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To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org
From: yronwode
Subject: Re: Crowley and Paederasty
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:58:58 -0800
> Christeos Pir wrote:
> # assurances that one is not a thief or a member of NAMBLA,
>
> (nigris (333) wrote:
> "North American Man Boy Love Association"; i.e. PAEDERASTY.
>
> Christeos Pir wrote:
> # While I certainly oppose preditors I am not sure that
> # ever member of NAMBLA would fall into this categorie.
>
> # I would also point out that I do not personally know any
> # members of NAMBLA (AFAIK), and was just using this as an example.
One of the very early members or co-founders of NAMBLA was Walter Breen.
The former husband of the science fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley,
he was also an expect on early American numismatics, and the cause of
the so-called "Breen Boondoggle" which ripped apart Bay Area science
fiction fandom in the mid 1960s when he was caught sexually molesting a
young girl and was barred from the World Science Fiction Convention in
Oakland. .Around the same time, Breen stole rare first edition copies of
Aleister Crowley books, magazines, and manuscripts from my parents'
antiquarian bookstore in Berkeley, including a first edition of "777" --
and he was subsequently barred from entering most Bay Area rare book
stores because he was a known book thief. (We had gotten the Crowley
material when we purchased in its entirety the library of the deceased
Mistress of the Lotus Lodge of Oakland, California, whose name i have
forgotten, along with her ritual robes and tools, and so forth; she had
been a friend of Crowley's and he had sent her many items gratis,
including a small, colourful catalogue of the 1940s exhibit of Frieda
Harris's original paintings for the Thoth deck at a London art gallery,
which i kept for lo, these 35 years, until i presented it to Frater
Nigris in celebration of our falling in love.) Walter Breen was
eventually convicted of child sex abuse by testimony taken from parents
in the local coin collecting community, not in fandom or the thelemite
community, and he died in prison. Another former NAMBLA member and close
friend of Breen's was the Bay Area science fiction fan and "free love"
exponent Jefferson Poland, a.k.a Jefferson Fuck Poland, a.k.a. Jefferson
Clitlick Poland. He too was convicted of child sex abuse and spent time
in the slammer. He is now a registered sex offender, forbidden from
consorting with children. No, i cannot personally vouch for the fact
that every member of NAMBLA is a child sex abuser...but i knew both of
those men personally -- and they both were. Their cohort Sandy Cutrell
-- by which i mean all three were good friends -- was also a member of
Bay Area science fiction fandom in the 1960s. He may not have been a
member of NAMBLA, but if not, probably only because his interest was the
sexual abuse of *girl* children. He admitted his entire sorry history to
me in the mid-1980s, and explained that friends of his had barred him
from their house because he gave their young daughter comic books as a
bribe so that she would sit on his face. Needless to say, i did not take
this confession lightly and i told him he was unwelcome in my house as
well. My point: here i knew three Bay Area sex abusers in the 1960s, two
convicted and one self-confessed, of whom all three were members of
science fiction fandom, two were members of NAMBLA, and one was a
self-professed Crowleyite. Am i going overboard here? Is it a
coincidence that OTO has had problems with NAMBLA members (in the Bay
Area?) per Bill H.? Who knows?
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