Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (2016)
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#2I was heavily into this as a kid.
There were some websites back in the early 2000s which would sell infomercial products about the Art of Sorcery and Aleister Crowley (The Wickedest Man In The World!) which were the creme de la creme.
Later I learnt about his K2 expedition and other things.
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#3I dunno man. They both seem kinda intellectually obsessive. All that writing.
Re: Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (2016)
#4I was heavily into this as a kid. There were some websites back in the early 2000s which would sell infomercial products about the Art of Sorcery and Aleister Crowley (The Wickedest Man In The World!) which were the creme de la creme. Later I learnt about his K2 expedition and other things.
Oh man. Crowley used to be such a good rabbit hole in the geocities days. There were so many weird people obsessed with him.
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#5I dunno man. They both seem kinda intellectually obsessive. All that writing.
So many concepts!
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#6I was heavily into this as a kid. There were some websites back in the early 2000s which would sell infomercial products about the Art of Sorcery and Aleister Crowley (The Wickedest Man In The World!) which were the creme de la creme. Later I learnt about his K2 expedition and other things.
Oh man. Crowley used to be such a good rabbit hole in the geocities days. There were so many weird people obsessed with him.
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#7Highly recommend W. Sommerset Maughm's "The Magician" for a treatment of Crowley's personality and influence. The occult is full of tedious charlatans, and yet they reappear in history in influential forms like Machiavelli, Rasputin, Crowley, Mesmer, Bernays, Marcuse, and other literal mesmerists, with lesser lights as 20th century cult leaders, and I think Klaus Schwab and his transhumanist hokum is the current equivalent to these prior figures. His cohort has been clever enough to outlaw the mockery they so richly deserve.
Oddly, the marjority of Issac Newton's writing was esoterica, and his contributions to physics and maths were almost incidental to his huge body of work on occult topics. What fascinates me about the occult personally is that it's a fundamentally inferior ontology - where it's what you believe when you don't have belief. Its ideas manifest in cults, but also in theory, where Marxism and its consequent gobbledygook(s) are predicated on similar occult and gnostic premises. Before we had ideology, we had superstition, and the priesthood of superstition was these magical thinkers, imo.
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#8Re: Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (2016)
#9For anyone insterested in reading Crowley, I was told Liber four is the most straightforward writing of his.
His collection of poems "White Stains" is just amazing as well - mostly speaking about human secretions of all kinds and ingesting them.
Edit:"White Stains, a collection of Crowley's poetry praised by W.B. Yeats, published in paperback for the first time, has been called 'the filthiest book of verse ever written' and of the first edition of 100 numbered copies, 83 were pulped and burned by Her Majesty's Customs in 1924."
https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Stains.html?id=b4N...
Re: Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (2016)
#10For anyone insterested in reading Crowley, I was told Liber four is the most straightforward writing of his. His collection of poems "White Stains" is just amazing as well - mostly speaking about human secretions of all kinds and ingesting them. Edit:"White Stains, a collection of Crowley's poetry praised by W.B. Yeats, published in paperback for the first time, has been called 'the filthiest book of verse ever writt…
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