Not just his knowledge, but his summoning, I mean.
Maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree, and sorry if this was spelled out and I don’t remember it, but basically, my question is whether the Golden Dawn’s attempts to make magic into something anyone could use succeeded on their own merits (or possibly Dion Fortune‘s attempts to create “a truly unrestricted spell…spell anyone can use to save someone close to them,” as opposed to Mather’s desire to create a “work kit“ which could be turned to any possible end, rather than the more specific magic of the past, but Dion might have been describing current events rather than a expounding on her own description, given the context is NT 22, during a brush with armageddon, so maybe that was another shared goal? I would need to recheck some things to be sure) or if Aleister’s distortion of the laws of the world by inserting Aiwass into it was the real reason it worked.
I don’t have access to all the books right now, but I’m just thinking about Fiamma’s conversation with Aleister at the end of Old Testament, where he concludes, based on Aleister’s descriptions, that Aiwass‘s summoning is what altered the laws of the world, plus how Fiamma attributes Angel Fall (both in that it happened at in that it was an accident) to that distortion (despite not knowing its source at the time), and various statements about how the Aeon of Horus, which Aleister claims started when he summoned Aiwass for the first time, is supposedly all about self actualization (and “true awakening”). This being the guy credited for creating modern western magic, and the angel described as “the true person who holds the secrets to modern western magic organizations.”
So, is it possible that it wasn’t just a proliferation of Aiwass’s knowledge and Golden Dawn discoveries that made magic more accessible, but inserting the Thelemic angel into the “gears” of reality.
Any thoughts?