Curt's Aleister Crowley Page
"Theorists have not been at a loss to explain, but they differ."
Uncle AL
this page is up to date as of June 6, 2001

§ Lawrence Sutin has written a biography of Aleister Crowely entitled (appropriately enough): Do What Thou Wilt. I haven't read it - but I have read Sutin's biography of Philip K. Dick. I can think of no greater compliment than to say that Sutin's biography of Dick is as strange and wonderful as Dick's own writing!

§ The Ra-Hoor-Khuit Network is a new (at least to me) web site with what looks to be a real goldmine of Crowleyana.

§ Two pretty good all-around, general purpose, heavy-duty Thelemic links are The College of Thelema (especially check out their "Equinox Online" - complete with illustrations) and The Thelema Home Page.

§ A bunch of artsy type Thelemites in Austin, Texas have one of the most visually attractive and well maintained thelemic pages I've ever seen - The Scarlet Woman Lodge of the O.T.O.

§ I used to think that Crowley was just another degenerate nut-case Occultist - and possibly even a fascist. But then I read Eight Lectures on Yoga - and I realized that there might be something to this guy after all.

§ This link also includes Magick in Theory and Practice (Part One is especially good!) Magick Without Tears, The Book of Lies, and the Book of the Law - but its all in ascii (serviceable, but not pretty).

§ Of course there is the "Official" Thelemite organization: the O. T. O. (But what possible sense does it make to have an "official" Thelemite organization??)

§ On April 8, 9 and 10 in 1904 the being Aiwass dictated a strange book to a strange man, resulting in Liber AL: The Book of the Law. And here's The Book of the Law in various languages.

§ Here is a nice little Liber Resh page for ya.

§ Crowley and the artist Frieda Harris together designed the most unique and powerful Tarot Deck in the known universe: The Book of Thoth. And those crazy folks at the Ra-Hoor-Khuit Network have their own, extremely nice looking Book of Thoth section on their web site - check it out! And there is another Tarot deck called Navigators Tarot of the Mystic SEA that appears to be at least in part inspired by the Thoth deck and/or Crowley's writings. Its also quite beautiful.

§ Are you worried that you might be a Thelemite? Then take this test (if you even understand this test that is already a very bad sign!)

§ And if you scored pretty high on the test, then you'll want to check out The Ape of Thoth - a search engine for searching the Holy Books of Thelema and other texts (including The Book of the Inlaws!).

§ Lastly - if you want to add to your collection of Crowley pics, then you might want to check out this page.

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