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The not so Great Man; Six Degrees of X: When Obama was elected; it created a perception that racism had been eliminated, as if centuries of prejudice against Black people had somehow been resolved. However, this understanding often stems from ignorance and influences political debate without addressing the underlying issues. The fundamental reality is apparent: political discourse frequently ignores deeper problems. The competing visions for social change in the United States have been at odds since the nation’s founding because they are fundamentally incompatible. This situation resembles a villainous comic book arc, where the belief persists that all groups not fitting a specific purity must be eradicated for the favoured group to thrive. This dynamic is reinforced by the “great man” theory, which serves as a placeholder, allowing any misguided individual to emerge and exert influence.

The great man theory is the idea that change is done by great individuals who see the moment – when a country is in crisis, then some person [like Trump or Elon] comes along and supposedly fixes it. It disempowers the populace while giving false-populace (MAGA) reasons to be more ghoulish, lazy, or unmotivated to extend change on an individual level, as this one person can do.  It collectivises the will of the false populace into the will of the supposed great man. It’s anti-democratic with a small “d” and inherently authoritarian with a fascist mentality. As Trump and Elon’s favourability becomes low due to their unconstitutional acts on the populace, they prop up themselves and each other on this great man’s propaganda. Trump even cited his supposed greatness as equal to George Washington. In contrast, knucklehead maga-populace defends Tesla and the people’s boycott of memes brought on by blue-haired woke groups. When we know the backlash is from the true-populace.

The Great Man has a heroic appeal, but ultimately, its romanticism is a device of fictional storytelling. The correct version of change in a social context where a nation is in pain amid a promise, and a promise amid pain tells us a country where all the changes that have come – have been the result of the collective efforts of the committed people waiting on no great man to solve their problems. It works from the bottom up, not the other way around. Yet, great non-elected leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. believed that all men are equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights because truth and justice don’t come from the great man but from the creator.          

Joseph Campbell’s mono-myth is the basis from which the hero’s journey has been derived as a method for storytelling. Campbell’s A Hero of a Thousand Faces reduced all myths to a single archetype – the one who ventures out into the mystery and then returns transformed with an elixir or some transcendental/supernatural power to save the day. It’s a storytelling method fundamentally embedded within our universal shared psyche (or collective unconscious, as Jung would put it). They are not mere cultural constructs but inherent truths framed in the hero’s journey as an inevitable structure for our stories and, by extension, societies should function. Heroes’ are needed because that is what the collective will want and needs – that heroes rise to represent our will.

The mono-myth is not politically neutral as it also aligns with Western cultural values, whether in the hallmarks of war and conquest, its mastery and individualism over collaboration, humility and interconnectedness. Campbell’s totalising structure in narrative excludes non-Western mythologies that emphasise communal transformation and mutual support – as Campbell’s frameworks sideline those that might challenge its individualistic hierarchical values. The result teaches young men to see themselves as lone agents of change – measuring their worth by external triumphs rather than relational growth or unlearning harmful beliefs. Campbell’s interpretation of Jung’s collective unconscious presents itself as inevitable truths instead of cultural constructs, legitimising the idea of history being shaped by great men – that these great men are inevitable to human nature. It is a worldview inherent to far-right nationalism by having the lone (often white; often male) saviours triumphing over other racial and situational forces.

As a result, you get these anti-woke groups from entertainment bloggers like Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic to political mouthpieces like Matt Walsh, etc, [who are all horrendous YouTube personalities] feeling the need to act out in their way as lone agents of change. However, they are not simply making aware of culture wars and identity politics but insidiously taking concerns about culture and identity outside fictional narrative to context in real life. By embodying perceived attacks on tradition or threats to their masculinity by a demented outlook where certain positions must be absolute or somehow they are owned that position because of who they are or how masculinity had been envisioned in the past. So, they embark on a thesis of propaganda about cultural decline while reframing subjects discussed, like threats to cultural identity and personal identity, as existential threats. [They are hiding their racism and sexism inside pseudo-intellectualism]. As a result, males cling to fantasies of male power and great man, longing for the infallible hero or wizard of past novelties.     

The phenomenon of hero worship can become misleading, as it shapes perceptions in ways that can harm society. When audiences criticise artistic depictions, they often frame them as signs of weakness, which creates a sense of change that they perceive as threatening. This reaction mirrors the dissonance and anger found in Christian fundamentalism. Additionally, many of these critics are not actual reviewers but rather right-leaning commentators or grifters who engage in anti-woke film critiques that lack genuine analysis. As a result, their audiences may become conditioned to accept fascistic ideologies espoused by figures like Trump and Elon Musk, who are often mythologised as grotesque anti-hero archetypes.

However, these reviewers are shit shovelers akin to Twin Peaks Dr Jacoby, whereby season three has a webcast (Dr Amp) where his demographic is apparent to conspiracy theory types. He lives in a trailer in the woods and markets golden shovels over his webcast. The merchandising of shovels aspect coincides with anti-woke critiques and its grifting for monetisation. Dr Jacoby’sJacoby’s slogan: is “Dig yourself out of the shit”, and in the Lacanian sense means to dig oneself from the excessive jouissance to be able to create and perform in the symbolic. He is the central hub for the angry everyman as he verbally attacks the state, globalism, capitalism, the pharma industry, etc.; he is the inter-passive version of any right-wing podcaster. He delegates his enjoyment to his agents of listeners; they can enjoy it even when Jacoby is divorced from it – they are to dig themselves from the shit. However, they cannot distinguish the phantasma between reality and the Real. They, along with the demoralised, cannot come to terms with or realise which are the true demons that haunt them and which they need to get rid of or to tame [David Lynch’s chase for the sounds of the siren] supernatural reverberations throughout the phantasma and the Real – to acquire meaning.    

As their country is in collapse due to a Republic crumbling under a Demagogue [they and their followers voted in], they are all too silent after the aftermath; these loud-mouth shit-shovelers are no different to gamers who are non-masculine and would crumble if put in the position of warfare. They have a one-dimensional view of masculinity as it is modelled around Tate’s manosphere and a misunderstanding of the idea of “whiteness”, a utilitarian fictional method to implement instrumental reasoning. The idea that Europeans are one big happy white collective is a fundamental historical ancestral pedigree, which, of course, is false as most of them were at war with each other. “Whiteness” is a concept invented for one reason only, and that was to sucker the poor working class immiserated peasant Europeans into believing that they were on the same team as rich people. It allowed white peasant people to lord over those who were non-white – from a badge in a horse to a badge in a cop car.

The Kanya West effect serves as an example of modern simulation as it shows how Capitalism and white supremacy work together to co-opt something. To take something from its original use and recontextualise it to something different – Republicans often use Martin Luther King as an influence as a way to defend their racism.  Both King and Malcolm – X was Muslims separating themselves from Christian nationalism at the time; however, their circles were predominantly socialist, and both became popular after the Red Scare. They were part of a radical movement, and Reagan merely shaved the edges of the movement to appease black voters. A movement from the ground up lends more credibility than obscuring Cointelpro conspiracies, as it undermines its legitimacy. Marches stood as a symbol of change, but even in that romanticism, Malcolm’s new white interests and power structures would infiltrate or co-tail these movements. Radical change becomes policy reforms and, defunding the police and retraining the police.        

In the X-files [Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man], the Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM), having just assassinated JFK, is a failed writer (artist) mimicking a fascistic demagogue of the NAZI party who was also a failed artist. A master of deception and self-deception wishes to be a creator, whereupon his musings are his own life, and his life is defined by making the real world worse. Despite admiring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he decides he must be the one to kill him because Dr. King is speaking like a Maoist, and he has too much respect for the man to trust anyone else to do it. He tells Deep Throat that he never killed anybody, despite being responsible for two highly world-changing assassinations and others that are mentioned even when he was in the army. His efforts to tell the truth through fiction are perceived as too outlandish or at least not good enough on their own merits, such that the ending of one of his stories is changed.    

A ‘degree of separation’ measures social distance between people. You are one degree away from everyone you know, two degrees away from everyone you know, and so on. John Guare’s 1990 play popularised the concept, Six Degrees of Separation, which was turned into a film starring Will Smith. How do degrees of separation relate to synchromysticism [as synchromysticism has more layers], where art and artist coincide in fictional/non-fictional symbolic and semiotic echoes?

Will Smith’s infamous slap of awareness [Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars], brought about by his ego dysfunction and childhood trauma [regarding his father inflicting abuse on his mother], has adopted a weird saviour complex towards the women in his life. The appalling incident also allowed a significant social orientation to be revealed, which is a lack of accountability for the sinner, especially regarding the rich and the elites. It is ever so prevalent in the Trump regime, where corruption increased three-fold in less than six months, overtaking past presidents’ discrepancies by miles.   

Malcolm X’s “X” represented a Symbolic gesture to his unknown African name. X has a strong symbolic meaning regarding where true paradise is/was. This becomes apparent in Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man as the King’s death by assassin is juxtaposed by his speech of having seen the Promised Land and his eyes having seen the glory of the coming of the Lord – King announcing himself a Prophet. According to ancient myth, Paradise is Eden. In this land mass, the topography is shaped like a concentric cross/x – and below it is heaven illustrated in the Big Dipper throughout the four seasons centred on the North Star is a cross also. The Chi-Ro (X-CHI & P-RHO) symbolises the account of incarnation. The X symbol was also the symbol Mulder used to contact his informant.

A powerful symbol, where X marks the beginning of time from a certain perspective, it’s no surprise that oligarchs like Elon Musk are so fascinated by it. To a point he wants to claim it, don’t forget his family apartheid history. His ventures—X.com (now PayPal), SpaceX, Tesla Model X, the Everything app, X Æ A-12 (his son’s name), xAI, X Corp, and X Holdings—demonstrate this obsession. Musk’s interest in space travel often seems to carry a pseudo-scientific allure for the masses. His genuine fascination may lie in ancient concepts of space, such as Paradise, Hyperborea, or some significance related to an inner Earth. By the 1960s, it became clear that there was a limit to how high we could go in the sky. Musk’s deflection regarding his SpaceX initiatives—often described as a Ponzi scheme—manifests in his claims that Social Security is also a Ponzi scheme, which he uses to undermine the legitimacy of Social Security and validate his enterprises. His actions—taking from the retirement savings of older adults while benefiting from government grants—are deeply troubling.   

Stranger Angels: The Four Maxwells: Space travel as a technological utilitarian goal is a hoax, and Starlink Satellites are not what one might envision in their mind. There is some technological observation regarding buoyancy, which is below the stratosphere and not hyperrealism space. Elon’s predecessors came out of the sixties, and these guys were actual self-made engineers, not stakeholder heads like Elon. This was the original aerodynamics group that included Frank Malina, Jack Parsons and Forman. By late 1945, Malina’s rockets had outgrown the facility at Arroyo Seco, and his tests were moved to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.  

Frank Malina is the son of Roger Malina, an engineer in a group that experimented on Rokets in the 1930s in Pasadena – that would eventuate to Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the precursor to NASA. Frank Malina’s closest friend, Jack Parsons, was the most charismatic member of their group. He lived a double life, associating with non-scientist friends such as L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein, the author of sci-fi classics like “Stranger in a Strange Land” and “Starship Troopers.” Additionally, Parsons became involved in an occult group that focused on the dark arts and sexual fetishes, founded by the English occultist and magician Aleister Crowley.

Jack Parsons is a conflicting person/character, a hopeful engineer for the elite class whose centuries-old predecessors came from the Illuminate Council that instilled heliocentric hyperreal cosmology. Its worldview that expresses science and pseudo-science surrounding a fictional cosmology will inevitably gestate figures like Parsons. And because space is hyperrealism, its inevitable collapse will be spread out and throughout the populace via disenchantments and their apocalypse about their worldview and themselves. On the one hand, Parsons was a chemist with a rational mind, but he dabbled in occult ritual magic and participated in sexual orgiastic rituals. The limitation of science is further defined when he embraces the supernatural. Often, science has a nihilistic base, suggesting his motivation to reformulate all the types of fuel combustion is to test and prove nihilism wrong, as the Rockets will answer that unanswered question.     

Parsons and his girlfriend transformed his home into a meeting place for sexual rituals, where young women of questionable age were subjected to these practices without their consent. He would venture into the desert with his friend Elrond Hubbard, known for his association with Scientology, to conduct invocations they called the “Babalon Working.” These invocations involved chants and rituals inspired by Aleister Crowley, all hoping to summon unknown women. When he first met his girlfriend, he believed he had found his ideal witch, or “Babalon” (the scarlet woman) he was trying to evoke. Parsons introduced his girlfriend Marjorie to the world of magic, and in return, she introduced him to the world of art. Together, they became followers of Thelema, a new religious movement founded by Crowley.

Roger Malina’s wife is Christine Maxwell; she has a twin sister, Isabel; both are daughters of Elisabeth Maxwell, who also has another daughter, Ghislaine Maxwell, the wife to the once Jeffery Epstein. It was back then the same sort of sex cultist surrounded Epstein and his famous island. The current US President has links to Epstein and the island alongside many other celebrities. Trump was born on June 14 1946, on a Blood Moon [Lunar Eclipse] in Queens, NYC. Aleister Crowley had written a letter to McMurtry criticising NASA pioneer Jack Parsons and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s undertaking of producing a “Moonchild.” According to Crowley and the Thelma religion, “Moonchild” is a supposed magical being brought forth by the spirit of the goddess Babalon. Steiner describes a cosmic being called Ahriman incarnating when disharmonies between groups arise, and Moonchild implies a magical being. Trump having been born on a blood moon does not imply he is magical in any way, if anything else, a disrupter. Strange Angel was released on Trump’s Birthday in 2018, and the first scene encapsulates a Blood Moon.

Trump, born of a Blood Moon, is Magical in so much as his ego drives him. There are parallels in the dates, but he is an Ahriman figure rather than the Babalon. The things he has done and what he set out to do are staggering compared to 2016 when no promises he uttered came to fruition. However, in 2025, he achieved his promises in his campaign as planned out for him in Project 2025. And all the warning preached out from those who foresaw what was to come was waved away by hopeful ignorance.

Parson foreshadowed his death as he is quoted: “Babalon is incarnate on Earth today, awaiting the proper hour of her manifestation. And on that day, my work will be accomplished, and I will be blown away upon the breath of the fire.” It was reported that Parson had died in an explosion in his Lab, whereupon he had dropped a mixture of chemicals that started a chain reaction. Strangely though, when the paramedics found him, he had whispered to them: “My work is not finished.”

Illuminati’s Council five centuries stronghold on how modern cosmology is perceived through heliocentrism began with Bruno’s false psychedelic-driven claim that stars are Suns will come to its climatic appeal in the grasps of an engineer where levels of validation are ritualised – in Rocketry science. Parson, like Bruno, adopts a scientific rational mind alongside a strong occult belief system, balances its misconceived idea that such polar ideas cannot work together and is proven wrong. In the TV series [Strange Angel], his inspiration is seen through symbolic hyperrealism dreams of space and the moon. I suggest his musing might have been angelic-driven, or even Babalon was working through him in The Moon and the Melodies.

The separation between science and cultism is modern, unlike the Renaissance, where it was related. Most of the essential figures in the scientific revolution were also practising occultists; now, modern concepts have polarised due to religious and scientific factors. Science and occultism have an understandable base and can be categorised in research or information due to the understanding between the observer and the cosmos having a reciprocal relationship. However, science and Science fiction are the motivators. Parson envisioned his idea of the moonchild to create an infant who would be born throughout the nine months of pregnancy and have magical influences surrounding the infant. The child [moonchild] would be separated from earthly influences and more compatible with outer space life. Here, Parson imbues the modern personas of Epstein and Elon Musk as all three saw the future of humanity in outa space – where a mutated or an evolved space child will deliver them.    

Epstein was the key figure in appeasing scientism world views; he would fund most of the current pseudo-science programs [like Transhumanism] until he was arrested, and as the funding stopped, so did scientism stranglehold. Later, after his arrest and death, his wife Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on World UFO Day 2020, and incidentally, just north of her arrest exists Crowley Residence, and just North of his Residence is the famous Hill UFO abduction.    

The Roswell incident would occur one year after Trump’s birthday on June 14, 1947 – and the Roswell crash was closer to Corona, New Mexico. In 2018, one year after the COVID/Corona crisis, Trump announced the creation of the Space Force. Which is a Military service focused on missiles, satellites and communications. However, Elon and his Space X garnered many more private and governmental investors to reach mediocre heights, as NASA had laid most of the fundamental bases for Rocketry.   

Jack Parsons and Malina’s first investor was the Navy; by this time, Parsons had lost his wife Marjorie to Hubbard. It was said both Hubbard and Marjorie were in Naval Intelligence. Around this time, Parsons was voted out of JPL and started working with Hughes Aircraft Company. After the red scare in the 1950s, Parsons was accused of espionage surrounding technical documents being sent to Technion Society [a Zionist group dedicated to supporting the newly created State of Israel] that he was leaking data to Israelis. Ghislaine Maxwell has a maritime fascination, especially its aesthetic; she has/had a submarine license, and her husband Epstein occasionally wore navel suits mimicking Hubbard, who also had a license.

The last figure in these Six Degrees of X is Blink 182’s. Tom DeLonge co-managed the military intelligence project “To the Stars Academy.” DeLonge collaborates with Thelemite Peter Levenda, who has written books on ancient astronaut theories for The Stars. Levenda is a student of Jack Parsons, Aleister Crowley, and H.P. Lovecraft. He could be a valuable source of information regarding Ghislaine and the topic of UFOs. It’s safe to say that the Elites and the Rich, alongside the Military and Government, are all part of a secret (or not-so-secret) UFO cult.

Aleister Crowley: Ministerial of Laws & Sorcery: Parson sex ritual parties, inspired by Crowley’s debauchery and sexual practices, are concealed beneath the façade of Christian conservatism during the World War II era. This phenomenon emerged in a time when fictional Nazi bases were imagined to exist on the moon, alongside an era that was filled with death, mass murder, and mad scientists in search of Vril—a source believed to be meant only for a race deemed worthy of wielding it. Crowley, who performed rituals while using psychedelics, undoubtedly captured people’s interest.

For some, he is an inspiring mage, a spectral mentor guiding them through the dark jungles of the occult. To others, he is simply a student of occult history—a con artist with sociopathic tendencies who has earned a fearsome reputation. What about him resonates in the collective unconscious, embodying a perpetual struggle against the tightening grip of the new world order? In times of war, there is a heroic appeal to mythologised anti-hero types, especially as the new world order rises alongside the success of globalisation, which paves the way for its future. However, this new order has not achieved its intended success; only globalisation has established standards for world trade. The collapse that followed left a significant void.

Crowley seeded intrigue for the mystical and was perceived as an anarchist. He was also versed in mystery and had a heroic role as a secret spy for Great Britain. In Strange Angel, he motivates Parsons to succeed with his fuel experiments because the result would change the war. This suggests he wasn’t fully anti-establishment. It makes sense that this happened during the World War, and the apocalypse was happening in real-time.  

Trump was born on a Blood Moon, which indicates Crowley’s magical being brought forth through the magical intention to spawn a child capable of living in primeval space dimensions. However, he is not that being, though he certainly romanticises an anti-Christ type. Instead, he represents the same intrigue given to Crowley, and that is a blind fascination to Cult leaders to be transfixed or catechise an abhorrent demagogue proclaiming false anti-establishment rhetoric the same establishment he is part of; he realises the denial in the false populace who refuses to believe that he is part of that secret agenda that they protest against only allows him to exploit a demoralised dissonance in the populace.

Globalism is collapsing, which is a fact, but like Parson’s will for Science, it still struggles with remaining in the domain of speculative investigation. The examination of external scientific agencies is limiting or confining the imaginative process. Globalist aspects will disappear, but some will stay as they are transfixed as DNA is to blood. Trade will remain a fixture going as far back as the Silk Road. Here, Trump plays on the notion of deletion, not knowing the dangers and exercising rampant nineteenth-century nationalism combined with old-fashioned protectionism as an international principle.

Trump’s disruption of the world’s economy makes no sense as a protectionist idea, imposing tariffs in hopes of crashing the stock market to set off the Federal Reserve, so such an action will lower interest rates. In a Pump and Dump scheme, market manipulation, there is a US 10 trillion debit set to expire in 2025 that needs to be refinanced. Create and manufacture a recession so interest rates drop and then refinance the debt at a cheaper rate – it’s kind of stupid. Such logic indicates it will speed up inflation and further hyperinflation; the notion of industry and manufacturing being made domestically as opposed to internationally; you would need an industrial policy rather than just mere magical words such as “refinancing” the government needs to subsidise the industries that are already in the country. They already had industrial acts in Biden’s Chips Acts, which started manufacturing in the US, which they got rid of. Which indicates they are not serious and only bolsters speak. Tariffs without the industrial policy are just a “depression.” The utilitarian reason for victimhood in a trade where somehow the US [the richest country] has a raw deal [unfair trade] from other countries is preposterous and indicative of their delusion and lies.

The inevitable foretelling of their national debit coincides with their degradation, and the isolation of the empire is an unavoidable constant. The narcissistic and unhinged reason for imposing a suicide policy is suicide itself, but to me, more precisely, to shoot other world allies beholden to the US dollar than shoot yourself is indeed psychopathic. The conspiratorial notion that intelligent agencies or billionaire Capital Groups hold the real power of government that have plotted assassins on presidents and populist leaders throughout history – seems all too complacent surrounding Trump and his neo-fascist/fascist regime – whose direction resembles Forest Gump’s success of achievement. However, success is only in failure through sheer ignorance and idiocracy. I’d rather the slow ride to the inevitable rather than ripping out the cancer in an extreme reaction because such an approach leaves you little recourse or any misconceived way out.

Crowley and Trump mirror each other in their approaches to lawmaking; Crowley emphasizes the spiritual aspect, while Trump relies on executive orders to circumvent Congress and the courts. Although this regime is often viewed as incompetent and led by a fool, he has effectively outmanoeuvred his political opponents and alongside both supporters. Gurus who promote the idea that being “in debt” can lead to enrichment have become prevalent in finance. Statements like, “I’m a billionaire… in debt,” reflect the schemes these individuals have and devised a get rich quick scheme. They charge thousands for classes and seminars and reel in participants using cult-like manipulation tactics. This same style of fraud appears to have infiltrated the Oval Office.

The self-interest of this party has overshadowed the needs of its constituents, leaving them in a state of confusion filled with unstructured arguments, manipulated facts, and denial. The laws of attraction are evident in the voting ballot boxes, but ignorance undermines overall morale. A correlation exists between Occultism and politics imbued in state cults; members of which do not exclude politicians especially those who are part of an Oligarch group.  

You are often left to rely on prayer, whether in the context of spiritual laws or the laws of occultism. Occultism faded but re-emerged in the 1960s, particularly within the hippie movement. Prominent figures like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Timothy Leary advocated for altered states of consciousness to achieve greater self-awareness.

A man would come into the scene claiming he had penetrated deeper into the mysteries; born in 1875, Allister Crowley was raised in a strict religious household – his mother nicknamed the ‘Beast’ from the Book of Revelation; it was a title he embraced his entire life. He identified himself as the anti-Christ as the force that would take away this terrible Christian programming, which had warped his childhood. Crowley began studying occultism as a member of the Golden Dawn – the Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn was the secret society’s movers and shakers of the Victorian age of England and was brought together by the knowledge available at that time. You had tarot, Kabala, John Dee’s Angelic magic, and Rosicrucian traditions all being melded together under a single system. The Golden Dawn attracted many of London’s Elites; however, Crowley broke away from them, and he found his system of beliefs after a trip to Egypt, where his wife received a mystical signal that told him to prepare himself from a message from the gods. Heading the call, he started to spontaneously write a book called the ‘Book of the Law’ – this book announces a new law for humanity that we are very emboldened and frightened spiritual entities to which we are like the gods.

Like Blavatsky, it was another merging of Eastern and Western spirituality; Crowley called his new system ‘Thelema’ – it incorporated principles of magic that he had learned from ancient Egyptian and other occult sources – and he became a self-proclaimed master of what he calls action at a distance. It focuses on the power of his intentions and will to create desired effects. Cowley defined magic as the art and science of causing change to occur and confirm in order of the will. His approach empowered the practitioner to make their intention happen and materialize what they wanted in the world. Thelema’s fundamental law was, ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law; love is the law, love under will’ For some, this meant pursuing a higher path. For others, it excused every variety of deviant behaviour. Some critics say Crowley himself was its worst offender; Crowley was practising sexuality as a spiritual path. He reduced a lot of symbolic teachings to their essence, which is essentially the duality or polarity between the male and female, and he experimented within that sphere to understand what mystery is contained in the sexual act.         

Crowley started his secret society, the ‘Ordo Templis Orientis’, and wrote books about ceremonial magic, and he reinterpreted the Tarot for the 21st century. The Tarot is a pictorial representation of occult teaching; it’s a method of going within and contacting archetypal levels within oneself and spiritual levels and entering a meditative state, in which intuition is heightened to where you can see specific patterns developing because you’re in the right state of mind. Crowley created a deck of his own called the Book of Thoth, based on the Egyptian magic he studied. Today’s popular divination tool is said to reveal information about the seeker and the question about their future. Everything that is related in one moment is all connected, so if two people come together around a question and manipulate a miraculous tool like this, but if that manipulation is intended to serve the need or feeling, then it will make a mirroring reflection of the energy that is produced between the two people.                   

Crowley’s, like Blavatsky’s writing, was heralded as a forerunner of many New Age ideas, but despite his serious work, ultimately, he became infamous for his use of drugs and decadent sexual behaviour. His reputation was further damaged by advocating pro-Nazi propaganda during Hitler’s Regime power. After World War two, it was rumoured that Hitler used Crowley’s and Blavatsky’s writings to help create his theory of a master race. There was no evidence that Hitler read the works of Crowley per se, but it’s known that Hitler and members of his regime had a very keen interest in the occult, and they adopted mere trappings of occult symbolism. Ill and addicted to opium, Crowley spent his final days in a boarding house and died in 1947.

Like other occultists before them, Crowley attempted to learn the secrets of the gods only to be discredited and condemned by society. This type of backlash among great thinkers will always lead to persecution. It has to do with being forward-thinking, and they challenge preconceived perceptions; they make people uncomfortable at that level, and fear and threat make institutions and the people act against them.        

Individualism became the goal of young people who rejected traditional religion in favour of finding their connections to God. By the 1980s, New Age ideas had become mainstream. The writings of Helena Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley played a significant role in reinterpreting occultism for modern audiences and restoring their reputations. Musicians like the Beatles, David Bowie, and Jimmy Page had varying interests in Crowley, contributing to the development of a popular belief system that millions of New Age followers embraced. They chose from a wide array of concepts to create their unique brand of spirituality. However, the occult is still viewed with suspicion. Many practitioners describe it as a modern mystical quest, where individuals seek to transcend their backgrounds and histories to achieve a divinized or macrocosmic consciousness, which is seen as a path toward becoming immortal.

We feel like we have displaced ourselves from something (and instead are led down a path of materialism), and we are trying to find our way back to that something we have lost, that loss of connectedness and our understanding of our human roots. The desire for New Age interest stems from that desire to reconnect with our history to make us feel whole, spiritual, connected, and aware.  

What began as occult magic has significantly influenced the world of science, leading astrology’s evolution into astronomy and alchemy into chemistry. Among the secrets that early practitioners sought were those related to achieving eternal life and transforming humanity (Alchemy) into a god-like state. Particle physics suggests that life is fundamentally pure energy, indicating a possible connection between these ancient ideas and the modern understanding of existence. It emphasises that the power to become god-like lies in the ability to transform oneself.

Additionally, medicine has benefited from occult traditions, with holistic approaches proving vital for scientific breakthroughs. However, beliefs—whether rooted in science or religion—can sometimes blind us to alternative possibilities. Occult experiments keep minds open to new ideas. Despite the advancements in science, the modern world remains shrouded in mysteries that may never be fully understood. This unknowable aspect, this mystery, lies at the heart of both spiritual and scientific quests. In many ways, one could argue that the purpose of life is to seek out and explore these mysteries.

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