Crowley was truly an international Mason. He
received his 33° in Mexico City and spoke of participating in
Masonic rituals in the United States and also was involved in
other rites of Freemasonry. Not only was Crowley a 33° Grand
Inspector General of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, but he was also
involved in other rites of Freemasonry that went even deeper into
the occult. The Rite of Memphis contained Masonic rituals with a
definite Egyptian flavor.
By the end of 1910, thanks to
my relations with the Grand Hierophant 97° of the Rite of
Memphis (a post held after his death by Dr. Gerard Encausse ['Papus'],
Theodor Reuss ['Merlin'], and myself), I was now a sort of
universal inspector-general of the various rites, charged with
the secret mission of reporting on the possibility of
reconstructing the entire edifice, which was universally
recognized by all its more intelligent members as threatened
with the gravest danger.
Even for a man like Crowley who was obsessed
with the occult, the rituals of Freemasonry provided a profound
occult thrill.
I supposed myself to have
reached the summit of success when I restored the Secret Word of
the Royal Arch. In this case, tradition had preserved the Word
almost intact.
Were Aleister Crowley and his followers or
perhaps a similar group capable of performing acts and rituals
that are comparable to what are described by satanic ritual abuse
survivors. The following quotes are from a book entitled,
Secrets of the German Sex Magicians. This book talks about
the ritual use of pain and attributes to Crowley the most
perverted of practices such as bestiality and the ritual
consumption of body fluids.
The ritual use of pain and agony as an
access mode to trance and magical power does have its limits,
though. For one thing, physical pain tends to dull the senses
in the long run, so that stimuli have to be increased
incessantly. This may quite easily lead to grave bodily harm,
not to mention the fact that it can become downright addictive
and lead to a kindled frenzy not very easily mastered.
Crowley, in fact, trod in his practice a
path similar to that of the more materialistic authorities.
Although he positively encouraged ejaculatory orgasm in his sex
magic, he always made a point of consuming what he called the
"elixir" afterwards. He understood this elixir to be the
mixture of the sexual fluids of both partners or, in the
masturbatory act, as just the semen. He entered very carefully
in his the magical diaries a description of the elixir's
consistency and taste, and he even recorded the prophecies which
he deduced from these data.
And Crowley's practices go on to be even more
disgusting.
Coprophagia, which means consumption of
excrement, here also includes consumption of other secretions
such as urine and sweat. It was ritually practiced from early
times on the sympathetic-magic principle that the secretions of
any entity contain part of its magis. Crowley, for example,
occasionally offered his disciples in Cefalu the excretement of
a goat. This frequently met with no small disapproval!
Crowley performed a similar ritual in his
Sicilian Abbey of Thelema, during which his Scarlet Woman was to
be mounted by a goat which would be beheaded during the climax.
There exists today a secret society that
dedicates itself to carrying on the teachings of Aleister
Crowley. This group is called the O.T.O.. The O.T.O. was founded
earlier this century by high grade Austrian Freemason Karl Kellner
and German Freemason Theodor Reuss. The O.T.O. became a major
force in the occult world when Aleister Crowley became its leader.
Crowley
learned ritual magic from the man who was renown as the master of
his day, MacGregor Mathers. The pupil-student relationship soon
turned into a bitter rivalry and resulted literally in a Black
Magic war. When Mathers died in 1918 many of his friends were
convinced that Crowley was responsible for his death. Mathers,
also a Freemason, introduced Crowley to an occult organization
called the "Golden Dawn" and helped Crowley along his dark walk on
the Egyptian Masonic road.
Mathers
and his wife Moina, the sister of the philosopher Henri Bergson,
lived in Paris. (Mathers tried to convert Bergson to magic, but
without success.) Their house was decorated as an Egyptian temple
and they celebrated 'Egyptian Masses', invoking the goddess Isis.
Mathers officiated in a long white robe, a metal belt engraved
with the signs of the zodiac, bracelets round his wrists and
ankles, and a leopard-skin slung across his shoulders. He was
convinced that he was descended from the Scottish clan MacGregor
and took to calling himself MacGregor Mathers, Chevalier MacGregor
and Comte de Glenstrae. W. B. Yeats, whose magical name in the
Golden Dawn was Daemon est Deus Inversus (The Devil is God
Reversed), was a frequent visitor to the Mathers household in
Paris.
One of the most talked about Satanic groups
in recent years has been The Temple of Set headed by Michael
Aquino.
The
brand of Satanism that is practiced by Michael Aquino and the
Temple of Set is thoroughly Egyptian. In the book, The Book of
Coming Forth by Night (1985) Aquino describes what seems to be
a call to start the Church of Satan and speaks in the first person
as Set, the Egyptian Satan.
The Equinox has succumbed to my Solstice,
and I, Set, am revealed in my Majesty....I am the ageless
Intelligence of this Universe...and from my manifest semblance,
which alone is not of Earth. Known as the Hebrew Satan, I chose
to bring forth a Magus, according to the fashion of my Word. He
was charged to form a Church of Satan, that I might easily touch
the minds of men in this age they had cast for me.
The accusation of child abuse and molestation
against Aquino was made in 1988 by Sandi Gallant of the San
Francisco Police Department, thus placing another link between
Egyptian style Satanism and Satanic Ritual Abuse. The accusations
surfaced concerning the day care center at the Presidio military
installation and were as follows:
Children said they were taken by day to
private homes, including two on army property, where they had
been sexually molested............
Other children talked about a "googoo" game
in which they were urinated and defecated on by a "Mr. Gary"....
Pencils were used to doodle on the skin and genitals of the
children and were also inserted in a child anus.....
A gun was pointed at the head of another
adult in front of the children......
There were five confirmed cases among the
children of chlamydia, a sexually transmitted illness.
Although no formal charges were filed against
Aquino, there were certainly some interesting twists to the case.
His repeated claims of innocence to many were hollow cries. There
are some similarities in the accusations against the day care
center when compared to the recent disclosures of children that we
have been in contact with.
It is not clear how long the army has known
about Aquino's peculiar genus of satanism. But the San
Francisco police have been exceptionally interested since about
1980. The interest crested in November 1987 when police raided
a house where a three-year-old girl told police she had been
molested by a sinister-looking man named "Mickey" who snapped
pictures of her in the bathtub and sexually mistreated her in a
room with black walls and a cross etched on the ceiling. The
girl later spotted "Mickey" in the PX at the Presidio army base
in San Francisco, where Aquino was stationed. The girl said she
thought "Mickey" was Aquino. The girl also said she recognized
Mrs. Aquino. Meanwhile, authorities had found evidence of
ongoing child abuse at the Presidio day care center. A
three-year-old had also been molested, and the cops turned up
six cases of sexually transmitted infection in fifty-eight other
charges at the center. A thirty-four-year-old civilian day-care
worker at the Presidio facility, who was also a Southern Baptist
minister was arrested. At first, the charges were dismissed.
But subsequently, Hambright was indicted anew on twelve counts
of sodomy, oral copulation, and lewd conduct. Hambright later
died of AIDS.
Albert Churchward in his book, The Arcana of
Freemasonry, confirms that Set is the Egyptian name for Satan.
That Sut or Set was first primary god of
the Egyptians, but was god of the South Pole, or Southern
Hemisphere, is amply proved and borne out by the monuments as
well as the Ritual. Set or Sut, according to Plutarch, is the
Egyptian name of Typhon--i.e. Satan of the Christian Cult.
Here
we see 33° Aleister Crowley in all of his Masonic regalia:
