BONUS 18: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World

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Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Aleister Crowley was many things: an author, an artist, a poet, a mystic, a student, a mountaineer, a world traveler, and a notorious occultist. He shocked Victorian and post-Victorian England and the Western World at-large with his "Satanic" ways. He was permanently banned from both Italy and France before his death. He believed in magic, real magic, and tried to conjure mythical spirits into our world. He performed bizarre "sex magick" rituals that shocked polite society. He developed the spiritual philosophy of Thelema, built on his guiding principle of "Do What Thou Wilt". Who was this dark, strange man and how was he able to leave the mark he did on Western Culture? All is revealed! The Great Beast exposed today, on Timesuck. Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard"? Go here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	When Celia comes to his earthquake hour, the bed vibrates like kettle drums.
0:04.9	It is a grand display of power when Celia comes.
0:08.8	When Celia farts, my hasty nose niffs up the fragrance from her pots.
0:13.6	Shamed out of the violets and rows when Celia farts.
0:18.3	Hey guys, that's a little ditty I put together this week. I hope you like it. I hope you love it.
0:21.8	I worked real hard on it. No, this is one of 20th century occultist,
0:27.1	Alistair Crowley's poems. Titled as you might guess when Celia farts.
0:32.4	Not exactly the kind of poem I heard grown up in English lit class would have been a huge crowd
0:36.6	pleaser in 8th grade, whom I could have been a crowd pleaser between 6th and grade and
0:41.6	sophomore year of college. Maybe not wildly scandalous today, but Alistair was writing poems like
0:46.1	that at the dawn of the 20th century when he had to pen them under a pseudonym and publish them via
0:50.9	foreign presses to avoid being arrested in Victorian era written on obscenity charges.
0:56.5	Alistair Crowley was an infamous satanist in the sense that he worshiped evil and wanted
1:00.7	among other things to bring the devil himself into this world. Now many modern satanists will
1:05.0	dispute this label. They said he was no satanist at all. They tend to base this thought on Anton Leve
1:10.5	founding the Church of Satan roughly 20 years after Crowley's passing, but that's just semantics.
1:16.0	You get to redefine the term satanist and then assert that your new meaning is now the only
1:21.3	acceptable definition of said term. Crowley was a satanist in the sense that he wanted to bring
1:26.4	down Christianity. He opposed it strongly. He also didn't believe in it. He had an interesting
1:31.9	set of beliefs. He didn't believe, but at the same time did believe in malevolent spirits and
1:38.4	sentient beings living in other dimensions beings that he knew Christians would refer to as demons,
1:43.1	one demon being the equivalent of the devil, being bellows above. And he wanted and actually
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