Eric Gill Eric Gill, the son of a minister who belonged to a small Protestant sect in England, became a Roman Catholic.
Eric was inspired by the the sexually explicit Hindu temple carvings found in India.
(17 October 2009, The Guardian, Fiona MacCarthy on Eric Gill- 'Mad about sex')
Eric Gill became a sculptor.
Jesus by Eric Gill
Eric Gill's letters and diaries record many extramarital affairs and his incest with his sisters and with his two eldest daughters when they were in their teens.
The sisters "appear to have absorbed the experience, making apparently good and happy marriages, bringing up large families.
"Their history challenges received opinion on the inevitability of damage done by child abuse." ('Mad about sex')
Eric Gill
Eric Gill's adopted son, Gordian, may not have been so lucky.
Gordian was rumoured to be the result of sex between a Catholic priest and a nun.
Gill made sculptures of Gordian.
In one carving 'Foster Father', Gordion "is clasped to the father in an embrace that resembles the male-female conjunction..."
Gill's statue of Prospero and Ariel above the entrance to the BBC's Broadcasting House can be "interpreted as God and the Christ child, Gill and his own beloved son."('Mad about sex')
Eric Gill - Prospero and Ariel at BBC Broadcasting House.
As an adult, Gordion "drifted from job to job.
"For a time he was a porter at Asprey's in Bond Street.
"He drank heavily and, according to members of the family, periodically stole Gill's work and sold it.
"He was said to have been 'in trouble with the police'.
"When Gill left him just £500 in his will, Gordian's bitterness increased." - ('Mad about sex') Massacre of the Innocents by Eric Gill
Reportedly, 'he inspired the free-love generation of the 1960s'.
He died a penniless drug addict.
Aleister Crowley was called, by sections of the press, 'The Wickedest Man In the World'. (Owen, Alex The Place of Enchantment. University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Crowley had a difficult childhood. Some would say that Crowley went mad.
His father's money came from a family brewery business.
The Brethren have a strong interest in Hell and Satan.
As a child, the only book Crowley was allowed to read was the Bible.
From the age of eight he was sent to strict Evangelical boarding schools.
At his second school he was bullied and beaten by 'a sexually ambiguous sadomasochist' headmaster.
He "was forced to leave many schools, on one occasion because he had caught gonorrhoea from a prostitute." (Channel 4: Masters of Darkness)
Aleister Crowley went to the posh private school called Malvern College, and to Cambridge University.
Crowley
In 1896, he decided to take up occultism. This was after a homo-erotic experience that brought him what he considered "an encounter with an immanent deity." (Sutin, L. Do What Thou Wilt. 2000)
Boy of red lips, pale face, and golden hair,
Of dreamy eyes of love, and finger-tips
Rosy with youth, too fervid and too fair,
Boy of red lips.
How the fond ruby rapier glides and slips
'Twixt the white hills thou spreadest for me there...
According to Sutin (Sutin, L. Do What Thou Wilt. 2000) Crowley had a deep relationship with Herbert Charles Pollitt, a transvestite whom he met at Cambridge in 1897.
In a 1929 letter, Crowley wrote
"Call me a bugger if you like, but I don't feel the same way about women. One can always replace a woman in a few days." (letter to Montgomery Evans, January 17, 1929, O.T.O. archives, quoted Sutin p. 334)
Crowley suffered from asthma and was prescribed drugs for this.
At various times he experimented with laudanum, opium, cocaine, hashish, marijuana, alcohol, ether, mescaline and heroin.[70]
Crowley married Rose Kelly and took her to Egypt.
In 1904, in Cairo, Crowley had 'a revelatory experience,' perhaps influenced by drugs.
Crowley performed an invocation of the Egyptian God Horus.
According to Crowley, the God told him that a new Aeon for mankind had begun, and that Crowley would serve as its prophet.
"Believing himself to be the messiah of a new epoch, Crowley swore that he would perform depraved acts and learn to love them.
"Christianity was dead, he declared.
"His new religion had one all-powerful doctrine: 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.'" (Channel 4: Masters of Darkness)
Crowley headed to Vietnam, where he abandoned his wife Rose and their child Lola. .
In his biography, Aleister Crowley: the Nature of the Beast, Colin Wilson writes that Crowley complained in a letter "that he was having an awful job of keeping Neuberg away from Arab boys for whose brown bottoms he had a 'frightful lust.'" (Wicca Turns 50 -- Sex-Crazed Satanic Roots of a New Religion)
Richard B. Spence, in his 2008 book Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult, wrote that Crowley was an agent of British Intelligence
"While they were staying in Algeria, Crowley and Neuberg were being closely watched by the local French colonial police.
"They believed the Great Beast was on a secret mission in North Africa to gather information for British Intelligence, using his magical operations as a cover." (SECRET AGENT 666).
During World War I, Crowley was in the USA, acting, or pretending to act, as a German propaganda agent.
If he was an agent provocateur he could have had a role in provoking the sinking of the Lusitania, thus bringing the United States closer to active involvement in the war alongside the Allies." (Spence, Richard B. 2008. Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult.)
"When World War I began in 1914 Crowley was living in the United States. There he posed as an Irish revolutionary to infiltrate pro-German groups and engage in black propaganda on behalf of Britain’s SIS (Secret Intelligence Service or MI6) or the NID (Naval Intelligence Department)." (SECRET AGENT 666)
During World War II, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books and one time British intelligence officer, proposed using Crowley.
Reportedly, this was to help MI5 supply Nazi Rudolf Hess with fake horoscopes.
Fleming suggested using Crowley as an interrogator.
According to a review (SECRET AGENT 666) of Richard Spence's "SECRET AGENT 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult In World War II":
In the 1930s Crowley "became friendly with Maxwell Knight, the assistant director of the Security Service (MI5), Ian Fleming, the assistant-director of Naval Intelligence who later penned the James Bond spy novels, and Dennis Wheatley, the occult thriller writer who served on Winston Churchill’s top-secret planning committee for total warfare.
"When war broke out in 1939, Spence says that Crowley was interviewed by the NID (Naval Intelligence) and in his diary he recorded that the meeting went 'as satisfactory as could be expected.'
"When a combined NID/SIS sting operation managed to lure the top Nazi Rudolf Hess to Britain on his ill-fated ‘peace mission’ in 1941, Commander Ian Fleming of NID suggested to his superiors that he should be interviewed by Crowley.
"It is claimed in this book that Crowley did in fact interview Hess several times at a secret MI5 interrogation centre at Ham Common in south London." (Michael Howard in New Dawn. SECRET AGENT 666)
Crowley died in a Hastings boarding house in 1947 at the age of 72.
Crowley wrote: "It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm.
"For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory." ("Of the Bloody Sacrifice and Matters Cognate." Book Four Part III, Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter 12. (Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Crowley's "Preface to Sepher Sephiroth", 1911 [83], originally published in Equinox 1:8. contains a statement of Crowley's belief in the blood libel against the Jews [84]:
"Human sacrifices are today still practised by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length by Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have compassed heaven and earth to suppress [85], and evidenced by the ever-recurring Pogroms against which so senseless an outcry is made by those who live among those degenerate Jews who are at least not cannibals."
Crowley's image appears in the background of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. There has been speculation that the title track was referencing Crowley.
Crowley and his beliefs were the subject of testimony in the 1994 murder trial of Damien Echols, as shown in the documentary film Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills.
Ozzy Osbourne released a song titled "Mr. Crowley" on his solo album Blizzard of Ozz. A comparison of Crowley and Osbourne in the context of their media portrayals can be found in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.[106]
Author Robert Anton Wilson features Crowley as a main character in his 1981 novel Masks of the Illuminati.
Bruce Dickinson, singer with Iron Maiden, wrote the screenplay of Chemical Wedding (released in America on DVD as Crowley),which features Simon Callow as Oliver Haddo, the name taken from the Magician- villain character in the Somerset Maugham book "The Magician", and in turn inspired by Maugham's meeting with Crowley.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is a collector of Crowley items. He owns his clothing, manuscripts and ritual objects. During the 1970s Page bought Boleskine House, which also appears in the band's movie The Song Remains the Same.
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Eric Gill - Prospero and Ariel at BBC Broadcasting House.
Massacre of the Innocents by Eric Gill
