Post #599

It is indicative of [Petar] Vasiljević's unusual position - a military officer writing books on alternative spirituality - that he attempted to interpret the basic tenets of Thelema as commensurate with the Yugoslav official ideology of workers' self management by emphasizing the element of self-reliance that is indeed fundamental to both systems of thought, despite their many obvious differences. Gordan Djurdjevic - Hidden Wisdom in Ill-Ordered House: a Short Survey of Occultism in Former Yugoslavia, in Occultism in a Global Perspective, ed. by H. Bogdan and G. Djurdjevic (2014)