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Hello , I was wondering what you guys think of A Crowley and if its any worth reading his books ?

Hello , I was wondering what you guys think of A Crowley and if its any worth reading his books ?

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From what I've seen, it's worth reading if you can be bothered wading through the rather titanic degree of arrogance...which personally, I can't.

If I'm going to view someone as a mentor, personally, their level of purely technical skill alone isn't enough. I also need them to display a decent level of humility as well, or to at least be reasonably real about themselves. Confidence to a certain level is fine; viewing yourself as an incarnate godform isn't.

I don't respect Bym or the other people I've read on this site as much as I do purely because of what I've seen of their level of ability; I also do because every one of them that I've seen manages to avoid arrogance, and remember that they are human. Crowley, in my observation, had enormous difficulty doing that, and for that reason, the size of his contributions notwithstanding, I find it equally difficult to have serious respect for him.

This post has been edited by Petrus: Sep 29 2008, 01:51 AM