noted that one of the greatest influences upon Grant, aside from voodoo,the Black Snake Cult, and other things which we will not go into here, hasbeen the work of Austin Osman Spare. It should also be noted, and I refer the reader to pages 109 through 117 of
Magick Without Tears
(LlewellynPublications, 1973 E.V., Letter No. 12), that a Black Magician and a BlackBrother are not the same thing and should not be confused. Crowleycompares them to the sneak thief and a Hitler, respectively. He tells us thatone who is about to become a Black Brother constantly restricts himself,satisfied with very limited ideas and is afraid of losing his preciousindividuality. He goes on to say that the Black Brother probably deserts hisAngel when he realizes just what must be done, i.e. the destruction of theego and all that pertains to it, and that, perhaps, from the very beginning, itis actually his Evil Genius which he has evoked. When this is done the manbreaks off all relations with the Supernal Triad and attempts to replace it byinventing a False Crown of Daäth, as it is called in Qabalistic literature. Tosuch men as these, that is, Black Brothers, Knowledge is everything andA.C. reminds us that this Knowledge is nothing but the very soul of Illusion. These adepts-gone-wrong, as it were, abstaining from the truenourishment of the Supernal Triad, lose their structual unity and must thenbe fed by continual doses of dope in miserable self-preservation. Theydeclare Choronzon to be the child of Understanding and Wisdom, when infact "he" is the shell or excrement of the Supernal Triad, and the bastard of the Svastika. What A.C. then tells us is most important for he says thatDaäth and Choronzon are the Whirlpool and the Leviathan which is writtenof in the Holy Qabalah.Consider all of this as a prologue from the highest possible authority of Thelema and the 93 Current once incarnate upon this plane. Now let usexamine Mr. Kenneth Grant through three of his books.In
The Magical Revival
(Samuel Weiser, Inc., N.Y., 1973 E.V.), on page 2,Grant writes,"Although having drawn upon these and other obscure sources[A.O.S., the Vama Marg, i.e. the Left Hand Path, etc. - M.E.D.], I havenot overstepped the limits beyond which the occultist trespasses ongrounds as unsafe to himself as to others."A very nice way to open a very informative book, but it seems to me thatperhaps Grant
has
taken but one step too many and had indeedoverstepped those limits. As I have said, this book, as all of Mr. Grant'sbooks, is very informative. Kenneth Grant is undeniably a very
Knowledgeable
man - and I stress that word and point out its root:KNOWLEDGE. This book is very good, certainly one of the best (if one of the few) Thelemic works ever published since the death of Aleister Crowley,although considering others this is not necessarily saying much, but in itcertain odd things will be seen to emerge. One such thing is his growingobsession with the Dog Star, Sothis or Sirius. In a footnote on page 8, for
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