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Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought
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Much of what he wrote seems to be influenced by Taoism and psychedelics. I thought he was just some occult crackpot but he seems to have been an enlightened thinker from the 1920's the "found the light in darkness." It's the same type of thinking found in various eastern enlightenment ideas.
You have to remember this was the 20's so they didn't know what we know now but also we don't know what the future will know. This sounds like pretty reasonable stuff compared to how we quote treat unquote drug addiction today.
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V. The Treament of Drug Habits
A. Some drugs, e.g. Opium, produce a physical craving due to the chronic poisoning of the tissues. Suppression may therefore be fatal. The symptoms of suppression may be so severe that even strong willed people need assistance in stopping. Others, e.g. Cocaine, present little physical obstacle to suppression; the pull is mainly moral.
B. Each patient needs special treatment. This depends on
1. The original cause of the habit. 2. His constitution. 3. His environment. 4. His prospects for the future.
C. Various theories of cure; the main objection to each.
D. My own theory and practice.
The Law of Thelema is the cure. Each patient must be analysed until he discovers for himself the true purpose for which he came into the world. He will then resolve firmly to stop drugs as hindrances to his doing his will. He is assisted by palliatives when any physical symptoms tend to overcome his resolution.
E. Palliatives useful in various crises.
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‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.’ Not only to this autohagiography—as he amusedly insists on calling it—of Aleister Crowley, but to every form of biography, biology, even chemistry, these words are key.
‘Every man and every woman is a star.’ What can we know about a star? By the telescope, a faint phantasm of its optical value. By the spectroscope, a hint of its composition. By the telescope, and our mathematics, its course. In this last case we may legitimately argue from the known to the unknown: by our measure of the brief visible curve, we can calculate whence it has come and whither it will go. Experience justifies our assumptions.
Considerations of this sort are essential to any serious attempt at biography. An infant is not—as our grandmothers thought—an arbitrary jest flung into the world by a cynical deity, to be saved or damned as predestination or freewill required. We know now that ‘that, that is, is’, as the old hermit of Prague that never saw pen and ink very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc.
Nothing can ever be created or destroyed; and therefore the ‘life’ of any individual must be comparable to that brief visible curve, and the object of writing it to divine by the proper measurements the remainder of its career.
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I. General Survey
A. Almost universal ignorance of the true facts about Drugs. Wild statements on both sides; delights and dangers exaggerated.
B. General account of the principal drugs which have a psychical interest: Alcohol, Ether, Chloroform, Hashish, Anhalonium Lewinii, [1] Opium (various forms), Atropine (Belladonna),[2] Stramonium,[3] Opium derivatives: Cocaine,[4] Morphine, Heroin.
C. Two main types of drug: ``One man's meat is another man's poison.''
D. Need to distinguish between the various forms of intoxication, and to identify the true cause of the action of any given drug.
E. The general use of each drug, and the reason in each case of any tendency to abuse. The action of a certain drug upon a certain person in good health totally different to that upon a sick one.
Anhalonium Lewinii is Mescal Buttons
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A. Man must be trained to use drugs with impunity. B. Experiments must be made to discover how the undoubted physical and moral assistance of drugs may be turned to the best advantage. C. Results of my own researches in this direction.
Alcohol. Too general in its action to be useful.
Ether. Invaluable for mental analysis; also to discover one's own final judgment on any matter. Gives the power to appreciate the elements of which sensation is made up. Example: Feeling one's finger move in detail.
Hashish. Good for mental analysis. Aids imagination and builds up courage. One can trace the genesis of ideas, solution sometimes given in a series of pictures. Example: How property began.
Anhalonium Lewinii. Like Hashish. (All three excellent for enabling one to get behind one's superficial ideas and discover the roots of one's thoughts.)
Morphine, Opium etc. Aids concentration. Relieves pressure of worrying thoughts; aids creative imagination. Objection: Injures executive ability, so that ideas are sterile.
Cocaine. Prevents fatigue, enabling one to work at full pressure for an indefinite time. Example: My New Orleans method and work done at Cefalu.[6]
Heroin. Combines the virtues of Opium and Cocaine. Excites imagination; helps concentration and calm; increases executive power and endurance. Example: [The Diary of a] Drug Fiend.[7]
D. The Technique of Administration. Select proper drug by experiment. Dosage. The Opsonic curve.[8] The weather and other conditions.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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No He has too much ties with negativity and satan.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: BoomerMan420]
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BoomerMan420 said: No He has too much ties with negativity and satan.
Good and evil are the same thing. Where did this "satan" come from?
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: BoomerMan420]
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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He certainly was an interesting fellow.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: BoomerMan420]
#21995471 - 07/25/15 02:24 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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He was prescribed heroin for asthma and used every drug known to man sacramentally.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Astral Pain]
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Shiithead]
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What's your point? People have been murdered to save their souls because if they would just confess they wouldn't burn in hell forever so they were tortured to death. This happened in medieval times and when they found native people who didn't believe in the right god. The same god you're throwing around as peaceful and loving. Also just because it's on youtube doesn't mean truth.
Also I didn't watch the whole video just the part where it was talking about Aleister influencing scientology or something. Your religion has inspired atrocities but also great works of beauty. At the end of the day it was all written by humans exactly like you but from a different time. If religion exists in a thousand years who's to say people won't be worshiping L. Ron Hubbard like you worship jesus and the writers of the bible? You know that scientology was written by a person just like yourself because you're so close to it happening. No one believed anything christians were saying until their religion became older. Lead by leash of old. That's why they were persecuted but also christianity was once considered blasphemy against the religion of the majority. Just as you consider scientology to be blasphemy against christianity.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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Christianity is just a word. It's the meaning behind it.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Shiithead]
#21995643 - 07/25/15 03:06 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shiithead said: Christianity is just a word. It's the meaning behind it.
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Proof by assertion, sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is an informal fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction.[1] Sometimes, this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to its not being contradicted (argumentum ad nauseam).[2] In other cases, its repetition may be cited as evidence of its truth, in a variant of the appeal to authority or appeal to belief fallacies.[citation needed]
This fallacy is sometimes used as a form of rhetoric by politicians, or during a debate as a filibuster. In its extreme form, it can also be a form of brainwashing.[1] Modern politics contains many examples of proof by assertions. This practice can be observed in the use of political slogans, and the distribution of "talking points", which are collections of short phrases that are issued to members of modern political parties for recitation to achieve maximum message repetition. The technique is also sometimes used in advertising.[3]
That's the same trick you tried to use on the other thread. It's a variation no no true scotsman. Meaning is just a word. The whole world is words. Everything you think you are is just words. Without them you would be far more primitive and have little of what we consider a personality. To me humans are as natural as the planets and stats we just took longer to "grow." Have you ever saw a plant or human come into existence without growing? You're no more special than a bacteria but that doesn't mean a bacteria isn't very special. Without them we would not survive. Trillions of bacteria live in and on your body just like trillions of life forms live in and on the earth. Life co-evolved for billions of years. Every bit is of infinite value for without the small what would the large feed upon? If planets and stars existence all over the universe then why is it so unreasonable that life exists everywhere? When we find it do you think it'll believe in the same god you do? Remember most the people who live on the earth can't even agree on the same god. This doesn't mean there isn't a god it just means god might not be what you think it to be.
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Bradley Dowden explains the fallacy as an “ad hoc rescue” of a refuted generalization attempt,[1] the following is an example of the fallacy:[3]
Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge." Person B: "But my uncle Angus likes sugar with his porridge." Person A: "Ah yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
The essayist Spengler compared distinguishing between "mature" democracies, which never start wars, and "emerging democracies", which may start them, with the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. Spengler alleges that "political scientists" have attempted to save the "US academic dogma" that democracies never start wars from counterexamples by maintaining that no true democracy starts a war.[3]
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Astral Pain]
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Astral Pain said: He was prescribed heroin for asthma and used every drug known to man sacramentally.
Check out this book he wrote. It's pretty down to earth for crowley.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: dr_gonz]
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dr_gonz said: Make sure you pronounce the name properly. Ozzy Osbourne fucked it all up with the song "Mr Crowley". It's pronounced CROW-LEE.
That's how Ozzy said it... Or are you saying its CRO-LEE?
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: TopPmz]
#21995959 - 07/25/15 03:57 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Crowley was a pedophile.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: TopPmz]
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Its pronounced how Ozzy says it. Crowley preferred Crow-lee so it would rhyme with holy. So I hear.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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BoomerMan420 said: No He has too much ties with negativity and satan.
Good and evil are the same thing. Where did this "satan" come from?
No and for me personally satan comes from hatin'
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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Good and evil are the same thing.
RIIGGHHT...
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Shiithead]
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Shiithead said: Its pronounced how Ozzy says it. Crowley preferred Crow-lee so it would rhyme with holy. So I hear.
You heard wrong.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: ThatKidWithTheFace]
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Or maybe you heard wrong.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Shiithead]
#21996030 - 07/25/15 04:11 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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No.
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#21996031 - 07/25/15 04:11 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mr. Crowley is better off dead.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: BoomerMan420]
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BoomerMan420 said: No He has too much ties with negativity and satan.
Good and evil are the same thing.
RIIGGHHT...
If I gave you no option and I said I was going to cut your dick off with a machete. You would say this to be bad right? Now I said I'll give you one other option I'm going to cut your dick off slowly with a meat slicer like they use in a deli then I'm going to make a sandwich of your dickmeat and feed it to you. Now if given them two options as a real reality you would be facing which would you chose and why?
If you pick the first would you not be considering something that is "bad," good?

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"By seeking the source of his own nightmares and disturbing fantasies, Giger discovered independently from the pioneers of modern consciousness research, the paramount psychological importance of the trauma of biological birth. . . . The birth process also involves violent elements in the form of the assault of the uterine contractions on the fetus, as well as the fetus' aggressive response to the situation. This reaction takes the form of amorphous fury of the biological organism whose life is seriously threatened. Suffering and vital threat engender in the fetus a sense of vital threat and overwhelming anxiety."
"It is easier for many people to see Giger's images as an expression of his personal depravation, perversion, or psychopathology, rather than recognize in his art, elements that we all carry in the depths of our psyche."
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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lol crowely wrote a bunch about how only people with no morals and willpower get addicted to drugs
he was like, lifelong addicted to opiates.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: dr_gonz]
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Shiithead said: Its pronounced how Ozzy says it. Crowley preferred Crow-lee so it would rhyme with holy. So I hear.
You heard wrong.

Whatever you want to think. I'm giving you the fact of the matter.
Word.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: dr_gonz]
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Shiithead said: Its pronounced how Ozzy says it. Crowley preferred Crow-lee so it would rhyme with holy. So I hear.
You heard wrong.

Whatever you want to think. I'm giving you the fact of the matter.
Sounds better the way Ozzy said it. Facts don't matter anymore anyway.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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BoomerMan420 said: No He has too much ties with negativity and satan.
Good and evil are the same thing.
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If I gave you no option and I said I was going to cut your dick off with a machete. You would say this to be bad right? Now I said I'll give you one other option I'm going to cut your dick off slowly with a meat slicer like they use in a deli then I'm going to make a sandwich of your dickmeat and feed it to you. Now if given them two options as a real reality you would be facing which would you chose and why?
If you pick the first would you not be considering something that is "bad," good?
"It is easier for many people to see Giger's images as an expression of his personal depravation, perversion, or psychopathology, rather than recognize in his art, elements that we all carry in the depths of our psyche."
Lo fucking L get that trickery hibbidiy jibbidy crap outta here good and evil differ you can twist all you like but good and evil are very different I strive to be good meaning treating everyone with great care love understanding and compassion to whatever they were "forced" to endure thru this test... Best greatest why must they hate this?
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: BoomerMan420]
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"It is easier for many people to see Giger's images as an expression of his personal depravation, perversion, or psychopathology, rather than recognize in his art, elements that we all carry in the depths of our psyche."
Lo fucking L get that trickery hibbidiy jibbidy crap outta here good and evil differ you can twist all you like but good and evil are very different I strive to be good meaning treating everyone with great care love understanding and compassion to whatever they were "forced" to endure thru this test... Best greatest why must they hate this?
They complement each other. Without one the other ceases to be is what I'm trying to say. Which is the point of that story I made up. Haha the closer you get to truth the less people understand or maybe it's just insanity... Does sanity or insanity equal truth? I never said I hated anything. I just said they are the same. Things are not this or that they are everything at once. Evil and good are forces that exist within the mind. Most people don't strive to be evil but when you label some one evil you're saying they're no longer human and fuck them. It's all the same in the end. All is one is what I'm saying.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22734918 - 01/04/16 08:14 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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Crowley was a fucked up junkie sex addict with no morals. And what sucks is the world is run by these kinds of people.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: SirDabsAlot]
#22735048 - 01/04/16 09:12 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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I'm reading a book on Crowley right now, dude had some serious fucking issues with the way he treated the people in his life. Some interesting ideas though, I like the way he syncretizes so many different belief systems.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22735097 - 01/04/16 09:26 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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Crowley's works on the Qabalah and the Tarot are magical books. His other stuff I find less interesting. I'm currently learning his Thoth Tarot deck.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: dr_gonz]
#22735142 - 01/04/16 09:38 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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dr_gonz said: Make sure you pronounce the name properly. Ozzy Osbourne fucked it all up with the song "Mr Crowley". It's pronounced CROW-LEE.
Is it?
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Connoisseur]
#22735150 - 01/04/16 09:40 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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Yep. My friend who's big into occult shit set me straight on that pronunciation a few weeks ago. Rhymes with "holy"
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: hex_enduction]
#22735187 - 01/04/16 09:50 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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I read his autobiography longest book I ever read
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: hex_enduction]
#22735237 - 01/04/16 10:02 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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Still haven't delved too deep into this magic thing, but I've been enjoying the first few chapters of "The Tree of Life: A study in magic" by isreal regardie (apparently a student of crowley's?)
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: ThatKidWithTheFace]
#22735243 - 01/04/16 10:04 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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Shiithead said: Its pronounced how Ozzy says it. Crowley preferred Crow-lee so it would rhyme with holy. So I hear.
You heard wrong.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Psilosopherr]
#22735253 - 01/04/16 10:07 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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rbalzer said: Still haven't delved too deep into this magic thing, but I've been enjoying the first few chapters of "The Tree of Life: A study in magic" by isreal regardie (apparently a student of crowley's?)
I have Regardie's The Eye in the Triangle, a biography of Crowley. Still have yet to start it but it seems really interesting.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Shiithead]
#22735262 - 01/04/16 10:11 AM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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Shiithead said: Christianity is just a word. It's the meaning behind it.
Thelema is just a word. it's the meaning behind it.
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22735724 - 01/04/16 12:32 PM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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I would look more towards daoism. Study the Tao Te Ching, get a couple copies of the I-ching and 2 coins. That's some originality.
Satanism is a rip-off of Christianity. It's like Talmudism.
They say Satan is = to God and point to the Bible to evidence that Satan exists. But where does it say he was = God? Satanists just base a religion off of a character from another religion, and then make up some opposing teachings which they transpose with or superimpose over the original... not that the modern Bible is entirely original...
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I have denied God. And I am Satan!
The Vision and the Voice
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22735919 - 01/04/16 01:51 PM (8 years, 27 days ago) |
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dude was a rapist
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: flickedbic]
#22737798 - 01/04/16 11:09 PM (8 years, 26 days ago) |
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flickedbic said: I would look more towards daoism. Study the Tao Te Ching, get a couple copies of the I-ching and 2 coins. That's some originality.
Satanism is a rip-off of Christianity. It's like Talmudism.
They say Satan is = to God and point to the Bible to evidence that Satan exists. But where does it say he was = God? Satanists just base a religion off of a character from another religion, and then make up some opposing teachings which they transpose with or superimpose over the original... not that the modern Bible is entirely original...
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I have denied God. And I am Satan!
The Vision and the Voice
Haha I just think it's funny how much hate this guy gets from people. Really that's the main reason I made it. Mostly I'm into non-duality, huayan school buddhism, and advaita vedanta.
Thelema isn't really satanism. It puts together many different beliefs. like zoroastrian, kabbalah, taoism, ect. What I like about thelema is many of the rituals are easily available/understandable. When I was starting out I had a hard time finding/understanding the eastern rituals because some are very complex and haven't been put "out there" yet by the masters.
Although most people find it very silly rituals can be used to influence your subconscious and strengthen your will. To get down to the core of being so worldly problems do not mess with your inner life. Once you get to the core of your being then things take on new meanings and life looks different. There is so much symbolism to unfold. That's the fun part.
I think he was a trickster too.
Here's his writings on the holy guardian angel. Basically it's kinda like the western version of a spirit animal.



Western ritual
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22739269 - 01/05/16 11:16 AM (8 years, 26 days ago) |
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You're gonna trust a trickster?
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Mostly I'm into non-duality, huayan school buddhism, and advaita vedanta.
That's good. I'm fairly sure you don't want to end up like Crowley.
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Thelema isn't really satanism. It puts together many different beliefs. like zoroastrian, kabbalah...
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"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff." — Aleister Crowley
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Or consider Crowley's Satanic "invocation" (which means to spiritually as well as physically seek union and become one with) in "Magick" p. 357: "Thou Spiritual Sun! Satan, Thou Eye, thou Lust; Cry aloud! Whirl the Wheel, O my Father, O Satan, O Sun!" - http://www.henrymakow.com/aleister_crowley.html#sthash.rJNSwtEp.dpuf
If you want to, get into magic of those schools you mentioned, not this asshat's "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" "magick". I don't think Buddha would ever cut himself to focus his mind...
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Black magic means using your energy, wasting it, in dominating others. White magic means using the same methods, but using your energy in dominating your own life, becoming a master of yourself.The only useful thing is to dominate yourself. Dominating others or being dominated is useless, a wastage of your energy. Nothing is achieved through it — just an egoistic feeling that you can dominate or get dominated. ... All expansion is life, all contraction is death.All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
https://hinduismglance.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/how-to-practice-advaita-vedanta-nondualism-brahman-dharma-sanatan-dharma-arya-dharma-future-religion-of-the-planet/
Again I beseech you to seek out a copy of the I-Ching as you're interested Daoism and deeper truth. Two coins, a pen, and a focused mind are all one needs to freely consult the oldest existing oracle/sage.
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All readable matter in the above post is ficticious... any similarities to real life are purely coincidental. Blessing.
Edited by flickedbic (01/05/16 12:09 PM)
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Re: Aleister Crowley is more interesting than I first thought [Re: flickedbic]
#22739806 - 01/05/16 01:28 PM (8 years, 26 days ago) |
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Sorry to be annoying but...
Was he really a pedo? I kinda believe he was hated for his unorthodox ideas and people wanted to denounce him. By no means was the guy perfect but it drives me crazy to see such allegations.
John Bull was a traditional values magazine that seem to start the ball rolling.


Here's some things crowley has said.
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"As ye will." It should be abundantly clear from the foregoing remarks that each individual has an absolute and indefeasible right to use his sexual vehicle in accordance with its own proper character, and that he is responsible only to himself. But he should not injure himself and his right aforesaid; acts invasive of another individual's equal rights are implicitly self-aggressions. A thief can hardly complain on theoretical grounds if he is himself robbed. Such acts as rape, and the assault or seduction of infants, may therefore be justly regarded as offences against the Law of Liberty, and repressed in the interests of that Law.
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Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results— of an extremely temporary nature. The recoil upon those who practice it is terrific.
It is like looking for an escape of gas with a lighted candle. As far as the search goes, there is little fear of failure!
To practice black magic you have to violate every principle of science, decency, and intelligence. You must be obsessed with an insane idea of the importance of the petty object of your wretched and selfish desires.
I have been accused of being a “black magician.” No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.
Do what thou wilt is basically saying follow your innate nature like taoism.
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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will."
Edited by Eggtimer (01/05/16 01:30 PM)
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