Crowley In The Land Of Enchantment...(Remastered)

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[00:00:23] Noni, visit ATRHealth at AlchemicalTechRevolution.com and click on the Shop Here tab for more details. You're listening to the Alchemical Tech Revolution and I am your host, Wayne McRoy. Good evening everyone. Tonight we're going to talk about Crowley In The Land Of Enchantments.

[00:01:34] There's something strange and a cult about the desert. And tonight we're going to be reading from a book by one Mr. Alex Owen titled, The Place of Enchantment British Occultism and The Culture of the Modern. And we're going to be reading from a portion of this

[00:01:51] book tonight that's called Alistair Crowley In The Desert. Now we're going to see some of the claims made by Alistair Crowley and his students and associates, those that belong to the various cult orders that Crowley was a part of, the OTO, notable among them,

[00:02:14] also the AA or Argentium Astrum as it were. These were foundational organizations for many occultists in the modern era and Crowley had a hand in both of them. Very much so, in fact the core of their teachings are derived nowadays from the work of Alistair Crowley. Or at

[00:02:39] least that's what they'd have you believe. Now make no doubt about it, Crowley borrowed a lot from other traditions and he contorted the meanings of certain things in various ways. Claimed to

[00:02:53] have channeled much of his writings such as The Book Of The Law. So with that in mind, did he really channel this or is he just telling us that? Were these his ideas or was there some

[00:03:12] spiritual force at play? I'll leave that up to you to discern for yourselves. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that there's a spiritual force involved. In fact, I would think

[00:03:22] there most likely is but the nature of that spiritual force is the thing that I question the most, especially as it surrounds and pertains to Alistair Crowley and the things associated with

[00:03:36] him. And we're gonna get right into this here tonight and we'll see. This guy was sketchy at best. So let's get into the reading here right away. Alistair Crowley in the Desert. In late 1909 two Englishmen, science of the comfortable middle classes undertook a journey to

[00:03:58] Algiers. Alistair Crowley later dubbed to be the wickedest man in the world was in his early 30s. His companion Victor Newberg had only recently graduated from Cambridge. The stated purpose of the trip was pleasure. Crowley widely traveled in an experienced mountaineer and big game

[00:04:20] hunter, loved North Africa and had personal reasons for wanting to be out of England. Newberg probably had little say in the matter. Junior in years, dreamy and mystical by nature, and in awe of a man whom he both loved and admired, Newberg was inclined to acquiesce without demure

[00:04:41] in Crowley's various projects. There was however another highly significant factor in Newberg's quiescence. He was Crowley's Chila, a novice initiate of the magical order of the Silver Star which Crowley had founded two years earlier. Gonna pause for a moment here folks. That would

[00:05:00] be the Argentium Astrum and this was about the time after he founded that organization began putting together the mystical operational workings of that order. Was coming up with his various doctrines for this and he was introducing these things to the OTO. So these two organizations,

[00:05:27] they overlap in a lot of ways although they claim to be separate organizations, but Crowley ever the opportunist jumped on board the OTO to spread around his ideas of the Lema later on here. But let's continue with the reading here.

[00:05:45] As such, Newberg had taken a vow of obedience to Crowley as his master and affectionately dubbed Holy Guru and had already learned that in much that related to his life, Crowley's word was now law. It was at Crowley's instigation that the two men began to make

[00:06:03] their way first by tram and then by foot into the North African Desert to the Southwest of Algiers. Gonna pause for a moment here folks. The Southwest Desert, remember that there's an important significance as an esoteric tie over to things that happen later on here in America.

[00:06:25] But let's continue reading here. Crowley's decision to perform there, a series of magical ceremonies that prefigured his elaboration of the techniques of sex magic or as he was later to call it, magic spelled with a K at the end. In this case, the ceremonies combined

[00:06:47] the performance of advanced ritual magic with homosexual acts. It is this episode in the desert, sublime and terrifying as an experience, profound in its effects and illuminating in what it reveals of the engagement of advanced magical practice with personal selfhood that constitutes

[00:07:04] the focus of this chapter. So I'm gonna pause for a moment here folks. So the two men went to Algiers and they wandered about in the desert to perform some magical ceremonies and have homosexual sex essentially. So this was Alistair Crowley, this was the person he took

[00:07:28] to be his student, his chila as it were within the Argentium Astrum. Do you think maybe he was taking advantage of this younger guy for some reason or another? I don't know, I'll leave

[00:07:41] that kind of thing up to you to decide here but let's continue on because it only gets weirder beyond this. The Crowley life story is almost the stuff of Victorian mellow drama. The good

[00:07:54] man gone bad, betrayer of women and men alike, corruptor of innocence, dark angel and self-proclaimed anti-Christ. Viewed differently, Crowley assumes tragic heroic status. This was a gifted man born into privilege who scorned convention and ultimately destroyed himself in his relentless search for

[00:08:14] impossible truths. In the magical world that he made his own, the name Alistair Crowley evokes admiration even reverence. Offshoots of Crowley's magical order and practitioners of his magic are to be found throughout the western world. Just the same from his early days in the hermetic

[00:08:34] order of the Golden Dawn to the present day, Crowley has been denounced by magicians as everything ranging from an evil genius to a magical fraud. His contemporaries excoriated him as rumors of his excapades reached a wider public through reported court cases and salacious articles in

[00:08:53] the general press. Nevertheless, Crowley is viewed, his magical odyssey, is deeply instructive of the potentialities of the psychologized magic of the Fiend de Sicle, and illustrative of its dangers. Not least, Crowley's magical practice epitomized the ease with which the

[00:09:15] high aspirations of an order such as the Golden Dawn could metamorphose into those so-called black arts against which occultists such as Madame Blavatsky railed gonna pause for a moment here folks and that right there is like the pot calling the kettle black right Madame Blavatsky

[00:09:35] didn't like Crowley, Crowley didn't care for her either. They both considered the other a type of charlatan or a type of trickster or an evil person so I find that very interesting. Let's continue on at an individual level as seems to have happened with Crowley undisciplined

[00:09:57] psychologized magic in the hands of the ill-prepared could lead to personal disintegration. At all events what happened in the desert might be said to have destroyed the lives of two men. It certainly crystallized the moment at which Crowley let go of what was known and could

[00:10:15] be anticipated magically and for good or ill embraced both a lived and a magical modus operandi in which there are no safeguards and no guarantees. The episode that forms the focus of this chapter

[00:10:30] marks the point at which Crowley crossed the Rubikron in a number of senses but the experiment was not straightforwardly self-serving as much of his magical work was to become. Nor did it represent simply the indulgence of an exoticized and outlawed sexuality.

[00:10:51] What happened in the desert was the result of a serious if misguided attempt to access and explore a centuries old magical system and it represented an intense personal investment in the pursuit of magical knowledge. In the following discussion the event itself is deconstructed

[00:11:09] with a view to presenting both a microanalysis of a magical right performed in a specific context and a focused discussion of the relationship between psychologized magic and the exploration of subjectivity. Gonna pause for a moment here folks so remember the term psychologized magic

[00:11:31] this is a very sciencey sounding term and this is largely how much of what they call magic works right it affects the human mind in various ways human psychology it's manipulative let's put it that way so let's read on here

[00:11:54] the chapter therefore sets out to examine the meaning and significance of a particular magical work performed in a colonial context against a backdrop of fiendesicle decadence which also getting at its immediate experimental or experiential dimensions

[00:12:13] the episode itself provides a rare glimpse of interiorized magic in the making although that was certainly not Crowley's intention and either his subsequent veiled allusions to the performance of the right or his documentation of its magical effects furthermore in situating

[00:12:31] the discussion within the conceptual framework implied by the term subjectively I am stepping outside both the magical epistome and the liberal humanist conception of self upon which Crowley in 1909 at least depended I am instead relying on a particular theoretical formulation of

[00:12:53] that underscores its contingency the post structuralist concept of subjectivity is suggestive of a self that is both stable and unstable knowable and unknowable constructed and unique the central purpose of this chapter however is to present an analysis

[00:13:13] of a pivotal magical experience elucidating its complexities and arguing for it in terms of an ultimate self realization that exposed the limitations of a unified sense of self upon which experiential self identity depends so I'm going to pause for a moment there folks and

[00:13:30] I'll break down a little bit of that word salad for you essentially it's the whole duality principle this guy is speaking about he wants to show that this dual nature of mankind this internal bad battle we all have with what we would call the dweller on the

[00:13:48] threshold or the doppelganger the our harmonic double within each of us this battle of the psyche and think of this in terms of Freudian psychology the ego and the super ego you see the id being

[00:14:09] the devil on your left shoulder and the ego being the self and the super ego being the angel on your right shoulder so when you see these think of the old cartoons the Tom and Jerry

[00:14:21] cartoons or whatever where he had the little devil on the one shoulder and the angel on the other telling them to do the right thing and the other one telling them to do the wrong thing

[00:14:28] we all have this type of internal battle within us and this here is arguing about the unification of these two sides together that's what this author of this this book

[00:14:42] claims to be looking at it from in the context of but we'll see as we get through the reading here Crowley took a dark turn with a lot of his stuff and this is well acknowledged and he

[00:14:59] made claims he made all sorts of claims to be the messiah figure of this new age I don't know if he used those exact terms but essentially he saw himself as being the one

[00:15:17] to bring forward the message of the law the lame as he called it the book he wrote the book of the law presented do as thou wilt is the whole of the law these were the

[00:15:35] the new rules for the new age the old rules no longer applied God's natural laws that were present from time immemorial no longer applied now it was all about this new law given through Alistair Crowley do you see the hubris here do you understand the spiritual implications of

[00:15:59] such an idea but this is what he propounded over time here and let's get a little further into the reading here because we'll see exactly what happened here according to these two guys and according to the tradition brought forward by these secret society groups that carry this

[00:16:20] story forward today the making of a magician Alistair Crowley was born in 1875 to Edward and Emily Crowley Plymouth Brethren of the strictest kind he was baptized Edward Alexander known in the family

[00:16:36] as Alec and only later in his ardent Celtic phase changed his name to Alistair the Crowley money had been made in the brewery trade but the senior Edward Crowley had little to do with

[00:16:49] the business and lived a gentleman's existence he was a gifted and devoted preacher and his son adored and sought to emulate him conversely and significantly the youthful Alec had no time for his mother whom he despised and remembered treating virtually like a servant at the age of eight

[00:17:08] and in accordance with the dictates of his social class Alec was sent away to school where he continued in a pious vein in 1887 however his father died and an immediate change was wrought

[00:17:21] in the boy he began to hate his school and well continuing to accept the theology of the brethren quite simply went over to satan's side in his confessions Crowley states that he could not

[00:17:34] understand the reason for this sudden identification with the forces of evil it is possible that his claim that from the age of 12 he sought satan's path with a passion previously reserved for

[00:17:46] the god of his father might have been a convenient authorial fiction on the other hand it is not difficult to speculate on the possible reasons for a switch of allegiance the death of a father

[00:18:00] who was synonymous in the boy's mind with christ if not god the fallibility of the idea of an all-powerful and just god and so on Crowley perceptive and witty about the foibles of others

[00:18:13] could apparently display an astonishing lack of insight when it came to himself perhaps this is why he failed to make more of the fact that it was his mother who first referred to him as

[00:18:26] the beast a name he was to make his own it was she possibly in the wake of an adolescent episode involving Crowley and a family maid who believed that i was actually anti christ of the

[00:18:38] apocalypse whatever the reasons in a boyhood suffused with biblical imagery Crowley seems to have made an early identification with satan and further connection between satan and sexuality this was ultimately to be worked out in the magic of his adult years and i'm going to pause for a

[00:18:58] moment here folks so Crowley in his own writings claimed to have this affinity towards satan according to this and yet there will still be people who say no he was just misunderstood he wasn't really a

[00:19:16] satanist well i got news for you in his own words he had an admiration for satan he adopted this name the beast all of these things he knowing full well and maybe he did it as a sense of mockery

[00:19:36] does that really make it any less effectual in many ways not really but let's continue on here in 1895 Crowley finally overcame family opposition and went up to Cambridge University Cambridge was a final liberation from the stultifying religious atmosphere of his home

[00:19:58] and he gave himself over to the three prescribed joys of sex smoking and literature already adept in latin and greek Crowley abandoned work for the moral science tripos and spent his time in an intensive study of english literature supplanted by french literature and the classics it was at

[00:20:18] Cambridge that he first read Richard Burton's Arabian Knights and began to acquire an extensive library including valuable first editions Crowley adopted a luxurious lifestyle but he was also reading voraciously one distinction in the game of chess and began to write and publish verse

[00:20:39] like other young men of his class he sought amours with working-class girls in Cambridge he found these encounters intoxicating but beneath the surface his attitude towards the female sex was ambivalent Crowley later espoused liberated views on the

[00:20:54] subject of women recognizing female sexuality and denouncing the sexual double standard in favor of mutual sexual abandonment there remained however an undercurrent of fear resentment and contempt his tendency to throw himself into passionate romantic entanglements

[00:21:12] with women was paralleled by an equal facility for discarding them when his needs altered or attention wandered this single-minded ruthlessness was a feature of his personality and affected both women and men but it nevertheless remains the case that Crowley left behind a trail of

[00:21:30] devastation when it came to the women in his life alcoholism insanity and suicide followed in his wake and the suggestion that he deliberately sought out borderline or unbalanced women because they could better access the astral plane remains highly questionable and i'm gonna

[00:21:48] pause for a moment right here folks so this guy was a total narcissist by definition Crowley was a narcissist he was a psychopath he was a sociopath you see by definition if you look at exactly what he's admitted to here and what's admitted of him

[00:22:11] he was one of these people who seek power over others much like those in positions of power today in this world these dark occultists that run things this is their template this is how they operate largely they are narcissists they are vampires of sorts they are psychopaths sociopaths

[00:22:35] they have this self-serving type of personality as it were here much like Crowley did and sometimes they seek out mentally unstable people to further their ends and usually lead them down a dark road this is formulaic within many of these occult fraternities folks this is what winds

[00:23:00] up getting advanced through the occult fraternities they're not these enlightened masters as they claim to be they're not these folks that advance and elevate spiritually to the great beyond to the great white brotherhood and reach back down through the hierarchy and guide humanity to future evolution

[00:23:31] here that's not who these folks are at all as attested to right here by this this is one of their poster children alistair crowley this is the one that's been identified with much of the

[00:23:45] modern occult movement he's had a profound effect on modern occultism and there's still people that will defend him even within these secret organizations especially within them and say he was a brilliant magician and that he was one of the most powerful magicians ever and that he

[00:24:05] crossed the abyss and he advanced to become a secret chief to become one of these lofty exalted highly regarded enlightened masters they'll still make these claims today even looking at his sordid history here but see that's that's where this all

[00:24:33] leads to and this is where in lies a problem with a lot of this stuff because even though you can learn some valuable things about natural forces about the nature of reality about how these energetic principles affect humankind in many different ways all these secrets

[00:24:55] they've kept hidden from us just for the purposes of control you also see they always have this narcissistic personality this type of personality where they they don't care who they hurt it's all about them advancing them drawing more power onto them right and this is

[00:25:16] just one facet of this if you look at the magical side of it or this mystic side of it these are the types of people that that really like to gravitate towards these secret society groups

[00:25:33] the ones seeking power and it's the same thing in politics too it's the same type of personality traits only displayed slightly differently many of those are involved in the occult orders as well in politics many of the people that have made themselves lifelong politicians or

[00:25:52] have put themselves in the offices of power behind the scenes for life belong to many of these secret society groups in occult fraternities and they relish in the power and influence that they have because they have this personality type but enough about that let's continue reading here

[00:26:14] in his final year at Cambridge at age of 33 go figure Crowley met and fell in love with Jerome Pollitt. Pollitt was 10 years his senior a close friend of Aubrey Beardsley's and a talented female impersonator and dancer who had performed as Diane de Roghi in tribute to the actress

[00:26:35] Lyanna de Pauge. In spite of the cautionary tone of Crowley's account of the affair and his insistence that his sexual life remained intensely heterosexual he conceded that their relationship was that ideal intimacy when the which the Greeks considered the greatest glory of manhood and

[00:26:55] the most precious prize of life and quote. Gonna pause for a moment there folks so this is what this whole push for all of this deviant sexuality in the modern era is about

[00:27:12] it falls back on this the same type of spirit essentially this is grabbed hold of our society in many ways it's affected the minds of too many in this world and the vast majority don't want to

[00:27:30] see this stuff pushed and elevated in the way that it has been through hollywood and various of the other circles of influence in our culture but this is exactly why this kind of thing is happening

[00:27:45] because it brings about a type of power over others and influence over others in certain ways and they idealize this and they do so by quoting back about the Greeks we've heard this right

[00:28:02] they talk about that all the time to justify it to make it seem like oh it's okay it's always been a natural part of human society and this kind of downplays the sinful nature of it but

[00:28:21] that's neither here nor there let's continue reading later he immortalized Paul it in the scented garden of Abdullah the satirist also a tribute of sorts to Richard Burton's translated work The Perfumed Garden Crowley's collection of poems are a blend of Persian mysticism

[00:28:39] and the glorification of homosexual love written in the style of ghazals by an imaginary 17th century poet they are supposedly translated into English by an Anglo-Indian major Louis D helped by an anonymous editor and are then discussed by an equally fictitious clergyman

[00:29:01] the collection however is typically Crowley-esque both spoof and serious learned in its own way well designed to amuse beginning quote as I placed the rigid pen of my thought within the ink stand

[00:29:17] of my imagination I tasted the bliss of Allah end quote the poet Abdullah Al-Haji the al-Kahir of the ghazals praises the potex of his lover Habib more notable than the explicit meaning of the

[00:29:32] verses are the hidden references to Paul it into Crowley himself in the closing sections of the book the name of Herbert Charles Jerome Paul it is spelled out in the first letter of each line

[00:29:45] to be followed but in reverse order by that of Alistair Crowley so I'm gonna pause for a moment here folks do you see how narcissistic this guy was he thought he was so much smarter and

[00:29:56] better than everybody he wrote his own poetry he wrote his own stories he was a very creative guy let's give him that he was well written well read well versed in many things but he was like I

[00:30:10] said a total total narcissist and a total manipulator and he was one of these types that really loved to get one over on people and this is the kind of trick that he would pull something like this

[00:30:27] where he would spell out the names in the first letter of each verse of the poem here in that way takes a lot of creativity and imagination to do that don't get me wrong but what kind

[00:30:43] of emotional state are you in to do something like that and this guy this guy was manipulative through and through let's continue on but Crowley's relationship with Paul it well intense was not the sole source of meaning or diversion in his life

[00:31:05] Paul it introduced Crowley to the decadent movement and in Crowley's words made a poet out of him but he had little sympathy with the younger man's growing occult interests and did not share his passion for mountaineering during the Cambridge vacations Crowley went climbing in the Alps

[00:31:23] achieving a lone ascent of the Eiger and began to read widely on esoteric subjects inspired by the apparent allusion to a hidden church in a e waits book of black magic and of packs Crowley wrote to wait requesting further information

[00:31:42] wait responded by recommending that Crowley read the occult classic the cloud upon the sanctuary by counselor von Eckert's house in which had recently been translated by Isabel de Stiger the book duly accompanied him on a climbing and walking holiday during the

[00:32:00] Easter vacation of 1898 Crowley discovered that Eckert's house in indeed elaborated on wait's theme describing a secret sanctuary and a hidden community of saintly beings who possessed the keys to the mysteries of the universe from that moment Crowley determined to find and

[00:32:21] enter into communication with this mysterious brotherhood quote I prolonged or sorry quote I longed passionately for illumination for perfect purity of life for mastery of the secret forces of nature end quote so I'm gonna pause for a moment there folks so he longed for illumination

[00:32:42] mastery of the secret forces of nature mastery of the forces of nature what does that tell you the guy was looking for power power let's read on Crowley perceived his aspirations as religious

[00:33:03] certainly his preoccupation at the time with the origin of evil and the nature of satan suggested they might be but from the outset there was also the issue of power and control magic like

[00:33:17] a mountaineering was in some respects the perfect answer to the desire for mastery of the forces secret or otherwise of nature and he now gave himself over to his magical studies Pollitt was rapidly seen as an inimical as inimical to these researches and Crowley

[00:33:35] ended the relationship shortly after going down from Cambridge in the early summer of 1898 Crowley was later to recognize this as an imbecile mistake and it remained a cause of permanent regret in 1898 however he was utterly focused white hot on his several ambitions climbing

[00:33:56] poetry and the pursuit of magical knowledge now a wealthy young man in his own right he was free to pursue his interests and several meetings that year were to further them at Easter

[00:34:08] he had met Oscar Eckenstein one of the finest mountaineers in England and a man whom crown Crowley deeply admired Eckenstein taught him a great deal about mental discipline and they went on to climb together in major expeditions about the same time he met Gerald Kelly a painter

[00:34:28] who was later to be elected to the royal academy and his future brother-in-law gonna pause for a moment there folks what do you know the royal academy and Crowley's future brother-in-law go figure right gee it's amazing how all this stuff always seems to happen within these

[00:34:47] little same circles isn't it let's read on Kelly unlike Eckenstein shared Crowley's interest in magic and was to travel along that path in Crowley's company a chance meeting that summer however was possibly the most auspicious by this time Crowley had advanced to Samuel Liddell MacGregor

[00:35:07] Mathers cabala unveiled and was disposed to brag about his occult knowledge gonna pause for a moment here folks brag about his occult knowledge he bragged about it don't these people uh is

[00:35:24] not one of their mantras that they're supposed to eliminate their ego void their own ego this guy was egoic all about himself bragging rights he also bragged about all of the very many masonic badges and awards and all of these different things that all these secret society

[00:35:47] groups were to give him that he was due all of these things he had allegedly earned he bragged about this he bragged that the weight of all those medals and stuff that he would have conferred upon

[00:36:02] him were he to try to wear them all at once would be enough weight to crush an elephant he would brag this you know how he got most of those awards most of those no no no

[00:36:15] varieties or most of those degrees and those honors and distinguished awards from these various secret society groups well we covered this in another episode but largely most of them came

[00:36:28] when he was actually taken to court and for uh for using a rosa crucian ceremony in one of his books that he wrote so and he was taken to court by the head of the rosa crucian brotherhood

[00:36:43] and those other fraternities that claim to be the real rosa crucians because they all claim to be the real rosa crucians they decided that they would shower him with all these various degrees and honorary titles and so forth because they wanted him to come over and maybe

[00:37:04] give away some of the secrets that he knew about this other fraternity so so that's how he earned all of those and he liked to brag about those so anyway let's continue on

[00:37:15] enough about that one evening in zermatt while taking a respite from climbing he met and conversed with an analytical chemist named julian l baker a man who clearly knew more than crowley about the occult upon their return to england baker introduced crowley to george ceasel jones

[00:37:35] also a chemist and like baker a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn crowley was subsequently introduced to mcgregor mathers presumably made a favorable impression and was duly initiated on 18 november 1898 as freighter per derobo which means i will endure

[00:37:57] in the neophyte grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn in spite of dismissing most of the order's initiates as muddled middle class modic mediocrities crowley was convinced that he had

[00:38:09] found and entered the hidden church of the holy grail gonna pause for a moment here folks so here it is he thinks he found the secret brotherhood that he was searching for you know those those

[00:38:22] secret brothers who run things in the world in the order of the golden dawn here so let's continue on crowley therefore persevered with what he considered disappointingly dull and elementary studies and was advanced to the grade of phyllis office in may of 1899 he had now reached the

[00:38:42] top grade of the first order and fully expected to be invited to join the tantalizing second or inner order about this time crowley met alan benet an honored magician in the golden dawn whose magical powers were considered second only to those of macgregor mathers benet approached

[00:39:02] crowley after a golden dawn ceremony and accused him of dabbling in malignant forces beyond his control crowley who had indeed been secretly studying the demonic system known as abramelon magic gonna pause for a moment here folks abramelon the mage this is we've discussed this on a

[00:39:24] previous program too this was a a text that dates back to the the 15th century if i'm not mistaken and this was a magical system put forward by a student of abramelon and this was one of the

[00:39:41] magical systems crowley was studying that the golden dawn didn't appreciate apparently but let's continue on here so crowley who had indeed been secretly studying the demonic system known as abramelon magic recognized in benet an occult master and invited the impoverished magician

[00:39:58] to stay with him in his comfortable london flat at 67 chancery lane a period of intense magical activity now began crowley's flat was fitted out with two temples consecrated the magical acts one white and the other black gonna pause for a moment here folks and there's the masonic

[00:40:18] checkerboard duality white and black right let's continue on here benet jones and crowley in spite of the latter's relatively junior status began to experiment with advanced magic and evoke spirits in the abramelon fashion benet also instructed crowley in the magical use of drugs gonna pause

[00:40:40] for a moment here folks you don't say these guys use drugs too right go figure never happens right let's continue on these activities did not find general favor with senior members of the golden dawn and crowley began to acquire an unsavory reputation as rumors of his flamboyant lifestyle

[00:41:02] demonic magic and homosexuality began to circulate wb yeats thought crowley was immoral if not mad well crowley was convinced that yeats was envious of his literary and magical prowess gonna pause for a second there folks another mark of a narcissist he thought the guy was jealous

[00:41:21] of him because he was critical of them let's continue reading nonetheless migrager madder's overruled the london leadership and initiated crowley into the second order in january of 1900 crowley in turn became involved in a bitter power struggle within the golden dawn

[00:41:39] subsequently abandoned both the order and migrager madder's went on to study with other teachers and finally established his own magical order in 1907 by then a great deal had happened to him crowley had traveled extensively broken several climbing records with eckonstein

[00:41:58] and established new ones married rose kelly and taken her and their new daughter on a grueling trek across china lost that same daughter to typhoid fever and was in the process of losing rose to alcoholism in 1906 he had returned to the intensive abramelon magic of his earlier days

[00:42:20] resumed his experimentation with drugs and been recognized by george ceasel jones as a master magician accordingly crowley began to work out the details of his own magical order the argentium astrum or silver star and founded its mouthpiece the equinox an ambitious well-produced

[00:42:41] periodical dedicated to the serious discussion of the occult arts and i'm gonna pause for a moment here folks and it was this publication the equinox where he exposed a rose accrucian ritual

[00:42:56] and was taken to court and this is where he got much of these honorary titles and degrees that he always bragged about is as a result of this court case so let's continue on by 1907

[00:43:09] crowley was in search of a following and looking to cambridge for potential recruits simply turned up one day in victor newberg's room at trinity newberg was already a published poet and crowley had been attracted by the mystical leanings in his work victor benjamin newberg was then in

[00:43:28] his mid 20s not having gone up to cambridge until 1906 when he was 23 and his family had finally admitted that he was not cut out for a business career he came from a comfortable middle-class home in north

[00:43:41] london and had been raised by his mother following the departure of his father for his native vienna shortly after the arranged marriage the bulk of the family money on his mother's side lay with

[00:43:53] victor's uncle edward who financed his nephew's education and gave his mother a cottage in sussex as a supplement to the hove flat to which she had moved in 1903 victor's family however well undoubtedly kind and generous had little in common with a young man who rejected conventional

[00:44:13] judieism along with all organized religion espoused free thought views and progressive values and yet had experienced mystical states since childhood crowley affluent charming and urbane an erudite fellow poet who claimed to understand spiritual realities held a magnetic appeal for

[00:44:34] newberg equally crowley immediately recognized in newberg in altogether extraordinary capacity for magic and began to groom him for the benefit of the order and of himself crowley thought newberg faddish incurably lazy and lacking in self-discipline as well as inhibited and nervous

[00:44:54] his answer to some of these shortcomings was vigorous and prolonged physical exertion combined with a course of extreme mental discipline important for all embryonic magicians in the summer of 1908 crowley took newberg on a long trip across the pyrenees and down through spain newberg

[00:45:14] managed to make it to madrid before succumbing to illness and exhaustion but he and crowley subsequently traveled on to gibraltar and made the crossing to tangiers by the time newberg returned to cambridge for his final year he had to not only work for his degree in modern languages

[00:45:31] but also read his way through the comprehensive corpus of magical philosophical mystical and fictional literature required of any novice in crowley's order of the silver star in this order a seeker first became a student and then a probationer before advancing to the

[00:45:50] neophyte grade and beyond and newberg seems to have been a probationer in 1908 crowley's regimen of magical training was much more demanding than that of the golden dawn's first order but he seemed fairly pleased with his pupil for his part newberg was convinced that he stood in

[00:46:08] the shadow of a master and like crowley at the turn of the century on the threshold of a secret brotherhood the spring of 1909 found newberg cramming feverishly for his final examinations at cambridge while attending to crowley's demands he obtained an adequate third class degree

[00:46:28] and immediately made preparations to join crowley at boluscane house his mother's or his master's large residence on the shores of loch ness in scotland gonna pause for a moment there folks

[00:46:41] which was later bought by jimmy page if i'm not mistaken so i don't know if jimmy page still owns it i think he sense sold it but uh you see the influence that crowley has had in the modern

[00:46:53] era he became a sort of pop culture icon in the 60s as part of the counterculture movement and was adopted by you know various rock groups appeared on the beatles album covers and various

[00:47:09] other things so we see here the influence had transcended through time at any rate but let's continue reading newberg left cambridge on the 16th of june 1909 and traveled to scotland by the night train accompanied by another cambridge man kenith ward ward was going only to take up a

[00:47:33] social invitation and to borrow a pair of crowley's skis whether he knew it or not victor newberg was destined for quite a different experience upon his arrival at boluscane newberg was informed that he was to undertake a magical retirement a withdrawal from the world during which as crowley

[00:47:52] made clear he must make a serious attempt to access and explore the astral light accordingly on the 18th of june this young and inexperienced fledgling magician took his place in a specially prepared chamber at boluscane and began what was to prove to be a 10 day period of isolation

[00:48:13] marked by extreme discomfort a certain amount of suffering and occasional glimpses of ecstatic joy throughout crowley was almost impossibly testing he expected newberg to make the kind of magical progress in days that took years to achieve in the golden dawn and to do this while existing

[00:48:33] in spartan conditions with little food to sustain him the young probationer was made to sleep naked on a bed of gorse for a week and early in the retirement crowley visited the shivering newberg at night and scourged him with a bundle of nettles later dissatisfied with his

[00:48:51] progress crowley gave him 32 strokes with a switch of gorse and drew blood presumably this was not the sole purpose of these nocturnal visits the probationer noted in his meticulous written record that crowley quote is apparently a homosexual sadist and he performed the ceremony with obvious

[00:49:12] satisfaction and quote gonna pause for a moment here folk so does this sound like somebody that uh is really a powerful magician somebody that has the best interest of humanity in mind does this sound like the person that's going to usher in the new age

[00:49:34] if this is what the new age has in store i don't think anybody wants any part of it right this kind of treatment and thinking let's continue on gorse has strong prickles and nettles

[00:49:47] sting but the young man had taken a holy vow of obedience to his magical master it is a small wonder that newberg attributed an emissio seminar to anxiety crowley's attitude was clearly not that of a disinterested teacher it also represented part of a complex and ritualized

[00:50:07] playing out of elements of his personal relationship with newberg he chastised the probationer but in terms that related to the man crowley afterwards expressed the view that there was a fundamental moral deficiency in his character and a strain of racial congenital cowardice too deeply too deeply

[00:50:28] seated for eradication i'm gonna pause for a minute here folks so this guy is making moral judgments on others keep that in mind too let's continue on at the time he continually harped upon the student's supposed racial that is jewish traits and newberg found the

[00:50:49] personal abuse almost intolerable he went through periods of rebellion but in awe of crowley bound to him emotionally and cognizant of his vow newberg always repented of his outbursts the racial slurs and personal insults continued meanwhile however newberg began to have some magical success

[00:51:10] prolonged periods of yoga and meditation began to facilitate changed states of consciousness and these in turn gave way to vivid experiences on the astral planes moments of supreme spiritual insight of intense and rapturous identification with the cosmic mind were equaled by episodes

[00:51:31] of horrifying despair but newberg emerged from the storm to find a sense of peace and harmony and seemed to find within himself some kind of center he understood that at some level this sense of center accorded with the magicians will the essential focal point for all magical

[00:51:50] activity crowley approved the insight commenting that this approached a description of initiated consciousness in newberg's account of his retirement dated 29th of june 1909 he thanked his most holy guru and fittingly both praised and blamed him crowley then advanced his proberationer to

[00:52:13] the grade of neophyte so i'm gonna pause for a moment here folks so that's a lot of heavy stuff isn't it that this guy went through this is how crowley trained people in the magical arts

[00:52:29] by doing really ugly things to them and claiming that uh this is how you achieve the magical powers is through this type of abuse he espoused racist viewpoints he espoused various other viewpoints here he judged this guy as being immoral and lazy but this was his student his

[00:52:55] chosen student correct so this kind of thing what justification what right does he have to morally judge others he's not a bastion of morality himself in this context here but you see how the student will do whatever he says because he's just in awe of his magical

[00:53:18] prowess or alleged magical prowess and this kind of thing it's almost almost like one of those cases where you know you will cling to your abuser we have that stock home syndrome thing going on in

[00:53:39] this as well so this new bird guy stuck with crowley through this and now we're gonna get into some of the more interesting aspects of things here let's read on because there's still a lot of

[00:53:50] ground to cover north africa crowley and newberg traveled to london at the beginning of july and they're set about bringing out the second issue of the equinox but there was more than the production of his occult periodical on crowley's mind his divorce proceedings were coming to a head

[00:54:09] crowley claimed that divorce was inevitable because rose refused to seek treatment for her alcoholism she was later incarcerated suffering from alcoholic dementia but that he had done the gentlemanly thing by providing his wife with evidence of adultery so that she could appear

[00:54:27] as the plaintiff nevertheless crowley was anxious to be out of the country by the autumn of 1909 as the trial was pending he decided upon north africa and maintained that he had no specific

[00:54:42] magical purpose in mind when he sat out on the trip he loved that region and simply wanted to roam at will accordingly and accompanied by freighter omnia vin cam a neophyte of the a a the argentium

[00:54:58] astrum disguised as victor newberg crowley left england and duly arrived in algears on the 17th of november here he undoubtedly it evinced the unmistakable subtle subtly superior air of the english gentleman abroad on arrival crowley's attitude toward colonial french officialdom was

[00:55:21] one of polite disdain he chose to ignore warnings that an unaccompanied trip through the desert could be dangerous instead confident and at ease every inch the season traveler he immediately set about buying the necessary provisions for a journey crowley claimed to have a basic grasp of

[00:55:41] arabic and understood a fair amount about muslim culture but was concerned that the physically slight victor newberg with his hand dog look would undermine his credibility his remedy was surprising on crowley's insistence newberg's head was shaved leaving only two tufts at the

[00:56:02] temple that were twisted up into horns crowley laughingly but tellingly comments that his chila was thus transformed into quote a demon that i had tamed and trained to serve me as a familiar spirit this greatly enhanced my eminence and quote gonna pause for a moment there folks

[00:56:22] so i don't think i need to point out this whole narcissistic tendency of crowley again this was truly an evil man okay let's let's make no doubts about that he wasn't misunderstood

[00:56:38] he was a psychopath okay let's read on the two men then took the tram to arba and set out on a tramp through the desert crowley and newberg reached a male on the 21st of november after

[00:56:54] spending two nights sleeping under the stars here crowley had the sudden insight that he must renew a magical undertaking begun in mexico nine years earlier although he denied premeditation crowley had brought with him various magical accoutrements including a vermilion wooden cross

[00:57:13] set with a large golden topaz the magical operation that he had in mind relied on a complex magical system developed by john d the eminent elizabethan mathematician and astrologer and his

[00:57:27] clairvoyant edward kelly gonna pause for a moment here folks you may have heard of john d and edward kelly these were the guys that developed what's called goisha or goi go goisha is the best

[00:57:40] way to pronounce it i suppose or the goetic magical arts uh they put together the lesser book of solomon the greater book of solomon these are magical texts that allegedly talk about ways in which to summon 72 different demons this kind of thing they worked up this whole system

[00:58:05] d and kelly and this is what crowley had in mind here so let's go ahead and continue reading d and kelly were well versed in practical cabala and experimented with the angel magic of the renaissance magician henry cornealius agrippa agrippa had elaborated a system of numerical

[00:58:27] and alphabetical tables for the summoning of angels and it was within this framework that the two elizabethans worked gonna pause for a moment here folks angels that's what they claimed to be

[00:58:40] these are more of the fallen angelic types though i think they would more readily classify in what we would consider in classic theological studies demons but let's continue on i don't want to like mince words or anything here we'll just go with what the author's saying here

[00:58:58] here and you can make your own judgments on that agrippa had elaborated a system of numerical and alphabetical tables for the summoning of angels and it was within this framework that the two elizabethans worked john d used kelly's gifts as an expert scryer one who

[00:59:18] could travel in the many realms of spirit existence to vicariously enter into conversation with the angels in order to tempt from them the secrets of the universe d asked his questions through kelly and duly recorded the results during their lengthy seances kelly would quote

[00:59:37] scry in the spirit vision end quote using a shoe stone in much the same way as a seer might use a crystal ball it was kelly who saw the angel in the stone and communicated its message to d

[00:59:52] if the instruction concerned a magical invocation or call the angel dictated it in reverse as it was considered too powerful to simply replicate in 1583 the angels began to give their communications in an angelic secret language known as inokian in a pause for a moment here folks

[01:00:14] invoking the idea of inok from the bible inokian that's what this language became known as here let's continue on and the information was recorded in a complex grid form over time d built up an

[01:00:34] entire cosmology of angels and demons and sketched out 30 ethers or heirs realms of other worldly existence this schema probably reworked by migrager mathers had been integrated into the teachings of the order of the golden dawn although he had been denied entry to the second order crownly

[01:00:55] had studied with other senior golden dawn adepts most notably alan bennett and was familiar with these system but whereas golden dawn initiates were set to study d's so-called inokian system as a scholarly exercise crownly was prepared to test its efficacy he had made a faithful copy of

[01:01:15] these 19 calls or keys which called upon powerful occult forces and had experimented with the 19th call in mexico now in amal a he felt impelled to resume this magical operation crownly considered himself a master of astral travel and was in the process of teaching its necessary techniques and

[01:01:40] procedures to newberg he felt that the conditions were perfect for undertaking a journey through john d's ethers crownly's technique was simple he would select a secluded spot and recite the appropriate call the ritual incantation that would give him access to the relevant

[01:01:59] ether after satisfying himself that the invoked forces were present crownly would take up his magical shoestone in this case the large golden topaz and scry in the spirit vision much as kelly had done centuries before he made the topaz play a part not unlike that of the looking

[01:02:19] glass in the case of alice by making the relevant call and concentrating on the topaz crownly could enter the ether he was clear about what this meant he said quote when i say i was in

[01:02:33] any ether i simply mean in the state characteristic of and peculiar to its nature end quote in other words crownly recognized that this was a similar experience to that of astral travel it was conducted

[01:02:47] within his own mind gonna pause for a moment there folks and i think that may be all you need to know about much of these teachings in the occult fraternities it's all in their own mind

[01:03:03] so are they really traveling other planes or are their minds being manipulated by spiritual forces they don't understand or is it their own imaginations running wild you decide you make that decision use your discernment you discern for yourself what you think

[01:03:29] is the true nature of these things are they really doing the things they claim is this really the nature of it let's continue on though having accessed the ether he would describe his experiences to newberg who would write them down it is noteworthy that typically

[01:03:51] crownly adapted the procedure to suit himself unlike d he the master magician would be very be his own scryer victor newberg whom crownly recognized as a gifted clairvoyant was to be merely the scribe as the two men made their way through the desert crownly increasingly fell

[01:04:12] under the spell of his experiences in d's ethers he encountered celestial beings both terrible and beautiful who divulged in richly symbolic language something of the realms in which they dwelt crownly understood much of the symbolism and began to realize that the calls did indeed

[01:04:30] give the scryer access to an intricate but cogent and coherent universal system of other worlds and beings he was satisfied that whereas he saw visions and heard voices he was not the

[01:04:43] autonomous author of his experiences I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears the truth these visions thus crystallized in dramatic form the theoretical conclusion which my studies of comparative religion had led me to a doom rate end quote crownly fully intended the calls

[01:05:03] to be an impersonal exploration of the ethers and was convinced that he was being shown the quote shining simplicity and quote of cosmic truths but he gradually became aware that he was personally implicated at another level the magical work was working on him as the calls proceeded crownly

[01:05:24] began increasingly to feel something very akin to fear it was as though he says a hand was holding his heart while a whispering breath enveloped him in words both awful and enchanting in a

[01:05:37] gender reversal that was to typify much of this magical experience crownly reveals that he began to feel well not exactly frightened it was the subtle trembling of a maiden before the bride groom in order to fortify himself against growing feelings of awe and dread he began

[01:05:55] dread he began to recite the Quran as he marched across the desert the great stretches of empty landscape hot by day and icy at night and continuous intoning of magical and religious formulae combined to affect a state of almost overwhelming spiritual intensity a little over

[01:06:15] two weeks after arriving in al-jir's crownly and new berg reached bousada this isolated haven in the desert with its palm trees gardens and orchards was where the desert road ran out bousada gave the impression of a last link with civilization some distance from the town was a

[01:06:34] mountain mount da la adin it was here that crownly acting on instructions from previous angelic interlocators made the appropriate call and attempted to enter the 14th ether he encountered a thick black veil that try as he might he could not penetrate all the while a voice

[01:06:54] voice spoke of crownly as one about to enter the kingdom of the grave as he struggled with the blackness a great earthquake rent the veil and crownly saw an all glorious angel standing in

[01:07:09] front of him with his arms outstretched and head thrown back the angel had a star upon his forehead but he was surrounded with blackness and the crying of beasts the angel instructed

[01:07:22] crownly to withdraw the mystery of the 14th ether being so great and terrible it cannot be revealed in sight of the sun shaken crownly prepared to return to bousada as he did so suddenly came

[01:07:37] the command to perform a magical ceremony on the summit of the mountain whatever form the command took crownly experienced it as absolute he and newberg responded by building a great circle with loose rocks they inscribed the circle with magical words of power erected an altar in

[01:07:56] its midst and there in crownly's words quote i sacrificed myself the fire of the all seeing sun smoked down upon the altar consuming every particle of my personality and quote gonna pause for a

[01:08:10] moment there folks yeah right so you see here these are the claims made by alistair crownly recorded by newberg he was telling him his dreams and visions that he had here these experiences they did these

[01:08:28] things they did these rituals and i'd imagine it was probably newberg sitting there in a circle probably pretty sleepy falling asleep watching the guys sitting there in a meditative type trance

[01:08:38] and that's about it and then he would occasionally wake up and tell him some weird thing that he saw in his dream so and this is magic folks this is what they they claim these are the things they teach

[01:08:54] within these secretical fraternities these are the types of mystical powers you can have and is there anything really to them could you really experience these spiritual worlds these spiritual realms can you see in them can you travel through them you have to wonder

[01:09:14] there's no way to really prove it or disprove it but seeing the personality traits of crownly to begin with do you really believe anything he's telling you this guy is a master manipulator he's a narcissist he's a psychopath he's clearly unstable he's done drugs had drug addictions and

[01:09:37] various other things that were well known so any altered states of consciousness he was in is this really a good type of spiritual experience and enlightenment per se and this is the kind

[01:09:54] of thing that they they promote within these secret society groups but let's continue on because I want to get through some more of this and we only have about 15 minutes left crownly says simply

[01:10:08] in his confessions that what took place amounted to a final tearing away of quote certain conceptions of conduct which well perfectly proper from the standpoint of my human nature and he had regarded as quote impertinent to initiation and quote what happened in prosaic terms was that

[01:10:28] crownly was sodomized by newberg in a homosexual right offered to the god pan gonna pause for a moment here folks pan if you've been following my work for any length of time you know i wrote

[01:10:44] a book called the demic of pan breaking the natural order which very much is the same archetype that was being invoked here by crownly and newberg maybe this was the spirit guiding this and i also pointed out something that i called the pan christ dynamic which

[01:11:11] is something that can be used as a signal for the emergence of a new age the switching between ages this crossover period in the energetic principles so at any rate here they offered up

[01:11:37] a homosexual right offered to the god pan let's continue on pan the man goat had a particular significance for the two men not only did crownly revere him as the diabolical god of lust and magic

[01:11:50] but newberg literally had what acquaintances described as an elfin and fun like appearance it is likely that what happened on mount dala adin was a classic invocation the young chila in accordance with accepted magical technique probably called down or invoked the god pan

[01:12:10] a successful invocation would result in the neophytes becoming quote inflamed and quote by the power of the god if this is what happened during the ceremony on the mountain newberg in his magical capacity would momentarily identify with all that the man goat god represented put simply

[01:12:29] newberg with his tufted horns would become pan the fond like yet savage lover of crownly's psychosexual world this may well have been the first time that crownly and certainly newberg had performed a magical homosexual act although crownly quickly came to believe that sex magic

[01:12:49] was an unrivaled means to great power conversely the image of pan was to haunt victor newberg for the rest of his life it inspired some of his best early poetry but later filled him with dread the experience was overwhelming for both men but it temporarily devastated crownly

[01:13:08] his summation was brief there quote there was an animal in the wilderness quote end quote he writes quote but it was not i end quote crownly remembered nothing of his return to bow sada as he slowly came to himself however he knew that he was changed

[01:13:29] and now we're going to quote him here quote i knew who i was and all the events of my life but i no longer made myself the center of their sphere i did not exist all things were like as

[01:13:45] shadows sweeping across the still surface of a lake their images had no meaning for the water no power to stir its silence end quote crownly felt that he had ceremonially crossed the abyss a term reminiscent of nichy whom crownly greatly admired

[01:14:04] a pause for a second no kidding let's let's continue on though but denoting the last terrible journey that a magician must make before he could justifiably claim to the highest levels of a depth ship master of the temple a grade of enlightened

[01:14:22] initiation achieved in crownly's own magical order only after crossing the abyss meant renunciation of all that life meant the order of the golden dawn taught that such awareness could not be accessed this side of death and crownly affirmed this in his own way the angel

[01:14:43] of the 14th ether had warned him that the master of the temple is condemned to darkness crownly in turn taught that becoming a master of the temple implied not simply symbolic death and rebirth a concept familiar to all magical initiates but the annihilation of the personal self the

[01:15:03] abyss then was closely associated with the death of the individual although not necessarily on the physical level gonna pause for a moment there folks so here you go it's all about the the destruction the annihilation of the personal self the i am this giving over

[01:15:27] of yourself to something else sound a little creepy probably should but not necessarily on the physical level what what spirit indwelled crownly you see in christian religion we're said that we are indwelled by the holy spirit no ye not that ye are the

[01:15:55] temple of god well what kind of a temple did crownly become and doing all of this all of this what is the temple of transhumanism what spirit resides in the transhumanist temple

[01:16:17] as it were same kind of thing just on a different type of approach as it were here using science and remember crownly taught what he called what did they call it scientific illumination that's what he called it as part of his system of the argentia master scientific illumination

[01:16:45] skeptical theergy this is how we refer to these so denial of the existence of god the creator and deifying science as the be all and all this is the exact spirit of transhumanism

[01:17:04] exactly one for one but let's not harbor too long on that i've only got a few minutes left here and i still want to cover some ground let's continue on a few days later crownly who in the aftermath of

[01:17:18] the sacrifice on mount dala adin had already acknowledged that at one level quote i did not exist end quote prepared formally to undergo the abyss ordeal he understood that he would do so when

[01:17:32] he entered john d's tenth ether and knew that while there he must meet and defeat the terrible corons on the mighty devil that inhabited the outermost abyss gonna pause for a moment here

[01:17:46] folks we might do a show about corons on at some point represented by the number three three three three three three the guardian of the veil the guardian of the threshold

[01:18:00] anyway let's continue on he also knew that he could do so only as per derabo a magical adept and that it was paramount that he applied the lesson of the 14th ether no shred of ego must

[01:18:15] remain if he was to survive the experience unscathed success depended on crownly's ability to master corons on through the dominating power of the magical will the complex techniques rituals and paraphernalia of magical practice are the means by which a magician develops and inflames

[01:18:35] his will the single most important attribute of a musician gonna pause for a moment there folks i'm going to repeat that last sentence the complex techniques rituals and paraphernalia of magical practices are the means by which the magician develops and inflames his will

[01:18:55] the single most important attribute of a magician so there you go when you're talking about the will this is what it's talking about it's the single most important attribute of a magician if you have stronger will than somebody else this is what it's all about full spectrum

[01:19:17] dominance and where have we heard that before let's continue reading Crowley understood that corons on the power could be bound and brought under control only through the silent but relentless application of the magical will and that this was critical

[01:19:32] for a successful crossing of the abyss failure to force corons on into submission would enslave the magician to him corrupting every subsequent undertaking and bringing disaster in its wake given this and the warnings he had received in the previous ethers

[01:19:49] Crowley changed his magical procedure on the 6th of December 1909 Crowley and Newberg left boughsada and went far out into the desert until they found a suitable valley in the dunes here they traced a circle in the sand inscribing it with the various secret names

[01:20:08] of god a triangle was then traced nearby its perimeters likewise inscribed with divine names and also with that of corons on this was correct magical practice the magic circle provided protection for the magician the triangle of art was intended to contain any visible manifestation

[01:20:31] of the forces called up or evoked by perderabo and i'm going to pause for a second here folks and notice that he will take on his magical mantle now perderabo this name he was given in the golden

[01:20:44] dawn system there's a reason they changed their names and this has to do with a concept called the true name whereas if you know an entity's true name you have control over it i think it

[01:21:00] has something to do with that but let's continue reading the process of evocation was designed to produce a physical materialization of in this case the demonic inhabitant of the abyss three pigeons were sacrificed and their blood placed at the three corners of the triangle Crowley took particular

[01:21:20] care that it remained within the confines of the figure so that it would facilitate and help sustain any physical manifestation at this point newberg entered the circle he was armed with a magic dagger and had strict instructions to use it if anything even anything that looked like

[01:21:36] Crowley attempted to break into the circle at Crowley's instigation newberg swore an oath to defend its inviability with his life Crowley dressed in his ceremonial black robe then made an astonishing departure from accepted ritual practice no kidding let's continue on instead of joining

[01:21:56] his chila in the relative safety of the circle he entered the triangle of art while newberg performed the banishing rituals of the pentagram and hexagram a procedure designed to protect him Crowley made the call of the tenth ether the mighty karan zhan announced himself

[01:22:14] from within the shoe stone with a great cry zossus zossus nastanda zossus i am i from me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness ah i will reach up

[01:22:31] to the knees of the most high and tear his phallus with my teeth and i will break his testicles in a mortar and make poison thereof to slay the sons of men gonna pause for a moment here folks this

[01:22:44] is what this entity allegedly told Crowley so this is the this karan zhan that he claims here at the tenth ether the crossing the barrier here the crossing of the abyss this is where Crowley claims

[01:23:03] he has done something that has never been done before by any other in doing this let's continue on and we'll see what he's talking about before we wrap it up Crowley probably uttered these words thereafter however as far as newberg could tell Crowley

[01:23:21] fell silent he remained seated in the triangle in the sand robed and hooded deeply withdrawn so i'm gonna pause for a second hold on so apparently i guess those were the things that

[01:23:31] Crowley said out loud so i guess speaking as this karan zhan to the witness newberg there sitting over in the the circle all right so he had remained hooded robed and hooded deeply withdrawn

[01:23:47] and did not move or speak during the ceremony no kidding it was newberg who both heard and saw unlike the previous calls when he had acted merely as a scribe newberg now beheld not Crowley seated

[01:24:00] within the triangle but all that Crowley conjured before him appeared karan zhan in the guise of a beautiful woman whom he had known and loved in paris and she tried to lure him from the

[01:24:10] circle she was followed by a holy man and a serpent slowly the demon in his various manifestations managed to engage the inexperienced newberg in discussion and then proceeded to mock him had he not oh talkative one been instructed to hold no converse with the mighty karan zhan

[01:24:28] undoubtedly newberg had been so instructed by Crowley but in the heat of the moment forgot himself during the intense debate that ensued with victor newberg scribbling furiously as to record every detail karan zhan began stealthily to erase the protective edges of the circle

[01:24:44] in the sand suddenly karan zhan sprang from the triangle into the circle and wrestled newberg to the ground the scribe found himself struggling with a demon in the shape of a naked savage a strong

[01:24:55] man who tried to tear out his throat with froth covered fangs newberg invoking the magical names of god struck out with his dagger and finally forced the writhing figure back into the triangle the chila repaired the triangle or the circle and karan zhan resumed his

[01:25:11] different manifestations and ravings cajoling tempting decrying pleading he continued to debate an attempt to undermine the scribe finally the manifestations began to fade and the triangle emptied gonna pause for a moment here folks so this is allegedly what newberg saw wonder what

[01:25:28] kind of drugs he was on at the time too who knows who knows as i always caution you he had to take this stuff with a grain of salt this is coming from two men who are obviously

[01:25:41] manipulators obviously involved with dark things and who obviously were interested in power over others and they were the only two witnesses there to this stuff so could you believe this story maybe there's something to it maybe there's not let's continue on and then we're gonna wrap up

[01:26:01] newberg now became aware of crowley who is sitting alone in the triangle he watched as crowley wrote the name babalon signifying the defeat of karan zhan in the sand with his holy

[01:26:13] ring the ceremony was concluded had lasted over two hours the two men lit a green fire of purification and obliterated the circle in the triangle they had undergone a terrible ordeal crowley states that he had astrally identified himself with karan zhan throughout and had

[01:26:30] experienced each anguish each rage each despair each insane outburst newberg however had held for forbidden converse with the dweller of the abyss both men now felt that they understood the nature of the abyss it represented dispersion a terrifying chaos in which there was no center

[01:26:49] and no controlling consciousness its fearsome dweller was not an individual but the personification of a magnitude of malignant forces made manifest through the massed energy of the evoking magician but to experience these forces at the most immediate and profoundly personal level

[01:27:07] and to believe as newberg did that he had been involved in a fight to the death with them was shattering as crowley remarked quote i hardly know how we ever got back to bousada and quote

[01:27:19] over the next two weeks crowley and newberg continued the calls as they made their way towards biskara a desert journey of over a hundred miles some of crowley's experiences in the ethers were lyrical hymns of beauty and ecstasy but others seemed full of foreboding suggesting that he

[01:27:36] had stumbled into a world for which he was not yet prepared by the time they reached biskara on the 16th of december crowley knew that he was perilously close to the absolute limit of his powers

[01:27:49] four days later he concluded the final call the magical work was finished the two men were utterly exhausted but not by the hardships of the physical journey which crowley at least found delightful it was the magical experience that had taken its toll those who knew them said that

[01:28:07] newberg quote bore the marks of this magical adventure to the grave and quote and that crowley shattered psychologically never recovered from the ordeal the two men recuperated in biskara before returning to algae years then they sailed for england on the last day of december 1909

[01:28:25] so we're going to stop right there folks there's more to tell about this but the whole notion here is crowley claims that through this ritualistic use of john d's system and through crossing this abyss

[01:28:41] and confronting this karan zhan demonic spirit allegedly that he became the master of the temple this highly sought title to the magicians the most powerful magician ever these were the claims that he made and he was not psychologically sound as we've seen i mean i don't think it's

[01:29:08] out of the realm of possibility that you know he would be identified as a schizophrenic or some such thing today as well as classic narcissistic personality disorder as well as uh you know just sociopathic tendencies psychopathic tendencies he was not mentally well to begin with

[01:29:27] you mix in drugs and uh lust for power and all of these different things and it's a recipe for disaster and this guy he was seeking to achieve all of this power and he saw this magic these

[01:29:44] secret brotherhoods these secret society groups and the use of this magic as a means to do so to achieve this power it's also a known commodity that uh he also for a time worked for mi six or

[01:29:58] mi five i forget which one but the british intelligence he worked for british intelligence for a time so this guy was well connected this guy was a bit of a loose cannon a bit of a psychopath he used

[01:30:13] and manipulated people for his own greedy ends and yet he claims to be the arbiter of the message for the new age this new era the era of the crowned and conquering child as he liked to call it the age

[01:30:33] of horrors the old ways are gone and he has the new law this is what he claims from a channeled communication from a higher being his higher guardian angel as it were as he claimed

[01:30:51] so his higher self so uh we have all of these different claims and there's just always been this whole mythology that's arisen around crowley so you have to take this stuff with a grain

[01:31:06] assault and understand this guy was disturbed the things he did were disturbing and he made claims with no evidence and people still today revere this guy and take his claims at face value even though

[01:31:21] there's no true evidence of anything he said and he lifted much of these teachings these magical knowledges from other cultures and teachings from different places and presented them as his own and modified them into his own religion of sorts called thalema and based it upon some of these

[01:31:42] alleged magical experiences or psychedelic experiences as they were and this is what's taught in a lot of the modern occultism and people say that this is not evil or bad or any such thing that crowley was just misunderstood well i'll let you discern for

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