What do we know about Aleister Crowley :

[yorick]

- aahside from the fact of the kharma he rack'd?


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[Tacos]

Ozzy wrote a cool song about him.

[yorick]

Nah, I was thinkin more along the lines of him crucifying a frog in the name of Christ. An interesting thing to do since it wasnt common knowledge at the time that amphibian populations suffer the greatest sensitivity to environmental conditions.

Crowley loved the excercise and said it was great fun, meditating on the frog's crucifiction for as long as Jesus is reported to have been strung up on the cross.


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[coldharvest]

Crowley loved the excercise and said it was great fun, meditating on the frog's crucifiction for as long as Jesus is reported to have been strung up on the cross.

Which is one of the things that made him a fuckin' nutter.

[yorick]

Or was it the suicide of his 9 mistresses whereas he is said to have also killed a cat 9 times in ritual (the cat died on the first attempt).

I forget what it was, but something pegged him as the most dangerous man of the 20th Century. Many believe that he even created Hitler.

When Hess was captured and contained in the tower of London at WWII, Crowley was begging to treat the captive as a subject for his workings. Iam Fleming MI6(?) even advocated on Crowley's behalf - but nothing came of it.


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[coldharvest]

He was powerfull because he choose not to be constrained by the society around him.
He was most certainly the Big Kahuna when that Edwardian mystisism wave roared by.

[Texas Carnie Roadshow]

He named his daughter Lola Zaza.
Yep, he was a nutter.

[SRR]

I read into Crowley during my formative teenage years..... it's always a problem in new age bookstores, apparently, that all the teenagers head over to the Crowley section for their magick learning when that's really the last place they should be seeking inner understanding.

I remember clearly him shooting to death a few thieves in south Asia when he was travelling, and forcing his many wives to have sex with goats.

Oh, and he spent some time in Vancouver. That's probably what put him over the edge.

[Romeo247]

GWB was more of a "nutter"

[Captain_Solo]

Crowley laid claim to giving Churchill the mystical "V for Victory" sigil to help thwart Hitler's Occult practices, targeted against Churchill and England, during WWII. Unsurprisingly, Crowley would not be given credit for such work. England was in the midst of transition from a staunchly dogmatic to a more secular nation.

http://www.aznewage.com/crowley.htm

I remember David Icke saying the World War II was really a war between opposing occultic orders. Personally I think it is a bunch of crap that is now confined to poorly-acted movies on the Sci-Fi channel.

[yorick]

There was indeed psyche fight among highly orthodox circles occurring in WWII. Yet practically NONE of the paticipating groups (FUDOSI, etc) remain the same. Most have either closed their doors to new initiates, become mere skeletons of their former selves, or they are now openly divulging whatever had been kept 'secret' for thousands of years.

The latter bunch of tattle tales, with whom i wholeheartedly agree, supposes that in the near future uncommon gifts and talents, as those of Indigo Children, will soon become commonplace traits of the species at large.

And future generations will DEMAND they receive accurate instruction in antient traditions and occult techniques from the earliest possible age.

Otherwise, all that newage hubbub has no more practical value or usefulness than does a Neanderthal's stone spatula for opening and serving up a can of beans.

Returning to topic - who were Croley's friends, those who helped him, and what became of them?



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[Dim]

Returning to topic - who were Croley's friends, those who helped him, and what became of them?
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Well . . . there was John Parsons - one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and one of Americas most promising post-war scientists. He was Crowleys foremost disciple in the US, and he joined together with sci-fi writer and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard to summon the Devil somewhere out in the deserts of California.

Their collaboration ended with Hubbard swindling a huge sum of money from Parsons and absconding with his girlfriend. Hubbard went on to become a fugative billionaire sailing around the world on his private navy staffed with legions of brainwashed teenage girls in hotpants.

Parsons died in an experiment in his garage shortly after after they completed the ritual.

[el3so]

Otherwise, all that newage hubbub has no more practical value or usefulness than does a Neanderthal's stone spatula for opening and serving up a can of beans.

Keeping vegetarians and menopausal women of the streets seems like plenty of use to me ;-)

[yorick]

Kuranic toilet paper for Gitmo, that was Crowleyan idea!! Also cluster bombs and food parcels dopped on Afghanistan in identical orange/yellow packaging - like teardrops of the sun - Brilliant idea!!!

Hell yes, access to the Aleister Crowley egregore is the Nuclear Bomb of 21st Century psychological warfare. All that we need are pedigreed initiates of Crowleyan theurgy whose presence alone can work miracles whenever and wherever as needed.

Native Americans knew this technique deploying their own shamans on CSI patrol wherever battles occured. Alot like "Ghost Dancing" they called it and it nearly worked.

I guess most of Crowley's pals ended up millionaires, including Ian Fleming of MI6 who was visited late in life by the muse that inspired him to write paperback spy stories, nothing he aniticipated.

Meanwhile the poor bastard "666" himself never did an honest day's work in his life and died in near abject poverty, having fucked every civilized religion and moral system on the planet with profound writings of his own, privately published at the author's expense.

Why is this shit so scarey??


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[coldharvest]

He was beyond the pale and wise enough to map it.