The Commune Of Thelema

The Commune Of Thelema Cover After his father died the young Aleister rebelled, and began to see through what he considered to be the hypocrisy of society and it's Christian morals. His mother called him "the little beast" and well-versed as he was in the Bible, he took it to mean the Beast of the Revelations - represented by the numerals 666 - and gleefully adopted his new title as a defiant joke.

At the height of his power and belief in the Law of Thelema in 1920, Crowley and his small group of followers founded The Abbey of Thelema in a farmhouse in Cefalu, Sicily. He chose Cefalu after consulting the Yi King, a Chinese form of Divination. Any doubts his followers had were dispersed on arrival: it seemed perfect for their purpose which was to establish a commune and practice the religion of Thelema as free men and women.

At this point, we should consider what they were trying to achieve within the context of the period, which was already being called "the age of impotence." Much of Crowley's doctrine advocates personal freedom and liberation. Of course, in 1920 this attitude was far ahead of it's time, but Crowley later became an icon in the more Understanding 60's; eternally embossed on the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album cover.

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Top 50 Quotes Of Aleister Crowley

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"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad." — aleister crowley (Magick: Liber ABA)

"Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness." — Aleister Crowley

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without." — Aleister Crowley

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." — aleister crowley (The Book of Lies)

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal." — aleister crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)

"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices." — Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA)

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)

"Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will." — Aleister Crowley (Magick in Theory and Practice)

"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)

"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)

"Your kiss is bitter with cocaine." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)

"I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them." — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)

"I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them..." — Aleister Crowley (The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz)

"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)

"Every man and every woman is a star." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)

"What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life...." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." — Aleister Crowley

"It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth." — Aleister Crowley (Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law)

"Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations" — Aleister Crowley (The Book of Lies)

"I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"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

"Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee." — Aleister Crowley (The Vision & the Voice With Commentary and Other Papers: The Collected Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1909-1914 E.V.)

"The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them." — Aleister Crowley (Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law)

"Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!" — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)

"The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"Love is the law, love under will." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)

"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!" — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)

"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)

"It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment." — Aleister Crowley (Moonchild)

"The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!" — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it." — Aleister Crowley (Magick Without Tears)

"...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless." — Aleister Crowley (The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography)

"This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love." — Aleister Crowley (Diary of a Drug Fiend)

"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness." — Aleister Crowley (The Book of the Law/Liber Al Vel Legis)

"Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?' — Aleister Crowley

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The Pathworkings Of Aleister Crowley The Treasure House Of Images

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Book: The Pathworkings Of Aleister Crowley The Treasure House Of Images by Aleister Crowley

This beautiful collection of meditations on the astrological signs and the paths of the Tree of Life was originally titled 'The Treasure House of Images.' At one time it was primarily perceived as an inspirational text. This edition treats it as a unique instruction on magical technique. With Additional material by David Cherubim, Christopher S. Hyatt, Lon Milo DuQuette and Nancy Wasserman it has become a powerful tool for self-transformation.

The bulk of this book consists of Liber 963 itself (Treasurehouse of Images). This is one of the most beautifully stunning pieces of verse I have ever read, at once compelling, imaginative and detailed. This work is not published in many other places, and the books it is published in typically are out of print and demand high price tags. Therefore it is well worth the price of this book just to be able to have hard copy (in paperback, portable form no less) of 963. However, the description did lead me to believe that the other authors listed contributed significantly to this particular publication, which is not the case. There is additional material, but not very much and the additions consist of information easily found elsewhere. I would still buy this book over again, but it would have been nice to know the real value of the other contributed work.

I hope you enjoy the excellent poetry of Aleister Crowley as much as I did. I was able to read huge chunks at a time I liked it so much. The first day I read it I read about half the book. Extremely blasphemous poetry rivaling even Lord Byron and Edgar Allen Poe. Even though he is controversial, aleister crowley is the all time icon of the occult. Besides that, he is an under-rated gothic icon. On occasion, whole books of Crowley such as this could be looked at as gothic. Crowley is the creator of the Thoth Tarot, and tarot has a large gothic following amongst non-Christian goths. Crowley is definately a love it or hate it persona. Satanists told me Thelema is anathema to the Satanist. These "satanists" are pretenders to the throne. Crowley is the original occult icon; the rest are imitators. I have seen it and it could be argued ever other occultist plagarized Crowley...because he is the original. Just like Lafenu was the original vampire writer. Crowley has been getting popular.

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Aleister Crowley And The Occult Golden Dawn

Aleister Crowley And The Occult Golden Dawn Cover After Crowley was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an occult society which taught magick, the arcane arts and other hermetic subjects, he rose quickly through the degrees.

In 1890, there was a schism in the cult, so he left England and traveled in the Orient. He founded his own satanic organization. The Golden Dawn would be affected by a major schism among its founding members.

The Golden Dawn

The organization, founded in 1887 by Dr. William Robert Woodman, Dr. William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Liddell Macgregor Mathers, was a hermetic society whose members are taught the principles of Occult Sciences and the magick of Hermes, Greek messenger of the Gods and guide to the underworld.

Famous members included A. E. Waite, who created the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck which is the most popular one today, occultist and author Dion Fortune and poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats. Its system was based on the Kabalistic Tree of Life, with ten degrees and an eleventh one for neophytes. According to members, secrecy was mandatory to protect themselves from public exposure, but there are also the elements of power, control and deception.

This was the occultism that the upper middle class German immigrants brought to America with them in the late 1800s and is what distinguishes them from the Pennsylvania Dutch. Incorporated in its teachings were the Key of Solomon, Abra-Melin and Enochian magick, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, William Blake’s prophetic books and the Chaldean Oracles. Lessons were given in astral travel, scrying, alchemy, geomancy, the Tarot and astrology.

he Golden Dawn’s Internal Problems

In addition to Crowley’s expulsion, there was rampant in-fighting among founding members of the organization. Woodman died in 1891 and wasn’t replaced. Mathers produced an initiation ritual for the Adeptus Minor degree. Most of these rituals were based on Freemasonry. Many members thought that he was a little eccentric, possibly a lunatic.

He claimed his wife, Mina, received teachings from the Secret Chiefs through clairaudience, psychic hearing. Mathers translated The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, which he claimed was bewitched and created by a nonphysical intelligence. He claimed the Secret Chiefs had initiated him into a Third Order and was expelled from the organization. In 1897, members discovered Westcott's questionable activities in founding The Golden Dawn. He resigned. Schisms beyond repair had formed within the organization.

In 1917, it was reestablished as the Merlin Temple of the Stella Matutina which lasted until the 1940s when it declined after the publication of its secret rituals by former member Israel Regardie, Crowley's one-time secretary.
Crowley and the Golden Dawn

The rise and fall of this hermetic organization parallels the history of many occult groups. Highly intelligent people with mystical beliefs found these organizations and attract others who share these qualities. Eventually there are internal conflicts for various reasons. Some splinter organizations of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn still exist. Aleister Crowley, a heroin addict, died in Hastings, England on December 1, 1947 from a respiratory infection. His teachings also live on

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Which Things Are An Allegory

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Which Things are an Allegory. An unpublished Story by Aleister Crowley.

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Alesier Crowley About Genius

Alesier Crowley About Genius Cover "Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize it with knowledge of all kinds, improve its powers of Expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem poets, our one-picture painters, have merely failed to perfect themselves as instruments. The Genius who wrote The Ancient Mariner is no less sublime than he who wrote The Tempest; but Coleridge had some incapacity to catch and express the thoughts of his genius - was ever such wooden stuff as his conscious work? - while Shakespeare had the knack of acquiring the knowledge necessary to the expression of every conceivable harmony, and his technique was sufficiently fluent to transcribe with ease." — aleister crowley (Moonchild)

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