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Subject: Re: Secret Messages - Official Truth
Message-ID: <148@ucbtopaz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 13:14:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  2 13:14:11 1983
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Ok, folks, here is the real truth on the backwards masking on "Stairway
to Heaven".
 First of all, it quite clearly exists. No, I don't have the words memorized.
 No, Jimmy Page is not a Satanist, a Communist, a perverter of youth, or any
of that stuff. He is a student, maybe a disciple, of Aleister Crowley. So what
was he trying to do?
 Crowley's work was largely dedicated to discovering the "inner truths" of
the human being: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
One of his methods was remembering dreams, with the
possibility of remembering past lives. To this end, he had a method of training
oneself write backwards, read backwards, remember backwards, and -- speak
backwards. Essentially, "Stairway" was an exercise along these ends. And a
difficult one! You try to carry on a conversation where the words make sense
both forwards and backwards.
	Oh well. It sure has a lot of people upset.