Indymedia have a report that Ordo Templi Orientis, a group of masons who follow the writings of Aleister Crowley, have won a defamation case in a Canberra court against Dyson and Vivian Legg who had published information about this group on the internet.
The wikipedia has an sympathetic profile on the group and also Aleister Crowley.
From the Wikipedia:
In 1934 Crowley was declared bankrupt after losing a court case in which he sued the artist Nina Hamnett for calling him a black magician in her 1932 book, Laughing Torso. In addressing the jury, Mr. Justice Swift said: “I have been over forty years engaged in the administration of the law in one capacity or another. I thought that I knew of every conceivable form of wickedness. I thought that everything which was vicious and bad had been produced at one time or another before me. I have learnt in this case that we can always learn something more if we live long enough. I have never heard such dreadful, horrible, blasphemous and abominable stuff as that which has been produced by the man (Crowley) who describes himself to you as the greatest living poet.”
How times change.
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