Have you heard him chanting in his *Enochian* language? It sounds
barbaric, lot of wax cylinder anno 1920 background crackle, on *The
Great Beast Speaks* CD, with poems of his own ("The Poet", "The Titanic"
- don't ask!) plus excerpts from the Gnostic Mass.
Oh, he fucked people's heads & such up royally, no doubt, but that 5%
magic effect was the drugs plus sex.
The Bête
Robin Hamilton wrote:
>>Crowley was on drugs all the time, anyone can do that.
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>I think the drugs and sex were the least of it, Martin -- it was the way he
>seemed to have a real talent for screwing-up the heads and lives of anyone
>who got close to him.
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>And "boring old fart" is the least of it. I once read through his
>Confessions from beginning to end. Praise the lord, if there were a Nobel
>Prize for boredom ...
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>On the other hand, I once visited the Crowley Museum, in the Isle of Man I
>think it was, and that was actually frighteningly something else.
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>Probably autosuggestion, mind you, as you hinted earlier about voudun and
>hexes.
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>Robin
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