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The Great Beast
"Aleister Crowley [1875-1947] "as the Master Therion, saw himself as 666, the Great Beast of Revelation or, more prosaically, 'The Wickedest Man Alive'."
"The rituals Crowley describes in his writings are based mostly on those he learned while a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn..."
"In 1904, he claimed to have contacted an extraterrestrial intelligence who revealed itself as Aiwass, Crowley's Holy Guardian Angel. The resultant trance-written Book of the Law is a cryptic combination of Egyptian mythology, spiritualistic Theosophy, and Qabalism, as it was spelled by him."
- Forrest Jackson, "The Baphomet in History and Symbolism"
Crowley's Book of the Law "proclaims 'The Law of Thelema.'. This law consists of a 'simple code of conduct':
'Thelema is the Greek for 'will.'"
- Brent Corydon, Messiah or Madman
"All their life was not spent in laws, statutes or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good: They did eat, drink, labor, sleep when they had a mind to it and werc disposed for it. None did awake them, none did order to constrain them to eat, drink, nor any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this one clause to be observed.
DO WHAT THOU WILT. "Because men that are free, well born, well bred, and conversant in honest companies have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honor..."
- Francois Rabelais (c. 1495-1553), Garguntua
"Crowley's Law of Thelema, as an ideal Freemasonry, saw each member of the human race as unique, sovereign, and responsible only to himself."
"Crowley devoted a whole chapter in The Confessions his so- called 'Autohagiography' to Freemasonry, especially the story of his relationship with John Yarker [who sold the 33rd degree 'patents' to men like Crowley who did not possess any of the legitimate degrees of Freemasonry. Yarker was expelled from this Order on the 30th November, 1870]...It is obvious that Crowley had in mind that he would be the best person qualified to be sort of a 'Supreme-International-Grand-Master' and since he fancied himself to be 'a god' that Masonry as well as every body else should worship him."
- Grendel Grettisson (mimir@stein.u.washington.edu)
"We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of Kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world...I am of the snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs...They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self ...Be strong oh man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture.... The kings of the earth shall be kings forever: the slaves shall serve.
"Them that seek to entrap thee, to over throw thee, them attack without pity or quarter; and destroy them utterly. I am unique and conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned and dead! Amen. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled and the consoler!"
- Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
"Acting on the authority of Aiwaz [his Holy Guardian Angel], Crowley was happy to supplant Mathers and his Golden Dawn by forming a new order called Astrum Argentum, or Silver Star, named after Set, or Sirius, of which he claimed our sun was but a reflection, or son. The order, which Crowley considered the truly occult representative of the Great White Brotherhood, was designed to bring out into the open the secret knowledge so painstakingly preserved by initiates."
Karl Kellner, a wealthy Austrian iron founder, high Mason, and founder of the Ordo Templi Orientis "claimed to have rediscovered the 'secret doctrine' during travels in India, where he had been initiated into Tantrism...Theodor Reuss, reputed agent of the German secret service, employed to spy on British Marxists, inherited the leadership of the OTO..."
- Peter Tompkins, The Magic of Obelisks
"In 1902 Reuss set up a German Order (Ordo Templi Orientis) which still exists and claims to continue the teachings of the Knights Templar. Aleister Crowley was initiated by Reuss and allowed to establish an English branch of the Order known as the Mysteria Mystica Maxima. The M.M.M. was later assimilated into Crowley's own Argenteum Astrum."
- David Conway, Ritual Magic
"In World War I Aleister Crowley ingratiated himself with an Hermetic sect in order to reveal to the Americans that is head was a highly dangerous German agent. In World War II it was well known in British Intelligence that many leading Nazis were interested in the occult and especially in astrology. Crowley did some work for MI5, but his project for dropping occult information by leaflet on the enemy was rejected by the authorities."
- Richard Deacon, Spyclopaedia
"In 1920 he established his famous Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily, where, as in Rabelais' fictional abbey of the same name, the motto was 'Do as thou wilt'. Stories of drug-taking, sexual orgies and even child-sacrifice soon began to circulate, until in the end Mussolini ordered Crowley's expulsion from Italy."
- David Conway, Ritual Magic
"Crowley's method of achieving and transcending religious visions was based on Hindu Bhakti yoga and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. Once a manifestation of a divinity was experienced, Crowley would have the experimenter stop and start over with a different God.
"After you have run through three or four divinities in this manner... you will be increasing skeptical about everybody's reality maps, including your own."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
In traveling to Dee's worlds using his "astral body", "sexual acts, which he had indulged in 'with casual abandon' became for him a sacrament, a rite to be performed deliberately for the glory of the gods. Buggery, Crowley avowed, other than for religious purposes, was abominable..."
"To impersonate an Egyptian god-form, mental concentration on the form of the god was required throughout intercourse; one had to imagine the god to have a life of its own. At the moment of climax, a transference of consciousness to that of the image was necessary, 'blending the personality of the initiate with that of the god.'"
- Peter Tompkins, The Magic of Obelisks
"Crowley was aware of the possibility of opening the spatial gateways and of admitting an extraterrestrial Current in the human life-wave...
"It is an occult tradition - and Lovecraft gave it persistent utterance in his writings - that some transfinite and superhuman power is marshaling its forces with intent to invade and take possession of this planet... This is reminiscent of Charles Fort's dark hints about a secret society on earth already in contact with cosmic beings and, perhaps, preparing the way for their advent.
"Crowley dispels the aura of evil with which these authors (Lovecraft and Fort) invest the fact; he prefers to interpret it Thelemically, not as an attack upon human consciousness by an extra-terrestrial and alien entity but as an expansion of consciousness from within, to embrace other stars and to absorb their energies into a system that is thereby enriched and rendered truly cosmic by the process."
- Kenneth Grant, Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God
"Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
The unveiling of the company of heaven.
Every man and every woman is a star."
(Nuit, the Egyptian divinity of the stars continues:)
"I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours.
My joy is to see your joy.
"They shall gather my children into their fold;
they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.
"And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence,
the omnipresence of my body...
"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union."
- Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
"This seems to be a vividly poetic pre-statement of Leary's theory that Higher Intelligence is 'divided,' by sending out DNA seed to fertilize every womb-planet in the galaxy, 'for the chance of union', and return of these 'children' after they have evolved past the larval circuits into higher modes of consciousness."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
In the new aeon, "a race will be propagated of magically generated beings able to probe extraterrestrial dimensions. And the next stage in the advancement of evolution on the planet 'will be achieved by a willed congress with extra-terrestrial entities of which, in a sense, Aiwaz [Crowley's Guardian Angel] is the immediate messenger to humanity.'"
- Peter Tompkins, The Magic of Obelisks
"Such a network [of Illuminati Adepts] exists and functions... through-out this planet. I suspect it extends farther than our earth, but this is yet to be publicly demonstrated unequivocally beyond the private experience of myself and others."
- Dr. John Lilly, The Center of the Cyclone
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Aleister Crowley - The Great Beast Speaks Hear Crowley recite magical texts on the only known recording of his voice Discordia Systems Download eight lectures on Yoga by Aleister Crowley, and the Principia Discordia Order of the Thelemic Golden Dawn Magical-Religious-Scientific Order dedicated to perpetuating Crowley's teachings The Ordo Templi Orientis Phenomenon Well-researched historical articles and never before published rituals of the OTO Thelema Home Page More autobiographical material plus Crowley's Book of the Law U.S. Grand Lodge, OTO Organization based on the Book of the Law developed by Aleister Crowley |
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