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Thelema is satanic?

To: "Thelema" 
From: Tim Maroney 
Subject: Re: Thelema is satanic?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 10:01:57 -0700

>As far as I know HPL's main source for occult history was 
>Lewis Spence's Encyclopedia of Occultism.  He knew very little of Dee's 
>actual work, otherwise he would have realised that a devout Anglican 
>like Dee would never have had anything to do with something so horrid as 
>the Necronomicon is supposed to be.  Recall that he quit his Enochian 
>workings when the Angels started to contradict Christian dogma.

I'm afraid this is a mistaken account of HPL's occult studies, which are 
documented clearly both in the five-volume Selected Letters and in his 
critical essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," which Dover 
re-issued. The Letters are best approached with Joshi's Index, which is 
available from Necronomicon Press. Lovecraft was widely read in both 
traditional and modern occultism and comments eruditely on many 
well-known mangicians, including a passing and somewhat dismissive 
reference to Crowley.

I don't know what his degree of knowledge of Dee in particular was. The 
sources are recondite and they were then nowhere near as accessible as 
they are today. I would suspect he had not read Causabon, for instance. 
However, I do not understand the critical theory of horror that is 
implicit in your view of how an informed fiction writer would use a 
historical character.

--
Tim Maroney    tim@maroney.org    http://www.maroney.org

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