On page 157 of his biography of "New Age" hero Aleister Crowley, author Colin Wilson writes, in a parenthetical note: "One of his female admirers, Martha Kuntzel, was quite right to see a close resemblance between Crowley and Hitler."
Eleven pages later, in his concluding comments about Crowley, Wilson writes that he was "a failure as a human being, as he himself was inclined to acknowledge in moments of honesty. But he thought that unimportant compared to the religion of Thelema, the philosophy of human free will that would enable man to evolve to a higher stage. If we ignore Crowley and concentrate on his philosophy, it seems highly probable that he was right."
What is useful about Wilson's book, if the reader ignores the meanderings on psychology, magic, and the occult and the often pretentious, gossipy style, is that it establishes the fact that the "New Age" Aquarian project is itself Nazi, or, better yet, the force behind the eruption of Nazism. This may not be the overt intent of the book, but given the pedigree of author and publisher, it is impossible to hide the sympathies for fascist ideology. Just as Wilson can't hide the fact that Crowley was a disgusting degenerate, a murderer, a sodomist, etc., just so he can't resist the necessity of praising and justifying Crowley's "romantic quest," poetic capabilities, "elements of greatness," and the like. The book is, then, court-admissible evidence for the criminality of the "New Age" Aquarian project as a whole.
Colin Wilson is a popular chronicler and supporter of the "New Age" movement, having previously written biographies, with titles like Carl Gustav Jung: Lord of the Underworld, Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision/An Introduction to the Life and Ideas of the Founder of Anthroposophy, and George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep. For Wilson and the "New Age" crowd, Crowley is one of the pantheon of heroes: during his life (1875-1947), he was, at one point or another, a chief figure in and/or inspirer of, such groups as the Ordo Templi Odentis/OTO (for whom he wrote a "Gnostic Mass" in 1913), the Theosophists, the Order of the Golden Dawn, one or another faction of the Freemasons, and others. At the same time, his combination of cabalistic mysticism, drugs, and promiscuous perverse sex, brought together into a system called "sex-magie," has had much attraction for the "Aquarians."
As Wilson emphasizes, recent years have seen a "Crowley revival." Explaining this "revival" is the raison d'etre of the book. (more...)
Aquarian author admits ' New Age' movement is Nazi
