/lit/ - Literature

>>21457205
>This book is the Gate of the Secret of the Universe.
>Let the Exempt Adept procure the Prolegomena of Kant, and study it, paying special attention to the Antinomies.
>Also Hume's doctrine of Causality in his "Enquiry."
>Also Herbert Spencer's discussion of the three theories of the Universe in his "First Principles," Part I.
>Also Huxley's Essays on Hume and Berkeley.
>Also Crowley's Essays: Berashith, Time, The Soldier and the Hunchback, et cetera.
>Also the "Logik" of Hegel.
>Also the "Questions of King Milinda" and the Buddhist Suttas which bear on Metaphysic.
>Let him also be accomplished in Logic. (Formal Logic, Keynes.) Further let him study any classical works to which his attention may be sufficiently directed in the course of his reading.

You call it intellectual wankery but I doubt you have the mental capacity to have attempted the basic preliminaries to even understand Crowley. Few people who get into magic have actually read Kant, let alone understood, and even fewer have read Hegel, yet they think they have somehow understood Crowley, and either blindly follow him or even more blindly dismiss him.

>>21244708
>There is, however, one form of miracle which certainly happens, the influence of the genius. There is no known analogy in Nature. One cannot even think of a "super-dog" transforming the world of dogs, whereas in the history of mankind this happens with regularity and frequency. Now here are three "super-men," all at loggerheads. What is there in common between Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed? Is there any one point upon which all three are in accord?

>Elaborate lives of each have been written by devotees, and there is one thing common to all three -- an omission.

>What was the nature of their power? >What happened to them in their absence?

Kant went publicly silent for 10 years- his Silent Decade.