Results 1 to 26 of 26

Thread: Aleister Crowley

  1. #1

    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Posts
    89
    Mentioned
    1 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default Aleister Crowley

    Aleister Crowley - Wikiquote
    Goodreads quotes

    Personality:

    Crowley biographer Martin Booth asserted that Crowley was "self-confident, brash, eccentric, egotistic, highly intelligent, arrogant, witty, wealthy, and, when it suited him, cruel". Similarly, Richard Spence noted that Crowley was "capable of immense physical and emotional cruelty". Biographer Lawrence Sutin noted that Crowley exhibited "courage, skill, dauntless energy, and remarkable focus of will" while at the same time showing a "blind arrogance, petty fits of bile, [and] contempt for the abilities of his fellow men". The Thelemite Lon Milo DuQuette noted that Crowley "was by no means perfect" and "often alienated those who loved him dearest."

    Crowley enjoyed being outrageous and flouting conventional morality, with John Symonds noting that he "was in revolt against the moral and religious values of his time". Crowley's political thought was subjected to an in-depth study by academic Marco Pasi, who noted that for Crowley, socio-political concerns were subordinate to metaphysical and spiritual ones. Pasi argued that it was difficult to classify Crowley as being either on the political left or right, but he was perhaps best categorised as a "conservative revolutionary" despite not being affiliated with the German-based conservative revolutionary movement. Pasi noted that Crowley sympathised with extreme ideologies like Nazism and Marxism-Leninism, in that they wished to violently overturn society, and hoped that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union might adopt Thelema. Crowley described democracy as an "imbecile and nauseating cult of weakness", and commented that The Book of the Law proclaimed that "there is the master and there is the slave; the noble and the serf; the 'lone wolf' and the herd". In this attitude he was influenced by the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and by Social Darwinism. Crowley also saw himself as an aristocrat, describing himself as Laird Boleskine; he had contempt for most of the British aristocracy, and once described his ideology as "aristocratic communism".

    Crowley was bisexual, and exhibited a sexual preference for women. In particular he had an attraction toward "exotic women", and claimed to have fallen in love on multiple occasions; Kaczynski stated that "when he loved, he did so with his whole being, but the passion was typically short-lived". Even in later life, he was able to attract young bohemian women to be his lovers, largely due to his charisma. During same-sex anal intercourse, he usually played the passive role, which Booth believed "appealed to his masochistic side". Crowley argued that gay and bisexual people should not suppress their sexual orientation, commenting that a person "must not be ashamed or afraid of being homosexual if he happens to be so at heart; he must not attempt to violate his own true nature because of public opinion, or medieval morality, or religious prejudice which would wish he were otherwise." On other issues he adopted a more conservative attitude; he opposed abortion on moral grounds, believing that no woman following her True Will would ever desire one.

    Biographer Lawrence Sutin stated that "blatant bigotry is a persistent minor element in Crowley's writings". Sutin thought Crowley "a spoiled scion of a wealthy Victorian family who embodied many of the worst John Bull racial and social prejudices of his upper-class contemporaries", noting that he "embodied the contradiction that writhed within many Western intellectuals of the time: deeply held racist viewpoints courtesy of their culture, coupled with a fascination with people of colour". Crowley insulted his close Jewish friend Victor Neuburg using anti-Semitic slurs, and he had mixed opinions about Jews as a group. Although he praised their "sublime" poetry and claimed that the "Jewish race" contained "imagination, romance, loyalty, probity and humanity in an exceptional degree", he also thought that centuries of persecution had led some Jews to exhibit "avarice, servility, falseness, cunning and the rest". He was also known to praise various ethnic and cultural groups, for instance he claimed that the Chinese people exhibited a "spiritual superiority" to the English, and praised Muslims for exhibiting "manliness, straightforwardness, subtlety, and self-respect".

    Crowley also exhibited a "general misogyny" that Booth believed arose from his bad relationship with his mother. Sutin noted that Crowley "largely accepted the notion, implicitly embodied in Victorian sexology, of women as secondary social beings in terms of intellect and sensibility". Crowley described women as "moral inferiors" who had to be treated with "firmness, kindness and justice".











    There is one ENTJ in this forum who keeps meassuring all ENTjs according to himself. That is he thinks that all the desries and problems he has are in fact shared my all ENTJs. If he were to know what I know about the true nature of types and how broad they really are, he would easily see how petty and specific his personal problems really are. To enlighten other people about ENTjs here is a very curious ENTJ that I came accross in one of the books I read recently. Oddle enough this guy figured prominently in a cultural history of the tank, in fact his occult thoeries might well have been the fountainhead from where Blitzzkrieg originated.
    Last edited by silke; 01-23-2016 at 11:37 PM. Reason: updated links
    fiona

  2. #2
    Hot Message FDG's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2005
    Location
    North Italy
    TIM
    ENTj
    Posts
    16,806
    Mentioned
    245 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    Actually I might agree with you Dio, even if ENFJ comes as close second.
    Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit

  3. #3
    Haikus
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Location
    Berlin
    TIM
    LSI 5w6 sx/so
    Posts
    5,402
    Mentioned
    144 Post(s)
    Tagged
    1 Thread(s)

    Default

    Terribly hard to type, thought about him lots already.

    insane(ly creative) Ne type is my guess, LII-Ne ... possibly 854/485 or something in that area.

  4. #4

    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    TIM
    Ni-IEI-N 4w3 sx/so
    Posts
    8,869
    Mentioned
    46 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    beta extrovert is my vague impression, unsure of e-type.
    4w3-5w6-8w7

  5. #5
    Banned
    Join Date
    Sep 2014
    TIM
    f a g g o t
    Posts
    385
    Mentioned
    12 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    Crowley was fueled chiefly by rebellion against childhood Christianity, which he resented. Te abhors rebellion. Te is about conforming to systems. I doubt LIE ENTj.


    I've also heard IEE and LSI for him--both rebellious by nature, but conflictors. There are a lot of historical people who are too often typed as LSI by one party and IEE by another even though they conflict, because of similar traits they can possess. I might have to think about that one.
    Last edited by Cerelict; 11-19-2014 at 10:55 PM.

  6. #6
    Contra's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2014
    TIM
    ILI-Ni
    Posts
    1,404
    Mentioned
    57 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Cubozoan View Post
    Crowley was fueled chiefly by rebellion against childhood Christianity, which he resented. Te abhors rebellion. Te is about conforming to systems. I doubt LIE ENTj.
    Te is not the conformity function and it has never been said that Te is about conforming to systems. Aristocrats can have that collectivist conformity attitude but that obviously applies to both Beta and Delta, logical and ethical.

    Anyway, EIE is the obvious typing for Crowley since he was a religious leader, but I really doubt he was and EIE. Plus Beta NF is way overtyped on this forum. I honestly doubt he was ethical at all. Probably logical for sure and I'd guess extraverted since he put himself in the limelight so much. I don't see much wrong with the LIE typing.

  7. #7
    Thelema's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2016
    TIM
    468 so/sx
    Posts
    18
    Mentioned
    0 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    I've seen a lot of different typings for this guy.
    INFp, ENTj, ESTp, ENFj...

    One thing I'm sure, though: this guy wasn't a sensor. He wasn't a sensor, doesn't matter what definition you apply to this word. I can understand where the SLE typing comes from, but... no. Just no.

    I also think he was xIE. Ni creative all the way. Maybe Enneagram 8.
    "If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness".



  8. #8
    Kill4Me's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    TIM
    SLE-Ti 8w7 so/sp
    Posts
    2,608
    Mentioned
    268 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    ILE-Ne

  9. #9
    No Fate Pole's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2015
    TIM
    LSI-Se
    Posts
    814
    Mentioned
    100 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    I get a H i t l e r vibe from him, not because they're both seen as wicked and evil by the world, they both share an occultic fanaticism, both studied alone to master their obsessions, highly intelligent, both claimed to have communicated with aliens, both were charismatic womanizers, "cult leader" types.
    LSI-Se 836 Sp/Sx

  10. #10
    Dauphin's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2016
    Location
    North Carolina
    TIM
    EIE
    Posts
    946
    Mentioned
    23 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    ILE. If you read his works, Ti and Ne are everywhere (example:http://www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no1/eqi01012.html) He advocated for a scientific approach to magic, using strict documentation, as if it was a scientific experiment. As well, his cruelty and his hatred for traditional morality is evidence of Fi-PoLR.

  11. #11
    falsehope's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2018
    TIM
    ILE ENTp-Ti
    Posts
    438
    Mentioned
    40 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    He's ILE Ne. Looks identical to friend of mine who's of such type.

  12. #12
    divine, too human WVBRY's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    TIM
    LSI-C™
    Posts
    6,028
    Mentioned
    237 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    I understand the ILE typings since he was into everything strange but I lean more SLE for him, he has the beta mindset I think. He's just a stereotypical ILE, all the while being an actual SLE.

    Enneagram 8w7, he had a gluttonous appetite for life, drugs, sex, emotional abuse, etc. Maybe 7w8.

  13. #13
    Kill4Me's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    TIM
    SLE-Ti 8w7 so/sp
    Posts
    2,608
    Mentioned
    268 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    ILE-Ti 8w7 sx/sp

    He's clearly got an expansive cognition. The associations between the church of Crowley and his actual experiences are so loose and remote that we can clearly deduce the "what is" never "is" for Crowley. He lived in an orgy of possibility. He creates his own universe from scratch. Experiences are just sacrifices to the esoteric, bringing him closer to what will be his big picture grandiose vision. It just so happens he was drawn to the occult like an ILE spaceship inventor was drawn to astronauts and out of space. Raw external intuition can look like paranoid schizophrenia when it gets out of control.

    ILE esoteric leaders with Ti subtypes tend to develop a fully functional school of thought around their cognition - Ti subtype provides an ability to collect and organize the intuitions in a way that would continue on after death in the form of ritualization, whereas ILE esoteric leaders with Ne subtypes leave things in more disarray, making it harder for others to piece together their entire body of thought.

    As for his enneagram type, I agree that the motivation for type 7 is subversion, but 8w7 makes more sense. Ne-dom is also a subversive function because it inevitably rearranges reality, so that makes his 7 wing appear even more subversive. 8 and 7 are also both aggressive/expansive types. So when 8w7 combines with ILE, you get an ILE whose intuitions are more aggressive in its violence-towards-reality and more expansive in terms of how much reality it wants to rearrange. For Crowley, it was the entire universe.
    Last edited by Kill4Me; 02-20-2018 at 02:07 AM.

  14. #14
    divine, too human WVBRY's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    TIM
    LSI-C™
    Posts
    6,028
    Mentioned
    237 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Kill4Me View Post
    ILE-Ti 8w7 sx/sp

    He's clearly got an expansive cognition. The associations between the church of Crowley and his actual experiences are so loose and remote that we can clearly deduce the "what is" never "is" for Crowley. He lived in an orgy of possibility. He creates his own universe from scratch. Experiences are just sacrifices to the esoteric, bringing him closer to what will be his big picture grandiose vision. It just so happens he was drawn to the occult like an ILE spaceship inventor was drawn to astronauts and out of space. Raw external intuition can look like paranoid schizophrenia when it gets out of control.

    ILE esoteric leaders with Ti subtypes tend to develop a fully functional school of thought around their cognition - Ti subtype provides an ability to collect and organize the intuitions in a way that would continue on after death in the form of ritualization, whereas ILE esoteric leaders with Ne subtypes leave things in more disarray, making it harder for others to piece together their entire body of thought.

    As for his enneagram type, I agree that the motivation for type 7 is subversion, but 8w7 makes more sense. Ne-dom is also a subversive function because it inevitably rearranges reality, so that makes his 7 wing appear even more subversive. 8 and 7 are also both aggressive/expansive types. So when 8w7 combines with ILE, you get an ILE whose intuitions are more aggressive in its violence-towards-reality and more expansive in terms of how much reality it wants to rearrange. For Crowley, it was the entire universe.
    To the bolded - wasn't that actually more the case with Crowley? He left his body of though kind of scattered throughout his works, without any kind of real structure behind Thelema. He did leave certain structures in the form of OTO, which was basically a Masonic order he took and turned into a vehicle for Thelema. So the structure itself preexisted him. His A:A: for example became a mess in itself without anybody really able to trace things back to authentic lineages founded by Crowley and bogus ones.

    For the record I am seeing how ILE works for Crowley. He did have an expansive congition which would indicate a preference for Ne over Ni, which contracts more in the realm of ideas.

  15. #15
    Kill4Me's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    TIM
    SLE-Ti 8w7 so/sp
    Posts
    2,608
    Mentioned
    268 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Avebury View Post
    To the bolded - wasn't that actually more the case with Crowley? He left his body of though kind of scattered throughout his works, without any kind of real structure behind Thelema. He did leave certain structures in the form of OTO, which was basically a Masonic order he took and turned into a vehicle for Thelema. So the structure itself preexisted him. His A:A: for example became a mess in itself without anybody really able to trace things back to authentic lineages founded by Crowley and bogus ones.

    For the record I am seeing how ILE works for Crowley. He did have an expansive congition which would indicate a preference for Ne over Ni, which contracts more in the realm of ideas.
    Fair point. This is some stuff I came across:

    "Within the year, Crowley had written the Manifesto of the M∴M∴M∴ which described its basic ten-degree system with Kellner’s three degree Academia Masonica forming the seventh, eighth and ninth degrees.

    In 1913, Crowley composed the Gnostic Mass while in Moscow, which he described as being the Order’s "central ceremony of its public and private celebration".[7] In 1914, soon after World War I broke out, he moved to the United States. It was around this time that Crowley decided to integrate Thelema into the O.T.O. system, and in 1915 prepared revised rituals for use in the M∴M∴M∴."


    "After Crowley's death Germer attempted to keep O.T.O. running, with questionable success. Crowley had granted a charter to run an O.T.O. Camp in England to Gerald Gardner, and Germer acknowledged Gardner as the O.T.O.'s main representative in Europe. The two men met in 1948 in New York to discuss plans, but Gardner's continuing ill health led to Germer replacing him with Frederic Mellinger in 1951. Also in 1951 Germer granted a charter to run an O.T.O. Camp in England to Kenneth Grant, who had briefly served as Crowley's secretary during the 1940s."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordo_Templi_Orientis

    the structure section reads like the set-up of a religion. I think he must have found it important to institutionalize Thelema inside institutions that would outlive him. I also read that Crowley put an emphasis on position and title. He had an easy time rising in leadership for the organizations he joined. There's an interest in formal process with all the ceremonies and rituals. I see him to the Occult world as the equivalent to like somebody who holds high political office. I think he had to have been methodical in a way that Ne-subtypes are not in order to accomplish that. Overall, just smells more Ti-subtype to me.

  16. #16
    falsehope's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2018
    TIM
    ILE ENTp-Ti
    Posts
    438
    Mentioned
    40 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    Maybe he has strong Ti but may have had stronger Ne. He was into magic after all.

  17. #17
    Seed my wickedness The Reality Denialist's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2015
    Location
    Spontaneous Human Combustion
    TIM
    EIE-C-Ni ™
    Posts
    8,235
    Mentioned
    335 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    Diving into own mind is not very ILE. They externalize it (therefore socionics is acceptable hobby for them). Ignoring stuff.
    Does not end up in systematized structure.

    See how socionics was put together. You can spot it in one paragraph from Psychological types.
    MOTTO: NEVER TRUST IN REALITY
    Winning is for losers

     

    Sincerely yours,
    idiosyncratic type
    Life is a joke but do you have a life?

    Joinif you dare https://matrix.to/#/#The16Types:matrix.org

  18. #18
    divine, too human WVBRY's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    TIM
    LSI-C™
    Posts
    6,028
    Mentioned
    237 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Troll Nr 007 View Post
    Diving into own mind is not very ILE. They externalize it (therefore socionics is acceptable hobby for them). Ignoring stuff.
    Does not end up in systematized structure.

    See how socionics was put together. You can spot it in one paragraph from Psychological types.
    Did he not externalize his mind though?

    As in, his iNtuitive function was quiet expansive?

  19. #19
    ouronis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2014
    TIM
    ref to ptr to self
    Posts
    2,999
    Mentioned
    130 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    I'm a fourth ray ascendant master

  20. #20
    divine, too human WVBRY's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    TIM
    LSI-C™
    Posts
    6,028
    Mentioned
    237 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by ouronis View Post
    I'm a fourth ray ascendant master
    OMG same here.

  21. #21
    Exodus's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    TIM
    LII
    Posts
    8,475
    Mentioned
    332 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    No way was he anything other than a Beta extrovert. I tend to prefer SLE based on his opportunistic/selfish approach to spirituality but EIE is definitely possible.

  22. #22
    Banned
    Join Date
    Oct 2018
    Location
    Beyond the Pale
    TIM
    Heretic
    Posts
    7,017
    Mentioned
    151 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default



    I think he has to be evaluated in terms of:

    1. He's somehow legitimately one of the most famous people in Great Britain.
    2. He seemed like an actual Satanist with somewhat of a political or "Illuminati" type of agenda.

    However, I feel inclined to type him as an introvert since he mostly seems to talk to whatever beings he believed in (real or imaginary) rather than people and Jung seemed to type his introverts that way, even though if I were making my own theory I would think people talking to imaginary gods and demons have an extraverted temperament. That just brings me back to reasons Jung should probably be abandoned. However, if I had to type him, probably something like ILI, since that particular probable political agenda comes off gamma to me, he seems very much irrational over rational, and I would use Jung's definition of Ni to apply to him.

  23. #23
    divine, too human WVBRY's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    TIM
    LSI-C™
    Posts
    6,028
    Mentioned
    237 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    I currently think he was EIE, probably EIE-C. EIE is the type that "speaks to society" and his embracing the label (given to him by the press) as "the wickedest man in the world" is a way of playing a role in the eyes of society. There is much more to his personality than that, of course, and this isn't a typing written in stone. I don't think he was SLE. His writings aeren't particularly logically coherent, and while, yes, he climbed mountains, I know an EIE who enoys this hobby. I think Jack London style adventurism is typical of EIE/LIE. Being a mountaineer doesn't make him a sensor per se.


  24. #24
    divine, too human WVBRY's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    TIM
    LSI-C™
    Posts
    6,028
    Mentioned
    237 Post(s)
    Tagged
    2 Thread(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Coeruleum Blue View Post


    I think he has to be evaluated in terms of:

    1. He's somehow legitimately one of the most famous people in Great Britain.
    2. He seemed like an actual Satanist with somewhat of a political or "Illuminati" type of agenda.

    However, I feel inclined to type him as an introvert since he mostly seems to talk to whatever beings he believed in (real or imaginary) rather than people and Jung seemed to type his introverts that way, even though if I were making my own theory I would think people talking to imaginary gods and demons have an extraverted temperament. That just brings me back to reasons Jung should probably be abandoned. However, if I had to type him, probably something like ILI, since that particular probable political agenda comes off gamma to me, he seems very much irrational over rational, and I would use Jung's definition of Ni to apply to him.
    I don't know how you define "Satanist" in this context. I was wondering however, if you had heard those theories that he was an MI6 spy?


  25. #25
    Banned
    Join Date
    Oct 2018
    Location
    Beyond the Pale
    TIM
    Heretic
    Posts
    7,017
    Mentioned
    151 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Evergreen View Post
    I don't know how you define "Satanist" in this context. I was wondering however, if you had heard those theories that he was an MI6 spy?
    I don't think I've heard those, so thanks!

    By Satanist, I mean people who worship the Devil or demons, even if they think the demons are the good guys fighting an evil god (maltheism) or they worship many of them rather than one (e.g. demonolatry.)

  26. #26

    Join Date
    May 2022
    Posts
    107
    Mentioned
    1 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Default

    Crowley was a very eccentric SLE; his wife made a large contribution to his works and never got the credit. She worked as a medium of sorts until Crowley was done with her and had her committed to an asylum.

    On March 16, 1904, when he tries to "shew the Sylphs" by means of a ritual to his wife, Rose. Although she could see nothing, she did seem to enter into a light trance and repeatedly said, "They're waiting for you!" Crowley took Rose to the Boulak Museum and asked her to point out Horus to him. She passed several common images of the god and led Aleister straight to a painted wooden funerary stele from the 26th dynasty, depicting Horus receiving a sacrifice from the deceased, a priest named Ankh-f-n-khonsu. Crowley was impressed by the fact that this piece was numbered 666 by the museum, the number that he had identified with since childhood.

    He began to listen to Rose, and at her direction, on three successive days beginning April 8, 1904, he entered his room and wrote down what he heard dictated from a shadowy presence behind him. The result was the three chapters of verse known as The Book of the Law.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •