Mystics | Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World | 3
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Mystics | Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World | 3

What happens when you raise a child telling him he's the Beast — and he decides to prove you right? Could a man

who genuinely repelled everyone around him have quietly shaped the culture we live in today? And, is the world of

sex, drugs, and rock and roll actually the legacy of a repressed Victorian occultist with a god complex?


Peter and Afua descend into the dark, theatrical, and genuinely troubling life of Aleister Crowley: English occultist,

self-declared Great Beast 666, and the man who may have done more than anyone to wire transgression, desire, and

spiritual hunger into the DNA of modern culture.


0:00 The wickedest man in the world — and why he owned it

6:00 The Exclusive Brethren: the suffocating sect that made Crowley inevitable

10:00 Cambridge, cigars, and erotic poetry: the beast is unleashed

15:00 Golden Dawn and the occult underground of Victorian London

20:00 Mountaineering, meditation, and the spiritual pick-and-mix

24:00 Cairo, 666, and the Book of the Law

26:00 Rose Kelly: the woman without whom none of it happens

33:00 The Abbey of Thelema and a scandal that shocks even the tabloids

38:00 How Crowley became the Beatles' and Led Zeppelin's spirit animal

42:00 Jack Parsons: the rocket scientist who performed Crowley rituals by night

44:00 Was Crowley a feminist? (Afua has thoughts)

48:00 The stain that runs through modern culture straight back to him


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