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Thelema is basically ritual magic and the direct antecedent to mid 20th century new age culture. Many of its practices are probably the basis for modern concept
by imhelpingu 8y ago
Thelema is basically ritual magic and the direct antecedent to mid 20th century new age culture. Many of its practices are probably the basis for modern conceptions of spooky sex-cult behavior. The theory side does seem to be Hinduism-lite, though. I'll give you that.
- yesenadam 8y agoThelema is basically ritual magic and the direct antecedent to mid 20th century new age culture I'm no expert, but new age? It sounds more like wicca/satanist stuff to me, nothing like new age. "Aspects of Thelema and Crowley's thought in general provided inspiration for the development of Wicca and, to a certain degree, the rise of Modern Paganism as a whole, as well as, chaos magick, and Satanism."[0] New Age, it seems to me, comes from the very different world of the New Thought of the 1880s, Blavatsky, Besant, Steiner etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema
- api 8y agoI've always thought of New Age as what you get when you puree every religious, philosophical, and occult/esoteric text together in a blender and then strain out the gritty bits. I do kind of agree that New Thought is a stronger influence on pop new age than Crowley. He's too edgy.