Lives of the Great Beasts

Jeff Wilson · 02 Jul 2010, 21:31 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:31:50 -0500
Subject: (urth) Lives of the Great Beasts
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On 7/2/2010 2:51 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
>
>> I don't think these are the same megatherians as the eponymous seventeen
>> black magicians. Though some of the seventeen were doubtlessly in league
>> with the mountain-sized crew, and I'd have to guess that they symbolize
>> opportunist forces who bodily intrude where camel's nose, mortal sig, went
>> before.
>
> Could you explain in more detail what you mean? This doesn't make any
> sense to me at all.

Aleister Crowley, a notorious occult figure, called himself or at least 
identified with among many other labels, The Great Beast. Megatherian 
means "great beast."  At the time of BoTNS' writing "satanic panic" was 
coming into popularty, especially with other occult figures like Anton 
Lavey openly operating satanic churches and even merchandising with book 
deals like _The Satanic Bible_. Obviously these sorts of people live 
fabulously lurid, biography worthy lives, and just as there have been 
any number in centuries past like Cagliostro, surely any number more 
will continue to come over the chiliads.

The connection with the alien powers is an inversion of the 
sanctifactory true service to a false god transforming one into a 
defacto servant of the true god; a selfish, unpowered conman or gifted 
person who prostitutes their gift for personal gain and notoriety are 
thus corrupting themselves into ready tools for deception and malice in 
the service to the alien unworthy cause greater than themselves, while 
even believing they are doing good toward this "higher" purpose.

Juturna might be an example of such a person.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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