Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn Years

12/08/19 • 61 min

When we left Crowley last he was in London clutching his silver crucifix, waxing lyrical poetry about his aenmic faith and yearning for something more. This week picks up with Crowley visiting a London bookstore and discover A.E. Wait's book of black magick pacts and Crowley's introduction to the concept of esotericism and the Great White Brotherhood...
Join us for yet another biographical deep-dive into Crowley as we discuss:
-How Aleister Crowley got introduced to The Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage.
-Aleister Crowley's initiation into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
-How Crowley found the Boleskine House
-Crowley's strange and scandelous relationship with Allen Bennett.
-His famous experimentation with the Goetia
-The fractured and explosive politics of the Second Order of the HOGD.
-Crowley's relationship with S.L. McGreggor Mathers
-The mysterious curses placed upon him by the rebels of the Golden Dawn.
-An short introduction to the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
-Some of the secret oaths that Crowley took in his early years as a wizard.
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The Early Life and Times of Aleister Crowley

Grab your tea and crumpets and prepare to be buggered by the BEAST himself because tonight we are talking the early life and times of Aleister Crowley in PART 1 of our epic auditory biopsy of the most influencal and prolific character in all of modern occultism.
On this episode we discuss:
-How Crowley's great great grandfather worked with Benjamin Franklin.
-How Crowley got all that f*cking money!
-Who are the Plymoth Bretheren anyway?
-Crowley's first mystical experience
-His record setting career in climbing
-How AC lost his virginity
-Where did he originally aquire the title of "The Beast 666?"
-We read some of his poetry
-Is Aleister Crowley Anakin Skywalker??
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Aleister Crowley the Mountaineer

Grab those crampons, some chicken, a bunch of sugar and all your important vellum bound first editions because we are going to assail the malaria ridden mountain years of Aleister Crowley as he learns mental focus and astral projection from the obscure, Yoda-like Eckenstein as they shatter one mountaineering record after another.
Join us on this frosty, wintry episode for a conversation about:
-Crowley's brief stint in New York City
-The burning lust of menopausal women
-The ritual method of invisibility that Crowley used
-Crowley's early experiences with the Enochian angels
-Preparing for the Abramelin ritual
-When AC gets married to Rose and leaves for Cairo
-The bad things that can happen in an Abramelin ritual
-Arguing about DMT, goetia and Aiwass.
(I don't know why I insisted on pronouncing Eckenstein's name so wrongly this episode, but I promise not to torture you or myself again next time.)
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