1) I was just about to mention that you seem to be mistaking Lam for Aiwass. It's important to keep your ultraterrestrials straight -- you wouldn't want to confuse Orthon with Sananda, now would you? ;-)
2) Crowley was a very, very, very minor figure in British intelligence -- during the First World War, MI6 hired him to infiltrate organizations suspected of German sympathies in the United States, to help them try to bring the US into the war on Britain's side. Everyone in Britain knew him as a loose screw who couldn't be trusted with anything really important, but they needed all the help they could get. (To do Crowley credit, he seems to have done a decent job.)
3) Um, if the best evidence you can find for CIA involvement in the occult is the contents of Osama bin Laden's library, you really need to look harder. There's plenty of documentation for CIA experimentation in remote viewing, for example -- here's their official report on the subject, declassified in 2002 -- and if you do an online search with the string "CIA remote viewing" you'll find many other declassified papers. You might also look up Project Stargate and the First Earth Battalion project, which were Defense Department rather than CIA. (No, I wasn't involved in any of this, but I knew the late Gen. Albert Stubblebine, who was involved in the project that got turned into the film The Men Who Stare At Goats -- he was better at psychic spoonbending than anybody else I've ever encountered.)
But of course none of that relates to demons in the CIA. There I think you've been reading too many old Hellboy comics -- certainly I know of no evidence that they've dabbled in that end of magic.
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Re: Magic at the end of empire
Date: 2022-07-04 07:29 pm (UTC)2) Crowley was a very, very, very minor figure in British intelligence -- during the First World War, MI6 hired him to infiltrate organizations suspected of German sympathies in the United States, to help them try to bring the US into the war on Britain's side. Everyone in Britain knew him as a loose screw who couldn't be trusted with anything really important, but they needed all the help they could get. (To do Crowley credit, he seems to have done a decent job.)
3) Um, if the best evidence you can find for CIA involvement in the occult is the contents of Osama bin Laden's library, you really need to look harder. There's plenty of documentation for CIA experimentation in remote viewing, for example -- here's their official report on the subject, declassified in 2002 -- and if you do an online search with the string "CIA remote viewing" you'll find many other declassified papers. You might also look up Project Stargate and the First Earth Battalion project, which were Defense Department rather than CIA. (No, I wasn't involved in any of this, but I knew the late Gen. Albert Stubblebine, who was involved in the project that got turned into the film The Men Who Stare At Goats -- he was better at psychic spoonbending than anybody else I've ever encountered.)
But of course none of that relates to demons in the CIA. There I think you've been reading too many old Hellboy comics -- certainly I know of no evidence that they've dabbled in that end of magic.