ext_87351 ([identity profile] readingthedark.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] greygirlbeast 2011-04-21 07:02 pm (UTC)

I guess one of my many issues with organized religion, including the types that I'm much more sympathetic toward, is that no established Order is seeking new or dramatic anything. They tend to be profit-seeking endeavors that want to sell gear to true believers who will mindlessly quote the party line.

Alan Moore has discussed his short-lived interaction with the Golden Dawn and my thesis is basically that Caitlin's experience would be decidedly similar. She would ask questions. They would tell her to be quiet. That dynamic wouldn't work for more than a few months.

(That said, I wholeheartedly believe that Moore might be one of the great occultists of our era, at least on the level of Chumbley, it's just that following orders is usually part of being in an Order, and the truest and purest seekers tend to be lousy followers.)

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