96 years! I knew that he was Old, but almost a century...Wow. First encountered his unforgettable name in my early teens reading about Jimmy Page, the...

Yeah, 20 years for the forum as we know it today! Paul has done a great job curating it through MANY weird episodes. Always loved your contributions a...

Well if Mr. Staley is not available, then I'd recommend Peter Levenda. He wrote that fantastic book called 'The Dark Lord', & has appeared on vari...

...& still preserving the humor of the titular reference. Well done. Rock n Roll.

I agree with some of the above posters that I doubt Frank did more than a cursory reading of AC, with whatever was at hand at the time. I recall an in...

I was the "someone else", & no I wasn't aware of where the intro music came from. I assumed it was Holst or someone similar. Thanks for the detail...

Joined. I'm Canadian but of Danish family & lived in Copenhagen for 5 years not so long ago.

@christibrany Drop me a line when you do. It'll be interesting to read your reactions.

One more reason to learn Italian!

@shiva The son must have told the father about his rival in the same terms that he did within the Golden Dawn. We're not talking about just 'jealous...

I consider AC to be, at least, on the level of William Blake as a poet. They both share certain characteristics as men. AC went out of his way to shoc...

Even Yeat's father was out to make trouble for AC when he was in America. So any of these fantasies that Yeats was so far above him ethically is balde...

... speaking of 'virility'!

If AC's work would've been properly adopted we would be much better off as a species. So, going forward, remembering him with reverence is a good thin...

Same to you, Chris. There is that MID file, which Spence obtained, which notified the authorities that AC was a British agent in 1918. That, again, is...

You've not read 'Crowley In America' by Churton, Chris? Therein he dovetails with Spence, where appropriate, but also provides the entire context in p...

RTC is amusing. To say that he is RC of Led Zep fame is going down the wrong track. Having dipped into this site for a long time I can say that it wou...

Thanks for the plug kidneyhawk. I agree that Andrew has done great work. Superb.

@Barbara Green I was under the illusion that this was a forum dedicated to Aleister Crowley. Thus you'll receive a ribald jest from me. As you've b...

For a guy who pinions himself as the pillar of logic it's unfortunate that you never learned to read properly. Thus it's difficult to pinpoint where y...

There actually was sin/redemption, grace, in the Dyonisian cult. You're wrong there... Very quick to insult me again. Keep it up!

I never said that christianity= an orphic dyonisac. I said that it could in certain cases.

Well that settles it then! Thank the gods that we have such a scholar here to set us all straight.

"The tablet starts by reminding the soul of exactly what it must say - and here, we find no elaborate phrases concerning purity, lineage, or relations...

I actually put you behind Shiva. No one else can breath in here. Two ancient guys from USA run this forum, apparently. You're the self proclaimed exp...

It's curious to me that you bring up "trolling" Ignant as I thought that you'd be more clever than to bring up your modus operandi over this forum for...

@Barbara Green I've been reading you for awhile & I've concluded that you're a Dyonisos worshipper who has somehow become confused. That is lik...

I respectfully disagree Alan_OBrien on account of my own reaction to the introduction of this order within 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' which, everytim...

@Dom oh you fucking prick! ha ha

@Mayet Have you read 'Aleister Crowley In America' by Tobias Churton? If not, then you should. It could help you.

@sagus93 Your own Tarot deck is a mighty project & best of luck to you! I particularly enjoy your painting of Pan. It reminds me of something AC h...

Ok then there are two...the one that I'm remembering has the rest of his head shaved. He wasn't a man to prescribe something without doing it himself ...

There is one photo of AC with it. I did a quick search & came up with nothing, but it was for a newspaper or tabloid. I can't remember which at th...

Dom jerkin the chain on ye ole codgers yet again! ha ha.... 😜.... Well the Ale & the Christianity wasn't to AC's taste. Does that make him a 'soci...

His profession was definitely that of a civil engineer working on railroads, but his wealth came from his investment in his two brother's brewing &...

@Tiger What I got out of it was that he was ridiculing the entire concept of 'Chaos Magick' as put forth by PJC through bringing up, rather eloquently...

Jamie seems to be pointing out that PJC's work is a hodge podge of AC & AOS without a clear understanding of either... Could be so. No doubt tha...

If he did more then where are his paintings? Does he have any?... The honor here must go to Steffi Grant.

It may be too specialized- a subset of potential topics stemming from latter day saints, as it were. We could more easily, I suspect, go slightly back...

This 'Aleister Crowley- Black Magician?' thread is like the Pop version of my 'Lords Of The Left Hand Path' one. The difference there is that you may ...

Ok a Nod, a nominal Bow, & a Sweep of the hand. You make him look desperate, Shiva, & perhaps he was at times, but he was a principled man wit...

AC was too closely tied to the groups in France under the aegis of Eliphas Levi & PB Randolph to ever give Theosophy more than a nod. Her work is ...

@Shiva Thank you for the chapter. I found it to be an entertaining read. It reminded me of Richard Cole's work in it's format of Words & Illustr...

@Tiger pg.146-47 I sent for DARKO but have yet to receive the promised chapter. "...Was Crowley a Lord Of The Left-Hand Path? Crowley himself sends ...