Mr. Crowley

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...

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...

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.