Gary Lachman on Aleister Crowley Part 1 

i really enjoyed this talk, thank you gary

Is this not the man who declared the best sacrifice was that of a young intelligent boy? If i recall this was in his book "Magik in Theory and Practice". Yes indeed he did, and I quote: "For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim." wrote Crowley on the subject of the killing of a sacrificial victim in order to facilitate magik. He went on to expound: "Those magicians who object to the use of blood have endeavored to replace it with incense. ... But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best." For anyone to even consider this let alone advocate & publish it just shows what a twisted piece of crap they were and any further elucidation on this man is frivolous. He's proven to be a nasty piece of work who is most likely burning in hell as we speak and the only people to defend him (to the point of even denying he wrote what I just quoted above, even though he did write it very clearly in his book) are fellow satanists who themslves are comitted to covering the tracks of their murderous pedophile compadres. God help us that these kind of people roam this earth but they do and are responsible for the hundreds of thousands kids that go missing in the United States each year according to retired FBI chief Ted Gunderson. :\

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you!

I only live 12 miles from his Birth place in Leamington Spa Warwickshire. England. Where I used to live it was about 7 miles from home.

Why am I only just hearing Gary Lachman wrote a book about Aleistair Crowley?! I've been a Blondie fan all my life, my mum worshipped you. I'm definitely buying it, very interesting stuff.

Amazing the number of people who are praising and extolling his philosophy in the comments

For those inspired to read the book, here's a link to amazon where, appropriately, at last count there were only 11 copies left. www.amazon.com/Aleister-Crowley-Magick-Wickedest-World/dp/0399161902/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522843580&sr=1-5&keywords=gary+lachman

I was here cos it said, the wickedest beats alive!

For those who say Crowley's desire to commit the unpardonable sin was "tongue in cheek", I think it had more to do with that particular organ reaching some other part of the anatomy. He says it himself in his Confessions, the same place where he says for all to see that he "went over to Satan's side" after the death of his father. Those interested enough can read it for themselves. In pointing this out I am not saying that Crowley was a Satanist in the stereotypical sense - a la Anton Lavey - merely that remarks like these make things difficult for people who would like to avoid this particular association.

Spoiler alert! For all those Crowleyites without a sense of humor, my remarks about the Illuminati and Harpo Marx are jokes - ones that AC himself would have got. C'mon Thelemites, loosen up!

Crowley was a 1920s English Tiger King.

Thanks for uploading this excellent presentation, thoroughly enjoyed it. I scrolled through the comments after, hoping to find some interesting discussion. Whoops. Also, not once did I take notice of any "ums & ers" until I hit the comments section. Good thing the dim-witted fops pointed it out, otherwise I might've learned something from this...

Just bought your book on Hermes T, really enjoyed this lecture, thank you.

I have your book on Crowley. Hoping to read it after I'm done reading the biography by Tobias Churton.

He was a great poet, writer and philosopher. THE BOOK OF THE LAW WAS DIVINELY, MYSTICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY REVEALED TO HIM . Love is The Law, LOVE UNDER WILL. Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law!

Ummbelievable and errmazing

Happy to find someone who pronounced his last name correctly. Ozzy Osborne mis-pronounced it to the masses by screwing up his last name in the song Mr. Crowley and pronouncing it Crowl-lee, but it's actually Crow-lee. And there's written proof in a poem Aleister even rhymed his last name with unholy. literature.stackexchange.com/questions/12085/evidence-for-the-correct-pronunciation-of-crowley

Splendid research. Thank you for posting this.

Crowley just kept running from himself, right until the end. He was never comfortable in his own skin, his closet "friends" cocaine & heroin so a lot of people can relate to that side of him....a beast, a genius & like most genius's his mind was fucked in ways just to "balance" the genius side.

Crowley called Yates: "a sandemonian dishevel'd demonologist!" Wilde called Crowley: "Aleister Crowley the madman who thinks he's Aleister Crowley!"

magick without tears and little essays toward truth are great books

Anyone interested in an exchange between myself and another Crowley biographer should look at the conversation I had with Tobias Churton at the Reality Sandwich website: realitysandwich.com/230073/the-lore-and-lure-of-aleister-crowley-a-dialog/

If he says “uhh” or “umm” ONE more time

Was Jimmy Page there? He lives in Kensington!

Mental illness takes many forms. I had an uncle who told me more than once that when he died he would bust hell wide open. He considered his numerous "sinful" actions SOOOooo over the top that hell would spit open upon his entry. I responded each time he made this statement to me by answering: "Nope, your just another guy who thinks he's done something uniquely sinful and abominable. The fact is that your just another human who has decided to live their life in a typically anti-social way". Crowley is the same, his anti-social behavior separated him from the common good of humanity.

Plymouth Brethren still exist, I used to live next to one of their meeting houses. I find it interesting that Crowley's father had ale houses... pretty sure this group was against alcohol of any kind. But if I am mistaken, please correct me.

EVIL TRIUMPHS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING..

This just made me put on Left Behind - I've always wanted to see it, it looks horrible.

"Magick in Theory & Practice" is Book 4 (Part 3)

The God of Aleister Crowley and Thelema is the Aten. The God of Akhenaten.. Nuit=Nut Hadit=Heru Behutet=Heru Khuti Ra Hoor Khuit=Ra Heru Khuti=Aten The secret name of Ra is Heru Khuti Heru Khuti is Mars His name is Ra Heru Khuti Lord of the East

Didn't Book 4 instruct the reader to destroy the book once s/he had finished reading the book? That's one way to ensure continued sales, I guess...

So I read Gary's book revolutionaries of the soul and it's a really fantastic read, tho I was a little disappointed with the bit on Crowley. He claimed that a man died after drinking cat blood during a ritual when its quite common knowledge that the man drank dodgy spring water despite Crowleys prior warning. Also, if the man had've got ill after the ritual, he wasn't forced and surely had free will? There was another poorly researched part (I think regarding Crowley ill fated mountaineering incident) but apart from that I highly recommend the book. Top notch.

34:36 "That's kind of the end of the Golden Dawn", The Golden Dawn continued until the 1970's in the form of the Whare Ra Temple in New Zealand, see "Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn" by Pat Zalewski

theres a channel on here called Aleister Midnight and it comes and goes. one of the times it was on RU-vid I was reading comments on one of the scary videos that was on the channel and there were people talking about the person running the channel was a shadow person and others called him a demon and talked about how he would show up at their homes at night in their rooms. They would wake up and see a shadowy figure floating above them in bed and had red eyes and would disappear into their walls. 2 of the girls said they had to move from the home they had because they were terrified. One said she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth and something tapped her on the shoulder and when she turned around she saw him and backed up into the wall. From what I could gather whoever it is running the channel, he ask if anybody would like to be truely frightened. if you say yes he ask you one final time and if you say yes again then in 2 wks from then you had to go to a specific point on your property at exactly 3am and you would see him. what he didnt say was that after this you would continue seeing him except in tour home this time. One comment freaked even me out. a guy said that he would see the demon alot and that he would disguise himself as a crack on a wall above a doorway. he said he would notice that the crack would be in a diff position alot. He said he did some homework and found out that spirits (demons) would do this and wait for a person to walk through the doorway and the demon would drop down onto the person entering their the head and would tk over that person... he said he never walked directly under the crack. RU-vid is filled with idiots just trying to get people to think they're something they arent....but theres still a small percentage that are what they say they are and use the internet to find people. If anybody ever comes across this channel one of the times its up... if I were you I wouldnt say yes to being scared because you'll soon regret your decision...

Lachman Rock on

Uncle fester.

I just loved each book I've read on alister to bad he had passed on before I was born I'd have loved to have known him

Great lecture, can't understand everything cause my English isnt perfect but what i get it was amazing, thanks

Interesting stuff. What were those emblems that Mathers and Yeats would meditate on?

He says Crowley wasnt really evil, just self centred with no empathy, if this not what is evil?

Excellent waiting for Part 2 and your new book Dark Star Rising.Mixing Current events and Trump are your familiar with Current 218?It involves chaos magick and extreme heavy metal from Sweden mostly.Watain is the biggest band now involved with the movement,at one time there was a website but it was pulled down because “it had had it’s time and purpose “ according to the webmaster.

If you want to understand Crowley i suggest with attempting to decipher chapter 69 in The Book of Lies. Watching lectures like this will only confuse one further.

"Only kids like to do what's forbidden to them"??! What an utterly false statement.

There are tiny people, maybe 4 feet tall, that terrorize me and my family sometimes at night. They tap on the children's windows and rummage through loose items in my shed or left out on the lawn. We're pretty sure they are coming from a nearby abandoned mine. Had the house blessed but it didn't work. The sherriff's office says it's probably wild animals. I keep telling them the are clearly small pale humanoids devoid of hair with no facial features that I can decern. The sometimes I can catch a glimpse of glowing or reflective eyes.

The thing I like most about him is his mountain climbing. Lol. I'm not a mountain climber either I just find his mountaineering adventures interesting.

great info but damn man... i stopped counting at 100 “ums” and “uhs “ very distracting.( amd that was in the first 10 minutes!)

What about jack Parsons 🚀

Please help fund a much needed Colin Wilson documentary: www.indiegogo.com/projects/colin-wilson-his-life-and-times--2#/

Why so many dislikes? Genuinely curious.

Some years ago I purchased “Magick” by Crowley and in this book under blood sacrifices he talks about killing a sheep, goat etc...also young boys ..Not that this is much different from any religion...to include Christianity...Always a major slaughter and then some justification...I do speculate that he might not have been a nice man... You feed energy to your god...because it feeds off this...From what I can see this man is spot on with his research into the life of Crowley...

Got AE Waite spot on!

Im flipping through trying to find a video of where this man is actually interesting

A very dismissive presentation so far. For example he says “Crowley thought he could be a mountain climber” What!? He didn’t think it, he did it!

Uhh, uh, um, uh,uh, um..😂 oh so many ummms 👍

Barbara Bush's father?

Love him or hate him, he made an interesting life for himself. He had an influence on modern culture that is overlooked and understated. I find him fa-sin-ating.

Excellent talk! Very well done. Bravo sir.

Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man! My man! Come careering out of the night Of Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady! Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, On a milk-white ass, come over the sea To me, to me, Come with Apollo in bridal dress (Shepherdess and pythoness) Come with Artemis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God, In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, The dimpled dawn of the amber fount! Dip the purple of passionate prayer In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, The soul that startles in eyes of blue To watch thy wantonness weeping through The tangled grove, the gnarled bole Of the living tree that is spirit and soul And body and brain - come over the sea, (Io Pan! Io Pan!) Devil or god, to me, to me, My man! my man! Come with trumpets sounding shrill Over the hill! Come with drums low muttering From the spring! Come with flute and come with pipe! Am I not ripe? I, who wait and writhe and wrestle With air that hath no boughs to nestle My body, weary of empty clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp - Come, O come! I am numb With the lonely lust of devildom. Thrust the sword through the galling fetter, All-devourer, all-begetter; Give me the sign of the Open Eye, And the token erect of thorny thigh, And the word of madness and mystery, O Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan, I am a man: Do as thou wilt, as a great god can, O Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake In the grip of the snake. The eagle slashes with beak and claw; The gods withdraw: The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne To death on the horn Of the Unicorn. I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! I am thy mate, I am thy man, Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man, In the might of Pan. Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!

For a much better presented and put together interpretation of Crowley read The EYE in the triangle. People tend to go too far left or right on this subject. Eye in the triangle is a more fitting description of the life of Aliester Crowley. Not radical far left or right, but quite unbiased.

awesome. Where is part 2?

Awesome lecture!

wow....I was going to comment, but never mind.

Legend

Didn't Book 4 (Liber ABA) have the text of Magick in Theory and Practice as Part 3? Was the standalone book any different from Part 3 of Liber ABA?

The best insights one can ever get is ......to never ever read the comments section......misery loves company apparently.....namaste

I think the " unpardonable sin" is choosing knowingly the flesh and the material world. Embracing the animal nature and forsaking the spiritual. It's not an act ( sin) but an inward causal attitude ( iniquity).

I have read Mr. Lachmans books and his personal experience shows through the work. I feel Crowley is interesting only to those who are interested in him. Most people don't give two shits for the man or his works. Yet everyone seems to know him. Hmmm...

Very enlightening, informative presentation! It was very thought-provoking. 👍 Hmm... Is that why Oprah named her company Harpo? I immediately thought of Oprah when you mentioned Harpo. Here are some interesting tidbits about that: Ms. Winfrey’s production company, Harpo, is named after the Greek/Egyptian god Harpocrates. In occult literature Harpocrates arguably identifies with Baphomet or The Sabbatic Goat, also known as the Goat of Mendes. In Kenneth Grant’s Typhonian manifestation (or current) of the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis), Harpocrates, the God of Silence, is associated with the child god Horus and his violent homo-erotic counterpart Set. The feminine aspect of Set is Typhon. The Egyptian god Set-Typhon, according to “retired” US Army psychological warfare expert (see his From Psyop to Mind War: the Psychology of Victory paper available online), former Church of Satan member and Temple of Set founder Lt. Col Michael Aquino, is the closest correspondence to the Hebrew Satan. ce399esoterica.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/backmasking-oprahharpo/ One of Crowley’s chief instances was that his followers learn and put into practice the Occult Law of Reversal. In the many various and sundry classes he instructed in his home in the occult, he invariably instructed his multitude of excited students in this major law of Satan. Those who want fame, power, spell-casting abilities, demons at their beck and call, and to recognize the godhead within, as well as to know the past, present, and future, he extolled to his apt students, must consistently, with intensity, practice talking (reverse speech), walking, thinking, and playing phonograph records, backwards. This is a form of divination, and we are warned against this in the Holy Bible. Let’s look at some Modern Examples of Law of Reversal: Oprah‘s studios is Harpo! Below you will see the same New Age, New Spirituality of Self-Awareness echoes all the way back to the original lie of the Serpent. Genesis 3 “ye shall be as gods…” Oprah’s Production company “Harpo” is “Oprah” spelled backward. Thus showing a secret following for the teachings (the law of reversal) of another occultist Aleister Crowley. amos37.com/lor/

looking at how these followers end up suicidal depressed I don't think this design for living works very well in practice.

i was not looking for the unforgivable sin but the impossible mate.... -.- which means this mate must first be a con-artist and second says i do not love you..... then my challenge started .

That photo "proves without a doubt that he is a member of the illuminati"? Are you serious?

Uh uh uh uh.... Uh uh uh uh... That's all I heard him say

New sub! ❤️

Very powerful magiik man. He summoned all his otherworldl allies to allow him to die poor and drug addicted.

Total fiction like hundreds of public names. Real question is what group owns the character.

£40,000= OVER £5 MILLION today...

(P)ablo(E)scobar the magician

i love aliester crowley

You seem to think that Crowley was an impulsive Brat, I see no evidence for this from anything I have seen from Crowley's writings or the excellent biographies by Tobias Churton and Richard Kaczynski, he could be impulsive and we can all think of quotes to back that up, but Crowley was immensely complex and very disciplined when needed, like when walking across the Sahara desert, with Victor Neuberg or mountain climbing etc etc. Crowley was in fact one of the hardest working people of his age with a puritanical work ethic. I didn't really understand what you said about Crowley and meditation, you seemed to say that Crowley couldn't sit still or still his mind. Crowley in fact attained to profound states of consciousness in meditation, his 8 lectures on Yoga are a classic. Crowley was very self disciplined and a lot of what he was about was trying to master the mind. He did employ a mental exercise where he thought about a shape, and then tried to hold the thought for as long as possible, a perfectly reasonable exercise to develop concentration, but he also practised classical Yogic meditation. A lot of people who criticise Crowley don't seem to realise that Crowley actually had a wacky sense of humour and wasn't above taking the piss out of himself. In the Book of Thoth when Crowley describes the character of the Prince of Wands (who predominates in Leo and Leo was his rising sign) he is really describing himself. ''He is often violent, especially in the expression of an opinion, but he does not necessarily hold the opinion about which he is so emphatic. He states a vigorous proposition for the sake of stating it''. ''He may be an extravagant boaster, while slyly laughing both at the object of his boast and at himself for making it. He is romantic, especially in matters of history and tradition, to the point of folly, and may engineer “stunts” or play elaborate practical jokes. He might select some inoffensive nobody, and pursue him for years with every weapon of ridicule) as Swift tormented the unhappy Partridge, all without the least animus, ready to give the shirt off his back, should his victim be in need''. ''His sense of humour is omnivorous, and may make him a mysterious figure, dreaded without reason by people who actually know nothing about him but his name-as a symbol of Terror. This is due to the influence of the last decan of Cancer upon this card. One of his greatest faults is pride; meanness and pettiness of any kind he holds in infinite scorn. His courage is fanatically strong, and his endurance indefatigable. He is always fighting against odds, and always wins in the long-the very long-run. This is principally due to his enormous capacity for work, which he exercises for its own sake, “without lust of result”; perhaps his haughty contempt for the world at large-which however coexists with profound and ecstatic respect for “every man and every woman” as “a star”-is responsible for this'' - The Prince of Wands. Liber 78. I don't think Crowley was about doing forbidden things for the sake of doing forbidden things, like a kid . I think he wanted to conquer the Christian traits in himself and restrictions due to his upbringing and the the age he lived in. Actually Crowley in many ways had a strong conservative streak . Also he believed in pushing himself beyond the limits, whether physically or mentally or spiritually; this could be seen as ''doing the forbidden'' when he was trying to achieve self mastery. Of course he was a contradictory character to be sure. I think your presentation of Crowley's choice of the spiritual/occult life being based on a wish to gain fame and historical significance is the worst mischaracterisation of all. Crowley's spiritual quest was deeply sincere. Crowley was not responsible for the break up of The Golden Dawn, check your facts.

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He was well before his time.

the beatles seemed to think he was good ,well paul and john did anyway.

Did this guy just walk up 15 floors of stairs and walk into this presentation?

There are way too many uh's...I can't listen anymore.

Crowley a great man 👍tank you sir.

wooah! this is great!!! Are more conferences during this year in London?

camera stand.. a magnificent novelty..

Too many "uuuhh and umm's!"

evil never wins

Isn’t it ahhhh

Ah,ah......Ah..ah..aummah,ah......... Ah....ummmmm...ah..

No good magician dies rich.

To many um said

Not to nit pick but Lyon cafes were "Tea" houses, not Coffe houses🙂

the secret chiefs were not people... you could have studied it better before the apresentation! The Secret Chiefs were to the Golden Dawn as the Father was to Jesus or the Egyptian Gods to the Pharaos!

Had to laugh at the Illuminati eye part

333 thumbs up - 66 thumbs down; add the 3's & turn it upside down 666....FITTING!

1820 ah 38 ahum

What about the thought of Alastair Crowley English intelligence to break down American culture throughout the 60s

Demons have entered and left people that's how they fool you into believing in reincarnation.