Was he based?

>>24536265 (OP)

No, not at all. His biography is very interesting but he's not someone you would ever have wanted to know in private life. He's a real piece of work. It all started going bad when his dad died. Once he inherited his fortune he became the total master of it, at a young age, and used it/pissed it away on his nonsense. But at least he provides an amusing historical case.

Leaving the mountaineers up there was an extreme dick move, he was persona non grata with the mountaineers after that. Then he kludges together a bunch of other bullshit for thelema, taking from other historical bullshit traditions. For example, the book of the law, the one you're not supposed to talk about, has phrases straight out of (IIRC) Revelation. He would have known these, as he did intensive bible study as a boy. The poem Hymn to Pan is a nice crude piece of verse, and in principle there's always something nice about pushing back against major religions, but he went about it in the worst possible way.

>>24536265 (OP)
Read his poem Leah Sublime
https://allpoetry.com/Leah-Sublime

>>24536290
What the fuck do you think based means? Please answer with your honest definition.

>>24536265 (OP)
I suffered arthritis for years, until I liquidated the man responsible. I would be nowhere without him

>>24536290
If you reject a writer because of his personal shortcomings, you'll end up rejecting them all.
>>24536265 (OP)
If nothing else, he was a superb writer and poet. His gift for the elucidation of mystical subjects was remarkable, but he had interesting things to say on any number of topics.
You can take or leave the religion he founded, but it's an interesting intellectual-philosophical construct, admirable in its own way.

>>24536265 (OP)
I guess,.he killed God or whatever or was that neechee.

>>24536293
Or you could read Orpheus, rather than the smut he wrote to amuse his friends.

>>24536265 (OP)
So what does his pose in this photo mean?

>The clever man, so-called, the man of talent, shuts out his genius by setting up his conscious will as a positive entity.
>The true man of genius deliberately subordinates himself, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as it will
>All our little great men, our one-poem poets, our one-picture painters, have merely failed to perfect themselves as instruments.
> The Genius who wrote The Ancient Mariner is no less sublime than he who wrote The Tempest; but Coleridge had some incapacity to catch and express the thoughts of his Genius-was ever such wooden stuff as his conscious work?

Mogged by Yeats both poetically and physically but had some insight.

i read some of his short stories, very edgar allan poe

>>24536290
What did he do to the mountaineers