The Modern Culture and Aleister Crowley

1. The Modern Culture and Aleister Crowley Uncovering Religion 2Timothy 3:1-5 Ephesians 5:11

2. The Religion of the Modern Culture • This message is to help us to see that what we have accepted as a normal part of our modern culture is really a pagan culture which was envisaged by a man known as the wickedest man in the world: 33rd degree Freemason, Aleister Crowley. • This culture was brain stormed by philosophers like Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky whose writings have influenced more leaders and role models in the last 100 years than most realise. • This culture really is a repackaging of paganistic, hedonistic philosophies from the past, which have been cleverly impregnated piece by piece into our culture through music, TV, movies and general media.

3. Modern Culture / Biblical Moralality

4. How did our Culture get like this? • Within just a few generations we have gone from a relatively descent and upstanding generation of the 40’s and 50’s to the depraved and sinfully fashionable modern era. • John Wesley said, “What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.” • Each decade of the 20th century saw an increase in indescent and immoral behaviour with a general mass acceptance of it. • The TV programmers of the 50’s were disgusted by the shaking hips of Elvis, this is laughable in comparison to what is deemed acceptable viewing today.

5. Key Players • During the 1960’s we saw the fulfillment of the life works of 4 key players in a pagan revival which began in America and spread across the globe. • The players are: • Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) – Founder of the Theosophical Society • Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) – Founder of the Thelemite Philosophy • Timothy Leary (1920-1996) - The key figure in the counter culture of the 1960’s • Anton LaVey (1930-1997) – The Founder of the Church of Satan

6. Anton LaVey Helena Blavatsky Aleister Crowley Timothy Leary

7. Theosophy and Thelema • Theosophy: "Divine Wisdom," (Theosophia) or Wisdom of the gods. The word theos means a god in Greek, one of the divine beings, certainly not "God" in the sense attached in our day to the term. Therefore, it is not "Wisdom of God," as translated by some, but Divine Wisdom such as that possessed by the gods. The term is many thousand years old. • Philosophy of Thelema: can be summed up as said by Aleister Crowley in the Book of the Law, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” This saying actually originated from Benjamin Franklin.

8. Leary and the Church of Satan • Timothy Leary’s input into the counter culture of the 60’s until today was the introduction of Psychedelicdrugs such as LSD as a journey into new realms of consciousness, the use of anti-authority and rebellious catch phrases such as, “turn on, tune in, drop out”, “think for yourself and question authority” • The Church of satan: does not involve the literal worship of any being other than the self, but rather uses “satan" as a symbol of carnality and earthly values, of man's inherent nature.

9. The Army of Youth • Joe Schimmel said, We can prove that Aleister Crowley has been more influential on western popular culture than any other human being. That’s quite incredible because he is also the most highly regarded satanist... In the 1940’s Crowley wrote that he believed that his new eon his movement would take off in the US like no place else. What he needed to do was to get a hold of the youth. He used to go to Oxford and other colleges to recruit youth into his movement. He wanted their to be a youth movement which would usher in the New Age of Crowley or Crowleyanity... In the 1960’s [his work] got the leaders of the hippy movement, the counter culture movement totally enthralled with his ideologies. What’s incredible about this is, [his work] was not only working in concert with these musicians, but also with the leading academic rebels of the day, people like leading sex guru Robert Anton Wilson, leading drug guru Harvard professor Timothy Leary and leading homosexual guru Harry Hay.

10. Crowleyism • The hedonistic, pagan, Eastern mysticism infused philosophies which Crowley embraced and introduced to the West can be seen in every facet of the modern culture. • Basically every part of our text for this sermon is seen as what Crowleyism embraces and is now flaunted in our modern culture: • 2Timothy 3:1-5 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”

11. Modern Culture Outcomes • Chuck Missler, when considering the results of a country who has rejected God, points out that our culture believes that: • Homosexuality is just an “alternative lifestyle. • We murder babies that are socially inconvenient. • We change marriage partners like a fashion statement. • We have abandoned the sanctity of commitments in all our relationships. • Immorality and deceit have come to characterise the highest offices of our nation. • Our entertainment celebrate adultery, fornication, violence, aberrant sexual practices, and every imaginable form of evil.

12. Index of Leading cultural indicators Chuck Missler reveals that over the last 30 years: • 560% increase in violent crime • 400% increase in illegitimate births • 400% increase in divorce rate • 300% increase in single-parent homes • 200% increase in teenage suicides • 75% drop in SAT scores Each day in America: • 2,795 teen pregnancies. 1,106 teen abortions, 4219 teenagers contract a sexually transmitted disease, every 64 seconds a baby is born to a teenage mother.

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14. Our Culture Today • The problem today is there is a lack of fear of God, a fear of consequences of actions, a do what thou wilt attitude even if it hurts someone else. • Morals cannot be taught in schools, because without the Bible as our moral standard for behaviour, we have no standard to follow. • Since our culture has adopted a Crowleyian philosophy of life, Christianity is increasingly being seen as a deception and a hindrance to our humanistic, self-obsessed, man-centred society.

15. 2Chronicles 7:14 • Without a revival our country is going to go from bad to worse. • Unless the Church humbles herself and prays and seeks God’s face and turns from its wickedness there is really no hope for the multitudes. • Unbelievers in this culture are getting harder and harder and the only real answer is for God’s people to stir God to revive us and perform signs and wonders before the masses just as Christ and the early church performed and bring them to repentance. • Jesus tells us what the true disciple of Christ looks like. Mark 16:17-18

16. Searching Questions • Are you being totally absorbed into this modern pagan culture? • Are you spending all your time in front of computer screens chatting like a pagan? • Are you under the spell of the TV, Movies and Music? • Are you obsessed with entertainment? • Is God, the Bible and prayer taking a back seat? • If any of these things are so with you then know this, Crowley has succeeded in deceiving you and keeping you from becoming who you are called to be in Christ.

17. The Stranger • Around 10 years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our part of the world. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with the newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on. • As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors: Mum taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger... he was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies. • If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future!  • He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.

18. The Stranger • Sometimes, Mum would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet. • Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honour them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home - not from us, our friends or any visitors. Our long time visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush. My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol but the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and usually embarrassing.. • I now realize that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked....and NEVER asked to leave.

19. The Stranger • More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you walked into my parents' family room today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures. • His name? • We just call him 'TV.’ • He has a wife now....we call her 'Computer.’ • Their first child is "mobile phone". • Second child "I Pod"

20. Youtube search • Joe Schimmel on Aleister Crowley • They Sold Their Souls for Rock and Roll • ‪Hell's Bell's - The Dangers of Rock 'N' Roll • Do What You Want (Exposing Satanism in Society) • Pt 4 The real story behind Aliens, Ufos, Demons, Illuminati & Satanism • Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man In The World • The First Family of Satanism 1