It is impossible, within this framework, to explore and come to understand his writing and his work to any acceptable standard at all. We cannot say for certain, any more than the still growing number of biographers, what is true and what is not, in the host of sensationalized stories about Aleister Crowley. We cannot separate the man from the body of myth and rumor that accompanies his life. Unfortunately, we cannot accomplish here, in a few short pages, even what Regardie did to “set the record straight”, much less what he did not, in this regard. He is even less understood with the general public. Aleister Crowley is no less controversial among the growing number of students of the Western Mysteries. Thirty years later, it seems that this record is no clearer. Thus begins Israel Regardie’s treatise on his former teacher and mentor. He was one of the greatest mystics of all time, although a very complicated and controversial person.” For me, the time has come to raise my voice in the interest of clarifying the record of Aleister Crowley. By Laurette Rockwitz”There is a time to speak and a time to remain silent.
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