Sunday 31 May 2009

Liber OZ



"Liber OZ" was one of the many books Crowley wrote. It was only a single page long and is properly known as "Book 77".

It states mankinds basic rights according to Crowley's philosophy of Thelma (a religion/philosophy based on the dictum "Do What Tou Wilt". Basically it's about discovering your True Will, your "calling" or "purpose" in life)

Liber OZ was written to clearly state the O.T.O (Ordo Templi Orientis - a religious/fraternal organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century) plan in words of one syllable and to break it down into five sections: 

MORAL
BODILY
MENTAL
SEXUAL
SAFEGUARD TYRANNICIDE (killing of tyrants)

The book is shown above, while the symbol underneath is Crowley's version of the Unicursal Hexagram, a common symbol of Thelma.

I really like the idea of having chapters in our magazine. Maybe using those five sections as rough themes for each chapter...

Becca x





Friday 29 May 2009

The art work for the best selling tarot card set ever (Thoth)...was done by Aleister Crowley, so the thought of doing a styling shoot that dipicted scenes from the cards and then with art direction over the top of them could look really cool.- vawn

Tuesday 26 May 2009

The Beast and The Beatles!


Well look where our man has popped up! That's him second from the left, in the back row. Apparently the Beatles took his teachings very seriously. Jimmy Page from Led Zeplin was also obsessed with him...He brought the estate where Crowley had previously lived and used it in one of the band's videos.

Monday 25 May 2009

image of aleister- by Naomi

Found this image of aleister that i liked
Also just had an idea to have a peice in the magazine of other people in the world who have been named the 'something's' of the world because he's named the wickedest man in the world such as the most famous people in the world.