Mr. Crowley

well i know most of the nazi party before and during its rise to power were heavily influenced by occultism, black magick and many other ritualistic cults that have since died out. just because nobody in the general public knows what exactly they studied, they could have well studied Mr. Crowley in they occult moments and picked up the use of the swastika from him. who knows.

That's actually a very good assumption I never thought of the connection before Aleister was a very influential member of the occult community

The swastika was one of the symbols of the Nordic thunder god Thor. It was used by one of the smaller tribes of the Norse, i can't recall which one exactly. This is where Nazi Germany got the swastika because they believed that the viking warriors had to be the same as the great Aryan race due to their fighting prowess.

@ramthar The swastika actually was derived from the subcontinent Indians (not native Americans). Similarly Hitler based his design on the Indian swastika, as the Ayran "race" was derived originally from northern India.

He was a Christian at a time, but he became a Satanist later on. "You waited on Satan's call". Doh.

the reason why he separated from christianity was cause of his fathers death. he was so mad about it and failed to believe in that god. his family was really religious, so when his pops died he decided to do something to piss his mom off, he decided to sin real bad, he fucked a woman who i believe worked for his parents or something(someone please correct me if im wrong, i forgot a bit about this) on his mothers bed, at the age of 14 i believe. and then he went on and tried to discover different teachings. he wanted to be into something Dark as people say. so when he found it, he began to exceed in it. he wanted to do things that they didnt allow, so he considered them not good enough. then he went on a trip with his wife to egypt for their honeymoon i believe. then his wife had some vision type shit(im not gonna get into detail with everythin), she showed him horus, then later that night Horus came to him along with Nuit and Hadit. they told him to write down everything they said and that is how Thelema came to exist. (im not tryna say ur wrong in any way with what u said, just tryna clarify that he didn tall of a sudden become obsessed with ancient egypt.

Actually, something interesting is that Crowley was born and raised Christian, specifically the Exclusive Brethren, a very conservative faction of Christianity. As a young man in a Catholic university, he often argued theology with his teachers about what he perceived to be incongruences in the bible. When his dad died, he disassociated himself from both schools of Christianity and jumped from cult to cult. He stuck with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn for a little while, but then helped in the overthrowing of the leaders of the group. After a while, he spent time in Egypt, where he claimed to have been visited by his Guardian Spirit "Aiwass", who spent an hour with him each day for three days in a "temple" and passed down to him the "Book of Law". Then he founded the religion of Thelema in Celafu.

@ozzykicksbutt he wasn't an Satanist ... he founded his own religion / philosophy Thelema, he was labelled a Satanist by the misinformed and those looking to misinform others

Yes he was! =) as a matter of fact, correction, he wasnt called 666, he was called "The Beast 666".

Yeah he was an occultist, probably an Oculist, and is exactly why you shouldn't support him, as he did not have humanity's best interests at heart ever. He's the reason these Satanic churches and After School Satan programs will plant themselves around the US, influencing children and brainwashing the sheeple, furthering our decline.

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