Aleister Crowley: A Visual Study by William Ramsey on William Ramsey Investigates
Aleister Crowley: A Visual Study by William Ramsey on William Ramsey Investigates
Aleister Crowley: A Visual Study
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Speaker 1: Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates
on today's show. I'm going to cover a book I
published in twenty thirteen title of It's Aleister Crowley, a
visual study, and it wasn't kind of a major book.
It's two hundred and fifty pages, but I had it
on sale on Amazon for five bucks for the last
twelve thirteen years, and I just revisited it after seeing
pictures of Crowley or alleged pictures of Croly that have
clearly been aied. So I think that this book kind
of has its important importance has increased over time in
that it's a memorialization of this kind of pre ai
visual evidence of Crowley, and you can get it. I'll
put a link to it in the show notes. You
can get it on Amazon right now, but it's kind
of an easier way. My book about Croley, Profit of
Evil doesn't have as many pictures as this, And if
you're a visual learner or you kind of like to
see there's a lot of pictorial evidence of Crowley, and
there's not much on the internet in one spot as
far as I know, so I think you know it's
a five dollars well spent. You can also see my
documentary Profit of Evil on my Patreon that's five bucks
a month. You can just go check it out. It's
under shop. You go to shop and you can see
all five of my documentaries. I'm going to try to
reload them to Amazon when I get the chance. But
this book I think is kind of interesting, and I
did it through Apple's Eyebooks, so I used a particular
formatting device. That's why it looks the way it is
so and I think it's I think it's too the
test time. It's a decent book. It's not my most
well received book or my most purchased book, but people
found some kind of benefit reading through it. And you'll
see the pick. These are pictures of Crowley right on
the front page. Here. That's an older Crowley right there
with a pipe. That's Crawley, probably in his fifties. That's
clearly on the bottom right making the sign of Pan
with his thumbs out his faces in there. That's the
eye of Horace. It's not the all seeing eye. It's different.
People make that mistake all the time. They go he
has an all seeing eye, not it's the eye of God. Horace,
and then the Pentagram Book. I think it's a book
of spells. And then Crawley. After he came back to
England from the United States, this kind of right wing
newspaper from the time wrote a bunch of articles about him.
Another trader trounced career, A condemnation of the notorious Alistrick Curley.
His real name was Edward that his burden his born name,
but he changed it to Alistra. You can kind of
read the intro. I do have a little bit of
writing here and there at this June first, twenty thirteen,
just some of the other things that he wrote. He
wrote his own for people who don't know. He wrote
his own biography in his fifth forty seven when he
was forty seven, and he wrote, I believe that truth
is not only stranger than fiction, but more interesting. And
I have no motive for deception, because I don't give
a damn for the whole human race. You're nothing but
a pack of cards. That's what he wrote. Nice guy
Confessions is nine hundred and twenty three pages, but he
still had another quarter century of life. He died at
seventy two and forty seven. So I write here in
this final intro paragraph. Curley is a difficult character to
understand and hard to pinpoint on the global map, as
he was practicing and studying magic continually while traveling back
and forth through the world. It's really true he circumnavigated
the world twise, he never worked, and he had family money.
Please refer to the timeline in the back of the
book for assistance and determining events and Curley's unusual and
intricate life. In the appendices, I've included a link the
index of particularly salient writings. I also included at the
end is a detail also included at the end as
a detailed list of his writings by data publication and
a copious amount of photographic and newspaper evidence exists, like
I stated, and I included as much as possible in
this visual study of Curley. So it's just a different angle.
And this is kind of like the pastest prologue. But
there is kind of a famous picture of him as
a boy in his I think this is his school clothes,
and it's actually this is reflected if you read Alan
Moore's from Help. He takes this picture of Crowley and
kind of plays with it this style in this hat
of the young Edward Alexander Crowley. He was born in
Leamington's Ball, Warwickshire, so it's very close to Stratford on Avon,
and he like in his autobiography He's October twelfth is
his birthday eighteen seventy five and much like the N
nine A revers Hitler people who are Thelamites revere Crowley's
birthday eighteen seventy five. But he writes about himself he
bore in his body the three most important distinguishing marks
of a Buddha. He was tongue tied and on the
second day of his incarnation as Surge and cut the
frame of malingue. He also had the characteristic membrane, which
necessitated a operation for femosis some three lusters later. Lastly,
he had upon the center of his heart four hairs
curling from left to right, in the exact form of
a swastika, so he says. He says he had a
swastika on his chest when he was born. He got
to take that with a grand assault. His family was
influenced by Darby. They also made al They sold stuff
to the vibrant pub system that existed back then in
the nineteenth century, and they're very wealthy. I think when
his mother died he was worth like twenty million pounds
like something like that. Like that's what he inherited, Like
that's the equivalent of the value today, like millions and
millions of dollars, which he squandered. He did no interest
in kind of like maintaining the family wealth in any way,
shape or form, which just did not register. And I
will take questions. I'm happy to take questions. If you
have any questions about Cruelly, you can put in the
chat and I'll get to them once I kind of
go through the book. But and these are quotes there
were This is kind of like a reflection of profit
of evil too, it's just a different format. There's a
picture of his father, who he really liked. He didn't
care for his mother or his uncle. His dad died
when he was twelve. His father was kind of a
Christian pamp of a tier, so he would travel around
and evangelize the Bible. And he grew up in this
kind of darbyistic exclusive Brethren. So they were a subset
of the Plymouth Brethren. So they saw them the way
they Crully portrays it is they really saw them as
kind of an elite, saw themselves as kind of an elite.
And he did go to these Plymouth Brethren schools, so
they kind of stayed within their own Christian sect. And
his high school be equittal equivalent of an American high school.
It was in Cambridge, so he had a connection to
Cambridge both as a school student and a college student
university student. He didn't care for some of the people
he thought in the group. The group was dominated by
what he considered rough mediocrities. The aristocrats who began the
movement where of course just aristocrats, but their curious system
left them so and were led by the meanest crew
of Canai that ever wriggled. Curley had an extraordinary vocabulary.
He really was a first rate writer, there's no question
about it. And then his early stuff about the Bible.
This is kind of like he was kind of like
Alex Delarge from Clockwork Orange, where he liked the darkest
passages of the Bible. His parents only allowed young Curuy
the Holy Bible's reading companion. However, he's attracted not to
the narratives or poetry, but to the more sinister elements.
Curly was fascinated by the mysteriously prophetic passages, especially those
in Revelation. The Christianity in his home was entirely pleasant
to him, yet his sympathies were with the opponents of heaven.
He suspects obscurely that this was partly an instinctive love
of terrors. This he's talking about himself and the third person.
He preferred the dragon, the false prophet, the beast, and
the scarlet woman as being more exciting. He reveled in
the descriptions of torment. One may suspect moreover brain of
congenital masochism. He liked to imagine himself in agony, and
particularly he liked to identify himself with the beast, who's
numbers of number of a man six hundred and three
score six, so that's six sixty six. There's his mom
Emily birth the bishop, and I think they were kind
of Irish extraction in England. And he also this is
kind of like one of his more famous quotes that
I've repeated often about Crowley. Let's see, as Cruly said
of his mother, her powerful natural instincts were suppressed by religion,
to the point she became after her husband's death a
brainless bigot of the most narrow, illogical and inhuman types.
He didn't have nice things to say, and then he
said the change in his religious outlook. Indeed, my falling
away from Grace was not occasioned by any intellectual qualms.
I accepted that theology of the Plymouth Brethren. In fact,
I could hardly conceive of the existence of people who
I doubt it. I simply went over to Satan's side.
And to this hour I cannot tell why I was
not content to believe in a personal devil and serve
him in the orderdinary sense of the word. I wanted
to get a hold of him personally and become his
chief of staff. So people who say, like Crowley's a
dabbler or something, this is an acknowledgment that he's a Satanist.
This is from his own biography. He didn't like his uncle.
This is like he called his uncle ruthless, petty, tyrant.
And it was into this den of bitter slavery I
was suddenly hurled from my position of fresh air freedom
and airship. And then he went to this school in
Cambridge called Ebar School, and their public school was kind
of our version of it. They call their private schools,
but it would be a private school in the US
as a public school in the UK. And he called
his time there a boyhood in hell. Harassment bullying was
kind of like the breaking the wall or something, and
he said he almost died one penalty he cruelly endured,
as retold in his book The World's Tragedy. According to Croley,
the world's tragedy is Jesus Christ. But he says, I
remember one looking, I got on the legs because flogging
on the boox excites the victim's sensuality. Fifteen minutes prayer,
fifteen strokes of the cane, fifteen minutes prayer, fifteen more strokes,
and the more prayer to top it. Then he wrote
he was always like he wrote poetry all the time,
and he wrote a poem about his days at Eber
School that I've reflected right here. I'll read some of
his poetry. This is. I don't think he's that great
of a poet. He wanted to be. I've also repeated
his killing of the cat. So he did this. This
is in his biography. The un cruelly exhibited disturbing statistic
traits early in life. After leaving Ebor School. Crawley described
it the brutality a tale about murdering a local cat. Quote.
I've been told the cat has nine lives. I deduced
that it must be practically impossible to kill cat as usual.
I became full of ambition to perform the feat. I
therefore caught a cat, and, having administered a large dose
of arsenic, I chloroformed it, hanged it above the gas jet,
stabbed it, cut its throat, smashed its skull, and when
it had been pretty thoroughly burnt, drowned it and threw
it out of the window that the fall might remove
the ninth life. In fact, the operation was successful. I
had killed the cat. I remember that all the time,
I was generally sorry for the animal. I simply forced
myself to carry out the experiment in the interest of
pure science. So that's kind of an interesting statement. Insight
into his sensibilities. He also blew up in his face.
He made this bomb. This is a long thing right here,
but you'll show the pictures of him, and you'll see
the pock marks on his face that existed into his
full later life. These pock marks from this bomb that
he blew up, that made have created a personality change
because he temporarily lost his eyesight and was in hospital.
There's all pictures of the Crowley Ill that his family
was involved in, so they had eight different types of beer,
and there's Crawley on the top there climbing. So after
he has kind of disastrous time in school, he was
told to be outside and so he took up mountaineering,
mountain climbing, and so Beachy Head is kind of an
infamous rock climbing place. I think it's in the southern
south of England. Then he went to Cambridge. That's him.
You'll notice that he has his his fingernails kind of
put into points. They're kind of pointed the way that
he's shaped them. And the rumor about Crawley, which I've
never confirmed but is apparently true, is that he shaved
his teeth into basically like daggers, and he never smiles
or you'll notice something similar theme, and all the pictures
of him is not showing his teeth. There's no teeth.
Later in life it's the same thing. So you see
this is when he still had hair. He says, I
was part of the glories of the past and I
made a firm resolution to be one of the glories
of the future, and he studied in these halls and
things like that were very reminiscent of like Harry Potter
or Hogwarts or something like that. One of the famous things.
He said. He was mostly surrounded by a more or
less happy, healthy, prosperous set of parasites, and he just
read all the time, so he didn't really He kind
of looked at college as kind of a finishing school
or something. He didn't really care about obtaining a degree.
He says, nothing else seemed to be worthwhile, but if
thorough a reading of the great minds of the passport,
it was very rare that I got to bed before daylight.
Poems of Shelley scholar Richard Burton was one of the
people he really admired. I've done shows on Richard Burton.
He was really one of the early adventures and he
learned a lot from Burton because Burton would take on
these fake names and put on costumes and take on
these personas, and Curley ended up doing the same thing.
It was kind of like his idea of having fun
as kind of a British aristocrat at the top of
the British Empire. He was an excellent chess player, so
he was interested really in poetry and mountain climbing and magic.
He became an eighteen ninety eight. He published two books,
so this is pretty young, you know. He's twenty twenty four,
five or six, No. Twenty three. He published assel Dama
and White Stains. Kind of a pretty gnarly group of poems,
but he definitely had some ambition. And he says, the
forces of good were those which had constantly oppressed me.
I saw them daily destroying the happiness of my fellow men.
Since therefore it was my business to explore the spiritual world,
my first step must be getting personal communication with the devil,
like literally saying these were just so obvious. It's so
amusing for me, as somebody who knows a lot about Curly,
to hear these people talk about Crowley is like a dabblers.
He's literally wanting to get in contact, to be the
chief of staff of the devil. He says it over
and over again, and later on you'll see that he
he describes awas as Lucifer, and I'll get to that,
and all these are like assel Dama is. The field
of blood mentioned in Acts one eighteen nineteen. That was
where Judas Iscariot went and falling headlong, he burst asunder
in the midst and all his bowels gushed out, and
so much that field is called in their proper tongue
assel dama, that is to safe the blood. And there
is white stains, and there's Crowley. I was in the
death struggle with self, God and Satan fought for my
soul those long three hours. God conquered. I have one thought,
watch what the tin was gone? I think he's writing
about that. And these are really hard white stains. Is
pretty rough. It's very graphic, and it shows kind of
Crowley's interest in the decadent poets and in subversion are
the most vile type stuff imaginable. This is one of
his close friends here, Gerald Kelly. He would later marry
his sister and Kelly would go on to be a
very successful painter. And you can see his stuff. He
was granted a knighthood. He was involved in the British
Royal Academy, and they choose like Crowley's interesting really being
around aristocrats. He did not mix with the way PELOI
or people like that. And then the other person who
influenced him was this guy Oscar Eckenstein, who was this
extreemed climber. And this is also a connection to Richard Burton.
And he said, Sir Richard Burton was my hero and
Eckenstein his modern representative as far as my external life
was concerned. Wrote, these are the people he saw as
people to emulate. There's Burton here. Let's see he took
out spear to the face in Africa. You can see
this here. It literally went through his jaw, like it
went from one side of his jaw to the other side,
like imagine taking a toothpick through there. But that was
a spear, so he had this scarred face. Was spoke
tons of different languages. It was really a remarkable guy,
like just somewhele so you could see why he was
admired by Crowley. He's also a bisexual. At Cambridge, Cruy
was and he came across Whites the book of Black
Magic Impacts and Cloud Upon the Sanctuary by German Carl
Vaughan Eckertsausend, so all these kind of esoteric type stuff.
So then there's like this one fatal climbing expedition he
talks about and he kind of mocks these people, this
whole family who died, and then they came back in
a bag, and he kind of laughed about it, like
he's like, this is a very dangerous climb, don't go.
And then they all died. The whole family died, and
Curly laughed about it. And that's in his autobiography. These
are some of his drawings. And he was there for
Victoria's reign English Empire with the Diamond Jubilee and then
Crowley's kind of adventure into magic esotericism Golden Dawn. You'll
see that, like a lot of these Hollywood celebrities, make
these two gestures. This is the one of I think
the dying God where he's got his arms crossed. He's
holding magical wands in this Egyptian guard that is Croy
and then he has this mask on with the winged
beetle or whatever this thing is ever how it's called.
In between two pillars, there's Crowley with the magical stance
and making the sign of silence. So that's Sais with
a mask one and some of the people he was
influenced by. He actually thought he was the reincarnation of
Elphas Levey and Elvis Levey is kind of the guy
who drew the Baphomet. He was a former Catholic priest
who died in eighteen seventy five when Crowley was born,
and he was French. His real name is Alfred Lewis Constant, Constant,
but he wrote under Elvis Levey, and he wrote The
Dogma and Ritual Magic, and also he was influenced Crowley
was influenced by Plovotsky around that time, so and Curley
translated le Levy's book Key to the Mystery. So you
see this right here. This is probably one of the
more influential grim Wars. And there's the picture of Baphomet
as above, so below saw that Kwegula the goat or
boris that the moon phases, so you have the black moon,
what light moon, these whole things, all that symbolism, the
Great Seal of Solomon which is a kind of that
same theme, the two the hexagram. And then there's William
Winn Wescott, and this is kind of an important book.
William win Wescott I think was one of the three founders. Well,
he was one of the three founding members of this
post Masonic Order of ceremonial magicians the Golden On. But
I think his book kind of set the stage for Cruley,
which is numbers there cult power and mystic virtue, and
what he wrote in this book, which you can find
pretty much anywhere upon the number eleven. This seems to
have been the type of number with an evil reputation
among all peoples. The capitalists contrasted it with the perfection
of the deck add or the ten, and just as
the sepharotic number is the form of all good things,
so eleven is the essence of all that is sinful, harmful,
and imperfect, and the ten sepharath they contrasted with eleven
averse sepharrath symbols of destruction, violence, defeat, and death. And
that's why you see so many eleven's. Like if you
wanted a mimetic battle, like to get a number into
the global population and really have them repeat it and
know the number but maybe not know its meaning, you
could do better than the events of nine eleven two
thousand and one. And you can read about it in
Profit of Evil. I don't really cover all that stuff
in here is really kind of a visual bio of Crowley.
And then also Another influence other than Richard Burton was S. L.
MacGregor Mathers, not his real name. He had the kind
of same thing, but he had that habit of authority
which inspires confidence because it never doubts itself. He was
a magician of extraordinary attainments. What he said, and this
is kind of his dress. So he had the same garb,
is what Crowley thought. And this is kind of Crowley's
connection to the secret chiefs, this idea of Blovotsky and
theosophy of these people, and who he Mathers is trying
to communicate with. And then Moyna Mathers was his wife,
that's her. Another person who was around there was W. B. Yates,
the famous poet William but hill Or Yates. And then
Alan Bennett was another close associate of Crowley. And he's
accusing Crowley of like being into the black or, which
is true. And it says to Croley, little brother, you
have been meddling with the gashia. Goishia means howling, but
is a technical word employed to cover all the operations
of that magic which deals with goris malignant or unenlightened forces.
I told him that rather timidly that I've not been
doing any of the sort. In that case, he returned
the goisha has been meddling with you, so I trust
it'll turn a phrase. There. This is Bennett as a Buddhist,
and he had the name Ananda Matrea. Interesting word. And
that's him with his shaved head and kind of Buddhist garber.
There there's William Butler Yates. There's kind of an infamous
battle between Crowley and Yates. And this kind of maybe
been one of his more famous poems, at least in
the States, is the Second Coming, which I think I
quote here turning and turning in the widening gar I
can bring it up. Another person who's kind of surrounding
all these people is Augustus John, and he took a
lot of He was kind of like Gerald Kelly. I
have to remember this is kind of like photography was
just getting it start, so there were still portraitists around,
and Augustus John was a portrait One of the interesting
thing of Augustus John is that Ian Fleming the ideally
idealized Augustus John's life. Augustus John like lived with two
women in a and had tons of kids out of
wedlock and lived in kind of what would they call
them there, We would call them gypsies, they would call
them travelers, kind of a traveler life. And he had
a half sister. Ian Fleming had a half sister who
was the father was Augustus John. So he's literally connected
to all these people that are in this thing. And
Ian Fleming is from an aristocratic family, as a way
to put it. They were always kind of battling. I
think William Butler Yates' history. You seen him as a
much better poet than Croley, but the Crowley was like
sniping at each other. In the spring of eighteen ninety nine,
Curly met personally with Yates. He represented He presented the
Older Season Poe with his verse tragedy Jeff Thaw, and
a collection of poems titled Mysteries Lyrical and Dramatic rebuff
by the Distant Yates. A disappointed Curly angrily recorded his autobiography.
I never thought much of his work. It seemed to
be to lack of virility. And then through his own clairvoyants,
Claire Audience and Clai Sentience recognized within Yates a black
bilious rage which hurt him was the knowledge of his
own incomparable inperiority, so they're jockeying for position. Then Yates
responded to somebody who said about Curly, a mystical fraternity
is not a moral reformatory, performatory performatory. Excuse me, but
Yates was also a ceremonial magician. You'll see his implements
right here. I wish I could make this picture larger,
but you'll see the hexagram. You'll see the kind of
illuminated cross. I think that's the Rosicrucian cross, and all
these things. And he would do these drawings, and I
think Yates made this admit mission like magic is the
foundation of my art. That's really crazy. And then Crowley
notoriously did the Book of Sacred Magic of Abramel and
the Mage. He tried to do this Abramel and the
Mage ritual at the infamous Bullskin Lodge in Scotland, and
he took time off and got all this stuff together.
I don't think he ever finished it, but he did
it as he was moving up the Golden Dawn system.
And you'll see this is his personal writing on the
left here about his ascension through the grades. He was
very important and vestidious about going up these grades. Right
around when he was twenty five and he felt like
he was being held back and he kind of like
had to go to Mather's and there's all this drama.
But this is the Bullskin manner before it burnt down.
This is how this is how we went to the
layered of Bulluskin. I mean, you have millions and millions
of dollars you can take on these different personas and stuff.
But this burned down and then Bullskin is has been rebuilt,
is my understanding. But that's what it looked like from
the It's it's not much of a manner. I wouldn't
say it's super impressive, but the will layout. That's lockness
in the back right lockedness monster so out straight is there,
and that's the background it had kind of a this
is what it would look like from the water. It's
just one story, but that's the kind of layout. There's
a graveyard there. There's all kinds of rumors of it
being haunted. It's just part of the Crawley lore, kind
of like the Abbey of Felima, which I just read
the other day that the two people who started the
Processed Church visited the Abbey of Fillema, which isn't a surprise,
So there he is. There's Crawley. Around this time, people
went crazy there three day drinking bench and tried to
kill his wife and children. The terrorists became peopled with
shadowy shapes sufficiently substantial as a rule to be almost opaque,
I say shapes. And yet the truth is that there
were no shapes properly speaking. So there he is. There,
he isn't ceremonial garb. He has his hair there, he's
probably twenty five thirty. This is before the Book of
the Law, and his magical name was peer To Rabo.
So he typed about this whole. I think per To
Rabo's translates to I will endure, and so why he
wrote that this poem is like I am crucified apart
on a long burning crag of steel, tortured, cast out,
and yet I shall abide. So had this kind of
tortured self tortured view. But also he's gonna abide abide.
Then he went on his wor old adventure phase where
he was mountain climbing, went to two huge mountain climbing
real expeditions like massive red to New sixty seventy baggage
handlers trying to ascend mountains that really weren't. With the
technology of that time, they weren't able to ascend. But
this is a quote about himself. The inmost knew my
destiny lay elsewhere. The lords of initiation cared nothing for
my poetic fancies or my romantic ideals. They had ordained
that I should pass through every kind of hardship at
the hands of nature, suffer all sorrow and shame that
life can inflict. Their messenger must be tested by every ordeal,
not by those that he might he himself might choose.
And you'll see Crowley like this thing that he is,
like a changeling, like you see different parts of him,
like you would never recognize Crouy like this, with a
tie and a hat and smoking a pipe. But here's
his hymn to Lucifer, the key of Joy's disobedience. He
was a world adventure. One of his quotes, I've had
been almost overwhelmed by the appalling responsibility of been sharing
my own damn nation and helping others escape from Jesus.
I found that the world was after all full of delightful,
damned souls, of people who accepted nature as she is
accepted their own place in nature and enjoyed it, fought
mean and despicable things fairly and firmly wherever they met them.
So you see that oppositional nature. And then he ends
up in New York Harbor nineteen hundred. He travels from
there to Mexico City. He stays there and supposedly makes
himself invisible. He writes a play called Tannhaus or there
it is right there. He climbs a couple of big
mountains there and actually the here's GK. Chesterson who said
something that's about Crowley. Mister Crowley is a strong and
genuine poet, and we have little doubt he will work
up from his appreciation of the Temple of Cyrus, that
lofter and wider work of the human imagination, the appreciation
of the Brixton Chapel. So there's Alan Bedden again with
the yoga. So so Crawley travels, travels and does all the
yogas type stuff. There's Crowley, There's Kelly. That's Gerald, Kelly's
sister who he marries and they have a daughter who died.
And then he travels around. He's in New York again.
Like I said at the intro. It's hard to kind
of trace him and keep him on a map because
it's he's moving around a lot. In nineteen oh two,
Crowley and Eckensign who I mentioned earlier, met in Kashmir
to attempt an extremely diffin difficult mountaineering challenge, the climb
of the world's second highest mountain, Chogo Reno, today's K two.
It was a logistical nightmare, sizable caravan of two hundred
and thirty men, terrible weather, so they were kind of
they didn't make it. He had also Somerset mom wrote
a book based on Croley called The Magician, and this
character is Oliver Haddow, and they wrote about it, and
He's like, oh, Mom had taken some of the most
private and personal incidents of my life, my marriage, my
exploration and my adventures with big game, my magical opinions
and visions and exploits and so on. He had added
a number of many absurd legends, of which I was
the central figure. He had patched all these together by
innumerable strips of paper clip from the books which I
had told Gerald Kelly to buy. I had never supposed
that plagiarism could have been so varied extensive and shameless,
not very nice. So there's the Magician. You could still
read those. There's actually a movie about it about Croley,
based on this Oliver Haddow and Mom knew Croley, so
he wrote about Crowley. One of the themes that I
kind of kept in my books as try to like
people who actually knew Croley and could make statements about him,
and Mom was one of them. He says, I took
an immediate dislike to him, but he interested and amused me.
He was a great talker, and he talked uncommonly well.
In early youth, I was told he was extremely handsome,
but when I knew him, he had put on weight
and his hair was thinning. He had fine eyes in
a way, whether natural or acquired, I know not of
so focusing them that when he looked at you, he
seemed to look behind you. He was a liar and
unbecomingly boastful. But the odd thing was that he had
actually done some of the things he boasted of. At
the time I knew him, he was dabbling, and they
always used dubling. Dabbling in satan is a magic in
the occult. There was just then something of a vogue
in Paris for that sort of thing occasionalized from eyes
by the interest that was still taking a book by
Heusmann's labass. Curley told fantastic stories of his experience, but
it was hard to say whether he was telling the
truth or merely pulling your leg. During that winter, I
saw him several times, but I never left. But never
after I left Paris to return to London. Once, long afterwards,
I received a telegram from him which ran as follows,
please send twenty five pounds at once, Mother of God,
I'm starving alstro Crowley. I did not do so, and
he lived on for many disgraceful years. So Crowley wrote
a vanity fair how to write a novel after a
ws mom So he's like he never like let a
slight go. He was always like writing stuff. Back he's
back at Bullskin House. He's moving around backs. Clifford Back
says he is another author he met who told he
told him he was going to start a new religion.
He says, what is the date at this moment? I
told him? He said, in one hundred years from this day,
the world will be sitting in the sunset of Crollianity.
In some ways that's true. He seemed to me a
dangerous man, and indeed at one time he was, for
he induced his disciples to experiment with drugs. And so
when he offered me a set of his works in
exchange for my addressed I contrived to get out of
the bargain. So more writing King's Chamber, he wrote why
Jesus Wept. He was featured in magazine articles, articles and
newspaper articles. And you'll see this like just tons of
newspaper articles. You're always looking for press and this is
just one example. Then the Book of the Law, this
is nineteen oh four. This is called this is the
cover of the Book of the Law is this far
left one, and his scribblings and writings. But if you
open that up, it's like libra alvel legis, is what
he called it. Quote from the mouth of iwas to
the ear of the Beast on April eighth, ninth and tenth,
nineteen oh four. So he just would scribble this stuff out,
but he had add some kind of experience in Cairo.
And this stella is called the step revealing, that's what
he called it. And I thought this was the most
important event of his life. My entire previous life was
but a preparation for this event, and my entire subsequent
life has not been merely determined by it, but wrapped
up in it. And there he is Curley as another
kind of persona cho Ya Khan. That's him with Kelly
there with a hat on. She tells him like, are
these women were kind of like communicators or something, intermediaries
between the other world. She tells him. He who was
waiting was Horace, and so then he saw this. This
was important to him because it was Stella six six
six of all things. Believe it or not. It's at
the Egyptian Museum. It was called Boulock back in the day,
but I think they've changed the name. She became a
seer to him in a way. And then he wrote
sixty five hand written pages of the Book of the Law,
and he says here, I was proud of my personal
prowess as a poet, hunter, and mountaineer, of admittedly dauntless virility.
Yet I was being treated like a hypnotized imbecile. Only worst,
for I was perfectly aware of what I was doing.
My own unconscious was thus an alliance with a was
taken between two fires. My conscious self was paralyzed. So
long as the pressure lasted, we are forced to conclude
that the author of the Book of the Laws and
intelligence both alien and superior to myself. Interesting wordplay, alien
and superior to myself. He had acquainted with my inmost
secrets and the most important way, and of all that
this intelligence is discarnate. And so this is why I
titled my book Profit of Evil, because this whole thing
made him kind of a prophet, and he used this
tern you know, do what that will let you be?
The whole of the law loven Letters and the lean
which is based upon Blake Arcanto. I've done a show
on the hell Fire Club, and that's Francis Dashwood right here,
kind of like it's kind of like the similar kind
of vibe as Crowley in a way, dressing up. Like
if you looked at this, Dashwood would be like, oh,
he's a Franciscan night at first glance. But this was
his kind of subversive play against Christianity because they were
called Francistence because Francis that's his name. They had nothing
to do with Christianity, but that's what they were dedicicated
to was women and song and drink and then I
have like a bunch of quotes from from the Book
of the Law. This is what he says about his book.
I Alistra Croley declared upon my honor as a gentleman,
that I hold this revelation a million times more important
than the discovery of the wheel, or even the laws
of physics or mathematics. Fire and tools made man master
of this planet. Writing developed his but his soul was
a guess until the Book of the Law proved this.
And then the word of the loss thelemay. It's broken
into three parts, three days. And then there's all kinds
of writings and stuff. And I see my number is eleven,
and all their numbers of there who are us? So
you see the repetition of the the eleven even in
this book. The slave shall serve. And then the war
god Horus is kind of The third part is probably
the most vicious. Lurk withdraw upon them. This is the
law of battle and conquest. Thus shall I worship you
about my secret house. With it, you shall smite the peoples,
that none shall stand before you conquer. That is enough.
Worship me with fire and blood, Worship me with swords
and spears. Let the woman be girt with the sword
before me. Let blood flow to my name. Trample down
the heathen. Be upon them a warrior. I will give
you their flesh to eat, Sacrifice cattle, a little and
big after a child, mercy beat let off, damn them
who pity, killing, torture, or spare not be upon them.
Also these shall breed lust and power of lust than
you at eating thereof, and you shall be strong and war.
With my hawk's head, I pecket the eyes of Jesus
as he hangs on the cross. I flap my wings
in the face of Muhammed and blind them with my claws.
I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the
Buddhist Mongol. And then velasti umpeda. I spit on your
crapulous creeds. Let Mary and Violet be torn upon wheels
for her sake. Let all chased women be other utterly
despised among you. So pretty rough stuff aggressive. So then
the equinox of the goss and he explains who he
is right here. Like in any case, whatever a was,
this intelligence possessed of power knowledge absolutely beyond human experience.
And therefore a was is a being worthy as the
current use of the word allows as the title of
a god aeverely and amen of a god. Man has
no such fact recorded by proof established and surity beyond
cavil of critic as this book to witness the existence
of an intelligence, prayer, human and articulate, purposefully interfering in
the philosophy religion, ethics, economics, and politics and plant. It's
so important because like people like, oh, he's a dabbler,
these were supposed to be political economic applications of these ideas.
That's what we crally thought. That's the whole what the
new aon is, the Aonic change, was to implement this
type of stuff. He says it over and over. He's
not a person who's like a lonely dabbler, and he
just repeats it over and over. There's Grace Kelly who
went insane, all this stuff of anti Christian stuff. The
spirit of mankind, as they say, there grew like death
a monster shade blind is the coffin, then the covering
sawd damp as the corpse obscene the Christian God, and
so to the agony, dirges of despair, and he just
goes on and on. There's one God, the spirit of mankind.
So I think I have like sixty five pages. Yeah, see,
I have the whole Book of the Law in this.
I can't believe I put it in here. This is
what it looks like. It's really almost like automatic writing.
So you can see all sixty five pages. It's not
broken down. There are some minor emendations like this. But
there's the second book, so you can check this out.
It should work through this. That's curly with the stell
of revealing after being in Egypt, so you'll see the
Book of the Law is that small book there ceremonial sword,
the orb, the wand the headdress the cross, but that's
not a Christian cross, it's the forgot. But he's that
when his left arm he's making the sign of initiation.
These are all like have meaning in them. Then he
tries to ascend caanchin Junga. That's him in the very
center with the beard and wild hair. It's kind of tan.
He's under thing underneath the guy with the plaid shirt.
Then he quotes, I say to you today, to hell
with Christianity, Rationalism, Buddhism, all the lumber of the centuries.
I bring you a positive and primeval fact. Magic by
name and with this that will build me a new
heaven and new Earth. I want none of your faint
approval or faintest disrespect. I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution,
anything bad or good, but strong. We wrote that. So
this is conscient Junga. There's a whole story of that.
There's good pictures there as Crowley as yogi. There's pictures
of him practicing yoga and naked and kind of looks
ridiculous there actually, but he wrote a book on yoga
and breathing and all this stuff. So he's integrating ideas
from the east to the West. I concluded some of
the areas. This is probably him around thirty thirty five. Quote.
He's featured in the New York Times. Here, this is
the New York Times article. That's a Rosicrucian cross. Sorry,
I forgot he was wearing that earlier, but here's here.
He is the horns of Pan sign a Pan in
the New York Times in April seventeenth, nineteen ten. Then
Mage to Master. He started the Star in the West
with JFC Fuller. World's tragedy. This is a whole anti
Christian and the pen of cruelly like that of saladin,
swineburn and chili is but another douche of cold water
to wake the frowsy sleepers of the night and wash
from their gluey eyes the nightmare of Christian supremacy. I
was not interested in the average man. I cultivated the freak.
He was into blood letting. He believed in powering certain
items of rings and things like that. These are libras
seven seven seven. You'll see these seven seven sevens repeated throughout.
I think Michael Jackson had one, So this is like
a power number. It also reflects the energy that supposedly
travels down the cabbala, so the lightning that goes through
is reflected. It's like a idiogramma seven seven seven is
that's JFC Fuller one of two men invited to Hitler's birthday,
Captain John Frederick Charles Fuller should be like a biography
in himself, just for his interesting life. His connection to
a true fascist, Oswald Moseley and Moseley's grandson is like
the head of Palette here in the UK of all things,
which should be a wake up call like that's fascistic
ideas of Moseley, who also used kind of the downward
lightning bolt as the one of their signs. Even the
star in the west. This laman here is very telling
alpha and omega vvvvv that's used in b for Venetta.
I forgot the name, but now it's in my name.
But six six' six Crowley's mentioned it. And then four
eighteen is the cabalic number for global revolution. That's what
Croly was thinking about. The ear of Horse was going
to be a global revolution. Oh it's vvv is the
very very universal vivis feci by the force of truth.
I've conquered the universe while living. So the world's tragedy.
He's just always talking about Christ and then human sacrificed
is in there. I mean, I don't want you can
read through this yourself. It's only five bucks. Guys. He
was friends with another guy, I call him a hapless student,
Victor Newburgh. He had all these hapless students who were
like exhausted by the time they were done being with Crowley.
But Victor Newburgh is one of them. Interesting stories that
they went to Aujeri together. Supposedly someone this demon called
Quorn's on And this is an important state by Croley,
which is kind of like how I got this idea
for the title of the book, Prophet of Evil. So
he says, all the secret keys of the former magic
of the an of the dying God are now useless.
And since the Lord of this new An, of which
I am the prophet, so he calls himself a prophet,
is the crown and conquering child. So Prophet of Evil,
he saw himself in this big roles. There's the equinox.
It's kind of like religious companium. There he is too.
So I mentioned earlier in the book, like a bomb
went off in his face and that he made. And
you can see the pock marks. That one is very
prominent right there. And may it may have been like
where his personality changed. Is the coma he was in
seven seven seven. This is the equinox Resicrucian cross. I
have Horus goat method of science, aim of religion as magic.
This is actually a sign that they'll make when they're
doing magical stuff. It's like you focus the will and
force it forward. And then these are a lot of
these are the sign of the grades. There's pictures of
the Beatles making these signs in one of their one
of their albums. Maybe I'll do this in two parts
of on the one hundred pages three. What he did
to Newburgh is he made Newburgh cut his arms every
time he did some kind of inappropriate thing magic. And
you can see Newburg's arms. They look like they've been
just destroyed here. That's really and they're doing in Okian
magic too in Newburgh, and they're doing it in Algeria
where they Crowley did his own rights of Eleusis. So
it was interesting. There's Crowley up at top for desiding
over the rights. This was it was memorialized in the newspapers.
You see the newspaper articles. There's redone. This is his picture.
This is the original picture from his rights, but it
was redone, I think in nineteen ninety. But that's it's
actually a pretty good picture of curly. There's not too
many really good quality pictures, but that's one of them.
Featured in London and New York Times in nineteen ten
or eleven. So it's it's a worldwide event and Newburgh
was in this. So this guy Newburg was dancing around
and he actually k Newburgh became kind of a literary
influencer from some known poets too. Later on in life,
after he got rid of Curly or crully got rid
of him. If you're familiar with kind of some of
the early early directors. One was Preston Sturges, and his
mom was a girlfriend of Croley for a little bit,
and Sturges, that's him right there. He's like like Crowley
at all. He's a total chain smoker Sturges was. But
he's like the practitioner and staunch defender of every form
of vice historically known. De man generally accepted as one
of the most depraved, vicious, and revolting humbugs who ever
escaped from a nightfare, nightmare or lunatic asylum, universally despised
and enthusiastically expelled from every country you ever tried to
live in. Mister Crowley, nevertheless, was considered by my mother
to be not only the epitome of charm and good manners,
but also the possessor of one of the very few
genius braithed brains she had been privileged to observe at
work during our entire lifetime. Ask me not why book
of lies a bunch of paradox tough, more crolly in
paper uh newspaper articles. Then he joined the Orto Templey
Orientis and these are I mentioned Augustus John back earlier
in the connection to Ian Fleming. This is an Augustus
John piece right here in the right that's him Crawley
with his eyes closed. And then the Oto. This is
him and Oto Garb. He was baffm at number eleven
of the Oto Grand Masters, and is by Theodore Royce
and some of these other people who came to contacted Crowley.
Croley didn't go to them, but they both kind of
came up with kind of sexual magical uh principles. And
this is probably Crowley's best known poem in Japan, should
I put in here? He wrote about black masses, him
to Satan and then a trial to America Moonchild. This
is one of his scarlet women. He's literally branded her
chest like a cow would get branded, and that is
what he called the mark of the beast. And he flew.
He came over to the United States on the Lusitania
of all things. And here is a Verreq. This guy
is kind of an interesting connection to Crowley. Erect himself,
George Sylvester Vererek. It's actually an interesting character, and he's
pro German. And then he had two sons, and one
of the wrecks is still around. I think the grandson
is in the media or as a professor of some sort.
But there was a fatherland. That's what he did. That
woman's name is Leilah Waddell. Leila Waddell. This is her
right here on the left, Laila Waddell. That's her Rosicrucian cross.
She was a violinist. Theodore Dreiser Crowley went to New
Orleans State at the old Absent House, which is still there.
You can actually drink absinthe at the old Absent House.
He wrote something called like the Green the Green Drinker
something I forgot about it absent. But here's the International
included a bunch of these covers because Crowley was writing
for all these. You can see the robbing Miss Horneman.
Probably the most interesting is this International cover because Crowley's
in there writing philoh to say. He also he's the
Master Theean. So the rival of Revival of Magic, a
plea for better morals. This is Lewis Wilkinson, a friend
of Curley, and then Arthur Schnitzler. This is nineteen seventeen.
Arthur Schnitzel. Schnicheler is the guy who wrote tromno Bel, which,
as wide shut, is based on so interesting historical Pele,
the green goddess. There it is absentthe that's what he wrote,
the old absent house. There it is. It's this picture
right here on the loft. William C. Brooks stories about Crowley.
He's kind of a lost name, but he knew Crowley.
This is a picture of the branding of Leah herzeg He.
Crowley writes, there's Lamb around this time nineteen eighteen. It's
interesting that he mentioned earlier about a woss as an alien,
and I think it's important for all this disclosure day
and all this other stuff, especially with this picture of
Lamb from nineteen eighteen that reflects all these other kind
of gray alien type things. People think that this guy's
name is lam It's a title. It's like an honorific title.
It's explained right here in the blurb underneath Lamb is
the Tibetan word for way or path, and Lama is
he who go the specific title of the gods of Egypt,
the treader of the path in Buddhistic phraseology, so it's
the treader of the path. More Croley resputes in the
sorcer of Russia and the Fatherland. Yet so they kind
of knew that I'd done shows on respute, and they
weren't buying a lot of stuff about respute. But there's Crawley.
He's trying to sell the inc An equinox down there
the bottom collected works of Crowley as well. And this
is uh, the scrutinies of Simon if I think, I
think that's by Crowley. Contributing editor Alister Croley. Curley said
he was infiltrating the The International to subvert it. Tons
of articles about Croley. There's why deell again more Croley
writing to the New York Times, he stayed at like
one Washington place there. This is a funny, amusing event
about Crowley being on the New York Harbor ripping up
his his passport on the prow of the boat. Was
Aleister Crowley, irishman, poet, philosopher, explorer, manimistic mind, the leader
of an Irish hope. It's not Irish. This is part
of his like spying or nearly middle aged a mile
in manner with the intellectual point of view colored with
the capitalistic interpretation. Crowley is an unusual man capably so
to those who believe and feel in common with him.
He spent years of exploring Persia, India and Tibet, and
he's the author of several volumes of translations of early
writings of those countries. He is said to be a
close friend of William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, and
he has written several Irish poems himself. They're not friends.
They don't like each other. But you know, there's the
Hearsig before Crowley. So this is the time of the
Abbey of Felima, Abbey of the will Crawley says, I
am the beast in the word of the Aon. I
spend my soul in blazing torrents that roar into night
streams that with molten tongues hiss as they lick. I
am a hell of a holy guru. That's Crawley. And makeup.
That's his own makeup there, and the orange stuff and
that kind of thing around his neck says six sixty
six ninety three numbers that were important. He met this woman,
Nina Shumway, and then they lived together at the abbey,
and this is him with the kids. That's the Aharsig
down there. The abbey is it's not that impressive. It's
still extant, but somebody turned it into a barn. Really,
it was just like a three room farmhouse or something.
You can see pictures though. He also wrote Diary of
a Drug Tne. You can see pictures of Crowley there too.
Here's some like picture. I have thirty eight pictures here. Well,
this is like stuff these are. This is a woman
riding the beast. I think that's from Crowley's taro. But
that's what it looked like ten years ago. It overlooks Cheffaloo,
so you'll see the Mediterranean there. These are all painted
by Crowley. But it's also kind of like a traveling
point for all these occultists to go here and look around.
The leman smiles and all that stuff. So I try.
I could probably add to this. I haven't looked at
the hl menkin. He was. He had a friendship with Mancin.
There's Raoul Loveday. That's the guy who died at the
at the abbey. And then Betty May wrote a book
called Tiger Woman that she knew Croley and was freaked
out by him. But most people who are pro Croley
never mentioned her name because she did not have a
high opinion of them, but I called him nasal accident.
She just tells all this stuff. I opened it, and
this is her description of Curley. I opened it, and
to my great surprise, a ponderous man attired in a
highland kilt, standing in an attitude of benediction, with both
hands raised and in one of them a green one
about five feet in length, around which coiled his symbolic
snake on one of his very small hands. Was a
curious ring. I remember having seen him years before nineteen fourteen.
He had dark, glowing hypnotic eyes and least scallared skin
with very full red lips. He had a massive head
on which was placed a glossy black, curly wig. I
discovered afterwards that his head was shaved, except for his
few strands of hair in front, cultivated in a significant form.
Do what thou wilt, he pronounced, in a slightly nasal accent,
which made the words sound less impressive than they would
otherwise have done. Do what thou wilt should be the
whole of the law, like a verger leading a congregation.
In the responses, my husband Inton didn't reply, love is
the law, Love is the will. So she tells a
lot of stories about him. There she makes fun about
wanting to sacrifice her. What's the sacrifice Betty May? And
she's all freaked out, but she calls him the mystic.
And there's Crooli and Jeff Loom still kind of young there,
and this Betty May after Crooley, she looks terrible, drawn, haunted.
He left her in, left her impairs, she came a prostitute.
There's Betty May. There's a lot of good pictures of her.
She was a person of a known kind of in
the art community. I guess she was around the drawings
of her, and it's quite a character. Mary Putts Orgies.
There's John Bull, Wizard of Wickedness. So I included all
those articles, man, we'd like to hang about Crowley and
then a lot of the stuff. There's Betty May, but
she's featured in some of these articles once from the
Salt Lake Tribune. So the story of Crowley and what
was going on at the Abbey of Felima made it
all the way around the world. And there's where I
will love today who died. Jane Wolfe was kind of
a known person. There's some of Croley's paintings he gets
kicked out of Italy and France. I've infected the world
around world with corruption. He sure did so. He was
kicked out of Italy by Mussolini. He also had this
kind of rivalry for World Teacher with Jidu Christiana Murty
what you see here. And Fernando Pusso was a very
well known author, I think in the either Spanish or
Portuguese world. I'm not sure he's a well known here
in the States, but Curly's with him right here. Seemed
to be playing chess. There's a lawsuit with Nina Hamnet
Israel Regardi. I included the full tarot Gerald Yorke, who
kind of kept a lot of Crowley's stuff and became
a kind of a follower. Why France finally kicked out
the high priests of the devil cult. There he is
this picture of Curly, like showed earlier. He's doing the
magical gesture. He did a band lecture about Giel de Rai.
He was like the boy killer supposedly killed five hundred people.
He's giving talks nineteen thirty two, so he's getting up
in age right here here he is fifty six. I mean,
more articles from all over the world. There's Cruelly holding
a ball yo yi. Some of his paintings that aren't
that great, his dreams, tons of articles. There's Augustus John
right there. He's an interesting guy in himself, in and
of himself, curly smiling. Here's reciting the Pentagram. I wonder
if you guys can hear the audio on this anyway,
you can hear these audios of him talking. Publishes, magic
and theory and practice probably his best known. He has debts.
Here he's goofing around with some guy a Bannakin of
a serial killer Charlie Peace. More pictures created of the Felamites,
lectures on yoga before Hitler was I am. This is
a Freda Harris that did all the artwork. That's Crawley
in the back smoking something. But Freda Harris did all
the artwork for the top of tarot cards. And there's
Dylan Thomas. There's like a connection between Dylan Thomas and Curley.
Dylan Thomas and Victor Newburg too. He ended up in
Southern England and hay Stings. This is him as an
old man, older man I should say, still writing often
and that's him at the end. They're pretty drawn out
and taking just tons of heroin every day. Is apparently
the story he sired a young boy at a turk
and then the poet is good because it kind of
reflects how he died. The poet buried me in a
nameless gram by grave. I came from God the world
to save. I brought them wisdom from above, worship, liberty,
and love. They slew me, for I did disparage therefore religion, law,
and marriage. So be my grave without a name, that
earth may swallow up my shame. There he is at
the end, and I think that's an Augustus John on
the right too. So Augustus John is around, and people
recognize Crowley as an interesting character, may have liked him
or not. But there's his last ritual. This is after
he died December first. There's literally like the memorial for
his funeral than a conclusion. I just kind of put
stuff together anyway, it's basically it. You can check out
this book on Amazon, but it I think it's it's
good because it memorializes all those pictures and those things
like that, So I think that it's worthwhile to check out,
and you can do it on Amazon. You can just
check it out. So let's see if I have any
questions or anything. Hey, everybody, thanks for listening everyone. That's
just like one part you can read. There's more on Crawley.
You can read Profit of Evil, you can read Children
of the Beast. You can get those books at my website.
You can just buy them on Amazon. The pernicious influence
of Darby Strets sure does. Is there a spell of
ritual that took him over the edge of the dark side? Well,
he kind of. He said he wanted to become the
chief of staff of the Devil at a young age,
so I would say that is what happened. I'm not
into the New Age. I am a Christian. I'm a
Bible believing Christian, so I'm interested in researching it and
exposing it. I've never I've read the New Age when
I was younger out of curiosity because I read. But
I've never advocated for the New Age or practiced it.
Maybe inadvertently. I mean, I'm part of the culture, but
I don't know. Have you ever seen the Jason Baldwin
corpse Paint show? No, but you could send me an
email that would be best if you could send me
that length that'd be great. It sounds familiar. Larry Courlea did. Yeah,
I sure did. Read my book Children of the Beast.
You'll see how many people he influenced. He still felt
as a culture as well. And there's no question his
Croly family, Yes, he does his family. Some of his
members have had kids, people who was related to had children,
people who came out of the Abbey of Filima. One
actually ended up in Berkeley, of all places. She passed
away a couple decades ago, but she was like lived
with Croley and made it to the US. I don't
know if you ever really talked about him, because I
would think about it being pretty bad, but possible. Barbara
Bush Father, Absolutely they look the same. I mean, there's
no question. Yeah, he was kicked out of Italy from
by Mussolini's orders. There's no question about that. He liked these.
So let's study. Thanks. I appreciate it. I can do more.
It's kind of easy. I can't kind of go further
in depth into kind of stuff that I'm interested in
into just doing it solo. But this book. The reason
I did this is because not a lot of this
I wouldn't call this my one of my major books.
I don't even mention it. Let me see if I
can pull this up the cover, but I think it's
it's a nice exercise, like if people want to scan
through something or get an idea of what Crowley looked
like and some of the more visual studies and his
influences and those people he influenced. So that's what the
cover looks like. Yeah, Jamie Page is a fan, you know.
I write about him and Children of the Bees, a
lot of blow, a lot of tons of drugs at
the Abbey of Fillema. Tons of drugs have different types.
He's a trust fund kid, There's no question about it.
He's a trust affarian Croly fans, no question tinfoil hat
on Eccles. I think that the politics of Eccles is
very dicey. There's some of his friends are part of
that whole kind of bro podcasting group, so they won't
touch the truth about Eccles because it would it would
upend the ample cards, so to speak. Yeah, I've written
about Curly for fifteen years. I mean it's over fifteen years, guys.
I published my first book twenty ten on Curley. This
is like an adjunct eras a side project that I
was tinkering around with them with a more visual kind
of book that came out of that. This was published
in twenty thirteen after Abomination and be four Children of
the Beast. Let's see. I'm just kind of going through
these these statements the chat. I have three hundred people
in the chat. Thanks for listening, everybody alive. I really
appreciate If anybody has any questions, you can put it
in right now. Anything on Austin Osman Spear, I do
have stuff on him. There's correspondence between Spare and Cruley,
and Spare was an artist and magician as well. Didn't
have the kind of impact as Cruly, but they knew
of each other, so I'm very familiar with Spirit. I
do have some stuff on Spare. I'd have to go
back through one of my older hard drives, but I
was interested in Spare when I was researching Cruy, just
about his h Yeah, every man and Woman is a
Star is a quote from the Book of the Law,
So tzar of the Star, and that's what it's from
another wood boarding house. I just showed that. Yeahs yeah,
he ate he's a corporate fee feliac, not a feliac,
but he definitely engaged in copro Fijia is the polite
term among other uh other horror shows stuff. Let's see anyway,
that's that's basically it. I don't see any questions. Check
out the book. It's on Amazon. Full title again is
Alistair Crowley a visual study and from twenty thirteen, and
those are actual non AI pictures. The book wasn't put
together with AI, so check it out if you can.
But thanks for listening. Thanks everybody, thanks for joining me.
I really appreciate it. I have great with thanks for
all your support. Every book you buy kind of keeps
me going. You can check out some of this stuff
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a bunch of lame ads, and they put a lot
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I just posted some stuff some articles there. It's a
vast repository of information that isn't even on my website.
So Patreon is more active and I also respond there easily.
The best way to contact me is through email. Message
me on x or Patreon. That's the best thing. So people,
I don't have time to check all of the comments
under each one of my videos. There's no way I
can do it. But yeah, one of the interesting things,
like I stated the intro, no pictures of Curly smiling
or showing his teeth, which is a bit unnerving. Anyway,
thanks guys, thanks for listening and what