What is your favorite book by Aleister Crowley?
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What is your favorite book by Aleister Crowley?
What is your favorite book by Aleister Crowley?
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Remember: instead of wasting your time reading Crowley, you could just read the Bible.
David Bowie lost his mind dabbling with this guy, and then wrote Word on a Wing and secretly joined AA meetings.
I think the shitloads of cocaine he was doing had more to do with his mental state
Two invisible unfalsifiable „just trust me bro“ claims fighting
The primary ambition of knowledge is to be both invisible and unfalsifiable, anon.
The confessions are pretty interesting.
Crowley might agree with you, although he hated modern Christianity. A lot of occult stuff in the bible.
There is no occult stuff in the bible. It is the Word of God. All of these clowns come from later traditions. Rabbinic israelites being the worst of the bunch, because they larp with an air of credibility being israelites - when, in fact, their kabbalist tradition comes from Gnosticism and is Gentile in origin and nothing to do with the bible. And the various hermeticists are just the same thing. Gnostics larping as something more ancient than they are.
>A lot of occult stuff in the bible
The truthfulness of this statement is proportional to the extent it makes me want to throttle you for typing it.
>A lot of occult stuff in the bible.
No. There is no "occult stuff" in the bible. Not only is the bible inherently exoteric. We have very, very little of the esoteric in the breadth of Christianity, of which is only found in Catholic and Orthodoxy.
>We have very, very little of the esoteric in the breadth of Christianity, of which is only found in Catholic and Orthodoxy.
You are confusing inspiration with mysteries, anon. The Bible is a public doctrine—the light which dispels mystery—but its power to do so rests in the discursive productivity of inspiration: through inexhaustible wisdom and feeling, inspired forms are eternally drawn from the fount which recapitulate its truths and draw, by increments, the children of men closer to the spiritual congregation of Israel. Nothing within it is "secret," meaning in need of obfuscation, but so much of His glory is unrevealed which waits to become revealed.
>You are confusing inspiration with mysteries
...No, you seem to have misunderstood what I said, but that's alright.
Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not anti-Christian or anything like that, but what's it like being an avatar of a belief? I've always wondered. There seems to be this little click in some people's heads where the light goes out and then is replaced by some need to just preach 24/7 about a perceived truth as if there is nothing going on in the world around them. It's almost awe-inspiring watching someone ignore the world around them, which is granted to them by God, in order to tell us how we need to know God.
Your post reflects a fairly conventional perspective: the doctrine of the Gospels is universal, and thus "secret" or "unrevealed" hermeneutical insights are heretical. You have that perspective as a skeptic, though?—unusual. Regardless, the book of nature needs elucidation through divine insights and discursive revelations. I don't think the bayesian Nietzscheans are worth taking seriously by comparison.
>Not only is the bible inherently exoteric. We have very, very little of the esoteric in the breadth of Christianity
>mfw I know this is a clear lie and limitation that foolishly denounces all Christian mysticism and esotericism
The Book of Thoth
I tried reading Magick in Theory and Practice when I was 15 but didn’t understand anything. Afterwards, I started reading Pessoa and thought it was funny learning that they had a correspondence with each other.
I started reading Crowley and Pessoa at around the same time in college
His last words
>What is your favorite book by Aleister Crowley?
Berashith, s.a.
Reminder that Crowley was a hardcore German Idealism reader
Diary of a Drug Fiend is a legitimately good novel if you're into his occult works or not.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/smhjlaepvrrl20c/Cocaine+[Aleister+Crowley].pdf/file
>What is your favorite book by Aleister Crowley?
Probably The Magician by Somerset Maugham
is he worth reading or is his work just schizo babble?
His Autobiography is often quite funny, and his Simon Iff short stores (and the novel Moonchild that also has Simon Iff) are really cool.
magic, as conceived by crowley and his associates, is just an alternative system of logic with its own rationality. nothing schizo about it.