From:    Paul Hume                              Area: MagickNet
To:      Wored                                  29 Jan 95 11:10:08
Subject: insanity                               UpdReq 

Wored -
 Some of this is interesting, some of it is standard "oooh scary boogers" 
occultspeak.
 Lovecraft's attitudes, as a neurotic, New England, snob in the first half of 
this century, are not surprising. If one views his fiction as channeling, in 
a similar sense, perhaps, to the way that Crowley's "Class A" docs were 
channeled, then sure, the impurities in the vehicle interfere with the 
message. Crowley's sexism, racism, and Edwardian class snobbery gets in the 
way of his work, quite as much as Lovecraft's hypochondria, racism, and 
intellectual snobbery about "work" got in the way of his work as a writer, 
much less anything else that was going on.
 So?
 The OTO origin of Simon's Necronomicon is bullshit. Another fable by the 
Cthulhu brigade. Prove it or drop it. The work has no role whatever in th 
OTO. Exercise your imagination on someone else's tradition - or initiate, and 
learn for yourself.
 If you are referring to Kenneth Grant, you are on firmer ground - then please 
say so, since Grant represents his own line of OTO, with no connection to 
Crowley's work or the other OTO branches out there. If you know Simon is 
Kenneth Grant (and Mr. Grant has, I believe, denied this, and given his own 
writings on the Cthuloid phenomenon, certainly has no need to hide behind a 
psuedonym) then say so - don't play coy.
 Your remark about Dee being unworthy of transmission ignores - for whatever 
agenda of your own - his intellectual gifts, his work as one of the principle 
mathematical navigators of the time, his single-minded pursuit of the 
mysteries, however wrong-headed you find his Christianity (and you didn't get 
slandered in the newspapers for breaking cover back then - you got burned for 
heresy or hanged for witchcraft). This is like objecting to Freud's missed 
shots in implementing his break-through conception of psychology. All the 
midgets who stand on the shoulders of giants, the better to denigrate their 
seminal works, are a bore, in magick as in anything else.
 That Lovecraft knew nothing about Sumerian religion is apparent to anyone 
reading his works. That is almost entirely a Kenneth Grant invention (is that 
what you meant about OTO connections?).
 So yes, a lot of us do know the score, but seem to be watching a different 
game than you are.
 Paul


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