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EXCERPTS FROM THE ENGLISH REVIEW

E XCERPTS F ROM

THE

ENGLISH REVIEW

Aleister Crowley

W ITH I NTRODUCTION AND A RTWORK BY

G. M. Kelly

K OKOPELI P UBLISHING

1996 E . V .

Material by Aleister Crowley

This edition, accurate to the articles as they originally appeared,

is published privately for Thelemites and other friends.

EXCERPTS FROM THE ENGLISH REVIEW

CONTENTS

page

Introduction .................................................................................................. 5

By G. M. Kelly.

The Great Drug Delusion ........................................................................... 10

By a New York Specialist. Vol. XXXIV, June 1922

Percy Bysshe Shelley .................................................................................. 15

By Prometheus. Vol. XXXV, July 1922

The Jewish Problem Re-Stated .................................................................. 20

By a Gentile. Vol. XXXV, July 1922

The Drug Panic .......................................................................................... 28

By a London Physician. Vol. XXXVI, August 1922

The Crisis in Freemasonry ......................................................................... 33

By a Past Grand Master. Vol. XXXVI, August 1922

“Our Beloved Beast”

— G. M. Kelly

EXCERPTS FROM THE ENGLISH REVIEW

INTRODUCTION

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

he did, as the whim or poetic need demanded, conjures in the minds of

most practices of black magic, people driven to drink or madness, sexual

debauchery and drug abuse. However, these images are evoked by the slan-

derous lies attached to the man’s name and his work which necessarily threat-

ens the very fabric of existence for some, exposing religious con-games and

so-called “scientific” dogma. These images are promoted by the sensational-

istic writers whose need for notoriety and profit far exceeds their concern for

the truth. Most of all ignorance is to blame for these false images. The igno-

rance of those who would vilify the name of Aleister Crowley, and the igno-

rance of those who accept such falsehoods as truth and continue to spread

them further without going to the trouble of carefully studying for them-

selves the life, personality and work of the man himself. If this is done, hon-

estly, objectively, then one is bound to achieve a profound revelation. Aleis-

ter Crowley did not practice black magic. He abhorred it. Yet he also recog-

nized the fact that such things as good and evil are very often, if not always,

extremely relative points of view. Most certainly to the Roman Catholic priest-

hood, for instance, the philosophy that A. C. established in the world, Thelema ,

is the most abominable “black magic” imaginable for it teaches men and

women how to be free and self-governing rather than subservient to the dic-

tates of one man, cloistered in Rome and out of touch with reality, woefully

living in a mediaeval mindset. To the Pope and others of today’s “orthodox”

religions, crumbling before our very eyes, Thelema is a heresy for it teaches

that what Jesus and other prophets were we can all become. That is to say, we

can all realize the divine within us. The Thelemite is not enslaved by a list of

Thou Shalt Nots which have no relevance to the needs of today’s world, and

there is no need to ask for priestly mediation between oneself and ones God

for the Thelemite achieves God Realization for him- or herself, recognizing

that no mediator can do this for anyone.

If individuals that Crowley was once associated with eventually went mad

or enslaved themselves to drug or drink we can no more blame him for their

personal choices than we can blame ourselves for the ill fates some of our

associates in life have fallen prey to. No one can drive another mad. No one

can drive another to alcohol or drug abuse. One makes ones own choices in

A LEISTER C ROWLEY . The very name, pronounce it as you will for I am sure

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