Crowley left behind a significant body of work including poetry, essays, and books that are still highly sought after and have been the subjects of academic studies. His first editions still sell for thousands of dollars in some cases. He was a world record-setting mountaineer and became a notable painter in midlife. He's also a pop culture legend despite having been part of my second great-grandparents' generation. But some RU-vid commenters think he's a "total loser"! OK.
@@Entelecheia he was a horrible person who grifted off everybody and was completely ego centric to the level of megalomania. He created his own mystical order so he could claim the highest degree of initiation in it. He died poor and lonely as a heroine Addict in a run down boarding house. Loser
@@annagarcia2493 People who make up nasty things about others without having a clue are not worth dealing with. I suggested reading a book that might educate some. If you don't want to read it. fine. If you want to libel me because of some problem you have, then kindly go find some accommodating hole to pleasure yourself. Leave me out of your perverse fantasies.
Crowley’s theory on “STARS” sounds a lot like Hinduisms, Adveita Vedanta (Non-Duality), except it’s only ONE Supreme Reality, BRAHMAN🕉️ who is projecting itself as Everyone and Everything, known as ATMAN🕉️.
That is basically how I understand the relationship between Thelema and Advaita as well. Each star is one supreme reality. but there is no star of stars to which they all belong. Or if there is, it serves no explanatory purpose. See the New Comment on AL I.3 and on I.52. Crowley incorporates the practice of samadhi without necessarily embracing the metaphysical conclusions of the types of monism that result from the universal application of the principle of sufficient reason.
@@Entelecheia in AV there is Only One, which is BRAHMAN🕉️ and everything exists within it or is a projection of BRAHMAN. Hence the term Non-Duality, only One. So that’s the difference between the two ideas. In the sense that we are all Aspects of or Reflections of that One Supreme being, then yes we are supreme beings, but we are not as individuals THE Supreme Being. If everyone was the supreme being it would diminish or negate the term supreme and we would all simply be beings. It’s like having a contest and declaring everyone the winner, well that negates what an actual winner of a contest is, and we all just become recipients of a meaningless title. I tend to agree w/ AV (not Neo-Advaita, but classic Advaita Vedanta - that there is only One Supreme Being and that is BRAHMAM🕉️ but that we are all reflections of that being, known as ATMAN🕉️.
Continuing to appreciate how you communicate these concepts and help me think about them differently, both on my own and as I dive into texts. Thank you!
I was in the oTo for a few years back in the day, until i moved away from it and started on the astrum argentum stuff. You do great work mate thanks for this - goes to show even old dogs like me can learn new tricks ;)
What an amazing presentation. Liked and subscribed. I have recently started reading Crowleys' Biography by Tobias Churton, so finding this video and your channel is an amazing sync for me. The Rick and Morty clip was genius. That is one of the best explanations of this "reality" I have seen. Thank you so much my friend.
Good video, thanks! What texts did you read that mention stars inhabiting people? It's a concept I've read before, but not specifically from him, I guess one of the Libers but it could be any.
@@Entelecheia Sorta. He is an abusive asshole on a personal scale but on a large scale seems to greatly improve the universe by rebellion against fascism
Found your channel through Reddit recently, and I can honestly say that your videos are some of the best Thelemic content on this platform. Great stuff!
I'm on board with this! Even the Devil 😈 Is God. We are all actors on a stage. A video game character. This is not real. We dont actually exist. All beliefs are bullshit. Nothing matters. I'm a supreme being, playing a character. Im gonna embrace my devil side. Im sick of playing the game safe. My devil side can help. Unconditional love. 😊
Looking at Crowley’s life overall, I don’t think he won at life, not in a way that I would want. Alone, addicted, and destitute before he dies. Not what I call a win
Crowley said a lot of truth, but he didn’t realize a lot of things about the evolution of consciousness and how they relate to “Heaven” (top-down creation - ruled by CLAIMS) and “Hell” (bottom-up creation - ruled by CONTESTS). Love Under Will is the same as saying “Might Makes Right,” ultimately, POWER was Crowley’s only law and his master. This is the philosophy of the “God of War, who sits at the top of Hell.
How do you handle the fact that some people have used this way of thinking to justify abusing children even saying, I deserve to hurt these children to feel free to experience the joy of enacting power against them?
I cannot imagine what was said in this video that could be used to justify sadism. Did you listen to the whole thing? I even explained why it is a realization such as this would not lead one to stop caring about the welfare of others and oneself.
A man who was shunned by society, devoid of friendships. He was hated by almost all who knew him closely. He was rejected by his peers. He left a trail of destruction behind him and died alone in abject poverty. This is the guy you're going to take advice from in " succeeding " in life? L O L..... 🎶 What a fool believes 🎶
@@davidgood7621 Not the ego or any part of the material world. But the divine spark which is in all things. You are an infinitely small slice of God experiencing time on earth as a human.
