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5033595 No.5033595 [Reply] [Original]

How much would you say Crowley was an influence on all the New Age shit that's popped up since?

Also quote thread.

>“Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”

>> No.5033609

He's one of several influences, but not the major one. Crowley primarily influenced the deeper and edgier black magic end of things; of late 19th / early 20th century esoteric movements, Madame Blavatsky and the New Thought movement had a greater influence on the mainstream hippie New Age, as did the mass availability in the West of Hindu and Buddhist texts and teachers that began in the 1950s.

>> No.5033616

Also, whoah, Crowley with hair and a beard

Now I've seen everything

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>>5033616

you aint seen shit

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>>5033616
>>5033656
Cocaine killed his hair.

>> No.5033670

>>5033595
>We place no reliance on virgin or pigeon, our method is Science, our aim is religion.

One of my all-time favorite quotes.

>> No.5033674

>>5033665

Diary of a drug fiend? More like DIARY OF A BALD FIEND lololololol

>> No.5033710

>>5033670
He also made fun of science at other points though.

>Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

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>>5033665
He looks like Brother Theodore.

>> No.5033758

Crowley was more of a precursor to the 60s era. "Do what thou wilt" "Love is the law" all the drug experimentation and sexuality. This becomes obvious too if you read Prometheus Rising.

>> No.5033765

>>5033758
I saw a guy wearing a "Do what thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law" t-shirt a few weeks ago. It was kind of hilarious. And a little sad.

>> No.5033778

>>5033765

Why? I bet you cannot explain why you feel that way without sounding like you´re trying to protect your own individuality.