He said at a point early in his journey, that his purpose was to.... bring forth restricted light and knowledge to the world, by 'playing the role' of the anti-christ.
He was more chaos than pure black (at first at least) and tried out lots of religions ideas, and served many deities/ entities in a scientific manner to figure out what they were all about and how useful each was (and suggested to others to do the same, instead of relying on what we are told)
He had a really tough childhood and did NOT like the hypocritical control system religions with false promises and answers that was shoved at him, and was all about rebelling against that, and making Christians open their eyes up to the lies of the church and get the hidden world out of the shadows and out into the public consciousness.
His 'great work' was exposing the secrets of the church elders, secret societies, political string pullers, and elite cabal circles. To do this, he had to become them in the most extreme way. He saw himself as 'sacrificing' his life for others, to wash away the secrets of the past and bring forth the same truths Jesus was talking about from a different angle in an increasingly atheist world where the religion and 'science' around the 'supernatural' had become a mockery of the real truths of this reality.
The greatest lie the devil ever spread was that he didn't exist.
Crowley puts people on the path to God, in his own twisted way, by showing them the devil and pure evil are real & the consequences of living that life path.
at least, that was what he told himself and others at one point.... Could have been lies.
This is both "what I already knew" and a totally fresh take on his life. Thank you. I knew he'd gone into a variety of religious ideas, but did not know the motivations you describe. Indeed now he sounds most like someone I should admire more. However, I am very wary of opening doors I don't know much about, so I doubt I would ever follow his example, at least to the degree that it appears he did.
Thanks for the detailed response and insight.
EDIT: I liked also that you stated he chose the third way, Chaos. There is as you say not just Black or White: Brahma and Vishnu are not complete without Shiva. And since I already quoted Jeremiah in a post on this thread, I am reminded of another quote from the same "Call of Jeremiah".
"See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
He said at a point early in his journey, that his purpose was to.... bring forth restricted light and knowledge to the world, by 'playing the role' of the anti-christ.
He was more chaos than pure black (at first at least) and tried out lots of religions ideas, and served many deities/ entities in a scientific manner to figure out what they were all about and how useful each was (and suggested to others to do the same, instead of relying on what we are told)
He had a really tough childhood and did NOT like the hypocritical control system religions with false promises and answers that was shoved at him, and was all about rebelling against that, and making Christians open their eyes up to the lies of the church and get the hidden world out of the shadows and out into the public consciousness.
His 'great work' was exposing the secrets of the church elders, secret societies, political string pullers, and elite cabal circles. To do this, he had to become them in the most extreme way. He saw himself as 'sacrificing' his life for others, to wash away the secrets of the past and bring forth the same truths Jesus was talking about from a different angle in an increasingly atheist world where the religion and 'science' around the 'supernatural' had become a mockery of the real truths of this reality.
The greatest lie the devil ever spread was that he didn't exist.
Crowley puts people on the path to God, in his own twisted way, by showing them the devil and pure evil are real & the consequences of living that life path.
at least, that was what he told himself and others at one point.... Could have been lies.
This is both "what I already knew" and a totally fresh take on his life. Thank you. I knew he'd gone into a variety of religious ideas, but did not know the motivations you describe. Indeed now he sounds most like someone I should admire more. However, I am very wary of opening doors I don't know much about, so I doubt I would ever follow his example, at least to the degree that it appears he did.
Thanks for the detailed response and insight.
EDIT: I liked also that you stated he chose the third way, Chaos. There is as you say not just Black or White: Brahma and Vishnu are not complete without Shiva. And since I already quoted Jeremiah in a post on this thread, I am reminded of another quote from the same "Call of Jeremiah".
"See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Destroy to build.
Well said