"When we say 'our rulers', we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. There is no escape from the fact that they do, and always will, rule mankind, because we constitute a symbolic class of life, and we cannot cease from being so except by regressing to the animal level."
-- Alfred Korzybski, Science & Sanity
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Aleister Crowley the press dubbed the Wickedest Man in the World. He referred to himself as the Great Beast 666. He was a bit of a dick--the flapper's Marilyn Manson: not what people feared he was but still not someone you'd want to date. For better or worse, Crowley initiated the modern era of magick with Thelema. While honeymooning in Cairo in 1898, a supernatural entity named Aiwass contacted him. The result was The Book of the Law and the coining of "Do what thou wilt," or in plain modern English, "Do as you will." After conjuring Thelema, Crowley was initiated into the O.T.O. or Order Templi Orientis. The OTO is a s…
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