The Cretin Collection

Cretin noun
  1. A person afflicted with cretinism.
  2. Offensive Slang. An idiot.

[French crétin, from French dialectal, deformed & mentally retarded person, from Vulgar Latin *christianus, Christian, human, poor fellow, from Latin Christianus, Christian. See Christian.]
-Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996.

As advertised: The Cretin Collection presents e-mail exchanges between the unsuspecting & myself. Only the names have been changed to protect me from lawsuits.

1. From: "Dave"
    To: < me, you moron >
    Subject: Isn't that special?
    Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:59:56 -0500

    Hey, you're a real baddie.... Did you know that your 'winged skull' owes a 
    lot to the Sumerian/Egyptian/Unity Church symbol of the Winged Globe (Aten) which represents 
    the One God who came to earth hundreds of thousands of years ago (from another planet, 
    according to the Sumerians). Betcha didn't know you had something in common with something 
    good and pure.... best wishes !





2. To: "Dave"
    From: < me >
    Subject: Isn't that special?
    Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:14:12 -0500

    > Hey, you're a real baddie....
    > Did you know that your 'winged skull' owes a lot to
    > the Sumerian/Egyptian/Unity Church symbol of the
    > Winged Globe (Aten) which represents the One God
    > who came to earth hundreds of thousands of years
    > ago (from another planet, according to the Sumerians).

    Thank you, but from what source do you take this?

    > Betcha didn't know you had something in common
    > with something good and pure.... best wishes!

    What is so pure as the desire (Liber AL, III, 51)?:

    With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross.

    Furthermore, see more on the winged splendour:

    AL I

    14. Above, the gemmed azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in 
    ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit. The wingèd globe, the starry blue, Are mine, 
    O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

    16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret 
    flame, and to her the stooping starlight.

    61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in 
    the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, 
    and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss 
    wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all 
    in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich 
    jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the 
    love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a 
    single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, 
    veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost 
    sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto 
    me!

    AL II

    38. ...Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit! Bid me within thine House to 
    dwell, O wingèd snake of light, Hadit! Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

    Hail Satan!
    Love & kisses,
    Meph Istopheles



 

3. From: "Dave"
    To: < me >
    Subject: Thanks...
    Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:12:43 -0500

    You're a riot... I don't understand why everyone wants to worship the 
    fictional works of Crowley, but go for it.....

    The interpretation comes from Zecharia Sitchin's book "The Twelfth 
    Planet". I don't think you'll be too interested in it, though, cause it has an awful lot 
    of biblical proof in it, and I know that would put a kink into your Saturday nights.....


    If desire was so pure (and I am NOT saying it is a bad thing), then 
    how come it can be quenched? Why wouldn't it remain no matter what actions we take? That 
    which stays, I think, would be pure. Desire is a blast, but everything in it's place. The 
    power we have is that which links us to the eternal, and my personal intuition is it 
    doesn't have a lot to do with desire.... perhaps more with pleasure ??? (which does not 
    have to have a link to desire, I think)

    Anyway, have fun....Peace.

 

4. To: "Dave"
    From: < me >
    Subject: Thanks...
    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1998 18:32:06 -0500

    > You're a riot...

    Thanks. Entertainment's one of the few things worth while in this human existence.

    > I don't understand why everyone wants
    > to worship the fictional works of Crowley,
    > but go for it.....

    Try it sometime.

    > The interpretation comes from Zecharia Sitchin's book
    > "The Twelfth Planet". don't think you'll be too interested
    > in it, though, cause it has an awful lot of biblical proof
    > in it, and I know that would put a kink into your
    > Saturday nights.....

    I find it interesting (read: Typical) you refer to all AC's works as fiction, yet 
    refer to Sitchin's work as "proof". Perhaps you ought to put a little kink into your Saturday nights 
    & read AC's _The Law is for All_...but that would be a bit beyond the average xian, now wouldn't it?

    Hail Satan!