>>40822811 (OP)
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>Why. What's so special about this washout?
He was a brilliant writer. His poetry is mostly cringe but his prose is beyond poetic. Unlike most writers who have one style or two, or one style they share with all their friends ("board culture"... there's no culture here, you're anons, there's just stylistic mimicry) this guy could write in like a dozen different linguistic registers. If you haven't read the technical libri, Magick without Tears and/or Book 4, plus his autohagiography or at least skimmed them you're likely taking some dead tabloid journalist's knee-jerk reaction as magical-historical canon.
He was a brilliant whistleblower. Remember lodge magick was a huge secret before he published the Equinox. Well, lodge magick was a huge secret until one of the brothers of the G∴D∴ left a flying roll in a London cab exposing this Egyptian afterlife club as the work of a literal embalmer... But Crowley made magick accessible to the plebs. This is why he's on the Beatles album and why you know about him at all by the way.
He was a brilliant troll. Really. The fact that you fuckers are so down on him shows how little you really read.
He was a brilliant scientist, marrying the method to mysticism in a way that actually works. Few magicians have been as thorough in keeping record of magickal experiments and the contents of visionary encounters. Few have been as emphatic regarding the importance of doing so. The Vision and the Voice is among the greatest such records in history, exceeding St. John, Ezekiel and the records of Dr. Dee in their beauty, profundity and symbolic depth.
He was in communion with secret chiefs, ancient gods, ancient gods in new guises, and alien wizards still out there, waiting, waiting for the next wave of adepts brave enough to really experiment with their own bodies and consciousness and test the limits of what's possible for the incarnated monad. Amalantrah must be lonely. When's the last time anybody's called him up?
