Hitler or a Saddam Hussein being beyond even the imagination of most people. Ordinary folk are simply not cut out to be true Satanists because like it or not, they possess a conscience and an intense disgust for the disgusting. Satanism in the suburbs may be an interesting diversion, but with its emphasis on dirt and darkness it can never provide the way to the Light. But whereas we all have to find our own path, and to some extent therefore make our own maps, these `rules' of Crowley's provide a sound basis for a well-lived life.
Everyone knows Crowley declared: `Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law', usually, and inaccurately, taking it to be a licence for depraved hedonism, but in fact his creed goes on: `Love is the Law, Love under Will'. He adds: `Every man and woman is a star' - echoed in diluted form in LaVey's `Each child is a minute Renaissance man'97 - explaining that in his system, `The sin against the Holy Ghost is to hinder another star from following its true will'. All too often, however, each individual `star' hinders his or her own path to their true will.
As Colin Wilson says, `Man is not small - he's just bloody lazy.'98
EPILOGUE
Notes and References
1. Eliphas Levi, The Mysteries of Magic, Paris, 1861, p. 428.
1. Professor Karl W. Luckert, Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire, New York, 199 1, p. 47.
2. Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Stargate Conspiracy: Revealing the Truth behind Extraterrestrial Contact, Military Intelligence and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, London, 1999, p. 9.
3. Barbara G. Walker, The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, New York, 1983, p. 9.
4. Alister E. McGrath, A Brief History of Heaven, Maiden, MA, USA, 2003, p. 43.
5. Ibid.
6. See Lynn Picknett, Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, London, 2003 and also Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, London, 1997.
7. Isaiah 51:3. Most biblical quotations throughout will be taken from the New International Version (1973).
8. Ezekiel 28:13.
9. 1844.
10. 'Man' will be used as a synonym of 'human' and therefore includes 'Woman'. Absolutely no insult is intended to either sex.
11. Luke 23:43.
12. Song of Songs 1:16.
13. Ibid. 4:12.
14. Ibid. 4:15.
15. McGrath, p. 46.
16. Genesis 3:1.
17. Genesis 3:4-5.
18. Ibid. 3: 6-7.
19. Ibid. 3:11.
20. Genesis 3:14-15.
21. Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth, London, 1944, p. 86.
22. Ibid., p. 100.
23. Ibid., p. 96.
24. Among other things, as the raw material for countless luxury goods such as handbags.
25. Genesis 3:16.
26. Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife, New York, 2001, p. 15.
27. Genesis 3:13.
28. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667, IX, 171-2.
29. Jean Markale, Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, trans. Jon Graham, Paris, 1986, pp. 115- 16.
30. Milton, `The Argument', Paradise Lost.
31. Walker, p. 384.
32. Homer Smith, Man and His Gods, Boston, 1952, p. 376.
33. Walker, pp. 384-5.
34. Isaiah 14:12-15.
35. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, Selected Translations, 1901, p. 304.
36. Milton, 1:144.
37. Jean Doresse, The Book ofEnoch, trans. R.H. Charles, London, 1984, quoted in Tobias Churton, The Gnostic Philosophy, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 2003, p. 48.
38. For example, St Jerome.
39. Raphael Patai, Myth and Modern Man, 1972, p. 147.
40. H. R. Hays, In the Beginnings, 1963, p. 85.
41. Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Amulets and Talismans, New York, 1968, p. 144.
42. Markale, p. 210.
43. Revelation 12:7-9.
44. Ibid. 12:4.
45. Genesis 6:1-2. This cryptic allusion has provided some of the wilder theories about divine spacemen colonizing Earth by mating with the indigenous women.
46. 1 Corinthians 11:10.
47. Vita Adae et Evae (The Life of Adam and Eve), 14:3.
48. Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan, New York, 1995, p. 49.
49. Ibid.
50. Markale, p. 117.
51. See Ibid., p. xix.
52. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition, New Haven, 1981,p.86.
53. Luke 10:18.
54. See Russell, p. 129.
55. Jack Lindsay, The Origins of Astrology, New York, 1971, p. 94.
56. Russell, p. 27.
57. Ibid., p. 28.
58. Joshua Trachtenburg, The Devil and the Jews, New Haven, 1943, p. 103.
59. See Alister E. McGrath, A Brief History of Heaven, Malden, M., USA, 2003, p. 76.
60. Romans 5:11.
61. Walker, p. 75.
62. 1 Corinthians 15:57.
63. McGrath, p. 79.
64. Walker references G.G. Coulton, Inquisition and Liberty, Boston, 1959, p. 19.
65. Walker, p. 76.
66. Many people believe the precursor to have been the Essene cult, the radical Jewish sect found mainly at Qu'mran in Judaea. In fact, there is no compelling evidence that either John the Baptist or Jesus were affiliated with the Essenes. Indeed, certain aspects of their life disqualified them from an intimate link. We know from other sources - such as John the Baptist's followers, the Mandaeans of modem Iraq - that the Baptist was a married man
