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originally posted by: DAVG1980
a reply to: mysterioustranger
Yeah Crowley fan and thelemite Jimmy Page owned it for a while, I believe it has been a very unlucky place for each of its owners, with freak fires to blame, its now a wreck.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: DAVG1980
He wasn't summoning demons at Boleskine but rather performing the Abramelin invocation to come into contact with his Holy Guardian Angel. The fact that he aborted the ritual without finishing completely has led some to speculate he didn't banish properly and so the working did attract other entities.
His bisexuality led to his expulsion from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a society dedicated to arcane ritual and magic which flourished across Europe in the late 19th century, with celebrity followers including the poet WB Yeats, who detested Crowley. The Great Beast founded his own cult inspired by Ancient Egypt, with tortuous rituals – including anal sex – for different grades of initiates, and was later thrown out of Sicily by Mussolini for sexual depravity. He died penniless in a Hastings boarding house in 1947.
In 1898 he was 22, and had fallen heavily for Pollitt, a fellow undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, renowned in student circles as a theatrical female impersonator under the name Diane de Rougy. They met in October 1897, broke up before Christmas, wrote yearning letters to one another over the holidays, and became lovers on New Year's Eve, an event recorded by Crowley as "admitted to permanent office in the Temple, midnight, December 31, 1897". A few months later it was all over.
Crowley would later write: "Pollitt was rather plain than otherwise. His face was made tragic by the terrible hunger of the eyes and the bitter sadness of the mouth. He possessed one physical beauty - his hair ... its color was pale gold, like spring sunshine, and its texture of the finest gossamer. The relation between us was that ideal intimacy which the Greeks considered the greatest glory of manhood and the most precious prize of life."
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: SeaWorthy
The Abramelin ritual does not include any sex magick. It is a Qabbalistic working consisting of much purification and prayer.
He didn't largely get into that other stuff until around the 1910's, mainly in the USA.
In the autumn of 1898 George Cecil Jones had directed the attention of Frater Perdurabo to a book entitled “The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.”
After a period of communion with the Angel, he summons the Four Great Princes of the Daemonic World, and forces them to swear obedience.
On the following day he calls forward and subdues the Eight Sub-Princes; and the day after that, the many Spirits serving these. These inferior Daemons, of whom four act as familiar spirits, then operate a collection of talismans for various purposes. Such is a brief account of the Operation described in the book.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
He wasn't summoning demons at Boleskine but rather performing the Abramelin invocation to come into contact with his Holy Guardian Angel.