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11 points

Great article. It’s always fun to read about smart people lionizing a terrible person like Aleister Crowley and inevitably going insane (or dead, in Jack Parson’s case).

The article never discussed the topic directly, but for others interested in esoterica would probably enjoy reading about the concept of egregores.

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7 points

terrible person like Aleister Crowley

Wait, why is Crowley terrible? Wasn’t he basically an overly enthusiastic cosplayer that did all the drugs and all the sex? So basically an occult hippy? Am I just unaware of him abusing people or some other dark shit?

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12 points

he was an abusive gobshite, including physically abusive.

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7 points

Claim to fame! Aleister Crowley was born a short walk from the house where I grew up, although then he was plain old Edward Crowley. My home town isn’t that keen to be associated with him, largely because of the above - at a superficial level he was a harmless crank, a rich kid who decided to start his own religion and dress up in robes, but once you dig down into the history he was a pretty unpleasant, exploitative man - a classic cult leader.

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10 points

I mean, I really don’t think you can have a sex cult without at the very least some abuse. It’s also good practice to treat occultism as weirdo fascism.

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8 points

It’s also good practice to treat occultism as weirdo fascism.

the coincidence happening over and over is a tad unfortunate

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6 points

I read his Wikipedia recently and he just seemed like a user who was careless with the people in his life. His philosophy was “do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law”, which is obviously open to abuse and exploitation.

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Ye that’s why I’m asking, cause even RationalWiki doesn’t have a chapter on abuse or anything.

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