![]() Crowley (as the Great Beast 666) and his Scarlet Woman, or Whore of Babalon (sic) would be the principal players in an ongoing sacred magical saga intended to replace the world’s major religions. Crowley’s doctrine of Thelema (Greek: “will”) was based on the practice of sacred sex magick (Crowley’s unique spelling of the word) and claimed to herald the arrival of a new cosmic Aeon. It was here, in 1904, that he received a mediumistic revelation from a metaphysical entity called Aiwass (transcribed as a text later known as The Book of the Law) that would lead to the establishment of his magical cult of Thelema. Crowley was unsuccessful in his bid to dislodge Yeats and then suddenly switched course, withdrawing from the Golden Dawn and embarking upon a series of travels through Mexico, the United States, Ceylon, and India before finally arriving in Cairo. Following his initiation into this Order in France in January 1900, Crowley returned to England, where he challenged the authority of William Butler Yeats, hoping to displace him as head of the Golden Dawn in England. He passed quickly through the introductory grades of the Order and then sought initiation into the spiritual rebirth ritual that would admit him to the Inner, or Second Order. Arguably the most influential occultist of the twentieth century, Aleister Crowley was initiated as a Neophyte in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898. ![]()
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