SHNEAKO - Aleister Crowley： The Man Who Spoke To Demons

00:00:00.000 He can be found here on the cover of The Beatles' 1967.

00:00:03.140 Wow. So this is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band.

00:00:06.560 The Beatles, this is when they shifted.

00:00:07.700 They made this album, which is a great album.

00:00:09.640 Yeah, there's Aleister Crowley right here.

00:00:11.720 And again, they have the old Beatles represents their old selves.

00:00:13.840 And this is when people started saying that Paul McCartney cloned himself

00:00:16.100 and that Paul McCartney died and they replaced him with somebody else.

00:00:18.560 Overall, the bigger idea is that people make deals with the devil

00:00:20.940 in order to gain fame and talent and success.

00:00:23.300 His final publication was The Book of Thoth, a tarot deck that remains popular.

00:00:26.900 Do you remember I did this a lot in Japan?

00:00:29.160 And I went to, there was a witch on the street who was doing these tarot cards.

00:00:33.660 And they can use this to predict their future.

00:00:35.660 I even dated a girl one time and had a Muslim background.

00:00:39.480 And her mother would do these tarot cards too, which is, it's just literal witchcraft. 0.91

00:00:43.980 And I highly recommend you stay far away from this.

00:00:46.360 It could take you out of the fold of religion.

00:00:47.780 It could take you out, it separates you from God.

00:00:49.540 Okay, so here it is.

00:00:50.240 Alistair Crowley, the man who spoke to demons.

00:00:52.680 Did he?

00:00:53.220 Let's see if he was really a Satanist.

00:00:54.800 this is a story about a man who spoke to demons a man who worked by many names in his life

00:01:04.160 the beast brother perbduro or ankh afnkosu he was an occultist a student of the dark

00:01:11.440 life's a bit of shame i'm going off the rails on a crazy train

00:01:16.520 on a crazy train founder of the religion and a publisher of books on magic and so what is

00:01:24.640 Thelema. I saw someone said he's not a Satanist. He was the founder of Thelema. What is that?

00:01:27.580 Let's look up definitions real quick. Thelema is an occult, social, and spiritual philosophy

00:01:31.480 founded in 1984 by a British cult of South of Crowley. Okay, it's a spiritual philosophy cult.

00:01:36.060 Sounds pretty satanic to me, bro. They have deities. Dude, what are you guys talking about?

00:01:41.000 His followers regarded him as a visionary and a champion of free expression.

00:01:44.960 There is only one God, and his name is Jesus Christ. All praise be to the Most High Yah.

00:01:50.920 Well, then who is Jesus' father if he said there's only one God?

00:01:53.720 minded society his enemies branded him as insane and capable of great cruelty to those around him

00:02:00.440 the devil incarnate or a troubled visionary to find the video of ozzy saying his inspos

00:02:05.400 forget that it's all a matter of yes you know ozzy osborne said his inspiration was hitler

00:02:10.200 this is the story of alistair crowley

00:02:16.120 jesus is the messiah

00:02:17.240 Alastair Crowley was born on the 12th of October 1875 in the sleepy English town of

00:02:26.580 Leamington Spa. His father, Edward Crowley, was a preacher and belonged to a fringe Christian 0.97

00:02:31.060 sect known as the Plymouth Brethren. They took a radical fundamentalist view to the

00:02:35.220 Bible, meaning that whatever was written down was meant to be taken literally. At its worst,

00:02:39.460 this included the subjugation of women and the persecution of homosexuals. His preaching 0.95

00:02:43.500 career was cut short, however, when in 1886, he died of tongue cancer. From a young age,

00:02:48.220 Alistair was sent to a number of boarding schools. He was a strange boy, preferring his own company

00:02:52.620 instead of playing with other children. As a result, he was often subject to bullying.

00:02:56.220 some dude it's always revenge of the nerds it's always some bullied like peter teal bullied it's

00:03:02.140 always just like a revenge of like some angry white guy or an angry you know i'm saying like

00:03:06.400 it's always this mark zuckerberg some bullied times by his teachers this troubled child grew

00:03:13.540 into a troubled teenager he began to question his strict christian upbringing and enjoyed pointing

00:03:18.160 out inconsistencies in the bible at the same time he was often caught smoking drinking and even

00:03:23.580 visiting prostitutes. Horrified, his mother would nickname him

00:03:26.660 One of Us?

00:03:27.740 The Beast, which is a monster from the book.

00:03:37.740 The Beast.

00:03:39.580 Beast.

00:03:40.800 Whoa, wait, wait.

00:03:42.880 Schizo time, hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on. 0.97

00:03:45.540 Hang on, hang on.

00:03:47.300 Mr. Beast still follows me too, isn't it?

00:03:48.960 I'm kind of surprised.

00:03:50.460 Beast Games.

00:03:52.460 Beast Games.

00:03:53.400 i'm so excited to share this financial app and be new peter teal okay of revelation a nickname that

00:04:01.160 crowley would soon delight in in 1895 at the age of 19 alistair enrolled at the university of

00:04:07.160 cambridge to study english literature he developed a love for chess and romantic poetry reading the

00:04:12.280 works of lord byron and percy sherry it's so similar to peter teal's upbringing huh it was

00:04:17.240 during this time when alistair developed an unexplainable attraction to a fellow student

00:04:21.160 What is it with chess and demon- like why is chess making people demonic?

00:04:25.800 Herbert Charles Pollitt. The feeling was mutual, and the two entered a brief and passionate

00:04:30.040 relationship. Their commitment to one another was soon to end, for Alistair developed a deeper love,

00:04:35.080 the occult. Spending days at a time in old dusty libraries, Alistair discovered books of a more

00:04:40.360 mystical nature. It had started innocently with religious texts from around the world,

00:04:44.840 but he soon delved them to darker material. Works like The Lesser Key of Solomon,

00:04:48.200 a 16th century grimoire of spells rituals and evil spirits his morbid curiosity with magic and

00:04:53.640 the dark arts evolved into an obsession and he soon decided to devote his life to occultism

00:04:58.680 having left cambridge failing to finish his degree alistair was able to live off the money

00:05:02.520 that he'd inherited from his father you're right someone brought up bobby fisher you guys know what

00:05:06.280 he said bobby fisher was a uh he was what he did uh toward the end of his life they said he went

00:05:12.280 crazy but he said a lot of things that you guys are saying from a young age alistair was

00:05:15.640 extraordinarily wealthy this allowed him to travel around the world and pursue his expensive hobbies

00:05:20.360 chief among which was mountain climbing something he gained recognition for among mountaineering

00:05:24.200 circles but crowley was keen to progress his occult education in november 1898 he was introduced to

00:05:29.960 the hermetic order of the golden dawn the group believed to possess ancient knowledge they studied

00:05:34.600 esoteric teachings medieval jewish kabbalah performed magical ceremonies which included

00:05:39.240 ritualistic drug taking yeah members of this looks pretty satanic to me no it was just a

00:05:43.400 the limo like dude what are you talking about can't believe people are defending this included

00:05:47.640 arthur conan doyle the author of sherlock holmes adopting the name brother perubduro alistair

00:05:52.840 impressed all those around him displaying an extensive knowledge of occult literature as a

00:05:57.080 result he quickly rose through the ranks but his roguish lifestyle of excessive drug taking and

00:06:01.560 bisexuality made him a controversial figure and it's always some gay guys to a number of feuds

00:06:06.440 with fellow initiates those around him spoke of his quote unappeasable desire to control people

00:06:11.560 and that he also had, quote, a tendency to quarrel savagely with anyone who disagreed with him.

00:06:16.680 Many fellow members refused him from ascending further ranks, a schism soon developed within

00:06:20.760 the Order which led to Alastair leaving shortly after. Disillusioned with the Order and its

00:06:28.840 rigid hierarchy, Crowley retreated to travelling. With the funds his father had left him, he journeyed

00:06:32.920 to Japan, China, Sri Lanka and India. He continued to climb and even joined an early expedition to

00:06:38.440 to climb the second highest peak on Earth, K2.

00:06:41.480 During his travels, he was introduced to Eastern philosophy.

00:06:53.220 He studied the teachings of Taoism and Buddhism, as well as practicing yoga.

00:06:57.260 He decided to include various hard drugs into his curriculum,

00:07:00.100 like hashish, opium, and certain hallucinogens.

00:07:02.160 More proof that these drugs, they don't actually enlighten you, that it's helping you see demons.

00:07:06.040 ...genic substances.

00:07:07.220 In 1902, at the age of 29, Alistair found himself in Paris.

00:07:10.840 There he met a woman named Rose Edith Kelly, who was also interested in the occult.

00:07:14.900 Although she was initially betrothed to someone else, the two had an affair and swiftly got married.

00:07:19.020 For their honeymoon, they decided to go to Egypt.

00:07:21.640 As with all things Alistair did, this trip would prove to be far from normal.

00:07:25.280 In usual Crowley fashion, he set up a shrine in their hotel suite 1.00

00:07:28.320 and began recounting spells and incantations invoking the various egyptian gods what happened

00:07:33.040 next is crowley's later recollection the story goes that his wife rose suddenly fell faint and

00:07:38.400 became unresponsive all she could murmur with the words they are waiting for you they as it turned

00:07:43.840 out was the god horus as if led by a spirit his wife took him to a nearby museum all the way to

00:07:49.120 a stele dating to the reign of pharaoh hap chipset looking down at the exhibit number it read 666

00:07:54.400 the number of the beast. Suddenly, a voice from the depth of Alistair's mind cooled out.

00:07:59.280 It called itself Aiwass, and it claimed to be an angel. It told Alistair to write down

00:08:03.520 all that it said into a book. For the next three days, Aiwass dictated its words to Alistair,

00:08:08.400 who dutifully wrote them all down. What he was left with was a small tome entitled

00:08:12.880 The Book of the Law. Opening the first pages, the book was replete with spells,

00:08:17.040 as well as discourses and philosophy. A key teaching of this book was that humanity would

00:08:21.440 soon enter a new age the messianic age all these little all these other religions and ideologies

00:08:29.440 it's all just the same like frankism you know people who worship sabbatai zevi freemasonry

00:08:34.880 all of it is aligns perfectly with the messianic age ushering in the antichrist mankind will

00:08:42.400 overthrow christianity and finally take control of their own destiny to achieve this guy there was

00:08:47.680 but one simple commandment quote do what thou wilt every man and woman is a star the word of sin is

00:08:53.920 restriction in other words whatever you feel like doing go and do it regardless of popular opinion

00:08:59.360 or conventional morality there was a time when i was an atheist on youtube remember i made a video

00:09:03.920 identical to this this is what helped me find religion i uploaded a video called do whatever

00:09:08.080 you want uh i was really disillusioned after covid and really nihilistic kind of fell into

00:09:16.080 this without knowing so yeah this video do whatever you want remember this anything to

00:09:20.080 say to my video they miss you you nico i knew i was back in new york because i rented a car after

00:09:30.800 my actual car broke down in colorado and the first thing i saw was a three five laying right

00:09:35.520 in the cup holder thank you previous owner i definitely left a clean review but after five

00:09:40.960 minutes of being here after five minutes in this car let me show you what happened

00:09:48.640 no i was gonna make a video and now i gotta wait for someone to change the tire because i'm not

00:09:53.280 a man and i don't know how to uh the song got copyrighted me and my wizzy driving back

00:10:02.800 alexis from new york city to los angeles and while driving back it broke down in colorado

00:10:08.480 unfortunately all right pizza that lexus i like that car i really i really love not really a crier

00:10:13.780 because crying is gay but uh i was gay for a little bit when i cried in the hey yo what the

00:10:19.300 the last three days i got to stay with a fan in denver luckily because i was just planning to stay

00:10:24.040 there one night i was driving there on friday the day after thanksgiving and my car broke down

00:10:28.640 probably like 30 minutes from his place my car was overheating and i didn't stop it right away 0.76

00:10:33.480 which is probably what killed a fucking fire shot that is right there dude isn't that an incredible 0.97

00:10:37.480 I probably fry the engine. Okay, skip skip skip. All right. I'm the better 0.99

00:10:43.300 Representation that nothing happens for reasons Nico. Hold on. I'm gonna go back to this video. Hold on. Hold on

00:10:47.800 Hold on. Let me do my little schizo detour. Wait, this is me during atheism phase 0.97

00:11:07.480 You have Professor Zhang.

00:11:09.840 Ready, ready, watch.

00:11:12.780 You could say I'm a nihilist.

00:11:18.340 I never liked the word because it sounds super edgy.

00:11:20.900 I don't believe in anything.

00:11:22.280 I'm a nihilist.

00:11:22.760 But the definition is the rejection of all religious and moral principles and the belief

00:11:27.440 that life is meaningless.

00:11:29.000 Yeah, that's kind of edgy.

00:11:29.940 Now, maybe karma is real or whatever, but ultimately, believing in any of that hinders

00:11:33.980 your experience today.

00:11:35.120 It became pretty obvious how easy it is for external forces to take away whatever you think you have.

00:11:40.080 Your job, your livelihood, your health.

00:11:42.000 Never forget that they were telling you not to take a walk outside without gloves on.

00:11:45.400 Heard of Jay Parsons?

00:11:47.060 NASA father claimed rituals guided his breakthroughs?

00:11:49.940 No, I didn't see it.

00:11:50.400 Story is crazy.

00:11:51.720 I haven't heard about it.

00:11:52.160 Look at these shots.

00:11:53.240 Like, look at this shot.

00:11:54.220 Ready?

00:11:54.540 The neighbor is screaming for help dying and something in the smoothies will turn off their ears.

00:11:58.820 The people actually from L.A. are cool.

00:12:01.180 They're just chilling, smoking the best weed in the world.

00:12:03.680 The fake people all move there from Ohio and Maine to get their dreams.

00:12:09.080 They all have this La La Land fantasy that they're going to finger Ryan Gosling in the rain.

00:12:14.000 But they have to climb the social ladder first.

00:12:16.760 You go to LA and no conversation you'll have is genuine because they're all busy climbing. 0.99

00:12:20.720 I love Miami so much because they don't give a fuck. 1.00

00:12:23.640 Hey, do you feel my new titties? 1.00

00:12:25.780 Ha ha ha, Miami, bitch. 1.00

00:12:27.820 They accept their plastic surgery. 1.00

00:12:29.800 No one cares.

00:12:30.580 They're just there to have fun.

00:12:32.200 Because really, at this point, I think that nothing matters except what we see in front of us.

00:12:36.200 The rest is speculation or out of our control.

00:12:39.160 Unless you're a multi-billionaire, you're not going to save the turtles using paper straws.

00:12:43.640 You're not really helping the homeless problem by donating $20 to Red Cross.

00:12:48.180 It made you feel good to be part of something, right?

00:12:50.660 But individually, we're limited, and we need to accept that.

00:12:53.820 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.

00:13:00.180 I'm never going to see.

00:13:01.100 fire video but yeah just i was very nihilistic at the time and uh yeah the rest is history 0.98

00:13:09.280 believing himself to be a reincarnation of an egyptian prophet what the fuck cosu 0.78

00:13:13.980 crowley returned to london and founded a new religion he called it thelema a greek word 0.93

00:13:18.460 meaning desire i can change a tire now based on the teachings found in the book of the law

00:13:21.880 and promoted a life of hedonism and radical free will it was a fusion of a number of religious

00:13:26.440 traditions mixing elements of western occultism jewish kabbalah theravada buddhism and yoga to

00:13:35.320 the heavy use of psychedelics in 1907 he founded his own secret order the a a

00:13:40.600 believed to stand for argentium astrum the alcoholics anonymous star owing to crowley's

00:13:45.000 notoriety in occult circles the aa quickly grew in number soon he released a periodical for its

00:13:49.960 members the equinox during this time it was rumored that iwas had contacted him again and

00:13:54.440 Someone in the chat said we all have like that atheistic drug, nothing matters, nihilistic phase, is that true?

00:13:59.760 There's a lot of like brown Pakistanis who grew up with this line and were like, no brother, no never! 1.00

00:14:03.460 But if you're Western, I think that this is a natural process of elimination. 0.98

00:14:08.420 ...instructed him to write more holy books.

00:14:10.800 Things were going well for Alistair and his nascent movement, but nothing good lasts forever.

00:14:19.460 Now a leader of his own religion, with a philosophy to justify his own behavior,

00:14:23.160 Crowley enjoyed a lavish lifestyle.

00:14:25.060 He continued to travel to increasingly...

00:14:26.720 He looks like Fat Peter Thiel, doesn't he?

00:14:28.200 He literally looks just like Fat Peter Thiel. 0.99

00:14:31.320 They all look miserable. 0.99

00:14:32.660 Am I wrong? 0.98

00:14:35.100 I don't know if I'm too schizo.

00:14:36.400 I'm not, it's just like...

00:14:37.680 Yeah, he literally does. 0.99

00:14:39.920 Fucking hell. 0.99

00:14:42.080 Fat Thiel. 1.00

00:14:43.760 Jesus.

00:14:44.660 The heavier drugs can have affairs with both women and men.

00:14:47.800 At the same time, his marriage to Rose began to break down.

00:14:50.360 Despite his own scandalous lifestyle,

00:14:52.020 he became frustrated that his wife had developed alcoholism. In 1909, he divorced her on the

00:14:56.840 grounds of adultery. After their marriage fell apart, Rose's addiction worsened, and she was

00:15:00.700 admitted into an institution in 1911. Eventually, all the traveling, drug-taking, and libertinism

00:15:05.980 had caught up with Crowley. The inheritance left by his father had now dried up. What's more-

00:15:10.440 He's a rich kid too? Look at his fucking face. He didn't even have to do shit. Just like evil 1.00

00:15:16.240 bullied satanist gay with a rich dad just destroys the world it's always one of these 0.99

00:15:22.020 his addiction to drugs had severely worsened to treat his asthma are there any rich kids in the 0.99

00:15:26.380 chat anybody like with a rich father inheritance like that sounds like a son piker uh what do

00:15:31.880 they call that in turks the conme conme crackhead yeah i don't get the sense that there's rich kids 0.97

00:15:39.240 in the chat i wish i grew up around a lot of rich kids but which kids no rich kids i mean same shit 0.93

00:15:46.780 right me so you grew up only when i was smoking weed 24 7 yeah i was smoking weed a lot too since 0.90

00:15:55.360 i since then quit okay this guy says he's a rich kid what's he saying ming mong ming mong okay he

00:15:59.880 was just spaying okay that was definitely during professor jang i wish yeah well doctor prescribed

00:16:06.780 I think that's a major curse, being a rich kid. I think that's a curse.

00:16:11.000 Heroin, to which he soon developed a crippling dependency. During the outbreak of World War I,

00:16:15.560 he was living in New York, gaining a-

00:16:17.160 Hey, yeah, see, if you grew up without a silver spoon, you have a different level of ambition.

00:16:22.000 You have a different grind. You have that alpha grind set, right? You gotta ascend.

00:16:26.480 If you're already born rich, then you already have ascended, right? There's more- you get to

00:16:30.260 figure out who you are, and you get to go through the trial and error. That makes you a man.

00:16:33.120 small income through writing short stories and articles he even had a brief stint working as a

00:16:37.460 double agent for british intelligence after the war his attempts at spreading thelema in the united 0.76

00:16:41.680 states were largely unsuccessful and it soon came time to leave get the fuck out crowley rented a 0.88

00:16:47.720 small house in sicily bringing some of his most dedicated followers with him there they set up

00:16:51.900 the abbey of thelema and soon began to accept fresh disciples in the hopes fresh the eon of

00:16:56.680 horus the abbey of thelema was designed to be a utopia free from all the restrictions that plagued

00:17:01.540 Okay, so they have the pentagram star here, that's what they use witchcraft in.

00:17:05.020 The Star of David is six points, right?

00:17:06.660 I should know this off the top of my head.

00:17:08.540 Yeah, that's a little bit, yeah, six points.

00:17:10.540 I knew that.

00:17:11.540 Yeah, okay.

00:17:12.540 Aside from a few rituals to the sun god Ra and a weekly Gnostic mass, most of the members

00:17:17.260 were left to pursue their own interests. 0.99

00:17:19.260 Get this Uncle Fester looking ass wigger off my screen. 1.00

00:17:21.540 Start the Islamic house already. 1.00

00:17:23.540 Brother!

00:17:24.540 Crowley took a number of lovers and ran the commune as its de facto leader.

00:17:28.540 Yeah, this is like the original Epstein Island fact.

00:17:30.540 responsibility-free lifestyle advocated by Thelema, the Abbey quickly became dilapidated.

00:17:35.280 It was full of litter and human waste, and stray dogs would often roam the building.

00:17:39.220 In these unsanitary conditions, one of the acolytes died of mysterious causes.

00:17:43.300 Newspapers got wind of this and began to speculate that it had been a part of a blood ritual.

00:17:47.540 Not long after, Alistair gained infamy, and the myth of Mr. Crowley emerged.

00:17:51.120 British periodical John Bull described Maz, quote,

00:17:54.160 the wickedest man in the world. Others accused him of worshipping Satan.

00:17:57.840 Some believed that he actually was Satan.

00:17:59.680 So where's that guy earlier? He's like, no, he wasn't a genius. He just wanted to spread Thelema.

00:18:04.040 Dude, where did he go? Where were the Crowley dicksuckers? Are you guys still here? 1.00

00:18:07.920 The memory of Thelema gradually fell apart, and all the members eventually left the commune.

00:18:11.860 The abandoned building remains there today, although it's now vandalized and overgrown.

00:18:16.020 For modern practitioners of Thelema, it remains a site of pilgrimage, a memory of something that could have been.

00:18:22.760 Okay, what now? Ugh.

00:18:26.320 Disgraced and destitute, Crowley returned to England and retired from public life.

00:18:30.160 In 1929, he soon remarried to a woman named Maria Teresa Sanchez,

00:18:34.000 although he continued to have the occasional affair every now and then. 1.00

00:18:36.440 So you couldn't even stay away from Latina pussy, bro. You couldn't do it, man. 1.00

00:18:40.360 It's the downfall of so many men. Fuck it. Even him. 1.00

00:18:45.080 He spent the remainder of his days in the seaside town of Hastings.

00:18:48.140 There, he wrote a few more books and offered students tuition for his magic.

00:18:52.020 His final publication was The Book of Thoth, a tarot deck that remains popular.

00:18:55.680 remember i did this a lot in japan i went to there was a witch on the street who was doing

00:19:01.040 these tarot cards and like they can use this to predict their future i even dated a girl one time

00:19:05.520 and i had a muslim background and her mother would do these tarot cards too which is it's

00:19:11.020 just literal witchcraft and i highly recommend you stay far away for this they could take you

00:19:15.460 out of the fold of religion it could take you out it separates you from god as soon as you start to

00:19:19.420 uh get yourself involved in this you'll your protections you were a cute kid me a jeffrey 1.00

00:19:24.560 They would have fucked the shit out of you. 1.00

00:19:26.560 You're going to hell. 1.00

00:19:27.560 Today. 0.94

00:19:28.560 In 1947, Aleister Crowley developed chronic bronchitis and died peacefully in his sleep

00:19:32.500 at the age of 72.

00:19:34.920 There's much that can be said about the life of Aleister Crowley, but perhaps a 1915 Vanity

00:19:38.960 Fair article put it best.

00:19:40.460 Quote, a legend has been built around his name.

00:19:42.600 He is a myth.

00:19:43.820 No other man has so many strange tales told about him.

00:19:47.060 Crowley himself once wrote that, quote, 1,000 years from now, the world will be sitting

00:19:51.140 in the sunset of Crowleyanity.

00:19:53.260 yet to see this outcome, so you have to wait until the year 2947. His legacy can be seen in strange

00:19:58.720 and surprising places. Perhaps his largest influence has been in the revival of pagan

00:20:02.860 practices. Religions like Wicca have increased to numbers from the 20th century well into the

00:20:07.400 modern era. Many of Crowley's books and teachings have been widely published and remain as central

00:20:11.640 reads for all those interested in magic and the dark arts. One of his strangest legacies has been

00:20:16.280 in the world of music. Crowley... Yeah, they're gonna get into music now. And you're right,

00:20:20.200 Someone said Jimmy Page was the best guitarist ever.

00:20:22.340 It makes sense.

00:20:22.760 Jimmy Page, he was the lead guitarist for which band?

00:20:25.620 Again, so a lot of people make deals with the devil in order to become really good at making music.

00:20:29.440 So, yeah, Jimmy Page was the lead guitarist for Led Zeppelin, right?

00:20:33.160 Gimme Shelter, all this stuff.

00:20:34.260 Rolling Stones, one of the greatest of all time.

00:20:36.360 But so many of these musicians, they loved Crowley.

00:20:40.500 Not only that, if you watch my video of 27 Club, I detail how one of the first members of 27 Club,

00:20:44.940 which is a famous group where people who are 27 years old, celebrities, they end up dying or overdose or something.

00:20:50.200 And a lot of them, the idea is that they make deals with the devil in order to get all this musical talent.

00:20:56.340 Because music is the voice of Satan.

00:20:58.860 This is what takes people away from the fold of God.

00:21:01.820 Most of these lyrics and everything, it's all trickery and drives you away. 0.95

00:21:05.560 One of the founders of blues was this black dude who apparently went to the forest because he sucked at playing.

00:21:11.260 And then he came back after making a deal with the devil and was one of the best blues players of all time.

00:21:15.660 He has since become an icon of a number of countercultural movements, especially in punk and rock and roll.

00:21:20.680 He can be found here on the cover of the Beatles' 1967.

00:21:23.600 Wow. So this is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

00:21:27.360 This is a great album. 1967 came out.

00:21:29.360 And the Beatles, this is when they shifted.

00:21:31.340 See, the Beatles were just like, I want to hold your hand.

00:21:36.320 And right here, they wanted to get psychedelic.

00:21:38.020 They're like, I'm tired of being One Direction in the 60s.

00:21:39.980 I want to be an experimental psychedelic band like Pink Floyd.

00:21:42.620 I want to be artsy farty.

00:21:45.660 And so they made this album, which is a great album, but yeah, there's Aleister Crowley right

00:21:49.820 here. And again, they have the old Beatles represents their old selves. And this is when

00:21:53.180 people started saying that Paul McCartney cloned himself and that Paul McCartney died and they

00:21:56.320 replaced him with somebody else. All of these conspiracies came about. But overall, the bigger

00:22:00.480 idea is that people make deals with the devil in order to gain fame and talent and success.

00:22:04.480 An album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley's words have made their way into the

00:22:08.440 lyrics of songs by David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne, and Iron Maiden. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy

00:22:12.920 page even bought crowley's scottish manor bolskin lodge but soon left the property after claiming

00:22:17.480 that it was haunted but for all his fame are we guilty of glorifying the life of alastair crowley

00:22:22.440 yes yes people are guilty of that we should not glorify these people

00:22:34.840 a girl's saying she's an old fan of mine but right here i detail the 27 club and the deals people

00:22:40.040 make. So right here, here's Crowley. And here. Again, there's Ozzy Osbourne worshiping Crowley.

00:22:54.340 Basquiat lives there. He died at 27. Another artist at 27. Where's the blues artist that I

00:22:59.200 credit over here? Steezy was the one who put me onto that. Where is that? Where is that? I think

00:23:06.620 it's in the speech here crowley what's his name chat oh fuck that i'll just play the song wait 0.99

00:23:16.020 hold on i know adsc detour wait wait wait me and the devil yes the song walking side by side 0.99

00:23:27.800 me and the devil walking side by robert johnson yes

00:23:36.620 Early this morning when you knocked up on my door

00:23:50.660 Creepy, right?

00:23:55.860 Early this morning when you knocked up on my door

00:24:02.100 Yeah, Sinners does touch on that idea

00:24:03.780 By all accounts, he was not a likeable man. Many biographers recount his exceptional cruelty and

00:24:09.680 ability to alienate those close to him. His conversations with spirits and demons could

00:24:14.080 be a symptom of an underlying mental health condition exacerbated by his untreated addiction

00:24:18.240 to alcohol and drugs. Today, we might throw all kinds of medical diagnoses at him. Sociopathy,

00:24:23.880 narcissistic personality disorder, disassociation, and drug-induced schizophrenia. Genius? Insane.

00:24:29.720 visionary, fraud, freethinker, cult leader. Perhaps he's all of these things, or none of them.

00:24:35.980 However you choose to remember him, Alistair Crowley will be remembered, nonetheless.

00:24:59.720 We'll be right back.

SHNEAKO - February 11, 2026

Aleister Crowley： The Man Who Spoke To Demons

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