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The Best Show on WFMU => Dear Tom => Topic started by: popperlady on January 03, 2012, 11:52:19 PM
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by Daniel P Mannix (author of the Hellfire Club)
The Beast, The Scandalous Life of Aleister Crowley who
*practised "sex-magic" and worshipped Satan
*founded a religion Based on drugs and debauchery
*branded his "wives" and drove them insane
--Almost a genius, not quite a madman, Aleister Crowley shocked the world for 50 years as the "Great Beast." His spiritual descendants are still practising today...
song suggestions:
1. Eddie and the Hotrods, Ignore Them Anyway
2. Cozy Powell, Dance With the Devil
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your avatar is kind of...racy.
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This discussion belongs on the beard thread.
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by Daniel P Mannix (author of the Hellfire Club)
The Beast, The Scandalous Life of Aleister Crowley
Really? Wasn't that book written in the 1950's? There are probably better biographies of him. I actually enjoyed Lawrence Sutin's "Do What Thou Wilt" (http://www.amazon.com/Do-What-Thou-Wilt-Aleister/dp/0312288972/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325821988&sr=1-4 (http://www.amazon.com/Do-What-Thou-Wilt-Aleister/dp/0312288972/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325821988&sr=1-4)) and especially Richard Kaczynski's "Perdurabo" (Crowley's magical name which essentially means "I will endure to the end"). Actually the two can be read together pretty nicely.
I didn't care very much for Israel Regardie's "The Eye in the Pyramid"...
He really was an interesting guy...