Where do I start with Crowley?
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Where do I start with Crowley?
Isaiah Stewart
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Ethan Anderson
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Justin Ortiz
got to sacred-texts DOT com SLASH oto/aba/aba1.htm and ctrl-f "preliminary remarks". Then read the next 8 or so pages starting at "EXISTENCE, as we know it, is full of sorrow."
Benjamin Edwards
Read the story of Jack Parsons first
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The occultist who made possible going to space with rockets. He had deep connections with Crowley.
Cameron Harris
Crowley as a degenerate homosexual. Gurdjieff telepathically, consubstansially and indefinitely refuted him so bad that he went away crying.
Carson King
Thanks user, I knew it would lead me to this page. I will check right away.
Wasn't this guy literally cucked by L Ron Hubbard?
Aaron Ortiz
Start with the Book of Mormon
Yes, they were doing sex rituals with a girl Parsons knew to give birth to the Antichrist.
Joshua Evans
Yes, he fucked up really bad, and was murdered by the CIA(most likely). Dude went through a lot of shit, but thanks to him and the knowledge he got Crowley, we have rockets to space travel today.
Angel Edwards
*FBI
Aaron Carter
>Crowley knew the town of Fontainebleau well – in 1924 he had spent a tormented period there in an attempt to cure himself of heroin addiction. The Great Beast was a familiar figure in Paris expatriate circles, and [C.S.] Nott met him in the capital while himself staying at the Prieure. Crowley’s interest was aroused either by a general occult curiosity or by Gurdjieff’s reputation as a specialist in curing drug addiction; and he soon afterward turned up at Fontainebleau, where was the object of some amazement. To one of the inmates, the Wickedest Man in the World seemed overfed and inoffensive – with the exception of his almost colorless eyes, the antipodes to Gurdjieff’s heavy gaze. The published accounts of Crowley at the Prieure speak only of a brief visit and a vaguely sinister impression. Nott records that Crowley spoke to one of the children present about his son whom he was teaching to be a devil. “Gurdjieff got and spoke to the boy, who thereupon took no further notice of Crowley.” But the magician’s visit was extensive, and his confrontation with Gurdjieff of a more epic nature.
>Crowley arrived for a whole weekend and spent the time like any other visitor to the Prieure; being shown the grounds and the activities in progress, listening to Gurdjieff’s music and his oracular conversation. Apart from some circumspection, Gurdjieff treated him like any other guest until the evening of his departure. After dinner on Sunday night, Gurdjieff led the way out of the dining room with Crowley, followed by the body of pupils who had also been at the meal. Crowley made his way toward the door and turned to take his leave of Gurdjieff, who by this time was some way up the stairs to the second floor. “Mister, you go?” Gurdjieff inquired. Crowley assented. “You have been guest?” – a fact which the visitor could hardly deny. “Now you go, you are no longer guest?” Crowley – no doubt wondering whether his host had lost his grip on reality and was wandering in a semantic wilderness – humored his mood by indicating that he was on his way back to Paris. But Gurdjieff, having made the point that he was not violating the canons of hospitality, changed on the instant into the embodiment of righteous anger. “You filthy,” he stormed, “you dirty inside! Never again you set foot in my house!” From his vantage point on the stairs, he worked himself up into a rage which quite transfixed his watching pupils. Crowley was stigmatized as the sewer of creation was taken apart and trodden into the mire. Finally, he was banished in the style of East Lynne by a Gurdjieff in fine histrionic form. Whitefaced and shaking, the Great Beast crept back to Paris with his tail between his legs.
Jeremiah Collins
Blown the fuck out.
Jeremiah Jones
I actually and non-ironically read the Book of Mormon last year. It was interesting on the last, but the coolest things are in the Pearl of Great Price.
Now, I didn't knew about this relation between Crowley and Smith, actually this is sort a syncronization because I have been thinking about Mormonism a lot lately.
Yes, I know about this sex ritual from Parsons, what did he read?
Gotta read more about this dude then. I barely read anything about him, does he has occult books?
Landon Barnes
Yeah he made some books on the occult, called “Magick, Gnosticism & The Witchcraft: Introductory Essays” but I can’t find a pdf or website where you can buy it so I guess you have to look that up on your own. Most of his books talk about Libertarianism like “Freedom Is a Two Edged Sword” and “Three Essays on Freedom”. But if you want to learn more about the guy I suggest reading strange angel
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Mason Howard
>where do i start with crowley
fuckin don't
Brandon Hill
read Jurgen.
James Harris
What book is this from?
James Hall
Habermas?
Aaron Scott
Jurgen, by Cabell.
Jaxon Wood
Hello, OP. First, read wikipedia and watch a few videos to get a general idea. I found this one helpful.
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Next, have a go at some basic texts. I recommend the Book of the Law (talking about it is naughty and it's critical to his whole life's work), and The Book of Lies, because it's a shorter poetic piece which gives a sense of multiple things. The latter gives a sense of Crowley's (competent but not great) capacity as a poet, some amusing historical context, and also in its commentaries gives a sense of Crowley's extreme autism about his own crap which you may as well get used to at this point, if you want to go any further with his bullshit.
I also understand that "the vision and the voice" is also important, though I haven't read it. You have to approach all of this as a historical curiosity and amusement (Crowley's real literary value); do not make the mistake of assigning any truth-content to what you may read.
Tyler White
You don't.
The left hand path is asura-marga. The path of demons, not meant for humans with any dignity.
Abandon this path before it inevitably extorts the toll needed to walk it.
Xavier Baker
>Gurdjeff the satanist pedophile
>calls Crowley the satanist pedophile "dirty inside"
Autodafé is too mercyful for occultist scum