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[featherynscale]

Your Score: The Thelemite

You scored 50 Materialism and 90 Phenomenology!

"For there are no Gods but Man"-Aleister Crowley
That sure doesn't stop you from communing with them. You are the Thelemite, committed to the Western occult tradition of Spare, the Golden Dawn, Crowley etc. Though you lead a life of elaborate ritual, you realize that truth and falsehood in this ritual are irrelevant distinctions: the only thing that matters is what works.
Now if you just loosen up a bit, you could cross the Chasm of Choronzon.
Thinkers you may agree with: Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Robert Anton Wilson
Thinkers that may challenge you: Phil Hine, Peter Carroll

Link: The Metaphysician Test written by Jaylhomme on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

For the record, I <3 Phil Hine. Of course, I am also very fond of Wilson, Spare, and even Uncle Al, at least when he's being funny. I read Crowley with the assumption that the more serious he appears to be when making a statement, the more likely it is that the statement is bullshit. The ones to watch are the ones where he appears to be making a joke. I grant that this is totally an artifact of how I think about humor in the world, but hey, it's really been working for me so far. Also, I find the word 'Thelemite' to be inherently funny. Not just because it's a close-rhyme with 'catamite', either.

(Note: I removed a big picture of Crowley from these quiz results. He was wearing an extremely embarrassing hat.)

Comments

The Frat in the Hat

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Oh dearest Soror,

What you don't realize is that Crowley earned that hat, earned, I say!

This was back when Big Al was working for British Intelligence during WWI. While much of the details behind this event are clouded in the unnecessary secrecy that makes occultists such charms to talk to... I can reveal this: In late September of 1917, Aleister Crowley was able to come face to face with none other than the Kaiser himself. One thing led to another and a Beer drinking contest was declared between the two. The stakes were pretty high - If Wilhelm won, Crowley would've been forced to grow a big walrus mustache like the Kaiser's (which would've stripped him of his 'Occult Powers'). If Wilhelm lost he would have to let Crowley take home the Nemes of Knowing (which allowed the wearer a + 2 on all saving throws from magical attack ... and just went with his 'Robe of Unrevealing').

Though Wilhelm lost after his 33rd beer (a blow even more disastrous than the failure of the Schieffelin plan). Later it turned out that the Kaiser was really Kevin Spacey... but that's another story.

All this will be revealed in "Everything I needed to learn about Thelema, I learned from Public School"

Re: The Frat in the Hat

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

There is a substantial amount of implied horror in that story...