Today's The West Australian includes a genuinely informative article by Stephen Bevis, Welcome to his nightmare, about Robert Buratti's exhibition of Crowley works in Perth.
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Jimmy Page, Marilyn Manson, the Beatles, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, the Doors, Smashing Pumpkins, and even yacht-rock smoothie Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates, have all worshipped at the metaphorical altar of British occultist and artist Aleister Crowley.
Page famously took up residence in Crowley's former estate near Loch Ness and collects clothes, memorabilia and artworks associated with the notorious artist, poet and black magician, who was listed by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential Britons of all time and once labelled "the wickedest man in the world" at the height of his infamy in the 1920s.
The Led Zeppelin guitarist is among several prominent collectors interested in the first Australian exhibition of original Crowley artworks, which opens in Perth on the eve of the 65th anniversary of his death.
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LAShTAL
As I remember, Crowley wrote, "I may be a black magician - but I'm a hell of a good one!" If I remember correctly, then it's fair game for journalists to use.
Anybody remember where that precious line was written?
Anybody remember where that precious line was written?
That's an interesting synchronicity, Shiva, as I was searching for the quote only a couple of days ago.
I found it, eventually, in Skinner's edition of The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley in an entry written at 5:32pm on Sunday 10 June 1923:
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Nobody before Aleister Crowley had the means of tracing to their inmost recesses the secrets of the Magi & there had got to be a Royal Commission of Something to Mudd & others to pester the life out of me as how I do it, because I have got the secrets of Universal knowledge, wisdom & power & understanding & of the beauty & victory & splendour that proceed from Him that is coiled within its coils.
I may be a Black Magician but I'm a bloody great one. The world may have to pass through a period of error through me, but even the error will tend to the truth.
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LAShTAL
lol
And please note how my memory of what I read was Americanized:
[move:153n13ub]"Hell" instead of Bloody." ......... "Good" for Great.[/move:153n13ub][/align:153n13ub]
This just shows how we warp the particulars of anything to suit our "point of view."