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The Conspiracy Zone published an article on the Blog space
concerning Crowley, which is misleading and inaccurate. Here
is a response from an interested party.
The Con-Zone then say that Crowley was ‘kicked out of’ every
country he ever visited, which is a blatant lie. He was asked to
leave an Italian island once following the death of a visiting
friend. Crowley was living there at the time, having set up his
‘Abbey of Thelema’ on the island, with his wife, Leigh Hersig,
and their children. They were regularly visited by travelling
British aristocrats who wanted to experience Crowley’s Abbey
and who provided him with much needed funds to feed the wife
and kids. The friend who died had probably been trying to keep
up with Crowley’s mammoth drug use and overdid it. This
caused the fascist government much bad press and so they asked
him and the family to leave.
Beside this incident Crowley had travelled widely without
problems; climbing K.2 and other Himalayan peeks and
walking single-handed across the Sahara desert. He was an
accomplish mountaineer and liked to set challenges for himself.
Page and Robert Plant, Zeppelin’s lead singer, did not ever say
that their lyrics come from the occult. Page had an interest in
Crowley, which Plant never indulged in. To say, as Con-zone
does, that Crowley described magic being spread by musical
mediums is ridiculous. The music heard when Crowley was
alive featured orchestras and brass bands; Rock music was some
way off. It was obviously written by Con-zone to link Rock
music with Crowley. They describe how lyrics come to Plant
and Page implying that there is something occult about getting
word on paper. Creativity and inspiration is a virtue we all can
tap into if we put our minds to it. It may be divine, or it may
not, who really knows?
Some so called Heavy Metal bands of the 1980s did use satanic
references in their lyrics but only because they lacked
imagination and wanted to shock so they repackaged the
Christian ideology of their ‘god-fearing’ pappies and sold it
back to the kids; but this was well removed from anything Led
Zeppelin did.
Getting back to Crowley, okay, he was a egomaniac, a self-
publicist, a drug user and womaniser. He was also artistic (see
his tarot card designs), creative, knowledgeable and deeply
spiritual. His understanding of Eastern theology, Chinese I-
Ching, Buddhism, the Tarot, astrology, Greek Gods, Egyptian
mythology, Kabbalist lore (The Zohar), transcendental
meditation, Babylonian esoteric tradition and Magical
correspondences was second to none. While most of his
contemporaries are dead and forgotten Crowley is remembered,
talked about, topical and still in print; seriously, that’s magic.
c: The Dogbreaths
5 March 2010