[kj] "a very dubious character"

[Greyson Stoehr]

Aleph:

Before anyone beings to think I'm some kind of
closed-minded, opinionated idiot, you should know that
my comments were based out of knowledge of the Abra
Melim and the cautionary story told of the
practitioner who changed his basic belief system...and
ended up dead.  The cautions throughout that book warn
against it, and I was specifically pointing that out
to Jaz, although my earlier synopsis of our
conversation did not tell you that.  SL
MacGregor-Mathers may have produced that book's
translation, but it was very fundamental to Aleister
Crowley to use the working of the Abra Melim in the
first place.

I was only reporting what was told to me by Jaz so
that it could be seen where HE, himself, had drawn a
line.  I wasn't presenting anything I said or did as
being anything more than it was.

Grey

> From: Djehuti111 <djehuti111@yahoo.com>

> > Jaz decided it was time to go 'back to his
> > roots' and become a Muslim.  He'd more or less
> > renounced Thelema by that point, and when I argued
> > that I saw what he'd done as a regressive move, he
> > couldn't believe it.
> 
>  Personally, I'd have a hard time hearing that from
> someone too.
> 
>  I feel that I'm the only person qualified to make
> judgement calls about something as personal as my
> own
> spiritual beliefs.
>  In my mind, what that boils down to is someone
> telling me that they know better than I about how to
> live my life or which pantheon of God/dess' speak to
> me.
> 
>  Liber AL has the following to say on such matters:
> 
> "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
> 
> "...So with thy all; thou has no right but to do thy
> will." 
> "Do that, and no other shall say nay"
> 
>  That aside, remember that Crowley himself had both
> a
> great respect for Islam and had considered becoming
> a
> Muslim at one point himself.


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