(urth) Crowley and mystery

[brunians at brunians.org]

Indeed.

I don't believe Crowley has read Dee or Bruno except as excerpted in Yates.



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> On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Zvi Gilbert wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't find either of those books particularly confusing. Wonderful,
>> brilliant, and exquisite, yes; but they're not New Sun-like. I
>> suspect a
>> discussion of it for me would devolve into quoting favorite lines and
>> swooning.
>>
>> However, Crowley's long and complex four novel series Aegypt (The
>> Solitudes, Love & Sleep, Daemonomania, Endless Things) is something
>> that I
>> would love to hash over with interested parties. As many of its
>> characters and situations are drawn from history (John Dee, Giordano
>> Bruno, and so forth), I would just like some particularly erudite
>> person
>> to lecture at me about the source material -- I suspect I would
>> learn a
>> lot that way.
>
> I, er, might be able to help.
>
> I did my Master's minor concentration in something my advisor and I
> agreed not to call "Renaissance Weird Shit."
>
> It's all a bit fuzzy now, of course, but the main point is: read
> Frances Yates.  She *did* look rather like the White Queen.  I don't
> know if her sister looked like the Red Queen.  Anyway, most of what
> you need to know about Dee and Bruno (at least for the purposes of
> reading Crowley) you can get out of Yates.
>
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