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So you say he fooled all the people with magic, and he waited on Satan's call? > Someone asked why Crowley is perennially popular on HN. Because people are wa
by msla 3y ago
So you say he fooled all the people with magic, and he waited on Satan's call?
> Someone asked why Crowley is perennially popular on HN.
Because people are waiting for a Marvel to take them to space.
- b800h 3y agoHe certainly didn't fool all the people. And those he did fool were largely fooled by sophistry, not magic.
- throwanem 3y agoTrue, but there remains value in questions on the mode of thought that leads to such activities: "Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head?" And, too, given the general preoccupation necromancy seems to exercise both on practitioners in learned circles and on the public imagination, it's not a surprise to see so often asked, "Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead?"