"But the other voice was silent, and the noise of waters swept me
back into the world, and I lay asleep on a hillside
bearing for evermore the heart of a goddess,
and a brain of a man, and the wings of morning
clipped by the shears of the silence, so must I wander lonely
nor know of the light till I enter into the darkness".

Victor Benjamin Neuburg
disciple of The Beast

  

  

The story of a life

•    All poems and stories and music written by Amos Keppler. The huge majority of the pictures and images photographed, edited and/or illustrated by Amos Keppler. The remaining stuff is found on the Net.

  INTRODUCTION - Journey Into Mystery
  

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  PART 1: FROM HELL

  1: Hymn to The Great Beast - Theme of Crowley
  2: Water Mill
  3: Poet (Poems of the hot wind)
  4: Poem of The Hot Wind
  5: The Hanged Man (I) - Cambridge (II) - No golden dawn (III) - Ritual of liberation (instrumental)
  6: Desert Oddyssey
  7: Silver Star
  8: Crowley - Instrumental
  

  PART 2: BEYOND

    9: The Magickian
  10: The Book of The Law
  11: Convent of Rabelais
  12: Moonchild
  13: Crowley
  14: Grandfather Death
  15: Transition - Last Rite of Crowley
  16: Riding The Beast - New Theme of Crowley
  

  EPILOGUE:

  17: Endure
  

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   Aleister Crowley...

   You won’t find his books, nor his works, in most bookstores or public libraries. His name is whispered with fear and envy in halls of power and among those equally ordinary and mundane, the "common" people. He refuses to be silent, 127 years after his birth, 55 years after his death.

   He was not exactly a rebel, a gambler, an adventurer. He was all those things and more. He was many things to many people, including himself. He realised early on that each person is potentially many.

   He was a magician, both in theory and practice. In his lifetime he wrote tons of books and material about life and magic. And his life was even more interesting than the books he wrote. He was an anti-authoritarian, anti-christian, anti-christ personified. In a society that destroys everything that makes life worth living, he embraced life, instead of living apart from it. Such a man must be controversial. He was, he is. His ideas about sexual magic and existence in general continues to be controversial. Today, when we believe more in machines than in flesh, even more so.

   Aleister Crowley was not a saint (certainly not, fortunately not). He was of course a sinner (to say it the least) and he stated often and with conviction, that it was not only his preferred way of life, but also what he strongly felt was the right and essential one.

   This is a tale of his life told in lyrics, poems and pictures. It’s not a biography, but rather the author’s personal and instinctive approach to a man who continues to touch millions of people that does not quite fit in. People who (desperately and instinctively) seek avenues different from the norm. Hopefully readers and seekers will get a little dip, or more, of it here.

   Enjoy...