Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon

Bogdan, Henrik

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“…On the contrary, Crowley thinks that at some point another AEon, that of Ma (or Maʽat), the Egyptian goddess of justice, will follow that of Horus, and will presumably be based on a new revelation. 30 As can be expected, given the occultist context to which Crowley belonged, religious revelation is for him closely related to the idea of initiation. In fact, it must be remembered that "Magus" is not understood here in the generic sense of "magician," but rather in a specific, technical sense, as the penultimate degree of the initiatory system of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which Crowley adopted with some modifications when he created his own initiatory order, the Argenteum Astrum, or A∴A∴.…”

Section: Thelema and Islammentioning

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“…24 We must remember that, for Crowley, the religious history of humanity is divided into several great periods, called "AEons." 25 According to Crowley, we are now living at the end of one of these periods, the AEon of Osiris, which saw the birth and development of authoritarian religions. These are especially the great monotheisms, where God is perceived as a paternal figure.…”

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Aleister Crowley: A Prophet for the Modern Age

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Lucifer Over Luxor: Archaeology, Egyptology, and Occultism in Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle

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One of the great figureheads of American experimental cinema, Kenneth Anger (b.1927), is internationally renowned for his pioneering work, recognisable for its blend of homoerotica, popular and classical music, and dark, symbolist imagery. A follower of Thelema, the religion of infamous British occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), Anger’s work is imbued with occult themes and undercurrents rarely comprehensible to the non-initiated viewer. In exploring these esoteric ideas, Anger makes use of archaeology and heritage in his short films Eaux d’Artifice (1953) and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954–66), as well as in the lost films The Love That Whirls (1949) and Thelema Abbey (1955), which utilize such disparate elements as Aztec human sacrifice and putative Renaissance Satanism. However, this theme only reaches its apex in Lucifer Rising (1980), an exploration of Thelemic theology filmed at such sites as Avebury, Luxor, and Karnak, which reflects and propagates the Thelemic view of the past—an ‘alternative archaeology’ rooted in Crowley’s own fascination with Egyptomania. This paper seeks to explore Anger’s use of the past and place it in its proper context of twentieth-century Western esotericism.

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Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon

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Aleister Crowley and Islam

Aleister Crowley and Islam

Aleister Crowley: A Prophet for the Modern Age

Lucifer Over Luxor: Archaeology, Egyptology, and Occultism in Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle

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