Tag Archives: Aleister Crowley

Golden Gods & Guitars:
Led Zeppelin IV

Fenek Solère

Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977.

2,100 words

Someone told me there’s a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

— “Going to California”

Led Zeppelin’s back catalog already includes songs like “Ramble On” from the rocky Led Zeppelin II and the melancholic classic “Tangerine” from the flower-powered III. Read more …

Published: August 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, England, esotericism, Fenek Solère, folklore, Heavy Metal, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, music reviews, mysticism, mythology, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Robert Plant, rock music, Sandy Denny, the occult | 26 Responses

He’s Our Bannon, Only Better:
From Meme Magick to Evolian Populism

Peter D. Bredon

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James J. O’Meara
Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson & Other Populist Gurus
Melbourne, Australia: Manticore Press, 2020

“For me real and imagined, by the way, is just the same. Because the world is our imagination.” — Aleksandr Dugin [1] Read more …

Published: May 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, articles, book reviews, hermeticism, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Neville Goddard, New Age, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Platonism, populism, Steve Bannon, Traditionalism | 10 Responses

“Cocaine” & Crowley’s Mad Men

Winston E. Bakewell

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Aleister Crowley’s essay “Cocaine” is not among his most-discussed works, being overshadowed by those more esoteric, salacious, or dense. Nonetheless, “Cocaine” is an entry worth noting in the Crowley catalog on account of its prophetic nature and as an insight into Crowley’s personal philosophy and mental state.

Crowley begins with a tantalizing weave spun about the seemingly supernatural powers of cocaine; referring to it as an “herb,” he describes its capacity to provide man with near-immediate self-satisfaction and thumos-imbued energy. Read more …

Published: April 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, drug abuse, drug addiction, North American New Right, originals, the occult, Thelema, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

116 Years of Aleister Crowley’s The Book of the Law

Beau Albrecht

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To say that Aleister Crowley was a very colorful individual would be an understatement. He was known for his many talents arising from his great intellect, as well as some disagreeable personality quirks. In his time, some called him the “world’s most wicked man,” which certainly was an overstatement. He was a favorite target for hordes of third-rate journalists. We understand!

He called himself “The Great Beast 666” and took it seriously. Read more …

Published: April 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, Egypt, globalism, hermeticism, Kabbalah, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, the occult, Thelema | 6 Responses

Remembering Genesis P-Orridge
(February 22nd, 1950 — March 14, 2020)

Scott Weisswald

Throbbing Gristle. From left: Sleazy, Genesis, Cosey, and Chris.

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Visual artist, composer, singer, DJ, and general architect of chaos Genesis P-Orridge passed away on March 14, 2020. The Dissident Right shares a surprising amount of common ground with the counterculture icon — and owes some of its aesthetics and methods to them [1] as well.

Born February 22nd, 1950 in Manchester, Neil Andrew Megson adopted the name Genesis P-Orridge — a woo-ish corruption of the word “porridge” — while living in London. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Britain in the 70s, commemorations, dance music, industrial music, magick, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, punk music, Scott Weisswald | 15 Responses

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

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Published: October 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, poetry, political philosophy | 2 Responses

Artist & Autist:
Crowley in the Light of Neville, Part 1

Aleister Crowley, presumably after having consumed his daily drug regimen.

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

“It’s when one gets to the parents that a bottomless pit opens. My dear, such a pair.”[1]

“Can we ever be certain that it was not our mother while darning our socks who began that subtle change in our minds? Read more …

Published: July 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Gary Lachman, James J. O'Meara, magick, Neville, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, the occult, will | 3 Responses

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

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Published: October 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, poetry, political philosophy | 9 Responses

The Ideological War for the Occult Scene

Dionýz Sokol

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Introduction

It would be utter foolishness to underestimate the influence of spiritual and religious currents usually described as “occult”. While these concepts are not being displayed in mainstream society and most of the public is unaware of what they actually consist of, they have and always had the power to lure and change the worldview of those few individuals who dared to take the occult seriously. Read more …

Published: February 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anton LaVey, articles, North American New Right, originals, Ragnar Redbeard, Satanism, the occult, Thelema | 19 Responses

Lord Kek Commands!
A Look at the Origins of Meme Magic

4,321 words

Neville (Goddard)
At Your Command: The First Classic Work by the Visionary Mystic Neville
New York: Snellgrove Publications, 1939; Tarcher Cornerstone Editions, 2016 (includes Mitch Horowitz’s essay on Neville’s life and work, “Neville Goddard: A Cosmic Philosopher”)

“Can a man decree a thing and have it come to pass? Most assuredly he can!” — Neville Goddard, At Your Command Read more …

Published: December 14, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Nationalism, books reviews, Donald Trump, James J. O'Meara, meme magick, memes, Mitch Horowitz, Neville Goddard, New Thought, Norman Vincent Peale, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

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Published: October 12, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, poetry, political philosophy | 7 Responses

Battle of the Magicians:
Baron Evola between the Dancer & the Druid

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A Constant Reader has called my attention (keep those cards and letters coming in, folks!) to some critical commentary on the magical writings of Baron Evola[1] by none other than John Michael Greer, who is Past Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America and current head of the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dance, Julius Evola, magic, meditation, Neville Goddard, New Thought, originals North American New Right, the occult, Traditionalism | 12 Responses

Spengler:
The Numinous Genesis of Culture

Christopher Pankhurst

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Oswald Spengler’s radical contribution to the philosophy of history was to observe that different Cultures and Civilizations are discrete life forms and that they all have a certain life-expectancy. The linear progression of history, from the Stone Age to the prevailing Western liberalism, is a myth. There is no single line of history running through all of humanity. Instead, Cultures are born, they grow to maturity, they age, and they die. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christopher Pankhurst, cultural renewal, Current 93, decadence, Francis Parker Yockey, Giacinto Scelsi, modern art, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, religion, the numinous, Theodor Adorno, Willis Carto | 3 Responses

The Unmaking of the Magus:
Crowley as Political Animal

2,434 words

Marco Pasi
Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics
Translated by Ariel Godwin
Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2013

Well, no sooner had I completed a rather lukewarm review of one book on Aleister Crowley,[1] another, far more simpatico one pops up. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, fascism, Fernando Pessoa, Freemasonry, James J. O'Meara, magic, North American New Right, occultism, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 1 Response

Remembering Aleister Crowley:
October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

Aleister Crowley by Charles Krafft

177 words

Aleister Crowley was an English poet, novelist, painter, and mountaineer who is most famous as an occultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of the religion and philosophy of Thelema. But ironically Crowley’s supposed Satanism and Black Magic are far less frightening to most people than his politics. For Aleister Crowley was also a man of the Right, whose work inspired such important 20th-century Rightists as novelist and essayist P. R. Stephensen and military strategist and historian J. F. C. Fuller. Read more …

Published: October 12, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, occultism, originals, poetry, political philosophy | 2 Responses

Aleister Crowley jako teoretyk polityki

4,640 words

English original here and here

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), samozwańcza „Wielka Bestia 666” stał się postacią na trwale obecną zarówno w środowiskach okultystycznych jak i we współczesnej kulturze popularnej. Jedni wychwalają go jako filozofa, maga i proroka. Przez innych jest potępiany jako zdeprawowany egomaniak. W większości wypadków postrzega się go przez pryzmat jego ekscentrycznych, nierzadko szokujących zachowań. Read more …

Published: August 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Benito Mussolini, corporatism, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D’Annunzio, in Polish, in translation, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

“Тар“ на Уиндам Люис: Упражнение по дясна психология

Jonathan Bowden

949 думи

English original here

Романът “Тар“(Tarr) на Уиндам Люис (анаграма едновременно на “art”(изкуство) и “rat”(плъх) излиза за пръв път през 1915 г., докато Великата война бушува и остава едно от големите упражнения по психология на хладнокръвието. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ayn Rand, book reviews, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Bulgarian, in translation, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, psychology, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

“The Name is Crowley . . . Aleister Crowley”:
Reflections on Enlightenment & Espionage

5,169 words

Richard B. Spence
Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2008

“The great scientists, the artists, the philosophers, the religious leaders — all maniacs. What else but a blind singleness of purpose could have given focus to their purpose? Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Read more …

Published: August 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Colin Wilson, espionage, Ian Fleming, James Bond, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, magic, North American New Right, originals, Rudolf Hess, the occult | 6 Responses

Put Down That Rifle & Read This Instead

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The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All
Edited and Introduced by Lon Milo DuQuette
San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2014

“What would your feelings be, seriously, if your cat or your dog began to talk to you, and to dispute with you in human accents? You would be overwhelmed with horror. I am sure of it. And if the roses in your garden sang a weird song, you would go mad.” — Arthur Machen, “The White People” Read more …

Published: June 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, hauntology, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, Ralph Adams Cram, the occult, Thomas Ligotti, weird fiction | 3 Responses

Giacinto Scelsi:
A Soundtrack for Radical Traditionalism

Christopher Pankhurst

2,630 words

“Rome is the boundary between East and West. South of Rome, the East starts, and north of Rome, the West starts. This border-line now, runs exactly over the Forum Romanum. There’s my house, this explains my life and my music.” — Giacinto Scelsi

The music of Giacinto Scelsi is still relatively obscure, which is in keeping with the reclusive and esoteric character of the composer himself. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christopher Pankhurst, classical music, George Gurdjieff, Giacinto Scelsi, industrial music, North American New Right, originals, popular music, postmodernism, Rene Guénon, the occult, Theodor Adorno, Traditionalism | 18 Responses

The Influence of H. P. Lovecraft on Occultism

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Abstract

Lovecraft’s horror stories have become not just a literary cult like many others, but a tangible cult of the occult. The Cthulhu Mythos of the Old Gods with Unspeakable names are evoked and worshiped, and respected practitioners of the esoteric use the symbolism and mythos as the basis of a magical system. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anton LaVey, articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, H. P. Lovecraft, Kerry Bolton, magic, North American New Right, reprints, Satan, Satanism, the occult | 20 Responses

P. R. Stephensen

Percy Reginald Stephensen, painted by Robert Grothey, 1943

7,318 words

Editor’s Note:

This is a much-expanded version of our previously-published essay on P. R. Stephensen.

Percy Reginald “Inky” Stephensen (1901–1965), was one of Australia’s pre-eminent “men of letters,” or “Australia’s wild man of letters” as one biographer referred to him.[1] Read more …

Published: November 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Australia, Australia First, book excerpts, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kerry Bolton, literature, North American New Right, P. R. Stephensen, reprints, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left, white nationalism | 2 Responses

Crowley the Poet:
A Different Look at Aleister Crowley on this, the Occasion of his 136th Birthday

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Aleister Crowley, October 12, 1875–December 1, 1947

781 words

“I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me . . .”
—Aleister Crowley

I do not care too much for what other people say, and I do not care too much for what other people think of what some people say. Which is, I suppose, a rather roundabout manner of explaining why I have great admiration for Aleister Crowley as a poet despite what is said and what is thought about him, about his works, about his legacy, and about his life. Read more …

Published: October 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, originals, poems | 5 Responses

A Band Apart:
Wulf Grimsson’s Loki’s Way

2,682 words

Wulf Grimsson
Loki’s Way: The Path of the Sorcerer in the Age of Iron
Second Edition
Lulu.com, 2011

A few weeks ago I was privileged to receive this unsolicited manuscript, “the result of over 30 years of research, study and practice,” by Wulf Grimsson. Read more …

Published: September 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, magic, male bonding, neo-paganism, North American New Right, Rene Guénon, reprints, the left hand path, the Männerbund, the occult, Traditionalism, warrior ethics | 6 Responses

Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr:
An Exercise in Right-Wing Psychology

Jonathan Bowden

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Wyndham Lewis’ novel Tarr (an anagram of both “art” and “rat”) appeared first in 1915 as the Great War was raging, and it remains one of the great exercises in hard-boiled psychology. Most behaviorist prose tends to be shunted aside into genre fiction such as adventure and perhaps the noir detective novel. Read more …

Published: August 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ayn Rand, book reviews, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, psychology, Wyndham Lewis | 3 Responses

P. R. Stephensen

Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901–1965), by Edward Quicke, 1945

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Editor’s Note:

We are publishing this essay and the two that follow in commemoration of the birth of P. R. “Inky” Stephensen on November 20, 1901.

Percy Reginald Stephensen was one of Australia’s pre-eminent “men of letters” whose work includes biographies and short stories. Read more …

Published: November 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Australia, Australia First, book excerpts, commemorations, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kerry Bolton, literature, North American New Right, P. R. Stephensen, reprints, the Jewish question, white nationalism | 2 Responses

Aleister Crowley as Political Theorist, Part 2

Aleister Crowley, 1875–1947

2,949 words

Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here.

The Thelemic State

The form of Thelemic government is vaguely outlined in Liber Legis, suggesting the type of corporatism: “Let it be the state of manyhood bound and loathing: thou has no right but to do what thou will.”[1] Contrary to the anarchistic or nihilistic interpretation often given Thelema’s “do what thou wilt,” Crowley defined the Thelemic state as a free association for the common good. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Benito Mussolini, corporatism, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

Aleister Crowley as Political Theorist, Part 1

No, it is not Winston Churchill. It is somebody far less evil.

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Part 1 of 2. Read Part 2 here.

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), who styled himself the “Great Beast 666,” is an enduring presence both in the occult subculture and contemporary popular culture. He is hailed by some as a philosopher, magician, and prophet. He is condemned by others as a depraved egomaniac. But, for the most part, he is merely consumed for his shock value and diverting eccentricities.

Published: September 2, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, occultism, originals, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 1 Response