33rd dregree Mason
33° Mason, Aleister Crowley would definitely get some votes in the "most wicked
man who ever lived contest" and is the clear cut favorite for the title of "The
Father of Modern Satanism". Crowley's wicked life and his intimate association
with Freemasonry are both well known.
Crowley himself was terribly decadent. A happily heroin-addicted, bisexual Satan
worshiper, he asked people to call him "The Beast 666." Crowley believed that
he was literally the antimessiah of the apocalypse.
During the first World War, Crowley transferred his activities to America. The
press proclaimed him "the wickedest man in the world." He also spent time in
Italy, but was expelled because Italian authorities accused his disciples of
sacrificing human infants in occult rituals. According to one source, Crowley
resided in the Abbey of Thelema near Cefalu Sicily, and revived ancient
Dionysian ceremonies. During a 1921 ritual, he induced a he-goat to copulate
with his mistress, then slit the animal's throat at the moment of orgasm.
WAS ALEISTER CROWLEY JUST A 'CLOSET' FREEMASON?
Aleister Crowley was very proud of all his accomplishments and connections. He
bragged about all of the Masonic medals and insignia that he was entitled to
wear.
This view was confirmed when The Arcane Schools of John Yarker came to me
for review. I wrote to the author, who recognized my title to the 33° and
conferred on me the grades of 95° Memphis and 90° Mizraim. It seemed as if I
had somehow turned a tap. From this time on I lived in a perfect shower of
diplomas, from Bucharest to Salt Lake City. I possess more exalted titles than I
have ever been able to count. I am supposed to know more secret signs,
tokens, passwords, grand words, grips, and so on, than I could actually learn in a
dozen lives. An elephant would break down under the insignia I am entitled to
wear.
Here we see 33° Aleister Crowley in all of his Masonic regalia:
PAST GRAND MASTER ALEISTER CROWLEY
FRATER SUPERIOR BAPHOMET XI°
CROWLEY'S DOCTRINE
We find in the next quotes, the 'doctrine' of Aleister Crowley from MAGICK in
Theory and Practice, by The Master Therion (Aleister Crowley):
But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for
nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best.
The animal should therefore be killed within the Circle, or the Triangle, as the
case may be, so that its energy cannot escape. An animal should be selected
whose nature accords with that of the ceremony--thus, by sacrifcing a female
lamb one would not obtain any appreciate quantity of the fierce energy useful to
a Magician who was invoking Mars. In such acase a ram would be more suitable.
And this ram should be virgin--the whole potential of its original total energy
should not have been diminished in any way. For the highest spiritual working
one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest
force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most
satisfactory and suitable victim.
From The Book of the Law, by Aleister Crowley:
With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross......
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
From SATANIC EXTRACTS, by Aleister Crowley:
The Oath of Fealty
I bind my blood in Satan's hands,
All this that lieth betwixt my hands
To thee, the Beast, and thy control,
I pledge me; body, mind, and soul.
Pledge
I swear to work my Work abhorred,
Careless of all but one reward,
The pleasure of the Devil our Lord
ALEISTER CROWLEY WAS AN INTERNATIONAL MASON
Crowley was truly an international Mason. He received his 33° in Mexico City and
spoke of participating in Masonic rituals in the United States and also was
involved in other rites of Freemasonry. Not only was Crowley a 33° Grand
Inspector General of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, but he was also involved in
other rites of Freemasonry that went even deeper into the occult. The Rite of
Memphis contained Masonic rituals with a definite Egyptian flavor.
By the end of 1910, thanks to my relations with the Grand Hierophant 97° of the
Rite of Memphis (a post held after his death by Dr. Gerard Encausse ['Papus'],
Theodor Reuss ['Merlin'], and myself), I was now a sort of universal
inspector-general of the various rites, charged with the secret mission of
reporting on the possibility of reconstructing the entire edifice, which was
universally recognized by all its more intelligent members as threatened with the
gravest danger.
Even for a man like Crowley who was obsessed with the occult, the rituals of
Freemasonry provided a profound occult thrill.
I supposed myself to have reached the summit of success when I restored the
Secret Word of the Royal Arch. In this case, tradition had preserved the Word
almost intact.
Were Aleister Crowley and his followers or perhaps a similar group capable of
performing acts and rituals that are comparable to what are described by satanic
ritual abuse survivors. The following quotes are from a book entitled, Secrets of
the German Sex Magicians. This book talks about the ritual use of pain and
attributes to Crowley the most perverted of practices such as bestiality and the
ritual consumption of body fluids.
The ritual use of pain and agony as an access mode to trance and magical power
does have its limits, though. For one thing, physical pain tends to dull the
senses in the long run, so that stimuli have to be increased incessantly. This
may quite easily lead to grave bodily harm, not to mention the fact that it can
become downright addictive and lead to a kindled frenzy not very easily
mastered.
Crowley, in fact, trod in his practice a path similar to that of the more materialistic
authorities. Although he positively encouraged ejaculatory orgasm in his sex
magic, he always made a point of consuming what he called the "elixir"
afterwards. He understood this elixir to be the mixture of the sexual fluids of
both partners or, in the masturbatory act, as just the semen. He entered very
carefully in his the magical diaries a description of the elixir's consistency and
taste, and he even recorded the prophecies which he deduced from these data.
And Crowley's practices go on to be even more disgusting.
Coprophagia, which means consumption of excrement, here also includes
consumption of other secretions such as urine and sweat. It was ritually
practiced from early times on the sympathetic-magic principle that the secretions
of any entity contain part of its magis. Crowley, for example, occasionally offered
his disciples in Cefalu the excretement of a goat. This frequently met with no
small disapproval!
Crowley performed a similar ritual in his Sicilian Abbey of Thelema, during which
his Scarlet Woman was to be mounted by a goat which would be beheaded
during the climax.
There exists today a secret society that dedicates itself to carrying on the
teachings of Aleister Crowley. This group is called the O.T.O.. The O.T.O. was
founded earlier this century by high grade Austrian Freemason Karl Kellner and
German Freemason Theodor Reuss. The O.T.O. became a major force in the
occult world when Aleister Crowley became its leader.
Crowley learned ritual magic from the man who was renown as the master of his
day, MacGregor Mathers. The pupil-student relationship soon turned into a
bitter rivalry and resulted literally in a Black Magic war. When Mathers died in
1918 many of his friends were convinced that Crowley was responsible for his
death. Mathers, also a Freemason, introduced Crowley to an occult organization
called the "Golden Dawn" and helped Crowley along his dark walk on the
Egyptian Masonic road.
Mathers and his wife Moina, the sister of the philosopher Henri Bergson, lived in
Paris. (Mathers tried to convert Bergson to magic, but without success.) Their
house was decorated as an Egyptian temple and they celebrated 'Egyptian
Masses', invoking the goddess Isis. Mathers officiated in a long white robe, a
metal belt engraved with the signs of the zodiac, bracelets round his wrists and
ankles, and a leopard-skin slung across his shoulders. He was convinced that
he was descended from the Scottish clan MacGregor and took to calling himself
MacGregor Mathers, Chevalier MacGregor and Comte de Glenstrae. W. B. Yeats,
whose magical name in the Golden Dawn was Daemon est Deus Inversus (The
Devil is God Reversed), was a frequent visitor to the Mathers household in Paris.
One of the most talked about Satanic groups in recent years has been The
Temple of Set headed by Michael Aquino.
The brand of Satanism that is practiced by Michael Aquino and the Temple of Set
is thoroughly Egyptian. In the book, The Book of Coming Forth by Night (1985)
Aquino describes what seems to be a call to start the Church of Satan and
speaks in the first person as Set, the Egyptian Satan.
The Equinox has succumbed to my Solstice, and I, Set, am revealed in my
Majesty....I am the ageless Intelligence of this Universe...and from my manifest
semblance, which alone is not of Earth. Known as the Hebrew Satan, I chose to
bring forth a Magus, according to the fashion of my Word. He was charged to
form a Church of Satan, that I might easily touch the minds of men in this age they
had cast for me.
The accusation of child abuse and molestation against Aquino was made in 1988
by Sandi Gallant of the San Francisco Police Department, thus placing another
link between Egyptian style Satanism and Satanic Ritual Abuse. The accusations
surfaced concerning the day care center at the Presidio military installation and
were as follows:
Children said they were taken by day to private homes, including two on army
property, where they had been sexually molested............
Other children talked about a "googoo" game in which they were urinated and
defecated on by a "Mr. Gary".... Pencils were used to doodle on the skin and
genitals of the children and were also inserted in a child anus.....
A gun was pointed at the head of another adult in front of the children......
There were five confirmed cases among the children of chlamydia, a sexually
transmitted illness.
Although no formal charges were filed against Aquino, there were certainly some
interesting twists to the case. His repeated claims of innocence to many were
hollow cries. There are some similarities in the accusations against the day care
center when compared to the recent disclosures of children that we have been
in contact with.
It is not clear how long the army has known about Aquino's peculiar genus of
satanism. But the San Francisco police have been exceptionally interested since
about 1980. The interest crested in November 1987 when police raided a house
where a three-year-old girl told police she had been molested by a
sinister-looking man named "Mickey" who snapped pictures of her in the bathtub
and sexually mistreated her in a room with black walls and a cross etched on the
ceiling. The girl later spotted "Mickey" in the PX at the Presidio army base in San
Francisco, where Aquino was stationed. The girl said she thought "Mickey" was
Aquino. The girl also said she recognized Mrs. Aquino. Meanwhile, authorities
had found evidence of ongoing child abuse at the Presidio day care center. A
three-year-old had also been molested, and the cops turned up six cases of
sexually transmitted infection in fifty-eight other charges at the center. A
thirty-four-year-old civilian day-care worker at the Presidio facility, who was also
a Southern Baptist minister was arrested. At first, the charges were dismissed.
But subsequently, Hambright was indicted anew on twelve counts of sodomy,
oral copulation, and lewd conduct. Hambright later died of AIDS.
Albert Churchward in his book, The Arcana of Freemasonry, confirms that Set is
the Egyptian name for Satan.
That Sut or Set was first primary god of the Egyptians, but was god of the South
Pole, or Southern Hemisphere, is amply proved and borne out by the monuments
as well as the Ritual. Set or Sut, according to Plutarch, is the Egyptian name of
Typhon--i.e. Satan of the Christian Cult.
