Kenneth Grant sees himself as a Thelemite in the 93 Current, a rightful heir of Crowley, and has published numerous influential books that GM Kelly claims show that he has been sucked into the Abyss, instead of crossing it as Crowley had done--in other words, Grant and his ilk have purposefully gone over to the "dark side" and become what Crowley and others thought of as "black brothers", necromancers, black magicians. Levi, Blavatsky, and others all the way back constantly warn about this danger. Grant is also obsessed by the Necronomicon and Ctulhu, and believes that Lovecraft wasn't making this stuff up, but channelling it. Basically, the Book of the Law calls for followers of Thelema to follow their own true will, become stars, and work to achieve the Aeon of Horus on Earth--but much of it, Thelemites themselves understand, was squarely in the realm of magickal practice individually and in small groups, aimed toward achieving personal freedom, through the mystical voyage across the Abyss; Crowley wrote zillions of pages on all this. Misinterpreted, however, Thelema is a dangerous recipe for the "trampling of the slaves" and for inhabiting the Abyss, ruled over by Choronzon/Typhon/Set. IN other words, that power comes from grappling with the drak forces of chaos, the 11 "Qlipothic Forces" of the Qabbala, the "Tree of Death" or the reverse of the Sepiroth, Tree of Life. The only meaningful use of "11" in the Golden Dawn is as the number of the Qlipothic Forces (demons), but the number crops up again and again in Thelema.
In any case, Grant and the various branches of the OTO that follow this logic consciously follow the Left-Hand Path, and revel in letting in the demons to this world--I believe Grant's take is that these are the space aliens who have come here to corrupt and destroy us.
Remember that most schools of esoteric thought in the West, going back to the Rosicrucians, believe in a mysterious brotherhood of ascended masters, often inhabiting central Asia, sometimes worldwide; followers of Crowley called them the Argenteum Astrum, Silver Star, believing that what he set up was simply a recent iteration). The Brothers (newer New Agers think of them as Space brothers, often on Sirius) watch over us and help us evolve, but some versions have a certain number of black brothers, who do us the necessary evil to keep us balanced. Anyway, if you don't believe in hidden forces, secret lodges guiding humanity, it's hard to be fully "into" a lot of these movements, and Typhonian OTO and its ilk are no exception. In many of these currents of thinking, doing evil is necessary and planned for and is part of a bigger master plan for achieving whatever is necessary to help us evolve.
Nazi versions are particularly disgusting, but only outstanding in that they actually were well on their way to achieving their goal.
Curiously, when you first start to read this stuff, you get the idea that people like Levi and Dee said and did evil things, but quite the opposite. It seems to me that the "dark side", the black brotherhood types, rarely write anything down, at least in a coordinated fashion. Most of their names are obscure, I guess. But the point is that Thelema, and mainstream Thelemites would say a corrupted version, is the perfect New Age vehicle for the cataclysms of the 20th century, since it is these types of cataclysms that will result in a sort of spiritual evolution of the human race, or at least the survivors--a sort of twisted version of the already twisted Book of Revelation. Don't forget that Oppenheimer says he said "I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" at the Trinity test. That's a conscious admittance that he was or let in Kali, the Hindu version of Set/Typhon/Choronzon, according to some.
Of course, you have to get in league with the dark forces, according to mainstream magic, at least in the West, as far back as I've read, make a pact with the Devil, to defeat other forces of destruction. It's dangerous business. For over a hundred years before 1945, the great enemy was socialism/communism, not anything else, and we know that that was the real evil the Western world was conjuring up demons to do battle against (excuse me, "avenging angels").
I think somewhere deep in there, in some esoteric military/intelligence (i.e. elite) current we know little to nothing about, this dark side of Thelema thrives, as it is a perfect little cult for top leaders--remember that Rome had its Mithra--for which Xtianity is way too namby-pamby. The punishment for divulging this type of stuff is generally death, and the oaths are extremely strict. I'm not sure how important Aquino is, as the Temple of Set is way too public and at times even comical.
Ob: 'Ob (Hebrew) Also aub. A necromancer, one who "calls up the dead" in order to learn from them future events; secondarily, the spirit of divination in the necromancer; and thirdly, the apparition, shade, or kama-rupa itself which is raised. 'Ob is "the messenger of death used by the sorcerers, the nefarious evil fluid" (SD 1:76), the lowest aspect of the astral light -- "or rather, its pernicious evil currents" (TG 237). As the astral light in its lower aspects was sometimes symbolized by a serpent, so was 'ob often thus symbolized. As signifying the powers of darkness, the denizens in the lower regions of the astral light, and the evil and immoral practices of necromancy, it is the opposite of the Shemitic word 'or (light, glory; to enlighten, inflame with wisdom and knowledge), used also for mystic revelations and the communication of esoteric truth.
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/oa-oz.htm
Od: Od; Odylic or Odic Force [od poss from Hebrew 'ud to surround, enclose as by a mist, emanation, or cloud] Names given by Baron Karl von Reichenbach, German industrialist and chemist, to a cosmic force or fluid which he believed he had discovered (1845). His extensive experimental investigations on the luminous emanations from the human body, from magnets, plants, and minerals, aroused much interest among students of animal magnetism. But his results depended upon the evidence of sensitives, often invalids and people in the somnambulic condition and, as is usual under such circumstances, do not coordinate well with results obtained by others. This class of phenomena cannot be considered as entirely objective, so much being dependent on the seer. He made too broad generalizations on too narrow a basis; he was, unconsciously to himself, working with effects originating largely on the astral plane and, in spite of its delusiveness, he did discover some facts which can be related to what theosophists call prana and the astral light; but he lacked the power and knowledge to coordinate them and thus to render his researches of practical use.
Od is also used, together with the Hebrew words ob ('ob) and aour ('or), by Eliphas Levi to denote aspects of the astral light. Ob is a well-known word for sorcery and necromancy, for a sorcerer or necromancer, as well as occasionally signifying an astral shade or spook. Aour, on the contrary, signifies light, brilliance, and hence revelation and the light of initiation.
In any case, Grant has Ob=9 and Od=11. If this is significant and if we are talking about a Thelemic cult within the military, then the open burn/open detonation might be significant.
9-11 would have to have been astrologically significant, but anybody who really figured that out wouldn't talk, as folks who know that kind of stuff would likely feel that the types of evil forces who engineered this are perfectly capable of destroying them through concentrated willpower. and you have to really know what you're doing to figure out the astrology, but believe me I haven't seen one ritual yet without astrological significance (as above, so below!). Probably it is the concentration of wills in the personae of John O'Neill and similar people I would take to be adepts that would have allowed the stage to be set, but there was presumably nothing physical impossible or "magica(k)al" in the act itself, on the surface. It was the doing of the act that achieved magical results, among which we can enumerate:
--the ending of a 2,000 year Aeon and the true beginning of the Aon of Set, perhaps, given that it was the first Egyptian New Year of the Xtian millennium. The way these folks move their Aeon dates around, it seems possible. On the exoteric plane, it did indeed achieve a radical cut, a coup if you will, a before and an after, and so forth.
--a set of extremely powerful symbols resonating not just with Americans but with people worldwide, so powerful that even if their logic tells them it ain't so, they see the phallic missiles penetrating Jachin and Boaz, again and again and again. They hear the sacred numbers again and again and again. Numerology, and gematria, are of central importance in the symbolism of all this. But if you read esoteric literature, again and again we are told that the secret socities, the brotherhoods of adepts, have always used symbols to teach/condition/control the masses who can't comprehend the central truths (i.e. that it is often necessary to do bad in order to achieve good).
--a massive brainwashing, a conditioning, a belief that this is setting the stage fro Armageddon, which will not be against nations but against a demonic people, the fanatical Muslims. A narrative, then, embedded much more deeply than any other contradictory beliefs.
--9-11 ushers in the Aeon of Set or whatever, but the beginning of an end of the Xtian age and the beginning of an age of us discovering our true wills, of shedding the slaverythat is not freedom. Hence, democracy, free markets, all this is good in that it allows us more and more freedom, and we continue to try to strip away dictatorships, governments that don't allow us to express our true wills. 9-11 was necessary because the old enemy, USSR, was gone, and communism was no longer a threat. That is obvious to many.
--so 9-11 ushered in a new, global war to replace the Cold War and set the stage for End Times. and the idiot Fundies of all three religions of the book are willing pawns in this, of course.
You have frequently commented about 9-11 as the founding date of the Pentagon, and the 77 foot height, and other such data. All this is significant, and perhaps the first 9-11 was the laying of the cornerstone of the Pentagon (talk about a joke--and people say there's nothing occult in it--what's occult if not stuff like that?!). It's the right era.
Anyway, it's important to remember that "magic" in this is not holograms and the like, but the concentration of wills that create new realities; the embedding of symbols that can only be achieved through an act of this nature.
Hope that helps. a little garbled, but I'm at my day job.
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