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Guénon writes of Crowley in his letters to Evola:
>To come back to Aleister Crowley, what you told me reminds me of the story that turned up in 1931 (I believe at least that was the exact date): while he was in Portugal, he suddenly disappeared. They found his clothes on the border of the sea, something that made them believe he had drowned. But it was only a simulated death, since they were no longer concerned about him and did not try to find out where he had gone. Actually, he went to Berlin to play the role of secret adviser to Hitler who was then at his beginning.

This might a reference to the "Man with the Green Gloves"

Guénon makes a difference between counter-initiation and pseudo-initiation.
>“Counter-initiation,” we must say, cannot be considered a purely human invention,which would be no different from “pseudo-initiation.”

Guénon writes:
> Even when it was not about rather insignificant pseudo-initiations (perhaps that was not at all the case for the Golden Dawn), his involvement (Aleister Crowley) introduced truly sinister influences into it, if only making of it something much more dangerous.

Guénon means by the sinister influences that Crowley brought to Golden Dawn the Secret Chiefs that concerns Golden Dawn who were the very same 72 Superiors of the occult legend apparent even in Masonry.
>https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-mysteries-of-trebitsch-lincoln-con-man-spy-counter-initiate
>In contrast, writers such as French esotericist Rene Guenon and Jean Robin, see a more secretive and sinister side to Trebitsch. To Guenon, Trebitsch was an obvious “agent of the Counter-Initiation,” a tool of hidden forces which sought to thwart and misdirect human enlightenment. Robin puts him in the service of the dreaded “72 Unknown Superiors”

Rene Guéon labelled Trebitsch and Crowley as “brothers” both as double-agents for London and Berlin and as agents of the Counter-Initiation. This is clearly produced in a Rene Guénon letter to Rene Schneider, 13 Sept. 1936.

The Golden Dawn schism arose when the Secret Chiefs of Golden Dawn were invented to be a fabrication. The "Sinister Influence" that was introduced to Golden Dawn was Crowley's forging of a link with the Yezidi Aiwass.

I have never seen Guénon calling Crowley a pseudo-initiate. Blavatsky he did call as such, for it was clear she was controlled by certain Masonic and pseudo-Rosicrucian organizations. However with Crowley, Guénon always associated him with counter-initiation. Guénon had lots of second hand information and even those "werewolf" society he sometimes called the Leopard Society (this is dealt briefly in René Guénon and The Seven Towers of the Devil)

The Leopard Society itself may be some reference to Theban Priests who wore such Leopard hides, for example pic related is a priest who Aleister Crowley claimed to be reincarnation of (Ankh-f-n-Khonsu) seen on his Stele of Revealing wearing a leopard hide.

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Guénon had lots of second hand information and even those "werewolf" society he sometimes called the Leopard Society (this is dealt briefly in The Seven Towers of the Devil)

The Leopard Society itself may be some reference to Theban Priests who wore such Leopard hides, for example pic related is a priest who Aleister Crowley claimed to be reincarnation of (Ankh-f-n-Khonsu) seen on his Stele of Revealing wearing a leopard hide.