"Do what thou wilt" - a brief examination of Aleister Crowley

[Unbound]

I'm somewhat reluctant to share my thoughts on Aleister Crowley, since I feel a deep intimacy with that Life-Stream. Aleister Crowley was a mechanism, a mystery which was first to be revealed and then expounded. The heavily distorted nature of his works were entirely intentional, and in fact entirely necessary at the time for the information needed to be revealed at the time.

Rather, what I feel of Aleister, is that he embodied an archetype of the Magician in the purest sense, and he fulfilled all that he needed to. His life gives us an example, a working model of the potentials contained within the mind, and thus the potential pitfalls that all may be aware of.

I admit, sometimes I feel like I was Aleister Crowley, I have looked in the mirror in the past and seen his face, and looked in to his eyes. Sometimes I've thought perhaps I was communicating with him across time, and I have had some pretty powerful memories when reading about him. Perhaps I am merely experiencing some state of Oneness, I can never be sure.