Zephyros
Ultimately, I think the Golden Dawn, Crowley, Waite, Blavatsky and the rest of those "great masters" were a little too good at what they did, which was to democratize spirituality and the occult and to bring it to the masses. However, their aim, as I see it, was not to do the work for you, but to show you the way and to lead by example. But the masses don't want to work, they want to be told that the path toward enlightenment is through eating pudding, and hence we have much of the New Age atrocities such as monks who sell their Ferraris, bland chicken soup for a bland soul and the hellish Doreen Virtue angels. This is a new symptom, that knowing nothing equals knowing everything, and that sitting down to actually read a book is "white European male." Far from continuing Crowley's work, most authors today take the pop option, easily digestible, but very fattening.
Even so-called Satanism would be laughed at by Crowley, a religion who's main purpose is to be against things it deems unworthy, interpreting "do what thou wilt" as hedonism, when Crowley specifically stressed that was not what it was about. New Age is not the Right-Hand path, it is the path to McDonald's. Satanism isn't the Left-Hand Path, it is the path to STDs.
Personally I doubt there is another Crowley alive today, or at least some one single minded as he was in his search. I don't think the age of giants is over, only that we are a little too early.
Even so-called Satanism would be laughed at by Crowley, a religion who's main purpose is to be against things it deems unworthy, interpreting "do what thou wilt" as hedonism, when Crowley specifically stressed that was not what it was about. New Age is not the Right-Hand path, it is the path to McDonald's. Satanism isn't the Left-Hand Path, it is the path to STDs.
Personally I doubt there is another Crowley alive today, or at least some one single minded as he was in his search. I don't think the age of giants is over, only that we are a little too early.