Re: Odd Insights into Hekate
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 6:10 am
Pleiades wrote:Thats a fair opinion of that particular current though Chumbley,whom I had met and entered into personal correspondence with has held more respect among academics than those who copied him.A scholar himself he drew upon a myriad of ideas from many sources including the artwork of Aubrey Beardsley.In fact it was the artwork itself that was the key to understanding his Azoetia though his overview of it I received at an age at which I could not realistically comprehend it.
Yes, I forgot about Beardsley! I find Chumbly fascinating; though, I haven't done enough work to really see Azoetia in a way that would make it relevant to my life. I also encountered it before I was ready for it.
Chumbly, Spare, Crowley, and even Grant were great in their own ways (maybe Grant was greatest for promoting the work of Spare). People who source them tend to be either very responsible scholars of occult lineages and aesthetic currents or opportunists.