In my previous two blog posts; Aleister Crowley And TheBritish Invasion and
Aleister Crowley And The British Invasion Part Two, we
examined the connect between Mr. Crowley and many British rock groups such as
Led Zepelin and The Beatles who were, if not followers, certainly were familiar
with his writings.
We showed how Mr. Crowley was involved with revealing the
inner teachings of the Masons, which had traditionally been kept a secret.
Many things can be said about this but keeping knowledge a
secret is unquestionably one of the tools of the suppressors or those who wish
to stay in power.
We find Mr. Crowley living outside the mores of society,
taking drugs and having sexual relations quite freely, elements we find
prevalent in the sixties. Unfortunately there was an end result of
self-discovery that most people involved did not quite reach.
The vehicles of liberation became an end in themselves, got
commercialized and the movement also got mixed up with the revolutionary ideas
of Mao and the Red Guard.
But we had revolutions before, so these ideas are obviously
not new, even though the commercial end of the movement would have you thing
this was the hippest and newest thing under the sun and don’t trust anyone over
thirty.
I remember watching something on the television having to do
with how cool this all was and turning to my friend and saying ‘this is not
new.’
Obviously, something before the French revolution had fanned
the flames, so to speak, so I took a look.
I remembered finding a book of Mozart’s letter’s in a
library back in high school and my friend John and I were shocked over their
content. Once, in the elevator in music school, my violin teacher, completely
out of the blue asked me what I thought Mozart was really like.
I said he made Jim Morrison look like Mr. Rogers. My violin
teacher just smiled and said ‘good.’
And well, don’t you know that Mozart was a Mason as well and
his opera the Magic Flute is, by all accounts about Masonry and full of Masonic
symbols.
Interesting that Wikipedia’s article talks about two main
sects or orders of the Masons; one enlightened and the other more mystic and
occult. Mozart was part of the enlightened group that studied the teachings of
Rousseau and Diderot. Said teachings debunked the idea that the ruling class
was somehow nobler in spirit, generally speaking.
The Magic Flute does have two characters in it that are kind
of diametrically opposed; the Queen of the Night who is evil and Sarastro who
is good. In a pdf on this opera from the
San Francisco Opera Education, the
theory is put forward that the Queen of the Night is the empress Maria Theresa
and the hero Tamino is the good emperor Joseph.
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