Aleister Crowley's Secret to Winning at Life

[@unjay1967]

Crowley was a total loser!

[@Entelecheia]

Crowley left behind a significant body of work including poetry, essays, and books that are still highly sought after and have been the subjects of academic studies. His first editions still sell for thousands of dollars in some cases. He was a world record-setting mountaineer and became a notable painter in midlife. He's also a pop culture legend despite having been part of my second great-grandparents' generation. But some KZbin commenters think he's a "total loser"! OK.

[@kobalt77]

@@Entelecheia well said Sir !

[@PelorianPages]

May I humbly suggest reading "Lion of Light: Robert Anton Wilson on Aleister Crowley." It's got a remarkable take on the old beast.

[@unjay1967]

@@Entelecheia he was a horrible person who grifted off everybody and was completely ego centric to the level of megalomania. He created his own mystical order so he could claim the highest degree of initiation in it. He died poor and lonely as a heroine Addict in a run down boarding house. Loser

[@PelorianPages]

@@annagarcia2493 People who make up nasty things about others without having a clue are not worth dealing with. I suggested reading a book that might educate some. If you don't want to read it. fine. If you want to libel me because of some problem you have, then kindly go find some accommodating hole to pleasure yourself. Leave me out of your perverse fantasies.

[@apassagebeyond108]

Crowley’s theory on “STARS” sounds a lot like Hinduisms, Adveita Vedanta (Non-Duality), except it’s only ONE Supreme Reality, BRAHMAN🕉️ who is projecting itself as Everyone and Everything, known as ATMAN🕉️.

[@Entelecheia]

That is basically how I understand the relationship between Thelema and Advaita as well. Each star is one supreme reality. but there is no star of stars to which they all belong. Or if there is, it serves no explanatory purpose. See the New Comment on AL I.3 and on I.52. Crowley incorporates the practice of samadhi without necessarily embracing the metaphysical conclusions of the types of monism that result from the universal application of the principle of sufficient reason.

[@apassagebeyond108]

@@Entelecheia in AV there is Only One, which is BRAHMAN🕉️ and everything exists within it or is a projection of BRAHMAN. Hence the term Non-Duality, only One. So that’s the difference between the two ideas. In the sense that we are all Aspects of or Reflections of that One Supreme being, then yes we are supreme beings, but we are not as individuals THE Supreme Being. If everyone was the supreme being it would diminish or negate the term supreme and we would all simply be beings. It’s like having a contest and declaring everyone the winner, well that negates what an actual winner of a contest is, and we all just become recipients of a meaningless title. I tend to agree w/ AV (not Neo-Advaita, but classic Advaita Vedanta - that there is only One Supreme Being and that is BRAHMAM🕉️ but that we are all reflections of that being, known as ATMAN🕉️.

[@dungjames5808]

Life is indeed a game, anything is possible and you can do anything so do as Thy Wilt

[@HansSpeer-w2b]

Here Here, well said sir!

[@StudyChemistry]

Continuing to appreciate how you communicate these concepts and help me think about them differently, both on my own and as I dive into texts. Thank you!

[@iomproirbais]

I was in the oTo for a few years back in the day, until i moved away from it and started on the astrum argentum stuff. You do great work mate thanks for this - goes to show even old dogs like me can learn new tricks ;)

[@MelvinUsher-c4l]

Check out the book Vasishtha's Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda. It has variations of the same theme.

[@joewall8210]

Life advice from allistair crowley was not on my bingo card

[@leeedwards784]

Nuit, our Lady of the Stars! Event is all Thy play, sublime Experiment!

[@Xeper616]

Love your work man, you're to Thelema what the early church fathers were to Christianity.

[@Entelecheia]

Thank you. Believe it or not, this has been said to me as an insult on more than one occasion.

[@LotusJewelz]

I enjoy your content, thank you bro.

[@kobalt77]

What an amazing presentation. Liked and subscribed. I have recently started reading Crowleys' Biography by Tobias Churton, so finding this video and your channel is an amazing sync for me. The Rick and Morty clip was genius. That is one of the best explanations of this "reality" I have seen. Thank you so much my friend.

[@vladster264]

I know what my journey wants to be-and it's not to only explore

[@LSDMTHC]

I’ve read Crowley use the word simulacrum. But I can’t find or remember where.

[@roberthubbard3302]

I don't think Crowley used the term 'star' in the sense of 'film star'.

[@CharliiDaSun]

Great explanations homie!

[@VIAOV]

Roy literally reminded me of Crowley too

[@VIAOV]

yerk

[@Entelecheia]

But does Rick Sanchez? That's the real queston.

[@VIAOV]

@@Entelecheia Sorta. He is an abusive asshole on a personal scale but on a large scale seems to greatly improve the universe by rebellion against fascism

[@AndreaNicoleWatson]

This was fucking fantastic

[@kobalt77]

I thought so too !

[@Acheron93]

Found your channel through Reddit recently, and I can honestly say that your videos are some of the best Thelemic content on this platform. Great stuff!

[@elketerbentzadik]

You got a subscriber.

[@TheBaronOfBromley]

spot on

[@justinhart2831]

But Crowley didn't "win at life." He inheirted his fortune, blew it all over the course of his life, and died addicted to heroin.

[@lukeliepa9415]

So, what's your point ?

[@satansjihad6353]

If his toughts are still influential to this day, then he was successful, just not financially.

[@garylake1497]

Exactly. He was just a grubby, sordid lunatic

[@Shy-m6x]

So to win at life to you means dying with lots of pieces of paper?

[@Shy-m6x]

@@annagarcia2493 93 93/93

[@MartinPeel]

Good video, thanks! What texts did you read that mention stars inhabiting people? It's a concept I've read before, but not specifically from him, I guess one of the Libers but it could be any.

[@Maedhros955]

Book of the Law - every man and woman is a star

[@masonictraveler6558]

I want to hear more about these traveling gods reincarnating. The source to this and etc.

[@Xeper616]

This is the story that's told in dramatic form in the Man of Earth degrees of the OTO

[@Entelecheia]

Ch 13 of Magick Without Tears and various sections of the New Comment. See the selections on my site: lapis-mercurii.org/motb/first-principles.html

[@deadcowtalking]

i like your video lots man

[@satori2890]

Initiation Never Ends. In Dresnen Files Gods are only "mantels" that get passed about😮

[@amonjenning7174]

I'm on board with this! Even the Devil 😈 Is God. We are all actors on a stage. A video game character. This is not real. We dont actually exist. All beliefs are bullshit. Nothing matters. I'm a supreme being, playing a character. Im gonna embrace my devil side. Im sick of playing the game safe. My devil side can help. Unconditional love. 😊

[@sefwright6286]

Looking at Crowley’s life overall, I don’t think he won at life, not in a way that I would want. Alone, addicted, and destitute before he dies. Not what I call a win

[@romperwomb]

We all die alone in the end. The nameless grave, a pile of ash. Perdurabo, his Will accomplished at last

[@BrotherBlue93]

Onion Peelings

[@tambert3897]

Crowley ate poop.

[@ErnolDawnbringer]

bek lover has a way more rational take on reality btw

[@davidgood7621]

Aleister crowley didnt win at life.

[@Shy-m6x]

Why do you say that?

[@davidgood7621]

@@Shy-m6x Because he's in hell now.

[@Shy-m6x]

@@davidgood7621 Gods will is absolute. He's in hell for doing Gods will?

[@davidgood7621]

@@Shy-m6x Do as thou wilt should not be confused with God's will. Unless of course your ego is your god.

[@Shy-m6x]

@@davidgood7621 Not the ego or any part of the material world. But the divine spark which is in all things. You are an infinitely small slice of God experiencing time on earth as a human.

[@jonyspinoza3310]

🌞

[@thejurydoctor6097]

How do you handle the fact that some people have used this way of thinking to justify abusing children even saying, I deserve to hurt these children to feel free to experience the joy of enacting power against them?

[@Entelecheia]

I cannot imagine what was said in this video that could be used to justify sadism. Did you listen to the whole thing? I even explained why it is a realization such as this would not lead one to stop caring about the welfare of others and oneself.

[@abatcatrat]

A peotic explanation brother; thank you, I needed it more than I thought. 😆 👏 👌 93s

[@McD-j5r]

Crowley the Satanist?

[@elketerbentzadik]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ScapeGoat77]

Crowley said a lot of truth, but he didn’t realize a lot of things about the evolution of consciousness and how they relate to “Heaven” (top-down creation - ruled by CLAIMS) and “Hell” (bottom-up creation - ruled by CONTESTS). Love Under Will is the same as saying “Might Makes Right,” ultimately, POWER was Crowley’s only law and his master. This is the philosophy of the “God of War, who sits at the top of Hell.

[@jamesmanolakis2420]

A man who was shunned by society, devoid of friendships. He was hated by almost all who knew him closely. He was rejected by his peers. He left a trail of destruction behind him and died alone in abject poverty. This is the guy you're going to take advice from in " succeeding " in life? L O L..... 🎶 What a fool believes 🎶

[@satansjihad6353]

You believe in some pretty stupid propaganda.

[@questprotector]

crowley died a pauper in a flophouse.

[@kobalt77]

and here we are, 80 years later watching a video about him and his work.

[@Shy-m6x]

I thought he died in an upper class long term hotel room.

[@Shy-m6x]

@@annagarcia2493 Yes he died in an upper class long term hotel room.

[@stormstensgaard9101]

Good, thanks. 93 :)

[@riddickriddick9520]

Considering how Crowley ended up, he is the last person on Earth who could give advice on how to "win at life"!

[@M.R.T.V.Videos]

People who fly really high in life often crash and burn very dramatically on the way out

[@riddickriddick9520]

@@M.R.T.V.Videos True. Crowley was, however, quite literally flying high much too often... sort of Ikarus effect... or paradox, if you will.

[@misvideosaqui]

​@@M.R.T.V.Videossounds like gaslighting