In chapter 43 of Magick Without Tears, Aleister Crowley dealt with the question of what order of existence “angels” belong to, and particularly “whether they are liable to accident, misfortune and the like.” This chapter has caused some of the most mischief in terms of encouraging fanciful and supernatural interpretations of Crowley’s work than almost […]

In The HGA as an individual, we touched on the difficulties involved in assessing communications from the “Holy Guardian Angel”, however one defines that. In this entry, we will look more closely at the idea of the “external praeternatural being” theory. In his Confessions, Aleister Crowley writes the following: To return the the general question […]

Original poster wrote (responding to a citation of this post): Interesting, although I’m sort of grasping at the concept. It gives me the idea that, since the true nature is clothed in self-awareness (er,that’s how it reads to me, I’ll happily be corrected if I’ve picked itup wrong), one may be able to develop another […]