Casey Evans
Sep 9, 2018 · 2 min read

Eliphas Levi, Crowley, Carroll, Lord Tennyson all rip apart Deism as being the surrender of thought for thoughtlessness. Levi is particularly harsh: “It must not be forgotten that the [Magi of the Bible, elsewhere] and those Regis Magi were they of the praxis of the Royal Art; in Egypt, Greece and Rome it shared the grandeur and decadence of the kingdom and the priesthood, for it was then as it remains today in unchanged traiditon, that Magi held and hold the ranks of Kings.

Every philosophy which is at heart of this our Ordo Mysterium is baneful to the great political powers, for they, in the eyes of the common multitude lose their grandeur when they make themselves comparable to the Sanctum Regnum of the Magus Rex Alchymus, the anointed Kings and rightful rulers, who, whether they be a ternary of Kings honouring the King of Kings and God of Gods at his cradle in Bethlehem, as the Ancient Magi, or in Westminster, London, crowned upon the Throne of St. Edward, whose rights Divine overpower the rights constituted by the Kingless and Godless.

By opening the career of power to intrigue, republican
institutions endangered the principles of the hierarchy.
Within them, and because of them, the task of forming Kings was confided no longer to the hierarchy and was replaced by by popular election — which sets aside religious influence and the Divinely ordained duty of protecting the kingdom and its subjects to establish the monarchy in all but name on a basis of those republican principles. Those governments which pre- sided successively over the triumphs and humiliations of Greek and Roman states were formed in this manner. The science reserved to the sanctuaries fell into neglect, and men of boldness or genius, who had not been accepted by those who dispense initiation, devised another science in opposition to that of the priests, substituting doubt or denial for the secrets of the temple. In the excess of their adventurous imagination, such Deists were landed quickly in absurdity and laid upon Nature the blame which belonged to their own systems; from which they cannot be even scarcely exonerated
for the fact that they knew nothing, and that their Deism was a frightful destructor of gods, religions, and entire nations.”

    Casey Evans

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    Journalist with Crown and Country Magazine, Extra Newsfeed, and Seattle Planet Magazine.