SHNEAKO - February 11, 2026Aleister Crowley： The Man Who Spoke To Demons
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Aleister Crowley, the man who spoke to demons, the founder of Thelema and founder of the cult The Church of The Lema, was a British occultist who founded a religious movement known as The Satanic Tendency.
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He can be found here on the cover of The Beatles' 1967.
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Wow. So this is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band.
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And again, they have the old Beatles represents their old selves.
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And this is when people started saying that Paul McCartney cloned himself
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and that Paul McCartney died and they replaced him with somebody else.
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Overall, the bigger idea is that people make deals with the devil
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His final publication was The Book of Thoth, a tarot deck that remains popular.
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And I went to, there was a witch on the street who was doing these tarot cards.
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I even dated a girl one time and had a Muslim background.
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And her mother would do these tarot cards too, which is, it's just literal witchcraft.
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And I highly recommend you stay far away from this.
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It could take you out, it separates you from God.
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this is a story about a man who spoke to demons a man who worked by many names in his life
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the beast brother perbduro or ankh afnkosu he was an occultist a student of the dark
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life's a bit of shame i'm going off the rails on a crazy train
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on a crazy train founder of the religion and a publisher of books on magic and so what is
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Thelema. I saw someone said he's not a Satanist. He was the founder of Thelema. What is that?
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Let's look up definitions real quick. Thelema is an occult, social, and spiritual philosophy
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founded in 1984 by a British cult of South of Crowley. Okay, it's a spiritual philosophy cult.
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Sounds pretty satanic to me, bro. They have deities. Dude, what are you guys talking about?
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His followers regarded him as a visionary and a champion of free expression.
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There is only one God, and his name is Jesus Christ. All praise be to the Most High Yah.
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Well, then who is Jesus' father if he said there's only one God?
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minded society his enemies branded him as insane and capable of great cruelty to those around him
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the devil incarnate or a troubled visionary to find the video of ozzy saying his inspos
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forget that it's all a matter of yes you know ozzy osborne said his inspiration was hitler
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Alastair Crowley was born on the 12th of October 1875 in the sleepy English town of
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Leamington Spa. His father, Edward Crowley, was a preacher and belonged to a fringe Christian
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sect known as the Plymouth Brethren. They took a radical fundamentalist view to the
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Bible, meaning that whatever was written down was meant to be taken literally. At its worst,
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this included the subjugation of women and the persecution of homosexuals. His preaching
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career was cut short, however, when in 1886, he died of tongue cancer. From a young age,
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Alistair was sent to a number of boarding schools. He was a strange boy, preferring his own company
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instead of playing with other children. As a result, he was often subject to bullying.
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some dude it's always revenge of the nerds it's always some bullied like peter teal bullied it's
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always just like a revenge of like some angry white guy or an angry you know i'm saying like
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it's always this mark zuckerberg some bullied times by his teachers this troubled child grew
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into a troubled teenager he began to question his strict christian upbringing and enjoyed pointing
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out inconsistencies in the bible at the same time he was often caught smoking drinking and even
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visiting prostitutes. Horrified, his mother would nickname him
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Schizo time, hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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i'm so excited to share this financial app and be new peter teal okay of revelation a nickname that
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crowley would soon delight in in 1895 at the age of 19 alistair enrolled at the university of
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cambridge to study english literature he developed a love for chess and romantic poetry reading the
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works of lord byron and percy sherry it's so similar to peter teal's upbringing huh it was
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during this time when alistair developed an unexplainable attraction to a fellow student
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What is it with chess and demon- like why is chess making people demonic?
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Herbert Charles Pollitt. The feeling was mutual, and the two entered a brief and passionate
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relationship. Their commitment to one another was soon to end, for Alistair developed a deeper love,
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the occult. Spending days at a time in old dusty libraries, Alistair discovered books of a more
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mystical nature. It had started innocently with religious texts from around the world,
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but he soon delved them to darker material. Works like The Lesser Key of Solomon,
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a 16th century grimoire of spells rituals and evil spirits his morbid curiosity with magic and
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the dark arts evolved into an obsession and he soon decided to devote his life to occultism
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having left cambridge failing to finish his degree alistair was able to live off the money
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that he'd inherited from his father you're right someone brought up bobby fisher you guys know what
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he said bobby fisher was a uh he was what he did uh toward the end of his life they said he went
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crazy but he said a lot of things that you guys are saying from a young age alistair was
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extraordinarily wealthy this allowed him to travel around the world and pursue his expensive hobbies
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chief among which was mountain climbing something he gained recognition for among mountaineering
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circles but crowley was keen to progress his occult education in november 1898 he was introduced to
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the hermetic order of the golden dawn the group believed to possess ancient knowledge they studied
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esoteric teachings medieval jewish kabbalah performed magical ceremonies which included
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ritualistic drug taking yeah members of this looks pretty satanic to me no it was just a
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the limo like dude what are you talking about can't believe people are defending this included
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arthur conan doyle the author of sherlock holmes adopting the name brother perubduro alistair
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impressed all those around him displaying an extensive knowledge of occult literature as a
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result he quickly rose through the ranks but his roguish lifestyle of excessive drug taking and
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bisexuality made him a controversial figure and it's always some gay guys to a number of feuds
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with fellow initiates those around him spoke of his quote unappeasable desire to control people
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and that he also had, quote, a tendency to quarrel savagely with anyone who disagreed with him.
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Many fellow members refused him from ascending further ranks, a schism soon developed within
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the Order which led to Alastair leaving shortly after. Disillusioned with the Order and its
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rigid hierarchy, Crowley retreated to travelling. With the funds his father had left him, he journeyed
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to Japan, China, Sri Lanka and India. He continued to climb and even joined an early expedition to
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During his travels, he was introduced to Eastern philosophy.
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He studied the teachings of Taoism and Buddhism, as well as practicing yoga.
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He decided to include various hard drugs into his curriculum,
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like hashish, opium, and certain hallucinogens.
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More proof that these drugs, they don't actually enlighten you, that it's helping you see demons.
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In 1902, at the age of 29, Alistair found himself in Paris.
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There he met a woman named Rose Edith Kelly, who was also interested in the occult.
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Although she was initially betrothed to someone else, the two had an affair and swiftly got married.
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For their honeymoon, they decided to go to Egypt.
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As with all things Alistair did, this trip would prove to be far from normal.
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In usual Crowley fashion, he set up a shrine in their hotel suite
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and began recounting spells and incantations invoking the various egyptian gods what happened
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next is crowley's later recollection the story goes that his wife rose suddenly fell faint and
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became unresponsive all she could murmur with the words they are waiting for you they as it turned
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out was the god horus as if led by a spirit his wife took him to a nearby museum all the way to
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a stele dating to the reign of pharaoh hap chipset looking down at the exhibit number it read 666
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the number of the beast. Suddenly, a voice from the depth of Alistair's mind cooled out.
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It called itself Aiwass, and it claimed to be an angel. It told Alistair to write down
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all that it said into a book. For the next three days, Aiwass dictated its words to Alistair,
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who dutifully wrote them all down. What he was left with was a small tome entitled
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The Book of the Law. Opening the first pages, the book was replete with spells,
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as well as discourses and philosophy. A key teaching of this book was that humanity would
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soon enter a new age the messianic age all these little all these other religions and ideologies
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it's all just the same like frankism you know people who worship sabbatai zevi freemasonry
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all of it is aligns perfectly with the messianic age ushering in the antichrist mankind will
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overthrow christianity and finally take control of their own destiny to achieve this guy there was
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but one simple commandment quote do what thou wilt every man and woman is a star the word of sin is
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restriction in other words whatever you feel like doing go and do it regardless of popular opinion
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or conventional morality there was a time when i was an atheist on youtube remember i made a video
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identical to this this is what helped me find religion i uploaded a video called do whatever
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you want uh i was really disillusioned after covid and really nihilistic kind of fell into
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this without knowing so yeah this video do whatever you want remember this anything to
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say to my video they miss you you nico i knew i was back in new york because i rented a car after
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my actual car broke down in colorado and the first thing i saw was a three five laying right
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in the cup holder thank you previous owner i definitely left a clean review but after five
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minutes of being here after five minutes in this car let me show you what happened
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no i was gonna make a video and now i gotta wait for someone to change the tire because i'm not
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a man and i don't know how to uh the song got copyrighted me and my wizzy driving back
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alexis from new york city to los angeles and while driving back it broke down in colorado
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unfortunately all right pizza that lexus i like that car i really i really love not really a crier
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because crying is gay but uh i was gay for a little bit when i cried in the hey yo what the
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the last three days i got to stay with a fan in denver luckily because i was just planning to stay
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there one night i was driving there on friday the day after thanksgiving and my car broke down
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probably like 30 minutes from his place my car was overheating and i didn't stop it right away
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which is probably what killed a fucking fire shot that is right there dude isn't that an incredible
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I probably fry the engine. Okay, skip skip skip. All right. I'm the better
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Representation that nothing happens for reasons Nico. Hold on. I'm gonna go back to this video. Hold on. Hold on
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Hold on. Let me do my little schizo detour. Wait, this is me during atheism phase
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I never liked the word because it sounds super edgy.
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But the definition is the rejection of all religious and moral principles and the belief
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Now, maybe karma is real or whatever, but ultimately, believing in any of that hinders
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It became pretty obvious how easy it is for external forces to take away whatever you think you have.
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Never forget that they were telling you not to take a walk outside without gloves on.
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NASA father claimed rituals guided his breakthroughs?
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The neighbor is screaming for help dying and something in the smoothies will turn off their ears.
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They're just chilling, smoking the best weed in the world.
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The fake people all move there from Ohio and Maine to get their dreams.
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They all have this La La Land fantasy that they're going to finger Ryan Gosling in the rain.
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But they have to climb the social ladder first.
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You go to LA and no conversation you'll have is genuine because they're all busy climbing.
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I love Miami so much because they don't give a fuck.
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Because really, at this point, I think that nothing matters except what we see in front of us.
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Unless you're a multi-billionaire, you're not going to save the turtles using paper straws.
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You're not really helping the homeless problem by donating $20 to Red Cross.
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It made you feel good to be part of something, right?
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But individually, we're limited, and we need to accept that.
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I'm typing out this video now, for instance, on a laptop, thinking someone's going to see this and change their perspective, but it's on a computer made by slaves.
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fire video but yeah just i was very nihilistic at the time and uh yeah the rest is history
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believing himself to be a reincarnation of an egyptian prophet what the fuck cosu
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crowley returned to london and founded a new religion he called it thelema a greek word
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meaning desire i can change a tire now based on the teachings found in the book of the law
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and promoted a life of hedonism and radical free will it was a fusion of a number of religious
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traditions mixing elements of western occultism jewish kabbalah theravada buddhism and yoga to
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the heavy use of psychedelics in 1907 he founded his own secret order the a a
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believed to stand for argentium astrum the alcoholics anonymous star owing to crowley's
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notoriety in occult circles the aa quickly grew in number soon he released a periodical for its
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members the equinox during this time it was rumored that iwas had contacted him again and
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Someone in the chat said we all have like that atheistic drug, nothing matters, nihilistic phase, is that true?
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There's a lot of like brown Pakistanis who grew up with this line and were like, no brother, no never!
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But if you're Western, I think that this is a natural process of elimination.
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Things were going well for Alistair and his nascent movement, but nothing good lasts forever.
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Now a leader of his own religion, with a philosophy to justify his own behavior,
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He literally looks just like Fat Peter Thiel.
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The heavier drugs can have affairs with both women and men.
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At the same time, his marriage to Rose began to break down.
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he became frustrated that his wife had developed alcoholism. In 1909, he divorced her on the
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grounds of adultery. After their marriage fell apart, Rose's addiction worsened, and she was
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admitted into an institution in 1911. Eventually, all the traveling, drug-taking, and libertinism
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had caught up with Crowley. The inheritance left by his father had now dried up. What's more-
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He's a rich kid too? Look at his fucking face. He didn't even have to do shit. Just like evil
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bullied satanist gay with a rich dad just destroys the world it's always one of these
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his addiction to drugs had severely worsened to treat his asthma are there any rich kids in the
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chat anybody like with a rich father inheritance like that sounds like a son piker uh what do
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they call that in turks the conme conme crackhead yeah i don't get the sense that there's rich kids
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in the chat i wish i grew up around a lot of rich kids but which kids no rich kids i mean same shit
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right me so you grew up only when i was smoking weed 24 7 yeah i was smoking weed a lot too since
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i since then quit okay this guy says he's a rich kid what's he saying ming mong ming mong okay he
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was just spaying okay that was definitely during professor jang i wish yeah well doctor prescribed
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I think that's a major curse, being a rich kid. I think that's a curse.
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Heroin, to which he soon developed a crippling dependency. During the outbreak of World War I,
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Hey, yeah, see, if you grew up without a silver spoon, you have a different level of ambition.
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You have a different grind. You have that alpha grind set, right? You gotta ascend.
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If you're already born rich, then you already have ascended, right? There's more- you get to
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figure out who you are, and you get to go through the trial and error. That makes you a man.
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small income through writing short stories and articles he even had a brief stint working as a
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double agent for british intelligence after the war his attempts at spreading thelema in the united
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states were largely unsuccessful and it soon came time to leave get the fuck out crowley rented a
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small house in sicily bringing some of his most dedicated followers with him there they set up
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the abbey of thelema and soon began to accept fresh disciples in the hopes fresh the eon of
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horus the abbey of thelema was designed to be a utopia free from all the restrictions that plagued
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Okay, so they have the pentagram star here, that's what they use witchcraft in.
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Aside from a few rituals to the sun god Ra and a weekly Gnostic mass, most of the members
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Get this Uncle Fester looking ass wigger off my screen.
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Crowley took a number of lovers and ran the commune as its de facto leader.
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Yeah, this is like the original Epstein Island fact.
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responsibility-free lifestyle advocated by Thelema, the Abbey quickly became dilapidated.
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It was full of litter and human waste, and stray dogs would often roam the building.
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In these unsanitary conditions, one of the acolytes died of mysterious causes.
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Newspapers got wind of this and began to speculate that it had been a part of a blood ritual.
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Not long after, Alistair gained infamy, and the myth of Mr. Crowley emerged.
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British periodical John Bull described Maz, quote,
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the wickedest man in the world. Others accused him of worshipping Satan.
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So where's that guy earlier? He's like, no, he wasn't a genius. He just wanted to spread Thelema.
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Dude, where did he go? Where were the Crowley dicksuckers? Are you guys still here?
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The memory of Thelema gradually fell apart, and all the members eventually left the commune.
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The abandoned building remains there today, although it's now vandalized and overgrown.
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For modern practitioners of Thelema, it remains a site of pilgrimage, a memory of something that could have been.
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Disgraced and destitute, Crowley returned to England and retired from public life.
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In 1929, he soon remarried to a woman named Maria Teresa Sanchez,
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although he continued to have the occasional affair every now and then.
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So you couldn't even stay away from Latina pussy, bro. You couldn't do it, man.
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It's the downfall of so many men. Fuck it. Even him.
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He spent the remainder of his days in the seaside town of Hastings.
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There, he wrote a few more books and offered students tuition for his magic.
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His final publication was The Book of Thoth, a tarot deck that remains popular.
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remember i did this a lot in japan i went to there was a witch on the street who was doing
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these tarot cards and like they can use this to predict their future i even dated a girl one time
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and i had a muslim background and her mother would do these tarot cards too which is it's
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just literal witchcraft and i highly recommend you stay far away for this they could take you
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out of the fold of religion it could take you out it separates you from god as soon as you start to
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uh get yourself involved in this you'll your protections you were a cute kid me a jeffrey
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They would have fucked the shit out of you.
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In 1947, Aleister Crowley developed chronic bronchitis and died peacefully in his sleep
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There's much that can be said about the life of Aleister Crowley, but perhaps a 1915 Vanity
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Quote, a legend has been built around his name.
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No other man has so many strange tales told about him.
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Crowley himself once wrote that, quote, 1,000 years from now, the world will be sitting
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yet to see this outcome, so you have to wait until the year 2947. His legacy can be seen in strange
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and surprising places. Perhaps his largest influence has been in the revival of pagan
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practices. Religions like Wicca have increased to numbers from the 20th century well into the
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modern era. Many of Crowley's books and teachings have been widely published and remain as central
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reads for all those interested in magic and the dark arts. One of his strangest legacies has been
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in the world of music. Crowley... Yeah, they're gonna get into music now. And you're right,
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Someone said Jimmy Page was the best guitarist ever.
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Jimmy Page, he was the lead guitarist for which band?
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Again, so a lot of people make deals with the devil in order to become really good at making music.
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So, yeah, Jimmy Page was the lead guitarist for Led Zeppelin, right?
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Rolling Stones, one of the greatest of all time.
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But so many of these musicians, they loved Crowley.
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Not only that, if you watch my video of 27 Club, I detail how one of the first members of 27 Club,
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which is a famous group where people who are 27 years old, celebrities, they end up dying or overdose or something.
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And a lot of them, the idea is that they make deals with the devil in order to get all this musical talent.
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This is what takes people away from the fold of God.
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Most of these lyrics and everything, it's all trickery and drives you away.
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One of the founders of blues was this black dude who apparently went to the forest because he sucked at playing.
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And then he came back after making a deal with the devil and was one of the best blues players of all time.
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He has since become an icon of a number of countercultural movements, especially in punk and rock and roll.
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He can be found here on the cover of the Beatles' 1967.
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Wow. So this is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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See, the Beatles were just like, I want to hold your hand.
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And right here, they wanted to get psychedelic.
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They're like, I'm tired of being One Direction in the 60s.
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I want to be an experimental psychedelic band like Pink Floyd.
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And so they made this album, which is a great album, but yeah, there's Aleister Crowley right
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here. And again, they have the old Beatles represents their old selves. And this is when
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people started saying that Paul McCartney cloned himself and that Paul McCartney died and they
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replaced him with somebody else. All of these conspiracies came about. But overall, the bigger
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idea is that people make deals with the devil in order to gain fame and talent and success.
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An album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley's words have made their way into the
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lyrics of songs by David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne, and Iron Maiden. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy
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page even bought crowley's scottish manor bolskin lodge but soon left the property after claiming
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that it was haunted but for all his fame are we guilty of glorifying the life of alastair crowley
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yes yes people are guilty of that we should not glorify these people
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a girl's saying she's an old fan of mine but right here i detail the 27 club and the deals people
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make. So right here, here's Crowley. And here. Again, there's Ozzy Osbourne worshiping Crowley.
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Basquiat lives there. He died at 27. Another artist at 27. Where's the blues artist that I
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credit over here? Steezy was the one who put me onto that. Where is that? Where is that? I think
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it's in the speech here crowley what's his name chat oh fuck that i'll just play the song wait
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hold on i know adsc detour wait wait wait me and the devil yes the song walking side by side
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me and the devil walking side by robert johnson yes
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Early this morning when you knocked up on my door
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Early this morning when you knocked up on my door
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By all accounts, he was not a likeable man. Many biographers recount his exceptional cruelty and
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ability to alienate those close to him. His conversations with spirits and demons could
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be a symptom of an underlying mental health condition exacerbated by his untreated addiction
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to alcohol and drugs. Today, we might throw all kinds of medical diagnoses at him. Sociopathy,
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narcissistic personality disorder, disassociation, and drug-induced schizophrenia. Genius? Insane.
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visionary, fraud, freethinker, cult leader. Perhaps he's all of these things, or none of them.
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However you choose to remember him, Alistair Crowley will be remembered, nonetheless.