Aleister Crowley
The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories
Danielle Mercy
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
• Did he secretly work as a spy for British intelligence during World War I?
• Did his teachings influence powerful figures like rocket scientist Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard?
• And why does his influence keep showing up in modern music and pop culture—from The Beatles to Led Zeppelin?
Some believe Crowley was simply a controversial mystic. Others believe he was connected to powerful elites, secret intelligence networks, and occult traditions that still influence culture today.
So… was he a fraud, a prophet, or something much darker?
Follow me down the rabbit hole about Aleister Crowley.
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| 0:00.0 | He was called the wickedest man in the world, an occultist, mystic, mountaineer, poet, and possibly even a spy. |
| 0:06.9 | But the deeper you go into his life, the stranger the connections become. |
| 0:10.5 | Follow me down the rabbit hole. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm your host, Danny, and today we are talking about Alster Crowley. |
| 0:36.8 | I've also heard it Crowley, but I don't know. I keep saying Crowley. I think it |
| 0:41.0 | either way. So that's how I'm going to say it. So don't come at me in the comments. Thank you, |
| 0:45.3 | Maddie, Logan, and Alex for requesting this episode. And of course, before we get started, |
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| 0:58.7 | with the economy. You want to go to rabbit hole dot gold right now. Edward Alexander Crowley was born |
| 1:06.0 | on October 12, 1875 in Warwickshire, England. His parents were incredibly religious, but his grandfather |
| 1:13.8 | owned a very successful brewery. In some sources, I found that his father lived off the money |
| 1:20.0 | from the brewery, while in other sources, I found that his father never spent any of the money from |
| 1:25.2 | the brewery because he believed that drunkenness was a sin and that |
| 1:28.4 | he just like traveled around as a preacher for the sect that they belonged to called the Plymouth |
| 1:33.2 | Brethren which taught that anything in excess was not good so like too much food too many clothes all that |
| 1:39.7 | was bad like indulgence was a sin so too much money would have been a sin so he didn't really spend any of the money. And that men only lived to serve God. That's what his family grew up |
| 1:49.9 | teaching him. The pair also had a daughter after their son. Unfortunately, she died as a baby in |
| 1:56.0 | 1880. When Crowley was eight, he was sent to an evangelical Christian boarding school in Hastings. |
| 2:03.3 | He was bullied a lot because he had such a strong belief and he spent most of his time only reading the Bible. |
| 2:10.7 | So a lot of the kids kind of made fun of him for that. |
| 2:13.9 | In 1887, when Crowley was 11, his father died of tongue cancer. |
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