Atheism, Donald Tyson and Aleister Crowley

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Rending the Veil is an online occult magazine. Last ish they ran a piece by Donald Tyson called “Atheism – The Real Enemy“, in which Tyson ranted about atheism, demanding Christians and Pagans band together to take up arms against what he perceives as the Atheist Threat.

It was paranoid and weird, and as an atheist and a magickian I took exception to this and, of course, responded. My response is riffs off Tyson’s, “Ignorance – The Real Enemy” and actually explains what atheism is, how it differs from agnosticism and demonstrates that atheism and magick can and do indeed co-exist peacefully. Another essay will follow in the next issue which will explore this in more detail, but this is a start.

Someone called Gray Glamer also responded with “Does Materialism Threaten Paganism?” which is also worth checking out.

Read ‘em, let me know what you think.

In other news, my copy of The Progradior Correspondence: Letters by Aleister Crowley, C. S. Jones, & Others¹ came in yesterday, and so did a copy of Aleister Crowley: A Modern Master, by John Moore, published by Mandrake of Oxford – expect a review of the latter in the coming weeks.

Footnotes:

1. I mentioned it when I learned it came out. I’m very excited. [back]

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