"Crowley was aware of the possibility of opening the spatial gateways and of admitting an extraterrestrial Current, into the human life wave...
It is an occult tradition- and Lovecraft gave it persistent utterance in his writings- that some trans-finite and superhuman power is marshalling its forces with intent to invade and take possession of this planet... This is reminiscent of Charles Fort's dark hints about a secret society on earth already in contact with cosmic being and perhaps perparing the way for their advent."
-Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God
"Crowley dispels the aura of evil with which these authors (lovecraft and Fort) invest the face; he prefers to interpret it Thelemically, not as an attack upon human consciousness by an extra-terrestrial and alien entity but as an expansion of consciousness from within, to embrace other stars and to absorb their energies into a system that is thereby enriched and rendered truly cosmic by the process."
-Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God
Their is definately a "message" of some sorts being communicated by us, through outside or inside sources, that seems to want to tell us about these evil beings. I so want to believe the second one, because I'm an optimist, but I just don't know.
Further expounding on Crowley and his involvement with this otherworldly beings, though, includes Dr. John Dee's communication with "Enochian Angels":
"What the Enochan angels conveyed to Dee through Kelly [Edward Kelley, who worked for Dee] was not merely a more potent form of spirit magic to rule the tutelary daemons of the nations of the earth. It was an initiatory formula designed to open the locked gates of the four great Watchtowers that stand guard against chaos at the extremities of our universe..."
"The Enochian Calls, or Keys (the angels refer to them by both titles) are 48 spirit evocatonis delivered to Dee and Kelley in the Enochian language and then translated into English word for word by the angels. The overt purpose of the Keys, declared by the angels, is to enable Dee to establish ritual communication with the spirits of the 30 Aethers or Airs who rule over the tutelary daemons of the nations of the earth. There are actually 49 Keys, but the first, the angels inform Dee, is too sacred and mysterious to be voiced. The first eighteen explicit Keys are completely different in their wording; the last 30 are similar save for the name of the Aether inserted in the first line..."
"Dee's blindness to the true function of the Keys is curious, because clues about their nature are everywhere for those with eyes to see them. The Enochian communications recorded by Dee are filled with apocalypric pronouncements and imagery. Again and again the angels warn of the coming destruction of the world by the wrath of God and the advent of the Antichrist. This apocalyptic imagery is also found throughout the Keys themselves..."
"The very name of these evocations should have been clue enough. Surely if the Watchtowers stand guard at the four corners of our dimension of reality, keeping back the hordes of Choronzon [Satan's true name acording to the Enochian angels] from descending like 'stooping dragons,' [lizards?] as the Eighth Key puts it, and if the evocations known as the Keys are designed to open the gates of these Watchtowers, we might be led to suspect that it would be a bad idea to unlock these gates..."
"What [Dee] failed to understand is that the date of the initiation of the period of change known as the Apocalypse is (in the intention of the angels) the same daye as the successful completion of the full ritual working of the eighteen distinct manifest Keys and the Key of the Thirty Aethers upon the Great Table of the Watchtowers, and that this date is not predetermined, but will be determined by the free will and actions of a single human being who is in the Revelation of St. John call the Antichrist..."
"It has always been generally assumed that the Apocalypse is in the hands of the angels of wrath, to be vistited upon the world at the pleasure of God, at a moment foredestined from the beginning of creation. In the veiled teachings of the Enochian angels this is not true. The gates of the Watchtowers can only be unlocked from the inside..."
"The angels of wrath cannot itiate the Apocalypse even if they wish today to do so..."
"Sprititual beings must be evoked into our reality by human beings. We must open the gates and admit the servants of Choronzon ourselves. Evocation and invocation are not a part of the business of angels, but of humans. That is why it was necessary for the Enochian angels to go through the elaborate ruse of conveying the system of Enochian magic, with the Keys and the Great Table of the Watchtowers, to Dee. If the Apocalypse is to take place, and if it is necessary for human beings to open the gates of the Watchtowers before it can take place, the angels first had to instruct a man in the correct method for opening the gates..."
"Despite these hints and many others, the angels never actually came out and told Dee that he was to be the instument whereby the ritual formula that would initiate the Apocalypse would be planted in the midst ofhumanity, where it would sit like a ticking occult time bomb, waiting for some clever magician, perhaps guided by the angels, to work it..."
"[Crowley] firmly belived that he was the herald for a new age of strife and destruction that would sweep across the world. He called this age th Aeon of Horus, after the Egyptian god of war. In 1904 in Cairo [interestingly translated as "Mars", the planet, by some people], Egypt he reveived in the form of a psychic dictation from his guardian agnel, Aiwass, the bible of this apocalyptic period, "Liber Al vel Legis (The Book Of the Law)". It sets forth some of the conditions that will prevail in the Aeon of Horus. It it is Crowley's famous dictum: 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.'
"It is highly siginifact that Crowley never considered himself to be the Antichrist. He is not the central character in the drama of the Apocalypse, but the herald who ushers in the age of chaos..."
"Crowley studid and practived Enochian magic more often and deeply than any other magician of teh Golden Dawn; indeed, more deeply than any other human being who has ever lived. About the angelic communciatons of Dee and Kelley he writes: 'Much of their work still defies explanation, though I and Frater Semper Paratus, an Adaptus Major of the Argentum Astrum [the "silver star", Sirius] have spent much time and research upon it and cleared up many obscure points..."
"The record of his working of the Enochian Aethers in 1909 in the desert of North Africa is preserved in the document titled "The Vision and the Voice"..."
"We may not have long to wait before the individual known in the vision of St. John as the Antichrist, the one foretold in Crowley's "The Book Of the Law" to follow after the Beast, will succeed in completing the Apocalypse Working placed in the world as a flaming sword by the Enochian angels..."
-Essay, The Enochian Apocalypse, by Donald Tyson
* When we start identifying wisdom with our ability to comprehend its form, what wisdom is that?
* Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
* People want platitudes, not progress.