wizzle said:
He lost a fortune. His children hated him.
Not the only person that has ever happened too. Big deal.
wizzle said:
His own "revelations" about drugs turned out to be untrue. He was hooked on drugs when his spiritual "masters" they told him they were all harmless. Hmmmm.
What's the difference between having a drink and becoming a alcoholic?
Crowley was well aware of his own drug addiction. He blamed it on himself as his diaries reveal.
wizzle said:
He could only move from one lover to another and never could deal with the commonplace at all. He never really could find magic in the commonplace, poor fellow. He could only find it on the "edge" as we would say today.
Crowley lived his life the way he wanted to without fearing what other people might think or say. It's a sad fact that so many prudish people are afraid to even live these days because they fear what the neighbours might think. Sheesh!
What's the difference between Aleister Crowley and, for example, Jesus Christ. In Crowley's case we know almost everything about his private life. We know all his dirty secrets. What do know about Jesus that hasn't been edited out or white washed away by his followers. We know nothing about his private life. There's the difference.
There's no such thing as perfect spiritual masters just as there's no such thing as perfect people. I can think of some very enlightened Buddhist masters who were also completely messed up in their every day lives. Does that mean they were failures? Of course not. They just failed to live up other peoples unrealistic expectations of what spiritual experience means.