Agent Crowley: Voodoo Zombies, Gnostic Mass & The Occult War for America

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We are back with another episode of free the rabbits and we are back on some secret agent

Crowley.

And this is an ongoing series that I've been doing since about the inception of this

show.

So if you're brand new, I would say go back and watch the previous seven to eight episodes

that I've already done because this is a series that will be continuing for a while until

finally we get to the very end of it, but it'll be a while before that.

But today we're going to go into another layer of secret agent Allister Crowley and some

of the things he was doing in the United States specifically in conjunction with the Germans

but working for British intelligence, but also manipulating the Americans as well.

So he had his hand in a lot of different pots.

We're going to talk about some interesting people that he was connected to today that

also had some very interesting practices that they were involved in.

We're going to break down the Gnostic Mass a little bit today too because some of those

people that he was connected to that were also connected to the Germans were also connected

to this ritual that was done as a part of the auto template orientus.

And it was set up by Crowley himself and this is part of what I talk about a lot on this

channel is that Gnosticism and again to the Gnostic, I understand that Gnosticism is

a massive umbrella, but I will say this all of these occultists throughout history are

Gnostic and they wholly believed in it while simultaneously fighting against Christianity.

So I have a really tough time with the person who's the Christian Gnostic because what

you are practicing is in alignment with what these occultists also practice.

We're going to talk about this Gnostic Mass today that Crowley set up himself, but to

even get there, we're going to jump from where we were on the very last episode that we

talked about, secret agent Crowley, and we're going to talk about him leaving Lake Pasconi,

which we talked a lot about in the anthrax and the cross of the frog episode, which was

the last one, and how that Evangeline Adams, who was a big astrologer to the rich and

famous and who wrote and co-authored books with Crowley, had allowed him to stay at

her lake house and how he was performing all these different rituals there.

I mean, he was contacting Orbs there, sounds a lot like some of the guys in the UFO space

right now, but Crowley has a gap of time in his confessions, and we talk about his

diaries, we talk about his confessions a lot on this channel, and in this series, and

he ignores several months in between him leaving Lake Pasconi to go to New Orleans.

And we're going to talk a little bit about New Orleans today, obviously, we're going

to talk about his jumped off Florida, and why that he was in New Orleans, the Florida,

and we're also going to talk about his return to New York.

And all of these not only have these occult machinations to them, but also his contacts

with the British intelligence and who he was trying to connect with while he was away

and subsequently when he headed back to New York.

So it's interesting about this gap of time, and he talks about this some in confessions,

and we're definitely going to look at chapter 78 a good bit today because he goes into

some of what he was doing initially when he went into New York, but also this gap of

time, right?

This is this weird gap of time where he said he was doing all these different magical

operations.

And he talks about during this time that he's granted what the mystics describe is the

be a tithic vision.

Now in Christian theology, specifically Catholicism, it talks about the direct sight of God, and

it's the final when you see God at that final site.

But according to Crowley, he attributes it to the titha-rath, the archetypal idea of

beauty and harmony.

Now the titha-rath is the sixth Sephora in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and it represents

spirituality, balance, integration, beauty, miracles, compassion, really the union of

the polarities, right?

And when the titha-rath is first talked about, it's in the bah here, and the bah here

is an anonymous mystical work, and it is first mentioned in the late 20th century, and

it is one of the early books that eventually became known as the Kabbalah.

And in that book, it says six is the adorned glorious, the life of a throne of glory, the

house of the world to come.

It's places engraved in wisdom as it says, God said, let there be light in there was light.

So obviously, there's going to be a lot of overlap when we're talking about Kabbalistic

thought patterns, and in connection to the Old Testament specifically.

So this is Jewish mysticism 101, and Crowley was big on Jewish mysticism, big on the Kabbalah,

big on geometry and numerology, all these things Crowley adhered to, and he is speaking

specifically about the connection to the titha-rath or this beatific vision, and he goes on

to second his confessions in this vision one retains one's normal consciousness, but

every impression of daily life is as enchanting and in squizz it as the ode of Keats.

The incidents of life become a harmonious unity.

One is lost in a rosy dream of romantic happiness, and notice the emergency rosy dream,

and Crowley is connected to also the rose accrucians as well.

And that's specifically from the order of the Golden Dawn, and we're going to see that

here in a second as we continue with what he says in his confessions.

One may compare it to the effect produced by wine on some people.

There is, however, no unreality in the vision.

And it's not blinded to the facts of existence is simply that the normal incoherence and

discrepancy between them has been harmonized.

So this is this union of the polarities, the order in chaos.

He goes on to say, while in this subject, let me mention that the titha-rath corresponds

to the great of initiation on the threshold of the order of the red, rose, and gold cross.

So we're back to rosy-crucianism again, and I encourage people to go back and listen

to my five part series on rosy-crucianism in America.

But he says, and to the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel.

So obviously your HGA is always going to be connected with these practices, specifically

in Crowley's case, Iowa's, even though he did have connections to many, many other entities

throughout his career.

And in regards to this titha-rath, he says it therefore marks a critically important

stage in initiation.

Only one other is equally 777.

We know that's the number of God, but we also know it is used as an inversion when we're

talking about the Kabbalah, when we're talking about many of these occult secret societies.

And we know that John D used it as his magical number as well.

They view it as a number of perfection, which it is a number of perfection, but they are

trying to bo-guarded over into their line of thinking as it's their line of perfection.

This is what Crowley's talking about right here.

He says, I have called the vision corresponding to this vision of wonder, which permeates

one's daily life in a similar way.

The difference is that penetrating beyond sensory perceptions, one is aware of the mechanism

of events of the subtle chain of causes which connect them.

So by combining the microcosm us with the macrocosm, which is, in Crowley's case, baffamette

or ennostic traditions, obviously the boothos that you are being, you are now able to perceive

reality in a deeper lens, in a deeper way than the people around you are.

So when things are happening, you're looking at them at a completely different ascended

level than what others would where they would get caught up in the mundane, whereas you

are looking at the mundane in every little microcosm as a movement towards the greater macrocosm.

He says, the effect is that one is lost and wonder at the ingenuity of the universe to

use a very inadequate word as being the only one available.

One feels the intense, a wed admiration with the greatest masterpieces.

So he's going to name out some names here and he's going to talk about some of these

artists and writers and he says of Kant Beethoven, Shakespeare.

There we go.

There's a huge connection to rose accrucianism, Rembrandt, Ryman Kelvin, and such as they

inspired with the difference that all impressions are equally poosent to produce it.

So the fact that they are able to connect to the macrocosm to create this art, but also

if you have found that union through this tiffa wrath that you will be able to also perceive

the art the way that the initiate is supposed to perceive it.

This is what he's talking about and this is what he's doing in this in between time between

the time he had in Connecticut to this time in New Orleans.

And he also has a connection to Gertavon Kothak and we remember Gertavon Kothak and she

was a German prostitute and the young angel of revolution.

And she was one of Crowley's lovers and we know that he talked about her being the German

prostitute that was also connected to Alice Kumara Swami or Ratan Devi and we're going

to talk about her a little bit later in this episode, but we did talk about that whole

escapade in the last Crowley episode that we had and he actually has some interactions

with her in that time period between Connecticut and New Orleans as well.

And she actually signals some urgency when she meets him for the last time.

So the thought pattern is that there was some information traded between her and him and

we're going to talk about her husband too and some information that he was also trading

off the Crowley.

So Crowley was manipulating a lot of people around him to gather information and specifically

we know that Gertavon was doing that by sleeping with other men and even her husband and retrieving

information from him and sending it back to Crowley who then he would give it to British

intelligence.

There's a couple of other things that are important during this in between time and one

of them is a George Vox bacon and he was an American journalist and he was sent to Britain

in September of 1916 by German intelligence officers in New York City.

So he's in New York City and he is a writer for PhotoPlay magazine and he was finding out

about anti aircraft defenses.

He was looking at fighting ship technology and he was checking on the morale of the people

in Great Britain because obviously the wars rate waging the Americans aren't in world

world one yet.

So it's a chess game and it's all a chess game for the Germans to stop the Americans from

coming into the war and for the British to get the Americans to come into the war.

And as we've been building this entire series we know that Crowley was a huge catalyst

to bring the Americans into world war one and the British end up finding out that George

Vox bacon is working with German intelligence and they find this incriminating evidence in

his possessions and some of its secret writing materials and the name and address of known

German intelligence contacts in the Netherlands.

So we're going to get to how that British intelligence found out about this guy and Crowley

is going to be a head that keeps popping up as he always does when people are found out

that he has some sort of affiliation with through multiple sources that are within the

German camps a lot of times and this is no different.

So while bacon was a German agent in New York he had some key contacts there.

One of those was Albert Sander and he was another journalist and he was the head of the

German American Literary Defense Committee.

So Sanders was also tight with George Sylvester Varick and we know George Sylvester Varick

he was Crowley's boss because he was head over the propaganda paper, the fatherland which

Crowley wrote for.

So Crowley was really tight with him plus Varick ran the propaganda cabinet circles with

a lot of different men who were saddling up to the American government obviously trying

to stop them from coming to the war but at the same time they were pushing a lot of propaganda

throughout the United States to convince the Americans not to step into the war too.

And George Sylvester Varick was a big part of this but Crowley worked for him.

So we have this connection between bacon and Albert Sander who Albert Sander was very close

to Varick.

So this is how Crowley is able to start keeping tabs on who's doing what and Varick was very

loose lit with Crowley from all indications so whatever information Crowley needed to get

because they believed that Crowley had their back.

I mean you've got to think Crowley was teaching them occult practices.

We know that Crowley was also acting like he was very anti-British while simultaneously

working for British intelligence and that makes a good secret agent.

We also know at the time Crowley was working underneath Sir William Wiseman who had come

into the United States and he brought in his new handlers and one of those was Norman

Graham Thwates which we've talked about in the last episode as well and Thwates was one

of the personal handlers to Crowley but Wiseman was Crowley's boss too and we know that

M.I.5 was put on Bacon's trail from tips emanating from Wiseman's New York section of M.I.5.

So we know Crowley who's connected to Varick who's also connected to Sanders is also connected

to Bacon.

So this is the chain of command and by the time the information gets to Crowley he funnels

it up to Thwates who then funnels it to Wiseman and we know for a fact that the information

came out of Wiseman's camp so it makes perfect sense that Crowley was again thwarting the

Germans behind the scenes while also working for them and what's interesting is in 1917

Bacon was sentenced to death but he turned on Sanders to save himself and they end up sending

him back to the United States and he ends up skating because of it because he turned on

Sanders and several others but Sanders ends up getting locked up in a federal pen and Atlanta,

Georgia.

So Crowley again at the central centerpiece of taking down yet another German intelligence

agent while working for British intelligence.

So another incident that happens during this in between period that we've been talking

about is surrounding this submersible called the Deutschland and the Deutschland pulls up

in the first of November in 1916 in Connecticut in New London and it's about 120 miles northeast

of Manhattan.

Now there's a crowd that gathers there and what one of the important central people that's

there when it docks is Frederick Hitch and he was kind of a sabotage king that was working

for the Germans and he was also connected to Anton Dilger and if you remember last episode

when we were talking about anthrax and we were talking about these different cultures

of viruses that were being cultivated to use his biological warfare that Anton Dilger

was doing this in the United States.

Now we know that Crowley went to DC and for on vacation he was trying to gather information

on Dilger.

It doesn't look like they Crowley got a whole lot of headway there but we do know that

Frederick was connected to Dilger.

So here's what's interesting about the Deutschland.

So when the submersible pulls up to the American docks in Connecticut it's carrying chemical

dyes, medicines and gems plus packets of confidential mail for Ampaster von Bernstorff.

Now if you remember von Bernstorff was a German politician ambassador to the United States

from 1908 to 1917 and he was also connected to people within politics and he was outed

as working for German intelligence and Crowley had a lot of problems with von Bernstorff

and he received these confidential packets in this submersible trip.

Also it is suggested that there were fresh cultures for Anton Dilger's germ lab in

Maryland which makes sense because Frederick Hinch was tight with Dilger.

So we've got all of this going on and you're going to wonder how does this tie into Crowley

here?

Well it's going to make sense here in a second.

So during the Deutschlands 20 days import there were rumors that British warships were

lurking to ambush just outside of a three mile radius.

Now there is a storm which happens but the Deutschland gets away and the Deutschland never

comes back to the Americas after that.

But during that time the submarine hosted a steady stream of visitors.

Guess who they hosted?

Bernstorff and Varic, Varic who is tied directly into Crowley.

So Varic would have told Crowley whatever was going on on that ship, whatever that ship

had Crowley would have been privy to.

And here is what makes it even more interesting.

So Crowley wrote in the natural thing to do which was a fictionalized book and it centered

around Simon if who was a detective and Simon if was supposed to be a fictionalized kind

of souped up version of Crowley.

He talks about returning to England by the Deutschland.

So in the book it's not a sub-ringing but it is a liner but he had never used that

verbiage before and any other writing and it only happened after this Deutschland had

come to the United States and then left and then never came back again.

The thought pattern is is that Crowley was trying to find a way to get to Germany and as

a matter of fact Armado Crowley, Charles Armado Crowley who was an English occult writer

and magician who was said to be the illegitimate son of a cultist and mystic Aleister Crowley

and over a period of 30 years from 1970s to 2000s he published many books and recordings

about his time that he learned under his father in secret and again mainstream historians

will tell you that this guy is lying and maybe he is lying you know what I mean but I know

that there are several Crowley and historical writers that talk about this guy specifically

because he seems to know a whole lot about Crowley and it lines up to a lot of what Crowley wrote

about. One of the things he says specifically considering this Deutschland he says that Crowley

had long expressed his desire to go to Germany and report on the conditions of the country

but it was rejected by the quote unquote unimaginative British officials so he couldn't get the

British to sign off on him going to Germany as a secret agent there and I here's what I honestly

think the more that I dig into Crowley the more that I see that no one really trusted him not even

British intelligence as much as they let him skate into what he wanted and he stayed out of trouble

because of obviously the great information he was bringing to them I think they knew deep down

that Crowley was out for himself he touted this British patriotism and I think there was some of that

right we talked about that I think even in the very first episode we did this series that he did

have a certain level of British patriotism that he kept but he was Alster Crowley he was the beast

he was looking out for himself and I think that the occult always took center stage over anything

else over anything he did as a secret agent over any mass trickery that he was doing to people

pulling the wool over their eyes masquerading as whatever character that he was masquerading as

you know he was a Charlotteson too I don't take that out of the equation I've told you guys that

but I don't think that any intelligence agency truly trusted him and I think the British were

no different and I think they were worried about if they sent him to Germany what he might do

and to that point I brought up Simon if and I want to deviate off just for a second to talk about

the Simon if tales and one of the big stories that he ever wrote with Simon if in it was obviously

the moon child and I've talked about the moon child on this channel before and we don't need to go

into that today but Simon if was a central character in that but he was writing Simon if short

stories long before the moon child moon child he started writing while he was in New Orleans and

we're in this in between period so he starts doing a lot of Simon if short stories right we need

gets to New Orleans so I think it's important to talk about Simon if and this souped up version

of Crowley because of what he was trying to convey to the audience and specifically the initiate

because the if characters interesting and the stories are interesting because they're pretty

unique in a sense that there's no supernatural elements to any of these stories at all there's

no paranormal phenomena that go on in these stories and as a matter of fact all the cases that

Simon if investigates are all very human crimes right what makes it interesting and what

qualifies them as a cult detective stories is the methods of which Simon if tries to figure out

what is going on with these cases the who've done it right and in it he is a magus so he is

connected to the occult and they do talk about the white brotherhood the black brotherhood

they do talk about called aspects but really it's all centralized around Simon if's ability to

understand the human psyche and this is very interesting because Simon if has a profound knowledge

of all human psychology and he knows by just looking at people's mannerisms and how that they

appear and what they say it shows him what makes them tick and he thinks that it may make them

look eccentric to other people but it helps him be able to decipher who did what and that's how

he as a detective in the stories is able to break down the end game and figure out the end of the

cases and again it's what makes his detective stories unique in the sense that they're not overtly

occult however let's not throughout the idea of occult blinds and the idea of twilight language

which is all through it but on the surface level they're not super occult now moon child will come

off a little more that way but it's not so much centralized around paranormal activity or whatever

it's still more about a who done it however it is talking about the creation of a homunculus or a

moon child so I believe that would probably be a little bit more in the occult vein than some of

the other stories that he wrote and I think that the way he wrote about Simon if is how he worked as

a secret agent because one of the things that he's Simon if for is Simon if's beliefs that in order

to solve a crime it's necessary to study the minds of the people involved he says that minds are

more important than facts so he's got no machinations in trying to dig around on the floor looking for

clues he doesn't care about people's alibis he doesn't care about blood stains he doesn't even

care about the scene of the crime sometimes Simon if won't even show up what he does care about

is information on the people involved to understand the workings of their minds that is how Simon if

is able to come to the conclusions of all these cases it makes perfect sense and the reason why I

broke away to talk about just a little bit about the Simon if stories is there a direct reflection

in my opinion of how Crowley operated with people it was all about understanding how the mind

worked how to manipulate someone you know what's very interesting about Crowley depending on what

person and what situation he was in they would say he was stupid or they would say he was weak or

they would have something negative to say about him there would be other people that have the

complete opposite to say obviously I really feel like those are people he wanted them to feel that

way that's a true secret agent because a true secret agent does not care about what the person

thinks about them so much as getting the job done and this place right into the Simon if tails

and if they were interested in checking those tails out I mean they're all over the internet to

read for free you just type in Simon if PDFs short stories moon child's another one they're all

fictionalized tales but they're very interesting because it lets you know about how Crowley's

mind was working not only on a British intelligence level but also the way that he thought about

other people because some of these people that he had to stay for specifically Samuel Bell

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Crowley's time in New Orleans and he's very coy in it even in his diaries about what he's doing

there we really got a dig deep to find out what his true reasons were for being there because he

says at least in his diaries that it was all a desperate magical effort so this was all to do with

his magical incantations his magical ascension this was where he was writing all these Simon if

writings and the moon child this was where he was really finding himself finding his groove in

the Americas when it came to magic and the magical operations that he was trying to perfect but

there are other people involved that are there new Orleans at the same time that we can look at

there's probably more to it than just Crowley and what he was working on with occult practices

there were some other very interesting people that he was connected to now when he first gets there

on November 12th he says that he receives a receipt of the largest sum of money I have

handled in 12 months since his last road trip and he notes that his original destination was supposed

to be Texas and we'll talk about that in a little bit because he speaks on why that he was headed

to Texas we'll talk about one of these central characters that was in Texas that's connected to this

whole area that he's in in New Orleans but we're going to go back to chapter 78 of confessions

because this is where we get what he has got to say about New Orleans and he says New Orleans

in San Antonio are said to be the only two towns in the United States which possess

souls of their own so here he's talking about that most towns and cities in the United States

have a very uniform feel they're not unique but he goes on to say that the relief confer by the

old quarter of New Orleans threw me instantly into an ecstasy of creative energy I wrote day and

night continuously poems essays and short stories my principal invention was the detective Simon if

whose method of discovering the solution of a problem was calculation of the mental and moral

energies of the people concerned this is back to the Simon if idea that he was just using

Simon if stories as a vehicle to show how he would break down the people that he was around

and how he could manipulate them to do what he needed them to do so to get to more of what

Crowley's doing on a secret agent level in New Orleans we have to look at a Lindley Miller case

and he was a teacher scholar and activist and he was born on February 24th 1867

in New Jersey and he was the son of a wealthy and aristocratic Anthony Quentin and Edwina

Luisa Kasey and her father a successful lawyer had been appointed by the president

Abraham Lincoln as the United States attorney for New Jersey where he started from 1861 to 1886

so he came from a very aristocratic family now we're going to talk about how he gets in trouble

with the United States a little bit but to get to that we got to talk about his connection to Crowley

so to get to that Kasey ends up meeting with Crowley now Kasey is in Texas at Austin so this is

kind of that connection to Crowley and Texas and the idea that Crowley was trying to head to Texas

there's various reasons but this was one of them but Kasey was interested in starting a branch

of the OTO and he knew that Crowley was the American chief of the order and so he wanted Crowley

to lend a hand in helping to build that but we got to dig a little bit deeper what Crowley's

agenda was here so obviously Kasey is from this wealthy New Jersey clan he graduated from Harvard

in Columbia he studied in Germany and guess who he became really good friends with Hugo

Moonstorburg so we know that Hugo Moonstorburg is like Crowley's nemesis but Crowley's been keeping

tabs on him this whole time he's also trying to figure out a way to take Moonstorburg out not just

for British intelligence reasons but Crowley's personal reasons because he couldn't stand him we

also know that when Crowley was at Lake Pasconay and he was several hours away from Hugo Moonstorburg

in Boston and we know that Crowley was said to have been visiting there to keep tabs on Moonstorburg

there so here's just another way to watch what Crowley's doing and his pro German machinations

and what he was up to in connection to the Germans as well so not only is Crowley keeping tabs on

Moonstorburg through Kasey but he's also watching Kasey now Kasey ends up getting in trouble

with the Americans because Kasey had ties to pro Germanism which was already being looked at by

the Americans but he was also said to be a socialist revolutionary which some people think that he

had a connection to Gerder von Kothek which obviously so did Crowley and Crowley could have had

in with Kasey there to keep an eye on him through Gerder von Kothek and he actually bitterly opposed

the Woodrow Wilson administration at the time and that obviously put major eyes on him by the

United States and he had links to German networks in New Orleans and Mexico so by the time Crowley

does end up leaving New Orleans Kasey had such trouble that at that time Crowley

wasn't even keeping in contact with him anymore but the real reality is Crowley was funneling

information to British intelligence and it seems to be he was also funneling either through them

or directly to American intelligence what Kasey was up to or at least modeling what Kasey was up to

and again Kasey is just being watched heavily at this point he's not being arrested

but there's a lot of heat on him right now and Crowley wants to stay away from that but obviously

think Crowley had a lot to do with bringing that heat on Kasey but to connect another piece

of why that Kasey and Crowley were working together was also Theodore Roos and I know I've

talked about Theodore Roos during this series too but just to refresh you he was a German

occultist Freemason Illuminati Martinus Rosa Crucian Theosophist journalist singer and founder

of Ordo Templai Orientis and he was the one that gave Crowley his mission to start the OTO

here in the United States so Theodore Roos was a big part of this connection because Crowley

and Kasey would have been talking about direct orders coming down from Roos and what's interesting

about Roos he was a pacifist but he was pro-German and he was trying to stay out of the entire

war that was going on and he started this a national grand lodge a mystic temple of the Ordo

Templai Orientis and Hermetic Brotherhood of Light and that was started in 1916 at Monte Verita

in Switzerland and he wanted to create this idea of a pacifist answer to the war through this

lodge at least that was part of it right and one of the things he talked about was the two neutral

centers of the order one of them was in Monte Verita which we talked about and the other was in

New York and the New York chapter was in the hands of the beast Alistair Crowley and Alistair Crowley

talks about one of the new rituals that was the main ritual of the lodges which was the

Gnostic Mass and we're going to break down the Gnostic Mass here because I think it's important

because of Crowley's connection to the government I want to talk about one specific part of the

Gnostic Mass which is super disgusting and weird that I think plays into the modern day

occult rituals that go on behind the scenes in the government as well specifically when we're

talking about the Epstein's of the world the Bush's the Clinton's bomb is even the Trump's

no people don't like to hear that happen is true and to get there though he writes the Gnostic Mass

and it is technically called Lieber 15 and this was in 1913 when he was in Moscow, Russia

and he says it represents the original and true pre-Christian Christianity oh god here we go

so this is interesting right this is very very Gnostic by nature because what Gnostic say

that they are the true version of Christianity they believe that Pauline Christianity these versions

are the fake versions the real version is the versions that spawn from the S scenes

and Crowley saying the exact same thing again I'm asking the question how can you

believe that you're a Christian and be a Gnostic you can you can in my opinion isn't a

cult dark road that you're going down even though you believe it is the path of light and why would

people like Crowley feel so comfortable being able to use the literature and use the ideas

that come from Gnosticism and again he creates this Gnostic Mass from that idea and he uses the

structure similar to the mass of Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church and he

implements the principles of the Lima into it and the ceremony calls for five officers a priest

of priestess Deacon and two adult act lights called the children quote him quote now

now that is what the mainstream say I'm going to dig another layer there and explain

what it is these children really are because this is what you're just going to see in these very

surface level very mainstream depictions of the Snostic Mass and you probably see people perform

the minute will be to adults right just on the outward shell that's not what was really going on

now the end of the ritual culminates in the consummation of the Eucharist and it's a gobble of wine

and a cake of light and then they end it by saying there's no part of me that's not of the gods

now the cake of light super interesting there are so many different weird things about that

because the cake of light contains flour honey obramellain oil which is an anointing oil and it's

used in western esotericism and it comes from the grimoire the book of the sacred magic of obramell

in the mage in 1897 and we know that it was translated to English by Samuel Del Mathers who

Crowley had big problems with but they were in the golden dawn together well it's described as

the adapted version of the biblical holy anointing oil that's described in the book of Exodus

attributed to Moses and it's said to have parts of Merce cinnamon galangal root many different

pieces are put together to create this obramellain oil then you have olive oil that's added in there

you have bee swingness added in there but then the big part is bodily fluid such as semen

menstrual blood vaginal fluids and a mixture of and we're going to talk about another part because

it's not just menstrual blood and we're going to talk about in a little bit other types of blood

that can also be used not just the menstrual kind even though up front you're going to hear that

that's the main one Crowley talks about other bloods can be used too we're going to talk about

those other bloods might be and another interesting piece about the obramellain oil is that Crowley

says it's a representative of the whole tree of life the ten Sephiroth he said are blended together

as the perfect gold what does that sound like the symbol of what the philosopher stone of the

alchemist because you're trying to transmutate something to gold so this is the obramellain oil

which is considered a type of the philosopher stone again i'm super open to the idea of the philosopher

stone not just one thing and it can completely be something metaphysical too but according to Crowley

it was connected to the philosopher stone this entire ritual is alchemical so let's look at the

various types of blood that can be used and that are acceptable within this cake of light so we have

of the moon monthly and that refers to the mental blood we have from the host of heaven and that

refers to a man's excrement we have of enemies then of the priest of the worshipers that's self

explanatory because that's of your enemy that you slice or kill yourself or you slice yourself if

you're one of the priest or worshipers some of the beast that refers to animals blood but then

they have a weird one here of a child now mainstream will say that it refers to fluid from sexual

intercourse why would it mean that when we already have from the host of heaven and that is saying

that it is of semen now i know some people say well no we're talking about of the fluid of a woman

i would say no to that of a child is going to be i believe of a child and i'm going to tell you

why i believe that because when we look at the temple setup you have a high altar you have the

altar of incense you have the font and it's a small circular item and it's to hold any kind of

liquid or water then you have the tomb all this is part of this ritual listen to this now

this is generally a small and closing space with an entrance that is covered by a veil it should be

big enough to hold the priest deacon and the two children to get a little bit deeper when you dig

into who the children are it says in situations where children are not available to fill these

roles adults or other assistants take on these duties during public celebrations why are children

being implemented into this we already know acroly says that the most sacred blood that you can get

is what of a young boy we know that from some of his earlier writings listen we need to always

look acroly as being a very vile despicable person at the court as much as there's a lot of very

interesting aspects specifically this series of him working with British intelligence he's using

these very demonic activities that are allowing him to connect to these entities and listen this

Gnostic Mass which is in Libre ABA and the entire Libre ABA is told to him to write

by the wizard obel D's and we talked about obel D's plenty of times on this show

so he's receiving this information from this non-human intelligence from these fallen angels

who are telling him to implement children into these rituals and they go into

this tomb quote unquote behind a veil with a priest and a deacon very very strange very nasty stuff

as a matter of fact and croly also goes into the Gnostic Mass in his confessions and I found this

line very interesting he says I wish therefore to construct a ritual through which people might

enter into ecstasy as they have always done under the influence of appropriate ritual in recent years

there's been an increasing failure to attain this object because the established cult shocked

their intellectual convictions and outraged their common sense thus their minds criticized their

enthusiasm they are unable to consummate the union of their individual souls with the universal soul

as a bride groom would be able to consummate his marriage if his love or constantly reminded that

its assumptions were intellectually absurd that made me immediately think about the inversion

tactic of Jesus Christ as the bridegroom and I'm going to read a few scripts here just to

let you know that this is where the original idea of the bridegroom comes from we can look at

John 329 the one who has the bride is the bridegroom the friend of the bridegroom who stands in

here's some rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice therefore this joy of mine is now complete

Jesus is considered the bridegroom Matthew 915 and Jesus said to them can the wedding guest more

as long as the bridegroom is with them the days will come in the bridegroom is taken away from them

and then they will fast Matthew 25 1 and 6 then the kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who

took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom but at midnight there was a bridegroom come

out to meet him Christ is the bridegroom we are the bride that is the true union the true connection

that we're supposed to have and here's Crowley trying to invert that within his Gnostic Mass which

all of these occultists are doing so towards the end of this ritual the priest reaches out to baffa

met and this is the God they're talking to here O line and O serpent do be mighty upon us

now he declares to the people that are there do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law

then they respond love is the law love under will then the priest takes the Eucharist and then he

says in my mouth be the essence of the life of the sun in my mouth be the essence of the joy of

the earth then he says there is no part of me that is not of the gods which I said at the beginning

of this now this is the really weird part so you got the priest the deacon and the children were

in this tomb and they returned to the torn veil so the veil that's there is now torn and the people

exit again it made me think of scripture and we know when Jesus died the veil was torn that separated

the holy of holies where gods presents dwell for humanity in the temple in Jerusalem it was ripped

into and the idea is that when it was ripped is signified the end of the old covenant and the old

sacrificial system and now it has been completed with Jesus dying on the cross and some of those

verses I'm going to read real quick here Matthew 27 50 through 51 and Jesus cried out again with

a loud voice and yielded up his spirit behold the curtain of the temple was torn in two from

top to bottom the earth shook and the rocks were split mark 1537 through 38 and Jesus cried with

a loud voice and gave up the ghosts and the veil the temple was rent and twain from top to the

bottom Luke 2345 through 46 the sun was obscured and the veil of the temple was torn in two and Jesus

crying out of the loud voice and father into your hands I commit my spirit so isn't it interesting

and this Gnostic Mass again the inversion of scripture and why is it that they feel the need

to do that guys you know it's so funny listening to the occultus and the Gnostic rail on Christianity

and my question is why do you care if it isn't something that you believe in that you care about

why do you get so riled up why do you feel the need to try to invert it every turn why do you feel

the need to fight anyone you can think of who is a Christian if you don't care you don't care

move on but you do care because there's something inside of you that riles you up and I'm here to

tell you that I've been there I used to just revile Christians used to and there was a reason for

that because there were demonic entities around me that were riling me up to do so so to get to

some more activity that Crowley is up to in New Orleans we're going to move into Heinz Heinz

Ours but to get to him we got to talk about two people that we were talking about earlier we need to

talk about Ananda Kumara Swami who was the husband of Ratan Devi and Crowley gets a letter from Kumara

in 1917 and Kumara Swami begins to talk about Samuel Del Mathers and says that he is a true black

brother but also there are ideas and Richard B. Spence is one of the ones who brings this up in

his book agent 666 and he asked the question did the letter perhaps betray to Crowley the movements

of other German agents such as Heinz Heinz Ours and that's important because Heinz Heinz Ours

is in New Orleans at the same time that Crowley's in New Orleans now let's get to who Heinz Heinz

Ours is he was a German acro poet philosopher and writer of short stories and novels and he talks

about a lot of different things a lot of his works are based on horror and he writes about the

adventures of Frank Braun a character that he models after himself very much like Crowley modeled

Simon if after himself but the best known of these is All-Runa and he put that out in 1911 now this

is a German novel and a female lead character is named All-Runa now this gets really wild here

now the entire basis of this All-Runa story is in the middle legions of Germany and it

centralized around the idea of this humanoid shaped Mandrake route there's the Mandrakes I know

you've probably seen them in Harry Potter again all these fictionalized stories that you see even

in movies they're all based around something that's real that's in Alchemy that's in the occult world

you just have to know what you're looking for now how the Mandrake is really created an

Alchemy is believed to be produced by the semen of hang men onto the gallows what Alchemists say is

that hang men excrement after their necks were broken and that the earth actually absorbs their

final strength so that's supposedly their final strengths this excrement and in some parts of

the story it's blood instead of men's excrement but in this case for the majority of time it's men's

excrement now it said the root itself when it's grown and it looks humanoid that it can create

love potions and it said that the fruit of it can actually facilitate pregnancy it gets even wilder

guys which is who make love to the Mandrake route are said to produce offspring they have no

feelings of real love and have no soul what to me that was so crazy i mean it just links into this

hybrid idea and it's also the idea of even plant life being hybridized which we've talked about

pleading times of this channel we've talked about book a jash or book a e-naught book a jubilee

they all talk about it they all talk about not just animal life and human life being hybridized

but also plant life well here's which is making love to the mandrakes so in his book and it gets

even wilder because it's to me ties into the moon child aspect of it so he talks about the ideas

of artificial insemination and individuality and it's all based on this idea of genetics versus

environment so in the book there's a professor and he impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory

with the instrument of a hanged murder so back to this hanged idea so the prostitute conceives a

female and this female has no concept of love but the professor adopts so all runa suffers from

this obsessive perversion throughout relationships of her life and she ends up finding out about this

unnatural way that she was born in subterning on her professor in the end and it kind of reminds me

of any of the other homiculous tales that are out there frankenstein being one of the main ones

that people remember but this is another one and it again it's very similar to what's being talked

about in the moon child being able to create something without God being able to create life

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someone you love or someone you love to hate so guess who oors is also associated with pro German

George Sylvester barracks so he's tight with barracks so of course Crowley is keeping tabs on

oors we also know that he was a very active propagandist he was actually arrested in 1918 by the US

government and British and French intelligence agencies they also asserted that oors was the

German agent but to get to how Crowley was connected to him getting arrested we have to get

back to New Orleans here so Crowley's complaining about how he's got no money and this is in his

diaries he's saying that he has only 70 cents to his name but somehow he can afford shelter

in very nice areas as a matter of fact sustenance ether which he's taking as a part of these rituals

so again he's playing like he doesn't have money he's even saying he's going on strike against

the spiritual because he is saying that the spiritual world has turned on him he is also acting like

he's going to turn on the human side of it specifically as one of his majesty's representatives

because he's saying hey you guys aren't giving me enough money but I believe that was all a

ruse or a front because he seemed to be living pretty well while he's in New Orleans now he

would have known the arrival of oors who shows up around that time now oors has been doing secret

missions in Spain Mexico and the Caribbean and that's very important because coming back from

the Caribbean he has learned Haitian voodoo and specifically how to turn people into zombies and

he learned this from the balkers which is the Haitian word for source were now what's interesting

about these zombies they are figures from Haitian folklore and voodoo tradition and they're

described as the living dead and they're said to be brought back from the dead or incapacitated

which most people believe that the incapacitated part is probably more in line with what you see

mostly right I'm not saying that people can't bring back something that's inanimate and at least

animate it with some sort of negative entity that's highly possible but to get to what oors was

trying to do here so what these balkers do they create zombies by controlling or reanimate them

and they use a special poise's mixture that creates a living death state and they take powder

from a pufferfish which mimics death and a hallucinogenic paste and they keep the victim

compliant now in Haitian culture they say if you feed the zombie salt and we have talked a lot

about salt on this show and how salt is used as a barrier from negative entities it's used for

all kinds of things when it comes to magical practices but they say if you feed one of these

zombies the salt they'll actually regain their senses and if they were already dead they'll return

to their grave and think more not zombie in the movies where they're eating flesh this is more

of a virus that when you give this concoction to a person they become this puppet for the balker

to be able to manipulate so so another one of these ingredients that is a part of this mixture

is human remains and they don't talk about that a lot in the mainstream side of it but that was a

part of it and New Orleans Uers was caught robbing a grave for such racial purposes so in the

aftermath of it he actually came down with psoriasis on his hands and he thought it was supernatural

retribution for what he did so he didn't think that it was anything to fairy spider anybody else

he thought that the supernatural world inflicted that on him because he crossed the line he wasn't

supposed to cross or he got caught crossing a line that he wasn't supposed to cross so there's

another way we can look at this and not just look at it as a supernatural thing so a few years later

during the Irish troubles rich agents used to use this powerful caustic in mustard gas to identify

IRA activists so what they would do is they would put this agent on latches and door knobs

and when they would grab these door knobs it would have this sticky liquid on it and then it would

leave these lesions on their hands so basically they would be able to identify these people by seeing

these lesions on their hands these enemies well the belief is is that the beast played a similar trick

on ours because of what it happened and here's a another aspect of this that Crowley could have

taken away from ours just again he's interacting with ours and Crowley was the type to mess with people

too so it makes sense that he could have done this to him again circumstantial evidence obviously

but there are writers that have suggested this now another interesting application for the corpse

powder and we were talking about this and it was the concoction of goofy dust and it was a weapon

in African-based magic practiced in New Orleans you would dust the victims residents and it would

cause the person who lived there misfortune illness or sometimes sudden death so check this out

right around this time that Crowley is interacting with ours and they're in the same city

we know that Dr. Moosterberg died not long after the mage arrived in New Orleans so

the idea is was something mailed to Moosterberg man listen we've been talking about anthrax

we're talking about this corpse powder this goofy dust and what's interesting is when Moosterberg dies

Crowley writes in the second of February my two and one fourth years work crowned with success

USA breaks off relations with Germany so he's talking about that the US is formally going to

several relations with Berlin and they hadn't yet so this is prior to that the idea is to

submit more than that that this was also a nod to that he took out Moosterberg as well again we got

to look at the way that he writes we got to look at the blinds that are being used and this is the

idea that Crowley is signifying that he took Moosterberg out it's funny that he writes this in

the United States hadn't even broken off ties yet and they literally did the next day

after he wrote it so he's already privy to what was going on so all this stuff Crowley is involved with

so after Moosterberg passes after the United States sever their communication with Berlin

Crowley bounces out of New Orleans like a week later and he heads to Titusville on Florida's

Atlantic coast so he goes there to live with his cousin Lawrence Bishop who's staying down there

and it's very interesting because Crowley doesn't really care for them very much he says that in his

writings and it's like he's waiting for something because he won't go back to New York he's basically

mooching off as relatives to save money but he's delaying it and why what was he waiting on well

there's a very good explanation of what he was waiting on because think about it the Americans

have now sever ties with Germany they're about to ramp up into World War One Crowley is at least

seen on the outside as being someone who is specifically connected to the Germans and it's like

he's waiting on something on all fronts not just from the United States that just from British

intelligence but also the Germans you got to think the Germans that are already heightened level

right now they believe there's probably people within their camp that are not really working with

them that are people like Crowley but they don't know that with Crowley but they're probably looking

off of that so Crowley's laying low for a reason so it gets very interesting from here so on

March 28 Crowley receives a letter from freighter Fiat Pax George McNeigh Cowie and he was a

financial trustee of the OTO lodge in London and obviously he worked next to Charleston Phil Jones

Carl Germer all these guys that work with Crowley and he writes a letter to Crowley and all we know is

that Crowley is angry he is enraged also seems a little bit scared about what was sent but he

decides that he's gonna cut all ties with Cowley at this point now he also says that Cowley

became violently anti-German and he said that he was starting to intrigue against him so he was

starting to say I think that you are actually working with the Germans now Cowley wouldn't be in

have been privy to Crowley working for British intelligence and him playing this double agent

so he's looking into the soul fat that he is working with the Germans and he's making a big deal

about it and he makes such a big deal about it that he goes to the authorities to stir up a wave

of trouble that reaches all the way to Washington and some of this has to do with Crowley and another

point of contention during this time is the molestkin property that Crowley had on Loch Ness

was being sold and Crowley needed money and Cowley refused to send him the money from the sale

and not that there was a ton of money in it anyway because he owed so much and even depressed

wartime prices would have had something to do with that Crowley just wanted the money and he's

mad at Cowley anyway so he's so mad that he goes to Washington himself to straighten it all out

and he actually says to his majesty's men in DC if I fail this time to get them to listen to

sense at least I can go up to Canada and force them to arrest me my hand is therefore at last

on the lever so he's actually threatening to blow his whole cover and tell everybody what he's

been up to if they don't pay him what's they doing up and so ends up after he threatens to blow

his cover they end up paying the money ends up being okay but it also gets a little deeper because

now he is threatening the British which seems to have worked but he's also got to

make sure that the Germans know he's still on their side the British still need him to be

deep undercover within the Germans well it gets very interesting so there's a crisis that happens

at the London OTO lodge at 93 Regent Street and this is right around the same time

so one morning Scotland guard detectives they raid the premises guns drawn so the mage actually

talks about he laughs he said there were a dozen mild old people trying to browse on the lush grass

of my poetry and the officers arrest one of them and says that she's a motherly old fool for

fortune telling but obviously the incident has nothing to do with Crowley but what Crowley does

though he uses that as a major playing point down at the offices of the fatherland and he actually

says a wonderful show scene of indignation in the office of the fatherland which helped me quite a

little on my weary way so he admits that this entire raid was to help me restore my position with

the Germans by heating the branding irons of infamy for me in the fire of publicity so he said

that was a way for him to get back at cowie and some of these other people who perceived

them to be a traitor and because they raid the OTO lodge and there's nothing going on there

but at the same time he gets back in the good graces for the Germans saying listen they're

they're after me they're clearly after me because they know that I'm on your side so it gets

better so he also alleges that everd fielding and fielding was an English barrister naval intelligence

officer and researcher and we know that he was a friend to Alster during his whole time and he

was a key contact with in British intelligence during World War One to Crowley so he says that

fielding who was in Cairo was helping him with this whole raid now some people don't see how

that could even be possible well fielding is not there in the United States anymore he's not

working with Crowley how would he be able to pull off this raid obviously he has contacts back

in London and he could have the raid happen but why would he do that for Crowley well how this

works is is that fielding was working real close with this spiring of Zionist Jews called the NILI

and they were working for Britain against the Turks they had political allies and financial

connections to the same Zionist circles in New York and they were working closely with who wise

men in the MI5 there and who's working for wise men Crowley's working for wise men so Crowley had

access to get information to fielding through wise men who was moving it through these Zionist

circles and then it went to fielding and then fielding was able to set off this raid which would

then in turn make Crowley look better to the Germans and listen it works because all of these

German agents were in the United States and we talked about several of them Dilger Hinch

Yankei they all lead they most of them go to Mexico but guess who doesn't and guess who gets to

stay and doesn't get any trouble Alster Crowley he was one of most outspoken German propagandist he

wrote for the fatherland guess who else doesn't George Sylvester Varick and with the end up doing

they change the fatherland to various weekly and they keep up the publication they're still moving

with the propaganda which makes you think who was very tied into who was very tied into with people

in the United States it's weird and it's weird the British didn't care either it's just a very

odd set of circumstances and it just goes into again that Crowley was tied into the right people

and multiple different organizations at the same time and he not only was utilizing his power

within these government entities who is also utilizing the power that these supernatural entities

were giving him as well and it's this weird connection that we always see and that's the point

of me doing this series and it's to show the hand in hand connection between the occult world

and the government world because we were just talking about the Gnostic Mass and all of the

political figures that were tied into that and many of the other political figures that pop up

that are working with Crowley that are deep into the occult but at the same time are working for

the government we see this more often than not and why is that it's because these people are not

only seeking more power but they're also seeking enlightenment they're also seeking to ascend

and they are being utilized by these supernatural entities to move us around and to build off of our

backs a system in which they can control us and really essentially stop us from our true purpose

with God well guys I had a blast the day I love jumping on the agent Crowley series when I can

and I'll definitely jump back on it later on down the road it'll be something that we consistently

do until we get to the final chapter of it all right guys love you all see you next time

all right that's going to do it for this one but don't forget this Thursday Isaac

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