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Aleister Crowley

2004-10-08T22:16:42Z

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'''Aleister Crowley''' (1876-1947)—however one judges him—was a facinating man who lived an amazing life. He is best known as being an infamous [[occult]]ist and the scribe of [[The Book of the Law]], which introduced [[Thelema]] to the world. Crowley was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn|Golden Dawn]], the [[A.'.A.'.]], and [[Ordo Templi Orientis]]. He was a prolific writer and poet, a world traveller, mountaineer, chess master, artist, yogi, social provocateur, and sexual libertine. The press loved to demonize him and dubbed Crowley “The wickedest man in the world.”

==A brief summary of major events==

'''Edward Alexander Crowley''' was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on October 12, 1875. His parents were members of the [[Plymouth Brethren]], an extremely devout Christian sect. It was in this Christain childhood that he came to refer to himself as [[The Beast]] [[666]]. He was also fortunate to be heir to a small brewing fortune, which he largely used for travel and publishing his works over his lifetime.

He entered Trinity College at Cambridge in 1895, and left just before finishing his degree. He was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898. The next year he purchased [[Boleskine|Boleskine House]] at Loch Ness in order to perform the ritual known as the [[Abramelin|Abra-Melin Operation]].

In 1900 Crowley travels to Mexico where he is initiated as a 33° [[Freemasonry|Mason]].

In 1902 he begins the practice of [[yoga]] in Caylon with [[Allen Bennett]], an associate from the Golden Dawn. He returns to Boleskine in 1903 and marries [[Edith Rose Kelly]], the sister of the painter, Sir Gerald Kelly. On their honeymoon, they visit Cairo, Egypt in 1904. It is here that he comes to write [[The Book of the Law]] on April 8, 9, and 10.

In 1907 Crowley founds the Order he calls the [[A.'.A.'.]] Two years later, he diverces Rose and travels to the Sahara Desert with poet [[Victor Neuberg]], where they perform a series of rituals that results in the book ''[[The Vision and the Voice]]''.

In 1913 Crowley is initiated into Ordo Templi Orientis by [[Theodor Reuss]]. The following year Crowley is advanced to the X° and becomes head of O.T.O. in Great Brittain and Ireland. That same year, while on a trip to Moscow, he writes the [[Liber XV|Gnostic Mass]].

With the beginning of WWI, Crowley retires to America in 1914, where he begins editing the publication ''The International''. He returns to Europe in 1919. The next year he founds the [[Abbey of Thelema]] in Cefalú, Sicily—an experimental commune based on the principles of Thelema, and inspired by the works of [[Rabelais]]—and were expelled from Italy by Mussolini in 1923. During his time at Cefalú, in 1922, Crowley proclaims himself Outer Head of the Order of O.T.O.

In 1929 Crowley takes his second wife, [[Maria de Miramar]]—a native of Nicaragua—although she eventually succomed to mental delusions and died in an institution three decades later.

By 1935, based on his lifelong self-publishing efforts, and a lost libel suit, Crowley had lost his personal fortune and settled into bankruptcy. For the next decade he kept himself afloat through publishing and occasional help from associates and students. His final years were characterized by poor health and heroin addiction alongside a continued zeal for promulgating Thelema. In 1945, he retired to ‘Netherwood’, a boarding house in Hastings, England. On December 1, 1947, at the age of 71 and with his son Ataturk by his bed, Aleister Crowley good-spiritedly and quietly celebrated his [[The Feast for Death|Greater Feast]]. His ashes were later buried next to a tree in Hampton, New Jersey on the property of [[Karl Germer]] (Crowley’s successor to OHO).

Crowley had five children in his life: Daughters Poupée (Feb. 1920 - April 1920), Astarte (b. 1920), Nuit (1904-1906), Lola Zaza (b.1906), and son Ataturk (b.1938).

==Occultism==

===Prophet of Thelema===
===Mystic & yogi===
===Golden Dawn, A:.A:. and O.T.O.===

==Artist==

===Author===
===Poet===
===Painter===

==Other aspects==

===Mountaineer===
===Chess player===

==A counter culture icon==
==Magical Mottos and other names used by Crowley==

*Frater Perdurabo ("I will last through") - [[Neophyte]] - 18 Nov 1898.
*Ol Sonuf Vaoresaji ("I reign over ye") - [[Adeptus Major]] - April 1904.
*Oy Mh (" ")- [[Adeptus Exemptus]] - 1909.
*Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth, I, while living, have conquered
the Universe") - [[Magister Templi]] - 3 Dec 1910
*[[To Mega Therion]] - [[Magus]] - Oct 12 1915

*Baphomet as the Xth Degree OTO OHO

*[[The Beast]] [[666]]

==Links of interest==

*[http://www.abrasax.net/timeline.htm A Crowley Timeline]
*[http://www.lashtal.com/nuke Contemporary media accounts and photographic portrats]

[[Category:The Gnostic Saints]]

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2004-10-07T07:45:24Z

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2004-10-07T07:44:46Z

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J.F.C. Fuller

2004-10-07T07:40:07Z

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'''J.F.C. Fuller''' (1876-1966), full name John Frederick Charles Fuller, was a British general, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armored warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. He was also the inventor of "artificial moonlight".

He was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England on September 1st 1878, and educated at Malvern College and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst from 1897 to 1898. He proceeded to become 2nd Lt at Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and to serve in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. He then attended Staff College at Camberley and served as an adjutant to a territorial battalion. During World War I, he was a staff officer with the Home Forces and in France and from 1916 worked in the Heavy Branch, which was later to become the Tank Corps. He planned the tank attack of Cambrai and the tank operations for the autumn offensives of 1918. His Plan 1919 for a fully mechanized army was not put into action. After 1918, he held various leading positions, notably as a commander of an experimental brigade at Aldershot.

http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/disciples/db_boney1.jpg

In the 1920s, he collaborated with his junior B.H. Liddell Hart in developing new ideas for the mechanization of armies.

Upon his retirement in 1933, impatient with what he considered the inability of democracy to adopt military reforms, he became involved with Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Fascist movement. His ideas on warfare continued to be influential in World War II, as much with the Germans, notably Heinz Guderian as with his own country.

In addition to his military accomplishments, Fuller was a vigorous, expressive and opinionated writer of military history and of controversial predictions of the future of war.

==Fuller & Aleister Crowley==

Fuller met [[Aleister Crowley]] after winning a contest that the latter had sponsored for someone to write a critical summary of the Crowley literary ''ouvre'' to that date. The result was Fuller's ''The Star in the West,'' a volume thick with praise for Crowley's mystical insight. Fuller became one of the first aspirants to formally associate with [[A.'.A.'.]], taking the motto ''Per Ardua'' with Crowley as his immediate superior in the Order.

As Crowley's public profile grew more scandalous, Fuller was increasingly uncomfortable with supporting him. In 1913, angry with Crowley's refusal to defend himself against slanders, Fuller fully withdrew from A.'.A.'. and severed his social ties with Crowley.

== Books by Fuller ==

Fuller was a very prolific writer. Only a small selection of his works is covered here.

* ''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/1410211436/qid%3D1086892594/sr%3D1-8 The Star in The West, A Critical Essay upon the Works of Aleister Crowley]''
* ''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/0766158047/qid%3D1086892724/sr%3D1-16 Yoga: A Study of the Mystical Philosophy of the Brahmins and Buddhists]''
*''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/1558183469/qid%3D1086892861/sr%3D1-22 The Black Arts]''
*''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/076613041X/qid%3D1086892724/sr%3D1-17 Atlantis: America and The Future]''
*''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/0911662634/qid%3D1086892594/sr%3D1-10 The Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah: A Study in Jewish Mystical Thought]''

== References ==

This article was partially adaped from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.F.C._Fuller Wikipedia], retrieved on June 10, 2004.

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J.F.C. Fuller

2004-10-07T07:37:31Z

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'''J.F.C. Fuller''' (1876-1966), full name John Frederick Charles Fuller, was a British general, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armored warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. He was also the inventor of "artificial moonlight".

He was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England on September 1st 1878, and educated at Malvern College and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst from 1897 to 1898. He proceeded to become 2nd Lt at Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and to serve in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. He then attended Staff College at Camberley and served as an adjutant to a territorial battalion. During World War I, he was a staff officer with the Home Forces and in France and from 1916 worked in the Heavy Branch, which was later to become the Tank Corps. He planned the tank attack of Cambrai and the tank operations for the autumn offensives of 1918. His Plan 1919 for a fully mechanized army was not put into action. After 1918, he held various leading positions, notably as a commander of an experimental brigade at Aldershot.

[http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/disciples/db_boney1.jpg]

In the 1920s, he collaborated with his junior B.H. Liddell Hart in developing new ideas for the mechanization of armies.

Upon his retirement in 1933, impatient with what he considered the inability of democracy to adopt military reforms, he became involved with Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Fascist movement. His ideas on warfare continued to be influential in World War II, as much with the Germans, notably Heinz Guderian as with his own country.

In addition to his military accomplishments, Fuller was a vigorous, expressive and opinionated writer of military history and of controversial predictions of the future of war.

==Fuller & Aleister Crowley==

Fuller met [[Aleister Crowley]] after winning a contest that the latter had sponsored for someone to write a critical summary of the Crowley literary ''ouvre'' to that date. The result was Fuller's ''The Star in the West,'' a volume thick with praise for Crowley's mystical insight. Fuller became one of the first aspirants to formally associate with [[A.'.A.'.]], taking the motto ''Per Ardua'' with Crowley as his immediate superior in the Order.

As Crowley's public profile grew more scandalous, Fuller was increasingly uncomfortable with supporting him. In 1913, angry with Crowley's refusal to defend himself against slanders, Fuller fully withdrew from A.'.A.'. and severed his social ties with Crowley.

== Books by Fuller ==

Fuller was a very prolific writer. Only a small selection of his works is covered here.

* ''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/1410211436/qid%3D1086892594/sr%3D1-8 The Star in The West, A Critical Essay upon the Works of Aleister Crowley]''
* ''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/0766158047/qid%3D1086892724/sr%3D1-16 Yoga: A Study of the Mystical Philosophy of the Brahmins and Buddhists]''
*''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/1558183469/qid%3D1086892861/sr%3D1-22 The Black Arts]''
*''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/076613041X/qid%3D1086892724/sr%3D1-17 Atlantis: America and The Future]''
*''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/0911662634/qid%3D1086892594/sr%3D1-10 The Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah: A Study in Jewish Mystical Thought]''

== References ==

This article was partially adaped from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.F.C._Fuller Wikipedia], retrieved on June 10, 2004.

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