The Great Beast and the Occult Origins of the Great War

Tansey said:

...Since leaving my brain dead religion I get all this confused now. i just did a quick search with the name Charles Taze Russell and Aliester Crowley and it seems they were contemporaries at one point.
http://www.freewebs.com/wwwsoundnessofmindcom/thewatchtowersocietyjws.htm

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Amazing! It looks like Russell actually borrowed some concepts from Crowley (or both got them from a common source) like the Watchtowers. A juicy thesis is waiting there for some PhD candidate in American religious history to pick up.