Dizzy O'Brian

Aleister Crowley And the British Invasion Part Two So we left off, on part one of this post, with me tripping out in my apartment in Baltimore, while I was in music school. In a completely random act, I had reached over to my roommate’s bookshelf and grabbed the little book with the red cover, called the Book Of The Law. This book had been dictated to Mr. Crowley by a higher dimensional being that was his ‘Higher Self.’ His Higher Self was using his lady, his Scarlet Woman to speak through. (Quite the via, if you think about it.) In the broadest of brushstrokes, the book tells about the coming of a new aeon as well as giving a very optimistic account of the potential state of man that could be reached. I read all this that night, in my state at the time, and understood most of it. In short, this was one of the transformational points in my lifetime. Allow me to explain; by the age of sixteen or so, I had turned my back on conventional religion. My small ci...

Aleister Crowley and the British Invasion Aleister Crowley was an author, mystic and ‘drug cultist’ in the early part of the nineteen hundreds. He lived decidedly outside the mores of society and his lifestyle choices were occasionally a source of infamy among those who knew him.  For example, his personal secretary later wrote that Crowley regularly consumed enough heroin to kill a room full of men, yet he lived into his eighties. There are probably as many opinions about the man as there are people who knew him or know of him. Opinions aside, it is my contention that Crowley was the culmination of a great conflict that went on within the masonic lodge, probably since the days of ancient Egypt. The crux of this conflict was, should the inner teachings of the masonic lodge remain a secret and only known to a few or should they be shared with the world at large. Crowley was on the side of sharing them and he disseminated these teachings within the masonic order, which he f...