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S2E1 – 'The Wickedest Man In The World'
In this special Halloween episode of The English Eccentric, we’re going into darkness…
Introducing Aleister Crowley, (1875 – 1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, mountaineer, and occasional haggis hunter.
After a university career spent writing wanky teenage poetry, in 1898 Crowley was inducted into London’s secret occult society The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where he was trained in ceremonial magic by S L MacGregor Mathers and Allan Bennett. (No, not that one.) Before leaving…due to some unpleasantness.
Undeterred, Crowley headed to Mexico where he quickly learnt to make himself invisible; and, after that, to Cairo, where he became the prophet of the Thelema religion – entrusted to him (whilst off his tits on Class-A drugs) by the entity Aiwass, the supernatural spokesman of the Ancient Egyptian deity Horus.
Crowley’s spirit-channelling provided him with The Book of the Law, Thelema’s sacred text – which famously pivots on the fundamental tenet: ‘Do What Thou Wilt’.
In 1920, Crowley established the Abbey of Thelema, a religious commune in Cefalù, Sicily, where he lived with various followers – before being thrown out of the country three years later by Benito Mussolini for his attempted sexual outrages with a goat.
By the mid-1930s, Crowley was a rather tragic figure. He had lost his looks, most of his teeth, and almost all of his money – and was reduced to shambling about cheap hotels and bedsitting rooms.
Crowley died of a respiratory infection in a Hastings boarding house in December 1947, at the age of 72. According to popular myth, his last words were: “I am perplexed”. Though this was later denied by the woman that was beside him in his final moments, who claimed he gasped: “Sometimes I hate myself”.
No Haggises were harmed in the making of this podcast.
Featuring Andrew Sharman playing his own grandfather ‘PC Alfred Richard John Sharman’.
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By E O HigginsIn this special Halloween episode of The English Eccentric, we’re going into darkness…
Introducing Aleister Crowley, (1875 – 1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, mountaineer, and occasional haggis hunter.
After a university career spent writing wanky teenage poetry, in 1898 Crowley was inducted into London’s secret occult society The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where he was trained in ceremonial magic by S L MacGregor Mathers and Allan Bennett. (No, not that one.) Before leaving…due to some unpleasantness.
Undeterred, Crowley headed to Mexico where he quickly learnt to make himself invisible; and, after that, to Cairo, where he became the prophet of the Thelema religion – entrusted to him (whilst off his tits on Class-A drugs) by the entity Aiwass, the supernatural spokesman of the Ancient Egyptian deity Horus.
Crowley’s spirit-channelling provided him with The Book of the Law, Thelema’s sacred text – which famously pivots on the fundamental tenet: ‘Do What Thou Wilt’.
In 1920, Crowley established the Abbey of Thelema, a religious commune in Cefalù, Sicily, where he lived with various followers – before being thrown out of the country three years later by Benito Mussolini for his attempted sexual outrages with a goat.
By the mid-1930s, Crowley was a rather tragic figure. He had lost his looks, most of his teeth, and almost all of his money – and was reduced to shambling about cheap hotels and bedsitting rooms.
Crowley died of a respiratory infection in a Hastings boarding house in December 1947, at the age of 72. According to popular myth, his last words were: “I am perplexed”. Though this was later denied by the woman that was beside him in his final moments, who claimed he gasped: “Sometimes I hate myself”.
No Haggises were harmed in the making of this podcast.
Featuring Andrew Sharman playing his own grandfather ‘PC Alfred Richard John Sharman’.
Subscribe. Follow. Rate. Patreon.
@eohiggins
@fogsbeefandbeer
www.englisheccentric.co.uk