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Aleister Crowley

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Second Coming of Allister Crowley

William butler yates described magic as the most important pursuit of his life. Crowley drew from the hermetic order of the golden dawn, or if you look at this from the order's point of view, he was expelled. The order continued to fracture, eventually changing its name to stella matotina and then dissolving in the 19 twenties. He also travelled tensibely, going to mexico in july of 19 hundred with mountaineer oscar eckenstein and studying yoga in shilanco - known as seylon at the time.

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