12th of October 1875-1947
Prophet of the New Aeon, initiate of the Golden dawn, accomplished chess player, mountaineer, magician, author, drug and sexual experimenter.
What does /boo/ think of the old Crow?
A truly remarkable man, although probably better to be an aquaintance than a friend. I expect he was not as smart as he thought he was, but he would still qualify as a brilliant scholar and one of the most interesting people of his generation.
He was a lot less evil than his reputation as well...
I think he was an arse, an awful novelist, an extremely interesting and intelligent man, and that he could've been so much more than he was. He still doesn't annoy me as much as the current head of the OTO, though.
Crowley's achievements were essentially based on esoteric higher level freemasonry with the Nietzschean thelema stuff bolted on in an unwieldy fashion.
I'll give an example. We know about the hidden schoolboy snigger sexual double meanings in the OTO, but here's a double meaning from the Royal Arch tradition which gave a similar shock of recognition.
Candidates for the 18 degree Rose Croix rite are supposedly required to be of 'Christian Faith' and have an Obligation to 'The Name Of The Holy And Undivided Trinity' - never mind that much of the rituals themselves are based on secular Judaism. Yet the very same Supreme Council yearbook I found this in gives a clue to the true nature of the Obligation. The Bristol Chapter is the oldest in the Ancient and Accepted Rite - listed oddly as 'immemorial' for its founding date. Bristol's cathedral is known as The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity. The Candidate is actually swearing an oath of fealty to his fellow Royal Arch Freemasons and their secrecy, and God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost clearly have fuck all to do with what is really being said.
Crowleyites seem to live in bedsits smoking roll-ups, whereas the names I've seen in a yearbook as 33 degree guys were all prominent civil servants, QCs, clergymen, military - very much Establishment figures.
OCCUPY BRISTOL CATHEDRAL FOR OCCULT WAR AGAINST THE 1%!
>>1803 : he was a boy buggerer and bragged about bumming littlies so he was a TOSSER.
he was a satanist which makes him even more pathetic than christians because he was batting for a team he knew was going to lose.
he also liked to stick his cock up madame blavatski which means the silly cuntwassock couldn't even make up his mind whether he wanted to skewer boys or girls.
he was ugly, had acne pocked skin like a golf ball and probably farted a lot for no reason.
he should have died with an eel up his arse eating the tapeworm in his gut
That the bulk of your critique seems obsessed with any sexual activity deemed 'deviant', I can only conclude that you're some kind of Daily Mail reading LAD.
If that's the case, I can only feel sorrow on your behalf. If your post was a satire intended to imitate the aforementioned class of oik, you're not funny.
>>1803 I think he was a massive egoist. Clever fellow, definitely. Educating and enlightening, definitely. But not someone who's footsteps I'd care to follow in.
Now arguably the darkest thing Ozzy's ever done was bite the head off an already-dead bat, but he still made a sweet song about Crowley:
https://www.youtube.com/v/D-2NQnxDDJE
