ShortHand: Aleister Crowley - The Beast 666

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

With great esoteric power, comes great esoteric responsibility.

Aleister Crowley was considered many things, a poet, an artist, a master of the dark arts, and a prophet of Thelma. But who was the man behind the mask? And how did he go from being a leading figure and social commentator to dying in relative obscurity?

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:13.7	Hello.
0:15.8	Thunder clap.
0:17.8	Do you want to see one of those buttons on the soundboard?
0:21.5	Yes, I do.
0:22.2	Yes, I do.
0:22.4	Dutt-da-da-da-da-tut-tut-d-tit-d-d-d-d-d-d.
0:26.5	I can't hear it.
0:27.6	Oh, I didn't turn it on.
0:28.5	Sorry.
0:31.5	Duh.
0:36.7	No.
0:37.4	I'm going to try one more time
0:38.2	I mean I imagine that's people
0:43.3	people's response when they hear that this episode is about
0:46.4	Alice out there
0:47.3	Here on shorthand we usually start at the beginning
0:51.5	but not tonight Josephine
0:53.7	In keeping with today's theme we are starting at the beginning, but not tonight, Josephine.
0:57.3	In keeping with today's theme, we are starting at the end.
1:02.6	And also, today's topic is a religious one, no matter what anyone says, you can come and find me.
1:08.1	Welcome to Hannah McGuire's Helen Hot Takes, as above, so below edition.
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