THAT AWFUL BEAST, ALEISTER CROWLEY!
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	Aleister Crowley was born at Leamington Spa in Warwickshire,
England on the 12th of October (a national holiday in the United
States of America) of 1875 Era Vulgari, and after a fascinating life
of magick, mysticism, poetry and mountain climbing as well as
"debauchery", i.e. a free and adventurous life style as viewed by
puritanical and often envious, misunderstanding individuals, he died
in England at the age of 72 on the 1st of December 1947 E.V.--not the
burned out heroin addict as some claim, but still a productive member
of society with an alert mind, busy to the last supervising Lady
Freida Harris' painting of the 78 cards of the tarot, writing and
trying his damnest to deal with the idiocies gone out of control in
Pasedena, California with the members of the Agape Lodge of the Ordo
Templi Orientis, separated from its members, most of which he had
never met, by poverty, distance and World War II.  Eventually his
second in command, Karl Johannes Germer, perhaps the last loyal,
sincere and intelligent member of the O.T.O., obviously distanced
himself from the order gone bad, and his refusal to initiate new
members indicates that he had hoped that it would die out and be
forgotten so that Thelema, the religious philosophy A.C.  lived to
establish in the world, might have a fair chance.

	During his lifetime Crowley was slandered and villified by the
tabloid trash "journalism" of his day which was, believe it or not,
far worse than it is today.  At times he found it amusing and even
useful as few people wish to hear about the austere life of a saint
but eagerly listen to the tales of debauchery committed by "the
wickedest man in the world".  It was not notoriety that Crowley
wanted, although certainly he had his fair share of fun with it, but
rather he simply wanted to be heard for there is no sense in teaching
if no one comes to hear what one has to say.  It was an old trick that
even Jesus the Nazerene employed.  In a time and place where even
artistic representation of Jehovah was forbidden it was blasphemously
and wildly mad for anyone to call himself "the son of God"--which, by
the way, Jesus never called himself but allowed others to call him as
it drew in the listeners and potential students.

	Being called "the wickedest man in the world", a "satanist"
(while being a man who did not even believe in the existence of
Satan!), and so forth also saddened Crowley, but he did his best to
make lemonade with the lemons his insecure, hostile detractors handed
him.  However, the worst threat today to the memory of Aleister
Crowley and the further establishment of Thelema is not from those
without, but rather from those who claim to be from within, falsely
calling themselves Thelemites, using Crowley and Thelema to promote
their egos and achieve their own petty, personal goals at the expense
of truth, proving themselves with their words and deeds to be at best
pseudo-thelemites that Crowley, if he were alive today, would
certainly speak out against.  Much the same thing happened with
Christianity as we see today happening with Thelema.  Some of the
Gnostics and other "heretics" the Roman Catholic Church tortured and
executed followed more closely the original teachings of Jesus so that
today Christian orthodoxy has very little resemblence to the original
teachings of the Nazarene, and it as well as Fundamentalist or
so-called Conservative Christianity would be the first things Jesus
would condemn if indeed there was a Second Coming.  Shall we who love
the memory of Crowley and the philosophy of Thelema allow the
Caliphate and Typhonian psuedo-o.t.o.s and other pseudo-thelemites
cause history to repeat itself so that ignorance and hypocrisy may
reign another 2,000 years...or more?

	If you are interested in Aleister Crowley, the true nature of
the Beast 666 and Thelema send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to
G.M.Kelly (Frater Keallach 93/676) at P.O. Box 19210, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania 15213 U.S.A. and you will discover the difference between
the Beast 666 and the truly awful beasts of men and women who
misrepresent themselves as Thelemites while acting as fascists and
lunatics.