MIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTER Crowley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (since it is Halloween)

[Khephra]

Poll question: MIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTER Crowley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (since it is Halloween)

[proud patriot]

1. A little of all of them n/t

[Coventina]

4. Agreed

There is an excellent book on him by Colin Wilson called, "The Nature of the Beast."
I highly recommend it for anyone interested.

[Zomby Woof]

2. lol

I thought this was an Ozzy poll!!! :D But yours is good too. ;-)

[bicentennial_baby]

3. All of the above

fer sure. :evilgrin:

[Khephra]

7. I forgot to include

Ipsissimus...or however that's spelled...I mean, that's not a word on the tip of everyone's lips. ;-)

[matcom]

5. GREAT Ozzy Song!

:D

[flamingyouth]

18. One of MY faves!

In fact, that whole album really kicks ass. I was just listening to it yesterday.

[arcane1]

6. I'll go with all of the above

Crowley isn't easy to pidgeon-hole, is he?

[Droopy]

8. What is a misogynist?

I can't find it in my dictionary. I see that word on here all the time and I've yet to figure it out.

[Pert_UK]

20. You're majoring in English and don't know???

Someone who hates women.....errr.....I think.

But it's probably spellt rong.

P.

[Droopy]

21. Thanks Pert

I've got a dictionary that's a foot thick and that word isn't in there. I thought it had something to do with women but I didn't know what.

[Khephra]

22. Probably...

I'm tying in the dark without a screen I can see that closely. My mistake. Sorry!

[jokerman93]

9. 93/93

Crowley's spiritually has had a profound influence on my own.

Boo!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. I go with #'s 1, 2, 7, 8 and 10...

And would add that Crowley was, in a sense, the truest successor to Friedrich Nietzsche...most of Crowley's magickal techniques are tools for self-actualisation through application of focussed will...sort of a form of psychological self-control, I suppose.

[Khephra]

11. You want to know what made me a Liberal?

This is going to scare people...but here goes. It's all in public domain now.

LIBER OZ

There is no god but man.

1. Man has the right to live by his own law--

to live in the way that he wills to do:

to work as he will:

to play as he will:

to rest as he will:

to die when and how he will.

2. Man has the right to eat what he will:

to drink what he will:

to dwell where he will:

to move as he will on the face of the earth.

3. Man has the right to think what he will:

to speak what he will:

to write what he will:

to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:

to dress as he will.

4. Man has the right to love as he will:--
"take your fill and will of love as ye will,
when, where, and with whom ye will." --AL. I. 51

5. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.
"the slaves shall serve." --AL. II. 58
"Love is the law, love under will." --AL. I. 57

(I'm sure our Freeper viewers are now going, "SEE, I told you all they're Satanists!!! ;-) )

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. I have LIBER OZ framed...

and hanging on my wall. Heh.

[jokerman93]

15. Me too!

Right in my living room!

And Liber OZ pretty much constitutes my political position.

[Khephra]

16. Man, I thought I was alone here

Liber OZ can lead to some people being RW pricks...but if you know the context...well, I guess I'm speaking to the choir.

[Coventina]

13. But, but, but, surely the morans realize

that the Golden Dawn wasn't "Satanist"?!?!

[Khephra]

14. Yeah, they were all MASONS!

GASP!

Even back then in Europe you had to believe in a Supreme God to be a Mason.

(Ooooopppppp....I better hide my apron again.)

[flamingyouth]

19. Doesn't scare me

I abide by all of them.

Thanks, Kef! :hi:

[Khephra]

17. btw, you hear about Ellis's new ongoing?

He's going to do to the hard-boiled/spy genre what he did to superheroes

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Cool...

I also heard WB is going to turn "Global Frequency" into a series...pilot is in the works, next season if all goes well.

[Swede]

24. Great song by Ozzy too!

Mr. Crowley
Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head
Mr. Crowley, did you talk with the dead
Your life style to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magic
You waited on Satan's call
Mr. Charming, did you think you were pure
Mr. Alarming, in nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred manifest on this Earth
Conceived in the eye of a secret
And they scattered the afterbirth

(solo)

Mr. Crowley, won't you ride my white horse
Mr. Crowley, it's symbolic of course
Approaching a time that is classic
I hear maidens call
Approaching a time that is drastic
Standing with their backs to the wall

Was it polemically sent
l wanna know what you meant
I wanna know
I wanna know what you meant

[solinvictus]

25. Uncle Al

Crowley, in my view, was a genius, a libertine, and a flawed human being. His exploration of magick and spirituality is worthy of consideration, but ultimately, his erratic nature and his own hubris made his life a ruin.

[Aidoneus]

26. primarily genius

Also quite a bit misunderstood, a drug fiend, publicity hound, a teacher, a misogynist, and a lot of other things. Damn fine mountaineer (going by his accounts, anyway), and a most entertaining writer. As an obscure sidenote, it is a shame his friend Eckenstein never had a bio made to complement Crowley's, for it is often interesting to know of the inspirations for an extraordinary person as much as it is to know of that person themselves.