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I honestly have zero clue what this comment means. why are people expected to be familiar with some bloke named crowley? Whatever does aeon if the child mean? A

by mint2 4y ago

I honestly have zero clue what this comment means. why are people expected to be familiar with some bloke named crowley? Whatever does aeon if the child mean? Are these tv show references? My best guess is either these are tv show references or the way some people try to obscure obviously objectionable/wrong statements in obscure references for people “in the know”. But I have zero clue what the statements mean. Or Was that comment posted in the wrong thread?

saulpw 4y ago
Aleister Crowley was an occultist who dealt in Western esotericism. So either you're into that kind of stuff, or know about it, or it's not really for you. And anyway, with a simple search for "Crowley", the first link was his Wikipedia entry with all this information, so it's not exactly like you had to go digging in the dark corners of some exotic private library to figure it out.
DontchaKnowit 4y ago
See the other comment, he is correct. Crowley believed that he was channeling knowledge from egyptian gods that would allow him to usher in the aeon of horus, which would be the aeon of the child. He believes we have been through eras of matriarchy and patriarchy and that we are entering the age of the child. My interpretation kf this is that this involves the subversion of the idea of objective truth, substituting it for a childlike naivete and selfishness that believes the world is created in the eye of the beholder.
- kelseyfrog 4y ago
  What a weirdly specific prophetic message from Crowley. Anyone who knows anything about an "aeon" of children immediately thinks of the line from the Timaeus[1]. > O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are but children. What's even more frustrating is that in the Timaeus, an Egyptian priest utters that line and that Crowley, channeling Aiwass ostensibly an Egyptian diety, really should have had this all sorted a bit more because it makes Crowley look like he's completely unaware of this fact. Either way, given the rise and fall of Hellenism[2] in no way should a prophecy of an aeon of the child exclude that very elephant in the room. 1. Plat. Tim. 22b https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0180%3Atext%3DTim.%3Asection%3D22b https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext... 2. Debatable whether anyone wants to argue our modern culture is a continuation or descendant of the Hellenism of antiquity.
  - DontchaKnowit 4y ago
    I think Crowley cared very little about truth, he was trying to speak things into existance.
  - DontchaKnowit 4y ago
    Also that is a very interesting quote, thank you for this comment. I have some reading to do

by mint2 4y ago

saulpw 4y ago

Aleister Crowley was an occultist who dealt in Western esotericism. So either you're into that kind of stuff, or know about it, or it's not really for you. And anyway, with a simple search for "Crowley", the first link was his Wikipedia entry with all this information, so it's not exactly like you had to go digging in the dark corners of some exotic private library to figure it out.

DontchaKnowit 4y ago

See the other comment, he is correct. Crowley believed that he was channeling knowledge from egyptian gods that would allow him to usher in the aeon of horus, which would be the aeon of the child. He believes we have been through eras of matriarchy and patriarchy and that we are entering the age of the child. My interpretation kf this is that this involves the subversion of the idea of objective truth, substituting it for a childlike naivete and selfishness that believes the world is created in the eye of the beholder.

kelseyfrog 4y ago
What a weirdly specific prophetic message from Crowley. Anyone who knows anything about an "aeon" of children immediately thinks of the line from the Timaeus[1]. > O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are but children. What's even more frustrating is that in the Timaeus, an Egyptian priest utters that line and that Crowley, channeling Aiwass ostensibly an Egyptian diety, really should have had this all sorted a bit more because it makes Crowley look like he's completely unaware of this fact. Either way, given the rise and fall of Hellenism[2] in no way should a prophecy of an aeon of the child exclude that very elephant in the room. 1. Plat. Tim. 22b https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0180%3Atext%3DTim.%3Asection%3D22b https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext... 2. Debatable whether anyone wants to argue our modern culture is a continuation or descendant of the Hellenism of antiquity.
- DontchaKnowit 4y ago
  I think Crowley cared very little about truth, he was trying to speak things into existance.
- DontchaKnowit 4y ago
  Also that is a very interesting quote, thank you for this comment. I have some reading to do