Thoughts on Aleister Crowley

[ChinaBandit]

Now this was one twisted fuck. Incredible character to read about though.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have several of his "books" I put it in quotes because most of them are all of about 60 pages

He is an intriguing figure if he does say so himself, but its hard to determine fact vs fiction with him.

But no doubt he was a larger than life character who's "marketing" skills most likely exceeded any real occult power he possessed.

But his name and his work are everlasting and many know the name even if they know nothing of him.

Kind of like Marquis DeSade

 

[ChinaBandit]

I think Crowley gets the attention he does due to the era he lived in. He was shocking for the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. If he and Anton LaVey were contemporaries in the 60's we might not even know who he was.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think Crowley gets the attention he does due to the era he lived in. He was shocking for the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. If he and Anton LaVey were contemporaries in the 60's we might not even know who he was.

True, and going further if Levay was around now I'm not sure how shocking he would be.

I follow a lot of Levay's teachings, his philosophy is pretty basic, but in the end he really was a sell out.

Then again following his teachings I think he fully allowed for selling out if it advanced your cause.

Both these guys and Desade and others followed the typical pattern. They started out as pioneers and were "dark and edgy" then the wealthy found them and they became "trendy"

Every idiot who has ever tied their lover to a bed or bought one of those chesy little rubber whips think they know "Desade"

 

[parodyluvr75]

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”

“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”

“Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.”

“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”

“We place no reliance on virgin or pidgeon.
Our method is science, our aim is religion.”

"It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.”

He was a thinker, a madman and a showman.

 

[Lord_Nibiru]

Rumoured to be the real father of recent president's misses - why am I not surprised.....

Crowley was, from what I can tell, a very nasty individual but I suspect he was fa from being alone in his desires and deeds and I imagine it continues to this day.

 

[renard_ruse]

Obviously, the Ozzy song kicks ass.