Crowley wrote favorably of Helena Blavatsky, but was rather put-out at the average theosophist's lack of practice and experience. Could you theoretically be a theosophist and practice Thelema, essentially bridging the two largest movements in modern occultism?
Do you think there would be a...
This is one of those contentious disagreements that I constantly see recur in pretty much any space where a wide variety of theistic Satanists congregate. I looked through this directory's history and was sort of surprised it wasn't already hashed out here. I'm not looking for argument, though...
Does your approach to Gnosticism lean more towards ascetic or libertine practices? Neither? If you're from a particular school of Gnostic thought, has that school of thought historically leaned towards either? Why?
If you lean towards more libertine practices, do you believe that you (or...
I'm February. I generally consider myself a "traditional Satanist," although I'm also fond of the term "devil worshiper" or "historical Satanist." And you might say, woah, historical Satanism? Give me a break. Who's this chick? Just another unsubstantiated claim to tradition.
I do think there...