The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“Before Hitler was, I am.” [via, also]

Consider also:

  1. “We magicians are men of science who, by the practice of our craft, keep just ahead of popular understanding. The result is that we are misunderstood and blackguarded all our lives. After we are dead–sometimes centuries after–the world catches up, and discovers that we were benefactors and nor villains.”
  2. “I was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, on October 12, 1875, the son of Edward Crowley, who was a colleague of John Nelson Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren.”
  3. “In my textbook, Theory and Practice of Magick will be found the definition of the word magic, or magick, as I prefer to spell it, to distinguish the real from the fake. It is ‘the science and art of causing change to occur in accordance with the will.'”
  4. “At birth I had three of the distinguishing marks of a Buddha. I was tongue-tied, I had a characteristic membrane which necessitated an operation, and over the centre of my heart I had four hairs curling from left to right in the exact form of a Swastika.”
  5. “I have been shot at with broad arrows. They have called me the ‘worst man in the world.’ They have accused me of doing everything from murdering women and throwing their bodies into the Seine to drug peddling. Some well-known journalists have delighted in attacking me in print. James Douglas described me as ‘a monster of wickedness.’ Horatio Bottomley branded me as a ‘dirty degenerate’ cannibal–everything he could think of. Some have been more precise.”

0 thoughts on ““Before Hitler was, I am.””

  1. Wm. Pritchard

    Definitely not a diabolic statement of origin for Hitler, but in my opinion, rather a spell casting via words to usurp the beginning of the Third Reich's first forrays into occultism – which may have some credence if the myth regarding Crowley's service to the Queen's intelligence branch during WWII. Nice reveal from the Hermetic Library Blog.