taryneast comments on Crowley on Religious Experience - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Yvain 26 March 2009 10:59PM

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Comment author: taryneast 12 December 2010 03:43:22PM 3 points [-]

Sadly the link to Crowley's work is no longer valid. I've also tried the wayback machine - which also does not have a record of the link.

Crowley wrote a lot, so I'm unsure where to even begin looking for the particular essay you refer to here. Can you give me a clue where I might start?

Comment author: gwern 12 December 2010 07:02:45PM *  2 points [-]

In the OP's post, they mention that they previously produced a number of quotes from said essay.

That link points to http://lesswrong.com/lw/57/the_sacred_mundane/3jj#comments where Yvain does extensively quote Crowley.

That done, it is trivial to run a Google search on substrings, like: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22In+the+course+of+our+concentration+we+noticed+that+the+contents%22

Google instantly turns up at least 3 citations to Crowley's Magick: Book 4.

Comment author: taryneast 12 December 2010 07:16:22PM 0 points [-]

Thank you :)

Comment author: hairyfigment 27 February 2011 06:51:11AM 1 point [-]

I assume you figured out Yvain meant this, but you may not have seen my warning: watch out for the quotation marks. Don't let Crowley lull you into ignoring them.

Also, the site I linked has the vast majority of Crowley's writings for free (in html form).