seeing a lot of material pulled from GD with only slight changes, such as the Empress and the Star.
His work always read to me like he lifted a formula from his time in the Golden Dawn and plugged everything and anything he could into it- including Nursery Rhymes. Tweek it here and there to account for his issues with Christianity and his sexual frustrations and Boom. Thelema.
As much as they are poorly appropriated, the traditions of the GD do have some rhyme and reason, some internal consistency.
I see Crowley jump out of that mold a few times.
It's enough to make me wonder where the bits that don't fit come from.
'Twere I to use such vulgarities, I would say a few of his items he pulled directly out from his @$$. I wonder what he digested that caused it to happen.
Your correlations cover enough, I'm just overtly circumspect.
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