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Aleister Crowley

2006-11-22T01:53:50Z

66.67.122.107: /* Necronomicon */

[[Image:Crowleyshrine.jpg|thumb|295px|Freeze frame of the picture of Aleister Crowley that hangs on Bree's wall.]]

===Introduction===
'''Aleister Crowley''' (1875-1947) (last name rhymes with "holy") was a figure in late 19th and early 20th century occultism. [[Bree]] has a picture of him on the wall of her bedroom (above her bookcase, to the left of her door), leading many to assume that [[Bree's religion|her religion]] is affiliated in some way with [[Thelema]].

Crowley grew up in a strict [[Plymouth Brethren]] family where his mother often referred to him as the "Beast of Revelation". This may have been the catalyst for him to pursue alternative spirituality.

Crowley and [[Arthur Edward Waite]] (1857-1942) were rivals in the early days of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], and after leaving to found rival organizations (Crowley first the '''Argenteum Astrum''' and then a faction of the [[Ordo Templi Orientis]] and Waite the [[Fellowship of the Rosy Cross]]), the men mocked each other in published works.

Crowley's life largely consisted of exploring the far reaches of the once great British Empire, studying various forms of Vajrayana Buddhism, theosophy, occultism, ceremonial magick, and ancient ritual. He incorporated these into his own comprehensive methodology called Magick in an extensive body of literature consisting of poetry, prose, essays, and syncretized occultism.

Dubbed the "Wickedest Man in the World" by the British yellow press, Crowley is perhaps best known for his seemingly contradictory but esoterically linked instructions, "Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, Love under Will". He is also associated with the number '''93''', used by devotees as a shorthand for these sayings. These statements are pulled from Crowley's masterwork around which his entire life and body of literature attempted to extrapolate, The Book of the Law or Liber Al vel Legis.

In 1920 he and [http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/article/4687 a small group of followers moved to Cefalu, in Sicily], where they established what would now be called a [[commune]] and devoted their time to sex, magic, and drugs. In one video [[Bree]] mentions living on a commune in New Zealand.

Alister Crowley has had an [http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Aleister_Crowley influence on Rock and Roll music] although none of this music is used in the music of [[Lonelygirl15]].

In the video [[Aleister Crowley (Video)|Aleister Crowley]], [[Daniel]] reads a story from an unspecified Arizona newspaper that associates Crowley with [[1943 abduction|an abduction in 1943]].

Crowley's birthday is October 12, which was the date of the [[Bree's ritual|fake ceremony]] that [[Lucy]] used to trick [[Daniel]]. The occasion is casually celebrated by modern Thelemites under the title of Crowleymas, typically with curry, orgia, and wine.

===The Book of the Law===
In "[[The Book of the Law]]" Crowley give a receipt for the [[Cakes of Light]] and one of the ingedients is the blood of a child.

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"
"Love is the law, love under will"

===The Book of the Dead===
Crowley translated the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_dead Book of the Dead]. The book was written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language Egyptian]. Books of the Dead constituted a collection of spells, charms, passwords, numbers and magical formulae for the use of the deceased in the afterlife.

===Necronomicon===
The [[Necronomicon]] is a dangerous book involving ways to open gates of hell. Many of the ways need virgins. [[Cthulhu]] is the Keeper for one of the gates of hell. By its mythology, the Necronomicon (meaning The Book of Dead Names) was written by Abdul Alhazrad over 1,000 years ago, after he witnessed a mysterious group of priests summoning demons in the Arabian desert. The mythology of the Necronomicon was popularized by [[Lovecraft |H.P. Lovecraft]] in the early 20th century in a seriees of short stories taking place in Massachusetts and related to the fictional Miskatonic University.

[http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/glyng/necronomicon.html More details on necronomicon].

===People Crowley knew===
Among the influential contemporary religious leader that Crowley knew are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Regardie Israel Regardie]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons Jack Parsons], [[Anton LaVey]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubb L. Ron Hubbard]

===Speculation on a [[Moonchild]]===
Based on the Crowley book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonchild Moonchild] some people have speculated that Bree may have been impregnated at [http://lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php/Bree%27s_ritual the ceremony].

===Aleister Crowley and Baphomet===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathomet According to Wikipedia]: 'The [[Baphomet]] of Lévi was to become an important figure within the cosmology of [[Thelema]], the mystical system established by Aleister Crowley in the early 20th century.'

===Geneology===
[http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-w-bush-barbara-bush-and.html Evidence points to the possibility] that Aleister Crowley was the true father of Barbara Bush, the former First Lady and mother to George W. Bush who was a member of a secret organization called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_bones Skull and Bones] at Yale University.

==Outside links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley Aleister Crowley] (Wikipedia Article)
*[http://www.oto-usa.org/crowley.html OTO page on Aleister Crowley. OTO is initiatory society continuing his work.]
*[http://sourceryforge.org/index.php/Aleister_Crowley Aleister Crowley] Article at Sourceryforge,the Esoteric-Occult Wiki
*[http://www.illuminati-news.com/aleister_crowley1.htm Aleister Crowley The Greatest Magician of the 20th Century?]
*[http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_001/unclealsirians.htm Aleister Crowley and the "Sirians"]
*[http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/white.htm Aleisster Crowley and 1943]
*[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/crowley.htm Crowley]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_del_Campo Gerald del Campo “On the Use of Blood in Ritual” 1986]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner Gerald Gardner]
*[http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/introduction/aleister_crowley.asp Fact Sheet on Aleister Crowley]
*[http://www.controverscial.com/Aleister%20Crowley.htm Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)]
*[http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/aleister-crowley/ Aleister Crowley]
*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2669/Crowley.html Aleister Crowley Satanic Verses {1875-1947}]
*[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/confess/chapter29.html The Confessions of Aleister Crowley]
*[http://www.cix.co.uk/~mandrake/crowley.htm Crowley Fact Sheet]

Aleister Crowley

2006-11-22T01:49:31Z

66.67.122.107: /* The Book of the Dead */

[[Image:Crowleyshrine.jpg|thumb|295px|Freeze frame of the picture of Aleister Crowley that hangs on Bree's wall.]]

===Introduction===
'''Aleister Crowley''' (1875-1947) (last name rhymes with "holy") was a figure in late 19th and early 20th century occultism. [[Bree]] has a picture of him on the wall of her bedroom (above her bookcase, to the left of her door), leading many to assume that [[Bree's religion|her religion]] is affiliated in some way with [[Thelema]].

Crowley grew up in a strict [[Plymouth Brethren]] family where his mother often referred to him as the "Beast of Revelation". This may have been the catalyst for him to pursue alternative spirituality.

Crowley and [[Arthur Edward Waite]] (1857-1942) were rivals in the early days of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], and after leaving to found rival organizations (Crowley first the '''Argenteum Astrum''' and then a faction of the [[Ordo Templi Orientis]] and Waite the [[Fellowship of the Rosy Cross]]), the men mocked each other in published works.

Crowley's life largely consisted of exploring the far reaches of the once great British Empire, studying various forms of Vajrayana Buddhism, theosophy, occultism, ceremonial magick, and ancient ritual. He incorporated these into his own comprehensive methodology called Magick in an extensive body of literature consisting of poetry, prose, essays, and syncretized occultism.

Dubbed the "Wickedest Man in the World" by the British yellow press, Crowley is perhaps best known for his seemingly contradictory but esoterically linked instructions, "Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, Love under Will". He is also associated with the number '''93''', used by devotees as a shorthand for these sayings. These statements are pulled from Crowley's masterwork around which his entire life and body of literature attempted to extrapolate, The Book of the Law or Liber Al vel Legis.

In 1920 he and [http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/article/4687 a small group of followers moved to Cefalu, in Sicily], where they established what would now be called a [[commune]] and devoted their time to sex, magic, and drugs. In one video [[Bree]] mentions living on a commune in New Zealand.

Alister Crowley has had an [http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Aleister_Crowley influence on Rock and Roll music] although none of this music is used in the music of [[Lonelygirl15]].

In the video [[Aleister Crowley (Video)|Aleister Crowley]], [[Daniel]] reads a story from an unspecified Arizona newspaper that associates Crowley with [[1943 abduction|an abduction in 1943]].

Crowley's birthday is October 12, which was the date of the [[Bree's ritual|fake ceremony]] that [[Lucy]] used to trick [[Daniel]]. The occasion is casually celebrated by modern Thelemites under the title of Crowleymas, typically with curry, orgia, and wine.

===The Book of the Law===
In "[[The Book of the Law]]" Crowley give a receipt for the [[Cakes of Light]] and one of the ingedients is the blood of a child.

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"
"Love is the law, love under will"

===The Book of the Dead===
Crowley translated the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_dead Book of the Dead]. The book was written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language Egyptian]. Books of the Dead constituted a collection of spells, charms, passwords, numbers and magical formulae for the use of the deceased in the afterlife.

===Necronomicon===
The [[Necronomicon]] is a dangerous book involving ways to open gates of hell. Many of the ways need virgins. [[Cthulhu]] is the Keeper for one of the gates of hell.

[http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/glyng/necronomicon.html More details on necronomicon].

===People Crowley knew===
Among the influential contemporary religious leader that Crowley knew are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Regardie Israel Regardie]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons Jack Parsons], [[Anton LaVey]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubb L. Ron Hubbard]

===Speculation on a [[Moonchild]]===
Based on the Crowley book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonchild Moonchild] some people have speculated that Bree may have been impregnated at [http://lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php/Bree%27s_ritual the ceremony].

===Aleister Crowley and Baphomet===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathomet According to Wikipedia]: 'The [[Baphomet]] of Lévi was to become an important figure within the cosmology of [[Thelema]], the mystical system established by Aleister Crowley in the early 20th century.'

===Geneology===
[http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-w-bush-barbara-bush-and.html Evidence points to the possibility] that Aleister Crowley was the true father of Barbara Bush, the former First Lady and mother to George W. Bush who was a member of a secret organization called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_bones Skull and Bones] at Yale University.

==Outside links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley Aleister Crowley] (Wikipedia Article)
*[http://www.oto-usa.org/crowley.html OTO page on Aleister Crowley. OTO is initiatory society continuing his work.]
*[http://sourceryforge.org/index.php/Aleister_Crowley Aleister Crowley] Article at Sourceryforge,the Esoteric-Occult Wiki
*[http://www.illuminati-news.com/aleister_crowley1.htm Aleister Crowley The Greatest Magician of the 20th Century?]
*[http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_001/unclealsirians.htm Aleister Crowley and the "Sirians"]
*[http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/white.htm Aleisster Crowley and 1943]
*[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/crowley.htm Crowley]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_del_Campo Gerald del Campo “On the Use of Blood in Ritual” 1986]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner Gerald Gardner]
*[http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/introduction/aleister_crowley.asp Fact Sheet on Aleister Crowley]
*[http://www.controverscial.com/Aleister%20Crowley.htm Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)]
*[http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/aleister-crowley/ Aleister Crowley]
*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2669/Crowley.html Aleister Crowley Satanic Verses {1875-1947}]
*[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/confess/chapter29.html The Confessions of Aleister Crowley]
*[http://www.cix.co.uk/~mandrake/crowley.htm Crowley Fact Sheet]