Robert Anton Wilson on Crowley

ravenest

Actually, after reading it, it is a bit of a head unscrambler (especially if one takes it in context with some of Crowley's ' initiation rituals' ) .
 

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Actually, after reading it, it is a bit of a head unscrambler (especially if one takes it in context with some of Crowley's ' initiation rituals' ) .

I'm not familiar with those, so it would go over my head, probably other references too I guess.
 

Richard

Now I'm going to have to go back and re-read the Illuminatus! trilogy. It doesn't include Masks, but it does begin each major section with quotes from Crowley, Timothy Leary and Richard Milhouse Nixon. Browsing through it, it doesn't look like Crowley appeared in any of the three books as a character, but many other suitably embellished historical persons did.
Seriously, read Masks!!!! I think there's a cheap Kindle ebook edition. (Then reread Trilogy if you wish.)