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...Charlemagne; or Charles the Great The greatest of Frankish kings; was the elder son of Pepin the Short, and succeeded his father in 768 A.D. Pepin held the title of Mayor of the Palace, which was to say Prime Minister for the Merovingian Kings who at that time held a role that was largely ceremonial and had some religious import. Since the time of the Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, real power lay with the mayors Pepin moved to overthrow the last hollow vestiges of the Merovingian Kingship, and crown himself as King, which was acknowledged by the Pope....

...Although it can hardly be said that any system of magic worthy of the name ever originated in China, and though magical practice was uncommon, yet instances are not wanting of the employment of magical means in the Celestial Empire, and the belief in a supernatural world peopled by gods, demons and other beings is very strong in the popular Chinese mind.

" Although the Chinese mind possessed under such a constitution but few elements in which magic could strike root and throw out its ramifications and influence, yet we find many traces giving evidence of the instinctive movement of the mind, as well as of magical influence; though certainly not in the manner or abundance that we meet with it in India, The great variety of these appearances is, however, striking, as in no other country are they so seldom met with. ...

...Anyone who has read a fair amount of Crowley’s esoteric material certainly knows that Crowley wasn’t a Satanist, or even close to one. The only people who think otherwise are people who have read about Crowley, but have never read any of his actual writing.

His basic worldview followed the teachings of the Golden Dawn, and while he enlarged greatly on the group’s teachings, he maintained the fundamental principles. Crowley’s cosmology didn’t allow for the existence of “Satan” in any meaningful sense, and his writing doesn’t refer to Satan, except in an off handed way. His writing does deal extensively with various dark spirits and beings, but even these are not so much evil as objects of illusion – those forces which mask the hidden world and keep the unworthy from comprehending the infinite. His works deal equally with spirits of light, and for the most part with forces which are simply manifestations of the elemental forces of creation.
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