ALEISTER CROWLEY
☣ A LEGACY
OF SATANISM ☣
“I bind my blood in Satan,
All that lieth betwixt my hands
To thee, the Beast, and thy control,
I pledge me; body, mind and soul.”
~ Aleister Crowley (Satanic Extracts)*
ALEISTER CROWLEY
1875 – 1947
“I swear to work my Work abhorred,
Careless of all but one reward,
The pleasure of the Devil our Lord.”
~ Aleister
Crowley (Satanic Extracts)*
*(Black Lodge
Publishing, 1991)
Aleister Crowley, born Edward
Alexander Crowley in Warwickshire in 1875, was the self-proclaimed “Wickedest
Man in the World” and the “Great Beast 666.” He also considered himself to be
the “avatar of the Age of Horus” which was supposedly a 2000-year-old aeon,
beginning in 1904, that would supplant Christianity with “Crowleyianity.”
Crowley had rebelled against a strict religious upbringing and was thus
initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898, after leaving
Cambridge University. He left the Order after a row with its founders and then
travelled to Mexico, India and Ceylon, where he was introduced to yoga and
Buddhism which replaced his interest in the occult until an experience in Cairo
in April 1904. Crowley was asked by his wife, Rose, to perform an esoteric
ritual as an experiment. During the ceremony, she entered a trance-like state
and became the medium for the words of a communicator. “They are
waiting for you,” she said to Crowley. “They,” she said, being Horus, the god
of war and the son of Osiris, according to the beliefs of ancient Egypt. The
communicator told Crowley to be at his desk in his hotel room between noon and
one o’clock on three specific days. He agreed and in these periods he wrote, via
automatic writing, a document called The Book of the Law. This tome
spoke of a race of supermen and condemned the traditional Judeo-Christian
religions, pacifism, democracy, compassion and humanitarianism. “Let my
servants be few and secret: they shall rule the many and the known,” the
communicator revealed. The message continued: “We have nothing with the
outcast and the unfit; let them die in their misery. For they feel not.
Compassion is the vice of kings; stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is
the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. … Love one
another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your
pride, in the day of your wrath. … Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am
not for them. I console not; I hate the consoled and the consoler. … I am
unique and conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned and
dead. Amen. … Therefore strike hard and low, and to hell with them, master. …
Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! This is the law of the Battle of Conquest: thus
shall my worship be about my secret house. … Worship me with fire and blood;
worship me with swords and with spears. Let the woman be girl with a sword
before me: let blood flow in my name. Trample down the heathen; be upon them, O
warrior, I will give you their flesh to eat. … Sacrifice cattle, little and
big; after a child … kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!” Needless to
say, Crowley was one of two Englishmen (the other being Houston Stewart Chamberlain)
who would influence the thinking and beliefs of Adolf Hitler.
The same communicator confirmed that
Crowley was the “Beast 666” who had come to destroy Christianity, something his
mother had told him earlier in his life. Crowley apparently tried to ignore
what he had written with his guided hand, but it would not go away, and from
1909 on he began to take it very seriously. He said: “After five
years of folly and weakness, miscalled politeness, tact, discretion, care for
the feeling of others, I am weary of it. I say today: to hell with
Christianity, Rationalism, Buddhism, all the lumber of the centuries. I bring
you a positive and primeval fact, Magic by name; and with this I will build me
a new Heaven and new Earth. I want none of your faint approval or faint
dispraise; I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good,
but strong.” Crowley left his former tutor, MacGregor Mathers, a broken man
as he embarked on a psychic war against him. Them both conjured up demons to
attack the other. Crowley welcomed the First World War as necessary to sweep
away the old age and usher in the new one. After going public with his
revelations, he was made head of the German-based Ordo Templi Orientis. He
founded his cult of Thelema in Sicily in 1920, but was expelled in 1923 amid
accusations of, among other things, blood drinking, drug taking, and child
sacrifice.
Crowley is known to have favoured the
Nazi war effort and, whilst abroad, once notoriously wrote in The Fatherland: “The sovereignty
of England must be destroyed once and for all. England must be divided between
the Continental Powers. She must be a mere province, or better still, colony of
her neighbours, France and Germany.” The historical affinity between
Nazism and the occult has been well documented in a wide variety of books on the
subject, including Satan Wants You by Arthur Lyons, From Satan To Christ by Seán Manchester, Satanism and the
Occult by Kevin Logan, The Twisted Cross by Joseph J
Carr, The Occult & the Third Reich by J M Angebert, Occult Reich by J H
Brenna, Satan and the Swastika by Francis King, The Spear of
Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft, Hitler: The Occult Messiah by Gerald
Suster, Germany Possessed by H G Baynes, Hitler’s Cross by Erwin W
Lutzer.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
On 12 February 2001 Henry Bibby (alias
Edward Crowley) was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for
carrying out a Crowleyite ritual of child sacrifice on an innocent
twelve-year-old victim. He was obsessed with the Satanist and changed his name
to “Edward Crowley” in 1998. He had stabbed the boy, Diego Pineiro-Villar, over
thirty times in Covent Garden, London, on 8 May 2000. Police found a holdall
that Bibby had kept with him. It contained a small number of legal documents
about his change of name, and a chilling sketch that police believe was drawn a
few weeks before the attack. Entitled Delendus Est Pineiro, which
roughly translates as “destroy Pineiro,” the pencil diagram makes references to
child sacrifice, black magic and Greek mythology. The symbols relate to
quotations from Crowley’s works. There are a number of references to child
sacrifice. The most notorious came from Aleister Crowley’s Magick in Theory
and Practice. It reads: “For the highest
spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the
greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high
intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim.”
HENRY BIBBY
alias
EDWARD CROWLEY
Ordo Templi Orientis, once
headed by Crowley, boasts a membership of three thousand in forty countries,
half of whom are in the United States of America. There are many more rival
organisations describing themselves as the OTO. Crowley held an extremely high Freemasonic degree and modern witchcraft’s three
initiations are transparently derived from the three degrees of Craft Masonry.
Someone to perpetuate the cult of Aleister Crowley is the American film maker Kenneth Anger. Born in 1930 in Santa Monica, California, Anger grew up in the shadow of Hollywood and participated in his first film rôle at the age of four years. From his late teens he became obsessed with homo-erotic themes and diabolism. This led to him becoming, in his own words, “a disciple of the Satanist Aleister Crowley.” His most infamous film is Lucifer Rising which was begun in 1966, but production came to a halt when its lead actor died and the person to replace him then stole all the central footage. Anger released the remaining footage in 1966, followed by a 25 minutes’ version in 1973. The completed 45 minutes’ version was finally released in 1980.
French Satanist and author
Jean-Paul Bourre, an ardent Crowley disciple, came to London in January 1980
where he visited Highgate Cemetery with a fellow diabolist. Bourre has
perfected his own version of the Black Mass which he describes as a Red Mass.
Crowley and his disciples perform something described as the Mass of the
Phoenix, which is also known as the Mass of the Vampire. Curiously, Highgate
Cemetery became notorious for a suspected vampire contagion in the decade prior to
Bourre’s arrival. Many other self-styled practitioners of Crowlianity have made
a pilgrimage to the Victorian graveyard in the hope of raising the ultimate
evil force.
All but forgotten at the time
of his death as a poverty-stricken heroin addict in a run-down Hastings
boarding house in 1947, Crowley was rediscovered two decades later by
drug-crazed hippies and also popularised by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin who
bought Crowley’s home in Scotland. From the late 1960s Crowley was copied by
innumerable Satanists seeking the very infamy that authors and journalists will
invariably provide. Yet these latter day black magicians have always been
eclipsed by the shadow of their notorious mentor ~ Aleister Crowley ~ whose
infamous life and diabolical publications will inevitably reduce them to very
pale imitations.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
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details can be viewed by clicking on the photograph (above):
“With the cross of
jesus trampled on the floor . . .
Christians necks
our footstool, Heaven itself Our throne.”
~ Aleister
Crowley (Collected Works of Aleister Crowley, 1906)