The biography of the alister Crowley

Alister Crowley: a philosopher and a mystic or a “devil in the flesh”? The author of the photo, the signature for the photo, the young Alister Crowley about the place of work, the Russian BBC Russian service is updated on September 21, “I do not need your false approval and your false praises. To hell with Christianity, rationalism and Buddhism! I want blasphemy, murder, violence-I don’t give a damn about it; I want strength”.

So said Alister Crowley - one of the most mysterious, contradictory and scandalous figures in the British history of the twentieth century. His extensive and detailed biography has just been released in the British publishing house Watkins Publishers. I took possession of all the secrets of my consciousness and created for myself the moral most severe and the most cruel in the world.

After a thousand years, humanity will be in the power of Crowlian. "Crowley was born in a year, received a brilliant education, then an inheritance that allowed him to travel around the world, studying oriental religions, magic and occult practices. In the year, he founded a commune in Sicily, which was supposed to live according to the principles and rules that he believed, should distinguish Christianity from the face and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions and eliminate all restrictions Repressions assigned to a person.

Three years later, on the personal order of Mussolini, Crowley and his adherents were sent from Italy after the messages of local residents about the acts of sacrifice - not only animals, but also people - and completely incredible sexual debauchery led to an international scandal. The British press called Crowley "the most vicious person in the world." In the middle of x - twenty years after his death, the almost forgotten figure of the magician, mystic, the occultist, the philosopher, the overthrust of the traditional and the creator of new religions suddenly gained cult popularity.

Beatles put him along with their other heroes on the cover of the SGT album. Pepper; The Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page calls him the incomprehensible genius of the twentieth century and is so fond of Crowley’s ideas that he buys a house belonging to mysticism on the banks of the famous Loch Ness Lake in Scotland. The incomprehensible genius of the new book is revealed by a peculiar preface called "Legend".

In it, her author Tobayas Counton is trying to convince the reader that behind the quite widespread legend about the Alistaner Crowley, behind her sensational and scandalous content lies the figure of a truly subtle and deeply thinking person. In one of his poems, he says that he likes to travel in a brightly painted suit, but that who wants to know the truth should not look at the fair outfit, but in the eyes, ”few who wrote about Crowley, wanted to look into his eyes, or look at the world with his eyes.

He could not resist an eccentric. He was born extremely extraordinary, the feeling of irony and the feeling of alienation from the surrounding world was so great that he hid his real thoughts and motives that entertained him and, as it seemed to him, should have entertained others. What is behind her, the author believes. Crowley - not without pride - carried this name in life.

This is how Tobayas Counton explains this: "Crowley's father was a preacher in the Puritan sect" Plymouth Brothers ", so he knew the Bible from early childhood along and across. He knew that in the first chapters of the book of Jesickel, God manifests himself in the form of four animals, and the scripture also says that if you look closely at these beasts, then you will see that they are in the form Man, ”says Tobayas Counton.

He treated the concept of the beast with irony. But he also knew that the fanatics Christians, against whom his entire pathos was directed, would perceive his words literally. But this did not worry him at all - let them consider me a beast. The book of revelations explicitly says that the number of beast is the number of people. Crowley - for a person, for a real full -fledged person, and not a flimsy, sluggish, all in the world of a fighting so -called genuine Christian.

He believed that the traditional Christianity rising to the Middle Ages forced the rod from a person and made it weak and cowardly. He wanted to restore the ancient concept of man in all his genuine, full -blooded divinity, ”the researcher of Crowley’s life believes. Create that you want “doesn’t mean at all, do everything that you like to see. This means: find your will, deal with your desires, and behind these words there is a very serious philosophical thought.

According to Crowley, genuine will - the will of God, the will of the soul, you can call it the mystery of a person, and it needs to be found.And this is your divine purpose. This idea was incredibly consonant with individualism x. Crowley opened the path to the search for this true will for many and his experiments with psychedelic stimulants also quite corresponded to the spirit of that time.

He broke the barriers, violated the public law, which also made his figure mysterious and attractive. In addition, he was funny, his texts are witty and ridiculous. He investigated the oriental philosophical and religious ideas, which was certainly attractive and interesting for people such as George Harrison or John Lennon, Tobayas Counton writes. The return to magic, however, the significance of Alistair Crowley, according to Tobayas Chaton, goes far beyond his role as a surveyor of counter -culture and ideas of the 10ths.

Crowley, he believes, is one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century, which can be put on a par with Freud and Jung. He united the mystical concepts of the Western esoteric tradition with the philosophical and religious ideas and practices of the East, ”the author writes. The experimental spirituality that received it allows you to study it without a connection with a particular organized religion.

The purpose of its research was religious, and the method is scientific. Today, religion and science are opposed to each other. Crouli saw a danger that has been hazard In such a confrontation, it is the need to overcome the split between them. a person, but also a guarantee of his freedom and progressive development, Tobayas Counton believes. Another way? Here is such an evolution - from the fascination of hell, the devil in the flesh, the most vicious person on earth at the beginning of the century to the cult figure of the cultural undergrand and the object of serious scientific research today.

What further awaits Alistair Crowley? Unlike Byron and Shelley, he is still considered a figure in many ways unacceptable, the author of the new book believes. Humanity today rushes between extremist fundamentalism, which terrifies one, and with nihilism of materialistic consciousness, which terrifies others no less. In the zone of this confrontation, terrible spiritual, political and military conflicts of our time arise.

Crowley - among others - can tell us the way to another path, ”Tobayas Cherton believes. Read also.