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The Curse of Aleister Crowley: Descent into Lies and Madness

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This book is a joke. Even a brief look at the author's supposed CV (He's actually got the gall to put that he was a National Merit Scholar -- why not put his High School diploma on here as well?), and even more telling, the excerpt printed above:

"Cults, such as Crowley's 'Thelema' are communal totalistic in their organisation."

"Communal totalistic" -- what language is that? Surely not any English you learned in school.

"Cultic attitudes subsist amongst Initiates in 'Thelema' whom fail to see the unity between the 'Method of Science,' and the 'Aim of Religion.'"

"Whom fail to see" -- Oh, I get it, he's channeling Waite. No, I take that back: Waite at least wrote grammatically, for all his turgid prose.

"Love is more than a Light, while swimming in the Crystalline sea of agapæ, the language of both sanity and insanity ignites the stars. Forever and forever and forever."

Good gods... did he steal this from the soundtrack for some anime?

Trust me, you don't want to waste your time on this drivel.

I bought this book based on the other three reviews listed and boy was I diappointed. This is one of the worst books I have ever read. The author is far too much into himself and his opinion. Instead of seeking the truth of a situation he lists his speculations as fact. Overall the book was not very well researched, nor were it's points very well presented.

Although assuming the appearance of a biography, a pathography can be easily identified by the author's tone- they tend to 'dig for dirt', give whatever negative examples they can which back-up their attitude toward their subject, and lose all objectivity in the process. Painting a negative literary picture of a notorious character is so incredibly easy, it's something I would assume most writers of any self-respect would avoid. The fact is, Crowley was an incredibly complex person, and his character flaws are of the sort which could be attached to almost any public figure- drugs, promiscuous sex, outrageous behaviour etc.. A far superior study of Crowley has already been accomplished by John Symonds, while this hack-job pathography is just an obvious and pitiful attempt by a writer with limited skills to cash-in on the 'Wickedest Man in the World' persona which was a complete invention of the tabloid press. Crowley was no saint, but he was far from a one-dimensional monster. Trash.

Wow, what a piece of Cr@p. Is this guy for real?

Aleister Crowley has always been a dangerous man to read and takes a person of wisdom to grasp.

It is ashamed this author has no wisdom. But he certainly does have an agenda.

Don't waste your $$$ or time.

I didn't understand this until I read some of The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual by Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt. You have to read this book while consulting the DSM-IV-TR to follow along.

This is Seraphim's newest book - Babylon: Secret Rituals of Illuminati

Intriguing..scandalous..voyeuristic..a journey into lost souls that never took refuge in God's divine love. When something is veiled as soon as you take the veil away, the object appears. "Curse of Aleister Crowley" showed me minds without veils of personalities and egos. Crowley's "children" are in the dark night of the soul. They cannot see any spiritual light, and immersed in darkness, in danger of losing themselves by falling into the dark night of the heart. Mr. Seraphim substantiates his laboratory experiment (thats what this book reads as) with intelligent reads on religious fundamentalism, religion & psychology, and observations on occult groups. My criticism is the book should be longer the author should have offered his own commentaries, some pages are nothing but quotes.

"I seek refuge with Allah the lord of the daybreak from the evil of what he has created and from the evil of the darkening night as it darkens and when the moon goes away and from the evil of those who practice witchcraft by blowing on knot and from the evil of the envier when he envies."

- Basem H. "living the adventure!"